SugarCRM 6 - Improved UI

The latest edition of SugarCRM's open-source CRM package, released as a public beta April 13, includes a revised UI designed to deliver speedy, simplified navigation along with improved mobile accessibility, company officials said.

Sugar 6, which was introduced during the company's SugarCon user conference here, is scheduled to become available to a subset of production customers in June and will be released to all customers in July, said Clint Oram, SugarCRM vice president of products.

The new version includes the Sugar Shortcut Bar, which is designed to give users one-click access to common tasks, such as creating an account, a document or a task, finding contacts, noting sales opportunities or logging a call. Oram said overall the Sugar 6 interface requires about 20 percent fewer clicks to perform common tasks.

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SugarCRM is the world's leading provider of open source customer relationship management (CRM) software. Over 6,000 customers and more than half a million users rely on SugarCRM to execute marketing programs, grow sales, retain customers and create custom business applications. Leading publications such as CRM Magazine, InfoWorld and eWeek praise SugarCRM for its ease-of-use, flexibility and open design. SugarCRM runs on the leading cloud computing platforms, including Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure, Sugar On-Demand and Private Clouds, offering customers unparalleled choice and control of their data and deployments