Avidian is a CRM software vendor founded by James Wong and Tim Nguyen in Seattle, WA whose main product is Avidian Prophet. Prophet is a .net implementation of CRM that runs entirely within Microsoft Outlook.

Prophet uses identifiers in the mileage field of contacts in outlook to match contacts to extended information stored within the prophet software itself.

Avidian Prophet v2004

Prophet is an inexpensive Outlook based CRM system. While the actual code resembles Outlook, Prophet borrows lots of CRM functions from ACT 2000. Prophet is targeted at small and medium-sized organizations who need CRM functions without the typical complexity of configuring CRM. On the down side, it does not provide many of the popular features in ACT or Goldmine. Avidian also hired a number of affiliates to sell this product. However, they stopped paying commission for no reason. There are lots of complaints, including a lawsuit that threatens the continuing operations of the company.