CRM with Outlook: View important CRM Data directly in Outlook.
Published: February 19, 2025
Last update: July 6, 2026
Traditional customer management using Outlook quickly reaches its limits. While standard Outlook is suitable for basic email handling, it lacks key features for professional customer management: contacts remain isolated, email threads are difficult for others in the company to follow, and team collaboration is hindered. This is where the integration of Microsoft Outlook and Gedys’ CRM into Outlook CRM comes in.
Key Facts at a glance
Outlook CRM: A customer management system accessible directly from Outlook that links emails, contacts, appointments, and all customer-related activities across the entire company. The result is a 360° view of the customer for you and the entire company, without requiring you to change your usual workflow.
Gedys Business Mail Solution: Are you looking for a CRM system that integrates with Outlook? The “Business Mail” Outlook integration for Gedys CRM combines your usual workflow with professional CRM functionality directly within Microsoft Outlook.
Key Features
Automation: Email assignment to customer files, one-click contact creation, and automatic customer data capture
360° CRM with Gedys: Complete overview of senders, contact details, and customer files directly in your email inbox
Increased Efficiency: Familiar Outlook workflow with CRM power, team-wide access without the need to adapt
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What is an Outlook CRM?
An Outlook CRM integrates customer management directly into Microsoft Outlook. You can manage customer data, emails, and appointments all in one place, without having to switch between different programs. This solution is ideal for companies that rely heavily on Outlook and need immediate access to CRM.
The advantage: Your usual workflow combined with professional customer management program.
CRM 360° with Outlook
Simple and usable for everyone
You already have a full overview of the sender in Outlook, their contact details and customer file are displayed. You can create new addresses and contact persons in the CRM system with a single click.
Business Mail in Gedys CRM-Software provides all employees with a complete overview of your communication with your contacts to suppliers, interested parties and customers. In Sales, Marketing, Service & IT as well as in Purchasing, Research & Development, Work Preparation and Order Processing. This allows you to maintain customer relationships, both during order processing and when providing support afterwards.
Your Outlook now with integrated CRM file
How it works
Business Mail integrates the CRM file into your Outlook client. The Outlook-CRM integration ensures seamless workflows: You can see right from your inbox whether the sender is listed in your CRM system. All contact details and current activities are displayed and can be opened with a single click. This keeps you fully informed at unprecedented speed. With a single click, you can automatically add the new email to the CRM customer file. Your team won’t miss a thing.
Customer management is a breeze with Outlook
CRM with Outlook
Is the email sender not yet in the CRM system? With just one click, the Business Mail Outlook plugin extracts all key sender information from the email and suggests a company record with a contact person. A quick glance is all it takes to create new contacts; with another click, you can assign the new email and save yourself a lot of typing. No other system offers this level of integration.
CRM with Outlook: Key Benefits at a Glance
Business Mail transforms your standard Outlook into a professional CRM hub:
- Automatic email assignment – All messages are automatically assigned to the correct customer file.
- One-click contact creation – New contacts are created directly from received emails.
- Complete customer history – All CRM interactions are visible at a glance in Outlook.
- Team-wide access – Important customer information is available to all employees.
- Familiar workflow – Continue working in Outlook, but with CRM power.
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