Hey everybody!
Posting here because I can't seem to find a more suitable forum for this.

What is everyone's favourite web based Applications for CRM(customer relationship management), ERP(Enterprise Resource Planning) and Groupware/Collaboration suites.

I'm a bit curious, because I spent a good bit of time looking through all the open source applications last summer, and they all required me to invest more time into the application than I was going to be able to commit.

I have a client who is looking for a webbased crm/erp (or similar) system to be implemented into a shared hosting server environment, and I have another client coming down the line(who is fairly easy going) wants a groupware suite put into the website, so he can share files/events/meetings/etc. with partners in different countries. Would have email integrated preferably.

I have an idea myself of what to put in, in both cases, but I'm curious to find out what other people think?

Oh yah, and try not to be too outrageous with the prices of the software you suggest. . Preferably open source, but will pay a small fee per year if the client is getting something good in return.

Thanks.
~NevF

SugarCRM (open source) is pretty good, though you may need to hack it into doing what you want

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I really like it, and the client would too, but it's a very heavy duty application and won't run on anything less than a dedicated server. I was looking so forward to using it, until I realised how heavy it really is...

Since when?

Obviously it would depend on how many concurrent users were accessing it and what functions you wanted to enable, but there's no reason why you can't run it on a shared server to start with

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When I was running it before it was a bit of a beast. Had it on a shared server and the load times on pages was ouch!!!

Even running it on my local machine I found it sluggish. That was of course at the start of last year so maybe I didn't invest enough time in it. Also I presume its come on a good bit since then.

egroupware springs to mind as well eGroupWare: Home think thats the address ... I'd played with it before but it wasn't really for me at the time.

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Well screw me pink! I just uploaded it to the server, and installed it. I cant believe it actually works without crashing the website.
Thanks Blacknight, you've made my week, . And at least I'll have a solution in place that the client will like, and it installed on my own server as well... and money in the pocket!
I tried it last year, on another server, but the website shut itself down completely many times, so I just got rid of it. Now things appear to be going much better.

yah, I agree with forbairt there, it was last summer when I was trying it, I installed it on my computer(through apache), but without getting it onto my own web server, it was pointless.

Egroupware is an alright application. It's very powerful, and it's okay-ish to template. It was that that I was using on my website until now for my crm. Unfortunately, i never warmed to it.
Also, of late times, i noticed that there;s a bit of trouble in the egroupware development team camp, in which 2/3 core developers got kicked off because they breached some rule by working another piece of software(Tine 2.0). So the project looks like it's set for abandonment...