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By Sam Zott on Mar. 28, 2008

BTW I just checked and Salesforce is up to $1,200/year - so get ready for that little "bump" in your next month's billing statement! :)

Migrating contacts is pretty simple - export the contacts as a CSV and Sugar has a very simple import and mapping interface that will allow you to import these records in a matter of minutes.

As for the other data - Campaigns, Templates, Opportunities, etc. - I'm not sure but that might require some mysql scripts to be run (after you manage to extract the data from Salesforce)

By an anonymous user on Mar. 29, 2008

Have you looked at netsuite? That might be another paid option. Another one is Compiere - it is a Sugar CRM - check and see if they have any input filters. As Sugarguru said, though - pretty much all these apps will have import tools.

By an anonymous user on Mar. 31, 2008

Don't make the mistake of migrating from Salesforce to SugarCRM. We tried it about 6 months ago and it was disastrous. The migration effort went off fine but SugarCRM was terrible and we eventually ended up moving back to Salesforce. Wasted about 4-6 man-months of effort in the process. What a waste...

By an anonymous user on Apr. 03, 2008

To be honest we have tried sugar but was very disappointed. We selected zoho crm instead. It's web based as salesforce and it only cost $12 per user. It has been very useful and easy to use.

By an anonymous user on Dec. 19, 2008

Hi Raghu,

I wanted to check if you are still evaluating for CRM application or have you closed it with any vendor.