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What are outbound sales?

Contrary to popular belief, outbound sales have still not turned obsolete. 75% of executives say that they are willing to make an appointment or attend an event based on a cold call or email alone. Not every prospective customer realizes the need for a product until they find out that it exists.

Outbound sales are meant to create and meet demands. With an efficient database of prospects and smart automated workflows targeted to future customers, an open-source CRM solution can help you generate more outbound leads and eventually convert them into sales opportunities. A process in which a seller initiates customer engagement from its end, outbound sales are most popularly carried out via cold calls, meets, and email marketing. Read more

Crust Technology releases the first Low-Code Platform with Federated Cloud capabilities

Cork, Ireland, 22 December 2020.

Crust Technology, the leading open-source Low-Code Development platform and Salesforce alternative and the driving force behind the free and open-source project Corteza, is excited to announce a new major release: Corteza 2020.12. This release comes with many new features and improvements, and includes experimental support for record federation. As a result, this makes the Corteza platform the first open-source federated cloud solution for record sharing in the world.

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What is a Software Release?

Software is always changing. There would always be a scope for improvement or some bugs and issues that would affect the performance of the software, and indirectly the hassle-free experience that every end-user wants. And that’s why in agile software development, there are always software releases before the end of every iteration. Read more

What Does CRM Stand for in Finance?

As soon as we bring the term ‘finance’ into the frame, the backdrop depicts professionalism, trust, and credibility at its best. Any business in financial services relies on the pillars of integrity and customer trust. There exists a very delicate and yet, an integral relationship between financial service providers and clients. All of these factors make up for the need and significance of digital transformation in the financial services industry. That’s when a CRM is launched into the picture.

Similar to any other industry, CRM stands for Customer Relationship Management in finance as well. Owing to its extreme necessity in the financial services industry and the huge potential in CRM, it becomes a dire need for digital transformation in banking and other financial establishments. Read more

Is There Any Free CRM Software?

Are your sales teams still working on tables and spreadsheets? Do you still use emails and other conventional means to keep track of your team’s progress? Well, if this is true for your business, it is a sign of danger.

The danger here lies in the fact that manual processes of managing leads and customers slacken the pace of the entire organization. Customers start getting frustrated, teams lose their time and efforts in sluggish paperwork, and eventually, customer relationships degrade. Read more

Do We Need Digital Transformation?

If something unconventional tries to change the way you do business, apprehension arises as clear as day. Digital business transformation is a revolutionary concept that is looked upon with the same hesitation. Digital brings in disruption, and often it appears to be more expensive as compared to traditional practices.

But the bird’s eye view reveals a different scenario. Technology is an essential enabler. It no longer remains the hurdle in the race. Technology is providing great opportunities for businesses to expand and grow beyond any limitations.

To decide whether you need digital business transformation, let’s find out what it actually means.

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Crust integrates ownCloud into its open source Salesforce alternative

Nuremberg September 29, 2020 – The ecosystem for ownCloud‘s new digital collaboration platform is growing: Crust Technology is developing an integration with ownCloud Infinite Scale for its open-source CRM and low-code platform.

ownCloud is currently working on a full rewrite of its digital collaboration platform. ownCloud Infinite Scale is coded in the programming language GOlang instead of PHP and will enable an unlimited scalability and increased performance. In the spirit of open source, a broad and growing ecosystem of partners supports the development. This includes Crust Technology, who are working on integration into the new platform.

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Why your Sales Team should move to Crust

I want to share with you the main reasons our clients are moving to Crust, the Open-Source Low-Code Platform with CRM suite.

Our clients come from every sector and every industry. Some are looking for a CRM for the first time, and others want to move from their current CRM (mainly Salesforce). We always ask them what attracted them to us in the first place. What are the key requirements?

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Does Digital Transformation Work?

Yes, but only if the digital transformation strategy is realistic and adequately planned. A digital transformation is not just about an IT system upgrade or greenfield implementation.

Firstly, it involves examining all the data resources and processes in an organisation. So, it would help if you saw how these two categories interact. Secondly, you must define how the interactions can be optimised or even re-imagined. And thirdly, you need to determine how you can digitise the results. Read more

Why is it essential for a company to implement a CRM?

When the number of leads in your company grows, you need a system that helps you manage all data and tasks. This is the moment when a CRM system becomes essential.

In a CRM, you can store all data related to a lead, account or opportunity in an organised way. Emails exchanges, calls and visits to the potential customer provide you with a massive amount of data, which you can save as structured data inside a CRM record. Read more