ACT!

Features: Sage Software has unveiled the ACT! by

Sage 2007 product family. The new product family comprised ACT! by Sage 2007

(9.0), ACT! by Sage Premium for Workgroups 2007 (9.0), ACT! by Sage Premium for

Web 2007 (9.0) and ACT! for Palm OS 2.0.






Sage in a statement announced a simultaneous upgrade of the entire ACT! product
family, enabling users of the number-one selling contact and customer manager to

utilize the latest ACT! features from their desktop, laptop, Web browser or Palm

OS device.






“With the most flexible deployment options, ACT! supports on-line and off-line
access to centralized customer data for corporate sales teams, small businesses

and individuals,” the statement said.






The new ACT! 2007 features included direct integration with Microsoft Outlook,
enhanced user productivity, simplified administration and field-level data

security.






“Long recognized for enabling millions of end-users to achieve their dreams
and aspirations, Sage is excited to see businesses of all shapes and sizes

rapidly adopting ACT! Premium capabilities which are specifically designed to

help sales teams and other customer management teams maximize their

organizational performance,” explained Thomas Abraham, managing director for

Sage Software India (P) Ltd.






“In order to continue providing the industry's most compelling value
proposition for our expanding addressable market, we built ACT! 2007 with the

most diverse set of deployment options, application integrations and feature

enhancements in its 19 year history,” he added.






ACT! Premium tier products were designed to offer teams and workgroups
additional functionality in the areas of centralized administration, advanced

opportunity tracking and advanced data security.






“There is no process more intimate to an organization than its sales
process,” said Mary Wardley, vice president of Enterprise Applications and CRM

Software research for IDC. “In an economy of ever increasing competition and

decreasing margins, internal efficiencies and productivity within the sales

function are under scrutiny. Implementing a tool such as ACT! at the corporate

level introduces the concepts of shared customer data management and process

automation at a time when they are well needed.”






ACT! could be customized for specific business environments and also offered
turnkey integration with common business applications.