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ACT! 8 Standard

Act! 8 StandardACT! by Sage is the #1 selling contact and customer manager that helps you make contact, build relationships, and get results. ACT! enables you to instantly access key contact and customer information, manage and prioritise 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.

Renowned for its ease of use, ACT! can be tailored by each user and integrates with the tools you use everyday, such as Microsoft® Office, Lotus Notes®, and handheld devices. ACT! is an easy to use solution that offers a low total cost of ownership.

Maximize the benefits of the ACT! e-mail client while still utilizing Lotus Notes to send e-mails. You can attach inbound e-mails to contacts, create new contacts and activities from an e-mail sender, create contact histories on the contact record when sending e-mails and much more.

Top 10 New Features and Benefits

  • Link Contact and Companies quickly and easily.
  • From the Contact List view, you can multi-select contacts quickly and easily, and link them with a Company already in the database. If a contact is linked to a Company, the company name will display as a hyperlink in the Contact List View for a quick and easy manoeuvring between Contacts and Companies.
  • View all Group members for a contact.
  • You can view all Group memberships for a contact in the Contact Details View, whether they were manually added to Groups or if they are members based on a Group definition.
  • Better manage contacts with Tree View.
  • Easily see your contact relationships using the Tree View for quick, easy navigation within Groups or Subgroups, as well as Companies and divisions.
  • Update Groups easily.
  • From the Contact Detail View, you can add or remove a contact from multiple Groups at once.
  • Manage meetings with ease.
  • Easily update or change a meeting or activity organizer, even after the activity has been scheduled.
  • ynchronize relevant attachments.
  • Only attachments related to your selected sync set will sync, saving time and improving performance and security.
  • Don’t lose data, even with forgetful remote employees.
  • Database synchronization expiration has been extended from 90 to 365 days. And, even if a remote database expires, it can be synchronized back to the main database one last time so you don’t lose critical contact and customer data.
  • Grant select administrative functions to remote users.
  • Now you can provide your remote users with the ability to perform select administrative functions to their remote database, without granting full administrative rights. Remote users can back-up, restore and do database maintenance, ensuring their database and critical contact and customer information will stay intact.
  • Have the phone numbers you need, when you need them.
  • When you print your ACT! calendar, the phone number for any calls scheduled with a contact is automatically printed on the calendar as well – even if it was not listed in the appointment.
  • Integrate with Lotus Notes®2

1 Must be a member of the Windows administrator's group to perform the following: Install, register, and activate ACT!, upgrade, convert, and share ACT! database and perform changes handheld sync settings.

2 Requires Lotus Notes v6.5.ACT! works in a single user or networked environment for up to 10 usersƒ. If you need to network more than 10 users, please consider ACT! Premium for Workgroups