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)

What's New

February, 2012
Sage Peachtree 2013 begins beta testing. Sage Peachtree is being renamed Sage 50 with the launch of the 2013 release.

January 13, 2012
Hotfix 1 for Service Pack 1 of Sage ACT! 2012 is released for download. The hotfix must be applied after the Service Pack. Contact us or the Sage ACT! Download Center for more information.

January 2012
Service Pack 8 for Sage BusinessWorks 2011 is released. It supercedes Service Pack 7, because it contains tax table changes implemented in last week of December. Download

December 2011
Service Pack 6 for Sage BusinessWorks 2011 (containing year-end payroll forms) is released.

Service Pack 1 for Sage ACT! 2012 is released.

Sage BusinessWorks 2012 begins Alpha testing. Integrated Credit Card Processing is major new feature

November 2011
Don Joseph receives certification as ACT! Premier Trainer and Sage BusinessWorks Certified Consultant.

Don Joseph leads Outbound Internet Marketing discussion for Chicago North Shore area club of Institute of Management Consultants USA.

October 2011
Don Joseph attends Perfecting ACT!, with other Certified Consultants, Sage Management, Support, and Engineering to maximize the value of Sage ACT! to our clients.

September 1, 2011
Sage ACT! 2012 is released! Contact us now to see exciting new features: Work seamlessly with Google^® Apps; Universal Search (database and attachments); Virtually anywhere access with Sage ACT! Connect.

June 2011
Illinois Civil Unions law takes effect. Payroll users need to adjust systems accordingly. Affected employees are Single for Federal Taxes and Married for Illinois.

April 2011
Sage Peachtree 2012 new and improved features announced.

Don Joseph leads Nurture Marketing for Prospects and Inactive Clients demonstrating simple, inexpensive tools to automate drip marketing for Chicago North ABC of Institute of Management Consultants USA.

November 2010
Sage announces three Sage Business Care for ACT! plans to protect your business-critical investment.

October 2010
Password recovery offered for Sage ACT! and Sage Peachtree clients by Northbrook Consulting Group,

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