Hi there:
I'm very much a newbie, so please have patience if I'm missing something easy.
The company I work for owns Maximizer, but hasn't progressed much past setup and config issues. We have only five employees, all of whom connect remotely. We have also had one of our clients start using Maximizer for their own business (in fact, they're ahead of us based on how well they use it), which is real estate. Currently my company and the client company are sharing the same central address book, segregated by security groups.
Now, our company plans to have other clients ultimately use Maximizer as well for their own businesses. (FYI, we are in the business of helping companies improve their business practices in a number of ways)
My thought is, there should be separate address books here. Our company has its own set of contacts (which includes this client), and the client has lots of contacts of its own (which includes our company's employees). Having all these unrelated business activities and contacts lumped together just makes no sense to me, particularly as we encourage more clients to use the software as well. Each of these are totally separate businesses in separate industries.
I hope I'm making myself clear.
Is there something I'm missing here? We can administer each of these address books on the same server, and we can log into each of the clients' address books (with their permission, per our contract with them). As long as each user is licensed properly, there are no issues with multiple address books, are there?
I would like to know if any of you agree or disagree with my idea to run separate address books. Are there pros or cons I haven't considered? I don't want to put this recommendation forward until I'm sure it's a fairly solid idea.
Thanks,
Robin
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