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Tata Communications Partners with SugarCRM to Provide On-Demand CRM to its Customers in India
Tata Communications, a leading provider of enterprise data services, announced that Tata Communications’ On-Demand CRM service is available immediately to organizations of all sizes in India. This marks the company’s entry into the fast growing software-as-a-service (SaaS) space and is an extension of its managed services portfolio. Tata Communications has signed a partnership agreement with SugarCRM, a leading provider of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software, to provide its award-winning CRM applications as the basis for Tata’s entry as a SaaS provider. Since the beginning of this year, Tata Communications and SugarCRM have worked closely together on a joint pilot program to build a CRM service that meets the needs of businesses in India.
Building on its world class network, data center and managed hosting services, Tata Communications is bringing enterprises in India a single, end-to-end service to help companies manage their marketing programs in a cohesive manner, increase effectiveness of sales teams, and provide stronger tools to their customer support teams. With Tata’s On-Demand CRM offering, companies can get up and running quickly without having to invest in additional IT resources and can pay for the CRM service on a subscription model. The subscription service aligns with the growth and needs of individual businesses and delivers a cost-effective avenue for using CRM services. With Tata Communications’ pan India sales and support presence, and its SI partner eco-system, On-Demand CRM will help grow businesses as per the market needs.
Joomla Upgrade 1.5.15 - what to expect from this version
Joomla Version 1.5.15 is now a Release Candidate on joomlacode.org - what is new and what to expect from this version?
Here are the changes at this point in 1.5.15 :
* several regular expression fixes (eregi replaced with preg_match)
eregi is DEPRECATED as of php v 5.3.0 and will be removed in php 6.0. Using this function in php 5.3 and later will cause a E_DEPRECATED exception
* several replaces of ereg_replace with str_replace
eregi is DEPRECATED as of php v 5.3.0 and will be removed in php 6.0. Using this function in php 5.3 and later will cause a E_DEPRECATED exception * memory leak in com_menu
small memory leak - object not unset
* some language strings added
minor language strings additions
* upgrade of Simplepie library
Simplepie RSS parsing library upgraded to newer version. If your website relies heavily on RSS feeds then this will be good news for you
* upgrade of TinyMCE library (2.4.1 --> 2.6)
WYSIWYG editor upgraded from version 3.2.4.1 to 3.2.6 (latest version is 3.2.7, but that is quite a nice upgrade)