Alternative Results
If you are thinking it is beneficial to start get end user smartphone address books updated, there are a few ways to achieve this:
| Alternative | Alternative Results | Alternative Price |
| 1 | Do Nothing | Ask users to be more diligent about updating their contacts | Productivity loss $200/smartphone user per year |
| Someone else | Partial solution. Get EA to update contacts for all VIP’s | EA’s time, about 30 minutes per exec per month |
| 2 | Drag and Drop | Depends on user compliance, Slow process. Can be done incorrectly making things worse | Employee staff time. Additional IT staff time to fix |
| Share Mailbox | Hard to manage, not scalable, anyone can change master contact list. Bad for BYOD – can’t disconnect separated employees | A few minutes to setup each user, fix accidental changes to master, daily prayer time to ask god so you won’t need to reset password |
| 3 | In house script | Costly to develop, maintain, modify, diagnose. Inefficient use of Bandwidth | 50 to 100 hours developer time depending on requirements |
Or, you can use CiraSync on Microsoft Office 365. Setup takes minutes and you can centrally manage contacts for all of users from a single dashboard.
Anyone that tries it immediately gets that it is way better, saves an immense amount of time and to boot – it’s cheaper.
If you are in Information Technology and you want to give every cost-saving benefit possible to your end users, this solution is for you.
