Contact Management
 

I need some help. I am a PC user who has just landed in an office full of Mac users...

I have been using Act! and am *very* happy with what it does for Contact Management. Can anyone suggest a piece of software that can do one of the following:

a) provide the same quality of software and features as Act on a Mac platform,

b) the same but cross platform (ie work between mac and PC)

c) make these mac users switch to PC...

I need the following features:

Share the database between multiple users
track sales
group contacts in user defined groups
Palm compatiblity
User defined fields


Help me, please.

I guess no one can help... damn I was hoping.

I know essentially nothing about it... but would hipergate :. Free Open Source CRM Groupware Intranet and Content Manager Solutions do it? I think it's web-based...

Don't they make a version of ACT! for the Mac?
I could swear they did! /goes of to look at amazon/

Nope. I was wrong. Damn. I got nothin' for ya.

They used to but that was a long time ago.

I can't find anything that is as good as Act in either a MAC or a MAC/PC version...

I am just going to have to convince these lousy Mac users to convert... most likely it will be me doing the conversion though.



Has anyone used the Contact Manager that comes with Tiger?

If you're not doing graphic/video editting/development the change to PC should be simple :) And why can't you be PC and let them have their glorified paperweights?

Sadly they are hooked on mac... aggressively so.

I need the rest of my salesteam to be on the same database so we can share information and calendars...

Could you use the Virtual PC program that Microsoft/Apple offers? It might be kind of cost prohibitive but it might solve your problem. The Mac users can keep their Macs and you can have your Act! There is information about Virtual PC here.

Unfortunately Act doesn't work with Virtual PC.... I checked.

Thanks though.

Not that I doubted you but well, I'm stubborn. I went to the Microsoft site for Virtual PC and they have a Google group set up to answer questions for the software. I found a thread here that talks about using Virtual PC 7.0.1 and ACT! 2005. It appears that it can be done but be prepared for things to run rather slowly unless you can add a fair bit of memory to the Macs.

Hope this helps.

Cool! Thanks... that was just what I was looking for...

Excellent!