Release of Sage ACT! 2011 - adds great new functionality
1September 2010: Centurion, the West Sussex based Sage Business Partner, today announced the new Sage ACT! 2011 contact and customer manager; featuring new smart task automation for frequent activities such as sales opportunity and contact follow up.
"Sage ACT! 2011 is a fantastic tool for businesses that are looking to increase their productivity." explains Jonathan Richards, Managing Director of Centurion "The addition of Smart Tasks means that businesses can automate common activities and improve the productivity of sales & marketing staff. Sage E-marketing for ACT! allows targeted email messages to be easily sent to contacts and gives a valuable insight into contacts activity after receipt of the mail.. "
Richards also adds that "Sage ACT! 2011 includes greatly improved synchronisation with Microsoft Outlook so that users can synchronise email, contacts and tasks"
New Sage ACT! 2011 features and enhancements include:
Smart Tasks to automate common marketing, sales and support activities with standard and customisable templates. Smart tasks integrate with the Sage E-marketing for ACT! subscription service so users can add prospects to automated drip marketing email campaigns, track open and click through rates and send welcome messages to new customers, among other capabilities.
Microsoft Outlook synchronisation to sync Sage ACT! contacts and calendar items with those in Outlook. Data is updated in both locations regardless of where contacts were created or edited. Users control what data is synced back and forth.
Mobile Live gives users the ability to access customers' data whilst out and about. ACT! Mobile Live is an online-based mobile service that enables access to Sage ACT! Contacts and Calendar, Notes and History information at the touch of a button.
Additional enhancements include direct import from Excel®, a re-designed welcome page with instructional videos and compatibility with Microsoft® Office 2010 and Firefox®.