Sage ACT! 2009 Premium Multi-Pack

With ACT! by Sage Premium 2009 (11.0), teams can maximize productivity and provide a better customer experience through access to an integrated view of contact relationships. Designed for sales teams or corporate workgroups, ACT! Premium Solutions include ACT! by Sage Premium 2009 (11.0) and ACT! Premium-Corporate Edition (ACT! Premium 2009 (11.0) and ACT! by Sage Premium for Web 2009 (11.0)). ACT! Premium Solutions are easy to deploy, learn, and use, either as-is or customized to fit your business requirements.

ACT! by Sage Premium Solutions are feature-rich, scalable contact and customer management solutions used effectively by 43,000 corporate customers, including individuals and teams of selling professionals in a variety of industries. ACT! Premium Solutions offer seamless online, offline, and mobile access to an integrated view of contact relationships so teams can maximize productivity and provide a better customer experience. With individual and team performance reporting, managers can ensure employees stay on track to meet and exceed their goals. Take advantage of this powerful functionality today and accomplish tasks crucial to the success of your organization.

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

We understand. ACT! Premium Solutions were created for teams of people like you--people who must manage their growing business and associated business relationships. You and your team need a way of tracking and sharing information with team members and managers to ensure goals are being met.

Choose ACT! Premium Solutions so you can provide a better customer experience because you have a complete, integrated view of those relationships--all in one easy-to-access location. Maximize productivity so you have time to focus your attention on business-critical activities. Your managers get a detailed snapshot of team performance to ensure targets are being met, while comprehensive reporting helps them make informed decisions to successfully advance the business.

Key ACT! Premium Solutions Capabilities and Benefits:

• Contact and Customer Management: Centralize important prospect and customer relationship details for quick, organized access.
• Company Management: Manage interactions at the company or account level for a complete view of relationships with that organization.
• Intuitive Interface: Get up-to-speed quickly and remain productive with ACT! Premium Solutions because of the easy to learn and use interface--eliminating the need for formal training.
• Lookups and Searching: Find specific relationship details instantly using powerful search capabilities in an easy-to-use format.
• Calendar and Activity Management: Manage daily responsibilities by scheduling and tracking activities within ACT! Premium Solutions to ensure individual and team productivity.
• Sales Opportunity Management: Forecast and track sales opportunities to stay on top of all new leads and to provide management with insight into sales pipelines.
• Dashboards and Reporting: Gain instant and accurate insight into individual and team performance using Dashboards and reports.
• Prospect and Customer Communications: Communicate consistently and successfully with prospects and customers using Outlook or other e-mail solutions used by your organization.
• Data Sharing and Security: Share and secure precious prospect and customer relationship details across teams of users.
• Codeless Customization: Easily customize ACT! Premium Solutions, with little technical knowledge required, to fulfill the requirements of your organization and to ensure adoption.
• Administration: Deploy and implement ACT! Premium Solutions quickly and maintain with ease.
• Anywhere Workforce: Support an anywhere workforce with Windows, Web, and mobile access options.
• Integration: Integrate ACT! Premium Solutions with the applications already used by your organization to make the most of existing technology investments.
• Extensibility: Enhance the power of ACT! Premium Solutions with extensibility options available to administrators.

FEATURES:

• Centralize Prospect and Customer Relationship Details
  Track detailed contact information, including notes, history, activities, sales opportunities, and documents--all tied to the associated Contact Record for a complete, integrated view. Even track Companies with associated multiple contacts or groups of related contacts for easier communicating. Manage interactions at the company or account level for a complete view of relationships with that organization. You and your team get accurate, detailed information about contacts, impressing prospects and customers with your knowledge.

• Manage Daily Responsibilities and Improve Productivity
  Manage individual and team schedules and tasks for the day, week, or month using one of many calendar views; the Task List for a filterable view of all activities; and the dashboard for a graphical summary view. If your organization uses Microsoft Outlook, copy ACT! and Outlook calendars automatically to keep activities up-to-date in both schedules.

• Forecast and Track Sales Opportunities
  Track sales opportunities from initial inquiry through close, using the ACT! sales process or a process customized for your team's selling philosophy for managing leads. When working a sales opportunity, schedule a follow-up activity (populated automatically with the opportunity details), ensuring all tasks are covered as a lead moves through the sales process. And track products on each sales opportunity, specifying product discounts and costs for each item--even generate Instant Quotes--without having to enter additional information.

• Gain Insight into Individual and Team Performance
  Interactive Dashboards provide you and your team with a comprehensive summary view of top priorities and sales opportunities, including a gauge of team targets, and enable managers to monitor individual and team performance. You and your team can set the Dashboard as your default startup view to begin the workday with a snapshot of this information so you understand your priorities for the day.

• Share and Secure Details Across Teams
  Keep information secure across your organization by setting security options at the Contact, Group, Company, and field levels, marking each as full, read-only, or no access for particular users and teams. Assign up to five security levels and restrict users from deleting and exporting data to keep this information as an organizational asset, even when team members leave. Finally, set password rules to keep data secure from intruders. All this ensures that your organization maintains high security standards for your valuable contact information.

• Deploy and Implement with Ease
  Install and deploy ACT! Premium Solutions using Silent Install for rolling out the Windows product, establish a link and logins for rolling out the Web product, or provide both for each user. Once installed, setting up teams of users is accomplished quickly using team functions, like grouping team members to grant access and user permissions on multiple levels. In addition, maintaining ACT! and ensuring database health is easy with automatic database functions, including backup, maintenance, and sync, keeping information safe and up-to-date. Implementing and maintaining a solution to manage contact information has never been easier.

• Support an Anywhere Workforce
  ACT! Premium Solutions are available for use in a standalone or mixed-use environment, allowing administrators to provide a solution that matches how each user in your organization works, and still enjoy the benefits of centralized customer data. Because the Windows and Web products are full-featured ACT! applications, you and your team truly receive seamless access options. Additionally, sync ACT! to Palm OS, Pocket PC, BlackBerry, and iPhone devices for all the power and convenience of ACT! on-the-go. Or, you and your team can access via Citrix or Terminal Services. With these options, you and your team can be productive wherever you are.

• Enhance the Power of ACT! Premium Solutions with Extensibility Options
  Utilize downloads available on ACT! Dev Net to extend ACT! functionality or add powerful enhancement solutions designed to expand core ACT! functionality, including e-mail marketing, quoting, analytics, and more--all available through third-party vendors. Administrators with advanced technical skills can also make enhancements to ACT! with the ACT! Software Development Kit (SDK), OLEDB Provider, ACT! Reader, and SA Password tools.

Sage ACT! 2009 Premium : Datasheet

Sage ACT! 2009 : Features Comparison

System Requirements:

Client Installation:

• Windows XP SP2* (32-bit only) Home, Professional, Media Center 2004, Media Center 2005; Windows Server 2003 SP2 (32-bit and 64-bit) Web, Standard, Enterprise and Small Business Server; Windows Vista** (32-bit and 64-bit) Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Enterprise, Ultimate; Windows Server 2008*** (32-bit and 64-bit) Web, Standard, Enterprise.
• Minimum 600 MHz Pentium III processor (or equivalent)
• 512 MB system memory (1 GB recommended)
• Minimum on Vista - 1.8 GHz Pentium IV processor (or equivalent)
• Minimum on Vista - 1 GB RAM
• 1 GB available hard disk space
• CD-ROM drive
• SVGA (800x600) or higher resolution monitor

Note: * Windows XP Professional limits the number of concurrent network connections to 10 (Home Edition limits concurrent connections to 5)
          **Windows Vista limits the number of concurrent network connections to 10 (Home Basic and Home Premium Editions limit concurrent connections to 5).
          ***"Core Server Installation" of Server 2008 is not supported.

Database Server Installation:

• Using Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express SP2: Windows XP SP2 (32-bit only) Home, Professional, Media Center 2004, Media Center 2005; Windows Server 2003 SP2 (32-bit and 64-bit) Web, Standard, Enterprise and Small Business Server; Windows Server 2008 (32-bit and 64-bit) Web, Standard, Enterprise.
• Using Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Standard SP2 (32-bit)*: Windows XP SP2 (32-bit only) Home, Professional, Media Center 2004, Media Center 2005; Windows Server 2003 SP2 (32-bit and 64-bit) Standard, Enterprise and Small Business Server; Windows Server 2008 (32-bit and 64-bit) Web, Standard, Enterprise.
• Using Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Standard SP2 (32-bit)**: Windows Server 2003 SP2 (64-bit only) Standard and Enterprise; Windows Server 2008 (64-bit only) Web, Standard, Enterprise.
  - Requires manual installation of SQL Server 2005 and Service Pack 2
  - Requires manual set up of the ACT! database instance

Note: *32-bit Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition is included with the ST Editions of ACT! Premium 2009 and ACT! Premium for Web 2009.
          **64-bit Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is available for purchase separately from Microsoft.

Palm OS Minimum Device Requirements:

• 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)

Note: Palm HotSync Manager 7.0.2 is recommended for Vista.

Pocket PC Minimum Device Requirements:

• 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

Note: Microsoft ActiveSync 4.5 is recommended for Windows XP platforms.
          Microsoft Windows Mobile Device Center 6.1 is required for Vista platforms.

ACT! 2008 Works With:

• Microsoft Outlook 2002, 2003, and 2007 (SP3 recommended for Outlook 2002 and 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 and 2003)
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and 7.0**
• Adobe Reader 6.0, 7.0, and 8.0
• QuickBooks Pro, Premier 2006, 2007, and 2008 (requires additional Accounting Link product)
• VMWare Workstation 5.0, 5.5, and 6.0; VMWare Server 1.0.1

Note: *Outlook Express is available on Windows XP and Server 2003.
          **On 64-bit versions of Windows, Internet Explorer (32-bit) is recommended.

Sage ACT! 2009 Premium : System Requirements

Product information, specifications, and compatibility are for advisory purposes only, and is the buyers full responsibility to verify with the manufacturer prior to ordering.