Apatar, which provides open-source software tools for the data-integration market, has announced its connectivity to the SugarCRM open-source suite. The new SugarCRM connector is designed to integrate data between the open-source CRM system and a variety of third-party data sources to filter, validate, and cleanse the information. Apatar eliminates data duplication and supports email and postal address verification. With Apatar's drag-and-drop interface, the SugarCRM connector does not require coding skills, so almost any business client can deploy it. IBM i users can integrate customer data stored within DB2 with SugarCRM or transfer data to and from DB2 to SugarCRM. They can also improve the quality of corporate/customer data stored in DB2 prior to entering SugarCRM, or vice versa.