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Manage Customers and More with SplendidCRM

October 10th, 2007 @ 12:00 pm

Categories: Business, Software, Web Tools

Tags: Web, Service, CRM, Web Worker Daily, Rick Broida

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Speaking of open-source, SplendidCRM offers Web-based customer relationship management (CRM) and more. The free (read: unsupported) version of the service manages not only accounts and contacts, but also cases and projects. It can tracks leads, bugs, activities, documents, and tasks, and even lets you set up an employee directory. Web Worker Daily has a fairly detailed overview of the service, which it says is essentially an open-ended database, one that can be used for more than just managing sales and customer data.

As you can see from the screenshot, SplendidCRM offers an attractive, tabbed interface with a broad range of available tools. If you’ve just started a new business or you’re looking for effective CRM for an existing one, you’ll definitely want to give this service a try.

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    pfreet

    10/11/07 | Report as spam

    Splendid CRM might be overkill

    Thanks for the heads up on SplendidCRM. SplendidCRM look like it is a hosted version of SugarCRM. SugarCRM is an open source product that you can host yourself or use a hosted version from SplendidCRM or even SugarCRM itself. It has many similarities to Salesforce.com, including, unfortunately, the complicated and unappealing user interface. Because of this it might be inappropriate for small businesses or small sales teams.

    Another program one might consider is Big Contacts. http://www.bigcontacts.com It has a Free version for up to 100 contacts. Might be worth considering if you're looking for a free CRM and want something easy to use.

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    paul@...

    10/11/07 | Report as spam

    SplendidCRM is a complete rewrite using Microsoft technologies

    SplendidCRM is not just a hosted version of SugarCRM as pfreet implies. SplendidCRM is a complete rewrite using Microsoft technologies and best practices. There are companies that provide SplendidCRM hosting, but it can also be downloaded and installed locally.

    As a .NET 2.0 application, SplendidCRM is very easy to install and it runs well on almost any current hardware.

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    asprakash12@...

    12/04/08 | Report as spam

    Need More information-SPlendid CRM

    As i'm new to splendid CRM , i need to know the Overview and WorkFLow of Splendid CRM.I want to know how can we customize the forms as per requirements.
    If possible can you provide some valid documents with examples to know about the same.

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    DavidBrown01

    01/13/10 | Report as spam

    RE: Manage Customers and More with SplendidCRM

    can i access this on my iphone , as i have many clients and want to have proper way to manage all related data .

    David Brown

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