Hopefully, our dreams will be realized soon… As of now, I have my contact management spread around about 5 different apps and it drives me crazy with confusion and lost data.
Wes

I don’t know what is happening at each of the respective applications development teams but it seems that they are all slow to the game.

The one that really bugs me is Google. It just doesn’t make sense that I can’t integrate GCal and my Gmail contacts in a meaningful way. I should be able to also store more data about my contacts, have a record of my contact activity and in GCal be able to mark activities completed so that they show as held, not held and etc.

Google wants to have people to use Google Apps for your domain but what good is it if you still need to have your desktop counterparts or some other hosted application. I don’t really need online spreadsheets but online contact management and relationship software. GCal and Gmail work as if the other didn’t exist. This is crazy. I know that Google is huge and the teams for each are like seperate companies but their should be a visionary at Google who can stitch it all together.

I mentioned in my post that I gave up on SugarCRM and I have considered switching back but it is so painfully slow since it doesn’t have fast enough interface and addons are so very commercially focused that it is not worth another (3rd look).

I have recently started playing with Stikkits and it seems to be very promising but again the integration is not there and the developer community is nearly non-existent so it doesn’t matter that they have tremendous API documentation. I don’t have time to work on all my projects let alone “building” an application interface.

I’m going to add your RSS feed to my feedreader and keep an eye on what your further thoughts are on the subject. I think we are both in the same spot at the moment, badly in need of decent contact mgmt that integrates with Google and/or 37Signals. I really hope for a Google solution , which would be the clincher for their Apps for Domain offering. Think how popular it would become!

Wes