vtiger CRM
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| Developer(s) | vTiger |
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| Initial release | 2003 |
| Stable release | 5.3.0 / November 11, 2011 |
| Written in | PHP |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Available in | multilingual (~20) |
| Type | Customer Relationship Management |
| License | MPL 1.0[1] |
| Website | http://www.vtiger.com |
vtiger CRM is an open source CRM application that was forked from SugarCRM with the intention of being a fully open source CRM application with comparable functionality to SugarCRM and Salesforce.com. It offers reporting, a customer portal and an Outlook plugin in its free edition, whereas those functions are in paid versions of the other CRM applications.
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[edit] History
vTiger was launched as a fork of version 1.0 of the SugarCRM project launched on December 31, 2004.[2]
[edit] Features
In its most recent version 5.3.0 (current as of November 11, 2011), vtiger offers all the usual CRM functions:
- Sales automation (customizable product entries, inventory management, quotations, billing, and trouble ticketing)
- Customer support & service functions, including a customer self-service portal
- Marketing automation (lead generation, campaign support, knowledge bases)
- Inventory Management
- Analysis and reporting
User interaction features include:
- Integration with corporate E-mail systems (plugin for Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird extension)
- Support of the Asterisk PBX phone system
- Calendaring
- Tag cloud functionality
- RSS feed suscription
- PDF document generation via the TCPDF library
In addition, vtiger features multiple database support, security management, and various web forms. The project is available in over 15 different languages.
Interface similarities between vtiger and the CRM module of the Zoho Office Suite have been noted. However, this seems to be attributable to common corporate sponsorship, not to a common software code base.
[edit] Technology
vTiger is built on the LAMP/WAMP (Linux/Windows, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) stack with code from other open source projects such as SugarCRM. The core development team of vtiger CRM is based in Bangalore, India.
[edit] Installation
vtiger CRM installation is done entirely from an HTML/PHP web interface. One can install vtiger CRM 4.X and 5.x on a standard webserver from cPanel provided they have the correct version of PHP and mySQL already installed. From 5.x, the package comes bundled with PHP/MySQL installations, fully customisable. The procedure involves downloading the .tar files from the vtiger CRM website and then using the control panel file manager to upload and untar the source files.
vtiger CRM is also offered as a hosted service which does not require installation on your own web server.[3] vtiger CRM On Demand is delivered using Amazon's EC2 platform.[4]
[edit] See also
- CiviCRM
- epesiBIM
- Web application
- SplendidCRM, an implementation on the Microsoft technology stack (Windows, C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server).
- SugarCRM
- OpenERP
- Openbravo
