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ACT! Premium


ACT! Premium - Overview

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ACT! Premium by Sage (formerley ACT! Professional) is the latest version of one of the world's best selling Contact Manager.  Built on a SQL database, ACT! Premium has a user-friendly interface and enhanced features to bring you improved efficiency and better productivity. It is available as the standard ACT! Premium and ACT! Premium for Workgroups which has greater scalability for larger organisations.

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ACT! Premium - Features and Benefits

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Better Company Record Management – Company Records allow you to manage contacts that work for the same company at the organisation level or Company level and bring together their associated history, activity and opportunities in one view. 

Exporting to Microsoft Excel - by clicking on an icon Contacts and Sales Opportunities can be quickly exported to Excel for further analysis and reporting and this functionality can be restricted by user to ensure the security of your data.

Improved Sales Opportunities
- Tracking allowing you to accurately analyse your revenue potential, improve visibility of future orders, increase average revenue per sale and increase number of sales.

Synchronisation with Microsoft Outlook – straightforward importing of contact data into ACT! and the ability to synchronise activities with Outlook.

Pocket PC and Palm OS Synchronisation - Take important contact information with you by synchronising ACT! Premium with Palm OS and Pocket PC handhelds.

Advanced administration and synchronization in the Workgroups version of ACT! allows you to automate synchronization and backups and to carry out silent installation of the software.

Citrix and Terminal Services Support - ACT! Premium for Workgroups now fully supports these environments helping to reduce the costs and challenges of updating user machines.

Direct Link to Microsoft Outlook e-mail - Write Outlook emails from within ACT! by using the e-mail command or the e-mail address hyperlink to open a new Outlook e-mail message form. Create an ACT! Contact from a new Outlook e-mail and automatically populate the Name and E-mail Address fields.

Password Settings - Administrators can define password rules such as password expiration, complexity and re-use to help protect valuable contact data.

Field Level Security - Administrators can restrict access by user and team and grant "Read-Only" access so users can view, but not edit or delete certain fields.  "No Access" makes fields completely hidden.

Automatic Outlook Calendar Sync - Users can schedule Outlook calendar synchronisation keeping them up to date with important meetings and availability of their colleagues.

Enhanced search capabilities - Better keyword searches; taking you to the exact location of the keyword.  There is also a current lookup indicator display in the status bar and you have the ability to edit existing queries.

Define Company and Contact linked fields - Specify which fields will be linked between the Company and the Contact records so that any changes on the Company field prompt you to change that field for all contacts linked to the company.

Scheduled database maintenance - Administrators can ensure data is healthy by scheduling an automatic check and repair of the database.

ACT! Address Book - You can now add an ACT! Address Book and use it when creating e-mails.

Group/Company tree view - Easily visualise the hierarchy of your groups and subgroups as well as companies and divisions and use the tree view for quick, easy navigation between these groups.


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