Sage ACT! 2010 (click here to see our video overview of new features)

Why Buy ACT! 2010?

Any individual, workgroup or corporate team that needs to improve the way it manages its relationships with clients or prospective customers can benefit significantly from contact and customer management. Ultimately, Contact Management systems will empower you to close more sales and sell more to existing customers.

Key features:

• ACT! is a flexible product that can be configured to support your own business processes

• The system provides instant access to contact and customer information

• You can store company records as well as individual contact records

• Forecasting and sales opportunity tracking is provide via ACT! reports and also one-click export to MS Excel

• There is a financial software integration module to link ACT! with Sage accounts software

• Users may schedule future events and resources

• You can easily exchange data with Microsoft Outlook (and synchronise ACT! and Outlook calendars)

• Effortless synchronisation between ACT! databases - means your sales people can work on ACT! from home and easily synchronise data across the internet

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Covering all your contact and customer management needs, ACT! 2010:

• Provides a user-friendly tool to manage your customer and contact information that will grow with your business

• Keeps track of all communications with your customers and contacts (attaching copies of emails sent and received through Outlook to your ACT! customer records)

• Improves your bottom line with tools for forecasting, tracking and reporting on sales opportunities

• Has pre-defined MS Word document and report templates to choose from, with the ability to customise, saving time and effective reporting

• Gain greater customer insights by accessing, organising and managing contact details.

• Manage time more efficiently by scheduling calls, meetings, and to-do items

• Easily share and synchronise contacts and calendars with up to 10 users

• Links to popular Sage accounting products (purchased separately, Sage Instant Accounts, Sage Line 50 and Sage MMS)

• Take important contact information with you by working with Blackberry, Palm OS and Pocket PC handhelds.

Who will benefit from using ACT! 2010?

• Sales professionals can keep track of customers and business associates

• Business owners and managers can accurately analyse their revenue potential, improve visibility of future orders, increase average revenue per sale and increase number of sales

• Marketing professionals are able to manage their contacts and customers, improve campaign visibility and ROI

• Customer and support functions can ensure customer loyalty and increased customer satisfaction by providing a holistic view on the customer through the customer notes and history

• Accounts and finance teams will be provided with a 360 degree view of the customer's financial, ordering and product availability status by linking ACT! with Sage Accounting software

What are the minimum system requirements for ACT! 2010?   (download as PDF)

Important Note: In a networked environment Sage ACT! 2010 has a maximum of 10 users. If you require more users you must purchase Sage ACT! Premium 2010.

SECTION A:

Applicable to client installations for ACT! 2010 and ACT! 2010 Premium, and also server installations for ACT! 2010 and ACT! 2010 Premium EX (Microsoft SQL 2005/2008 Express Edition):

• An IBM® compatible computer with a 1.8Ghz (or equivalent processor)

• 1GB RAM

• 1GB of free disk space

• Supported Operating Systems:

  • 32 Bit versions of Windows XP Home, Professional or Media Centre (service pack 3)

  • 32 or 64bit versions of Windows Server 2003 (Standard, Enterprise, Web or SBS editions; service pack 2),

  • 32 or 64 bit versions of Windows Vista Home, Business, Enterprise or Ultimate (service pack 2)

  • 32 or 64 bit versions of Windows 7, Home Premium, Professional or Ultimate

  • 32 or 64 bit versions of Windows Server 2008 (Standard, Enterprise or Web editions; service pack 1)

• Handheld integration to Palm and Pocket PC

• Network Users only: 1Gbps network cards and switches with Microsoft Windows networking

• Concurrent User Limits: Windows XP Home 5 users, Windows XP Professional 10 users, Windows Vista 10 users

Please ensure that the latest Windows updates are installed. Performance will be improved with higher specification computers and networks.

Additional software:

• Microsoft Outlook Express 6.0 SP2

• Works with Microsoft Office 2002, 2003 and 2007 (SP3 recommended for Office 2002/2003)

• Lotus Notes® 6.5 and later (Windows Vista using Lotus Notes 7.02)

• Eudora® 5.2

• Internet/Web Mail SMTP/POP3

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and later versions

• Adobe® Reader® 6.0 and later versions

• VMware Workstation 5.0/5.5/6.0 and VMware Fusion, VMWare Server 1.0.1

• Citrix using Presentation Server 3.0, 4.0 or 4.5

• Parallels Desktop for Macintosh® 4.0 and Parallels Workstation 2.2 for Windows

• Sun Virtual Box 2.x

SECTION B:

Applicable to server installations for ACT! 2010 Premium ST (Microsoft SQL 2005/2008 Standard Edition) and ACT! 2010 Premium for Web:

As above except that supported Operating Systems are limited to:

• 32 Bit versions of Windows XP Professional or Media Centre (service pack 3)

• 32 or 64bit versions of Windows Server 2003 (Standard, Enterprise, Web or SBS editions; service pack 2),

• 32 or 64 bit versions of Windows Vista Business, Enterprise or Ultimate (service pack 2)

• 32 or 64 bit versions of Windows Server 2008 (Standard, Enterprise or Web editions; service pack 1)

SECTION C:

Palm OS® Minimum Device Requirements:

• Palm OS 3.5-5.4

• Minimum 33 MHz or higher processor

• Minimum 8 MB or higher memory

• Minimum 500K free memory plus 1K for each contact

• HotSync® Manager 3.5 and 4.1.0

Pocket PC Minimum Device Requirements:

• Pocket PC 2000/2002/Phone Edition (Windows CE 3.0);

• Windows Mobile 2003 (Windows CE 4.0 and 4.20.0);

• Windows Mobile 2005/5.0

• Minimum 133 MHz or higher processor

• Minimum 16 MB or higher memory

• Minimum 500K free memory plus 1K for each contact

• Microsoft ActiveSync® versions 3.5 – 4.5 (XP operating systems only)

• Windows Mobile Device Center (Vista operating systems only)

Which version should I buy?

Click here to download a tier comparison document that illustrates the specific feature differences between each ACT! product in greater detail, or browse the table below:

Try out ACT! 2010 for free!
There are a number of ways in which Bluebird can help you to review ACT! further:

• Request a free trial software CD (full working copy of ACT!)

• Download a free trial version of ACT! (250mbyte)

• Watch the flash video demonstration of ACT!

Download product reviews from leading independent journalists

• Computer Shopper

• PC Adviser

• PC Pro

• Personal Computer World

And finally:

• Contact us to chat through the options and discuss how ACT! might work in your business

• Contact us to arrange a meeting and no-obligation discussion

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