| A lot of groupware suppliers exist. The same applies | | | | licence-fee, no matter how long he is using the |
| for customer relationship management (CRM) as well | | | | software. In two years of time over |
| as enterprise resource planning (ERP). How to keep | | | | 58,000€ can be accrued assuming 50 users. |
| track of the best software? This article tries to give | | | | Besides, the offered small business edition is only |
| a small overview and comparison. | | | | available for up to 75 users. What happens if a |
| On the market for software there are about two | | | | customers wants to upgrade?i-sense is built on a |
| suppliers which offer all of the above mentioned | | | | modular system. This means that it is possible to build |
| functionality. This is Microsoft Dynamics which is only | | | | the software according to ones wishes from the |
| available as a package with Dynamics CRM, | | | | offered packages (organizer, collaboration, CRM, |
| Dynamics, AX, Dynamics GP, Dynamics NAV and | | | | ERP). |
| Dynamics SL. The second supplier is the i-sense | | | | The package organizer contains functions like |
| software GmbH with its same-named software | | | | task-management, calendar, notes, contacts, etc. |
| i-sense which is available in three versions: Community | | | | Collaboration improves the cooperation through |
| Edition, Start-Up Edition and Enterprise Edition. | | | | functions like e-mail, messages, forums or a |
| Other suppliers who don't offer the full spectrum of | | | | file-management-system. Additionally CRM and ERP |
| functionality would be, for example, SAP and Etelos, | | | | functions are included. The integrated e-mail-client is |
| whereby SAP is specialized at ERP and Etelos is not | | | | accessible via POP3 as well as IMAP. Also an |
| even offering it. | | | | outlook-synchronisation is possible. There is the |
| This is the reason why I am only looking at MS | | | | possibility for non-commercial users to get the |
| Dynamics ( and i-sense ( The problem with Dynamics | | | | Community Edition for 50 users with the packages |
| is the unflexible way of handling as well as the pricing | | | | organizer and collaboration included. |
| modell. The customer has the pay a one-time | | | | |