Sage ACT! 2012 Premium 5 user Pack (SageCover included)

Is Sage ACT! Premium right for me?

Sage ACT! gets your sales, marketing and customer service running like clockwork - centralising all your customer and sales information and helping you convert sales opportunities into paying customers.

All the Sage ACT! Pro Features +

• Group scheduling
• Dashboards and reports with team views
• Additional security settings including field-level security¹
• Advanced administration and deployment
• Options for customers with a large number of users or large databases*
• Web access to complete Sage ACT! Premium details, maintained by your IT admin or a Sage ACT! Hosting Provider²

 

Get a clear view of your contacts

• Store contact information, notes, documents, sales opportunities & sales histories.
• Stay organised and have every detail about your prospects and customers at hand.
• Organise contacts into groups and companies for easy viewing and co-ordinated communications.
• Instantly search your entire database with quick search.
• Integrate with Sage Instant Accounts & 50 Accounts to create invoices, sales and contacts.
• Access your contacts and calendar from your mobile phone or online with Sage ACT! Connect (additional charge applies)

Convert prospects into loyal customers

• Track, progress and rate sales opportunities from initial contact through to a completed sale.
• View and filter opportunities by sales rep, interest, notes, decision makers, competitors and probability of conversion.
• Generate quotes in Excel, Word, Sage Instant Accounts and Sage 50 Accounts and store them against your contacts in ACT!
• Import leads from a database of 68 million companies and 85 million contact with Sage Business Information Services (additional charge applies).

Communicate intelligently with your customers

• Talk to your prospects and customers in a way that suits you - email, letter, fax and more.
• Analyse sales trends and customer profiles to make the right contact at the right time.
• Choose from a selection of templates or customise your own to make the right impression.
• Save time and effort by selecting groups of customers to contact at once.
• Keep a detailed customer history so you don’t duplicate communications.
• Create, send and record integrated campaigns with Sage E-marketing (additional charge applies)
• View insightful graphs, dashboards and 40+ reports to give you a snapshot of how you’re performing.

Work more efficiently every day

• Quickly capture notes, reminders and phone numbers with the Scratchpad handy desktop notepad.
• Stay organised by creating a prioritised to-do list in Scratchpad, mark items as complete and import them into ACT! in just a few clicks.
• Automate everyday jobs and your most frequent processes with Smart Tasks.
• Set up Smart Tasks easily using pre-defined templates, such as important appointments and emails.

Fit ACT! into your business with ease

• Consolidate all your calendars and email accounts with ACT! so you won’t miss a trick.
• Write emails in Microsoft Outlook and Gmail and automatically record them in your ACT! contacts.
• Sync all or some your ACT! contacts with Outlook and Gmail.
• Sync your ACT! calendar with Outlook and Google calendars at scheduled intervals.
• Save information from LinkedIn and Facebook to get a complete picture of your contacts.

Sage ACT! Premium

• Available for 1-100+ users so you can work faster and smarter.
• Scalable as your business grows - add more users and expand your database.
• ACT! for Web included so you can access your contacts and database remotely.
• Share dashboards and reports between users so your team is always up to date.
• Assign specific user rights to different data fields for added security.
• Synchronise your data remotely and across your network without ACT! open.

Recommended system requirements

• An IBM® compatible computer with a 1.8 GHz (or equivalent processor) for up to 10 users, 2.0 GHz for over 10 users
• 1GB RAM (minimum)
• 1.9 GB of free disk space;
• 32 Bit versions of Microsoft® Windows® XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008; Windows 7
• 64 Bit versions of Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7

Notes

• Network Users : 1Gbps network cards and switches with Microsoft Windows networking
• Works with Microsoft Office 2002/XP and all later Editions
• Concurrent User Limits: Windows XP Home and Vista Home Basic 5 users, Windows XP Professional and Windows Vista Home Premium, Business, Enterprise or Ultimate 10 users

Additional software

• Microsoft Outlook® 2002, 2003, and 2007 (SP3 recommended for Outlook 2002/2003)
• 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 2002/2003, SP2 recommended for Office 2007)
• Microsoft Internet Explorer® 6.0 and 7.0 and 8.0
• Adobe Reader® 6.0, 7.0
• Citrix using Presentation Server 3.0,4.0 or4.5
• Parallels Desktop for Macintosh 4.0, and Parallels Workstation 2.2 for Windows
• VMWare® Workstation 5.x and 6.x; Vmware Fusion, VMWare Server 1.x, 2.x
• Sun Virtual Box 2.x

Palm OS® minimum device requirements

• Palm OS 3.5-5.4
• Minimum 33 MHz or higher processor
• Minimum 8 MB or higher memory
• Minimum 500KB free memory plus 1KB for each contact
• HotSync® Manager 3.5 and 4.1.0 and 7.0.2

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 and 6.0
• 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 (4.5 recommended for Windows XP)
• Windows Mobile Device Center 6.1