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Re: SalesLogix vs. Pivotal Relationship

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From: Wayland Bruns
Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 00:00
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It kinda begs the question, given the newstroup, but why not GoldMine?
Or is hype on a newborn baby more compelling than the working mature
product?

Wayland Bruns
Tele-Support Software
A leading maker of GoldMine (ACT!, TeleMagic and others) Add-on
products.

kbbern@frmail.frco.com wrote:

>Can anyone give me the low-down on these products.  I suggest responses
>should appear in the alt.business.misc newsgroup (I'm kinda fishing around
>here since *nobody* is talking about sales force automation (SFA) in
>usenet).
>
>We are about to choose between two mid-tier SFA tools: Pivotal (scope is
>little broad for our focus, impeccable credentials) and SalesLogix (1.0
>product, claims to do much of what Pivotal already does - for half the
>cost).
>
>I'm concerned about claims of data structure modifications being
>seamlessly accommodated during software upgrades.  This is especially a
>concern with SalesLogix where I'm also curious if there is a record of the
>remote client synchronization working at all with 40 remote clients.
>
>We boiled it down to these two with few criteria: Software cost less than
>those top ten guys charge; has to run out-of-the-box; we have to manage
>contacts against multiple sites, instead of company head offices; and we
>want to manage activities against opportunities; oh, and we want to make
>these modifications ourselves.
>
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From: wayland@harborside.com (Wayland Bruns)
Subject: Re: SalesLogix vs. Pivotal Relationship
Date: 1997/05/17
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