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Implementing SugarCRM

By : Michael Whitehead
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Implementing SugarCRM

By: Michael Whitehead

Overview of this book

<p>SugarCRM is a popular customer relationship management system. It is available in both free open source and commercial versions, making it an ideal way for small-medium business to try out a CRM system without committing large sums of money. Although SugarCRM is carefully designed for ease of use, attaining measurable business gains requires careful planning and research. This book distils hard won SugarCRM experienced into an easy to follow guide to implementing the full power of SugarCRM. SugarCRM is an extensive PHP/MySQL based application but with its rich administration interfaces no programming is required to get the most of it.</p> <p>This book will give you all the information you need to start using this powerful, free CRM system. Written by veteran SugarCRM expert and experienced documentation author, Michael J. Whitehead, this book is the definitive guide to implementing SugarCRM. Whether you are wondering exactly what benefits CRM can bring, or you have already learned about CRM systems but have yet to implement one, or you're working with SugarCRM already; this book will show you how to get maximum benefit of this exciting product.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Implementing SugarCRM
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
Index

Requirement Analysis


In this section we analyze RayDoc’s business and CRM requirements and use this knowledge to create your own CRM requirements worksheet. This will clarify all the theoretical and detailed information discussed till now and give you practical understanding and confidence when you decide the add-on components and customizations you will require.

RayDoc CRM Requirements

We begin with the analysis of the RayDoc business and its CRM requirements. To capture RayDoc’s CRM needs, we will use a CRM worksheet:

RayDoc

Choices

Notes

Customer Model

B2B | B2C

RayDoc sells to both businesses and consumers, so it will want to track both accounts and contacts in its CRM.

Revenue Model

Products | Services

RayDoc sells both products (such as carpets, doors, and windows) and services (such as installation services, and general contracting services). For its bigger jobs, invoices will be issued to the customer over a period of several months, so RayDoc would benefit from being...