ACT! 2010 by Sage

ACT! 2010 by Sage 

If developing long-lasting, profitable business relationships is essential to your success, then ACT! is right for you. It helps keep new customer referrals coming in and existing customers coming back. And because ACT! is easy to learn and use, you can be more productive right away.

Product Features: 

In a weaker economy, it’s tempting to "wait it out," but consider the cost of doing nothing. ACT! helps you grow your business by attracting new customers and getting more from existing relationships.

• Individuals and Teams of up to 10
• Mobile Access
• Standard Security


• Organize all the details of your customer relationships. Strong business relationships are essential to your success. Get a complete view of the people you do business with, plus instant access to past interactions and e-mails sent. Next time a customer calls, you’re prepared with a response about what you discussed last time, as well as personal details to set your business apart.
  
  
• Generate actionable demand with end-to-end E-marketing1. Not only can you create and send striking e-mail and drip marketing campaigns using a simple online editor, you’ll also be able to quickly identify your most interested prospects using a ranked call list so you know who to reach out to first.
  
  
• Take action on your most qualified sales leads. Focus on your most viable leads by capturing and managing each lead through the sales process. Record detailed progress notes, include your products and services, and see the probability of close. This gives you total visibility and control of your sales pipeline.
  
  
• Be more productive right away. Don't worry about a learning curve. ACT! is easy to learn and use. In fact, you can be 25%2 more productive by simply choosing ACT! over the competition.
  
  
• Integrate with your existing business solutions. Take full advantage of the familiar solutions you've already invested in. Integrate ACT! with your e-mail, calendar, and more than 10 popular business solutions, including Outlook®, Word, Excel®, and Lotus Notes®.
  
  

ACT! is more powerful and effective than e-mail and spreadsheet solutions, but easier to use, quicker to get up and running, and less costly and complex than a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution. 



• Manage relationships by keeping everything—phone numbers, e-mails, conversation notes, meeting and activity history, documents, social media profiles, and more—in ACT!.
  
  
• Search and instantly access the exact customer relationship details you need using the most basic keyword search to a more advanced field search.
  
  
• Be more productive by scheduling and tracking meetings and activities. Tasks roll over if not complete, can be cleared, and appear as history with your customer relationship details.
  
  
• Market effectively using ACT! E-marketing1 to create and send e-mail and drip marketing campaigns, track open and click-through rates, and manage opt-outs.
  
  
• Sell more by tracking each sales lead through the sales process where you can capture detailed progress notes, include your products and services, and see the probability of close.
  
  
• Measure results using 50+ reports and dashboards, or for deeper analysis, send most reports to Microsoft® Excel® and use connections to third-party report writers.
  
  
• Share and secure relationship details across your business with data-sharing options for teams of multiple sizes, and set security by employee profile and customer information.
  
  
• Personalize ACT! to fit the way you run your business by designing views, adding fields and tabs, editing drop-downs, and customizing templates.
  
  
• Access ACT! from anywhere with Windows® and Web2 options, plus from your BlackBerry®3 or iPhone™3.
  
  
• Integrate with your existing solutions, including Microsoft Outlook®, Word, Excel, and Lotus Notes®—over 10 business solutions in all.
  
  
• Administer and maintain using Silent Install4,5 administration and activation, and take advantage of automatic backup, maintenance, and synchronization options.
1 Requires additional subscription.
2 This feature is only available in ACT! Corporate Edition.
3 Requires additional purchase.
4 Delivered as an MSI package. Software to distribute an MSI package is not included. Silent Activation on machines requires Internet access. Users must be machine administrators in order to activate.
5 This feature is only available in ACT! Premium and ACT! Corporate Edition.

Requirements 

• 1 GB available hard disk space
• DVD drive
• SVGA (800x600) or higher resolution monitor, recommended resolution is 1024x768
  
  
Processer speed for Windows® XP
• 600 MHz Pentium® III processor (or equivalent)
• 512 MB system memory (1 GB recommended)
  
  
Processer speed for Windows Vista®
• 1.8 GHz Pentium IV processor (or equivalent)
• 1 GB system memory
  
  
Works With
• Microsoft® Outlook® XP, 2003, and 2007 (SP3 recommended for Outlook XP and 2003)
• Microsoft Outlook Express 6.0 SP21
• Lotus Notes® 6.5, 7.0.2, and 8.0
• Eudora® 5.2
• Internet Mail SMTP/POP3
• Microsoft Office XP, 2003, and 2007 (SP3 recommended for Office XP and 2003 and SP2 recommended for Office 2007)
• Microsoft Internet Explorer® 6.0, 7.0,2, and 8.0
• Adobe Reader® 6.0, 7.0
• VMware® Workstation 5.x and 6.x; VMware Fusion, VMware Server 1.x, 2.x
• Citrix® using Presentation Server 3.0, 4.0 or 4.5
• Parallels Desktop for Macintosh® 4.0, and Parallels Workstation 2.2 for Windows
• Sun Virtual Box 2.x

Devices that Sync with ACT! by Sage 2010 Minimum System Requirements: 

ACT! Link for Palm OS®
• Palm OS 3.5-5.4
• 33 MHz device processor
• 8 MB system memory; 500 KB free plus 1 KB for each contact
• Palm® HotSync® Manager 3.5-4.1.0 (4.1.0 recommended for -Windows XP, included with Palm Desktop 4.1.4e) and 7.0.2 (included with Palm Desktop 6.2)3


ACT! Link for Pocket PC
• Pocket PC 2000, 2002 and Phone Edition (Windows CE 3.0)
• Windows Mobile® 2003 (Windows CE 4.0 and 4.20.0)
• Windows Mobile 2005, 5.0 and 6.0
• 133 MHz device processor
• 16 MB system memory; 500 KB free plus 1 KB for each contact
• Microsoft ActiveSync® 3.5-4.5 (4.5 recommended for Windows XP)
• Microsoft Windows Mobile Device Center 6.1

Operating System Compatibilities: 

Client
Windows® XP SP34 (32-bit only)
• Home
• Professional
• Media Center 2004
• Media Center 2005
  
  
Windows Server® 2003 SP2 (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Standard Edition
• Enterprise Edition
• Small Business Server
  
  
Windows Vista®5 SP1 (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Home Basic
• Home Premium
• Business
• Enterprise
• Ultimate
  
  
Windows® 7 (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Home Premium
• Professional
• Ultimate
• Enterprise
  
  
Windows Server 20086 SP1 (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Standard Edition
• Enterprise Edition
• Small Business Server
  
  
Windows Server 2008 R2
• Standard Edition
• Enterprise Edition
• Datacenter Edition
  
  
Database Server: Microsoft SQL Server® 2005 Express SP3 Windows XP SP3 (32-bit only)
• Home
• Professional
• Media Center 2004
• Media Center 2005
  
  
Windows Server 2003 SP2 (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Standard Edition
• Enterprise Edition
• Small Business Server
  
  
Windows Vista (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Home Basic
• Home Premium
• Business
• Enterprise
• Ultimate
  
  
Windows® 7 (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Home Premium
• Professional
• Ultimate
• Enterprise
  
  
Windows Server 2008 SP1 (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Standard Edition
• Enterprise Edition
• Small Business Server (64-bit only)
  
  
Windows Server 2008 R2
• Standard Edition
• Enterprise Edition
• Datacenter Edition
  
  

ACT! Link for Palm OS Requirements: 

Windows XP SP3 (32-bit only)
• Home
• Professional
• Media Center 2004
• Media Center 2005
  
  
Windows Vista SP1 (32-bit only7)
• Home Basic
• Home Premium
• Business
• Enterprise
• Ultimate
  
  
Windows® 7 (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Home Premium
• Professional
• Ultimate
• Enterprise
  
  

ACT! Link for Pocket PC Requirements 

Windows XP SP38 (32-bit only)
• Home
• Professional
• Media Center 2004
• Media Center 2005
  
  
Windows Vista9 SP1 (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Home Basic
• Home Premium
• Business
• Enterprise
• Ultimate
  
  
Windows® 7 (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Home Premium
• Professional
• Ultimate
• Enterprise