vtiger Upgrades its Enterprise-class Open Source CRM Solution With New Features

1 January 1970

vtiger, provider of enterprise-ready open source CRM solution, today announced the release of vtiger CRM 5.0. vtiger business model helps small and medium businesses that need an alternate to expensive CRM solutions available in the market. vtiger has been downloaded close to 0.5 million times already, and ranks among top 5 most downloaded financial apps in sourceforge.net .

vtiger CRM is built over LAMP/WAMP stack and other third-party open source packages. vtiger CRM software can be installed in Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 and different types of Unix/Linux-based distributions, such as RedHat 7.2/8.0/9.0, Debian 3.0, SuSe 9.0, Fedora Core 3.0, Mandrake 10.0, and FreeBSD.

Enhanced features of vtiger CRM include:

*Ajax-based user interface: Completely redesigned by implementing the

best breed of Web 2.0 technologies, such as AJAX, Tag clouds, and

mashups with other Web services

*Color scheme: Provide users with the ability to choose the available

best color schemes like alpha gray, blue lagoon, and wood spice. Besides,

the community is also encouraged to participate in the new scheme

creations.

*Enterprise-grade security management: Customers can enable access

control to the users according to their organization hierarchy in real

time. New security management functions are granular and flexible for

implementation across the organization of any size.

*Calendaring: Users can use the Calendar along with CRM core functions or

as a standalone Personal Organizer. Users can also share personal

calendar with other users & groups, set reminders, and plan recurring

calls, meetings & to dos.

*Email client: Inbuilt Email Client for handling both Outbound and

Inbound mails. Customers can make use of mass mailing options here.

*Marketing campaigns customization: Full-scale customization utilities

including multiple custom objects, pick-list editor, multi-select value

drop down lists, drag & drop home page layout, global-level Page view

customization, date & time formats, currency conversions, etc.

*Reports & Dashboard: Fully customizable reports with 20+ pre-built

dashboards are available.

*Order Management: Streamlined sales and inventory management functions

with products, price books, quotes, orders, and invoices. Additionally

customers can manage multiple tax classes, discounts and rates.

*Marketing Automation: Create and manage campaigns, execute personal

email marketing, and track success rate of the campaigns.

"I can sum it up in one word -- fabulous! I had been looking intensely at other systems for about two weeks and couldn't find one that really suited before I stumbled across vtiger," said Edwin Wigmore, Sales Manager of the Sysdoc Group. "Installing it was a breeze and it has some of the most advanced, but easy to use features I've ever seen. I recommend it unreservedly," he added.

"vtiger CRM has passed through more than 10 development cycles to ensure that the product is enterprise-ready and usable," said Shankar R.N.S, Product Manager at vtiger "Usability, L&F and Security have been the prime focus of this release." he added.

For more information, call at 1-877-788-4437, or visit http://www.vtiger.com

About vtiger

vtiger's mission is to create affordable enterprise IT solutions in CRM, Groupware and other areas. vtiger has been established with a vision to offer best-of-breed open source solutions that are integrated, validated, and certified with additional functional features augmented by our own contributions. We certify the distribution, and provide world-class support. The products can be downloaded and used free of charge, our revenues are provided by support and subscription services.

vtiger is a Private Limited corporation registered under Indian law based in Chennai, India and is in the process of establishing a subsidiary in the US. It is an early stage venture funded by AdventNet, a leading Network Management Software provider, and other private angel investors. Visit us at http://www.vtiger.com

Contact: Gowtham Raj

Media Relations

925-965-6200

raj@vtiger.com

Source: prnewswire

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