TeleMagic Upgrades and New Licenses are still available from Sage Best Software. Support and R&D from Best are the only things that have been discontinued. TeleMagic resellers are still supporting and developing new application based on TeleMagic's Customizable Technology.
For many applications, TeleMagic 5 still provides the best value (Bang for the Buck) for a totally customizable contact centered database. It's a totally different thing to work with software that is designed to adapt to your changing needs, vs trying to fit your process into someone elses idea of how it should work.
Supporting TeleMagic for 20 years
Written by Steve Heising
May 01, 2005 at 05:28 PM
Steve Heising, MBA Marketing Center Associates P.O. Box 18432 Boulder, CO 80038-1432 303-581-9296
Putting TeleMagic and the Internet to work for sustainability. TeleMagician since version 8.3b in 1986. More than 300 installations and counting. Custom Databases, Imports and Exports. Email and Web services, USA.NET CMS e-mail and hosted Microsoft Exchange services since 1997. Information Systems Consultant - Work group databases, strategy and tactics for successful IS implementation. Setup and support for in house and outsourced solutions, TeleMagic, TeleMagic Online, GoGlobal, Terminal Services. Moving forward, I would like to be able to help more companies with Green and Sustainable products invent new and sustainable ways to do business.
BioTech Startup through Venture Capital: 1981-1989 - 8 years with Evans BioControl Company. Startup though 8.5 million in venture capital, 0 to 60 employees and 0 - 3 facilities. Sales Rep, Greenhouse Manager, Marketing Director, Vice President. Although the venture capital funded adventure ultimately failed, (and I can tell you about three business principles that were overlooked or ignored, and why we failed), three biological control products and techniques we pioneered; parasitic wasps for control of flies in feedlots and daries, protozoan pathogens for controlling grasshoppers, and entomogenous nematodes for suppressing hydroponic greenhouse pests are in common use today. Created new database applications and setup and adapted my first TeleMagic contact database for this highly seasonal adventure.
Computer Related Employment: 1989-2006 - 17th year of self-employment providing database and internet information services. TeleMagic, Act, GoldMine, USA.NET, UCN In-Contact, PeakWebHosting, and several other products and services over the years. While it doesn't usually work right the first time we try something new (as in a new release), it usually works right in the end. If there is a bug in a new version of software, I can find it, and then usually quickly find a workaround. I've given up supporting the other popular legacy products Act! and Goldmine (less flexible and less robust) and currently support custom TeleMagic and TeleMagic database applications, small networks, email and web based solutions.
Now that TeleMagic has officially been "Sunsetted" by the powers that own it, it is proving to be pretty hard to kill it. Many users are just now figuring out how to use all the stuff that is in there. We 've even had some users switch to brand x and then switch back. New seats and upgrades are still being sold and registered daily. Best Software is continuing to sell and register new licenses for new and upgrade users. End user support continues to be handled by the 100 or so successful resellers who support thousands of users over the 20-year-old client base.
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