Sage Software India announced availability of the new ACT! by Sage 2008 product family including ACT! by Sage 2008 (10.0), ACT! by Sage Premium 2008 (10.0), and ACT! by Sage Premium for Web 2008 ( 10.0). New customizable dashboards allow individuals and work groups to access priority sales opportunity and activity details in a comprehensive graphical view.

"ACT! continues to benefit millions of users, and gain new users, not only due to its core productivity features, but also because it continuously evolves to address new business requirements," said Thomas Abraham Managing Director Sage Software India. "Our new dashboards, for example, deliver rich visual analysis capabilities that were once only found in enterprise CRM systems. Now, with ACT!, they are available and affordable for small and mid-size business use."

ACT! 2008 Product Family

ACT! delivers contact and customer management capabilities that support a range of desktop, laptop, Web browser and handheld device access methods that can work seamlessly with a centralized database to help individuals, selling teams and corporate work groups improve productivity and increase sales.


New Dashboard Features

ACT! dashboards provide a comprehensive visual overview of key activities and opportunities on a single screen. Users can set an ACT! dashboard as their startup view to begin each day with a snapshot of activities that require attention, and track their progress against company goals and key performance indicators. The dashboard allows users to track their individual activities and opportunities.

The ACT! Premium and ACT! Premium for Web dashboards allow team members to track their individual activities and opportunities, while managers can also track group performance.

Managers and administrators can add or remove ACT! dashboard components, change titles or legends, and utilize drag-and-drop functionality with the Dashboard Designer to easily customize any default dashboard or create new dashboard components5.

Administrators can control data security by limiting a user's or team's access to any group or company record, determine which users can view and/or edit group and company information, and limit access to any new groups and companies created based on pre-set security preferences 8. Administrators can also temporarily suspend a remote database from synchronizing to the parent database to protect unwanted data or deletions from affecting the parent database, among other new administration features.