CiviCRM
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
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.
Alenia North America
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
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.
The Johns Hopkins Hospital Brady Urological Institute
Problem: Tissue Micro-Arrays (TMA) are slides containing 400 distinct patient specimens on a single slide. BUI needed to catalog slides, patients on each slide, how slides were stained, diagnosis for each specimen and scanned image of each specimen. Their in-house MS Access prototype quickly reached limitations, particularly with inability to handle multiple organ systems. There were also concerns about keeping their applications HIPAA compliant.
Drupal
Drupal is an extremely powerful open source website content management system written in PHP.
LJS & Associates, Inc.
Problem: LJS has 96% market-share in residential real-estate sign-post installation and removal in the Mid Atlantic area. They were using a DOS-based database system for order tracking and the system had many problems including that it could not handle email orders. LJS was also starting to expand nationally on it’s own and through a dealer/franchise network and needed an application that could handle all of that.
