With its ability to maintain contact histories and manage databases, as well as its customizability, Commence could serve as a basic groupware solution for small to medium-size businesses. Commence offers so much that you could almost make a career out of using it.
Inadequate documentation makes learning it even harder.
Commence can link several people with a single company, or vice versa. This ability to link contacts and organizations in almost any way placed Commence among the best of the information managers we tested. You can create general databases in Commence to track almost anything, but setting them up can be a complex process. The program's interface lacks the polish of interfaces of such programs as Sidekick 97 or Day-Timer Organizer 2.1. Commence offers no icon for graphical calendars and clocks to indicate that these are available.