SugarCRM 6.2 – Great New Features

SugarCRM Announces Version 6.2 with Some Great New Features

New enhancements and lots of great new features make this much more than a “point” release. Drill down and find out why.

General Availability scheduled for June 1, 2011

• New Connectors [Professional/Enterprise editions only]
  • IBM LotusLive meetings and files
  • Google Docs
  • Cisco WebEx meetings
  • GotoMeeting meetings
  • InsideView SalesView – 6.2.x
• New Right-to-Left (RTL) Theme [Professional/Enterprise editions only]
  • Support for Hebrew and Arabic languages
• 22 total built-in languages

Enhancements to Existing Functionality

• Dashlet enhancements
  • Auto-refresh data in Sugar Dashlets
  • Social “My Activity Stream” dashlet (fka “My Sugar Feed” dashlet) enhancements
    • Filter by My Favorites
    • View user pictures within posts
    • Reply to posts
    • Delete posts
    • View Twitter and Facebook feeds
  • My Quotes Dashlet
  • My Documents Dashlet

• Admin Enhancements
  • Enable/disable modules for Global Search
  • Set system default theme
  • Display/hide available languages [Professional/Enterprise editions only]
  • Delete private teams [Professional/Enterprise editions only]

• Studio Enhancements
  • Copy/Sync EditView and Detailviews
  • Create custom Relate fields to relate to Users
  • Search for records using date and number ranges
  • Calculated Fields (calculate a value for a field based on a formula) [Professional/Enterprise editions only]
  • Dependent Fields (hide/display fields based on a formula) [Professional/Enterprise editions only]

• Sugar Logic [Professional/Enterprise editions only]
  • Support for Date and Datetime fields and functions
  • AssignToUser action
  • Dependencies defined in metadata

• New JS Charts

Platform

• Add support for Oracle 11g [Enterprise edition only]
  • Drop support for 9i

Sugar Mobile

• Android Support [Professional/Enterprise editions only]
  • Same functionality that is in Sugar Mobile for iPhone
  • Additional functionality
    • Import contacts and leads from phone address book
    • Email reports and quotes using phone email client
    • Filter records by My Favorites
• Blackberry Support [Professional/Enterprise editions only] – 6.2.x
• iPad-specific application with offline sync [Professional/Enterprise editions only] – 6.2.x
• iPhone application with offline sync [Professional/Enterprise editions only] – 6.2.x

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