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Brand: Sage EAN: 0040689004708 Format: CD-ROM Item Dimensions: Label: Sage Software Manufacturer: Sage Software Model: ACTS2006RT MPN: acts2006rt Platform: Windows 2003 Server, Windows XP, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2000 Publisher: Sage Software Release Date: September 12, 2005 Studio: Sage Software Features:
Accessories: Editorial Review: Product Description: ACT! 2006 enables you to instantly access key contact and customer information, manage and prioritize activities, and track all contact-related communications so you can grow productive business relationships. With ACT!, you can generate reports for a complete view of customer interactions and improve your bottom line by forecasting and tracking customer opportunities. Access and report on information quickly for a complete view of customer interactions Stay productive by taking critical information on the go Amazon.com Product Description: ACT!, from Sage, has been known as the software program for contact and customer information management. The new ACT! 2006 builds on its past successes of providing a central customer database to track contact details, notes, history, appointments, to-do lists, documents, and new opportunities, and adds more features and better integration with Microsoft Office, Lotus notes, and handheld devices.
With all your contact information in one place you can more easily track key customer data. Each customer record includes over 60 pre-defined fields, including Name, Company, Phone, Address, Website, Email, Last Meeting Date, ID/Status, and other customizable fields depending on your specific needs. When you create company records you can view a compiled history with notes and opportunities related to each contact at that company. The Groups feature lets you communicate and schedule with related contacts. The notes and other entries you create can be customized using Rich Text Formatting (FTF) so you can add color, links, bullets, graphics, and more. You can also customize layouts by changing colors, adding logos and moving fields so that each record displays the most important information to you in a way that's clear to you. One of ACT!'s greatest strengths is its ability to help you stay in touch with growing business relationships. With it you can track customer correspondences and view a history of all communications with that company or organization. Act! also supplies pre-formatted templates for emails, letters, memos and faxes so that you don't need to fuss with the details or start from scratch each time. Perform a mail merge by selecting a group of contacts to send one email or letter, and a history of the correspondence is then automatically generated for each contact. If you choose, you can use the ACT! E-mail Client to create, send and track e-mail, or use your existing client, as ACT! has seamless integration with Outlook, Outlook Express and Lotus Notes.
ACT! helps you prioritize work so that you never lose out on opportunities or forget to follow up with a contact. With ACT! you can easily schedule calls, meetings, and to-dos, or filter these actions by priority, date range, or user. The calendar can be viewed by day, week or month, giving you specific actions for each day or a broader view to plan out an entire month. If you mouse over any activity in the calendar, you'll see a pop-up window with an "at-a-glance" view. Additionally, Activity Alarms will help you stay on top of action items, and incomplete activities will roll over to the next day until they are checked off. ACT! and Outlook calendars can even be synchronized so that you can still schedule appointments with those who don't use ACT!. ACT! doesn't just let you plan for today: you can also use it to forecast for tomorrow. The built-in Sales Process helps you track sales opportunities, and you can view all opportunities at once or filter by specified criteria. The Product List lets you track products or service names, along with item number, cost, and price, and you can generate quotes for sales opportunities without having to re-enter information. There are over 20 pre-formatted Sales Reports, or you can export reports to Microsoft Excel for further data analysis. Those on the go will appreciate the ability to synchronize the ACT! calendar, contact list, to-do information, notes, and history items with Palm OS or Pocket PC devices. Or if you prefer paper organizers you can print to more than 20 of the most popular organizer formats. When out of the office, you can access critical information via Citrix or Terminal Services.
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 Rating:  - I use it all the timeACT 2006 is definitely better than ACT 2005 because it's not as clunky but it still required some calls to tech support to get the synchronization working but I still love it. Compared to what's out there, I think you get a lot of bang for your buck. Rating:  - ACT -- happyI've used ACT 2000 (!!!) for years and years now. I've never had a single OS problem. It's lived through computer upgrades to OS and hard drive moves. Not a hiccup anytime. I've never been inclined to upgrade as the upgrades seem to take away features I have in ACT 2000. Rating: - Training Analyst who adores Act!Okay, for those of you who are completely new to ACT 2006, this review is coming from someone who had no experience in using this software nor any prior knowledge of this product. I know reading most of these reviews sound very discouraging and in some cases down right horrific. However, I have been working with ACT 2006 for over a month. I've downloaded it onto my HP laptop. I can truely say that I prayed before loading it, but I don't think it was necessary because ACT has been wonderful ... Read More Rating:  - 0 Stars - ACT 2006 does not even deserve one.I too have been a user of ACT! for over 10 years. The previous versions before SAGE got hold of it were great. This 2006 version SUCKS! How I see it, they want to sell you support after the original low price software purchase. The support is AWFULL!! I sat on hold for 29 minutes several times before I got the "I see you have not purchased our extended support plan" comment. I get all kinds of error messages for no reason at all. I cannot use ANY of my previous templates I designed over the last 10 ... Read More Rating: - Nothing but problems with Act 2006I have used Act for close to 10 years. My previous version Act 4.0 was a much better program than 2006. I have experienced too many problems to mention. Maybe 2007 is better. I'm considering using a different program altogether. |
