I just upgraded from office xp to 2007 and am trying to determine if I should
stick with the contact management features in Outlook or change to BCM.

Having read MS's info on BCM it appears that the most important reason for
using BCM over Outlook is that it assists in marketing campaigns, and it
integrates (to some extent) with 2 accounting programs. I do not need the
marketing features and my accounting program will not work with BCM. It seems
to me that all other marketed features that I know about can be acheived in
Outlook to some extent.

Can anyone tell me what features of BCM caused them to change from Outlook?

BCM is an add-in to Outlook and is not a replacement, rather an added option.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, ctc asked:

| I just upgraded from office xp to 2007 and am trying to determine if
| I should stick with the contact management features in Outlook or
| change to BCM.
|
| Having read MS's info on BCM it appears that the most important
| reason for using BCM over Outlook is that it assists in marketing
| campaigns, and it integrates (to some extent) with 2 accounting
| programs. I do not need the marketing features and my accounting
| program will not work with BCM. It seems to me that all other
| marketed features that I know about can be acheived in Outlook to
| some extent.
|
| Can anyone tell me what features of BCM caused them to change from
| Outlook?

When using BCM does it create it's own database or does it use Outlooks?

"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

> BCM is an add-in to Outlook and is not a replacement, rather an added option.
>
> --�
> Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
>
> Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
> unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
> reading.
>
> After furious head scratching, ctc asked:
>
> | I just upgraded from office xp to 2007 and am trying to determine if
> | I should stick with the contact management features in Outlook or
> | change to BCM.
> |
> | Having read MS's info on BCM it appears that the most important
> | reason for using BCM over Outlook is that it assists in marketing
> | campaigns, and it integrates (to some extent) with 2 accounting
> | programs. I do not need the marketing features and my accounting
> | program will not work with BCM. It seems to me that all other
> | marketed features that I know about can be acheived in Outlook to
> | some extent.
> |
> | Can anyone tell me what features of BCM caused them to change from
> | Outlook?
>

Probably best to ask in microsoft.public.outlook.bcm as the experts hang out there and would have your answers. I don't use it.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, ctc asked:

| When using BCM does it create it's own database or does it use
| Outlooks?
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| BCM is an add-in to Outlook and is not a replacement, rather an
|| added option.
||
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|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, ctc asked:
||
||| I just upgraded from office xp to 2007 and am trying to determine if
||| I should stick with the contact management features in Outlook or
||| change to BCM.
|||
||| Having read MS's info on BCM it appears that the most important
||| reason for using BCM over Outlook is that it assists in marketing
||| campaigns, and it integrates (to some extent) with 2 accounting
||| programs. I do not need the marketing features and my accounting
||| program will not work with BCM. It seems to me that all other
||| marketed features that I know about can be acheived in Outlook to
||| some extent.
|||
||| Can anyone tell me what features of BCM caused them to change from
||| Outlook?

Thanks, I'll repost over there.

Why don't you use it?

"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

> Probably best to ask in microsoft.public.outlook.bcm as the experts hang out there and would have your answers. I don't use it.
>
> --�
> Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
>
> Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
> unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
> reading.
>
> After furious head scratching, ctc asked:
>
> | When using BCM does it create it's own database or does it use
> | Outlooks?
> |
> | "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
> |
> || BCM is an add-in to Outlook and is not a replacement, rather an
> || added option.
> ||
> || --�
> || Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
> ||
> || Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
> || unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
> || reading.
> ||
> || After furious head scratching, ctc asked:
> ||
> ||| I just upgraded from office xp to 2007 and am trying to determine if
> ||| I should stick with the contact management features in Outlook or
> ||| change to BCM.
> |||
> ||| Having read MS's info on BCM it appears that the most important
> ||| reason for using BCM over Outlook is that it assists in marketing
> ||| campaigns, and it integrates (to some extent) with 2 accounting
> ||| programs. I do not need the marketing features and my accounting
> ||| program will not work with BCM. It seems to me that all other
> ||| marketed features that I know about can be acheived in Outlook to
> ||| some extent.
> |||
> ||| Can anyone tell me what features of BCM caused them to change from
> ||| Outlook?
>

Don't need it - I don't run a business.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, ctc asked:

| Thanks, I'll repost over there.
|
| Why don't you use it?
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| Probably best to ask in microsoft.public.outlook.bcm as the experts
|| hang out there and would have your answers. I don't use it.
||
|| --�
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, ctc asked:
||
||| When using BCM does it create it's own database or does it use
||| Outlooks?
|||
||| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|||
|||| BCM is an add-in to Outlook and is not a replacement, rather an
|||| added option.
||||
|||| --�
|||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||||
|||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|||| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted
|||| without reading.
||||
|||| After furious head scratching, ctc asked:
||||
||||| I just upgraded from office xp to 2007 and am trying to determine
||||| if I should stick with the contact management features in Outlook
||||| or change to BCM.
|||||
||||| Having read MS's info on BCM it appears that the most important
||||| reason for using BCM over Outlook is that it assists in marketing
||||| campaigns, and it integrates (to some extent) with 2 accounting
||||| programs. I do not need the marketing features and my accounting
||||| program will not work with BCM. It seems to me that all other
||||| marketed features that I know about can be acheived in Outlook to
||||| some extent.
|||||
||||| Can anyone tell me what features of BCM caused them to change from
||||| Outlook?