Overview of this book
<p>SugarCRM is the world's leading commercial open-source customer relationship management (CRM) software for companies of all sizes. SugarCRM easily adapts to any business environment by offering a more flexible, cost-effective alternative to proprietary applications. SugarCRM's open-source architecture allows companies to more easily customize and integrate customer-facing business processes in order to build and maintain more profitable relationships. SugarCRM offers several deployment options, including on-demand, on-premise and appliance-based solutions to suit customers' security, integration, and configuration needs. <br /><br />This book will help you to customize the SugarCRM code. You will get learn about the database and application architecture. The book provides you with a module development tutorial, showing the essential steps for hooking your module into the SugarCRM infrastructure. You will learn about common customizations that can be performed against the codebase.</p>