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Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager | 
| From: Microsoft Software
Category: Software
List Price: $149.95
Buy New: $112.95
You Save: $37.00 (25%)
New (28) Used (2) from $109.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  47 reviews
Sales Rank: 317
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows Xp, Windows Xp Professional, Windows Xp Home Edition
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: with Business Contact Manager
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.2 x 1.5
MPN: NFA-00023
Model: 45931G
UPC: 882224581905
EAN: 0882224581905
ASIN: B000WEJYM4
Release Date: January 14, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Manage all your contact, prospect, and customer information in one place | | • | Manage sales leads and opportunities more effectively | | • | Easily manage marketing campaigns from concept to delivery | | • | Forecast sales and analyze data using flexible reports; customize contact, prospect, and customer information | | • | Share information easily and more securely with multi-user access |
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Product Description
Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager offers powerful customer and contact management to help you save time, improve sales and marketing, and deliver better customer service. Organize and manage all your contact, prospect, and customer information in one place. Track leads and opportunities throughout the sales cycle. Easily create, personalize, and track direct marketing campaigns in-house, and centralize your project-related information so you can stay organized and monitor tasks with automated reminders. Forecast sales and analyze data using flexible reports. Share information easily and more securely with multi-user access
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Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager integrates small business contact management with Outlook. Now you can easily manage contact and customer information and track sales and marketing activities in one place./p table width="250" cellpadding="10" align="right" tr td align="center"img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/software/detail-page/outlook-07-1-th.jpg" border="0" style="border: 1px solid black;" psmallbiThe new information dashboard provides a snapshot of your sales pipeline so you can make decisions and stay focused on your priorities./i/b/small /td /tr tr td align="center"img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/software/detail-page/outlook-07-2-th.jpg" border="0" style="border: 1px solid black;" psmallbiNow you can integrate all of your contact and customer information and history, including communications, tasks, and appointments, with your e-mail and calendar in Outlook./i/b/small /td /tr tr td align="center"img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/software/detail-page/outlook-07-3-th.jpg" border="0" style="border: 1px solid black;" psmallbiThe information you need to pursue sales opportunities is at your fingertips./i/b/small /td /tr /table pspan class="h3color"bOrganize All Your Customer Information in One Place/b/spanbr New contact and customer management features are integrated into the powerful and familiar functions of Outlook. ul libGet a consolidated view of contacts and customers./bbr Centralize all contact-related information within the familiar look and feel of Outlook. With contact history, source, status, sales amount, closing potential, e-mail messages, phone calls, tasks, appointments, documents, and notes all referenced in one place, you can effectively manage your sales opportunities and activities, and provide better service to your customers./li libCustomize contact and customer information./bbr Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager is flexible and adaptable, so you can capture the information that is most relevant to your sales and business processes./li libShare customer information with coworkers./bbr Provide employees throughout your company with more secure multiuser access to customer, lead, and opportunity information./li libStay productive when you are out of the office./bbr While on the road, you can work offline on your portable computer or Pocket PC and then synchronize data when you return./li libView customer financial history at a glance./bbr When used together with Microsoft Office Accounting 2007 , Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager provides a complete view of customer financial information and communication history all in one place. Changes in either Office Accounting 2007 or Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager result in automatic updates to the other program./li libSimplify your billing process./bbr When used together with Office Accounting 2007, Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager helps you track appointments on your Outlook calendar, mark them as billable, and automatically send them to Office Accounting 2007 for easy customer invoicing. Phone logs and project tasks can also be marked as billable./li libEasily import contact information from other applications./bbr To get started fast, you can easily transfer contact information from your other applications, including Microsoft Office Excel, Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office Access, or ACT!./li /ul table width="250" cellpadding="20" align="left" tr td align="center"img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/software/detail-page/outlook-07-4-th.jpg" border="0" style="border: 1px solid black;" psmallbiUse new filtering features to select data and then export the information to Excel for further analysis./i/b/small /td /tr tr td align="center"img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/software/detail-page/outlook-07-5-th.jpg" border="0" style="border: 1px solid black;" psmallbiStep-by-step guides lead you through the process of creating marketing campaigns./i/b/small /td /tr tr td align="center"img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/software/detail-page/outlook-07-6-th.jpg" border="0" style="border: 1px solid black;" psmallbiUse Mail Merge to personalize marketing communications and generate greater response./i/b/small /td /tr /table pspan class="h3color"bForecast and Manage Sales Opportunities/b/spanbr Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager integrates your e-mail, calendar, and customer information so you can easily identify and follow up on opportunities throughout the sales process. ul libIdentify your best opportunities./bbr Track your prospects, leads, and customers from initial contact through closing and after the sale. Monitor opportunities by type, sales stage, projected amount of sale, and probability of closing, and then easily assign leads to your employees./li libGet a snapshot view of your sales pipeline./bbr The new central information dashboard summarizes your important sales metrics to help you make decisions and prioritize tasks, and you can customize the metrics to meet your unique needs./li libForecast sales and analyze data./bbr Get a consolidated view of your sales pipeline and easily forecast sales. Choose from a variety of customer, lead, and opportunity reports with advanced capabilities to help get a complete picture of your sales activities. You can sort and filter information, drill deeper for more details, and export your findings to Excel for further analysis./li libConvert sales opportunities into quotes, orders, and invoices./bbr When you use Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager with Office Accounting 2007, you can automatically turn sales opportunities into quotes, orders, and invoices./li /ul pspan class="h3color"bTrack and Monitor Marketing Campaign Activities/b/spanbr Easy-to-use tools help you distribute personalized marketing communications and track the results in-house. ul libGet step-by-step guidance for creating your campaigns./bbr New tools guide you through marketing campaign activities, including compiling your mailing list, distributing materials, and tracking your results./li libTrack marketing campaign activity by customer./bbr The marketing materials you send are automatically included in customer and prospect communications histories./li libMeasure the success of your campaign./bbr Use the new marketing campaign tracking feature to track campaign responses and assess the success of your campaign so you can target your marketing budget effectively in the future./li libMarket more effectively using personalized communications./bbr Create custom mailing lists by filtering customer and prospect data from within Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager. Then use improved Mail Merge integration with Microsoft Office Publisher, Word, and HTML to personalize, print, and send marketing materials via e-mail./li /ul pspan class="h3color"bManage Project-Related Information in One Place/b/spanbr New capabilities help you manage project-related tasks and information in one place and share project-related information with others in the company. ul libTrack, view, and access project activities and tasks in one place./bbr The new Business Projects feature in Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager centralizes all your project information, including activities, e-mail messages, meetings, notes, and attachments./li libAssign project tasks to others./bbr Using the new Project Tasks feature, you can assign tasks to others and automatically transfer the task information to their task lists, To-Do Bar, and Outlook reminders./li /ul
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| Customer Reviews: Read 42 more reviews...
 Outlook and BCM do not share contact information November 11, 2008
Outlook with Business Contact Manager is a misnomer. BCM is in reality a bolt-on application that works alongside Outlook with a similar file structure. This would be a fine arrangement except that Outlook and BCM do not integrate together. For example, contacts with the same name in both Outlook and BCM are different contacts and do not share information nor do they synchronize in any way. I use a hosted Outlook Exchange service that keeps my desk and mobile email and contacts synchronized. When I moved a contact from Outlook to BCM I lost visibility of that contact through Exchange and the contact became visible only through my desktop. This is an unacceptable backward step. I just wasted the hundred bucks I spent on the Outlook with BCM application. As best I can tell, the best contact manager/CRM systems are now the web 2.0/hosted applications such as Salesforce, Zoho, Sugar, etc. I suggest using one of them. Good luck.
Lead a stray November 10, 2008
The business contact manager info on your website did NOT give any idea that one would need to buy a subscription to make the business Contact Manager function.br /br /I NEVER would have paid extra for this feature if I knew it would incur additional MONTHLY costs!!!!
 Better Off Staying with Older Version September 12, 2008
I've had the new version of Outlook for a few months now and have been quite disappointed in it's entire performance. I purchased the version with the business contact manager in order to sync with my Quickbooks information. It turns out it only works with Microsoft's "Money" application. So I decided to keep using it and take advantage of the few usable features I found in it. br /To my further disappointment my Word 2002 began freezing if I had Outlook open. I finally had to upgrade to the Office Suite that included the Outlook 2007 as well.br /But my problems did not stop there I tried using the program to receive my Gmail and after downloading my messages and attempting to answer the program freezes. This is using the IMAP format. I've gone over my settings a number of times and checked out my online Gmail settings as well. It turned out that the bug was improved by eliminating my online Gmail folders then sorting the mail into Outlook folders once I received it in Outlook. I run an Home XP OS on my laptop.br /In a nutshell, not enough bang for the buck. Best to maintain older 2002 version or buy the entire suite. It may be pretty, but so was my last useless secretary!br /
 It's OK August 22, 2008
If you don't have IT support, this is a hard product to use. For families or small offices, there are easier-to-use and cheaper options.br /br /But this is the industry standard. It's a fine product. Good news, it's Office. Bad news, it's Office.
 Great Features But Web 2.0 Wins The Day for My Needs August 20, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have been a Microsoft Office (small company) user for years but have never familiarized myself with the Outlook software. I know many satisfied Outlook users so I decided this year to take a investigate what, if anything, I was missing.br /br / I loaded Outlook 2007 and then played with it. Outlook is all that it is advertised to be "you can effectively manage your sales activities and provide better customer service with contact history, source, status, sales amount, closing potential, e-mail messages, phone calls, tasks, appointments, documents and notes, all referenced in one place." It also has what most previous users may find to be a significant improvement - a new Project Tasks feature which allows the user to assign tasks to others and automatically transfer the task information to their task lists, a To-Do Bar and Outlook reminders. And there are many other touted improvements according to the manufacturers description.br /br /Many of Outlook's tools would have been useful to me in the past but, since I have not used this data management tool, I have little invested and am not wedded to it. I am glad. As a mobile executive, I am committed to Web 2.0 and only want to add those data management tools that are hosted. Desktop based software is obsolete. If Outlook were an Internet hosted application, I would be an enthusiastic user. My rating is based Outlook's features which are exceptional. But, I do not intend to become a user. br /
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