Sage 50 ACT! 2009
Make every second count with ACT! 2009In business, time is of the essence...
save as much time as possible with NEW ACT! 2009
Whatever type of business you work in time is one of your most important assets. And when you start saving time on things like administration and finding information, you start to be more productive immediately.
That's why the latest version of ACT! goes right back to basics. Sage have focused on making significant enhancements to those areas of the software that you use the most every day, all to save you as much time as possible.
They have improved on Microsoft® Outlook integration, software usability and database administration. So it's even quicker and easier to input, find, share and analyse customer information... essentially, making every second ACT!
The latest version of Sage 50 ACT! 2009 (11.0) is designed for small businesses and selling individuals with a need of up to a maximum of ten users on a network at any one time. ACT! Premium for Workgroups, 5- 50 plus users, is even more powerful than ever, easier to use and has addressed the need for each business to work in individual required ways.
ACT! 2009 helps you:
Organise Your Contacts
ACT! is a single, central repository for critical contact and customer information captured across your business - whether you are an individual or a large workgroup or team. ACT! enables you to access detailed contact and customer information, manage individual and team calendars and activities, capture all customer communications, track opportunities through the sales process, and report on overall effectiveness.
Stay in Touch
Track all of your critical contact and customer communications on the Contact Record for quick and easy referencing. Utilize the ACT! E-mail Client integrated with Lotus Notes or Microsoft Outlook Express, or integrated directly with Outlook to send outbound e-mails to contacts and create contact history on the Contact Record. ACT! Mail Merge allows you to correspond with multiple contacts, either via e-mail or paper correspondence, and automatically track a history on each Contact Record.
Prioritise Your Work
Stay on top of your deliverables with multiple Calendar views within ACT! 2009, including Daily and a customizable Work Week view. Calls, meetings, and to-do items can be filtered by priority, date range or user, even displaying totals for each type of activity and, Activity Alarms will help you stay on top of all your time-sensitive deliverables.
Track Sales
ACT! enables sales professionals to track sales opportunities from initial inquiry through close utilizing the standard sales process or a process customised to suit their business. When working an opportunity, sales professionals can simply click follow-up and a new activity will be created automatically with the opportunity details - ensuring the prospect is managed as it moves through the process. Sales professionals and sales management can view and report on all sales opportunities so they always know where they stand.
Report on Activities
Instantly access every important contact or detail using advanced Lookups or Keyword Searches. At the end of the week or month, it's easy to report on activity or milestones with one 40 standard reports that ship with ACT!, 20 of which are specifically focused on sales activities. And, because ACT! has advanced field types such as multiple select, you can better track information that often requires more than one selection such as ID Source or Referred By, and then report accurately on that information. ACT! 2009 Premium for Workgroups offers a host of functionality that is specifically designed to meet the needs of workgroups and teams in the areas of centralised administration, advanced user, contact, and field level security, advanced opportunity tracking, and flexible deployment options.
Information on the move
Take your critical contact and customer information with you so you can be more productive, whether you are in the office or on the road. With ACT!, you can link to a Palm OS® or Pocket PC device so you have the information you need at all times.
Integrate with Sage 50 Accounts
Sage 50 ACT! 2009 now has a free link to either Sage Instant Accounts and Sage 50 delivering an integrated front and back office system. This reduces the need for double entry and gives the user more visibility and useful financial information about contacts.
Better Lookup and Search Functionality
Find any piece of information with speed and ease.
Whether you only have a few customer records or a thousand, it's important to be able to find the information you need as quickly as possible. That's why our new feature improvements make it simple to find the details you need, and quicker than ever before.
- New Lookup Screen - Will provide you with a simple and easy set of steps to find the data you need.
- Improved Search Capabilities - Allow you to run a more detailed search query.
- Re-run a Query - Re-run an earlier query to produce the very latest results using previous Lookups.
Faster Database Administration
Schedule and automate your tasks and get back to business faster.ACT! 2009 allows you to automate your daily administrative tasks, meaning that housekeeping is simple, easy-to-follow and less time-consuming. So you can spend your time on whatever you know to be more profitable to you and your business and relax in the knowledge that your ACT! data is fully maintained.
- ACT! Scheduler - Automates routine tasks at set times without your involvement.
- Schedule hourly tasks - You can now schedule tasks to take place hourly, daily, weekly and monthly.
- Simple Remote Database Installation - Take the ACT! database with you and access it anywhere using a simple easy process.
- Synchronisation - Keep all of your databases up-to-date with a simpler synchronisation process (including new dialogues) that syncs your data quickly.
Improved Microsoft® Outlook Integration
Track and organise your emails in ACT! quicker than ever before.When it comes to tracking emails, ACT! really comes into its own, providing processes that are absolutely seamless. It helps you to organise all your email communications and calendar integrations, keeping you as connected as possible to your prospects and customers.
- Attach emails to ACT! contacts - Use the quick attach button to quickly attach any email to a contact record in ACT!, whether it's a single record or en masse.
- Use Outlook rules in ACT! - You can now use Outlook rules to directly attach emails to contact records based on your requirements.
- Schedule Activities in ACT! from Outlook - Create an activity in ACT! directly from an email.
- ACT! Calendar - Provides you with a view of up and coming events by individual and team, including event type, timeframe, and all contacts attending. You can even manage your Outlook calendar in ACT!. Improvements to printing and viewing also give you more visibility into your schedule so you can realise ultimate productivity gains.
ACT! 2009 Premium and Premium for Web
Sage 50 ACT! Premium gives the ability to share data with 1-100 plus users for workgroup collaboration and sales effectiveness; to synchronise data from multiple users into a central database from inside or outside the company firewall; to assign access rights to specific contacts by users or teams of users; to check team member availability for meetings, calls and tasks; and to send meeting invitations and schedule resources, such as conference rooms and equipment.
ACT! Premium for Web provides users with access to centralized, secure data; enabling remote, travelling, or office-based users access to information in real time through a Web browser. ACT! Premium for Web is supplied Free of charge with ACT! Premium.
Simple server installation allows for easy rollout to users and provides organisations with the security of knowing that critical customer data stays within their firewalls, not on individual user PCs. ACT! Premium for Web delivers all the benefits of hosted Web-based solutions, without the recurring cost of monthly fees.
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