ACT! by Sage Premium Solutions 2010


Your business life is hectic. Meeting deadlines and handling all the necessary details are urgent priorities.
We understand. ACT! Premium Solutions were created for teams of people like you—people who must manage their growing business and associated business relationships. You and your team need a way of tracking and sharing information with team members and managers to ensure goals are being met.
Choose ACT! Premium Solutions so you can provide a better customer experience because you have a complete, integrated view of those relationships—all in one easy-to-access location. Maximize productivity so you have time to focus your attention on business-critical activities. Your managers get a detailed snapshot of team performance to ensure targets are being met, while comprehensive reporting helps them make informed decisions to successfully advance the business.
  • Teams/Workgroups
  • Sales Reps
  • Sales Managers
  • IT Administrators
  • Versions
In a weaker economy, it’s tempting to "wait it out," but consider the cost of doing nothing. ACT! helps you grow your business by attracting new customers and getting more from existing relationships.
  • Organize all the details of your customer relationships. Strong business relationships are essential to your success. Get a complete view of the people you do business with, plus instant access to past interactions and e-mails sent. Next time a customer calls, you’re prepared with a response about what you discussed last time, as well as personal details to set your business apart 
     
  • Generate actionable demand with end-to-end E-marketing.Not only can you create and send striking e-mail and drip marketing campaigns using a simple online editor, you’ll also be able to quickly identify your most interested prospects using a ranked call list so you know who to reach out to first.;
     
  • Take action on your most qualified sales leads.Focus on your most viable leads by capturing and managing each lead through the sales process. Record detailed progress notes, include your products and services, and see the probability of close. This gives you total visibility and control of your sales pipeline.
     
  • Be more productive right away.Don't worry about a learning curve. ACT! is easy to learn and use. In fact, you can be 25%2 more productive by simply choosing ACT! over the competition.


     
  • Integrate with your existing business solutions.Take full advantage of the familiar solutions you've already invested in. Integrate ACT! with your e-mail, calendar, and more than 10 popular business solutions, including Outlook®, Word, Excel®, and Lotus Notes®.
     
1. Requires additional subscription.
2. Based on a Keystroke Level Modeling competitive study conducted by Sage and Measuring Usability, LLC in May 2009. Competitors included Microsoft Dynamics® CRM and Salesforce.com.
Sales Representatives
Meeting ever-increasing sales quotas while selling against competitors is a key challenge for many sales reps. ACT! Premium Solutions are here to help you…

  • Meet your sales quotas and drive revenue by guiding your deals through close using a sales process customized to fit your selling philosophy.
  • Manage your daily responsibilities and automate redundant tasks so you feel confident nothing is forgotten, while you focus on more important things, like selling.
  • Get a complete view of your relationships and provide superior service to your customers while also expanding current accounts, with easy access to all the details about their unique circumstances.
  • Reach out to your prospects more effectively with professional and timely prospecting communications.
  • Focus your attention where it counts by assessing your sales pipeline, including your top sales opportunities and total sales for the month, all in one view using interactive dashboards and eliminate the need to run and analyze reports.
Sales Managers
Motivating sales reps to use a solution to manage their prospect and customer information can be challenging for many sales managers. The good news is, sales people love using ACT! Premium Solutions. Choose ACT! Premium Solutions and…

  • Ensure rapid end-user adoption, with little or no training required by you, because ACT! Premium Solutions are easy to learn and use.
  • View how your sales reps are tracking to their sales goals and how their time is allocated using interactive dashboards and reports. With this information, you can coach your sales reps, and help underperforming reps get back on track without delay.
  • Enhance sales predictability and results by providing a customized sales process for your team to guide their deals through close.
  • Streamline your team’s daily functions so they can focus more on selling rather than administrative tasks, to ultimately improve their productivity.
  • Maintain relationship details, despite sales rep turnover. Rest assured that prospect and customer details will remain as an organizational asset, even as your team changes.
IT Administrators
Finding the right solution for your users to manage their prospect and customer information, that also matches organizational requirements, is a big task for many IT administrators. ACT! Premium Solutions deliver on these requirements and help you…

  • Reduce implementation burdens by installing ACT! Premium Solutions, which enable quick deployment and integrate with existing technology investments.
  • Match your organization’s unique needs by customizing1 ACT! Premium Solutions using layout designers that require little technical knowledge and help ensure user adoption.
  • Accommodate the access needs of your users with Windows®- and Web-based2 deployment options which have seamless interfaces.
  • Ensure database security so information is only accessible by those whom you have granted access, while you rest assured this data is protected.
  • Maintain ACT! Premium Solutions easily by utilizing automatic database functions1 so your organization and your users always have up-to-date prospect and customer information, with little work required by you.
1. In ACT! Premium for Web, administrative functions must be performed on the Web server.
2. ACT! Premium for Web is only available with ACT! Premium Corporate Edition.
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ACT! is a feature-rich, robust contact and customer management solution ideal for individuals and small business professionals who have contacts or customers. ACT! Premium Solutions are the ultimate solutions for corporate workgroups and sales teams that depend on strong opportunity management and coordinated teamwork to grow their businesses. Co
Features
ACT!
ACT! Premium Solutions
Contact and Customer Management
Maintain contact details, notes, history, activities, opportunities, documents, secondary contacts, and more on Contact Records
Duplicate checking and the ability to merge records
Lookups and Searching
Lookups on all fields
Advanced queries
Sales Opportunity Management
Built-in or custom sales process with multiple steps s
Track product/services, details, and more for each sales opportunity
Calendar and Activity Management
Schedule calls, meetings, and to-dos, plus custom activities
At-a-glance user availability
 
Prospect and Customer Communications
ACT! and Outlook® e-mail integration
Create activities and contacts from Outlook e-mails
Dashboards and Reporting
Dashboard with team views
 
Report on activities by user
 
Data Sharing and Security
View activities for 10+ users on your ACT! calendar
 
Specify user permissions and access
Anywhere Workforce
Windows or offline access
Web
 
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