For awhile, I was considered designing a CRM application for the Mac as my next software release. Well, it’s a good thing I haven’t invested any time into it yet, because these guys beat me to it, and their app’s functionality is almost exactly what I had in mind. The application is called Crm4Mac, and it’s released by a small European company called ibizzi. Basically, it keeps all of your contacts, calendars, and mail within the standard Apple apps (Address Book, iCal, and Mail.app), but it provides a way for you to relate items with each other. This way, you can use all the standard iSync and .Mac backup and sharing utilities without having to duplicate the data in a CRM application. You can also attach documents to any contact or group. Overall, it looks pretty cool.

Today they released 1.0b8, and according to their website, they expect to finish 1.0 sometime this month.