Best Software Delivers More Insights To Its Partners
(As Well As To The Market)
Part Five: Challenges and User Recommendations
P.J. Jakovljevic - July 29, 2003

Challenges

The downside, as usual, is the painstaking integration effort yet to be devised for a number of remaining products in the Sage/Best family and to be subsequently exerted, as there is always a large time bracket from concept to actual materialization. The number of distinct code bases is still sizable, making the task of providing clear migration paths between these quite arduous, as it can be witnessed by this analyst who had a time of making sense thorough the maze of above-mentioned product announcements. The mitigating factor for impending integration is the fact that Best CRM Solutions' progenitor, the former Interact Commerce, had long formed product alliances, some of which had been with its future accounting siblings like the MAS product lines, so the intra-Best Software integration task did not start from scratch...