Comments on: Daylite 3, a Complement to Any Mac Office

By: HK

HK — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:03:09 +0000

Is it worth it to spend the $150 and move from Entourage to Daylite3? Entourage seems to have all the functionality for 1 person that daylight has except the pipeline. Any comments from Entourage users? Thanks.

By: Alan

Alan — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 22:34:58 +0000

This is a very cumbersome program to learn and use, particularly if you are a one man shop without tech help. It is made for companies with multiple users. I have spent a lot of time trying to learn it, but things are counter-intuitive, and rarely simple. I miss ACT, which longer is made for the Mac.

By: Ec

Ec — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 01:24:54 +0000

I’ve been trying to ween my company off a IE-only CRM for awhile now. Majority of the office has switched to the Mac, but due to this annoying IE-only CRM they still “need” to boot Windows via Parallels (WinE/Crossover Office doesn’t work in this case, due to MSJava VM in IE that this CRM uses). I’d still like to ween them of it though - thats a 256MB RAM commitment just to access something they need at all times, a considerable chunk of memory from their 1GB systems. Right now I’m still in the research-phase for a replacement. I have looked at Daylite already, and its very promising. However 2 inherent problems spring up when switching to it:

1) Daylite is Mac-only (there are still 2 stubborn PC users).
2) No centralized web-server(to my knowledge). This is really important for the mobile/notebook users in the company. Some of them are out of the country at times, for perhaps weeks. That much “offline mode” separated from the going-on’s with the rest of the office is too much. A centralized online server that they can sync to is crucial (though I like the idea of having a network-based server, it would cut down on lag-times, or outages compared to the current CRM, but a online backup in conjunction with a network server would be perfect).

Right now, my current investigations have lead to a Filemaker Pro Server or heavily modified open-source CRM/CMS/Wiki-engine (both will be huge amounts of work). I like the idea of trying to tie in whatever the database content is, with the default Mac OS X apps (Mail, Address Book, iCal), which typically works good with iSync/Missing Sync mobiles. For the most part, the stubborn PC users could also benefit from such a system, since those apps are standards-compliant and Office 2007 now properly supports compatible formats, the data between the two platforms shouldn’t be an issue.

I really wish Apple would offer a “.Mac Server” thing for OS X Server. It would solve the problem of the Address Book syncing with online versions (unless I’m missing something).

By: HUSH

HUSH — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 22:30:37 +0000

Since when CRM stands for Contact’s Resource Management?

CRM stands for Customer Relationship Management, all major companies use it, like ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning).

sorry, but you don’t seem to have any idea…

By: schnelles lesen

schnelles lesen — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 21:28:29 +0000

Hi, Could you recomend me a CMS - Content management system, that works with MAC ? I would like to switch from Windows Machine to MAC, but I am working as a webaster - Beginner and can’t find a good CMS for MAC. Could You help me there ?
PS. I am not searching nothing like MAmbo, Joomla or Typo3. those systems are too complicated to me.
Thanx.
Chris-schnelles lesen

By: Kuswanto

Kuswanto — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 15:02:52 +0000

nice, i will look use the trial version. Perhaps will be using it for my office.

Thanks for sharing the news.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 21:32:59 +0000

DayLite is fantastic. It is very customizable if you want to do that. It is not hard to use but reading the user’s guide does help.

I am hoping with Leopard that the new DayLite will be able to:

1) Share information with Apple’s Address Book and iCal seamlessly (without manual syncing). I am hoping for a change in one or the other (AB /iCal / DayLite) with show the immediate same chane in the others.

By: Frank

Frank — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 20:14:04 +0000

I, too, dig DayLite. Two key features:

1. it’s networkable — you can set up a client-server model and share data office-wide
2. you san sync a local copy of the entire database to your laptop, so road-warrior salesman have access to their customer data everywhere, even if they don’t have internet access. this is a key advantage over web-based CRMs.

By: The Grammar Police

The Grammar Police — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 19:30:49 +0000

“Complement”, not “compliment”. Otherwise, nicely done.

By: Clark

Clark — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:34:13 +0000

Interesting. I may check this out.

BTW - your left margin is *way* too small. It makes your text very hard to read.

By: Gerald Buckley

Gerald Buckley — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:08:07 +0000

The integration with Apple’s Mail.app and iCal is super strong!

This is the best non-web based CRM app available on the Mac platform today.

Superbly executed!