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In-Depth Review
Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager
Microsoft Corporation
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052-6399
Telephone: (800)
MICROSOFT (642-7676)
Email:
Web:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/contactmanager/FX101674171033.aspx
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in
software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize
their full potential.
At Microsoft, we're motivated and inspired every day by how our customers
use our software to find creative solutions to business problems, develop
breakthrough ideas, and stay connected to what's most important to them.
We run our business in much the same way, and believe our three core
business divisions offer the greatest potential to serve our customers. They
are:
- Platform Products and Services Division: Includes the Client Group,
the Server & Tools Group, and the Online Services Group
- Business Division: Includes the Information Worker Group, the
Microsoft Business Solutions Group, and the Unified Communications Group
- Entertainment and Devices Division: Includes the Home &
Entertainment Group and the Mobile & Embedded Devices Group
We are committed long term to the mission of helping our customers
realize their full potential. Just as we constantly update and improve our
products, we want to continually evolve our company to be in the best
position to accelerate new technologies as they emerge and to better serve
our customers.
Product: Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact
Manager
Current Version:
3.00.6402.00
Category: On-Premise SOHO CRM Solution
Sub-Category: Contact Manager
Client Platform: Microsoft Windows Vista
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.
Organize prospect and customer information in one place
Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager enables you to organize
and manage all contact, prospect, and customer information in a single
location so you can spend less time looking for information and be more
responsive to your customers.
- Centralize customer and prospect information in Office Outlook 2007
with Business Contact Manager, including contact information, e-mail,
phone calls, appointments, notes, and documents.
- Customize the type of contact information you track to suit your
unique business needs.
- While out of the office, you can work offline on your laptop or
Pocket PC and synchronize your data when you return.
- Easily share customer and prospect data across the company with
secure multi-user access.
- Integrate customer contact information and financial history when
you use Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager along with
Microsoft Office Accounting 2007.
- Track billable time on your Outlook calendar and automatically send
it to Office Accounting for invoicing and payroll.
Integrate all of your contact and customer information and history —
including communications, tasks, and appointments — with your e-mail and
calendar in Office Outlook 2007.
Manage sales leads and opportunities
Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager helps you manage
prospects, leads, and customers from first contact through closing so that
you can communicate and sell more effectively.
- Track prospects and leads in Office Outlook 2007 with Business
Contact Manager, including contact information, communications history,
documents, sources, and probability of closing.
- Track opportunities from the initial contact to closing the sale.
View a summary of all opportunities by type, sales stage, and
probability of closing.
- Get a consolidated view of the sales pipeline across your company to
help you forecast sales and prioritize tasks.
- Use a central information dashboard to get an up-to-date view of
customer and prospect information to help you organize activities.
- Choose from a wide selection of customer and prospect reports and
sort and filter information, drill down for more details, and export to
Microsoft Office Excel for further analysis.
- When used with Office Accounting 2007, you can automatically turn
sales opportunities into quotes, orders, and invoices.
The new information dashboard provides a snapshot of your sales pipeline
to help you make decisions and stay focused on your priorities. View a
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Create, personalize, and track direct marketing campaigns
Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager helps you create,
personalize, and track direct marketing campaigns in-house for more
effective marketing.
- A wizard leads you step-by-step through the process of producing
effective marketing campaigns.
- Filter customer and prospect data to compile targeted mailing lists.
- Use mail merge capabilities to personalize marketing publications
created in Microsoft Office Publisher, Microsoft Office Word, or
ListBuilder.
- Track response to your campaigns to determine their effectiveness.
- The marketing materials you send to prospects and customers are
automatically included in their communications history.
Centralize project information and task management
Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager centralizes all
project-related information in one place so you can stay organized and
monitor progress.
- Organize and track all your project-related information including
e-mail, tasks, meetings, notes, and attachments.
- Share project-related information with others in the company.
- Easily assign project tasks to others and automatically transfer
task information to their To-Do Bar.
- Automatically monitor progress and send out reminders.
For pricing details, see:
http://www.microsoft.com/smallbusiness/products/wowpc/buy.aspx
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