| | |  | Software | Home » » » Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager | | | | | | | Description: | | Outlook w/ Buss Contact Mgr 07 | | | Features: | |
• 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
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 7.9 inches | | Product Width:
| 5.4 inches | | Product Height:
| 2.0 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.55 pounds | | Package Length:
| 7.32 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.43 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.5 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.53 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 60 reviews |
| | | System Requirements: | | | Platform:
| Windows Vista / Windows XP / Windows XP Professional / Windows XP Home Edition | | Media:
| CD-ROM | | Item Quantity:
| 1 |
| | | | Customer Reviews: | |
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 Maybe... if I had the time to wait for the programNov 23, 2009
SLOW. SLOW. SLOW. I have some problems with connecting to a shared database, and my projects never displaying a percentage of complete. But, quite honestly I barely even use it for my email anymore because it is just so dang slow...
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 BCM very weakOct 08, 2009
Edit below corrects a misstatement. I am warming to this, and while I think it still needs a lot of work, I would raise my rating to three stars, but can't see how to do that.
I wish I had read the reviews here before buying.
I find Outlook very nice to use, once over the learning curve involved in any switch of software (I was using Thunderbird).
BCM, on the other hand is a joke. No, I take that back; a joke is funny; this is just frustrating. Others have mentioned the lack of integration with Outlook -- the fact that Outlook doesn't effectively use the BCM contact database, and that there is no facility for keeping the Outlook and BCM contacts synced.
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This is still a concern. when moving contacts to BCM, the Outlook contact stays in Outlook, in deleted folder. If you don't go into the deleted folder and get rid of it, Outlook will find and prefer the deleted outlook contact instead of the BCM contact. They still need to develop a way to keep both, in sync, so that add-ons and syncing software that works with the Outlook database can still work.
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What I haven't seen mentioned here, and am absolutely appalled by is that you cannot even send an email from BCM! Ten years ago in ACT!, I could be looking at a contact, and hit a button to send him or her an email, and it would open up in an external email client. BCM can't even do that with Outlook, much less an external client!
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The statement above is wrong. But the "solution" gives some insight into the design weakness of this add-on. In Outlook, when viewing a contact, you see in the communication section of the ribbon, a button labeled "email". Pretty clear. In the BCM contact, the ribbon section for communication shows a "call" button similar to Outlook, but no email button. There is a "New History Item" button, with a pulldown, which I naively thought was for entering new items in the history for the contact. The pulldown shows a phone log item (for recording in history an action taken by another means) and a "Mail message" button. Do you think that might be for recording correspondence sent or received? No, it is the email action button!
From a list view, the email option (again avoiding the word "email") is in the menu you get when right-clicking a contact. It is in the action pulldown.
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Adding contact management capability to Outlook seems like a good idea, but this was poorly executed. If it were a beta of version 1.0, I'd understand. But they had a BCM 2003, and still haven't gotten it right, IMO. And nothing I have seen about the upcoming 2010 release indicates that these shortcomings are being addressed.
Many features but not user friendlySep 22, 2009
In my opinion Business Contact Manager is not as good as the old Filemaker Pro database program. With Filemaker I could search on many fields simultaneously such as location in "NC", first name starts with "S", and year contact created was "between 1996 and 1999"
I have collected nearly 10,000 names with over 250 fields of data covering 22 years. Searching on multiple partial fields is important. Business Contact Manager has not provided that capability.
PLUS
* Sync with Blackberry works well - unlike Palm and Filemaker Pro
* Able to import PIM data from Palm (required a $25 added software program for one-time import)
* Able to import large Filemaker database (getting data into correct fields was not precise when some fields on some records were blank)
MINUS
* Importing data into Business Contact Manager is not easy.
* Instructions from MS are not clear
* Required a 3rd party book to get sufficient directions and even then some processes do not work
* Sometimes sync results in duplicate entries
* Failed to import dozens of Filemaker reports and layouts
* Searching is limited
* Has been very time consuming to create offline copy that my netbook could recognize
* Has not been able to update master using MS directions from offline copy after returning from trips
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 Supperb! Makes my Palm Treo 800 W Phone complete.Sep 09, 2009
I have had my new phone planned for a small business use. The phone was complicated to learn, and took me a few months to be familiar with it's many uses. I didn't have the money right away to purchase the Outlook 2007 software I needed, but since I have purchased it, everything works in-synch I have enjoyed the phone a great deal more! The software is wonderful on the PC, and calendar options and email, contacts - to have a back up of this material is perfect!
Thank you,
Sherille Raphael
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So much promise, so much frustrationJul 24, 2009
I have fought with this product for days, why? because if it consistently worked, it would be terrific, but it doesn't.
The odd thing is that the most basic functions, like reliably sending email are the ones that give the most problems. Wouldn't it be great to use all of the neat features that Outlook 2007 provides? And there are so many great add-ins! At least for my machine, a modern quad processor dell running vista, I cannot get Outlook to reliably send email. Problems have been two fold: one, email doesn't get sent at all, it just sits in the outbox, or two, Outlook tries to send the email thousands of times, get you slammed onto spam lists. I have tried a dozen suggested solutions on the net including uninstalling outlook, uninstalling Anti-viral software, lowering firewalls, modifying firewalls and so forth, nothing, but nothing has consistently worked.
Most telling of all, I can fire up Mozilla Thunderbird and effortlessly send the same email message that Outlook chokes, ignores or endlessly loops on. Go figure? Microsoft is a scazillion dollar company and it can't figure out how to reliably send email while an open source project can? I wonder if Outlook demonstrates any better reliability with an Exchange server.
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