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Sarat Pediredla Jun 27

Announcing solomon - contact management made super simple

As we rapidly approach the release of fixx, our bug tracking solution (I have heard hushed voices in the Labplex that this might be as soon as Monday), I wanted to take the opportunity to announce the development of our next product.

solomon is a web-based contact manager and simplified CRM solution for small and medium businesses, who want to break free of Neolithic desktop solutions that don't play well with information sharing. It will be a web application you can run on your own hardware, like fixx.




solomon is still brewing at this stage but you are welcome to take a peek and sign-up to be notified when the beta goes out.

Before someone starts the "clone wars", solomon is indeed inspired by Highrise from 37Signals. However, we plan to bring our own unique take to interaction, functionality and purpose to the small business CRM space and fill a gap many existing, over-priced and non-user friendly enterprise web/desktop products have left.

posted by Sarat Pediredla on June 27, 2008 at 5:02 p.m.

Comments

Jun 27

Dare I ask, API?

Chris S
Jun 27

@Chris

How dare you? :D You will be happy to know that this one will come from the start with a REST API and lots of other goodies like microformats parsing and rendering.

Sarat Pediredla
Jun 28

Looking forward to seeing your beta of Solomon. Welcome to a crowded market, but there is always room for a functional product with a well-designed gui..

Good luck,
Perry

Perry Norgarb
Jun 28

@Perry
We have no illusions about the landscape of the CRM market and that it is a VERY crowded space in terms of players.

However, in terms of differentiation, a large majority (at least the market leaders), still deliver overly complex ERP-like systems that take years to configure and give you nightmares when you have to use them.

Secondly, the bigger problem with CRM is that they rarely play well with other systems. In a world where our information is so fragmented, data portability is a critical factor and we need a CRM system that can sync and integrate with other systems.

Sarat Pediredla

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