X2CRM Announces Version 4.2 of Its Open Source CRM, Business Marketing and Sales Force Automation System
Santa Cruz, CA (PRWEB) September 02, 2014 -- The open source CRM project X2CRM has reached another milestone in its release history with the company's latest announcement of the availability of version 4.2 of its open source CRM software, which includes marketing automation, sales force automation, process management framework, and service case management features.
This release, like all X2CRM versions, is available as an open source CRM application as well as in two commercial versions available in both cloud and download editions.
Key Features of X2CRM:
Web 2.0 Optimized Responsive UI
Contact Web Tracking
Anonymous Web Activity Tracking with X2Identity Browser Fingerprinting
Web and Facebook Lead Capture Form Designer with Automatic HTML Embed Code Generator
HTML Targeted Content
Newsletter Recipient List
Lead Nurturing, Lead Scoring and Intelligent Lead Routing
Contact Activity Overview and Management
Team Tasks and Actions
Time Tracking, Call Logging, Event Scheduling
Shared Team Calendar
Workflow Engine
Data Import and Export
Email Correspondence
Email and Quote templates
Record Tagging Cloud System
Products Sales Quotes and Invoices
Customer Service Case Management
User Profile Home Pages with Modular Widgets
Data Field Security, Team User Roles and Permissions
Both Cloud and On-Premise Optimized Options
Mobile Layout with Responsive UI
Large Scale Marketing Campaign Management
X2Studio Application Customization
Marketing Automation, Sales Force Automation, and Business Automation with X2Flow
X2Engine Authorized Partner Program for Qualified Resellers
Drag and Drop Process Pipeline
REST-ful API
Activity Feed Summary Email Digest
X2CRM 4.2 Updates:
User Profile 2.0
New Calendar Functionality
Permissions 2.0
Mass Updater
X2Flow Additions
Preset Import Maps
Profile Widgets and Custom Layout: Create a Personalized Dashboard
The profile page in X2CRM is the home base of operations for users of the open source CRM company's software. In this area, users can view, at a glance, all the most recent activity within the app, as well as a summary and quick insight into all the records in their CRM. With X2CRM v4.2, these widgets have become vastly more configurable. Each widget can have its own unique, persistent filter settings, which can be configured to display most recent records created, upcoming actions, accounts in a certain region, or filters matching any other attribute criteria available. Widgets based on the same module can be duplicated, so setting many different criteria for the same data is now possible. This can offer a helpful insight into viewing data, says the company. The profile page widget suite now also includes an embedded website viewer. This allows users to connect an external site to their X2Engine profile by adding a widget with a web URL directly onto the home page layout.
Calendar Functionality Enhancements: Collaborative Scheduling
"A shared Calendar is a big part of a collaborative team's effectiveness," claims X2CRM. The open source CRM application's Calendar module is designed to connect the individuals in a company so they can more effectively work as a team. The Calendar module helps make scheduling collaborative and open. In X2CRM 4.2 version, users can now jump straight to the Day View of any date by clicking on the day. Additionally, there is now an hourly Grid for scheduling events in the Week View, and Start and End times are now displayed in the title of the event. Descriptions of Calendar events has become richer as well. The latest update sees the introduction of both Event Type as well as an Event Status dropdown menus. These menus are fully customizable and could be used to convey important information about the nature of the scheduled event. The Calendar may now be converted to an ICS format display, useful for integrating with Apple iCal.
User Permissions 2.0: An Intuitive Overhaul
User Role Access is a crucial part of data security in X2CRM. The interface for permissions settings has been remodeled in 4.2 in order to provide more intuitive controls and greater manageability. The all-new grid based permissions system allows users to implement nuanced controls and visualize exactly who can do what. The power to grant users the ability to View, Create, Update, or Delete records on a module by module basis is now controlled through simple on or off switches in a gridded format.
Mass Updater Improvements: Select All Records
The Grid View in X2Engine 4.2 gives users the ability to perform a mass update on all the records in their database. Selecting all records in a given module and updating or even deleting them all is now possible. This selection is sensitive to the filters entered into the column headers, which provides the framework to do a large scale cull or update of many records all at the same time. The company warns users to be careful, however. Record deletion and modification in X2Engine cannot be reverted.
New X2Flow Criterion: Tagging Becomes Even More Powerful
The marketing automation and sales force automation power of X2Flow is one of the most exciting parts of the application for many X2Engine users, according to the company. As requested by a large number of those users, in X2Engine version 4.2 there is now greater control over the attribute checking on records at certain points of an automation sequence, leveraging the utility of the tagging system in X2Engine. Whether at the flow trigger or in an attribute conditional, it is now possible to evaluate whether a record has certain tags.
Preset Import Maps: Get Data into X2CRM Open Source CRM More Easily.
Transitioning from one CRM to another has traditionally been a trouble spot for many CRM users. X2CRM is hopeful they can alleviate some of these issues for users attempting to migrate to their open source crm or professional and platinum editions. In version 4.2, migrating data is made easier by preset import maps. Fields from other CRM systems are automatically and correctly mapped to data fields in X2CRM using a preset import map. The company has stated that these import maps will be expanded and added to in future releases.
About X2CRM
X2CRM, Inc. of Santa Cruz, California, was founded in 2011 by John Roberts, a SugarCRM co-founder and Customer Relationship Management software entrepreneur. The company provides sales & marketing software and cloud hosting services for X2CRM, a next generation open source CRM, sales force automation, process management framework, and marketing automation platform. X2CRM has been installed on over 11,500 public and private cloud servers across 160+ countries.
X2CRM Inc. is headquartered in beautiful Santa Cruz, California, a short 40 minute drive from San Francisco International Airport.
For a live demonstration, a detailed feature list, screenshot and video library please visit: http://www.x2crm.com.
X2CRM leverages the latest open source software including Apache, PHP, MySQL and Linux (LAMP).
Additional Resources:
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John Roberts, X2CRM, http://www.x2crm.com, +1 (831) 222-5333 Ext: 1, [email protected]
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