Fwd: Vantage 8 upgrade from 6.1 and various questions

--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, "Judy Havlik" <judy.havlik@...> wrote:

****I know it's Friday, but I do hope a few of you more experienced
users can take a minute or two to help us by responding to my
message. It would be so helpful, probably not only to our company
but to other less than Vantage 8 users as well****

Our management is in the process of making some decisions regarding
our ERP environment and the evenutal Vantage 8 (is it .03 or .04 now)
upgrade.

Is there a writing anyone has done and perhaps uploaded on the Group
(or that you can send to me) regarding issues, comparisons...
anything?

Further, there are some specific questions that maybe someone can
help provide answers to:

1. What are the most significant improvements from 6.1 to 8 from the
user's standpoint?

2. Does anyone use any 3rd party company that offers good, solid
reporting from Vantage?

3. Are there more useful reports associated with 8 than there were
in previous versions? Do you just prepare your own reports with
Crystal?

4. My boss has read about Dashboards in 8...are they easy to use and
what advantages do they offer?

5. Has CRM improved in 8...and if not, what CRM packages are others
using?

6. Does anyone have any experience with Microsoft's CRM?

7. Is the current Version of 8 relatively stable now?

Forgive me...I used the Advanced search on the Group and was able to
get answers to many of their other questions but these particular
searches were not successful.

Thanks so much if you can provide some information.

Sincerely,
Judy Havlik
Plitek, L.L.C.
judy.havlik@...