Comments on: A Mobile App Gets Whacked

By: john

john — Mon, 19 May 2008 19:57:41 +0000

For the last two years I have been using Outlook 2003 and my regular “contacts” syncs wirelessly with my TREO 700 (Palm version) perfectly fine.

But, it will not sync/download my contacts in “Business Contacts” or “Accounts in Business” contacts from Business Contact Manager for Outlook to the TREO.

Do I need to upgrade to 2007 Business Contact Manager for Outlook?

I assume I have to also upgrade to a new Treo (or similar device). I’m flexible with what device I should switch to —in fact I was even considering the IPhone– if there’s any capability of adding BCM to it.

Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated

thanks, John

By: Tim Peterson

Tim Peterson — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 23:11:02 +0000

Hey there Chris,

I always enjoy checking into your site on occasion from up here in Denver, CO.

There is now great news for all of you mobile warriors such as myself who
have long lamented the lack of an easy way to synchronize your BCM Business
Contacts with your particular mobile device regardless of your mobile device
platform (WM, Palm, Blackberry, Symbian, etc.) Go to http://www.chapura.com and
check out their new “Folder Mirror” solution. This apparently graceful,
client side application maintains an ongoing, automatic, real-time synch
between all additional Outlook Calendar and Contact folders and the native
default Outlook Calendar and Contact folder which then flows through the
standard synch conduit to your device.

This will allow any platform of mobile device that already provides a synch
conduit to Outlook to be able to also synch with BCM. Because this works on
the PC client itself, it does not interfere with the particular device
manufacturer’s conduit synch software.

Chapura is top of the list in Outlook synchronization. They innovate and
their stuff actually works!

-THP

By: welcome to the funcave » Getting Over Business Contacts for Pocket PC

welcome to the funcave » Getting Over Business Contacts for Pocket PC — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 21:55:54 +0000

[...] After raking Business Contacts Mobile for Pocket PC over the coals recently, I promised to talk about my particular workaround. [...]

By: chris

chris — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 19:47:17 +0000

@ donna:

Thanks for reminding me about that feature! I used to use that way way back in the salad days of O97.

That was long before I’d ever seen a single (Not Responding) message in Outlook.

Ah…we were all so innocent then…

By: chris

chris — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 19:43:21 +0000

@ tim:

The integration of Outlook, BCM, and MOA has actually worked very well here at the Funcave. And with just a couple of changes (which are already part of the new release of Business Contacts for Smartphone) I’d put BCM for PPC back on the Treo.

By: donna shelton

donna shelton — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 01:08:19 +0000

The most Awesome product that can be used as a data base and phone dialer and loggs calls from cell, will make a call from pc thru cell when connected by usb. Sync to cell and log calls from cell and pc. caller id on pc and brings up caller to make notes on when the phone rings.
can you guess? Outloook 97, you just have to get all traces of other outlooks from your system and out of the registery. go to tools, option, then check the call/phone box. I have begged them for years to bring this back into outlook to no avail, so now I plan on telling everyone. It is the best Business Manager out there and it actually works.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:20:00 +0000

So Chris, Where is your promised workaround solution to the loss of Biz Contacts mobile? Are you like me and have tried Pocket Mirror Pro by Chapura or the Companionlink product? There are trade offs and it ain’t very pretty! MS has grown too large and lazy and their own competitive divisions within do not seem to coordinate the various releases very well…WM / Outlook / BCM, etc. Apps are cobbled together and pushed out the door without much thought about the end user experience. Don’t even get me started about the so-called, “integrated” Office Accounting app to BCM!

-THP

By: welcome to the funcave » Suddenly Seeking Business Contacts for Smart Phone

welcome to the funcave » Suddenly Seeking Business Contacts for Smart Phone — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 07:30:14 +0000

[...] timing for Microsoft, what with the recent shellacking put on its older brother, Business Contacts for Pocket PC, right here at the [...]

By: chris

chris — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:22:49 +0000

I’ll be posting my workaround solution to the loss of Biz Contacts Mobile in a day or so, so stay tuned.

By: Tim Barrett

Tim Barrett — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:18:44 +0000

What happened to “teh sexxay”? That blows dude, I was talking to a client today who’s interested in switching from Crackberry to WM6, and they need BCM (or at least public folders). What’s a geek to do?

By: techpoetry

techpoetry — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 05:05:40 +0000

I second that Chris For myself it’s been a tough run of it trying to figure out if a service call should be a meeting, task, business project, project task? Each service call seemed to be entered differently by different people at different times.

In light of the potential I once seen with customizing it for verticals – I’d have to say that the fact that Business Projects or Project Tasks related to Bus. Projects won’t sync to the mobile device is a major short comming for us and our customers.

Also since BCM Mobile is as you say read only and viewing history of 10 items max per contact/account (that’s like a week or less of current activities). Heck I can remember that (without BCM Mobile) Let me enter info on the fly! Let me enter time onsite right there on the phone! Oh and if just a couple of those custom fields were on the phone? And if it did all this OTA (Direct Push style) then it would be nice.

Here is to hoping MS listens and adds these things in the next release