A Sugar Dashlet is a user-configurable panel that displays information regarding your assigned records like accounts and opportunities. It also displays related activities such as calls and meetings. Sugar Dashlets are used to customize your home page and have a quick snap shot of what you want to see.
Sugar Dashlets allow you to add modules, reports, feeds, notifications and others to your home page. The Dashlets are customizable and can be configured to display what fields you want to view.
To add a Sugar Dashlet, do the following:
Have you ever felt the frustration of trying to get your logo inserted into your signature and it just wont work. We understand and wanted to give you the steps to make it as easy as possible using SugarCRM.
If you have a digital signature that you would like to use when sending emails, or if you want to insert a logo in your email signature, you can do so as follows:
- Navigate to the General tab in the Settings window of the Emails module
- Select the signature from the Signatures drop-down list and click Edit.
DataSync is proud to announce that we have been named one of the hottest companies in the midwest by Lead411. 
According to the release sent yesterday, the hottest companies must be in either the Software, Wireless, Internet, or Media industry and be a privately held organization, and be within the districts/states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Ohio, or Wisconsin.
DataSync joins other reputable companies in our region including ChaCha search engine and Groupon daily deals. Click here to a full list of the hottest companies in the Midwest. Congrats to DataSync and all the other winners!
Day 2 at SugarCon, Tuesday, was the first full day of breakout sessions and sponsor booths. SugarCRM kicked off the morning with a General Session featuring Sugar’s Co-Founder/VP of Products Clint Oram and CEO Larry Augustin, a
nd a demo of the beta release of SugarCRM 6.
DataSync had a pleasant surprise right away in the morning with a visit from Wyatt Walter, former VP of Network Operations at DataSync, now of SugarCRM. We were sad to see him leave, but glad he seems to be adjust
ing well to life in sunny California – we heard he has even taken up surfing!
DataSync was up bright and early Monday morning, gearing up for D
ay 1 of SugarCon.
We started off the day with breakfast at a classic ’50s diner for some delicious biscuits and gravy and Denver-style omelets.
We had the rest of the morning to explore some of the city before SugarCon registration and the booth setup.
Daniel, Ted, and Kristen braved the rainy weather and explored Pier 39, while Mike got some work done back at The Palace Hotel.
After a quick lunch downtown San Francisco, it was time to register, and get our booth set up for the first Solutions Showcase of the conference.
SugarCon, SugarCRM’s 4th annual user and customer conference, brings together SugarCRM users, developers, partners and experts from around the world. The conference takes place at The Palace Hotel in San Francisco, California, April 12-14.
DataSync will be in attendance this year, joining fellow partners like Levementum and Pardot, to learn how others are making SugarCRM work for their businesses.
Two days before the conference, and we’re gearing up by making sure everything is all set to go:
Banners (above) are loaded and ready to go. Thanks to VVI for the design!
Moving from one software system to another can be painful and time consuming. To capitalize on your business investments quickly, the data migration process must be well planned and done in a timely manner. DataSync has achieved this with new professional services for customers looking to move their data to our system.
These services include:
- Process Automation
- Custom Modules
- Report Building
- Your CRM to SugarCRM
- Microsoft Exchange to Zimbra
- POP/IMAP mail importing
- Website content migration
- On-premise to hosted infrastructure conversion
Open source software is now being adopted more frequently by companies of a larger size. According to Software Development Times in a recent article, “Open source isn’t a buzzword or even a type of software; it has become a new way of doing business in software.”
Bigger companies are finding the solution to their software needs in open source applications. At DataSync in the past 60 days, we have seen a trend in more larger-sized companies turning to open source SaaS.
Why the trend of big businesses moving towards open source software?
1. Cost efficient alternative to traditional software
SugarCRM today announces that it will host SugarCon 2010. This global customer, partner and developer conference will take place at The Palace Hotel in San Francisco, California on April 12-14.
SugarCon has become one of the most unique and popular CRM conferences in the world and this year promises to be even better,” said Larry Augustin, CEO of SugarCRM. “Whether you are a customer, partner, developer or just interested in learning about the future of business applications, cloud computing and open source, we invite you to spend three exciting days with us.
DataSync is pleased to announce that we are joining marketing forces with Pardot Marketing Automation.
Pardot provides an on-demand marketing automation solution that can show sales teams exactly where to spend their time in order to maximize ROI. Advanced micro-level web analytics allows Prospect Insight to capture all relevant prospect activities, both on and off your site, and help you determine who is showing the most buying signals.