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Benefits of Prototyping When Following a Rapid App Development Methodology

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Prototyping apps is a really useful activity for many reasons. For example, it can help your organisation:

  • Understand potential complexity in a proposed app
  • Get concept buy-in from key stakeholders or customers
  • Improve project co-ordination
  • Clarify user journeys and user interfaces
  • Highlight skill shortages
  • Deliver a total cost of development and ownership for a full working product
  • Keep costs of a digital transformation strategy to a minimum
  • Add certainty to decision-making

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What is the difference between ERP and CRM software?

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Customer Relationship Management and Enterprise Resource Planning are, naturally, related technologies. CRM is all about driving your business towards a customer-focused approach. ERP is much more about taking a financial and logistics oriented view over your organisation operates.

The two fields of CRM and ERP are not incompatible. The opposite is actually the case. More often than not they can complement one another. CRM is the largest software market in the world, so it really is an expert subject in its own right. The same goes for ERP, though it’s worth pointing out that many CRM and ERP specialist vendors dip their toes into one another’s core markets. Read more

What is the Full Meaning of CRM?

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So “CRM” stands for Customer Relationship Management. However, the practice is that the term is vaguely defined, with many competing interpretations of what it should mean. Clearly, it’s about having a customer-focused approach, but what makes a great modern CRM, be that a free CRM or otherwise?

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Which of the Following Statements is True of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Systems?

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  • CRM is Expensive
  • Open-source CRM is all just old forks of SugarCRM
  • Open-source CRM doesn’t scale
  • A great CRM allows your organisation to concentrate on a customer-focused approach
  • An Open-Source Low-Code Development Platform gives your CRM more flexibility
  • The best free CRM uses standardised technology
  • A real open-source Salesforce alternative exists

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What is Sales Force Automation in CRM?

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CRM is a broad domain. It touches every industry and there’s not such thing as a one-size-fits-all solution. Sure, you can get a CRM for free. But the big question is whether you can get it to do what you want.

Sales Force Automation specifically addresses the parts of the sales process your team needs to digitize in order to make the act of selling more efficient and more effective. Read more

Why Automate Your Business?

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Automation promises great things, but knowing why you want to automate and not simply following the crowd is important.

 Corteza Corredor Automation Engine Benefits

The Corredor Automation Engine in Corteza open-source low-code platform increases productivity while driving down costs.

It helps to think of automation in the context of an entire digital transformation strategy. However, you may also have more specific requirements. For example, your use case might be limited to:

  • IoT apps
  • Sales in CRM or other customer management system apps
  • Smart Schooling and ERP in Education
  • Open-Source Chat
  • Loan Management Software
  • Free Knowledge Base Software
  • Business Integration
  • Open-Source Case Management or Cloud Case Management
  • Fulfillment Management
  • Smart Cities or Citizen Development
  • Record Management Software

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What are the Most Important Sales Tracking Software Features?

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The Low-Code Development market set to grow exponentially in the coming years. It might be tempting to think that any platform will enable you to build great sales tracking software, or more commonly known as a CRM. However, the arrival of Amazon Honeycode on the market proves, once again, that this is not the case.

Crust CRM Suite shows what can be done with a complete Low-Code Development platform. A customer relationship management system is complex to develop. For instance, even professional-grade, free CRM’s require expertise. To deliver advanced CRM tools requires a complete understanding of concepts such as:

  • Leads in CRM
  • Opportunities in CRM
  • Quotes in CRM
  • Case Management in CRM
  • Reporting in CRM
  • What is a BPMS in the context of CRM
  • And much more!

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Amazon Honeycode? A Feature-Poor Alternative to Crust Low-Code

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You may heard that Amazon is dipping its toe in the No-Code/Low-Code market. It’s worth mentioning that it’s early days for Honeycode and the offering is still in beta. However, on the evidence so far, it’s aimed at very small businesses and limited use cases. This is definitely not Amazon aiming for the enterprise market.
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The Ultimate Salesforce Alternative

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How Many CRM Companies Are There?

A lot! Once you start looking for the best solution for your business, you will find on the market many CRM solutions and their alternatives. Picking the best can be tough. And It’s usually not just about market share, getting CRM for free or even open-source CRMs. Even if these are criteria to be considered for your company CRM, there are many other factors too. For example, are you looking for:

  • A means to deploy your Digital Transformation Strategy
  • CRM for Marketing and Customer Tracking Software
  • Free CRM for Non-Profits
  • CRM for Insurance Agents
  • Salesman Tracking Software
  • CRM for Email
  • Call Center CRM
  • CRM for Education and Smart Schooling Solutions
  • Wholesale CRM
  • CRM in Manufacturing Contexts
  • Loan Management Software
  • Citizen Development Software
  • Free Case Management Software

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Crust is Spreading its Wings

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Since we launched in March 2019, Crust CRM Suite has established itself as the de facto open-source alternative to Salesforce. Self-funded, profitable in our first year of trading and equipped with an order book delivering over a year’s worth of cash runway, Crust Technology is already on target to grow between 200% and 300% in its second year. Corteza, the community project founded when Crust contributed its entire code base to the Commons Conservancy in June 2019, has gone from strength to strength, garnering many thousands of users in its first year. Its goal to become “The Digital Work Platform for Humanity” is gaining momentum.

These are big statements and we count ourselves lucky, given the economic mayhem and misfortune that has afflicted so many to date in 2020. Keeping our commercial focus and development on track and on budget has been a tough but welcome challenge to date and our next steps will set the bar higher again. Read more