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Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager
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List Price: $149.95
Our Price: $89.99
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Manufacturer: Microsoft Software
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Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Microsoft
EAN: 0882224581905
Feature: Manage all your contact, prospect, and customer information in one place
Format: CD-ROM
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Microsoft Software
Manufacturer: Microsoft Software
Model: 45931G
Platform: Windows XP Home Edition
Publisher: Microsoft Software
Release Date: 2008-01-14
Studio: Microsoft Software
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Features
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Manage all your contact, prospect, and customer information in one place
Manage sales leads and opportunities more effectively
Easily manage marketing campaigns from concept to delivery
Forecast sales and analyze data using flexible reports; customize contact, prospect, and customer information
Share information easily and more securely with multi-user access
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Editorial Reviews:
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Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager offers powerful customer and contact management to help you save time, improve sales and marketing, and deliver better customer service. Organize and manage all your contact, prospect, and customer information in one place. Track leads and opportunities throughout the sales cycle. Easily create, personalize, and track direct marketing campaigns in-house, and centralize your project-related information so you can stay organized and monitor tasks with automated reminders. Forecast sales and analyze data using flexible reports. Share information easily and more securely with multi-user access
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Less Features, More Cumbersome
Comment: Very little change, less features (does not support animated gif's or stationary).
Outlook 2007 now uses Microsoft Word as its rendering engine for all incoming emails. In Outlook 2003 (and earlier), email with animated gif's would look great, because it uses Internet Explorer to render the emails, leaving the HTML alone. However, in Outlook 2007, Microsoft Word literally rewrites your beautiful HTML into Word-like HTML, leaving out the creative touches that used to be available until Outlook 2007.
So why buy Outlook 2007?
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Summary: BCM not really
Comment: ZERO STARS***Outlook with BCM is not really a contact manager at all it is just Outlook with a seperate database attached. What is interesting and frustrating is that the software moves from being Outlook to BCM. If you drag and drop a BCM contact onto the calendar and then open the entry it opens as a "Contact" not "BCM Contact" so the options available revert to those of a contact for example you cannot create a history item from the screen that opens even though it was a BCM contact! The calendar will not allow you to click on a line item and open the scheduled BCM contact (or any contact for that matter) a huge drawback! So your calendar line item will say "call Joe" but when you open the line item it takes you to a worthless screen not to Joe's BCM contact info. Better off to stick with Sage's horrible version of ACT then BCM which is just a waste of time. Sad very sad.
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Summary: Outlook and BCM do not share contact information
Comment: Outlook with Business Contact Manager is a misnomer. BCM is in reality a bolt-on application that works alongside Outlook with a similar file structure. This would be a fine arrangement except that Outlook and BCM do not integrate together. For example, contacts with the same name in both Outlook and BCM are different contacts and do not share information nor do they synchronize in any way. I use a hosted Outlook Exchange service that keeps my desk and mobile email and contacts synchronized. When I moved a contact from Outlook to BCM I lost visibility of that contact through Exchange and the contact became visible only through my desktop. This is an unacceptable backward step. I just wasted the hundred bucks I spent on the Outlook with BCM application. As best I can tell, the best contact manager/CRM systems are now the web 2.0/hosted applications such as Salesforce, Zoho, Sugar, etc. I suggest using one of them. Good luck.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Lead a stray
Comment: The business contact manager info on your website did NOT give any idea that one would need to buy a subscription to make the business Contact Manager function.
I NEVER would have paid extra for this feature if I knew it would incur additional MONTHLY costs!!!!
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Summary: Better Off Staying with Older Version
Comment: I've had the new version of Outlook for a few months now and have been quite disappointed in it's entire performance. I purchased the version with the business contact manager in order to sync with my Quickbooks information. It turns out it only works with Microsoft's "Money" application. So I decided to keep using it and take advantage of the few usable features I found in it.
To my further disappointment my Word 2002 began freezing if I had Outlook open. I finally had to upgrade to the Office Suite that included the Outlook 2007 as well.
But my problems did not stop there I tried using the program to receive my Gmail and after downloading my messages and attempting to answer the program freezes. This is using the IMAP format. I've gone over my settings a number of times and checked out my online Gmail settings as well. It turned out that the bug was improved by eliminating my online Gmail folders then sorting the mail into Outlook folders once I received it in Outlook. I run an Home XP OS on my laptop.
In a nutshell, not enough bang for the buck. Best to maintain older 2002 version or buy the entire suite. It may be pretty, but so was my last useless secretary!
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