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SugarCRM Announces CRM Applications on Windows Azure

Posted on: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:29:00 EST

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LOS ANGELES, Nov 17, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
MSFT | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- SugarCRM, the world's leading provider of commercial open source
customer relationship management (CRM) software, today announced that it
will offer its CRM applications on Windows Azure to enable its customers
and value-added resellers to benefit from the real-time scalability,
high availability and on-demand infrastructure of Microsoft Corp.'s
cloud platform for web applications and services.

"With Windows Azure, Microsoft has built a true cloud computing platform
going well beyond the simple hosted infrastructure that most service
providers offer today," said Larry Augustin, CEO of SugarCRM. "Windows
Azure enables SugarCRM value-added resellers to create and deploy unique
solutions for customers around the globe. This new service is another
key component of the Sugar Open Cloud, the SugarCRM cloud strategy for
delivering simple, affordable CRM anywhere based on customer need. Sugar
on Windows Azure combines the most user-friendly CRM application on the
market with a highly available, scalable and secure cloud computing
platform."

The process for making SugarCRM applications available on Microsoft
Windows Azure was simple and straightforward, taking just a couple weeks
of development time. This rapid implementation period was enabled by the
strong native support the Microsoft Azure platform delivers for PHP, the
programming language in which Sugar is written.

"We are pleased to have SugarCRM running on Windows Azure," said Doug
Hauger, general manager of Windows Azure at Microsoft Corp. "The ease by
which SugarCRM was able to offer its CRM services demonstrates how the
openness of the Windows Azure platform allowed it to deliver Web
applications using its tools of choice."

Windows Azure is an Internet-scale cloud services platform that is
hosted in Microsoft data centers. It provides an operating system and a
set of developer services that can be used separately or together.
Windows Azure offers a scalable infrastructure with a pay-as-you-go
pricing model that enables customers to pay for the service as they
consume it, rather than buying and managing on-premises technology.

SugarCRM provides CRM cloud applications designed to run in any
computing environment, including cloud platforms such as Windows Azure,
partner clouds provided by SugarCRM partners such as BT and Tata
Communications or in private clouds managed directly by SugarCRM
customers. SugarCRM is delivering the Sugar Open Cloud because customers
demand control and flexibility around how their CRM applications are
managed and first generation CRM SaaS providers create risk for
customers by locking them into a set of monolithic and inflexible
services.

Microsoft and SugarCRM began working together in 2006 to deliver Sugar
applications on top of Microsoft technology. SugarCRM supports IIS as
well as Active Directory, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Office Outlook
and Microsoft Exchange Server. The two companies have continued to
collaborate as part of the Interop
Vendor Alliance. In August, SugarCRM announced Sugar Community
Edition on the Microsoft Web Platform, a framework for developing,
deploying and hosting Web applications.

About SugarCRM

SugarCRM is the world's leading provider of commercial open source
customer relationship management (CRM) software. 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 year, SugarCRM has been recognized for its customer success and
product innovation by CRM Magazine, InfoWorld, Customer Interaction
Solutions and Intelligent Enterprise.

For more information, call (408) 454-6900 or 1 87 SUGARCRM toll-free in
the US, email contact@sugarcrm.com,
or visit http://www.sugarcrm.com.

SOURCE: SugarCRM


SugarCRM 
Chris Harrick, 408-454-6947 
charrick@sugarcrm.com 
or 
Schwartz Communications for SugarCRM 
Christine McKeown, 415-512-0770 
SugarCRM@schwartz-pr.com

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