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Maximize your Sage CRM instance with My CRM Manager's super effective approach and deep resources
Our projects can involve external technical resources from the global Sage CRM community.
We provide marketing and sales assistance: that means helping out with a sales call, or we get more involved in marketing Sage CRM to their clients and prospects.
Sage routinely publishes upgrades for Sage CRM, some are major and some are minor. Any of the individual upgrades include a combination of (a) feature enhancements, (b) bug fixes, and (c) infrastructure changes. Clicking on any of the blue version release titles below will bring up the release notes (PDF).
The current (latest) version of Sage CRM is known as version 2024R1. This became available in North American in April 2024.
The comments below each of the release notes below are editorial comments from My CRM Manager and no are not official comments from Sage.
v2024R2 – Release Notes
v2024R1 – Release Notes
v2023R2 – Release Notes
v2023R1 – Release Notes
v2022R2 – Release Notes
v2022R1 – Release Notes
This release provides new features and enhancements to the following areas:
This release provides new features and enhancements to the following areas:
WARNING: With this version, Sage CRM has dropped support for SQL 2016.
This release provides new features and enhancements to the following areas:
WARNING: As Sage CRM now supports Office 2019, Sage CRM has dropped support for Windows Server v2012 R2 and SQL 2014. Here is a link to an expanded message about this topic.
This release provides new features and enhancements to the following areas:
WARNING: The v2018 series was very significant for Sage CRM. However, with all the new feature enhancements came issues related to QuickFind, Dashboard, and MailMerge features.
v2018R3 – Release Notes was released in North America in August 2018.
IMPORTANT: Due to changing technologies in the fall of 2020, including the end of life for (1) Flash, (2) TLS 1.0 and 1.1, and (3) ActiveX you may face problems Sage CRM versions 2017 (and earlier). Companies with this version of CRM (or earlier) are strongly encouraged to upgrade to a more recent version.
The video below from Jeff Richard’s covers what was new with v2017 R1 and R2. Note – this video is 20 minutes.
If your organization is current with their Sage CRM support plan (either the subscription or via the annual renewal), then you are entitled to the latest versions of Sage CRM. And Sage expects end-using companies to stay current(ish) with Sage CRM upgrades. For example, now that Sage has released v2024, they will stop supporting Sage CRM version 2021 as of September 30th, 2024.
This means, if you or I call into the Sage CRM support line with an issue related to an unsupported version, they can refuse assistance. However, any media, KB Articles, Sage CRM community threads,. etc. will remain available. And your Sage CRM service provider may be able to assist. Different Sage CRM service providers have their own policies about what versions of Sage CRM they will still support.
Our hope is that clients upgrade every second year. That doesn’t always happen, but that is my suggestion. If companies get too far behind, it becomes harder to support their system as there can be conflicts with other software (which is also always upgrading). Moreover, if the objective of the CRM strategy is to make better use of the information that flows through your company, holding back on upgrades… ends up costing the client more than the expense of applying the upgrades.
In theory, you could, it is your software. However, in practice, I have never seen a client deploy upgrades on their own successfully. Sage CRM is very sophisticated software and certain aspects of Sage CRM (like upgrades) should be conducted only by technical specialists that work with Sage CRM every day.
It depends on several factors. Is the CRM system integrated, the environment, how old is the current version we are upgrading from, etc.
For clients upgrading from v2018 or earlier we typically take a copy of the CRM and apply the upgrades in a staging (test) environment before we upgrade your actual system. Once the upgrades have been applied, we will schedule a training session to review the feature enhancements/advancements.
Upgrades from v2019 and later are much easier to apply. Typically, these upgrades can be applied without any downtime.
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