One of the area that is of interest to a number of teams is how to effectively share contact information among the team members. This is also particularly a challenge for small or medium sized organizations that are working in distributed environments. One way to do that is Groove, (now part of Microsoft). However, Groove by itself does not do enough in this area.

I have been working with the team at Dicodemy (www.dicodemy.net) where there is now a solid application for sharing contact information, company profiles, tracking sales opportunities, having a team calendar and sharing follow up action items. The team has built a windows application that integrates with Groove using Groove Web Services (GWS) to enable you to easily share securely information among the team members.

With the application GForce.CRM and Groove every team member has local access to all the key information on their PC, and at the same time it is being kept in sync with all the other team members. This makes it very easy for me to work when and where I need with my key information always available to me, while keeping the rest of the team up to date on what is going on.