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 Sage 50 ACT! 2008
Sage 50 ACT! 2008 is the market leading CRM software from Sage. It is the latest product update in the very successful ACT software product range.
With more than 2.7 million individual users, Sage 50 ACT! is the number one selling contact and customer management solution worldwide. The Sage 50 ACT! 2008 Product Family offers a range of solutions geared to individuals, small businesses, and corporate workgroups or teams to assist in increasing individual productivity, improving sales performance, and providing key insight into all customer interactions. Sage offers flexible deployment options including Windows, Web-based, and mobile access solutions to provide timely access to critical contact and customer information. Sage 50 ACT! 2008 is renowned for exceptional end-user adoption, low overall total cost of ownership (TCO), and high return on investment (ROI) for both individuals and organizations.
How can Sage 50 ACT! Improve Your Business?
- It manages you by managing your diary and tasks, and reminds you when to do what.
- It manages your contacts by storing them in one place and tracking all documents, emails and phone calls for both you and your colleagues.
- It manages your business by monitoring sales opportunities and produces pipeline and forecasting reports.
Target new Prospects
You can use Sage 50 ACT! to easily analyse historical sales trends, understand the profile of your best customers and using this information, plan effective marketing and sales campaigns.
Generate Business Leads
Sage 50 ACT! is a comprehensive tool for marketing; you can quickly and easily use existing information or import bought–in data for direct mailshots, faxshots and email communication. For example, select groups of prospects you wish to mail and with the superb integration with Microsoft Word, create an effective direct mail campaign including HTML e-mails.
Convert Leads to Sales
With its own built in sales process system or by designing your own system, you can track all communication with the prospect, ensure maximum service levels are maintained through out the sales cycle and close business quickly and efficiently. Built in reporting improves accuracy of sales forecasts for a single team or a whole sales team.
Improve Customer Relations
Sage 50 ACT! automatically tracks all communication with your customers including mailshots, letters, meetings and when linked to Sage 50 Accounts or MMS accounting packages provides essential financial information. This ensures a professional interface with your customers and lays the foundation for a long-term relationship and additional sales.
Sage 50 ACT! 2008 - Overview
Centralize Critical Customer Information
Sage 50 ACT! 2008 is a single, central repository for critical contact and customer information captured across your business. Sage 50 ACT! works with up to 10 users in a network environment, and enables you to access detailed contact and customer information, manage individual and team calendars and activities, capture all customer communications, track opportunities through the sales process, and report on overall effectiveness. And, because Sage 50 ACT! allows you to link to Palm OS® and Pocket PC, you can download the data you need for instant access when you're on the go.
Stay on Top of Your Deliverables
Sage 50 ACT! helps you stay on top of all your daily responsibilities, whether it’s a task you must complete, a call with a customer, a meeting with a co-worker, or an e-mail to a prospect. And, everything you do in Sage 50 ACT! is related to a contact. So, once that item is completed, it’s tracked on the contact for a complete history of your interactions. Multiple calendar views including Daily, Weekly, Monthly, and customizable Work Week views are also provided in Sage 50 ACT!, and calendar pop-ups provide quick at-a-glance views into the day’s appointments. Calls, meetings, and to-do items can be filtered by priority, date range or user, with totals being displayed for each type of activity. Even create your own custom activity types so you can better track activities key to your business. And, Activity Alarms will help you stay on top of all your time-sensitive deliverables, while incomplete activities roll over to the next day to help you ensure that nothing slips through the cracks.
Easily Integrate with the Tools You Use Everyday
Sage 50 ACT! delivers one of the most robust integrations with Microsoft Office available today. With Sage 50 ACT!, you can perform key calendar and e-mail tasks in either Sage 50 ACT! or Microsoft Outlook® and ensure the data is still captured on your Sage 50 ACT! Contact Record. In addition, integration with Microsoft Excel® allows for one-click export of Contact, Group, Company, or Opportunity Lists to an Excel spreadsheet for sharing with non-ACT! users or for further analysis. And, integration with Microsoft Word allows you to perform mail merges for communications with prospects and customers and record a history on each individual contact record.
Forecast and Track Sales Opportunities
Sage 50 ACT! enables sales professionals to track sales opportunities from initial inquiry through close utilizing the standard sales process or a process customized to suit your business. Sales opportunities can be viewed all at once or filter by Users, Estimated Close, Date, Status, Sales Stage, Amount, or Probability of Close. And, when working an opportunity, you can simply click follow-up and a new activity will be created automatically with the opportunity details.
Tailor Sage 50 ACT! to Capture Data Unique to Your Business
Sage 50 ACT! can be adapted to meet your unique requirements so you can make more insightful business decisions. End-user friendly and adaptable, users can easily add, delete and edit fields and tabs within Sage 50 ACT! Layout Designer to meet specific needs. For example, field types can be designated as Date, Currency, Yes/No, Expansive Memo, and Picture fields to ensure you are capturing and can report on the right type of data. Priority, Activity, and History types are customizable so you can define “Billable Hours” as an activity type instead of just using “Meeting,” “Call,” or “To-Do.”
Get Up and Running Quickly
Sage 50 ACT! is easy to install. With a Start Here Guide, an easy step-by-step Installation Wizard, a Getting Started Wizard to help configure common preferences and settings, and Product Feature Tours, you can get up and running quickly. Using a personal information manager or PDA software to manage contacts? No problem. Data can be imported from popular formats including .csv, Outlook, and Palm Desktop, eliminating the work involved in re-entering data.
Note: Sage 50 ACT! 2008 replaces Sage ACT!
Sage 50 ACT! Premium 2008
Should you be considering Sage 50 ACT! Premium 2008?
These products provide:
- Flexible deployment options with Windows and Web versions in the same box.
- Scalability to accommodate larger workgroups or teams.
- Centralized administration and advanced security functions geared towards workgroups and teams.
- Automatic database synchronization, maintenance, and backup to ensure up-to-date customer information and database reliability.
- Advanced opportunity tracking for more accurate data and better reporting.
- Group Scheduling for your entire workgroup to increase team efficiency.
- Automatic synchronization of sage 50 ACT! and Outlook calendars so you have current times of important meetings.
Sage 50 ACT! Premium
The Web version provides contact and customer management users with anytime, anywhere access to centralized, secure data – enabling remote, traveling, or office-based users access to information in real time through a Web browser. Simple server installation allows for easy roll-out to users and provides organizations with the security of knowing that critical customer data stays within their firewalls, not on individual user PCs. Sage 50 ACT! Premium for Web delivers all of the benefits of hosted Web-based solutions, without the recurring cost of monthly fees!
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