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OVER 150 ACT! ADD ON PRODUCTS COMPATIBLE WITH NEW ACT! VERSION 6.0SCOTTSDALE, AZ – August 20, 2002 –ACTTM, the best-selling contact manager from Best Software, today announced the availability of ACT! version 6.0. At launch, over 150 products in the ACT! add-on community are compatible with ACT! 6.0.“We have a very strong and loyal community of add-on product partners that include both ACT! Certified Consultants and third-party developers,” said Kristi Sprecher, senior director of ACT! partner programs, Best Software. “Over 150 add-on products are compatible with ACT! 6.0 at launch and we are thrilled with the response we have received from our partners. With the majority of our product partners participating, our customers using ACT! in cohesion with an add-on product can move to the new version without having to worry about compatibility.” Add-on products are available for vertical markets such as: • Financial Services • Real Estate • Mortgage Banking • Recruiters • Insurance • Manufacturer’s Representatives • Credit and Collections CoStar ARES from CoStar Group is one of the top selling vertical market add-on products. It was built exclusively for commercial real estate professionals. “CoStar ARES has revolutionized the way I do business. It has incorporated the features of 3 separate databases into one easy-to-use package through ACT!. It also works seamlessly with Outlook for even greater organization of e-mail,” said William Kim, Colliers Seeley International. “For a Commercial Broker in this day and age, time management and organization is essential for success. ARES has truly brought organization back to my business.” Another popular vertical market solution is Sales Manager for ACT! from pinpoint tools. Sales Manager lets salespeople and manufacturer's reps in all industries track their forecasts, quotes, proposals and orders all the way through the sales cycle. This add-on facilitates tracking manufacturers, part numbers, items, prices, shipping costs, discounts and commissions, as well advanced forecasting and reporting capabilities. “Sales Manager for ACT! adds capabilities to ACT! that allows me to track sales for multiple products and multiple manufacturers,” said Ken Schneider, Schneider Sales And Marketing. “This allows my manufacturer's representative sales agency to provide better service to my dealers and better forecasting to my manufacturers. In addition to vertical market add-on products, products are available for enhanced business productivity in the following categories: • Addressing • Books, Training and Newsletters • Business Planning • Communications through e-mail, messaging and fax • Customer Support and HelpDesk • Data Import, Export, Lookup and Management • Mailing and Shipping • Mapping • Project Management • Quoting and Proposals • Reporting • Sales and Marketing tools • Telephony • Utilities • Web and Wireless Access ListGrabber™ from eGrabber is another popular ACT! add-on product. eGrabber makes a variety of other “grabber” products including AddressGrabber, ResumeGrabber and Web Response Grabber. Specifically, ListGrabber imports leads from yellowpages.com, scanned lists, word files and trade show lists into an ACT! database with a simple click. “For Sales people at LexJet, ListGrabber delivers s a steady stream of leads to act upon. It allows us to spend time selling not working with data," said Chris Cudzilo at LexJet Direct. For more information on ACT! 6.0, please go to www.act.com. For additional information on add-on products available to enhance ACT!, please go to www.actaddons.com. About ACT! Software For over 15 years, ACT! has been the best-selling contact management solution for individuals, small businesses and corporate workgroups within larger organizations. With over 4 million individual users and 12,000 corporate accounts, ACT! has a heritage of delivering high-quality, reliable, and easy-to-use products that assist sales people and business professionals better manage and build relationships. ACT! provides fully integrated calendar, contact, and communications functionality, as well as sales tools and reporting capabilities to enable users to quickly and efficiently grow their business relationships and sell more. ACT! integrates with Microsoft Outlook, Palm OS® handhelds, paper-based systems and popular accounting products such as QuickBooks® and Peachtree® Accounting. About Best Software Best Software offers leading business management products and services that give over 1.6 million small- and mid-sized customers in North America the insight for success throughout the life of their business. Its parent company (London: SGE.L) supports nearly three million customers worldwide and has revenue of nearly $700 million. For more than 25 years, Best has delivered easy-to-use, scalable and customizable applications through its portfolio of leading brands, including Abra, MAS 90, FAS, MIP Nonprofit Series, SalesLogix, Peachtree and ACT!, among many others. For further information, please call 1-800-811-0961 or visit our websites at www.bestsoftware.com/moreinfo and www.act.com. Editorial Contact: Kristina Ford Frankel Best Software, CRM Division 480/444-1317 kfrankel@interact.com top of page |
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