ACT! by Sage 2008--New Features

ACT! 2008 delivers a range of exciting new features as well as enhancements to existing features, all focused on making ACT! easier to use and more feature-rich, resulting in greater efficiency and productivity for you. The flagship component of the current release is the all-new interactive Dashboard. This sleek, modern Dashboard brings your ACT! data to life and allows you to stay on top of critical activities and opportunities. In addition, opportunity enhancements provide quick access to more comprehensive opportunity information and Group and Company improvements so you can better track and retrieve information. Plus, ACT! 2008 is compatible with Microsoft® Office 2007 and Windows Vista™.

Get a single, comprehensive view of all your tasks and information. Take action immediately from directly within the ACT! Dashboard view. – Easily evaluate your day to identify which tasks need to be completed and in what order with the ACT! Dashboard. From this view, you can easily see how you’re tracking toward your goals using benchmarks and summary information. And, you can drill down into each Dashboard component for more detail or to take further action – consider it a working view. Even copy the ACT! Dashboard to Office applications for use in e-mail, reports, presentations, and more.

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Usability enhancements allow you to use ACT! more efficiently for increased productivity - Key features you use every day have been improved, making ACT! easier to use and increasing your overall efficiency and productivity. These features allow you to edit any contact field directly from a list view without having to open the full Contact Record, add document shortcuts to Activity and History items to ensure you have the most up-to-date version of the document even when non-ACT! users make updates, and check for duplicate first and last names when entering a new Contact Record for a cleaner database. All this will help reduce your time spent on administrative tasks and allow you to focus on more important areas, such as improving your business.

Opportunity enhancements provide quick access to more comprehensive opportunity information - Enhancements have been made to Opportunities, allowing you to better track and view opportunity details. Now, you can more accurately track key decision-makers associated with an opportunity and quickly view detailed opportunity information from the List view. As a result, you’ll have better visibility into your sales opportunities and will improve business predictability.

Group and Company improvements provide increased accuracy during the data collection process, as well as improved searching - Significant improvements to functionality within Groups and Companies enable you to better organize and search on information. With these enhancements, you can now check for duplicate Groups and Companies for a cleaner database, label subgroups and divisions without naming restrictions, perform advanced searches for specific group or company information, and more – all improving the way you manage group and company information.

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