Moving Business Contact Manager to Pro Plus, dropping Accounting

  • Thread starter Concerned Office Champ to Small Business
  • Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
C

Concerned Office Champ to Small Business

Seriously? Are small businesses not a target customer? First you drop Money
and Accounting because "online banking is good enough" (no, it's not), and
now you're saying Business Contact Manager will only be available through
volume licensing. With less than 10 employees, volume licensing is not an
option, and yet many small businesses who have been paying full price for
Office Pro off the retail shelf will have to go find a different solution for
managing business contacts AND go through the pain of migrating off the MS
solutions in place. And no, CRM won't do, either, because it is also a
solution for something larger than a few employees and requires too much
additional expertise to implement. Nor is building some giant SQL solution
to manage accounting a solution. Accounting and Business Contact Manager
were a perfect fit, but now Microsoft will be forcing these plentiful small
customers to competitive solutions, and sending the message that only the big
enterprises and larger small businesses are worth the effort. I know this
isn't the intent, but will certainly be the result.
 
On 3/18/2010 2:04 PM, Concerned Office Champ to Small Business wrote:
> Seriously? Are small businesses not a target customer? First you drop Money
> and Accounting because "online banking is good enough" (no, it's not), and
> now you're saying Business Contact Manager will only be available through
> volume licensing. With less than 10 employees, volume licensing is not an
> option, and yet many small businesses who have been paying full price for
> Office Pro off the retail shelf will have to go find a different solution for
> managing business contacts AND go through the pain of migrating off the MS
> solutions in place. And no, CRM won't do, either, because it is also a
> solution for something larger than a few employees and requires too much
> additional expertise to implement. Nor is building some giant SQL solution
> to manage accounting a solution. Accounting and Business Contact Manager
> were a perfect fit, but now Microsoft will be forcing these plentiful small
> customers to competitive solutions, and sending the message that only the big
> enterprises and larger small businesses are worth the effort. I know this
> isn't the intent, but will certainly be the result.


You are right. The product mix needs to change. However, I believe this
to be a temporary situation reflecting the availability of Beta product
mixes.

I wanted to clarify that volume licensing is actually an option with 5
employees or even with one employee if the customer uses Windows Server
2008. I am going to clarify whether enrolling Server Foundation 2008
into Software Assurance is possible, in which case that would be the
minimum requirement for a volume agreement as it technically comes with
15 CALs.

Further, BCM was actually previously omitted from Pro Plus and
Enterprise (officially, even though it is perfectly legal to use it if
you want to and have the bits). As I recall from Beta 2007, we also used
Pro Plus SKU as the beta SKU.

My understanding is that this is a Beta stage product mix limitation to
simplify testing scenarios. Once the product is released, I expect
Microsoft to continue offering BCM in SKUs ranging from Standalone to
Small Business and above. The reason being is that Office Small Business
2007 is available through volume license and carries Software Assurance
benefits including new versions of this software, and Microsoft would be
in trouble if it were to abruptly discontinue the product.

Why are they testing Pro Plus first? Volume customers get the new
release in advance of retail and OEM channels. Hence, it makes sense to
test that release first.

I opened an inquiry with Microsoft's partner support group to obtain a
policy statement to this effect.
Leonid S. Knyshov
Crashproof Solutions
510-282-1008
Twitter: @wiseleo
http://crashproofsolutions.com
Microsoft Small Business Specialist
Try Exchange Online http://bit.ly/free-exchange-trial
Please vote "helpful" if I helped you :)
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Similar threads
Thread starter Title Forum Replies Date
N Reply to Outlook messages by moving messages to a specific Outlook folder Outlook VBA and Custom Forms 1
P Moving from 2010 to 365 Using Outlook 3
O Moving "tasks" to inbox in Outlook 2016 Using Outlook 1
Abraham Outlook 2013 Lost my folders when moving from PST to IMAP Using Outlook 11
F Moving Outlook to new PC Using Outlook 0
R Moved 6 months worth (approx 1500 emails) lost from moving from TPG inbox to Icloud inbox (folders) Using Outlook 3
A Moving Public Folders to New Database Exchange Server Administration 3
R Problem moving file “Email folders.pst” to new PC Using Outlook 5
glnz Moving from Outlook 2003 to MS365 Outlook - need basics Using Outlook 4
E Having some trouble with a run-a-script rule (moving mail based on file type) Outlook VBA and Custom Forms 5
F Moving Contacts to New Profile Using Outlook 0
J Moving Imported folder Using Outlook 2
J Outlook 2016 Moving IMAP emails to Exchange Using Outlook 1
A .restrict results changing after moving to Exchange online Outlook VBA and Custom Forms 0
T I'm thinking about moving from outlook.com to the Outlook I have in my Office 365 Using Outlook 1
L Moving emails with similar subject and find the timings between the emails using outlook VBA macro Outlook VBA and Custom Forms 1
S Moving .OST file location unsuccessful! Using Outlook 6
M Moving mail to another folder is much slower than before (Office365) Using Outlook 0
D Any updates or fixes that would make this code stop working just moving emails to another folder Outlook VBA and Custom Forms 1
B Moving account, contacts & emails to another H/D with MSOutlook Using Outlook 5
M I'm Having problems Moving Contacts to a New List Using Outlook 8
D Moving Emails Based on Recipient/Sender Outlook VBA and Custom Forms 4
U Outlook 2010 'freezes' before moving emails Using Outlook 2
S Moving Emails Between Archive Folders Using Outlook 1
P Moving Outlook.pst & archive1.pst Using Outlook 3
A Moving archived contents in Outlook 2007 back into working folders Using Outlook 0
Diane Poremsky Moving Deleted Items Using Outlook 0
O Moving .ost file Using Outlook 12
Diane Poremsky Outlook.com is moving to Office 365! Using Outlook 3
Diane Poremsky Check Contacts before moving them to Hotmail Contacts folder Using Outlook 0
V Problem moving folders Using Outlook 4
Diane Poremsky Moving Outlook to a New Computer Using Outlook 0
Diane Poremsky Moving from Outlook Express to Outlook Using Outlook 0
M1ck53 Moving Outlook Using Outlook 9
Diane Poremsky Moving an Outlook offline data file (*.ost) Using Outlook 3
D After Moving or Deleting Open Item - Meeting Requests Using Outlook 4
E Moving autoarchive settings to new computer (Outlook 2007) Using Outlook 1
Nick Truscott Lost custom forms after moving mailbox Outlook VBA and Custom Forms 3
L Moving Message Class email via script and Rule Outlook VBA and Custom Forms 3
R Moving contacts from ICloud back to Outlook 2010 Using Outlook 4
M which Outlook recommended to buy for moving Outlook 2000 versions Contact Data Using Outlook 2
P Moving PST file questions Using Outlook 3
Klaas "To Address" duplicated when moving msg to another folder Using Outlook 2
A Outlook 2013 EAS: moving message causes duplicates Using Outlook 3
C Moving BCM Database to Server Share BCM (Business Contact Manager) 1
A Moving .msg files back into outlook Using Outlook 2
S automatically moving flagged sent e-mail to a special folder Outlook VBA and Custom Forms 1
M moving custom field data between outlook and excel? Using Outlook 4
G Moving "Delete" button on Outlook for Mac Using Outlook 1
Commodore Message becomes "unread" after moving to a local folder Using Outlook 2

Similar threads

Back
Top