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Sugar 6 hits beta milestone

By | April 13, 2010, 8:42pm PDT

Summary: SugarCRM’s forthcoming 6 upgrade features improved performance, navigation, ease-of-use and mobile phone support. Sugar 6 — which officially entered beta today — features a new user interface and redesigned navigation system with a Shortcut Bar that offers single click access to common tasks. It is a “persistent toolbar throughout the application that allows users to perform [...]

SugarCRM’s forthcoming 6 upgrade features improved performance, navigation, ease-of-use and mobile phone support.

Sugar 6 — which officially entered beta today — features a new user interface and redesigned navigation system with a Shortcut Bar that offers single click access to common tasks.

It is a “persistent toolbar throughout the application that allows users to perform common tasks in one click, including creating an account, contact, sales opportunity, document, note, task or logging a meeting or call,” according to a release issued by the company Tuesday at its annual SugarCon conference in SF. “Usability tests show that Sugar 6 requires 20 percent fewer clicks to navigate than in previous versions.”

The software’s new “Shortcut Bar” offers a “context-aware Global Search field which filters search results based on the module in use (e.g., Contacts, Opportunities and Accounts) and produces results without leaving the page,” the release also stated.

Version 6 also features support for offline client capabilities and native web application support for leading smartphone platforms. The former release enabled customers to use a mobile browser to access the CRM system; version 6 provides support for native applications running on the iPhone and iPad, Blackberry and Google Android-based devices.

SugarCRM plans to release the finished product in July.

The company claims it signed 600 new corporate customers in the first quarter of 2010 and has more than 6,000 customers globally.

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Paula Rooney has covered the software and technology industry for more than 20 years, starting with semiconductor design and mini-computer systems at EDN News and later focused on PC software companies including Microsoft, Lotus, Oracle, Red Hat, Novell and other open source and commercial software companies for CRN and PCWeek. She received a silver award from the American Society of Business Publication Editors in 2005 for her profile on Linus Torvalds and edited and co-authored "Partnering With Microsoft," a book about Microsoft's channel published by CMP Publishing in 2004. Rooney graduated from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1997. In her off time, she enjoys scuba diving, sailing, sun worshipping, running, reading, surfing (the net) and hanging out with her family. She resides on the shores of Scituate, Massachusetts.

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