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ACT! by Sage 2009--New Features

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ACT! 2009 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.

Work More Effectively, Maximize Productivity, and Better Serve Your Contacts. – You receive powerful new features and significant enhancements to areas of the product that you use every day, such as Microsoft® Outlook® integration, calendar and activity visibility, and search functionality. All this enables you to work more effectively, become more productive, and better serve your contacts.

Tighter Outlook Integration Provides Options for Tracking and Organizing E-mail - New and improved Outlook integration features afford you the flexibility to track and organize e-mails in ACT! en masse or on a case-by-case basis. Or, automate these functions so you can set them once and forget about them. Calendar integration features enable you to create ACT! activities from Outlook for tracking important action items received via e-mail, and copy your ACT! and Outlook calendars automatically or with just one click.

Greater Calendar and Activity Visibility Help You Stay On Top of Your Day - Improvements to calendar printing and viewing make it easy for you to get relevant snapshots of your schedule and give you a heads up on your scheduled activities at-a-glance. This way you can stay on top of your day and realize maximum productivity gains.

Powerful Lookups and Search Functionality Quickly Give You the Details You Need- Lookups and search functionality have been streamlined, helping you find the particular contact or contact details you need quickly, in one lookup-friendly place. Build the most basic or complex searches using a tool that has been simplified and enhanced. And easily recall recent lookups to save time in your day.

More Database Functions2 and Automation Options Help Maintain ACT! Details - With more database functions and automation options, you can spend time managing what is most important to your bottom line and feel confident your ACT! details are fully maintained. Now, ACT! automatically handles periodic database maintenance tasks and provides you with a variety of options for tailoring maintenance to fit your needs. Additionally, know exactly how your ACT! sync is progressing with the streamlined progress bar, reduce the size of your backup files by excluding attachments, and more.

and even more new features in midyear release (March 2009) 11.1

ACT! by Sage 2009 Data Sheets

ACT! by Sage 2009 (11.0) - Datasheet (pdf)

ACT! by Sage 2009 Premium (11.0) - Datasheet (pdf)

ACT! by Sage 2009 (11.0) Solutions Feature Comparison Chart for upgrading ACT! users

ACT! by Sage 2009 (11.0) System Requirements (pdf)

Which version should I choose?--ACT! by Sage 2009 Features Chart by Version (pdf)

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What's New

March 2010
Peachtree by Sage completes beta testing on Peachtree by Sage 2011. Exciting new features to be announced soon.

February 2010
Don Joseph featured speaker on Drip Marketing to Midwest Society of Professional Consultants on February 3--full details

January 2010
Northbrook Consulting Group has first-ever installation Sage KnowledgeSync Business Activity Montoring software with Sage BusinessWorks client to insure response to key business events.

December 2009
Don Joseph discusses ACT! 2010 new features with Larry Ritter, Sage senior vice president and general manager of CRM Applications, at ACT! by Sage Townhall (Chicago)

November 2009
Sage BusinessWorks 2010 is released with exciting new features.

Now is the time to order your year-end tax forms.

October 2009
ACT by Sage 2010 receives Editors' Choice Award from PC Mag.com.

Modern Contractor Solutions discusses the time-saving and cost-saving benefits of the new features in Peachtree by Sage: Small Firm, Big Opportunity

September 2009
ACT! by Sage 2010 (12.0) is released.. New features and enhancements will automatically go to those with ACT! Platinum Care or ACT! Total Care.

August 2009
Stonefield Query for ACT!, our featured add-on product, is a user-friendly database report writing, query, and data mining tool designed specifically for ACT! by Sage.

ACT Platinum Care new benefits announced by Sage.

July 2009
Northbrook Consulting's Don Joseph receives Swiftpage Silver Drip Marketing Consultant Certification

Sage BusinessWorks 2010 enters alpha testing. New features announced.

June 2009
ACT! by Sage 2010 (12.0) enters beta testing. New features and enhancements will automatically go to those with ACT! Platinum Care or ACT! Total Care. Promotional prices extended on both.

May 2009
Don Joseph presents "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the ACT / Sage BusinessWorks Link and More" to Sage Partners as part of annual Sage Insights 2009 in Nashville

April 2009
Sage releases ACT! by Sage for Real Estate 11 and ACT! by Sage for Financial Professionals 11