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Interesting, I have no direct experience with salesforce but I have heard numerous people discuss similar things as either consultant centric services or outright business models. Is this that common?

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Honestly leaving salesforce is a piece of cake if it weren't for the ecosystem of other tools and integrations. A few years back I did a simple export of all our salesforce data and made a demo of a salesforce clone and if that wasn't good enough it was easy to import into sugar crm. 1 out of 40 salesman complained it wasn't exactly the same so they stayed and went full force with plugins and now it's a web of plugins that's harder to escape. As soon as a salesman sees a ad for "this plugin will make your life easier and your job " it's done, they setup a demo with our CEO and beg for it like it's a Christmas pony.

I think it's a two step process. First, install SuiteCRM, second, replace all those salesforce plugins with a single SuiteCRM developer who can craft custom plugins.

This has the added benefit that you can then sell those SuiteCRM plugins to other businesses.

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