Customer relationship management or CRM is an essential aspect of almost all types of businesses, whether major or minor. And, with proper attention, it can be the driving force of business. The good thing about this is that, even though it sounds like a mammoth task, it can be executed with ease and is very inexpensive. Most of the entry-level CRM software for open source CRM solutions are free. This guide will help you in building the perfect CRM for industry using open source. Open source CRM has a vast market, with a lot of outstanding competitors.

Let us look at some of them-

• SuiteCRM – An alternative to SugarCRM and based on SugarCRM community edition, SuiteCRM gives you the best of all words. Since SugarCRM discontinued support for its community edition, Sales Agility forked it and enhanced the user interface and functionality to make it more powerful CRM system.
• vTiger- vTiger is another open source CRM system and also based on SugarCRM. Vtiger has been downloaded more than three million times and offers very neat and clean user interface with many built-in features.
• SugarCRM- On of the most powerful open source CRM till the date, previously it was supporting the community edition but now supporting the enterprise and professional editions. Both editions have a lot of built-in such as elasticsearch for faster data delivery.