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Brand: Sage EAN: 0040689004814 Edition: Premium for Workgroups Format: CD-ROM Item Dimensions: Label: Sage Software Manufacturer: Sage Software Model: ACTP2006RT MPN: SGCD00481WI Platform: Windows 2003 Server, Windows XP, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2000 Publisher: Sage Software Release Date: September 12, 2005 Studio: Sage Software Features:
Editorial Review: Product Description: ACT! organizes all your customer information and contacts in one place, giving you instant access to every detail of every relationship including names, phone numbers, addresses, notes from previous conversations, upcoming appointment details, call histories, a list of follow-up activities and more! Amazon.com Product Description: ACT! 2006 Premium for Workgroups is ideal for small businesses and workgroups or divisions of larger organizations. Not only is it a top contact and customer information management program for sales professionals, it is also a solution for managers and administrators that provides advanced workgroup functionality for administration, deployment, and security.
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. ACT! 2006 Premium for Workgroups will help boost your team productivity by providing advanced workgroup functionality. Keep critical customer information up to date with pre-arranged and automatic database synchronization and backup. Group scheduling gives everyone in the database at-a-glance user availability, the ability to determine resources, and a task bar notification when a meeting is sent. Special administration and deployment features are designed to meet the needs of large teams and workgroups. For instance, ACT! can be installed, activated and registered on the server and then pushed to users on the network, eliminating the need to install it on each worker's computer. User preferences can be set by the administrator, or each user can change preferences to meet their own, individual needs. ACT! Premium for Workgroups features five security levels, and administrators can assign levels to Standard users to control who can delete data or export to Microsoft Excel to enforce security. Contact access can be similarly controlled. 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. It 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. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Too bad you can't rate an item 0 stars!The other reviewers are absolutely right. Avoid this horrible excuse for a business contact management system! I do computer consulting and on-site service for a living, and one of my customers has relied on the ACT! software since at least version 6.0. The money spent to upgrade to 2006 was utterly wasted, since it made his Pentium 4 machines slow to a crawl, had issues printing properly with one of his HP inkjet printers (printed all address fields as solid black bars), and offered his company ... Read More Rating: - It would've been greatI thought I had a steal on this one for $50 from thye office depot clearance table. They had several copies, now I see why. WHAT A BUMMER!!!!! It would've been great if it could do what it says it can do, not a lot of options out there sadly. Incredibly slow, crashes, mail merging takes minutes to process, really brutal. I am going to try to use access, any future reviewers, please suggest alternatives. Rating: - I only put one Star because that is the lowest.I bought the "Premium package with 3 clients". They have the worst customer service I have ever come across. We ran into a problems installing the product, it would not install and it would not uninstall, we call for support to get help and we were told that we had to register the product before they could help us but the only way to register the product was to install it. Lady on the phone told me it was my problem and once I had it registered they could help me. I told the dummy that if I could ... Read More Rating: - Absymal is not the word!!!This software is the biggest joke I have ever come across quite frankly Despite telling you it is a network application when you try and create a database on a network drive or point it to a network drive it says the database must be stored locally!!!!!???? So you then create a local database and tell it to point to a shared network location. They even give instructions on how to to create the network share! But guess what. This worked for a day then just suddenly died! Best of all despite the application ... Read More Rating: - A waste of time and money. DON'T BUYI bought the $1,100.00 Act 2006 premium for workgroups (5 users plus server). Three people in our organization tried it and I made a HUGE effort to work with the product (since I recommended it). All copies have been un-installed, no one liked it nor could work with it. Maybe some people that only work at their desk in an office can use this product but if you are a salesman or a mobile profesional with a Laptop this product is not for you. The first thing you will notice with ACT (from 2005 and ... Read More |
