X2CRM, an open-source marketing automation and sales force customer information system (CRM) for small businesses, has unveiled the immediate availability of a new CRM data migration service that is powered by Import2.

Headquartered in Santa Cruz, California, X2Engine was established in 2011 by John Roberts (News - Alert), a SugarCRM co-founder and customer relationship management software entrepreneur. The company offers software and cloud hosting services for X2CRM, a next-generation, open-source sales management system.

X2CRM has been deployed on more than 4,000 public and private cloud servers across 130 countries. It allows sales and marketing professionals to remove the complexity of older CRM systems and improve lead generation and sales force productivity while decreasing operational costs.

This new service automates the data import to X2CRM from CRM systems such as Salesforce.com (News - Alert), Zoho, SugarCRM, Highrise in addition to other CRM systems.

John Roberts, founder of X2Engine, said in a statement, “With X2CRM’s new CRM import tool, customers can quickly and easily import their data from other CRM systems. What used to be a difficult task of switching CRM systems just became a simple point and click procedure. Don't feel like you have to stay with your current CRM system just because it controls your CRM records.”

This service is offered by Import2, a company in automated online data migration. The new service ensures the integrity of all the user data as it supports import of all standard CRM objects, corresponding sales activity history and custom fields.

 “Import2 goal is to make users’ transition between online services as fast and easy as possible,” said co-founder of Import2 Mark Kofman. Import2 works with any X2CRM edition, including Open Source (News - Alert) and Professional.