Sage ACT! Premium 2012

Sage ACT! makes it easy for you to manage anything and everything related to your contacts and calendar. Think of it like your business' command center that serves up relevant relationship details and also connects to powerful, subscription-based sales and marketing services, desktop and web-based productivity tools, and social media to help you get results.

Know every detail about your contacts and customers.

• It's important for any business owner or salesperson to be organized, but being organized doesn't mean anything if the customer info you keep isn't actionable. Sage ACT! not only keeps all the details of your business relationships in a single, orderly view; it also makes it easy for you to drill into the specifics whenever you need to.
• Keep customer contact info, plus associated notes, history, activities, documents, opportunities, social media profiles, and more in one organized place. 
• View back-office updates1 when you use Sage ACT! with compatible Sage accounting solutions. 
• Access your contacts and calendar details from virtually anywhere with Sage ACT! Connect2,3. 

Make the most of your work day.
With Sage ACT!, you can approach the things you need to get done in an organized, prioritized manner. Keep everything from impromptu notes to personal tasks in a virtual notepad. Schedule and associate certain activities to your contacts. Take it to the next level when you setup Smart Tasks to automatically trigger and perform tasks for you, like send emails or schedule follow-up activities, so your customers get the excellent service they expect, with little work required by you. 

• Quickly capture impromptu notes and personal tasks with Sage ACT! Scratchpad4, a convenient virtual notepad.  
• Accomplish more when you let Smart Tasks automatically trigger and perform tasks you define. 
• Track scheduled activities and associate them to your contacts for a complete view of happenings with those relationships. 

Work seamlessly with the tools you rely on every day.
Finally! You can do it all from just one place. Sage ACT! works with other desktop and web-based productivity tools, and social media sites you already rely on. Seamless interaction with Microsoft® Outlook®, Gmail®, Google® Contacts, Google Calendar™, LinkedIn®, Facebook®, Hoover's™, and more means you can make the most of your existing technology investments and web services. 

• Write an Outlook email from within Sage ACT! and a history is recorded on the associated contact for quick recall. 
• Sync your Sage ACT! contacts and calendar with Outlook and Google®, then easily access from either application.
• Leverage popular social media sites within Sage ACT! to see more detail about what your customers are up to now.

Generate buzz for your products and services.
Extend the power of Sage ACT! with Sage E-marketing for ACT!3 to drive interest for your business using professional email communications. Sage E-marketing for ACT! gives you tools to engage in end-to-end e-marketing activities, from initial campaign creation through to results tracking. It's like having a full marketing department at your disposal, only it's easy enough to do yourself.

• Create, send, and track impactful email marketing campaigns. 
• Capture new leads with easy-to-create web forms, then transfer them into Sage ACT! 
• Gauge your campaign success with a ranked, qualified list of most interested prospects.

Turn new opportunities into paying customers.
When you add Sage Business Info Services for ACT!3, you always have highly-targeted leads5 in your pipeline. You get access to a large pool of leads from Hoover's™ that you segment based upon your specific criteria, and then import6 them directly into Sage ACT!. Work those leads through in-product or custom sales processes and watch as they turn into qualified prospects and eventually, profitable business relationships. 

• Segment new leads from the Hoover's™ database by location, size, industry, and more. 
• See graphical representations of performance with 40+ actionable dashboards. 
• Manage sales opportunities by tracking your products and services, associated activities, probability of close, and more
  

Sage ACT! Premium 2012 (Access via Windows®)
System Requirements

• 2 GB available hard disk space (4 GB if product is downloaded)
• DVD drive
• SVGA (1024x768) or higher resolution monitor
• Windows Installer Service 4.5; .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1
• 1 GB system memory
• Processor speed for Windows® XP
  1.0 GHz Pentium® IV processor (or equivalent)
• Processor speed for Windows Vista®  or Windows 7
  1.8 GHz Pentium IV processor (or equivalent)

Works With  Microsoft® Office 2003, 2007, and 2010 (32-bit version only) (SP3 recommended for Office 2003 and SP2 recommended for Office 2007)

• Microsoft Outlook® Express 6.0 SP21
• Lotus Notes® 6.5, 7.0.2, and 8.0
• Eudora® 5.2
• Internet Mail SMTP/POP3
• Microsoft Internet Explorer® 7.02, 8.0 and 9.0
• Adobe® Reader® 6.0, 7.0 and 10.x
• VMware® Workstation 5.x and 6.x; VMware Fusion, VMware Server 1.x, 2.x
• Citrix® software using Citrix XenApp® 5.0 and 6.03
• Parallels® Desktop for Macintosh® 4.0; and Parallels Workstation 2.2 for Windows®
• Oracle VM VirtualBox® 4.x
   

Supported Operating Systems

• Windows® XP SP34 (32-bit only)
• Windows Server® 2003 SP2 (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Windows Vista®5 SP2 (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Windows Server 20086 SP2 (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Windows 7 SP1 (32-bit and 64-bit)
   

Database Server:
Sage ACT! uses SQL Server® 2008 R2. If you would like to use a different edition of SQL Server other than the one provided, please consult Microsoft documentation for specific requirements for that edition.