Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager Product Overview

Track, view, and access customer and prospect information in a central place in Office Outlook 2007, including contact information, e-mail messages, phone calls, appointments, notes, and documents.

Integrate customer contact information and financial history when you use Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager along with Microsoft Office Small Business Accounting 2007.

Track billable time on your Office Outlook 2007 calendar and automatically send it to Office Small Business Accounting 2007 for customer invoicing.

Use new customization features to define and capture the information that is most relevant to your sales and business processes.

Share customer and prospect data across your company with security-enhanced multiuser access, so that employees have access to the information they need to respond to customers.

Work offline when you're out of the office. You can view and enter information for Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager from your laptop, and synchronize your data when you return. You can also view all your business contact information from your Microsoft Windows Mobile-based Pocket PC.

Import contact information from other Microsoft Office system programs with a single click.

Organize sales leads and opportunities together within Office Outlook 2007, including contact information, communications history, documents, sources of leads, and probability of closing the sale.

Get a consolidated view of your sales pipeline across the company by using the customizable dashboard to summarize your important business metrics, forecast sales, and prioritize business tasks.

Forecast sales easily using a variety of customer, lead, and opportunity reports with advanced capabilities to sort, filter, and drill deeper for more details, and export to Microsoft Office Excel 2007 for further analysis.

Convert sales opportunities into quotes, orders, and invoices when you use Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager and Office Small Business Accounting 2007 together.

Use tools that guide you through the process of creating marketing campaign activities.

Create custom mailing lists by filtering customer and prospect data from within Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager.

Use improved mail merge capabilities to send personalized publications created in Microsoft Office Word 2007, Office Publisher 2007, or Microsoft List Builder.

Track and assess responses to determine your campaigns overall effectiveness. Marketing materials are automatically included in customer and prospect communications history after sending.

Use the new Business Projects feature to track project information in one place, including documents, e-mail messages, notes, attachments, meetings, and activities.

Share project information across your company so that the right people have access to the project information they need to work effectively, using security-enhanced, multiuser access capabilities.

Assign project tasks to others and automatically transfer task information to their individual task lists using the Project Tasks feature. These tasks appear on the Office Outlook 2007 To-Do Bar and within Outlook 2007 reminders for easy follow-up.