Smart Selling Announces Sugar Express Pricing for Australia

Smart Selling, a SugarCRM partner based in Australia today released pricing details for the recently announced Sugar Express offering from SugarCRM. A smart CRM offering from SugarCRM and Smart Selling in a tough economic climate.

Brisbane, Australia (PRWEB) May 2, 2009 -- Coinciding with the announcement by SugarCRM of the new Sugar Express product offering Smart Selling, a leading provider of innovative CRM and social media solutions for Australian companies released Australian pricing for the new product. As Smart Selling CEO Mark Parker noted "We're excited to be able to bring into the market the first ever full featured, open source, CRM solution for under $10 per month. The announcement is a reflection of SugarCRM's laser-focus on customer needs - giving us the ability to place our customers in control by delivering the most modern, flexible CRM applications in the marketplace".

Sugar Express delivers core sales, marketing and support features, complete with Sugar Plug-Ins for Microsoft Office and access to SugarCRM Customer Support. Platform functionality includes Module Builder to create custom modules and Cloud Connectors to integrate third-party data services from companies such as Hoover's and Jigsaw.

"For all of its promise, the cloud computing movement is in danger of becoming yet another mousetrap to lock-in customers to proprietary vendors," said John Roberts, CEO of SugarCRM. "Sugar Express and the Sugar Open Cloud marry the seamless maintenance and deployment of on-demand computing with the values of open source: openness, portability and flexibility."

Sugar Express is a direct result of feedback from the commerical market place. "This new product is a reflection of SugarCRM's ability to listen and deliver" says Parker "Clearly, a large part of the market was asking for an entry-level, on-demand product that is not about vendor lock-in and offers deep features and support".

Supported by Smart Selling and SugarCRM, Sugar Express includes all the features of Sugar Community Edition plus access to Sugar Plug-Ins for Microsoft Office along with three customer support cases. Australian pricing is $690 (ex-GST) for one to five users per year and $995 (ex-GST) for up to 10 users. At around $10 per user / month, this is the most compelling value proposition in the market today.

Today's announcement also coincides with updated and simplified the packaging of both Sugar Professional and Sugar Enterprise. Again, these changes are a reflection of market demand for simplicity of products and clarity regarding pricing.

For additional information about Sugar Express, SugarCRM, or Smart Selling contact Mark Parker via the Smart Selling website

About Smart Selling (http://www.smartselling.com):
For the past 7 years, Smart Selling has been a leader in the delivery of innovation for Australian companies. During that time the company has emerged as a leader in the delivery of CRM, social media, and Sales 2.0 solutions.

About SugarCRM (http//:www.sugarcrm.com):
SugarCRM is the world's leading provider of commercial open source customer relationship management (CRM) software. Founded as an open source project in 2004, SugarCRM applications have been downloaded over five million times and currently serve over 500,000 users in 75 languages. Over 5,000 customers have chosen SugarCRM's On-Site and Cloud Computing services over lock-in based, proprietary alternatives. In the last year, SugarCRM has been recognized for its customer success and product innovation by CRM Magazine, InfoWorld, Customer Interaction Solutions and Intelligent Enterprise.

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