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Is ACT! right for me?

ACT! by Sage 2010 helps you store important customer information, coordinate your sales and marketing, track your performance & build customer relationships. In short, it's a vital member of your sales and marketing team:

• Convert prospects into customers
  Use existing information or import bought-in data, track communications, analyse sales trends & profile your customers.
• Integrate your sales & marketing
  Send the right message to the right customer at the right time, and effectively target prospects and convert them into loyal customers.
• Manage your customer information
  Centralise all your contact information including contact details, sales history, activities, opportunities, notes & sales leads.
• Get to know your customers
  Get detailed insight into your customers with dashboards and reports to help you see exactly what makes your customers tick.
• Easy to set up and use
  45 days free technical support included, Welcome page to get you up and running, plus handy related tasks, ‘easy-click’ buttons & instant search options.
• Integrate easily into your business
  With Microsoft Outlook, Gmail, Windows Live, Lotus Notes, Eudora, Google Maps, Sage 50 Accounts & social media including Facebook & LinkedIn®.

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Is ACT! right for me?

• Generate leads:
  Use existing customers information or import bought-in prospect data for your communications
• Target new prospects:
  Analyse historical sales trends, profile your customers and plan targeted marketing and sales campaigns
• Convert leads to sales:
  Track communications with your prospects to make sure they receive the right message at the right time.
• Measure your performance:
  Gauge the performance of your sales & marketing using dashboards and reports, allowing you to see results at a glance & make the right decisions quickly.
• Track sales opportunities:
  Plan for the future confidently by forecasting where sales are coming from, for how much they're for & when they're coming.
• Customisable Opportunities:
  Customise your products and services, personalise layouts and track activities and sales history unique to your business.
• Easy to set up and use:
  45 days free access to our award-winning SageCover support to get you up & running via our telephone, email or online.
• Brand new look for 2010:
  New simple navigation with 'easy-click' buttons, related tasks, instant search and new Welcome Page with resources, tips, help and news.
• New Sage 50 Accounts 2010 integration:
  Synchronise your sales and marketing data into Sage 50 Accounts 2010 to generate quotes & invoices & ensure you get paid on time.
• Social media integration:
  Captures and integrates data from LinkedIn®, Facebook, Google Maps™ and more with ACT! Contact Records
• Compatibility with iCalendar and vCard:
  Integration with commonly used Business Systems – Microsoft Outlook, Gmail, Windows Live, Lotus Notes, Eudora and more.
• ACT! E-marketing:
  Swiftpage e-mail and drip marketing solution available (additional charge applies)
• Expert Training available:
  Courses around the country to give you the skills to use ACT! to its full potential, or try our ACT! Starter Solution which inludes an ACT! Quick Study Guide.
  

ACT! by Sage Technical Requirements

Important note: In a networked environment, ACT! by Sage 2010 has a maximum of 10 users. If you require more users you must purchase ACT! by Sage Premium 2010. Call 0800 694 0569 to find out more.

Recommended system requirements

• An IBM® compatible computer with a 1.8 GHz (or equivalent processor); 1GB RAM; 1GB of free disk space;
• 32 Bit versions of Microsoft® Windows® XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008;
• 64 Bit versions of Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008.

Notes

• Network Users only: 1Gbps network cards and switches with Microsoft Windows networking
• Works with Microsoft Office 2002/XP, 2003 and 2007, but is not yet compatible with Microsoft Office 2010
• 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/XP, 2003, and 2007 (SP3 recommended for Office 2002/2003)
• Microsoft Internet Explorer® 6.0 and 7.0
• Adobe Reader® 6.0, 7.0, and 8.0
• VMWare® Workstation 5.0, 5.5, and 6.0; 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)

Apple Mac compatibility

Sage software is not compatible with Apple Macs, unless you are running Windows via Apple’s Boot Camp utility