Transition Guidelines--users & database--Act to BCM

[Guest]

I'm a Small Business Specialist and looking for some guidelines to use with
my clients. Most of them have been using Act for years in a peer to peer
environment.

1) How many users can BCM handle sharing the same database in a peer to peer
and/or SBS environment?
2) What is the maximum database size? I've seen 4 GB for 2007 listed
somewhere---but how does that translate to number of contacts or perhaps size
of the Act database that would be moved to BCM?

I realize these aren't exact numbers but want to make sure that we don't get
changed over and find out that the BCM can't handle the job.

Have a great day,
Rusty

 

[Lon Orenstein]

Rusty:

Feel free to download my eBook and give it to your customers to see what
life is like in BCM vs. ACT!. To answer your questions:

1) How many users can BCM handle sharing the same database in a peer to peer
and/or SBS environment?
[Lon's Answer:} There's not a hard limit. If you use SQL Express, I'd say
10 is a good limit. With SQL Standard, and a good LAN, and good hardware,
you could maybe do 50. No one has posted results on the largest number of
users they've implemented.... Anyone??? Anyone???

2) What is the maximum database size? I've seen 4 GB for 2007 listed
somewhere---but how does that translate to number of contacts or perhaps
size
of the Act database that would be moved to BCM?
[Lon's Answer:} The 4GB is only with SQL Express -- Standard doesn't have
any limit. For some comparison, I converted a 500 contact ACT! database
with 150,000 history records and it took 2.5GB of BCM space. History will
eat up lots of storage...

HTH,
Lon

___________________________________________________________
Lon Orenstein
pinpointtools, llc
(e-mail address removed)
Author of Outlook 2007 Business Contact Manager For Dummies
Author of the eBook: Moving from ACT! to Business Contact Manager
800.238.0560 x6104 Toll Free (U.S. only) +1 214.905.0401 x6104
www.pinpointtools.com

 

[Guest]

Thanks Lon--Good information--that helps. I have downloaded the ebook and am
looking thru it--since I converted my ACT to BCM last year---I was especially
pleased to the see the section on what you won't like.... Good Job.

Currently most of my clients would fall in the 10 or less category--have a
few with around a dozen.

So--we could start out with SQL express and if need be bump it up to
Standard and not have to worry about space.

Question: What was the size of the ACT database before you imported it??
Thinking I could come up with a ratio for rule of thumb especially since some
databases have lots of notes and history---others have none.....

Thanks and have a great day!!
Rusty

Rusty:

Feel free to download my eBook and give it to your customers to see what
life is like in BCM vs. ACT!. To answer your questions:

1) How many users can BCM handle sharing the same database in a peer to peer
and/or SBS environment?
[Lon's Answer:} There's not a hard limit. If you use SQL Express, I'd say
10 is a good limit. With SQL Standard, and a good LAN, and good hardware,
you could maybe do 50. No one has posted results on the largest number of
users they've implemented.... Anyone??? Anyone???

2) What is the maximum database size? I've seen 4 GB for 2007 listed
somewhere---but how does that translate to number of contacts or perhaps
size
of the Act database that would be moved to BCM?
[Lon's Answer:} The 4GB is only with SQL Express -- Standard doesn't have
any limit. For some comparison, I converted a 500 contact ACT! database
with 150,000 history records and it took 2.5GB of BCM space. History will
eat up lots of storage...

HTH,
Lon

___________________________________________________________
Lon Orenstein
pinpointtools, llc
(e-mail address removed)
Author of Outlook 2007 Business Contact Manager For Dummies
Author of the eBook: Moving from ACT! to Business Contact Manager
800.238.0560 x6104 Toll Free (U.S. only) +1 214.905.0401 x6104
www.pinpointtools.com

I'm a Small Business Specialist and looking for some guidelines to use
with
my clients. Most of them have been using Act for years in a peer to peer
environment.

1) How many users can BCM handle sharing the same database in a peer to
peer
and/or SBS environment?
2) What is the maximum database size? I've seen 4 GB for 2007 listed
somewhere---but how does that translate to number of contacts or perhaps
size
of the Act database that would be moved to BCM?

I realize these aren't exact numbers but want to make sure that we don't
get
changed over and find out that the BCM can't handle the job.

Have a great day,
Rusty

 

[Lon Orenstein]

Rusty:
Sorry for the delay -- I've been at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner
Conference... I'm not quite sure how big the ACT! db was when I imported it,
and 1+ years later I'm not even sure which one I imported!

I'll do some checking as we import others and see what we come up with...

Thanks,
Lon
___________________________________________________________
Lon Orenstein
pinpointtools, llc
(e-mail address removed)
Author of Outlook 2007 Business Contact Manager For Dummies
Author of the eBook: Moving from ACT! to Business Contact Manager
800.238.0560 x6104 Toll Free (U.S. only) +1 214.905.0401 x6104
www.pinpointtools.com

Thanks Lon--Good information--that helps. I have downloaded the ebook and
am
looking thru it--since I converted my ACT to BCM last year---I was
especially
pleased to the see the section on what you won't like.... Good Job.

Currently most of my clients would fall in the 10 or less category--have a
few with around a dozen.

So--we could start out with SQL express and if need be bump it up to
Standard and not have to worry about space.

Question: What was the size of the ACT database before you imported it??
Thinking I could come up with a ratio for rule of thumb especially since
some
databases have lots of notes and history---others have none.....

Thanks and have a great day!!
Rusty

Rusty:

Feel free to download my eBook and give it to your customers to see what
life is like in BCM vs. ACT!. To answer your questions:

1) How many users can BCM handle sharing the same database in a peer to
peer
and/or SBS environment?
[Lon's Answer:} There's not a hard limit. If you use SQL Express, I'd
say
10 is a good limit. With SQL Standard, and a good LAN, and good
hardware,
you could maybe do 50. No one has posted results on the largest number
of
users they've implemented.... Anyone??? Anyone???

2) What is the maximum database size? I've seen 4 GB for 2007 listed
somewhere---but how does that translate to number of contacts or perhaps
size
of the Act database that would be moved to BCM?
[Lon's Answer:} The 4GB is only with SQL Express -- Standard doesn't
have
any limit. For some comparison, I converted a 500 contact ACT! database
with 150,000 history records and it took 2.5GB of BCM space. History
will
eat up lots of storage...

HTH,
Lon

___________________________________________________________
Lon Orenstein
pinpointtools, llc
(e-mail address removed)
Author of Outlook 2007 Business Contact Manager For Dummies
Author of the eBook: Moving from ACT! to Business Contact Manager
800.238.0560 x6104 Toll Free (U.S. only) +1 214.905.0401 x6104
www.pinpointtools.com

I'm a Small Business Specialist and looking for some guidelines to use
with
my clients. Most of them have been using Act for years in a peer to
peer
environment.

1) How many users can BCM handle sharing the same database in a peer to
peer
and/or SBS environment?
2) What is the maximum database size? I've seen 4 GB for 2007 listed
somewhere---but how does that translate to number of contacts or
perhaps
size
of the Act database that would be moved to BCM?

I realize these aren't exact numbers but want to make sure that we
don't
get
changed over and find out that the BCM can't handle the job.

Have a great day,
Rusty