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

ACT! Premium is used by small and medium businesses to track calls, meetings, to-do items and manage all aspects of the marketing and sales process.

Why buy Sage ACT! Premium 2010?
Who will benefit from using Sage ACT! Premium 2010?
What are the minimum system requirements fro Sage ACT! Premium?
Which version of ACT! should I buy?
Try out ACT! 2010 for free!

Why buy Sage ACT! Premium 2010?

Any workgroup or corporate team that needs to improve professional relationships can benefit significantly from contact and customer management.
Key features


Key features:

• Instant access to contact and customer information

• Forecasting and sales opportunity tracking

• Back-office integration

• Store company records

• Easily import data from Microsoft Outlook

• Advanced synchronisation

• Share data with as many as 100 users and more per database

• Accommodate more than 100,000 contacts (ACT! Premium uses scalable SQL databases)

• Check team members’ availability

• Synchronise to a central database from within or outside the company firewall

• Assign access rights, by user, to specific contacts or teams of contacts

• Organise users into teams to grant access to specific contacts

How can Sage ACT! Premium 2010 grow your business?

Designed from the ground up with a workflow optimised for workgroups and sales teams, Sage ACT! Premium 2010 gives users an intuitive, yet powerful, way to capture and share information in a collaborative environment. This proven technology, used by millions worldwide, enables business teams to benefit from using Sage ACT! Premium 2010 in the following ways:

• Streamlining sales operations

• Boosting sales results and profitability

• Enabling efficient team collaboration and scheduling

• Enhancing employee and customer satisfaction and loyalty

• Gaining insight into the business through easy access to comprehensive contact and customer data

• Minimising risk by adopting a proven technology that is secure and scalable

Who will benefit from using ACT! Premium?

• 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 Sage ACT! Premium 2010?

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.

Recommended Requirements:

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

• 1GB RAM

• 1GB of free disk space

• 32 Bit versions of Windows XP, 32 or 64bit versions of Windows Server 2003 (Standard, Enterprise or Web editions), SBS 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 (Standard, Enterprise or Web editions)

• 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:

• Works with Microsoft Office 2002 / XP and all later editions

• 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 Server 1.0.1

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! 2010)

• Download a free trial version of ACT! 2010 (250mbyte)

• Watch the flash video demonstration of ACT! 2010

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

• BUY NOW from our online Act! Shop