Friday, March 2, 2007

First CRM for Google Apps Out of the Gate

Etelos is basically a bare-bones CRM application with little functionality around service, marketing or contact center operations. In its favor, though, it does address the security issue. "Enterprise customers will have the ability to select the hosting environment for their application and implement any security measures they see fit," Eric Berto, a marketing specialist for Etelos, wrote in a blog posting.

Etelos, a provider of open source hosted Web 2.0 applications , has released a beta version of a CRM tool designed to work with Google Apps, a commercial suite of office applications Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) introduced last week. The Etelos product is integrated into Google's platform...