The right CRM System can assist you in increasing your sales by up to 30 percent and give you a Return-On-Investment within 13 months.
The right Customer-Relationship-Management (CRM) system can supercharge your Small Business like nothing else. By intelligently storing and managing Customer and Prospect information, it can help your Marketing Team find new customers faster by boosting your Lead Volume. It can win you more customers by boosting your Sales Team’s ability to close deals. It can help your Service Team make more customers happy with intelligent Help Desk solutions.
A powerful, Small Business–oriented CRM solution does this all on one platform, keeping your business connected end-to-end with minimal IT involvement, and setting you on the path to major growth. So when it comes to knowing the customer, everyone is on the same page.
CRM Solutions make it easier for Sales Managers to manage their Sales Teams by storing Sales Data centrally in an easy-to-follow format, allowing them to monitor sales processes, staff performance and, as a result, optimise selling and increase Sales and lower Costs.
OfficeCube will provide you with the Right CRM solution for your business.
OfficeCube provide our Clients with Enterprise-grade FREE Open-Source CRM solutions to assist in effectively managing the Sales processes, Lead generation and boosting your Sales Team‘s ability to Close those deals. All our CRM solutions are 100% free, therefore no expensive software and licencing costs, and they are 100% customisable to your needs and requirements.
OfficeCube will provide you with the right CRM system to maximise your sales efficiency and customer service which all translates to more profits and less losses for your Company.
With OfficeCube there are ZERO Licencing or Software costs
Choosing the right CRM can be a daunting and costly task, with the average CRM starting at around R 400.00 per user per month for a basic system, this excludes the amount of time and money it costs the average company to for the initial system setup.
OfficeCube makes your CRM implementation easier and more cost effective for you. We select a world-class enterprise-grade FREE Open-Source solution for you, and customising that solution 100% to suite your business needs and requirements. We take full ownership and responsibility of the implementation, to ensure that it is smooth and hassle-free, saving you time and money.
How do Open-Source CRM Systems compare to the popular paid-for versions?
When it comes to software that is subject to licencing and software costs, how does the Open-Source equivalent stack up? Many People are under the misconception that just because software is free, that it is somehow not as good as the paid-for equivalent.
We have done the research for you, and calculated an average-rating based on several different sources using a like- for-like comparison to get an accurate rating-per-product. Below we have listed the top-four rated Packages.
On the left we have ‘licenced-paid-for’ software, and on the right the Open-Source software.
How customisable is Open Source Software really?
Open source means that the source code is available to the public, this means absolutely any aspect of the applications functionality or look and feel is changeable.
Whether it is changing a work flow, adding new functionality or just changing how the system looks, you can customise and change the application 100 percent to fit your business needs.
How long would it take to train my staff on using the system?
Providing training on the use of our Open source systems will be no different from training your staff on the use of any equivalent closed source system.
However the system provided is intuitive and easy to use and uses should grasp the basics fairly quickly.
OK, but how secure is Open-Source Software?
One of the arguments used by opponents of Open-Source components has been that since the ’code is open,’ it is easier for Hackers to find security vulnerabilities and other weak-points. However, one needs to look at the number of ‘eyes’ looking on Open-Source projects at any given moment, and the ‘quality of those eyes.’
Unlike paid-for software, Open-Source means many more Developers are looking at the code, finding ‘bugs-and-exploits,’ and then addressing those concerns. And, because it is Open-Source, those concerns are addressed a lot faster than software with proprietary code.
Below is a diagram of major organisations that either, contribute to, or use Open-Source platforms. Organisations like NASA, the Department of Defence – and YES!… even Microsoft contributes to Open-Source. The quality and security of code being used by these organisations would be of utmost importance, and they have sufficient trust in Open-Source enough to use within their organisations.
Now, just because big-business runs Open-Source, this does not mean that all Open-Source software is secure, but it does mean that Open-Source software is not inherently unsecure.
While there are undoubtedly differences between Proprietary and Open-Source software, describing one as ‘more secure’ than the other is problematic. Some Proprietary software has massive security flaws, and some Open-Source software provides better security than their Proprietary counterparts.
In the words of Dr. Ian Levy;
“On average, good open source is about as good as good proprietary, and bad about as bad as bad proprietary.”
Describing software as ‘secure’ is difficult for many reasons;
– Organisations should instead think about the security features they need, and then evaluate whether or not the software in question is capable of delivering that security?