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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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In article <337d3f0f.108898881@news.harborside.com>,
  wayland@harborside.com (Wayland Bruns) wrote:
>
> It kinda begs the question, given the newstroup, but why not GoldMine?
>

GoldMine didn't meet a basic shortlist requirement that I didn't mention
earlier: SQL server.  You have to jump through too many hoops to tie
together a variety of systems running on a variety of non-SQL servers. 
This is a basic requirement of all our new systems (you need a *really*
good reason to skip it).

Thanks for the suggestion though.

-kel

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In article <01bc6870$1e1d6500$d0b0dece@RAHDesktop.insync.net>,
  "Ron Harris" <rharris@harris-tech.com> wrote:
>
> What's your time frame for the purchase and implementation?

Vendor selection tomorrow (although we've been selecting for 2 years now).
Roll-out by Sept.

> If you had GoldMine's robust feature set and clean user interface in
> a SQL environment would you be interested?

I would focus more on your overall technological underpinnings.  I'm
working with a business-minded counterpart who would focus on your
feature set and user interface.  Of course, we only have time for
products available for sale.  I've already named who you would be up
against.  You should be able to rank yourself in that context.

-kel

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kbbern@frmail.frco.com wrote in article <864155977.31532@dejanews.com>...
> 
> GoldMine didn't meet a basic shortlist requirement that I didn't mention
> earlier: SQL server.  You have to jump through too many hoops to tie
> together a variety of systems running on a variety of non-SQL servers. 
> This is a basic requirement of all our new systems (you need a *really*
> good reason to skip it).
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion though.
> 
> -kel

You might want to take a look at Janna Contact Enterprise then.
http://www.janna.com
Click on the animated advert for in the middle of the page.

Ron Sharp.
Janna Systems Inc.