software question

[wendyzski]

Yeah - bit surprise to no one that some of the software my current employer uses is woefully outdated and inadequate.

Any of you who work with databases - can you suggest or recommend something that can do most of the following:

• Track multiple subgroups (partnerships) with percentages of ownership of each


• Have multiple contact addresses for each member - possibly able to set which address by dates.


• Allow members to select a favored method of contact (fax, mail, e-mail)


• Allows export of lists to MS office products


• Allows multiple members to be associated with a company/project and to be able to search by group as well as individual.


• An individual can be a member of multiple subgroups (partnerships, committees)

I know that there are products out there that do this - I came in midway through the search for something similar at the National Brownfield Association. But I can't remember any of them

Comments

[rileybear67.livejournal.com]

Is it a bad thing that when friends ask questions like this, I almost immediately start coding the thing in my head?

Sorry, ready made packages - no clue.
However with even a MS-Access database, something like that would be fairly easy to build, including a user interface.

[wendyzski.livejournal.com]

Right now we're using a 10-yr-old run-time version of Access, which has limited fields (no room for e-mail) that pops up random errors. I cannot get one address corrected! It's correct when you pull up the address but when you print labels the apartment number is wrong.

[rileybear67.livejournal.com]

Sounds like someone did a pretty half-assed job on creating that then.

Again, sorry, no packages come to mind.
*I'll shoot myself later* If ya'll need someone to look at it, let me know.