You may think you've optimized your business to be most effective, but have you evaluated how your SugarCRM document processes affect productivity? If not, you may want to. IDC estimates that employees spend almost half their workweek dealing with document challenges and issues. That translates into a lot of lost time and the potential to lag behind competitors or lose business. Here we will look at the typical steps you would take when working with a proposal. You may not realize it, but how long it takes you to get a proposal to a client can have a direct impact on success. In fact, Bidsketch research found that winning proposals took an average of 2.7 days to get out to a client versus 3.4 days for losing proposals. That is not a lot of wiggle room. Take a look at how integrating electronic document management into SugarCRM can be the difference between winning and losing clients.

As a vendor of a Business Process Management / Workflow product, we were keen to learn how customers of SugarCRM, or any CRM for that matter, were using workflow to automate their businesses at this year's SugarCon which SierraCRM was a sponsor of again. What we heard from the customer base was quite an eye opener.

SugarCon 2016 has arrived and with it is another year of the crazy hats from MailChimp. Last year it was the infamous "Cat Hats". This year we have chimp hats, little hats for your cats, and t-shirts. We always love seeing people like you enjoying and wearing the sweet swag. Let us know by tweeting @SugarChimpRocks with the #SugarCon hash and we will add you to this tweet log. Happy tweeting!

Our most recent release of SugarChimp, version 7.7.0, includes some highly demanded new features. SugarChimp has been great at syncing Contact, Target, and Lead data between Sugar and MailChimp, but has always lacked two major abilities. That is, until now. Let's dig a little deeper into the new Ultimate release.

How often do you find yourself on your smartphone? Maybe you find yourself needing to manage leads, contacts, and other data on the go or perhaps you’re at a convention with spotty internet and can’t access your leads and contacts, or you’re the kind of person who pulls out your phone to view Facebook while visiting Facebook.com on your computer, then you will appreciate QuickCRM.