Binding: CD-ROM
Creator: Windows
Format: CD
ASIN: B000HLRAJG
Manufacturer: Sage Software
Release Date: 2006-09-18
Average Customer Review: 
(From 91 total reviews)
List Price: $229.99
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Features
- The #1 selling contact and customer manager worldwide; keeps track of all your contact and customer information in a single location
- Integration with Lotus Notes, Outlook Express and Outlook lets you efficiently track all your correspondence
- Ideal for traveling; links to a Palm OS or Pocket PC device to synchronize your ACT! Calendar, Contacts, To-Do information, Notes, and History items
- Synchronizes with Microsoft Outlook calendars to schedule appointments with colleagues not using ACT
- Improved search functionality and greater integration with Outlook over previous versions
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Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com:
Act! By Sage 2007 enables individuals and small business customers to instantly access key contact and customer information, manage and prioritize activities, and track all contact-related communications so you can grow productive business relationships. Renowned for its ease of use, ACT! can be tailored by each user and offers robust integration with the tools you use everyday, such as Microsoft Office, Lotus Notes, accounting products, and handheld devices. With more than 2.5 million individual users and 30,000 corporate customers, ACT! is the #1 selling contact and customer manager worldwide.
Enter virtually unlimited date- and time-stamped Notes and History to track every relationship detail. View larger. |
Organize all of your contact data in one place for quick and easy access. View larger. |
Stay on top of your schedule and prioritize tasks so you are productive. View larger. |
Forecast and track sales opportunities for an improved bottom line. View larger. |
Access and report on information quickly and easily. View larger. |
Organize Your Contacts
ACT! is a single, central repository for critical contact and customer information captured across your business. It enables you to access detailed contact and customer information, manage calendars and activities, capture all customer communications, track opportunities through the sales process, and report on overall effectiveness.
With ACT! you can track complete customer data, including all contact details, your personal notes and customer history, appointments and vital to-do items, documents, and more. Offering over 60 pre-defined fields for each contact, you can easily sort and track your customers by any number of characteristics. The software even lets you attach documents directly into your customer’s account information. If you are in Microsoft Word and Excel, you can easily attach documents and spreadsheets to ACT! contacts so it’s easy to quickly locate vital information such as presentations, proposals, and quotes. Advanced customization features let you design your own layouts, and you can move relevant field displays to suit the unique needs of your business.
Stay in Touch and Connected
ACT!’s Contact Record lets you track all of your critical contact and customer communications for quick and easy referencing. With the software’s e-mail client integrated with Lotus Notes or Microsoft Outlook Express, or integrated directly with Outlook, you can send outbound e-mails to contacts and create contact history on the Contact Record. ACT!’s Mail Merge feature even allows you to correspond with multiple contacts, either via e-mail or paper correspondence, and automatically tracks a history on each Contact record.
A built-in word processor that supports tables, graphics, HTML and spell checking makes it easy to write letters directly from ACT! You can select a group of contacts and perform a mail merge to a letter or e-mail. Best of all, a history is automatically generated on each contact record every time you send correspondence. With ACT! you’ll never lose track of your past correspondence again.
Prioritize Your Work
ACT! can help you stay on top of your deliverables by offering multiple calendar views, including daily and customizable work week views. Calls, meetings, and to-do items can be filtered by priority, date range, or user, and you can display totals for each type of activity. Built-in activity alarms will help you stay on top of all your time-sensitive deliverables, so you’ll always be ahead of the game with your contacts. If you rely on communicating with colleagues who are not using ACT!, you can also synchronize your ACT! calendar with their Microsoft Outlook calendar to facilitate appointment scheduling and tasks.
Track Sales Opportunities
ACT! enables you to track sales opportunities from the initial inquiry through the closing to utilize the standard sales process, or you can create a customized process to suit your business. When working an opportunity, simply click follow-up and a new activity will be created automatically with details, thereby ensuring the prospect is managed as it moves through the process. The product list lets you easily enter repeated products or services, and can automatically fill in information such as name, item number, cost, and price. ACT! also gives you the options of choosing from over 20 pre-formatted Sales Reports, or exporting to Microsoft Excel with a single click for further analysis using built-in, customizable pivot tables.
Information on the Go
If you are on the road with your business, you can take your critical contact and customer information with you no matter where you go. With ACT!, you can link to a Palm OS or Pocket PC device to synchronize your ACT! Calendar, Contacts, To-Do information, Notes, and History items. Are you still using a paper organizer when you’re out of the office? Don’t fret! ACT! features over 20 printable templates designed for popular paper organizers so you always have your schedule with you.
Product Description:
ACT! enables individuals and small business customers to instantly access key contact and customer information, manage and prioritize activities, and track all contact-related communications so you can grow productive business relationships. Centralize your customer information and develop top-notch communications. Access and report on information quickly for a complete view of customer interactions. Prioritize your work to stay on top of appointments and tasks, and forecast and track sales opportunities for an improved bottom line. You can even take critical information on the go, for even better productivity. Attach documents directly into Activities, History, or Documents tabs Write letters in ACT! using Microsoft Word or the ACT! built-in Word Processor which supports tables, graphics, HTML, and spell checking Schedule calls, meetings, and to-dos quickly and easily Filter calls, meetings, and to-do items by priority, date range, or user Calendar pop-ups make it easy to view activity details instantly by mousing over any activity for an at-a-glance view View all sales opportunities at once or filter by Users, Estimated Close Date, Status, Sales Stage, Amount, or Probability of Close Track customer correspondence for a history of all communications with a contact and its organization Use the Product List to easily enter repeated products or services and automatically fill in information such as name, item number, cost and price
Customer Reviews
Act 2007 works FAST and FINE with right system. by James H. Huff
I ordered ACT 2007 (got a great price on 2007 vs 2008. Shop around). After buying, I read all the negative reviews and figured I was in the deep stuff. However, I found quite the opposite.
As a background - I converted 6500 contacts from Goldmine using conversion software. I left GM because it is not supported any longer and was getting a little paranoid about the consequences of major problems.
Of course there were some duplications and minor errors in the conversion but nothing major. There is also a learning curve for a new user and some quirks as with any program. However, the format is much, much more user friendly for a smaller company (4 users) than is GM.
The major concern to others seems to be speed. Not for us. We are on a peer to peer XP network. We keep one machine dedicated to data storage with no users on it. We did update to all new Dell Vostro and Optiplex machines with 2.0 GHZ or better and a minimum of 1 GB RAM, 80 GB drives. The response from the ACT program is instantaneous. I do not know if the speed problems everyone is complaining about is a function of old slow equipment, converting from prior versions, slow network, or what. Our ACT is fast.
Now I have to admit the manual is crap (aren’t they all?). For the first time in 20 years I subscribed to a support contract. I suspected that it would be a lot cheaper with a new and fairly complicated program than beating my head against the wall trying to figure out those little quirks. I was right. I have already recouped the $200 cost with a couple of phone calls. The quality and courtesy surprised me. The contract covers 13 months for less than the price of one license at retail. And as a bonus, you get to talk to real live Americans who actually know something about the program. (Listen up HP. I don’t want to talk to India). I also bough ACT for Dummies. Very useful book so far.
I wonder if anyone doing exactly the same as we did has the same concerns about speed as some of the other reviewers. I gave 5 it stars so people would see that the program is not the junk others are calling it. However because of the manual it really should be 4.5 stars.
Avoid a heart attack, just don’t buy it. by AMC333
Buying Sage Act! 2007 is one of the most stupid things I did on my career.
It simply doesn’t work.
And if you want to contact the company for help, you have to pay $200+ for a customer service plan.
The email function it has collapsed 2 times in about 6 months, making me lose tons of valuable information and time.
Sage simply steal my money.
Avoid frustrations like mine and other thousand of users, just get another solution from another company.
This product is very good (2008 is much better) by TJ
Our company has used ACT for years–ACT2005 was super slow…but ACT2007 really picked up the performance. I found the Outlook integration to be excellent. The company level record, the ease of templates and reporting, the phone dialer integration make for an all-around great product and great value. However, we love ACT2008 even better…so I’d advise to get that if you have the option.
Lots of money for what? by Gene Frenkle
I have been an ACT! user for years. Actually started with ACT! 5 several years ago.
I decided to buy this program so that it would sync with my Treo 700wx. Really the only reason I bought it. Did that only a year and a half ago. It worked great until…
I go to buy a new system with Windows Vista. Come to find out, this program will not allow sync with a PDA in Vista. So the biggest reason I bought it was now moot.
Now I am bombarded with e-mails asking me to upgrade for another $199 to ACT! 10 so that I can have the functionality I paid for in the first place. Most companies make a patch or something for Vista and offer it for free…NOT SAGE.
Instead of upgrading ACT!, I kept this version and bought Outlook 2007 for seamless sync with my PDA.
Sage has lost me as a customer probably forever. Great product IMO, just bad corporate policies.
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