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Sage ACT! Product Comparison and Recommended System Requirements

ACT! by Sage Product Features for v2012

Sage ACT! Pro v2012

Sage ACT! Premium v2012

Manage Relationships

60+ pre-defined fields for contact details, emails & phone numbers

Note, history, activity & document tracking

Social media profiles

Last communication fields

Duplicate checking

Record merge

Related contacts

Group & company tracking

Automatic add & remove of contacts in groups & companies

Linked company & contact fields (See*1)

Tabbed interface

Big "easy" buttons

Right-click (See*2) & one-click functionality

Type ahead

Multi-select drop-downs

"Layman" wording throughout

Setup assistance for configuring preferences

In-context help, feature tours & documentation

Search

 

 

Central search

Lookups on all fields

Advanced queries

Activity, opportunity, document and user lookups

Save lookups as groups & companies

Be More Productive

Activities tied to contact records

Editable priority, activity & history types

Activity series for activities with multiple steps (See*3)

Activity rollover

Multiple calendar views

Filterable task list view

Activity alarms

Calendar pop-ups

Calendar access by user

At-a-glance user availability

X

Manage & define resources

X

Conflict notification

X

Activities for 10+ users viewable on your ACT! calendar

X

Market Effectively

Email marketing (See*4)

Drip marketing (See*4)

Survey & web forms (See*4)

Marketing results tab (See*4)

Attach emails to contacts

Preformatted templates for emails & letters

Mail merge to contacts & groups

Validate & correct addresses during mail merge

History of all customer correspondence

Sell More

   

Opportunity note, history, activity & document tracking

Product & service tracking

Built-in ACT! sales stages

Opportunity date fields

Opportunity designations as open, closed-lost & inactive

Instant quotes (See*4,5)

Filterable opportunity list view

Opportunity list export to Microsoft Excel

Measure results

Interactive activity, opportunity, and user dashboards

Dashboard targets

Dashboard with team views

X

Interactive pipeline report with drilldown capability

50+ preformatted report templates

Export reports to Excel, HTML, PDF or email

Activity reports by user

X

Connector for third party report writers

Share & Secure

Up to 10 Users

Up to 100 Users

X

Viewable team memberships

X

Secured contacts, notes, history & opportunities

Field level security

X

Company security (See*6)

Group & company security (See*6)

X

5 security roles for users

User permissions & access specifications

Enhanced file security

Password rules

Personalise (See*3)

   

Layout designer for editing layouts

Field types designed as date, currency, yes/no, expansive memo & picture

Remove, add or edit fields

Add values to drop-downs

Customisable menus, toolbars, columns & navigation bar

Customisable sales processes

Customisable opportunity field names & field types

Customisable dashboards with dashboard designer

Customisable reports within the report designer

ACT! online community for free downloads

ACT! Software Development (SDK)

Enhancement solutions developed by third-party vendors (See*7)

Access

   

Offline access

Mobile access including Blackberry & iPhone (See*8)

Citrix or terminal services

Integrate

 

Office & Outlook integration (See*9)

Send meeting invites from ACT! to any iCalendar connected calendars

Contact & activity creation from Outlook emails

Share ACT! contact in vCard format

Lotus Notes integration

Excel import and export

ACT! integrates with Sage Instant Accounts

Sage Business Information Services for ACT!

Sage ACT! Connect

Direct Excel integration

Administer & Maintain

   

Automatic backup

Automatic database maintenance

Automatic synchronisation

Silent install (See*9) administration & activation

X

Automatic install updates

X

*1 - Not all fields can be linked and linked fields must be compatible.

*2 - In ACT! Premium for Web this feature may behave differently.

*3 - In ACT! Premium for Web, administrative functions must be performed on the Web server.

*4 - Requires additional subscription.

*5 - Requires Microsoft Excel and Word 2003, 2007 or 2010 32 Bit.

*6 - Limited access group and company names will be viewable from the tree view, but all associated information will remain inaccessible.

*7 - Requires additional purchases. Sage and its affiliates are not in any way liable or responsible for any claims made related to products or services provided by third party vendors. Sage does not guarantee the quality of third party products or services.

*8 - Requires additional purchase

*9 - Delivered as an MSI package. Software to distribute an MSI package is not included. Silent Activation on machines requires internet access. Users must be machine administrators in order to activate.

Recommended System Requirements for Sage ACT! Pro and ACT! Premium version 2012

Please note these are the shortened system requirements for quick reference only. For the FULL ACT! system requirements please see the Sage website.

  • Pentium PC with a 2GHz processor (or equivalent processor) or higher

  • Operating system Microsoft 32 Bit versions of Microsoft® Windows® XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 or 64 Bit versions of Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 - Please note ACT! Premium for Web is not compatible with Windows Small Business Server 2008 or 2011.

  • DVD player as the ACT! software now comes on a DVD

  • Recommended 1GB RAM for Windows XP, 2GB RAM for Windows Vista, 7, Server 2003, Server 2008, Small Business Server 2011 and 4Gb RAM for all PCs running a 64-bit operating system

  • Recommended 10GB free disc space after Windows

  • Please ensure that the latest Microsoft updates are installed

  • Network Users only: 1Gbps network cards and switches with Microsoft Windows networking

  • Works with Microsoft Office 2003, 2007 and 2010 32 Bit. It does NOT work with the 64 Bit version.

  • Please ensure that the latest Microsoft updates are installed

  • Performance will be improved with higher specification computers and networks

  • Please note it is not possible to run multiple copies of this product on a single computer

  • Concurrent User Limits: Windows XP Home and Vista Home Basic 5 users, Windows XP Professional and Windows Vista Home Premium, Business, Enterprise or Ultimate 10 users. Windows 7 (all editions) 20 users.

  • Important note: In a networked environment, ACT! by Sage 2012 has a maximum of 10 users. If you require more users you'll need to buy ACT! by Sage Premium 2012

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