You can do service and project management in ofbiz Henning Sprang sent the following on 12/1/2008 3:41 PM: > On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 12:08 AM, BJ Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I concur with adrian. Get something like the intuit products. >> I use home and business for my consulting. > > That is not an option for me. I'm a free software hardliner... > especially when it's for my own usage. > As consultant, I'd not recommend it to my customers that it's better > for them to pay 2 months of work get something minimal working instead > of buying some closed source standard stuff with many features running > on windows, but for myself It's clear where I go to ;) > >> not sure what you require for CRM but ofbiz has the ability, just not as >> evident at first sight. > > For a start just some address management, and the ability to get email > adresses by "tags", so I can mail customers information based on their > interests, things like that. > And then - whatever comes to my mind. By tags no, but you can create many mailinglist and use the marketing component. maybe you can add the tag feature. you do have requests from customer. and any emails are linked to the emails the customer has in their profile. Take a look at the My Page, soon to be my portal.
> >> as far as size, what do you expect from an Enterprise level software? >> :) > > Yeah, I know. Compared to what's in there in terms of features - it's > a multi-functional framework. > It was not meant as criticism. But the description (buy vs. build vs. > ofbiz for example) sounded like a walk in the park - it probably is, > but it's a really large park :) :D > >> As a guide, read the Data model books. > > You mean the data model resource book from there: > http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBADMIN/OFBiz+Related+Books > > Or the wiki guides on OFBiz entities and stuff? the data model books will give you how the data is linked together the wikis add what is OFbiz specific then you have the webtools built in to ofbiz. I find the Artifact feature to be a real help to drill down through ofbiz. > > Thanks, > Henning > >
