{"id":150,"date":"2010-06-17T06:44:38","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T13:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/confianzit.com\/ceospeaks\/2010\/06\/17\/vtiger-one-of-the-most-promising-open-source-crm\/"},"modified":"2023-09-14T11:45:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T11:45:30","slug":"vtiger-one-of-the-most-promising-open-source-crm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.confianzit.com\/cit-blog\/vtiger-one-of-the-most-promising-open-source-crm\/","title":{"rendered":"Vtiger &#8211; One Of The Most Promising Open Source CRM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row column_structure=&#8221;3_5,2_5&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;3_5&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text module_class=&#8221;blog-left-content&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>Any successful business requires a very good <a href=\"https:\/\/www.confianzit.com\/odoo-erp\">Customer Relationship Management software<\/a>. The usage of\u00a0 such a system and the potential up to which it will be utilised depends on size of the company, business domain and of course the ability to accept a change. Lot of times I have noticed that people are reluctant to accept a change and many of them using spreadsheets, paper\/pencil to keep track of customers, potential customers etc. How many times you have lost data stored that way &#8211; Lost paper slips, corrupted Spreadsheet file, Hard disk crash, Operators at your business forgetting to follow up a potential client. What ever the reasons are, you have lost valuable business and in this competitive market it means a lot. Even small mistakes can turn down good business.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We have reviewed and customized a lot of open source and proprietary CRMs and Vtiger is one that impressed us very much. This is one among the Open source projects that is written clean and has a fairly nice documentation. With the ease of use, fact that it is free to use and customize, a lot of the companies are switching to Vtiger. Seeing the number of projects reaching us to customize Vtiger itself shows how much popular this application is getting across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>Main Reasons for Vtiger adoption are<\/p>\n<p>#1. Open Source.<\/p>\n<p>#2. Can be easily customized for any business domain.<\/p>\n<p>#3. Proven System &#8211; No reinventing the Wheel<\/p>\n<p>#4. Technology &#8211; Its pure PHP\/Smarty\/Mysql<\/p>\n<p>#5. Cost of maintenance is less\/nill.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Watch a good screen cast demo of vtiger from here. 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Lot of times I have noticed that people are reluctant to accept a change and many of them using spreadsheets, paper\/pencil to keep track of customers, potential customers etc. How many times you have lost data stored that way - Lost paper slips, corrupted Spreadsheet file, Hard disk crash, Operators at your business forgetting to follow up a potential client. What ever the reasons are, you have lost valuable business and in this competitive market it means a lot. Even small mistakes can turn down good business.<!--more-->\n\nWe have reviewed and customized a lot of open source and proprietary CRMs and Vtiger is one that impressed us very much. This is one among the Open source projects that is written clean and has a fairly nice documentation. With the ease of use, fact that it is free to use and customize, a lot of the companies are switching to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.confianzit.com\/services\/open-source-solution\/vtiger-customization\"> Vtiger<\/a>. 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