I downloaded customersoft to review it.  Just want people to know it is available to look at in my office.  It is a detailed record keeping system - where you can
share single client records from various databases.  The company comes in to set it up.  Expensive? I have no way to judge except by my pocketbook. Rich Schultz at
303-784-9059 is the contact person.  I'd be interested to know if any one has reviewed it.
Michael Snyder

"Bess L. Oland" wrote:

> I spoke with Keith Slaydon from Cornell. They have <> 200 faculty and staff
> members that they support using Footprints installed on a Windows NT box.
> They have 8 people in the IT department to support the 200 people (they do
> NOT provide direct support to students). All 8 people are users of
> Footprints. They enter <> 10 problems per day and have a database of 3000+
> entries. At present ALL requests come through the helpline although he is
> thinking of making a special WWW page to allow the 200 people to enter
> their own requests.
>
> They have found Footprints VERY customizable. Problems of high priority are
> even automatically contacting the pagers of support people. He is very
> confident that it can grow to meet their needs.
>
> They have been using this product for 3 years and have had one catastrophic
> failure of the NT box due to a memory leak. He explains that Footprints was
> the victim of the failure NOT the cause. The tech support people at
> UniPress ftp'ed the corrupted files and worked with Keith to rebuild the
> database. He listed schemas, project databases and definition files as ones
> that are most valuable in the rebuilding process.
>
> He explained that Footprints 4.0 can use LDAP data directly and would NOT
> require importing. He uses the reporting capabilities to monitor problems
> as do a number of administrators who help track unresolved problems. His
> tech support people needed almost no training and again was strong in his
> praise for the clarity and flexibility of the system. He has found that his
> suggestions to UniPress sometimes become features in the next release and
> recommended that we include annual maintenance contracts.
>
> Once the system was set up he claims that there is VERY little care and
> feeding (apart from customized forms and special reports). He said that the
> UniPress support is excellent in guiding people through any needed work.
>
> He would purchase it again if they were buying it now.
>
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>
> Cynthia is Director of CIT-Client Services au Oberlin College. CIT there
> has <> 35 people supporting 4,000 users. They have <> 25 student helpdesk
> workers in addition to their full time staff. The have had Footprints
> installed for 1 month on a SUN system. They are planning to gear up for a
> fall start to full production.
>
> She has found the product almost too good to be true! They have made modest
> customizations to the product and said that when they called for help with
> an issue needing to add a new search field, they were helped right away and
> had the problem solved in 15 minutes.
>
> They imported all their existing Problem records from FileMaker Pro without
> a problem and the Address Book was filled from an export from their
> Administrative system.
>
> She hopes to develop multiple Projects including Helpline, Residential
> computing services, Networking, Training requests, A-V requests, ...
>
> Back office consultants are planning on getting notification of problems
> via e-mail. They are going to use Footprints as an asset manager when that
> component is developed by UniPress this fall. DSV==> We might want to ask
> that this be included as part of our purchase.
>
> Ms Murnan was very enthusiastic about the product and said that she could
> not imagine us going wrong by buying this product for the current price.
> She says it is a GREAT value.
>
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