Sage ACT! 2009

The #1 selling contact and customer manager for over 20 years, ACT! by Sage 2009 (11.0) helps individuals and small business owners work more effectively. Easily access a complete, integrated view of your contact relationships, impress contacts with your follow-up, leave no task undone, and make informed decisions to advance your business.

A simple but powerful contact management system, ACT! by Sage 2009 centralises your contact information, organises your diary, tracks sales leads and can organise marketing campaigns. In short, it's a vital member of your sales and marketing team.

Happy customers are the key to business growth. And with ACT! by Sage 2009, you'll learn how to keep your current customers on your side, and ensure that you’ll never miss a new opportunity.

ACT! by Sage 2009 is perfect for small and medium-sized businesses that want to:

• Manage customer relationships
• Effectively target sales
• Track marketing activity performance
• Organise diary and tasks
• Gain a complete view of their customers

Your business life is hectic. Meeting deadlines and handling all the necessary details are urgent priorities for you.

We understand. ACT! was created for people like you who must manage a growing business and associated business relationships. You need more than a paper-based method, spreadsheet, or e-mail system where you spend too much time looking for scattered information.

Choose ACT! and provide superior service to your prospects, customers, or anyone you contact regularly because you have a complete, integrated view of your relationships-- all in one easy-to-access location. Impress contacts with your follow-up, leave no task undone, and make informed decisions so you can successfully advance your business.

What's New in ACT! by Sage 2009 (11.0)?

• Attach multiple emails
  Select a number of Microsoft® Outlook® emails from different senders and attach them quickly to ACT! contacts
  
• Activity scheduling from emails
  Create ACT! activities within Outlook emails and the contact and regarding/subject line is pre-populated
  
• One-click calendar copy
  Copy an ACT! calendar to an Outlook calendar quickly from the main ACT! toolbar
  
• Simplified lookups
  Search by only part of a name or title; switch between contact, group or company to modify a search without starting over; advanced queries from main lookup toolbar carry previous searches over for refining
  
• Fast access to previous contact lookups 
  View the last several contact lookups by type, date, timestamp, and number of contacts in a query
  
• Calendar filters applied on printouts
  Print an ACT! calendar with selected users, type, priority, and date range applied
  
• Automated tasks
  Automate calendar copying, database backups and maintenance from ACT! Scheduler (previously only available in ACT! Premium)
  
• Streamlined sync progress bar
  See progress of database synchronisation by steps and time remaining

FEATURES:

• Keep your relationship details in one place for a complete, integrated view:
Centrally organize your important relationship details so you can quickly access information you need, instead of relying on written Post-it Notes, multiple Excel spreadsheets, or worse--your memory. Populate 60+ pre-defined fields for your prospects and customers, including Contact, Company, Phone, Address, Web site, E-mail, and ID/Status, or add your own. For each contact you keep in ACT!, enter Activities, Opportunities, History, Notes, Documents, Secondary Contacts, and more. If this data exists in another system, simply import it to keep everything in ACT!. Because all the details are in ACT!, you impress contacts with your knowledge about their unique circumstances and strengthen your relationships.

• Find the exact information you need instantly when that important call comes in:
With multiple search options available, including lookups and advanced queries, it's easy to find data. For instance, search for all contacts in Arizona or build more advanced searches such as all contacts in Arizona marked as leads. Use right-click functionality on all fields to perform a search from that location and on that entity. And get back to any search you conducted previously by viewing the last several contact lookups. With so many options available to you, you get the exact information you need, without delay.

• Stay on top of your daily responsibilities so tasks don’t slip through the cracks:
• Manage and tie all activities to associated contacts in ACT!.
• Integrate your ACT! and Microsoft® Outlook calendars for up-to-date schedules in both places.

• Manage your leads from first interaction through close, ensuring no sales opportunity is lost:
• Use the ACT! sales process or a process you customize to manage leads.
• Track products on each sales opportunity and specify product discounts and costs.

• Gain insight into the performance of your business for more informed decision making:
• Get a comprehensive summary view of your top priorities and sales opportunities using the Dashboard.
• Run one of 40 preformatted report templates or create your own.

• Communicate consistently and successfully so you are always top of mind with your contacts:
If you work in Outlook, integrate ACT! with Outlook e-mail for sending and receiving all communications. Or, utilize the ACT! E-mail Client by itself or integrated with Lotus Notes or Outlook Express. However you prefer it, integrating ACT! with your current e-mail solution enables you to work the way you are most accustomed, but also track vital information in ACT! for easy referencing later. The date of the last e-mail you send will appear on the main Contact Detail view to ensure you are reaching out to your contacts with the appropriate frequency. Rely on ACT! to help you track all your communications, no matter which e-mail option you choose.

• Easily Customize ACT! to Fit Your Unique Business Requirements
Requirements Tailor ACT! to capture the data you require. Using the ACT! Layout Designer, add fields and tabs and designate field types (including Date, Currency, Yes/No, Expansive Memo, and Picture) with simple point-and-click technology. Customize ACT! to fit the look of your business by changing layout colors and inserting your logo. Because ACT! can be so highly customized, it is an effective solution for anyone who regularly works with contacts, no matter what industry, as it allows you to track the most basic contact details or complex, specialized information.

• Remotely access relationship details along with your schedule, for the information you need, when and where you need it.

• Integrate ACT! with the applications you use every day including Microsoft Office and popular accounting solutions, to work the way in which you are accustomed.

System Requirements:

• An IBM compatible computer with a 1.8 GHz (or equivalent processor)
• Minimum 600 MHz Pentium III processor (or equivalent)
• 1GB RAM
• 1GB of free disk space;
• 32 Bit versions of Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008
• 64 Bit versions of Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008

Notes:

• Network Users only: 1Gbps network cards and switches with Microsoft Windows networking
• Works with Microsoft Office 2002/XP and all later Editions
• Concurrent User Limits: Windows XP Home and Vista Home Basic 5 users, Windows XP Professional and Windows Vista Home Premium, Business, Enterprise or Ultimate 10 users

ADDITIONAL SOFTWARE:

• Microsoft Outlook 2002, 2003, and 2007 (SP3 recommended for Outlook 2002/2003)
• Microsoft Outlook Express 6.0 SP2
• Lotus Notes 6.5, 7.0.2, and 8.0
• Eudora 5.2
• Internet Mail SMTP/POP3
• Microsoft Office 2002, 2003, and 2007 (SP3 recommended for Office 2002/2003)
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and 7.0
• Adobe Reader 6.0, 7.0, and 8.0
• VMWare Workstation 5.0, 5.5, and 6.0; VMWare Server 1.0.1

Palm OS Minimum Device Requirements:

• Palm OS 3.5-5.4
• Minimum 33 MHz or higher processor
• Minimum 8 MB or higher memory
• Minimum 500K free memory plus 1K for each contact
• HotSync Manager 3.5 and 4.1.0

Pocket PC Minimum Device Requirements:

• Pocket PC 2000/2002/Phone Edition (Windows CE 3.0); Windows Mobile 2003 (Windows CE 4.0 and 4.20.0); Windows Mobile 2005/5.0
• Minimum 133 MHz or higher processor
• Minimum 16 MB or higher memory
• Minimum 500K free memory plus 1K for each contact
• Microsoft ActiveSync versions 3.5 - 4.5 (XP operating systems only)
• Windows Mobile Device Center (Vista operating systems only)

Important note: In a networked environment, ACT! by Sage 2009 has a maximum of 10 users. If you require more users you must purchase ACT! by Sage Premium 2009. A copy of these system requirements can also be found by clicking on this link.

Product information is advisory only. Specifications and compatibility should be checked with the manufacturer before order. Images are for illustrative purposes only.