Antamis Announces SugarCRM Partnership: Offering planning, implementation, support and distribution of Sugar Suite

Brussels, Belgium and Helsinki, Finland – Nov. 10, 2005 – Antamis Sprl, an open source software consulting and integration firm today announced an alliance agreement with SugarCRM, Inc, the premier open source customer relationship management application provider. Antamis will provide a full line of planning, implementation, deployment and customization services in multiple languages, as well as full maintenance and support for all the editions of Sugar Suite.

The Sugar Suite empowers organizations to better manage customer interactions during sales, marketing, support and group collaboration. The Sugar Suite is built on Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP) open source technology. This architecture platform runs in several operating system environments, including Linux, Mac, Microsoft, Unix and others, allowing it to be the most scalable, customizable and economical CRM solution available today.

“As more companies are looking for greater choices in business applications, we see a growing need for the open, customization and integration choices that SugarCRM provides with its solution,” says Markku Suominen, CEO of Antamis. “Using open source and open standards gives organizations long-term flexibility and doesn't lock them into a proprietary, closed system. Companies want software matched to their business needs without the complexity and expense of proprietary systems.”

“SugarCRM is proud to have Antamis as a partner.” says Jeff Campbell, Director of Alliances at SugarCRM. “It is important to SugarCRM to have quality partners with depth to help clients maximize the benefit Sugar Suite can deliver. Partners like Antamis are an important factor in achieving our enterprise vision of addressing the large variety of CRM strategies that our customers possess. Antamis has the business expertise, technology depth and international company structure to offer our customers effective planning, integration and deployment of the Sugar Suite in English, French, German, Dutch, Swedish and Finnish.”

Ben Kwiecinski, managing director or Antamis Belgium, says, “Globally, clients are looking for more customization in CRM applications including multilingual support. Customers have higher expectations from their business partners and want faster, more efficient business interactions. This means providing systems that serve the specific business process in question and integrate with other business systems.

About Antamis
Antamis Sprl (www.antamis.com) is a consulting and systems integration firm that plans and builds secure, high-quality and cost-effective business solutions using open source components. With offices in Brussels, Belgium and Helsinki, Finland the firm brings together a range of services necessary for enterprises to maximize the benefits of open source software.

Press contacts:
Markku Suominen
Antamis Finland
+358 9 4313 8672
markku.suominen@antamis.com

Ben Kwiecinski
Antamis Belgium
+32 2 211 3439
ben@antamis.com

About SugarCRM
SugarCRM is the world’s leading provider of commercial open source customer relationship management (CRM) software for companies of all sizes. SugarCRM’s Sugar Suite easily adapts to any business environment by offering a more flexible, cost-effective alternative than proprietary applications. SugarCRM’s open source architecture allows companies to more easily customize and integrate customer-facing business processes in order to build and maintain more profitable relationships. SugarCRM offers several deployment options, including on-demand, on-premise and appliance-based solutions to suit customers’ security, integration and configuration needs. To learn more about the fastest growing CRM company, call (408) 454-6900 or 1 877 SUGARCRM tollfree in the US, email contact@sugarcrm.com, or visit http://www.sugarcrm.com.