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New ACT! by Sage Premium Dual Access Enables Centralized Contact and Customer Data via Web and Windows(R)
Single-License ACT! Solution Allows Multiple Data Access Options for Office, Remote and Traveling Users at an Affordable Price; Includes One Year of ACT! Business Care Support and Maintenance
| Source: Sage Software
SCOTTSDALE, AZ -- (MARKET WIRE) -- April 16, 2007 -- Sage Software announced today the new ACT!
by Sage Premium Dual Access licensing solution, and the ACT! Business Care
support and maintenance plan. ACT! Premium Dual Access enables instant,
seamless online/offline access to centralized customer data for sales
teams, small- to mid-sized businesses, and larger workgroups(1) using the
included Windows-based ACT! by Sage Premium for Workgroups and
browser-based ACT! by Sage Premium for Web applications. ACT! Premium Dual
Access also includes one year of ACT! Business Care and is priced on a
volume basis at $529.99 per single-licensed user.
"We live in a mobile world and our users need to be able to work how they
want, wherever they want," explained Joe Bergera, senior vice president and
general manager for ACT! and Sage Software Global CRM. "Therefore, we
designed ACT! to support a seamless online/offline user experience. With
ACT! Premium Dual Access, we are extending ACT! capabilities to more users
in more easily accessible ways, regardless of their roles and locations,
and through one affordably priced license. ACT! Premium Dual Access
represents another great value-add from the ACT! family of contact and
customer management solutions."
Flexible Ways For Individuals And Teams To ACT!
ACT! Premium Dual Access delivers all the features and functionality of
ACT! while providing organizations with centralized administration and
advanced data security. Administrators can easily and remotely add
additional users as well as distribute updates, report templates and
customizations(2) to team members.
ACT! Premium Dual Access users can manage and prioritize their calendars
and to-do activities, track all communications and sales opportunities, and
report results from the office, while traveling, or when working from a
remote location. Using ACT! Premium for Workgroups, users can also
synchronize data to their handheld devices.
Sales managers can manage office and remote or traveling employees with the
same tools, and receive reports from each team member, whether they are
using ACT! Premium for Workgroups or ACT! Premium for Web.
ACT! Business Care
Customers who purchase ACT! Premium Dual Access also receive an ACT!
Business Care(3) support and maintenance plan that includes one year of
product upgrades(4) and updates, access to senior product support
specialists,(5) and a dedicated toll-free number with priority queuing and
four-business-hour call-back time.
About ACT!
The introduction of ACT! in 1987 established the "Contact Management"
software category. For more than 20 years, ACT! has been the number-one
selling contact and customer management solution and preferred choice of
over 2.7 million registered users and more than 38,000 additional corporate
customers to organize, access and manage their critical customer
information. ACT! delivers powerful contact and customer management
capabilities with flexible deployment and customization options to help
individuals, selling professionals and corporate workgroups improve
productivity and increase sales.
ACT! Premium Dual Access is available by contacting the ACT! Corporate
Sales team at (866) 421-7752 or corporatelicensing.act@sage.com, or by
contacting an ACT! Certified Consultant. Users of individual ACT! Premium
for Workgroups and ACT! Premium for Web solutions can also upgrade to ACT!
Premium Dual Access; promotional upgrade pricing is available until June
30, 2007.
ACT! by Sage is part of Sage CRM Solutions, the only family of CRM products
designed specifically for the needs of small and mid-sized businesses that
also includes SageCRM, SageCRM.com and Sage SalesLogix. For more details,
visit www.sagecrmsolutions.com or call (888) 855-5222.
About Sage Software
Sage Software supports the needs, challenges, and dreams of more than 2.7
million small- and mid-sized business customers in North America through
easy-to-use, scalable and customizable software and services. Our products
support accounting, operations, customer relationship management, human
resources, time tracking, merchant services and the specialized needs of
the construction, distribution, healthcare, manufacturing, nonprofit and
real estate industries. Sage Software is a subsidiary of The Sage Group
plc, a leading international supplier of accounting and business management
software solutions and related products and services for small- and
mid-sized businesses. Formed in 1981, Sage was floated on the London Stock
Exchange in 1989 and the Group now has 5.2 million customers and employs
over 13,000 people worldwide. For more information, please visit the Web
site at www.sagesoftware.com/moreinfo or call (866) 308-2378.
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and the Sage Software product and service names mentioned herein are
registered trademarks or trademarks of Sage Software SB, Inc., or its
affiliated entities. All other trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.
(1) Published minimum system requirements are based on single-user
environments. Actual scalability and number of networked users supported
will vary based on hardware and size and usage of your database. Sage
Software scalability recommendations are based on in-house performance
tests using the recommended server system requirements found at:
www.act.com/2008systreq. You must purchase one license of ACT! per user.
(2) In ACT! Premium for Web, customizations must be made on the ACT!
Premium for Web server.
(3) ACT! Business Care (which includes product upgrades, product updates,
and customer support) will be renewed automatically each year on the
anniversary date of the shipment of your product unless you terminate your
agreement prior to that date. Renewal is not required for continued access
to product updates.
(4) Product upgrades include an upgrade to ACT! by Sage Premium for
Workgroups and ACT! by Sage Premium for Web for one year from the date of
purchase. See www.act.com/support/DualAccess for more information.
(5) Specialists reserve the right to limit calls to one incident or one
Support Hour. Support Specialists are available 8:30 am to 8:30 pm ET,
Monday through Friday. Support is not available for users who do not meet
the minimum system requirements.