SugarCRM Congratulates its Elite Partner, BrainSell, on Recent Acquisitions

CUPERTINO, CA--(Marketwired - Dec 12, 2016) - SugarCRM® Inc., the company that enables businesses to create extraordinary customer relationships with the most empowering, adaptable and affordable CRM solution on the market, congratulates BrainSell on two recent acquisitions. Recently, BrainSell acquired the SugarCRM practices of Baltimore-based Shafer Solutions and Atlanta-based Profiling Solutions. BrainSell has now made a total of 30 acquisitions since 2008, boosting it to become SugarCRM's largest channel partner in terms of new Sugar business.

Current clients of Shafer and Profiling now benefit from BrainSell's Sugar expertise and support. BrainSell has more than 20 analysts and engineers dedicated to Sugar customers, and an ecosystem full of integrated products that help drive Sugar adoption.

"Sugar is one of the most unrestricted, dynamic platforms in the CRM marketplace," said Jim Ward, CEO at BrainSell. "We've built a fantastic and growing business by offering a better approach to CRM. We work with companies that are passionate about CRM and excited about how Sugar helps them differentiate themselves from their competition."

SugarCRM has built a unique channel program of CRM experts with more than 230 channel partners in more than 30 countries. As a pure-play CRM vendor with an unconventional approach, SugarCRM offers a different kind of CRM application that helps our customers set themselves apart from the competition. The company's core group of partners are CRM mavericks that help extend the value of the Sugar platform for customers by providing strategic CRM consulting, tailored solutions that complement Sugar, techniques for CRM best practices, and flexible implementation and integration services.

"As SugarCRM has grown both in terms of market share and breadth of product features, firms around the world like BrainSell have built a lucrative business in multiple markets by becoming expert Sugar implementers and extending the Sugar platform with a variety of industry extensions and product integrations," said Kevin Dunn, vice president of global channel sales at SugarCRM. "Congratulations to BrainSell on two more great acquisitions, and clients of Shafer and Profiling are in very good hands with the BrainSell team."

About SugarCRM
SugarCRM enables businesses to create extraordinary customer relationships with the most empowering, adaptable 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 2 million individuals in over 120 countries rely on SugarCRM. To learn more visit http://www.sugarcrm.com or follow @SugarCRM.

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