What is the maxium amount of users for BCM

[Guest]

I have a client that needs have around 20 users and possibly grow to 50
users. I wonder what is the maximum that BCM can handle? Is there anyone
out there that is successfully using BCM for more than 10 users? I know MS
CRM but that is too much of an overkill for our needs.

I came across Prophet (http://www.avidian.com) and it seems like a good fit
between BCM and MS CRM. I read about it and saw that it has a bunch of
customers and seems viable. It has a SQL backend and built on .Net. I
wonder if any has any experience with it.

Would love to hear from someone on the maximum amount of users for BCM or on
Prophet.

 

[Per Olsen]

Try running over this froum and think again!

I would seriousely NEVER recommend that people should use OL2007 and BCM at
this point in time. I spend more time trying to open/close OL and BCM than I
do reading my mail!

We still await some serious updates - before we would go to entering data in
this tool!

Regards Per

 

[Luther]

I have a client that needs have around 20 users and possibly grow to 50
users. I wonder what is the maximum that BCM can handle? Is there anyone
out there that is successfully using BCM for more than 10 users? I know MS
CRM but that is too much of an overkill for our needs.

I came across Prophet (http://www.avidian.com) and it seems like a good fit
between BCM and MS CRM. I read about it and saw that it has a bunch of
customers and seems viable. It has a SQL backend and built on .Net. I
wonder if any has any experience with it.

Would love to hear from someone on the maximum amount of users for BCM or on
Prophet.

BCM was designed to handle 5 concurrent users. Depending on the
complexity of one's data, how busy the users are, and hardware, BCM
may be able to handle more users, but it sounds like you need a more
powerful system, like MSCRM.

 

[Guest]

We have 11 concurrent users connected to SQL Server 2005 Express running on a
dedicated server (a two year old unused Dell server for £85 from Ebay) fitted
with 3.2GHz hyperthreaded P4 & 2GB RAM, RAID 1 onboard and Windows 2003
server.

We have tested with upto 18 users but found that things slowed down at 8:30
in the morning when users started up their Outlook all at the same time and
server maxed out at 100% CPU (both of them).

Using a less powerful processor (ie the Celeron P4 supplied) CPU in the
morning was 100% and users suffered from slow and almost unusable Outlook
2007 even if they hadn't explicitly opened BCM. Fitting the faster P4 fixed
that as well as ensuring the latest network card drivers (which was a
surprise). Users are connected via Gb Ethernet.

Generally we have 8 users connected during working hours and 3 on the road
sync'ing via VPN when they can get connected.

All works very well and people are very chuffed with the functionality.