Contacts manager for my company - Any suggestions?

daveg

I hope I'm posting this in the right forum. My company have asked me to research the best contacts manager program from which we will centrally store all of our contacts (probably between 3000 and 5000 contacts at the moment). So far we use 3 storage methods (everyone stores there own at present):

Excel
Outlook contacts
Access Database

The program would need to integrate with Words mail merge function and would need to be easily integrated into an Outlook mail shot (ie easy extraction of email addresses). The ability to input notes per contact would be required as well (last communication details etc).

Personally I am leaning towards an excel database as most people know how to use it, we have already paid for the license, it integrates very well with mail merge and outlook mailshots but I just wanted to see if anyone had any other suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

kaizersoze

Did you look at Microsoft Business Contact Manager? It integrates into Outlook 2007. I have it installed. Don't use it much but looks to have everything you're looking for.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/contactmanager/HA101680081033.aspx?pid=CL101729501033

daveg

kaizersoze wrote:

Did you look at Microsoft Business Contact Manager? It integrates into Outlook 2007. I have it installed. Don't use it much but looks to have everything you're looking for.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/contactmanager/HA101680081033.aspx?pid=CL101729501033

Thanks kaizersoze. Will have a look. Any other suggestions anyone?

Capt'n Midnight

if you have exchange server you could setup another mailbox for contact and share it out to all users with the open other mailbox option in email accounts

one nice feature is that some people could be set up with read only access

I don't know if you can use it as the default outlook address book though