Companies are replacing Salesforce with Crust and Corteza – with use cases scaling to hundreds of thousands of users. Here’s why:

Crust Technology strives for feature-by-feature equivalence with Salesforce. While some parts of our feature set are different (and, we believe, superiour!), the ability to migrate from even complex Salesforce implementations, and immediately realise performance, control and cost benefits, makes the Crust and Corteza platforms the more attractive choice. Modern Code and Modern Architecture The backend […]
Crust 2019.12 brings new applications and features

11 December 2019 Cork, Ireland Crust Technology is excited to announce a new release of Crust, the open-source Salesforce alternative. This is a major release of Crust which includes new applications, such as Crust Service Solution, and a long list of new features and improvements. What’s new in Crust 2019.12? New Crust applications: Crust Service […]
Why Crust is Ideal for Not-for-Profit Organisations
For many, either being part of something bigger than ourselves or standing up for closely held principles are important. In June 2019, Crust Technology contributed all of its software intellectual property to the Commons Conservancy, an independent open-source foundation. In doing so, we created Corteza, “The Digital Work Platform for Humanity”. Corteza The objective of […]
Is Salesforce Copying the Crust’s Product Strategy?

Last week brought us the news that two of the most significant players in the CRM market, Salesforce and Microsoft had struck a deal. Salesforce Marketing Cloud will soon be hosted by Microsoft Azure. At the same time Microsoft Teams, a Slack Messaging alternative, will be integrated with Salesforce Sales CRM and Service Cloud. When […]
How CRM Software Can Change Your Online Business

When you hear the word CRM, what comes to your mind? Do you see a software that helps you keep customer data or do you see an application that provides actionable insights? If you think of it only as a customer information repository, then you may not be taking much advantage of the capabilities of […]
Cross-Application and Federated Automation with Corteza Corredor

5 August 2019 Cork, Ireland Planet Crust has announced the impending release of Corteza Corredor, its new backend technology for cross-application and federated workflow automation. “The original philosophical intent behind Planet Crust was for the platform to be a seamless three way marriage between identity, communication and business logic” says Niall McCarthy, CEO of Planet […]
9 Reasons why Crust’s CRM Suite is the True Salesforce Alternative

Many CRM applications claim to be an alternative to Salesforce, the cloud-only market leader, but very few can actually justify this claim. Planet Crust’s CRM Suite has been designed to be superior in many ways to Salesforce whilst delivering a competitive feature set. If you’re looking for a Salesforce alternative, here’s why Planet Crust’s CRM […]
Crust Technology Announces “Crust Service Solution”

16 July 2019 Cork, Ireland Crust Technology, the driving force behind the most advanced open source CRM in the world and the No. 1 private cloud alternative to Salesforce, has announced the upcoming release of Crust Service Solution. Crust’s Service Solution will deliver the following feature set: Agent console with 360 degree view of any customer […]
Customer Identity and Access Management with Crust’s CRM Suite

With Crust’s CRM Suite customer engagement is secure and seamless. It is built on Corteza – a low-code open-source digital work platform. Of course, having an Identity and Access Management specialist investing in your business helps. Corteza is part owned by DAASI International, Europe’s leading open source IAM consultancy. Balancing customer security with convenience is […]
The Best Customer Service Experience is Built on Corteza

Building a great customer service platform is no easy task. Mapping customer experience and user journeys is complex and ever-changing. Ensuring your technology keeps up requires a platform sufficiently flexible and extensible – but it can’t be a headache to maintain either. Unifying identity, customer records, communications and interactions, marketing requirements, processing queries and complaints […]