Benefits of Prototyping When Following a Rapid App Development Methodology

Prototyping apps is a really useful activity for many reasons. For example, it can help your organisation: Understand potential complexity in a proposed app Get concept buy-in from key stakeholders or customers Improve project co-ordination Clarify user journeys and user interfaces Highlight skill shortages Deliver a total cost of development and ownership for a full […]
What is the difference between ERP and CRM software?

Customer Relationship Management and Enterprise Resource Planning are, naturally, related technologies. CRM is all about driving your business towards a customer-focused approach. ERP is much more about taking a financial and logistics oriented view over your organisation operates. The two fields of CRM and ERP are not incompatible. The opposite is actually the case. More […]
What is the Full Meaning of CRM?

So “CRM” stands for Customer Relationship Management. However, the practice is that the term is vaguely defined, with many competing interpretations of what it should mean. Clearly, it’s about having a customer-focused approach, but what makes a great modern CRM, be that a free CRM or otherwise?
Which of the Following Statements is True of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Systems?

CRM is Expensive Open-source CRM is all just old forks of SugarCRM Open-source CRM doesn’t scale A great CRM allows your organisation to concentrate on a customer-focused approach An Open-Source Low-Code Development Platform gives your CRM more flexibility The best free CRM uses standardised technology A real open-source Salesforce alternative exists
What is Sales Force Automation in CRM?

CRM is a broad domain. It touches every industry and there’s not such thing as a one-size-fits-all solution. Sure, you can get a CRM for free. But the big question is whether you can get it to do what you want. Sales Force Automation specifically addresses the parts of the sales process your team needs […]
Why Automate Your Business?

Automation promises great things, but knowing why you want to automate and not simply following the crowd is important. Corteza Corredor Automation Engine Benefits The Corredor Automation Engine in Corteza open-source low-code platform increases productivity while driving down costs. It helps to think of automation in the context of an entire digital transformation strategy. However, […]
What are the Most Important Sales Tracking Software Features?

The Low-Code Development market set to grow exponentially in the coming years. It might be tempting to think that any platform will enable you to build great sales tracking software, or more commonly known as a CRM. However, the arrival of Amazon Honeycode on the market proves, once again, that this is not the case. […]
Amazon Honeycode? A Feature-Poor Alternative to Crust Low-Code

You may heard that Amazon is dipping its toe in the No-Code/Low-Code market. It’s worth mentioning that it’s early days for Honeycode and the offering is still in beta. However, on the evidence so far, it’s aimed at very small businesses and limited use cases. This is definitely not Amazon aiming for the enterprise market.
The Ultimate Salesforce Alternative

How Many CRM Companies Are There? A lot! Once you start looking for the best solution for your business, you will find on the market many CRM solutions and their alternatives. Picking the best can be tough. And It’s usually not just about market share, getting CRM for free or even open-source CRMs. Even if […]
Crust is Spreading its Wings

Since we launched in March 2019, Crust CRM Suite has established itself as the de facto open-source alternative to Salesforce. Self-funded, profitable in our first year of trading and equipped with an order book delivering over a year’s worth of cash runway, Crust Technology is already on target to grow between 200% and 300% in […]