ACT! By Sage Premium 2008 10.0

List Price: $399.95 Discount Price: $288.40

Features:

• Scalable premium version of ACT! Improves productivity by helping you and your team organize contact information, manage daily responsibilities, and communicate more effectively
• New interactive Dashboard with comprehensive, graphical representations of key information
• Usability enhancements to common features for improved efficiency
• Improvements to sales opportunity tracking for greater visibility
• Improvements to Group and Company management for easier tracking

Customer Reviews:

ACT 2008: Hot Product [Posted on 2007-09-28]
We just recently upgraded and so far I am loving it. Here's what I use ACT for:

I am a full time project manager for a business consulting firm.

I manage and service upwards of 30 active simultaneously clients/projects at anyone time, (worth over 500k in business) in addition to another 20-30 that are sporadically active, while working and coordinating with a team of 22 people (consultants, vendors, support staff )on these projects and a minimum of 3 point people per project on the client side; there is no way I would be able to perform my work WITHOUT ACT! I have been using it for the last 2 years.

I can attach histories, documents, conversations. I can attach all my correspondance to my point person's record, taking much of the guess work out for my team as to the status of any given project and or client. When I schedule activites, keep notes and details in those activities as it morphs and changes. I have gotten fairly strong in using this application and as a result am able to truly focus on the more important aspects of my role: communication, clarification and focusing on helping my team and client achieve the projects' true objectives, within time and budget parameters.

Excel spreadsheets and outlook are a thing of the past. I live and breathe in ACT! It allows me to really be a great contributor to my company, team and clients.

Useful improvements [Posted on 2007-09-28]
I gave ACT 5 stars mainly because the built in features of scheduling, tracking history and building groups are pretty intuitive even to a non-technical person like me. Taking a one day class with an ACT consultant gave me a great kick-start and allowed me to discover some cool add-ons that I would not have found without their help. I did not like the version ACT 2005, but since then I have been very impressed. In fact I recently discovered how to easily integrate Outlook and ACT. That was the one imperfection that upset me in the past, and now I can honestly say that I am pretty pleased.

Powerful tool [Posted on 2007-10-10]
We recently upgraded to ACT! 2008 Premium for our firm. With staff in multiple states, the automatic synchronization feature makes it easier for us to stay connected.

As a manager, the dashboard has really helped me to see where our sales are, and which sales person needs to step it up a bit.

One warning, though, we had one old computer that needed to be upgraded before it could be installed.

Could not run my business without it! [Posted on 2007-12-04]
Love it, version 2008 is my favorite so far, and I have been running my business with ACT! since version 4.0 (6 versions ago).
You need 1 GIG of RAm on your PC to be happy with the performance though, most newer computers have this these days.

Same date reviews are Suspicious  [Posted on 2008-01-25]
Check the date of the reviews before taking them serious. 6 of the 8 reviews were written on Sept. 28, and the other two reviews are doubtful. Just an observation and in conflict with the reviews of the non premium version ACT! 2008 10.0 .

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