Sage ACT! - The World's Best Contact Manager!
 

IN A NUTSHELL - WHAT DOES ACT! PROVIDE FOR SALES PEOPLE?

Somewhere between the chaos of sticky notes and spreadsheets, and the complexity of CRM solutions lives an alternative—a Contact and Customer Management solution. Imagine something that keeps all your phone numbers, emails, meeting notes, to-dos, and documents for everyone you do business with in one place.

Sage ACT! is the #1 Contact and Customer Management choice of small businesses and sales teams designed to do just that. But, that's not all. With Sage ACT!, you have the option to connect to powerful, subscription-based sales and marketing services that help you build the long-lasting, profitable relationships your business thrives on. Now that's an effective way to not only manage, but also grow your business.

HISTORY OF SAGE ACT!

When ACT! first came out in the late 80'ties, it ran under MS-Dos, and was written by Contact Software International in the USA.

When it grew into a Windows Version it was sold to Symantec Corporation who built up a powerful support team of ACT! Certified Consultants. With their huge fiscal ability and very clever developers, Symantec turned  ACT! for Windows into a powerful multi-user Application and brought in some fantastic data sharing features with outstanding reporting capability.

Between 1996 and 2004, this was the version known correctly as "Symantec ACT!".  Albeit, some latter-day consultants however, not wishing to use the Symantec name (ostensibly to both show a degree of respect for the original owners of ACT! and also for the sake of nostalgia and to an extent, marketing decorum) tend to refer to that version as "Classic ACT!" or "ACT! Classic".

It was then sold under a special 4-year option/license/agreement (still correctly named Symantec ACT!) to SalesLogix Corporation, a business founded by the original owners of Contact Software International who had meanwhile offered a "big brother" to ACT! called "SalesLogix". (SalesLogix is ostensibly Account Record driven and is not essentially a People Centric application. Hence Customer Relationship Management rather than Contact Management.)

SalesLogix was of course a separate Sales Solution and so they offered the products, ACT! and SalesLogix, under a brand new company they called Interact Commerce Corporation.

Interact Commerce Corporation was later bought out by Best Software, Inc.

Finally, up to present, Best Software's Sales Solutions were bought by Sage PLC and the entire products were re-written as Dot Net Applications with the data no longer being stored in various Borland formats, but exclusively then in the more efficient, Microsoft SQL format.

ACT! was ALWAYS of course, not only "best of breed", as THE salesman's tool of choice, as it was the package which started the whole genre of sales force automation... but even today, Sage ACT! is still the World's Best Contact Manager because of its many powerful and terrific features and benefits and finally of course, its absolute simplicity of use.

In a nutshell, ACT! has a great heritage, it has matured nicely and at the same time, it has always remaining state-of-the-art having proven itself to be the right tool for so many kinds of businesses throughout the world with lots of foreign versions in different languages.

TO LEARN MORE ABOUT SAGE ACT!

Please visit the Sage ACT! website and check out prices and more:

http://www.act.com/Products-and-Services