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Sugar User Group: SugarCon 2015 Recap

by Sarah Friedlander Garcia on May 20, 2015

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On May 19^th, we had our Sugar User Group Meeting focused on our SugarCon 2015 Recap. On July 14^th we will host the next User Group Meeting and will be sending out a survey to gather topic ideas in the next few weeks.

A huge thanks to everyone who participated in this meeting! Below is the video recording from the meeting, general notes as well as the questions & answers.

Still have more questions about SugarCRM? Feel free to reach out to our team here, and we’ll be happy to answer!

Agenda

Last User Group Recorded Video Link
SugarCRM News Roundup
Upcoming SugarCRM Training
Recap from SugarCon 2015
SugarCRM Questions and Answers
Next Meeting Training Topic Survey

Last Meeting

March 2015: 10 CRM Best Practices

News Roundup

SugarCon tool place in San Francisco on April 22, 23
Sugar Mobile 2.5 was released
- Support for dashboards
- Ability to quick close activities
- Ability to interact with the activity stream
- Ability to search using the global search full-text index
- Ability to configure start page
Sugar Outlook Plug-in 2.0 was released

SugarCRM Resources

SugarCRM Community - community.sugarcrm.com
SugarCRM Support Main Page – support.sugarcrm.com
SugarCRM on YouTube - youtube.com/user/DiscoverSugarCRM
W-Systems SugarCRM Blog - w-systems.com/blog/sugarcrm
W-Systems on Twitter - twitter.com/WSystemsCorp

Upcoming Training on Sugar University

SugarCRM University Relaunched
View the catalog at university.sugarcrm.com
Upcoming Classes
- May 21: Using Sugar Email
- May 28: Managing Users, Team and Roles
- June 4: Using Sugar Reports
- June 16,17,18: SugarCRM Administration Essentials (LIVE)
- July 13,14,15: Developer Essentials (LIVE)

SugarCon Recap

Sugar Roadmap – Q2’15

Sugar 7.6
- Enterprise Workflow
- Role-Based Views
- Calls/Meetings to SugarUX
- New installs on Microsoft SQL
- New installs on Oracle
Mobile 2.5
- Dashboards and Dashlets v1

Sugar Roadmap – Q3’15

Sugar 7.7
- Improved Global Search
- Tagging
- Knowledge Base to SugarUX
- Upgrades on all platforms
Mobile 2.6
- Dashboards and Dashlets v2
- Filters

Sugar Roadmap – Q4’15 / Q1’16

Sugar 7.8
- Inline Reporting
- Quotes to SugarUX
- Email and Calendar Sync
- Sales Development Engine
  - Team-based ACLs
Mobile 2.7+
- Tagging
- Mobile SDK v1
- Offline Enhancements

Future

Sugar
- Customer Journey Builder
- Notifications
- Reports to SugarUX
- Intelligent Relationship Management
- Improved Activity Streams
- More Modules to SugarUX
Mobile
- Quotes
- Mobile SDK v2
- Push Notifications