Cream is designed to meet the unique demands publishers have, including
features that allow subscription management, support for multiple
products (print subscriptions, advertising, online subscriptions,
books, etc.), customer communications (both incoming and outgoing), and
easy-to-use reporting and analytical functions. Cream also enables
publishers to track special offers, such as seasonal discounts and
trade shows.
With Cream, media organizations can put their business data to work,
increasing sales and customer satisfaction. It allows employees to have
up-to-date information throughout the sales cycle, and lets managers
have greater insight into sales patterns.
Highlights of Cream 2.0 "Sofija"s feature set:
- Receive e-mail functionality (text and HTML)
- Sending HTML emails
- Editing HTML emails with a WYSIWYG HTML editor
- Newsletter subscriptions for anonymous users
- External HTML forms for newsletter subcriptions and unsubscriptions
- Sending HTML newsletters
- Editing HTML newsletters with WYSIWYG HTML editor
- Powerful filter for sending newsletters to either
newsletter subscribers or all customers based on type, category,
product, or campaign
- Import of products and customers
- ‘Communication’ and ‘Sales’ tabs in user interface
- Completely localizable user interface
- Localizations to Dutch, German, Spanish, Russian, Ukrainian and Serbian languages
- Home page with shortcut and summary links
- Help page with FAQ, Support and Forum links
- The application now also works on Windows
Cream is free and open source software, and is released under the GNU
General Public License. This means that the software, comparable to
proprietary systems costing tens of thousands of dollars, is available
at no cost, and is freely modifiable. It runs on the open-source Linux
operating system (tested on Red Hat, Mandrake, Debian distributions),
and uses other free and open source tools such as the PostgreSQL
database server and Apache Tomcat Java application environment. As of
version 2.0, Cream can also run on Windows.
Volunteer!
Cream has the potential to make a real impact for media organizations
worldwide. You don’t need a technical background to help us improve
Cream. While we love to see Java and Postgres wizards helping us out,
you can also help by volunteering as a localizer, bug finder, or
business logic expert.
If you are interested, send us a mail at
[email protected] and tell us how you would like to contribute.
The Cream Team
Cream is being developed by Nenad Pandžić, with assistance from Roman Maxymchuk.
Original documentation was written by Melissa Paulissen.
Localizers:
Russian and Ukrainian – Roman Maxymchuk
Serbian – Ana Nedić
Dutch – Frans van Berckel
Spanish – Claudia Cruz
German – Micz Flor
Project management: Sava Tatić, Douglas Arellanes
Copyright
Cream is a customer relationship management system for media organizations.
Copyright (C)2003-2005 Media Development Loan Fund
Contact us at:
[email protected]
Campware encourages further development. Please feel free to contact us for details as to how you can get involved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
General Public License for more details.
