SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - April 5, 2011) - SUGARCON -- InsideView, the social selling and sales intelligence leader, and SugarCRM, the world's fastest growing customer relationship management (CRM) company, announced today that InsideView's powerful sales intelligence solution will come preinstalled in all editions of SugarCRM. The integrated solution will provide all of SugarCRM's users with immediate access to InsideView's state-of-the-art sales intelligence at no incremental cost. The announcement was made at the annual SugarCon customer and developer's conference.
The partnership comes at a time when sales people are overwhelmed with an explosion of data that leaves them spending more time searching for information and less time selling. InsideView's sales intelligence dramatically improves sales performance by aggregating the most valuable sources of external information sales people need about companies and contacts into a single, easy-to-access view within SugarCRM. This sales intelligence makes it fast and easy to discover prospects, qualify leads, engage decision-makers, close deals, and grow both customer relationships and top-line revenue.
Sales intelligence has been shown to increase revenue per sales person by more than ten percent, compared to sales people who only have access to simple contact or company data. InsideView's platform aggregates and draws relevance from the huge quantity of business information available in tens of thousands of worldwide business publications; social platforms like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and blogs; and financial and contact information.
InsideView CEO Umberto Milletti's participation in a keynote address at SugarCon -- SugarCRM's marquee global user group event -- highlights the importance and urgency of social selling and sales intelligence for today's sales professionals.
"Sales professionals using SugarCRM need to be able to create effective and actionable information from the massive amounts of data presented to them at any given time," said Clint Oram, CTO at SugarCRM. "With this partnership, InsideView brings meaningful business insight for millions of companies worldwide directly into our easy-to-use platform. With this integration, any user's view of his or her leads, accounts, contacts and opportunities will include real-time, relevant social and business insights and triggers."
"We are excited to partner with SugarCRM to empower all SugarCRM customers and partners with automatic access to rich insight about millions of companies and key decision-makers around the world," said Heidi Tucker, VP Global Alliances at InsideView. "Combined with SugarCRM's 'single system of truth' and collaborative platform, InsideView will help SugarCRM users find more relevant ways to connect with their prospects and customers to understand their important business issues."
SugarCRM is the first major CRM platform to ship with InsideView's sales intelligence built right in. SugarCRM Cloud edition users will see InsideView immediately when accessing the newest SugarCRM version. All users of SugarCRM's on-premise edition may download InsideView from SugarExchange or upgrade to the latest release of SugarCRM. To learn more about InsideView and how sales intelligence can dramatically improve your sales cycle, please visit www.insideview.com/SUGAR.
About InsideView
InsideView, the leading provider of sales intelligence, increases productivity and revenue by delivering relevant business and social insights to the point of need. Our award-winning technology gathers and analyzes information from the most relevant social media, user-contributed and traditional/proprietary editorial sources to provide compelling insights about companies and contacts directly within your CRM, browser, or mobile device. InsideView's products are used by more than 75,000 sales professionals, and over 1,000 market-leading companies including Adobe, AIG, BMC, Cap Gemini, Experian, and SuccessFactors. For more information, visit www.insideview.com.
About SugarCRM
SugarCRM makes CRM Simple. As the world's fastest growing customer relationship management (CRM) company, SugarCRM applications have been downloaded more than seven million times and currently serve over 700,000 end users in 80 languages. Over 7,000 customers have chosen SugarCRM's On-Site and Cloud Computing services over proprietary alternatives. SugarCRM has been recognized for its customer success and product innovation by CRM Magazine, InfoWorld, Customer Interaction Solutions and Intelligent Enterprise.
For more information, call (408) 454-6900 or 1 87 SUGARCRM toll-free in the US, email contact@sugarcrm.com, or visit http://www.sugarcrm.com.
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