Business Contact Manager

I've seen several older posts on the topic, but I wanted to throw in my vote...

Plaxo probably has more business users than the casual user. So it would only make sense to help us out... we need integration to Microsoft Business Contact Manager.

Thanks!

I second that motion.

Hi Jeff, and welcome to the Plaxo Forum. Thanks to you and Raphael for the suggestion; we actually have a huge number of members who use Plaxo for their personal use, though of course, we have many using Plaxo for business as well.

In fact I had to duplicate all my business contact cards int my personal cards so I can have them synchronized with my home computer.

Plaxo does not even recognize the Business Contact Folder. Did anyone found a better way to deal with this limitation??

Ricardo Ekerman

Hello.

When will Plaxo support Microsoft Business Contact Manager?

I am using Business Contact Manager, but I am not able to update these contacts with Plaxo...

Just to add my 'two bob's worth', I have just loaded down v2.0 with the intention of installing, but that has come to a grinding halt while I work out if its worth doing.

My Palm seems to manage the merge OK, why not Plaxo? ......

Thanks everyone for the feedback, and others should feel free to offer the voice to the vote as well. The best answer I can provide at this time can be located here:

http://blog.plaxo.com/archives/000063.html

I have read much about this.... but I still don't understand why Plaxo will still not work with Business Contact Manager. What's the problem???

As a possible new user of Plaxo, I must agree with a number of the other posts.
I am also a user of Bussiness Contact Manager after switching from Maximizer and ACT.

Why won't this program find the Business Contact Data Base folder. I am now ending up with a duplicate folder in my may contacts using my e-mail addresses from outlook.
If I can't put the files in the correct folder the program does not do me any good.

I am open to all suggestions and it looks like others are to!

Correct - at this time, Plaxo does not support BCM.

I can't say I have all the technical details, but as I understand things, the problem is in how BCM manages folders. When installed, BCM takes over folder management from Outlook and changes the manner in which folders can be updated. This makes Plaxo unable to perform folder options as we normally would through Outlook.

If we are updating the contacts folder with Plaxo would it be possible to sync the updated contact folder with the Business Conact Folder? I understand that I would have duplicate folders but this would still be better than the current situation.

[fieldscm]

I too believe the information would be beneficial to have if integrated.

[tjflemings]

Rule One. Know your users.

I think most plaxo users are :
1) business users
2) likely also Linked-In Users
3) reliant heavily on automation in contact management
4) users of SOME form of CRM

If a competitor emerged that had better support for outlook BCM and was not onerous to my contact base. I'd seriously consider switching JUST for that feature.

This really does make sense for PLAXO imho. Please do it.