vtiger

[crouchingtiger]

Hi All,

We are pleased to announce the release of vtigerCRM 5. We have mainly focussed on the quality aspect from vtigerCRM 5 RC to vtigerCRM 5 release.

For more details kindly refer to the release notes available at:
http://vtiger.com/products/crm/vtigercrm-5-Release-Notes.pdf

The following add ons are also released:

1. Outlook Plugin
2. Word Plugin
3. ThunderBird Extension
4. FireFox Toolbar
5. Customer Portal
6. Web Forms

The live demo of the vtigerCRM 5 is available at http://en.vtiger.com.

The downlod URL for the vtigerCRM 5.0.0 is:
http://www.vtiger.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=30&Itemid=57

Kindly give it a try and let us know you feedbacks and suggestions.

Thanks & Regards,
Don
vtiger-team

[Shalmon]

Finally this most beautiful beast is here. I am absolutely facinated with this CRM. Great milestone guys and great work.

[firstarticle]

Has the SVN repository been updated to GA?

[firstarticle]

firstarticle wrote: Has the SVN repository been updated to GA?

Just checked and still at Revision 9515. Any idea when this will be updated?

[pxtreme]

WOW! At, last...it is on time. Good job team. Hopefully there will be no bugs in this newest release.

[829]

There will always be bugs, that is why we are here to help find them.

[kncarlsen]

I'm realy impressed! Have been testing and only found a few minor bugs so fare, but no showstoppers.

A great job and a beautiful product :-)

[RV]

Really nice Job !
I'm impressed : the GUI is fluent, easy to use. There's a lot of little 'goodies' (like the 'micro-edit' for a field), lot of things are beautifull and well arranged. Really cool to have so many capacities of navigation in a single web interface, and many shortcuts to go from a screen to an other.

Finnaly, you did it (almost) in time ! The run was long and the finish was hard but you can really be proud of the job you've done ! You're really a great "Team",

My opinion, for now, is that you have done the rock-solid base of VT. The next step is now in our hands (I mean "us" the IT pro arround the world). I consider that you have advance enough on other CRM competitors and you can now spend some time to complete some features (like navigation in a list or sorting lists on cascading criterias). But the essential is done and is avalaible (along with documentaion and plugins, that is not the less).
New features will come from contributions (Joomla, Asterisk, Fax integration, Workflow management, project management, ...) as "add-on"
that you can help to integrate in VT. That's my opinion : don't run for a 5.1 version, let's go by interface ameliorations and add-on integration, for the moment.

BTW, thanks to have make avalaible again the 'description" field in Events. I will talk about that in the "features request" forum, but for me it *is* the point on wich we have to work : I don't understand why thare is so many "actions" avalaible (notes, todo, ...) : we need only one whatever could be it's name (Event, Action, ...). With that everithing would be an "action" from "incoming call" to the particular "outgoing letter" that is an invoice,.
If that is done, we could link thoses "actions" (or events or ...) with everything in the database, even an other "action". From this point, the *main* screen will be the "History" : all action flitered and sorted by contacts, accounts, creator or maker, type, date, state ...). This will be great !
:D

But, for the moment, you've won some rest (and drink a glass).
Thanks again and "chapeau bas" for your great job.

RV.

[stephenboey]

Hi Team,

Nice work, much much better than 4.2.4. I find 4.2.4 unusable with so many bugs.

I have configured and used Siebel for 5 years. Allow me to share with you some key features which is key to success of your CRM.

1. Flexible Framework for read only fields is essential, even Siebel still requires certain amount of customization if business logic is too complicated. Examples of criteria for read only: Sales Stage, Essential Keys in modules and etc.

2. Framework for validation of key information to prevent duplicate records. Example: The opportunities module, reason being when users try to reconcile with their Financial accounts. Many complain and finally give up using oppotunity module due to duplicate records; sometimes give up using CRM altogether..not kidding ;)

3. Some users raised Multi Value Field functionality, be cautious that these feature can slow down performance of your screen. Even in Siebel, a primary key needs to be configured to overcome the problem. For example: If we need to select a contact from opportunity, could be hundreds of thousands or million records for a big organisation. Awfully slow if no way to retrieve only say 20 records at a time. We don't want a ResultSet from SQL query to be too big dont we?

4. As mentioned in "3" ability to retrieve only specific number of records in a screen is essential. Example: Opportunity records do grow with business, performance will be an issue especially when many JOINS to other tables like Contact, Account, Roles (visibility), Invoice, Product and many more. Try to imagine.

5. On the GUI would be good to have Next buttons to retrieve next set of records. We won't want to have a single web page which is to long, as mentioned. WHat if records run into the millions like COntacts, Opportunity, Activities and etc.

6. Any workflow feature is always welcomed. Very powerful for online functionality.

5. Documentation on data model can still be improved. Just a suggestion, you can reduce the complexity of the diagram by separating the the Logical and ERD diagrams by module. And then show the data model related to the above.

6. Products associated to Contacts, Lead, Potential in the Product module? WHY? By Right the product module screen should be for Product Administrators only.

7. If there are many types of agents/partners out there. How do we allow different commision rates? Currently we have to choose a different product right?

8. Why is the Quantity In Stoct in Product automatically reduced for Quotes? Business wise, this is not a materialized sale and inventory should not be reduced. This can give a wrong impresion of a shortage of Stocks.
Is this also happening in none materialized Sales Orders or Invoices?

9. Batch upload of data still remains an issue, if talking about big projects. I have loaded close to 1 million data before. THe CRM I use does have a batch loading tool that allows data to be loaded say 5000 at a time after loading that 1 million records into their defined table. That tool will automatically channel those records to the module tables and relationship tables. If you choose to let us do without it, then proper data model documentation is only solution.


Alrite, those are my feedback. If you need any help feel free to PM me, will be happy to contribute in anyway.

Guys, congratulations on the nice work. I know it is a lot of work, take some time off and start fresh.


Regards,
Stephen

[lars25700]

Hi! When and where can I get the german languagefiles for the now released Version? I've accidentally uploaded the one for 4.2, which was offered on the download page... But what I haven't found yet is a complete german languagepack for the 5.o :-/

Could someone help me out?

Messages to my attn can be sent over http://www.larshilse.com/