> From: Peter J. Schoenster[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 1998 9:33 PM
>
>
> I threw up a quick database in mysql with the basic fields and I
> wrote some update,modify and search features and stuck it on my
> intranet. A user can log in and change anything in THEIR profile.
> No need to ask someone else and hope they do it. This just seems
> like the most common sensical approach. Yet I find few others who
> think this way.
>
Not only is it common sense -- it's not unlike the move toward 'self-serve'
gasoline, ie, shifting the labor yields cost savings.
> I recently attended a meeting about creating a marketing database. My
> amazement was that something like this wasn't already in place. Yet
> much of the focus seemed to stem around the use of ACT.
>
Peter -- ACT is to marketing/sales folks what Linux is you geekheads <g> ...
it's the best contact manager on the market. The fact that it is single user
as contrasted w/shared database is a function of the times in which it was
born. I'd be surprised if they haven't seen the need for distributed
environment, tho.
> Perhaps there are some people here who have experience with ACT.
> Could it actually be used by many people as a "marketing database" to
> track leads, do followup, update and delete entries etc.?
>
Don't know about "many people" but that's what it does for *one* user.
> they replied. I wonder if using ACT now would be similar to what I
> did with MS Word back then.
>
Far more sophisticated.
kathy
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