The Sugar Team is pleased to bring you 3.0 beta release. With the introduction of Sugar Marketing and Sugar Collaborate, the 3.0 release brings you all of the functionality you need to run your customer operations.

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Overview
 The 3.0 Beta release serves as a preview of the new features which will
be available in Sugar Suite 3.0. For a quick list of new features for
3.0, check out the information below.

Our goal continues to be to build the customer relationship management
system that you have always wanted, so your input is vital.

You can submit your feedback about the new features to our Sugar Forums
(http://www.sugarcrm.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=44).


Check out http://www.sugarcrm.com for more details on acquiring the Sugar
Suite, the latest product roadmap, support forums, detailed
product information and much more. We hope you find this a useful tool
for building your business.

Enjoy!
The Sugar Team

IMPORTANT NOTES
 The 3.0 Beta release is only intended to serve as an introduction to new
features. You may install 3.0 Beta for testing purposes only. You will
not be able to upgrade your existing Sugar installation to 3.0 Beta, nor
will you be able to migrate your existing Sugar data.

New Features
 New features in 3.0 Beta include:

* Campaign management, allowing users to organize marketing activities
and measure their effectiveness and influence on the sales pipeline.
Users can manage and track marketing efforts associated to leads,
contacts and opportunities for closed-loop marketing analysis.

* List designer, providing query, list management and list filtering
tools that allow personnel to segment contact databases for target
marketing purposes. Users can query the system to generate lists
targeting specific audiences, and then save the queries for re-use
for similar future campaigns. Users can also import temporary lists
such as those rented from brokers or data service providers.

* Email marketing, enabling marketing teams to create email templates
that can be personalized for recipients and sent as email blasts on
any desired schedule. The email is then recorded as sent within the
lead or contact history, enabling a 360-degree view of the customer.

* Document management, providing a central repository for product
briefs, data sheets, collateral materials and other documents
required by sales, marketing, and support teams.

* Project management, a group collaboration tool that allows
organizations to define steps, establish timelines, and assign work
to members on any project relevant to end users.

* Employee directory, including search functions by first or last
names, roles, departments and basic contact information. This
permits quick employee lookups without leaving the Sugar Suite
application.

* Calendaring synchronization, enabling users to use Sugar Suite for
full group calendaring utilizing scheduling information managed both
inside and outside of the Sugar Suite application. The new Sugar
free/busy server can communicate with any client calendaring system
that can reference a free/busy published service such as Microsoft
OutlookŪ or Mac iCalŪ.

* Administration enhancements that allow Sugar Suite to be customized
easier, scale better, and offer more advanced security.