Comments on: Contact Managers Roundup

By: IT|Redux

IT|Redux — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:25:17 +0000

[…] Functionality From a functionality standpoint, an online email application lets you read and write emails from any web browser. The simplest ones are tied to a specific email account, sometimes itself tied to a specific domain name (as is the case for Hotmail), while the more advanced ones let you manage third-party email accounts tied to any domain name. Most applications let you manage emails using either folders or tags, or both. Also, most applications provide ways to manage contacts, even though the set of features they provide is relatively limited, especially when compared to a full-fledged Contact Manager. The more advanced applications support user-defined filters, as well as filters for junk mail and viruses. All the applications we reviewed are limited by storage quotas, usually between 100 MB and 10 GB, even though some promotional accounts with 1 TB of capacity have been offered in the past. A heavy email user will use about 5 MB of storage capacity on a daily basis, which means that a 10 GB quota should be enough for about 5 years of continuous activity. […]

By: IT|Redux

IT|Redux — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 00:19:07 +0000

[…] 1. Big Contacts (5 votes out of 8) [Roundup] […]

By: Library clips

Library clips — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 01:58:13 +0000

[…] Eg. at the moment IT|Redux has a series of posts on Office2.0, the 1st was on bookmarks, the 2nd was on calendars, the 3rd was on contact managers, the 4th was on CRM, and so on. […]

By: IT|Redux

IT|Redux — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:05:16 +0000

[…] Alternatives If you are planning to use a CRM system for automating your sales process, not very many alternatives are worth considering. But if you only have a need for contact management and advanced calendaring, a good contact manager such as Big Contacts might be plenty enough. Nevertheless, the strength of a CRM system comes in the integration of multiple business objects such as Account, Lead, and Opportunity, and the ability to create new business objects. From this viewpoint, a modern CRM system is akin to a powerful relational database management system extended with easy-to-use configuration and development tools that non-technical users can leverage for building complete applications. Online databases currently available have not yet reached a level of maturity that would make them suitable alternatives, even though this might happen toward the later end of this year. […]