Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager Frequently Asked Questions

Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager adds complete small business contact management capabilities to Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, so you can organize customer and prospect information, sales and marketing activities, and project information, all in one place.

Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager provides many new and improved features that help you organize your sales leads and customer information, create and monitor marketing campaigns, and manage projects. Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager integrates sales and contact management with powerful Office Outlook 2007 e-mail and calendar features.

With customer, prospect, marketing, and project information all in one place, you are able to more easily and consistently follow up with customers and sales opportunities. Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager helps you analyse sales and customer information, track and forecast sales opportunities, create customized reports, and build successful marketing campaigns all on a small business budget.

Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager is specifically intended for smaller businesses with fewer than 50 employees. It supports employees who work with customer information, including business owners, sales people, marketing managers, customer service representatives, and project managers. It is designed to work with the technology used most often by small businesses, including computer networks without a server (peer-to-peer networks), and with e-mail systems based on the most common e-mail protocols: Post Office Protocol (POP3), Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP), or Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).

Employees in small businesses often have several different roles. Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager can help employees in a variety of roles:

Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager helps you:

With the new and enhanced features of Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager, you can:

There are several key differences between the two programs. Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager adds more functionality to Office Outlook 2007 and is an easy-to-use, out-of-the-box small business solution for managing and sharing customer and prospect information. It is designed to work with the technology that is most often used by small businesses, including computer networks without servers (peer-to-peer networks) and e-mail systems that are based on the most common e-mail protocols (POP3, IMAP, and HTML).

Microsoft CRM provides more advanced sales and customer service capabilities with online and offline access to centralized, server-based data. With the assistance of a technology partner, you can more deeply customize Microsoft CRM to your business processes. Microsoft CRM is designed to integrate with Microsoft Dynamics financial management solutions as well as other line-of-business systems.

Purchasing options will be announced in the second half of 2006.

Yes. Find packaging information on the 2007 Microsoft Office Packaging page.

The Microsoft Office system provides customers with a set of programs that they can choose from to best address their business needs. Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager adds complete small business contact management capabilities to Office Outlook 2007, so you can organize customer and prospect information, communications, projects, and tasks, and manage sales and marketing activities, all in one place.

See the system requirements for Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager.

Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager is designed to work with the technology used most often by small businesses, including networks without a server (peer-to-peer networks) and with the most common e-mail protocols (POP3, IMAP, and HTML).

The 2007 Microsoft Office system provides customers with a set of programs that they can choose from to best address their business needs.