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ACT! by Sage 2010--New Features

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Know. Market. Sell.

In a down economy, it’s tempting to “wait it out,” but have you considered the cost of doing nothing? New tools in ACT! by Sage 2010 help you work faster and focus on the most promising customers, saving you both time and money spent sifting through leads.

Work Better and Faster with the Easy New Design –Enjoy the new look of ACT!, with proven easier to learn and use navigation, instant access to search, related tasks, consolidated menus, big “easy” buttons, and more. You’ll get streamlined layouts and instant access to search from any view—no longer going through the lookup dialog. Related tasks provide you with more options for working with contacts, groups, opportunities, and more. You’ll see consolidated menus with relevant feature options, big “easy” buttons for tasks you complete most often, and a “new” button that lets you create anything new, from contacts to activities. The all-new Welcome Page features resources, tips, help, news, and common tasks.

Take Advantage of Leading-edge Social Media Technology - Tap into the endless possibilities of social networking and online resources for instant knowledge about your customers. See your customers on LinkedIn®, Facebook, Plaxo, and ZoomInfo, or any other sites you choose from within ACT!, to quickly understand more about their interests, their past work history, and their connections.

Generate Actionable Demand with End-to-End E-marketing - ACT! E-marketing intelligently and automatically reaches out to your ACT! contacts, runs e-mail marketing campaigns in minutes, and delivers results right to the ACT! contact record, saving you money by helping you focus on the right customers. With ACT! E-marketing, you get:

  • E-mail marketing—Create striking e-mail templates and send to contacts, lookups, groups, and companies in ACT!.
  • Drip marketing—Create a series of e-mails that are delivered to ACT! contacts over a period of time, automatically.
  • Survey and Web forms—Gather valuable feedback from existing
    contacts so you can build and grow your ACT! database.
  • Marketing results tab—Use a ranked call list of the most
    interested contacts so you know who to call first

Tailor Opportunities to Fit Your Selling Model - Sales tracking functionality in ACT! has been completely redesigned to make managing leads easier and more flexible. Sales opportunities now behave and appear like contacts, groups, and companies, so you can customize them, personalize them, track activity history, and set security options like you would a contact record.

Gain Insight with New Dashboards and Reports, and Streamlined View - Nine new dashboards have been added to ACT!, giving you at-a-glance snapshots of your customers, your sales opportunities, and even your users. Plus, you can better understand your biggest opportunities for quick wins by running one of the 13 new reports you’ve been asking for, including opportunities by process and status, pipeline by process, and many more!
With the streamlined reports view, easily understand which ACT! reports are available to you, mark reports as your favorites for quick access, and customize report descriptions for a view that’s more personalized to your needs.

 

ACT! by Sage 2010 Data Sheets

ACT! 2010 Product Brief (pdf)

ACT! -- What's New in 2010 (pdf)

Compare your version (6.0 - 2009) to ACT! by Sage 2010, and see what new features you are missing out on! (pdf)

Which version should I choose?--ACT! by Sage 2010 Features Chart by Version (pdf)

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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.

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