SugarCRM has evolved rapidly over the last couple of years with some
interesting major and minor releases. You can find links to demonstrations of recent releases below.
| Version | Release Date | Comments |
Link to Demo |
| Sugar 4.5.0 | July 2006 | Brought the concept of "Dashlets"
and greatly increased the users'
control over their environment. Although some may view this as
superficial, "ownership" is an important part of user-adoption and
user-adoption is a critical component of CRM success. |
|
| Sugar 4.5.1 | November 2006 | There were many enhancements but the greatest strides were towards simplified marketing modules. What had worked well before but was clunky and unwieldy, was now driven by user-friendly and very understandable wizards. | |
| Sugar
5.0 |
December 2007 | We waited a long time for a SugarCRM 5 production release date. It was the first major release in a year and brought huge advances. The most obvious changes were in the email functionality and the first iteration of Module Builder. | |
| Sugar 5.1 | July 2008 |
Mainly delivering functionality to system builders, this should be regarded as a minor upgrade but was interesting nonetheless. | |
| Sugar
5.2 |
January 2009 |
We were a little cynical
about this release at first. The marketing headlines were that it
featured links to Social Networking sites. But under the hood it
contained greatly enhanced enhanced Studio
functions including for the first time, the ability to make and break
relationships between modules. |
SugarCRM 5.2.0 Demonstration |
| Sugar
5.5 |
October 2009 | A most welcome
release. There was very little in enhanced functionality. This release
was primarily a bug fix release with more than 1,000 bugs fixed in the
Community Edition alone. We know, we were involved in the pre-release
testing programme. |
SugarCRM 5.5.0 Demonstration |
| Sugar 5.5.1 |
March 2010 |
After a lot of feedback from the community, SugarCRM undertook to revisit the email functionality. This release is pretty much all about the email client. And it's all the better for it. Best feature is the ability to email direct from modules without having to visit the email module ... much quicker!! | SugarCRM 5.5.1 Demonstration |
| Sugar 6.0 | July 2010 | A lot of this is user interface and back office. That's not a bad thing. The user experience has been improved (it was pretty good already) and a lot of developer/administrator functionality has been added to Studio. | SugarCRM 6.0 Demonstration |
