Difference between the Sugar Outlook Plugin and Sugar Connect

Hi Ray,

Glad to hear you're looking at Connect! There are a lot of benefits to upgrading to connect, some of which will depend on your use cases internally at your company.

A few quick differences include:

• You're able to access and utilize your normal Sugar instance right in your email platform in a much more robust fashion than what you can access in the Outlook Plug-in
• More supported platforms -- Connect is supported for Office365 and Google Workspace, and can be used on both Macs and PCs
• Connect includes a meeting scheduler, so clients can book time directly on your calendar
• Connect uses a server-side integration whereas the plug-in is client-side 

If you want to see it in action, Matthew Maguire on our Business Development team created a full video demo of how he uses Connect and all of the benefits he receives from it. This video was made a few months ago and, as Connect receives frequent updates and enhancements, there have been multiple improvements since this demo was recorded

Please make sure your organization will fulfil the prerequisites for using Connect as you learn more. In addition to the links I included above, you can also read through the solutions page about Connect on our website, as well as the corresponding and detailed overview document. I'd encourage you to reach out to your CSM here at Sugar for more in-depth details (or I'm happy to connect you if you'd like - just let me know). 

I hope this helps!

-Alex 

 Alex Nassi Thanks for sharing the difference but Is it true that calendar which was assigned to me will be synced to external calendar? 

Bruce McIntyre If you're referring to "Connect includes a meeting scheduler, so clients can book time directly on your calendar," it does not sync to an external calendar for that, but instead looks at the open spots in the user's calendar and show the free available times. For more detail on this, I'd recommend the linked section of the user guide. I hope this helps!

Bruce McIntyre If you're referring to "Connect includes a meeting scheduler, so clients can book time directly on your calendar," it does not sync to an external calendar for that, but instead looks at the open spots in the user's calendar and show the free available times. For more detail on this, I'd recommend the linked section of the user guide. I hope this helps!