My internet dept is full of mac users. The idea of not being tied to our company's antiquated network and computers and using an iPad 3G to access our CRM is extremely appealing. The problem is that right now our lousy CRM, not to be mentioned (hint: it starts with a d and our nickname for it rhymes with "ealersuckit") doesn't even support any browser other than Windows IE, let alone Macs and certainly not iPad or iPhone.
Is any one of these companies "with it" enough to recognize that this could be a valuable feature to add to their CRMs? The amount of time I could save as internet director if my system supported macs (right now, I have to use VMWare or Parallels and IE to even access the site), and especially my iPhone and iPad is enormous.
It stuns me how far behind the times CRM software seems to be. Granted, I've only used three systems, iMagicLab (over two years ago), Autobase (don't even get me started on that Windows 95-esque nonsense) and our current system which is apparently written by monkeys to run on antiquated browsers. Internet Explorer is losing market share by millions of users a year. Why am I still tied to Internet Explorer... or a PC?
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Is any one of these companies "with it" enough to recognize that this could be a valuable feature to add to their CRMs? The amount of time I could save as internet director if my system supported macs (right now, I have to use VMWare or Parallels and IE to even access the site), and especially my iPhone and iPad is enormous.
It stuns me how far behind the times CRM software seems to be. Granted, I've only used three systems, iMagicLab (over two years ago), Autobase (don't even get me started on that Windows 95-esque nonsense) and our current system which is apparently written by monkeys to run on antiquated browsers. Internet Explorer is losing market share by millions of users a year. Why am I still tied to Internet Explorer... or a PC?
Rant over
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