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SugarCRM 5.0 was recently released to the public, and we’ve had a good chance make use of the new version during our day to day business operations. So far, we’ve been incredibly impressed with the new version and the flexibility that it has to offer. Here are five new features in SugarCRM 5.0 that might make you want to upgrade:

Custom Module Builder – SugarCRM 5.0 has a tool which allows users to build their own custom modules to track whatever’s most important to you. It eliminates the need to hire an external development firm to get the reports you want in many cases. The new module builder works with reporting, work flow, and Sugar Studio.

AJAX Email Client – Email is an area of SugarCRM that Sugar significantly improved in version 5.0. The new version of SugarCRM implements its own AJAX Email client that’s very useable. It’s got a rich ajax interface, search, keyboard shortcuts, contacts, and support for multiple contacts. It’s certainly no Zimbra or Outlook, but if that’s all you got, it’s useable.

Improved Sugar Dashboards – Dashboards on Sugar just became much more useable and visually appealing. There’s now support for funnel charts, pie charts, line graphs, bar graphs, and even performance gauge charts. You can create your own custom dashboards or use the ones built in.

Improved Access Control – SugarCRM 5.0 offers a substantially improved user access control system. This will allow you to give your employees access to only the information that they need. This is a significant security improvement and reduces a lot of risk by making sure your employees don’t have too much access to information.

SugarCRM has turned what was already a great customer relationship management tool into something even better. SugarCRM 5.0 has a lot of great new features that improves the usability of the tool, and it’s definitely worth considering.

DataSync offers SugarCRM 5.0 Hosting.