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DBA Contact Manager VS ACT!
12/07/06 at 08:23:00

I am researching the differences between these two contact managers and wonder if anyone with experience in either or both could let me know how they compare. We have alot of data in our contact manager but have never fully used it. In ACT! a more robust user friendly CM than DBA? I know typing things like history and follow-up in DOS based DBA is cumbersome- are there any plans to Window-ize the CM in Evo?

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NovaZyg Administrator When all else fails.. Read the instructions. Posts: 789 Gender:	Re: DBA Contact Manager VS ACT! Reply #1 - 12/07/06 at 10:23:41 Cathy, Just wait a little bit longer.. Do you remember Tim, from the Phoenix symposium. He is developing with us to get a product called vtiger.crm (open source version salesforce.com) that will replace the current DBA CM. He says it is almost done.
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cathyh Active Member I used to be indecisive; now I'm not so sure...... Posts: 1210 Gender:	Re: DBA Contact Manager VS ACT! Reply #2 - 01/08/07 at 13:38:36 Any progress on this?
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jhilliard Browser I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 9	Re: DBA Contact Manager VS ACT! Reply #3 - 03/04/07 at 17:11:20 Any progress on this development?
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shadowcaster Active Member I'm not here because I know what to do. Posts: 678 Gender:	Re: DBA Contact Manager VS ACT! Reply #4 - 03/13/07 at 14:00:11 Its always that last 10 % that kills ya I didnt know this was happening. and , I was Just playing with V Tiger Cool ! J Dub
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shadowcaster Active Member I'm not here because I know what to do. Posts: 678 Gender:	Re: DBA Contact Manager VS ACT! Reply #5 - 03/19/07 at 08:09:30 Are we here yet ? is this still an active project or was it not practical I need to do something on this ASAP JW
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cathyh Active Member I used to be indecisive; now I'm not so sure...... Posts: 1210 Gender:	Re: DBA Contact Manager VS ACT! Reply #6 - 03/19/07 at 08:35:10 Quote: Are we here yet ? is this still an active project or was it not practical I need to do something on this ASAP Ditto!
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cmsk Senior Member Posts: 279	Re: DBA Contact Manager VS ACT! Reply #7 - 03/19/07 at 08:57:51 Quote from cathyh on 03/19/07 at 08:35:10: Quote: Are we here yet ? is this still an active project or was it not practical I need to do something on this ASAP Ditto! Allow me to me-three this
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Lynn_Pantic Administrator evolution (n) - gradual change to a different form Posts: 5663	Re: DBA Contact Manager VS ACT! Reply #8 - 03/19/07 at 08:58:01 It is still an active project. I will try to get some sort of Beta timetable.
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Lenette Senior Member That's why they call it work!! Posts: 459 Gender:	Re: DBA Contact Manager VS ACT! Reply #9 - 03/21/07 at 13:56:57 Am I interested in this as well.
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LeAnn Cucchiara Member Posts: 92 Gender:	Re: DBA Contact Manager VS ACT! Reply #10 - 04/06/07 at 08:23:23 We, too are very interested. We have just taken on another venture that was utilizing salesforce.com - when I look at this I cringe. It would be nice to have something that ties into EVO, that is user-friendly & not so expensive.
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shadowcaster Active Member I'm not here because I know what to do. Posts: 678 Gender:	Re: DBA Contact Manager VS ACT! Reply #11 - 04/15/07 at 10:59:31 any ETA on a BETA yet J Dub
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shadowcaster Active Member I'm not here because I know what to do. Posts: 678 Gender:	Re: DBA Contact Manager VS ACT! Reply #12 - 05/02/07 at 08:50:29 Anything ?? Whats Up ith this Do we need a Bounty to get it to happen ? J Dub
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Reply #13 - 05/02/07 at 09:07:15

You need to sneak in late at night and abduct Alan. Then take him to a room containing only a desk, computer, chair, huge coffee pot, and two dozen donuts. Optionally you might consider a toilet too. But if not that'll just make him hurry more. Wink

Quote from shadowcaster on 05/02/07 at 08:50:29:

Anything ??

Whats Up ith this

Do we need a Bounty to get it to happen ?

J Dub

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NovaZyg Administrator When all else fails.. Read the instructions. Posts: 789 Gender:	Re: DBA Contact Manager VS ACT! Reply #14 - 05/02/07 at 11:09:05 Right Idea, wrong Programmer. It is Tim who is working on this project. And last I heard he is still working on it.
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GasGiant Administrator How can I help? Posts: 1517 Gender:	Re: DBA Contact Manager VS ACT! Reply #15 - 05/02/07 at 12:45:39 "Red Leader to Base: we're almost there... almost there... almost there..."
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shadowcaster Active Member I'm not here because I know what to do. Posts: 678 Gender:	Re: DBA Contact Manager VS ACT! Reply #16 - 05/31/07 at 05:27:57 Can you hear me major Tom J Dub
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Lynn_Pantic Administrator evolution (n) - gradual change to a different form Posts: 5663	Re: DBA Contact Manager VS ACT! Reply #17 - 06/01/07 at 08:38:21 I got an email from Tim this morning. He has the database migrated from MySQL to Pervasive so it can be a real time link but some of the queries still need to be converted. Progress is being made.
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shadowcaster Active Member I'm not here because I know what to do. Posts: 678 Gender:	Re: DBA Contact Manager VS ACT! Reply #18 - 07/17/07 at 08:37:16 Bump anything to test yet ?
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cathyh Active Member I used to be indecisive; now I'm not so sure...... Posts: 1210 Gender:	Re: DBA Contact Manager VS ACT! Reply #19 - 08/23/07 at 14:21:52 anything...anything??
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Lynn_Pantic Administrator evolution (n) - gradual change to a different form Posts: 5663	Re: DBA Contact Manager VS ACT! Reply #20 - 08/28/07 at 08:10:19 Yes, I got an email from Tim yesterday and he is VERY close to having something available. It will be posted on the IS Tech site as soon as we have something.
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shadowcaster Active Member I'm not here because I know what to do. Posts: 678 Gender:	Re: DBA Contact Manager VS ACT! Reply #21 - 09/07/07 at 11:24:09 >Yes, I got an email from Tim yesterday and he is VERY close to having something available. It will be posted on the IS Tech site as soon as we have something. Good News BTW Ive installed V-Tiger and we are using it for leads and Trouble tickets everyone here seems to like using it.
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gtladmin Active Member Diving is fun, diving is fun! Posts: 1306 Gender:	Re: DBA Contact Manager VS ACT! Reply #22 - 09/10/07 at 07:26:27 oooh, we'd love to test as we are quite anxious to get Vtiger working and get out of CM. We really need a much more useful program for sales! Val
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GasGiant Administrator How can I help? Posts: 1517 Gender:	Re: DBA Contact Manager VS ACT! Reply #23 - 10/01/07 at 13:07:34 Close, but not that close? I know that I never should have mentioned this to anyone here... now the boss is bugging ME about it
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Reply #24 - 10/01/07 at 21:51:53

OK.

Ive been very busy! I have two issues I have to solve before Beta! (unless you want to hire me to install it at your site)

1: I have to change the IIS meta data to read/write for the data directory programatically. (it's not that hard to do manually but You need to know what you are doing)
2: I need to convert the CM and AR customer files to a form that works with Evo-Sales (Was Vtiger) I can manually create the procedure and view but I need to install it.

When these are done, it will be available for use.

If you would like to see it in action now (minus the Evo/DBA link since that's a security issue on my server) go to http://www.chiefgeektek.com/demo
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I have a 1M pipe and the server needs more memory and may go down for updates (or stupid programmer crashes) but you can see what it looks like and how it works.

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Reply #25 - 10/02/07 at 09:58:12

Nice job, Tim! I like!

So this is based off SugarCRM (open source edition?) and not vTigerCRM? Thought we were looking at vTiger....they look essentially the same, though.

Are you going to change the default colors, or make it so it grabs the desktop colors like Evo? Do you think the blue background is a little harsh on the eyes compared to a white or offwhite?

Very interesting, I would love to see it with EvoERP data when you are ready! It looks pretty nice. I had SugarCRM open source on my laptop for a while. It was a nifty program.

Will this be an add-on, or come in an update to EvoERP?

Will we be able to link to other email clients, for those of use who don't use Outlook?

Val

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gtladmin Active Member Diving is fun, diving is fun! Posts: 1306 Gender:	Re: DBA Contact Manager VS ACT! Reply #26 - 10/02/07 at 10:14:58 Ahhh....I see I answered one question--there are themes you can apply, so that's good! Val
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Lynn_Pantic Administrator evolution (n) - gradual change to a different form Posts: 5663	Re: DBA Contact Manager VS ACT! Reply #27 - 10/02/07 at 11:18:31 To answer one of your questions, there will be a core version that will be included as an update to Evo-ERP and then Tim plans to have some other features available as add-ons for a few gazillion dollars.
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Reply #28 - 10/02/07 at 12:14:08

Ok, so only a few gazillion dollars, eh? How affordable..... Wink

Are you guys using the Talend product for linking to EvoERP? I was looking at that in JasperServer and BI suite, as their ETL product is the same thing interestingly enough.

Is the Documents feature a knowledgebase? We really need that here.

Looking forward to seeing it with Evo!

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Reply #29 - 10/11/07 at 14:06:56

oops, opened the floodgates here with our President. He's chomping at the bit to know how long before we can get this additional feature---we've been looking at other products and found one promising one, then we hear this is further along, but we're really needing to implement something and the benefit of this one is it will be linked to Evo so we don't have to do it ourselves.....

...so, when do we expect this to be ready? He's looking for some ballpark timeframe. Can anyone give me something?

Val

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Reply #30 - 10/15/07 at 14:33:13

sorry forthe delay.

Yes and yes. Vtiger is based on an old version or Sugar CRM. Vtiger has made it very dificult and cumbersome to work with.

You can use any email you want! You can also add any of the sugar addons to it!

The documents part is for any available documents. You can clasify them as Sales Docs, Customer support, FAQ ... You can then make these document groups available to others through group association!

Not using the Talend , jasper or jitterbit products. they slow down the machine. Using PSQL services, views and triggers to move data.

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