We have recently built a CRM and it runs in a FarCry framework (although it only uses the Navigation and Permission facilities (everything is purpose built). It does not use any FarCry types.
However, it is PURPOSE built. So it isn't suitable for use by anyone except our company (or possibly people in our industry - i.e. Stockbroking). We decided to build our own CRM because the "generic" packages just don't handle what we want. Our investigations also showed that the generic CRM boom is now considered a bit of a dead-end and more and more companies are choosing to build their own for the same reasons we did. Our CRM is basically an application within an application. With very little change we could migrate it to another framework (like Mach-II - for example) and it would still work. So - my advice would be "Build your own CRM". A comment from a core user just yesterday..... "We would never have gotten something as flexible as this if we had bought it off-the-shelf". Regards, Gary Menzel On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 02:08:02 -0800, J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you Tim for your tips. That lazlo email app looks like it will be > cool; I wonder how much it will cost? > > The reason I was looking at a CMS is because I wanted to be able to > centralize a login for all apps standardize and any future data management. > > I'm checking out basecamp as you suggested. Thank you to all for your tips. > -J > > Tim Lucas wrote: > > > > On 27/01/2005, at 12:16 PM, J wrote: > > > >> I need a Contacts app that everyone in the company can all have online > >> access to. This needs to support multiple categories, nested > >> categories, and different views (e.g. city and state and then > >> alphabetical, or just alphabetical, with a filter to narrow down > >> contacts to specific region or last name.) > > > > > > Sounds like a simple web-app to me. What's the reasoning behind using a > > CMS? > > > >> I'm also interested in a web based email program. > > > > > > Check out Horde IMP. Also, Laszlo are releasing a fully-featured > > flash-based email client... might want to check that out. > > > >> Lastly, I am interested in a project management software. > > > > > > Basecamp by 37signals. > > > > - tim > > > > > > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to farcry-dev as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/ > --- You are currently subscribed to farcry-dev as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/
