SugarCRM Announces Elite Partners for 2016

CUPERTINO, CA--(Marketwired - Jan 20, 2016) -  SugarCRM Inc., the company that enables businesses to create extraordinary customer relationships with the most innovative, flexible and affordable CRM solution in the market, announced today that 23 of its worldwide channel partners have achieved Elite Partner status for 2016.

This year's class of Elite Partners represents the top 10 percent of all organizations in SugarCRM's worldwide channel program across 16 different countries. This is the first year that Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, Brazil and Canada are represented in this list, showing the significant market momentum SugarCRM is enjoying across the globe.

SugarCRM Elite Partners have attained the highest level of recognition in the company's channel partner program by building large-scale, growing businesses that provide consulting, implementation, integration, training and development services for Sugar; meeting or exceeding standards for technical proficiency and professional certification in Sugar products; and demonstrating consistent success implementing Sugar in hosted, on-premises and private cloud environments.

"I'd like to thank and congratulate all the organizations that have achieved Elite-level status for 2016. Our Elite Partners delivered a solid 36 percent year-to-year increase in annually recurring subscription revenue in 2015 and added more than 350 new SugarCRM customers. These industry-leading partners help our customers extend the value of their Sugar investments by providing strategic CRM consulting, tailored solutions that complement Sugar, techniques for CRM best practices, and flexible implementation and integration services," said Clint Oram, SugarCRM co-founder and chief technology officer. "At SugarCRM, we're proud to spotlight the achievements of our leading partners and are committed to working closely with them to offer our customers unparalleled expertise in leveraging Sugar to build extraordinary customer relationships."

SugarCRM's Elite Partners are:

SugarCRM has built a unique channel program of CRM experts with more than 230 channel partners across 31 countries meeting the diverse CRM needs of enterprise organizations. Also in 2015, SugarCRM channel partners earned more than 1,000 new SugarCRM certifications, expanding their commitment to delivering superior SugarCRM expertise.

For more information about SugarCRM please visit: http://www.sugarcrm.com

About SugarCRM
SugarCRM enables businesses to create extraordinary customer relationships with the most innovative, flexible and affordable customer relationship management (CRM) solution on the market. Unlike traditional CRM solutions that focus primarily on management and reporting, Sugar empowers the individual, coordinating the actions of customer-facing employees and equipping them with the right information at the right time to transform the customer experience. Based in Silicon Valley, SugarCRM is backed by Goldman Sachs, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, NEA and Walden International. More than 1.5 million individuals in over 120 countries rely on SugarCRM. To learn more visit SugarCRM or follow @SugarCRM.

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