Why Are Standards In Technology Important?
As the world simultaneously tackles health crises, social crises and economic crises, this might seem an impossible question to answer. I would argue that a major priority is to stay informed about the facts and different points of view with respect to the facts. However, even this is hard to do when standards of reporting […]
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. […]
Crust Releases version 2020.06 and Removes Paywall for All Products
Cork, Ireland, 30 June 2020 Crust Technology is excited to announce its latest major release, version 2020.06. Along with significant feature and functionality upgrades, Crust is also delighted to announce the removal of the paywall for all products in its portfolio. This means that the open-source Crust products are now free: Crust Low-Code, the leading […]
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 […]
Why is Customer Relationship Management important?
The 3 main reasons why Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is important are: Up to date information Customer information is always up to date, and easily accessible to all authorised staff. Automation Automation enables the streamlining of complex customer interaction processes, which saves time and reduces errors. Insights Finally, it provides businesses with reporting tools. Understand […]
What is BPMS?
According to Wikipedia, “Business Process Management is a discipline in operations management in which people use various methods to discover, model, analyze, measure, improve, optimize and automate business processes.” BPMS (Business Process Management Software or System) is a software platform for enabling BPM activities. Managing business processes is at the heart of your work, building […]
How to set up an automated business
As the economic squeeze continues, many businesses will be asking how automation can help them and their staff become more productive, focus their efforts on relationship building and service existing customers more effectively.
What is an Open-Source Low-Code Platform?
It’s a cliché to say by now, but the world has entered stormy economic waters. Spending on information technology is due to decrease for the foreseeable future. Being less expensive than traditional development and often delivering better results, the growth of Low-Code Platforms is about to accelerate even further. Planet Crust offers the premium free […]
It’s time to turn the page on open source forks of SugarCRM
It is a testament to SugarCRM that it spawned so many open source forks, before deciding to take itself down an exclusively closed-source, proprietary route. There seem to be dozens of them out there, each claiming to be unique while all working from the same core community edition engine, abandoned by Sugar CRM all those […]
What is a Digital Transformation Strategy?
I was recently asked this question and at the same time asked to explain what free CRMs have to do with the subject of digital transformation. Naturally, we here believe that Planet Crust’s CRM is the best free CRM on the market, providing the market-leading open source Salesforce alternative. However, more importantly, we provide a […]
