ACT! by Sage 2010

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The newly designed ACT! by Sage 2010 delivers instant knowledge about your customers using social media integration, ability to generate actionable demand with end-to-end e-marketing*, completely customisable opportunities, insight into your biggest opportunities with new reports and dashboards, and more!

ACT! by Sage 2010 will be available in Australia early-mid September. To be notified of its release, email info@acttoday.com.au 

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New Look and Navigation

ACT! by Sage 2010 has a new look and navigation. Some of the new "look and feel" includes: 
 
  • New Welcome Page that gives you quick access to common resources, tips on using ACT!, and where to go when you need in-depth help.
  • New Navigation bar, global toolbar, and consolidated menus provide an "easy to get started" experience to quickly locate features.
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  • Big, visible buttons (on the global toolbar) for tasks you complete most often, including a New button that lets you create anything new, from contacts to activities.
  • Personalised appearance by selecting a theme — Sage Green or Silver.
  • Ability to search from any view instead of relying on the Lookup dialog box.
  • Related tasks area on the Navbar which provides relevant options for working with contacts, groups, opportunities, and more. These tasks are specific to your view.
  • Streamlined layouts in new colors with some new tabs and field placement.

View New Look & Feel Flash Demo



Customisable Opportunities

Sales tracking and functionality has been completely redesigned. Opportunity views look and behave like contacts, groups, and companies, making opportunities more flexible than ever. You can:

  • Customise opportunities to fit your business. You can add fields, including products and services, and personalise the layout with colors, graphics, and new tabs.
  • Track activities, history, documents, notes, and more—all tied to the sales opportunity.
  • Use new reports to help you make better business decisions.
  • Set security options.
  • Manage your leads using turnkey sales processes based on proven methodologies.

View Opportunities Flash Demo

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Social Media Integration

With ACT! 2010, you can use Web 2.0 technologies to automatically see your customers on LinkedIn®, Facebook, and more, from within ACT!. You can use the endless possibilities of social networking to instantly understand more about contacts' interests, work history, and connections. ACT! includes the most popular sites, but you can also add other sites. 
Sites included with ACT! are:
    • LinkedIn 
    • Facebook
    • Plaxo
    • ZoomInfo Contact
    • MySpace
    • Contact's Website
    • Google™
    • Google Driving Directions
    • Google Maps ™
    • Google News™
    • Weather
    • Yahoo!® Local Info
    • Yahoo! Person

View Social Media Flash Demo

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New E-marketing

ACT! E-marketing* provides tools to reach and build your contacts effectively:
  • E-mail enables you to reach contacts in a way that is immediate, inexpensive, and effective.
  • Survey and Web forms provide ways to gather information about your contacts' preferences, and to update it automatically in your ACT! database.
  • Drip marketing tools enable you to create sequential marketing messages and run your campaigns automatically.

View E-Marketing Flash Demo

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* Requires additional subscription
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Streamlined Reports View

The Reports feature includes the Reports view and the Report Designer. The Reports view organises and displays ACT! reports available in the current database or any other ACT! database you have access to. The Report Designer lets you create and edit report templates.

View Reporting Flash Demo

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New Dashboard Component

You can use a new Dashboard component called Data Chart to view data on customers, sales, and users. Several new Dashboards are included to demonstrate the features of the Data Chart component. One is for Administrators and the other tracks adds/deletes/changes to contacts.

View Dashboard Flash Demo

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Integration

  • Send ACT! activity e-mail invitations to your customers who use iCal-connected programs, like Gmail™. The invitation you send appears on their calendar. These programs include:
      • Microsoft® Outlook®
      • Gmail™
      • Apple® iCal®
      • Windows Live™
      • Facebook
      • GroupWise®
      • Lotus Notes®
  • Create an ACT! activity when you accept a meeting from an iCalendar meeting request from Outlook. You can set preferences in ACT! to select which calendar to display the alarm.
  • Share contacts with ease using vCard format. The contact will appear in the recipient’s contact list, without the need to retype or cut and paste.
  • Use Mail Merge and instant quotes in ACT! Premium for Web.
  • Share information between ACT! and an accounting application, such as Sage 50 Accounts Plus. An SData-compliant application is required.

View Outlook Integration Flash Demo



Administration Features

With the additional administration features in ACT! 2010, you can:
  • Create up to 50 remote databases simultaneously for easy rollout of larger implementations.
  • Support global selling environments by specifying a currency at the time of database creation.
  • Use the new ACT! Administrative Dashboard to see user information by logon status, database sync status, and more.

*Requires additional subscription.


Please call Act Today on 1300 362 046 or submit an Online Enquiry form if you would like more information on any of the above features.



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