Product Description

ACT! 2006 enables you to instantly access key contact and customer information, manage and prioritize activities, and track all contact-related communications so you can grow productive business relationships. With ACT!, you can generate reports for a complete view of customer interactions and improve your bottom line by forecasting and tracking customer opportunities. Access and report on information quickly for a complete view of customer interactions Stay productive by taking critical information on the go

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1475 in Software
• Brand: Sage
• Model: ACTS2006RT
• Released on: 2005-09-12
• Platforms: Windows 2003 Server, Windows XP, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2000
• Format: CD-ROM
• Dimensions: 8.00 pounds

Features

• Synchronize your Calendar, Contacts, Notes, and more to Palm OS or Pocket PC devices
• Organize your critical contact data in one place
• Stay in touch to grow business relationships
• Forecast and track sales opportunities
• Get a complete view of customer interactions

Amazon.com Product Description
ACT!, from Sage, has been known as the software program for contact and customer information management. The new ACT! 2006 builds on its past successes of providing a central customer database to track contact details, notes, history, appointments, to-do lists, documents, and new opportunities, and adds more features and better integration with Microsoft Office, Lotus notes, and handheld devices.

Manage customer interactions at the company level with the Company Record feature.

With all your contact information in one place you can more easily track key customer data. Each customer record includes over 60 pre-defined fields, including Name, Company, Phone, Address, Website, Email, Last Meeting Date, ID/Status, and other customizable fields depending on your specific needs. When you create company records you can view a compiled history with notes and opportunities related to each contact at that company. The Groups feature lets you communicate and schedule with related contacts. The notes and other entries you create can be customized using Rich Text Formatting (FTF) so you can add color, links, bullets, graphics, and more. You can also customize layouts by changing colors, adding logos and moving fields so that each record displays the most important information to you in a way that's clear to you.

One of ACT!'s greatest strengths is its ability to help you stay in touch with growing business relationships. With it you can track customer correspondences and view a history of all communications with that company or organization.

Act! also supplies pre-formatted templates for emails, letters, memos and faxes so that you don't need to fuss with the details or start from scratch each time. Perform a mail merge by selecting a group of contacts to send one email or letter, and a history of the correspondence is then automatically generated for each contact. If you choose, you can use the ACT! E-mail Client to create, send and track e-mail, or use your existing client, as ACT! has seamless integration with Outlook, Outlook Express and Lotus Notes.

Prioritize your day to stay on top of appointments and tasks.

ACT! helps you prioritize work so that you never lose out on opportunities or forget to follow up with a contact. With ACT! you can easily schedule calls, meetings, and to-dos, or filter these actions by priority, date range, or user. The calendar can be viewed by day, week or month, giving you specific actions for each day or a broader view to plan out an entire month. If you mouse over any activity in the calendar, you'll see a pop-up window with an "at-a-glance" view. Additionally, Activity Alarms will help you stay on top of action items, and incomplete activities will roll over to the next day until they are checked off. ACT! and Outlook calendars can even be synchronized so that you can still schedule appointments with those who don't use ACT!.

ACT! doesn't just let you plan for today: you can also use it to forecast for tomorrow. The built-in Sales Process helps you track sales opportunities, and you can view all opportunities at once or filter by specified criteria.

The Product List lets you track products or service names, along with item number, cost, and price, and you can generate quotes for sales opportunities without having to re-enter information. There are over 20 pre-formatted Sales Reports, or you can export reports to Microsoft Excel for further data analysis.

Those on the go will appreciate the ability to synchronize the ACT! calendar, contact list, to-do information, notes, and history items with Palm OS or Pocket PC devices. Or if you prefer paper organizers you can print to more than 20 of the most popular organizer formats. When out of the office, you can access critical information via Citrix or Terminal Services.

Enhance your database for more accurate reporting.

Customer Reviews

I use it all the time
ACT 2006 is definitely better than ACT 2005 because it's not as clunky but it still required some calls to tech support to get the synchronization working but I still love it. Compared to what's out there, I think you get a lot of bang for your buck.

ACT -- happy
I've used ACT 2000 (!!!) for years and years now. I've never had a single OS problem. It's lived through computer upgrades to OS and hard drive moves. Not a hiccup anytime. I've never been inclined to upgrade as the upgrades seem to take away features I have in ACT 2000.

Training Analyst who adores Act!
Okay, for those of you who are completely new to ACT 2006, this review is coming from someone who had no experience in using this software nor any prior knowledge of this product.

I know reading most of these reviews sound very discouraging and in some cases down right horrific. However, I have been working with ACT 2006 for over a month. I've downloaded it onto my HP laptop. I can truely say that I prayed before loading it, but I don't think it was necessary because ACT has been wonderful to me.

My profession only requires me to keep contact information and activities. It allows me to customize the fields, lists and reports to meet my needs and I think that's just awesome. I don't use the sales module at all. I was totally unorganized before using ACT, thus the reason why I took my chances.

ACT is a downloadable product. You must meet the minimum system requirements. Like many other software requirements, when you do not meet them, it causes havoc on your computer. If you have an old computer that doesn't have the space or if you have a computer that already have a bunch of crap on it, of course the programs will be slow and in some cases, shut your computer down. That's with any product. For me, when I am utilizing ACT, I only have a few things running at the same time(Outlook, 1 internet browser and maybe a MS document).

Also, most times I don't even have outlook opened because I am able to send emails through ACT and read them as well. It integrates nicely if you ask me.

This software is so affordable on Amazon if you need a quick solution to managing contacts. If you have any questions, please email me at satinwaves@aol.com.

P.S. Check out www.act.com and do a TEST DRIVE

Cee