All,
The great advantage of BCM is it's integration with MS Small Business
Accounting.
Bigmoe
"Tim P via OfficeKB.com" wrote:
> Keith,
>
> The Outlook Prophet application adds an MSDE database like BCM and the items
> created for storage in this db are the Contact, Company and Opportunity
> Records. Like BCM, the Company-Level and Opportunity data do not synch over
> to the Pocket PC. All of the other native Outlook items do synch though
> (including all of your Outlook contacts) just the same as if you were
> synching Outlook alone to the Pocket PC without Prophet being involved.
> Where some confusion may lie is that Prophet does NOT require you to manually
> create a separate Contact record called "Business Contact" as a distinct and
> separate record item from the already existing Outlook Contact record. You
> are not forced into using an entirely separate folder for your so-called
> "business" contacts. The Prophet application automatically writes all of
> your native Outlook Contact information into the MSDE db and maintains this
> mirror storage (between the Prophet db and the Outlook Contact pst) as you
> add or delete contacts all the while allowing you to just continue using the
> familiar Outlook Contact record. Is this a better way? A lot of folks seem
> to think that this approach is a simpler way for existing Outlook users to
> adapt to. With BCM, Microsoft chose a different design approach which
> requires the creation and use of separate Business Contact Record items
> stored in their own distinct folder within the BCM db which are separate and
> apart from the Outlook Contact record pst. You can maintain a duplicate
> contact in both native Outlook and BCM but there is no constant auto-synching
> relationship between these 2 separate stores.
>
> Again, neither BCM or Prophet currently will synch any of your sales
> opportunity data to the Pocket PC but Prophet does do this with their latest
> Prophet for Palm edition release. As I mentioned in a previous post, they
> plan to have this opportunity synch ability available for the Pocket PC very
> soon. Give them a call and you will possibly be able to get more of an
> answer to this than I am aware of. I found their pre-sales folks to be very
> helpful and knowledgeable.
>
> -THP
>
>
> Ed Marmon wrote:
> >as far as i know, you wont be able to sync opportunity records at all, so
> >you looking again may noyt do much. what syncs is just outlook stuff,
> >standard outlook stuff, not the added outlook info created and controlled
> >by prophet. it may be stored in the pst, but i doubt it will sync.
> >
> >wm5- curious- what device? there are not that many yet, and many of the
> >sync softwares show no sign yet of being updated for wm5 ( i.e.
> >companionlink.com etc )
>
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