Sonic'

Any good ones out there that are cheapish

probably 20 users maximum, Microsoft would be ideal but it maybe too costly

We need integration with Outlook and/or ACT and Sage if possible

DemonDave

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Have you looked at https://www.salesforce.com/uk/ ?

GaryK

I resell Interprise which has integrated crm and financials so you could ditch Sage, Connected Business - Interprise Suite Resellers .

Sonic'

Only just bought Sage, we are a new company only been trading a few weeks

GaryK

OK sonic, then you could look at ACT! which has links albeit poor to Sage, Im assuming you've bought Line 50 or Sage 50 as they now call it. Open source route you could go with vtiger but that wont link to Sage but does have an outlook plug-in.

Dr.No

You could go with opensource alternatives - certainly cheap - and would probably do the job for 20 or so employees. Check out:

SugarCRM - Commercial Open Source CRM

vtiger Open Source CRM

DN

Sonic'

Ahh, SugarCRM is the opensource one I have heard of previously

Yes Sage is the 2008 version, Accounts & Payroll, but we arent going to use the Payroll one now (outsoured to the accountants )

We are (sort of) a Microsoft Gold Partner and do have licenses for Dynamics, but they will expire in June (or rather the Gold Partnership will expire end of June 2009) and will no doub have to switch to another product or pay MS for the licenses

We have 2 new servers still boxed that I can use (but Im looking into ugraded to 2008, so we can start using Exchange 2007

GaryK

Be careful as sugarcrm and vtiger, which are similar but not that same have slightly different licensing models. vtiger is fully open source but sugar has cost options for things like the outlook plug-in.

ChrisB

Good thread.

We're pondering putting our "free" MS Dynamics licenses to use at work. Started reading the MS documentation and one server should be enough for us.

Will have a look at Sugar and vTiger.

angrynorth

Free one here, I've used it and its very good SalesPush

Sonic'

Chris Im looking into it now, but I want to migrate us over to Windows 2008 and Exchange 2007 with the 2 spare servers I have, but i need to find out how stable etc a CRM system (including Microsoft Dynamics) will be on that platform first

Ill look into the others though as a first

ChrisB

Did you get anywhere with this Sonic?

Finally got our **** in gear. Got a cheap quad core server with 8GB arriving this week for setting up MS CRM in a sandbox (run on ESXi).