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SugarCRM 312
SugarCRM
Type Private
Industry CRM Software
Founded California 2004
Founder(s) John Roberts, Clint Oram, Jacob Taylor
Headquarters Cupertino, California
Key people Larry Augustin (CEO)
Products Sugar Community Edition, Sugar Professional, Sugar Enterprise
Employees 150+
Website
www.sugarcrm.com [1]
SugarCRM is an open-source software-solution vendor which produces the Sugar Customer Relationship
Management (CRM) system.
History
John Roberts, Clint Oram and Jacob Taylor founded SugarCRM in 2004. The company began as an open-source
project on Sourceforge in April 2004. By September 2004, potential users had downloaded 25,000 copies of Sugar
Open Source. In October 2004, the company was named "Project of the Month" on Sourceforge. [2] The popularity of
the project allowed the company to raise $46 million of venture capital from Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Walden
International, and New Enterprise Associates. [3] SugarCRM currently employs over 150 people. [4] Sugar Open
Source has been downloaded over 7,000,000 times [5] and the project remains one of the most active on SourceForge.
The company operates a number of web sites, including its commercial web site SugarCRM.com, a development
web site (SugarForge.org), Sugar Exchange (for third-party extensions), and user forums.
Products
Editions
SugarCRM develops CRM software in three editions:
• Sugar Community Edition
• Sugar Professional
• Sugar Enterprise
Each product derives from the same code tree, with Sugar Community Edition containing roughly 85 percent of the
functionality contained in Sugar Professional and Sugar Enterprise. The products originated on the LAMP stack of
Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP, but also run well on other platforms that can deliver PHP (such as Windows,
Solaris and Mac OS X). SugarCRM can also use MS IIS as a web server, and MS SQL or Oracle as alternative
databases. Product functionality includes sales-force automation, marketing campaigns, customer support,
collaboration and reporting.
SugarCRM makes Sugar Community Edition available free of charge, and sells annual subscriptions to Sugar
Professional and to Sugar Enterprise.