Hello,

I need a contact management solution, for single-person, small company
use. I looked at Microsoft CRM, but I found it to be too advanced and
too costly for my needs. I also investigated ACT and salesforce.com.
I do not know which way to go. I can try ACT and salesforce, but I
thought I post a message here, and see if any of you can give me
advise on this. Thank you for any information you can give me.

Talal Itani

You could also try business contact manager. The newsgroup for that is
microsoft.public.outlook.bcm. This is designed for individual users but has
an upgrade path to Microsoft CRM if needed



==============================
John O'Donnell
Microsoft CRM MVP
http://www.crowecrm.com


<titani@airmail.net> wrote in message
news:1176123178.948261.20480@q75g2000hsh.googlegro ups.com...

BCM can be used for up to 5 people and works within Outlook. BCM 2007 also
integrates to Microsoft Office Accounting 2007 although it doesn't have to.

--
Anne Stanton, MBSCP-CRM
President, The Norwich Group
Principal, GlobalBrain LLC
The CRM Lady at www.CRMLady.com

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Written on a Lenovo T60p running VISTA Ultimate
Tracked in MS Dynamics CRM v3.0 Rollup 1, Outlook Client v3.0C (with hotfix)
Good Neighbor to Groove 2007, OneNote 2007, Office Enterprise 2007,
Autotask, LinkedIN,
TypePad and More!
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"John O'Donnell" <csharpconsulting@nospam-hotmail.com-nospam> wrote in
message news:%23YA$byqeHHA.4128@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...

Thanks for the suggestion. I use Outlook Express for Emails. I
always found Outlook to be very cluttered and hard to grasp. Since
BCM is an add-on to Outlook, it will probably have the same look and
feel as Outlook. This is why I am contemplating ACT and salesforce.
Surely many will disagree with me on Outlook.


On Apr 9, 8:40 am, "John O'Donnell" <csharpconsult...@nospam-
hotmail.com-nospam> wrote:

I agree, Microsoft CRM is not for SME's. Way too expensive to customise. I
was attracted to CRM due to supposed flexibility and customisation, but it is
not either of those for under $60k in the first year.

Try an internet based CRM, whichi s more user friendly. And a warning about
ACT/Goldmine/Maximiser. All these products are linked and have VERY FEW
techies supporting them (at least in Australia), so they charge a mint to get
help. Also, because they are proprietary databases, you can't export the
emails/files saved in them later. they make it so you can't get your data
out, thus you don't switch.

"titani@airmail.net" wrote:

And you don't think ACT is clunky ???

BCM 2007 is what your need

Maybe you can enlighten us as to what is hard to grasp about Outlook

Pete

<titani@airmail.net> wrote in message
news:1176136803.398443.324650@o5g2000hsb.googlegro ups.com...

On Apr 9, 10:44 pm, "Peter Hale" <p...@hotmail.com> wrote:
I said that Outlook is hard to grasp and confusing. I think I simply
never invested time and thoughts into learning Outlook. Since many of
you suggested Outlook with BCM, I will learn these tools. By the way,
I was today searching the web for MS BCM, and came across a similar
product named Prophet.

Outlook does need some configuring when you open it out of the box..
Needless to say your first impression. Once I make a few tweaks to Outlook
it sings...

I also use Outlook Express - Now WindowsMail 2007 for my Forum work.

--
Anne Stanton, MBSCP-CRM
President, The Norwich Group
Principal, GlobalBrain LLC
The CRM Lady at www.CRMLady.com

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Written on a Lenovo T60p running VISTA Ultimate
Tracked in MS Dynamics CRM v3.0 Rollup 1, Outlook Client v3.0C (with hotfix)
Good Neighbor to Groove 2007, OneNote 2007, Office Enterprise 2007,
Autotask, LinkedIN,
TypePad and More!
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<titani@airmail.net> wrote in message
news:1176136803.398443.324650@o5g2000hsb.googlegro ups.com...

Easy. Salesforce. I've used both. Stuck with CRM - too hard to customize,
it's crap. Salesforce is inexpensive and is alot easier to us.

"titani@airmail.net" wrote:

Dynamics CRM is not designed/intended/suitable for a single person small
business, you should look elsewhere without a doubt. CRM 3.0 is a great
product - but not for a one-man-band


"Danny" <Danny@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:580B1C9B-EF21-426B-9800-8DFE3DBF6244@microsoft.com...