In celebrating “Digital Sovereignty”, we will be judged by the quality of the software we produce, not our fine words.
Crust Technology recently had the pleasure of taking part in the Univention Summit in Bremen, Germany. The Univention Corporate Server (UCS) is a leading platform for cost-efficient operation and easy administration of server applications and entire IT infrastructures. It is both self-hosted and open source and is used by many recognisable, brand-name organisations. UCS is […]
DAASI International brings Crust to Univention Corporate Server

Cork, 22 January 2020 We’re excited to announce that Crust, the open source Low Code, CRM and Service Automation platform is now available on the Univention Corporate Server (UCS) via the Univention App Center. UCS, created by Univention, provides companies with a complete solution for the administration of IT infrastructures, applications, resources and users. With […]
Meet us at the Univention Summit

We’re excited to announce we’re a sponsor of the Univention Summit, which is held on January 23 and 24 in Bremen, Germany. Together with our partner DAASI International we will presenting Crust at our stand. What is the Univention Summit The Univention Summit is a yearly event that attracts over 400 IT professionals from value-added […]
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 […]
User stories as a key project management tool
One of the first challenges in software development is gathering clear requirements and keeping them unchanged during the implementation. Requirements documents can be lengthy and too technical. At Crust, we implemented user stories as part of our project management and business analysis process and we acknowledged that this is a powerful way of defining the […]
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 […]