Introducing the new ACT! by Sage 2008 (10.0) Dashboard Views By John Kaufman and Suzanne Lai October 17, 2007 Most companies today face tighter margins, fierce competition, and highly selective customers. That's why it is critical that sales professionals and management recognize the importance of easily monitoring both an individual’s and a team’s real-time sales pipeline. This is one of the main reasons ACT! 2008 now includes interactive graphical dashboards to monitor sales opportunities and activities. ACT! 2008 ships with three predefined dashboards: ACT! default Dashboard, ACT! Activities Dashboard, and ACT! Opportunities Dashboard. You can easily choose your own dashboard and set the filters to meet your individual needs. See Customizing Dashboards to Fit Your Needs article to learn how to set the dashboards for your own use . Click here to read the entire article.    Paradise By The Dashboard Light By Gerry Blackwell September 28, 2007 Imagine trying to drive a car without dashboard displays. You’d never know how fast you were going, when you were running out of gas or if the car was overheating. You’d never chance it with a vehicle, so why take a similar risk with your business? Dashboards for customer relationship management (CRM) programs and other types of software perform a similar function. They give you a visual snapshot of the information compiled by and stored in the program – in effect, a snapshot of how your business is running. Until recently, dashboard functionality was only available in enterprise-level products, but now ACT! 2008, the small business CRM and sales force automation software from Sage Software, has added dashboarding in an important new version upgrade, Act 2008, that marks the product’s 20th anniversary. Long before there was Outlook and long before there was SalesForce.com, there was Act. The program has had longevity because it answers the needs of sales people and their managers and solves real problems. But any program is only as good as its latest version. This is a good one.   Read More

Customer Relationship Management:
Sage SalesLogix

ACT! by Sage 2006 Product of the Year Finalist January 31, 2007  Issue 16 by Small Business Technology Magazine Labs

ACT! 2007 is a powerful contact and customer management application with flexible deployment and customization options to help individuals, selling professionals and corporate workgroups improve productivity and increase sales. ACT! can be customized for specific business environments and also integrates well with other applications heavily used by small businesses such as QuickBooks and Outlook.

-Inexpensive but full-featured contact management application includes company tracking, sales forecasting, opportunity management, time and activity management

-Produced in different versions to suit different business sizes or specific verticals

-Full mobile capabilities

-Provides integration with well known small business accounting packages such as QuickBooks and Peachtree to save time and eliminate mistakes on double data entry

-Improved security features make the application more robust in a workgroup setting

Sage SalesLogix and SageCRM/SageCRM.com Awarded
 Product Of The Year Status By Customer Inter@ction
 Solutions Magazine
Monday, 15 January 2007

Sage CRM Solutions selected for technology advancements and commitment to quality                 

Sage Software announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC®)’s Customer Inter@ction Solutions® magazine www.cismag.com has named Sage SalesLogix and SageCRM/SageCRM.com 2006 Product of the Year Award winners. TMC editors recently issued the results of their product evaluations citing product technology advancements and vendor vision, leadership and commitment to quality as award selection criteria.  Read More

ACT! Success Story

Profit-Tell's client renewals have increased by 25% netting an additional $50,000 per year in profits, since implementing ACT! and WiredContact.  

Dave Hearld, President, Profit-Tell        Read More

Small Businesses Pick the Products of the Year
By SmallBusinessComputing.com Staff
February 9, 2006

In one of the most tightly contested categories, ACT! by Sage 2006 edged Web-based software stalwart Salesforce.com by just three percentage points — 41 to 38 percent. A pioneer is the contact-management field, ACT! now allows you to organize contacts into companies and groups. A new "tree" view graphically depicts contact and company relationships and hierarchies. At a glance you can see divisions, employees and individual contacts. Also, you can now add contacts to multiple groups and companies. Sage also now boasts that third-party companies have created some 40 new ACT add-on solutions to extend the program's capabilities and perform specialized marketing, shipping and synchronization functions, to name a few. Read more......

On-demand customer-relationship management systems like Salesforce.com may be gaining attention and mindshare, but that doesn't mean the end of the line for traditional workgroup-oriented contact and CRM products. The latest versions of the venerable ACT! by Sage Premium for Workgroups (from Sage Software, formerly known as Best Software) and GoldMine Corporate Edition 7.0 (from FrontRange Solutions) continue to provide a versatile set of tools for tracking sales leads, contacts, calendars, campaigns, and more. As you might expect from products in this relatively mature category, the new features added in the latest versions don't necessarily compel upgrades for existing users. If, on the other hand, you're considering this class of products for the first time, ACT! is the more approachable of the two. GoldMine's strengths include its extensibility and customizability, telephony and VoIP integration, and project-tracking tools, but we found its standard interface to be less straightforward. Although both ACT! and GoldMine can use industrial-strength database back ends to provide scalability for larger workgroups, both also include runtime database engines that install with minimal difficulty and no ongoing administrative demands.  Read more......

Review: Sage Software ACT 2006

By Mazi Bahadori
December 2, 2005 7:20AM

At its core, ACT is a user-friendly database that tracks contact history, sales history, communications, and other client information. But ACT also meets the challenges of business users. It performs well for those who require client forecasts, graphs, charts, and well-organized customer information.  Read more......