SugarCRM - Your next open source business application framework
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This talk will explore using SugarCRM outside of it's normal usage as a CRM application, instead using it as an open source business application platform.
Description
SugarCRM is the world’s leading provider of commercial open source CRM software, available in both an On-Demand and On-Premise version and comes with an open source license. What most people don’t realize is that SugarCRM is also a very extensible and easy to use open source business application platform, enabling you to automate and manage your organization’s processes with ease, building upon a powerful application framework tailor made for business applications. In this talk we’ll explore the platform and what all it provides, and show how easy it is to customize and build upon it from the GUI as well as through writing PHP code.
Speaking experience
Speaker
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John Mertic
SugarCRM- Website: http://www.sugarcrm.com/
- Blog: http://jmertic.wordpress.com/
- Twitter: jmertic
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Biography
John Mertic is a software engineer at SugarCRM, and has several years of experience with PHP web applications. At SugarCRM, he has specialized in data integration, mobile and user interface architecture. An avid writer, he has been published in php|architect, IBM Developerworks, and in the Apple Developer Connector, and is the author of the book The Definitive Guide to SugarCRM: Better Business Applications. He has also contributed to many open source projects, most notably the PHP project where is the creator and maintainer of the PHP Windows Installer.