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IRVINE, Calif. – May 2012 – Sererra Consulting Group, LLC., a world-leader in business process and technology management, offering a broad portfolio of the best cloud based ERP, CRM and ecommerce solutions to the mid-market, today announced that it has joined the SugarCRM Open+ Partner Program to drive revenue through selling and providing support for the Sugar product suite.

CUPERTINO, Calif., May 3, 2012 – SugarCRM, the world’s fastest-growing customer relationship management (CRM) company, today announced that CEO, Larry Augustin, was named a finalist in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2012 program in the Northern California region.

SUGARCON – SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – April 25, 2012 – SugarCRM, the world’s fastest-growing customer relationship management (CRM) company, today announced it has signed a new distribution agreement with Ingram Micro (NYSE:IM), the world’s largest IT distributor.

SUGARCON 2012 – SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – April 24, 2012 – UserVoice, the easiest customer service solution on the web, today announced the creation of a new technology integration with SugarCRM, the world’s fastest-growing customer relationship management (CRM) company.

SUGARCON 2012 – SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – April 24, 2012 – Faye Business Systems Group (FBSG) today announced a number of feature upgrades for several of their developed integrations with SugarCRM, the world’s fastest-growing customer relationship management (CRM) company. The Authorize.net, Constant Contact and Sage integration upgrades merge the already powerful integrations with additional features, adding more value to the functions and syncing processes.

Higher adoption of open source software (OSS) today among enterprises is pushing the need for scanning tools that can help maintain compliance and minimize potential risks from OSS use and licensing, say market players, who add that this also optimizes benefits from using open source.

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This is the third Sugar CRM executive to be interviewed by visionary marketing.com. My first interview took place two years ago with Larry Augustin, CEO and founder of the CRM company, who is also one of the people who coined the phrase: “open source”. After a brief Skype encounter with the company’s marketing executive Jan Sysmans last year, I now had the chance of spending some time with Tom Schuster, VP EMEA of Sugar CRM.

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Demand for open source talent in the Asia-Pacific region is growing as more organizations turn to open source software (OSS) for cost savings and operational flexibility, but more can be done to increase the existing talent pool, say market players.

Customer relationship management company, SugarCRM, also reported company growth with a record high billing growth and ninth consecutive quarter of accelerating sales.

IDG News Service - Disappointing earnings reports this week from Hewlett-Packard and Dell were offset by more encouraging results from software makers, confirming forecasts for general trends in IT spending this year.

The good news is that companies of all sizes are starting to recognize the strategic value of customer relationship management (CRM) software. The bad news is that there’s not only a price war on, but a lot of the vendors providing CRM application software are trying to take the business direct via the cloud.

Blytheco, a well-established services provider, has been offering Sage and nothing but Sage CRM solutions for just about 30 years. But times change. As of Feb. 1, 2012, Blytheco has ended its relationship with Sage in favor of a partnership with competitor SugarCRM.