SugarCRM Open Munich Euro HQ

Company Claims customer base will exceed 1,000 deployments of Sugar Professional and Sugar Enterprise this month

SugarCRM, a leading provider of commercial open source customer relationship management (CRM) software has announced a series of milestones in the company's European expansion, including a new corporate headquarters in Germany, a spike in commercial customer and strategic partner wins and the expansion of its global training program.

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 few months alone, the company has added several large deployments with highly recognised European brand names including Fuji Film Spain, Loomis UK, Coca Cola, France and Avis Scandinavia.

With a customer base that will exceed 1,000 deployments of Sugar Professional and Sugar Enterprise this month and a growing partner ecosystem that now includes more than 70 value added resellers and strategic implementation partners, SugarCRM says it has seen demand for its commercial open source CRM solutions continue to accelerate across Europe. SugarCRM recently opened a new European headquarters in Munich, Germany in order to accommodate the growing commercial demand on the continent.

Liz Smith, (pictured left), VP of sales, SugarCRM EMEA, said "While demand in Europe for our modern and flexible CRM platform has been steadily growing over the last several years, the recessionary economy has only increased activity and adoption. SugarCRM and its strategic partners in Europe are well positioned to deliver the open and affordable solutions necessary to succeed across the European market."

In order to support the rapid interest and adoption of commercial open source in the region, SugarCRM continues to expand its Authorised Learning Partner Program (ALP) in Europe, now deliverable in English, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Spanish, French and German

The Sugar ALP is a set of instructor-based training programs offered by a select number of SugarCRM certified partners to help customer and community members take full advantage of the features and capabilities of SugarCRM. Originally offered through Redpill-Linpro, a European consultancy focused on end-to-end delivery of technology solutions for corporations, the program is now being offered by three additional partners in Europe including RedK, a Spanish software engineering firm with office in Madrid, Barcelona, Sevilla and the Canary Islands, Ysance, an IT consultancy based in Paris, France; and Weburi, a software and consulting firm with offices in Stuttgart, Vienna and Zurich, who recently signed up to be a Gold partner.

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