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CiviCRM is an open source constituent relationship management solution specifically geared towards meeting the needs of advocy, non-profit, and non-governmental groups.  CiviCRM is unique in that it integrates tighly with either the Drupal or Joomla content management systems to provide a unique overall solution that allows you to leverage your website in addition to the typical tools one might expect from a robust CRM.

SugarCRM is a robust, enterprise-level, web-based CRM solution comparable to SalesForce.com and Microsoft DynamicsCRM.  SugarCRM is an open source application that not only has a freely available Community Edition, but that also offers enhanced support and functionality through commercially available Professional and Enterprise Editions.

Problem: Alenia North America and its subsidiary in Canada have over 300 employees and four corporate offices across the US and Canada.  The company maintained five different public web sites and needed a corporate Intranet to improve communications amoung staff members.  Different companies maintained the various sites and each had a different look and feel.  Alenia wanted consistency between sites and the ability to add and change content at will.  Additionally, customized functionality was needed to support a media portal and other features.

Zen Cart is an extremely robust, poweful, and user-friendly open source shopping cart system that is a derivative of the extremely popular osCommerce shopping cart solution.  Zen Cart is written in PHP and runs under a variety of platforms, and is as full-featured a solution as one might hope to encounter.

www.stopdwi.com

Problem: Alcohol Detection Systems (ADS) came to VMT as a startup company who engineered a breath alcohol ignition interlock device.  This is a device that controls the ability to start a vehicle by analyzing a breath sample from the driver.  There is a complex software component to the ignition interlock that captures events while starting the vehicle and testing the breath sample from the driver.  States that convict people of driving under the influence (DUI) increasingly require the installation of an ignition interlock and reporting of the event information that is captured.  ADS needed to develop software to manage the event information from installed interlocks and also provided inventory control and sales tracking for a nationwide distribution network.

www.genealogical.com

Problem:  Genealogical Publishing Company was an early adopter of e-commerce sales and marketing in the early history of the Internet.  Their e-commerce site had been re-written several times on different platforms, including Cold Fusion and Microsoft ASP.  The site had been custom written with little documentation and was primarily supported by only one developer.  The company recognized the need to add functionality and more sophisticated search engine optimization tools (SEO) to increase Internet sales. 

Drupal is an extremely powerful open source website content management system written in PHP.