| Networker Unplugged February 1999 issue: Fast Company |
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Scores stacks of business cards at every conference but fails to leverage them later, because his pocket organizer is out of date. More often than not, it seems, the software used in pocket electronic organizers and personal digital assistants is out of sync with the contact-management and calendar software that people use on their desktop machines. True, some of the personal-information-management ( PIM ) software that runs on standard desktop computers does synchronize easily with certain portable devices. But that is the exception, not the rule. Intellisync, from [Pumatech], offers a one-stop solution to that problem. It coordinates your contact lists and schedule information, and it works with just about any program and with most handheld computing devices. The basic version of Intellisync runs on all flavors of Windows. Other versions work with palm-size PCs; with the PalmPilot; and with electronic organizers from Texas Instruments and Sharp. And Intellisync will probably support whatever PIM software you use at the office. Intellisync is an especially good solution for companies in which every employee insists on using a different pocket organizer. [Pumatech's] Intellisync Gold software ( available on a site-license basis ) can handle a stubborn mobile workforce by supporting various handheld computers and by synchronizing them all with corporate-wide contact-management software, such as Lotus Notes or Novell GroupWise. | |