Sage Act! 2012 - A First characterize

Sage Act! 2012 Software - A First Review

There are few things that can be relied on with any degree of certainty in this world, but the month of September is when you will notice the days getting shorter, the leaves beginning to turn golden and fall from the trees, and Sage will release a new version of Act! software. And this year is no irregularity as Sage Act! 2012 hits the streets.

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Early indications were that this year the main emphasis on this new release would focus on consolidating the basic code and manufacture the whole container solid and robust, and it's difficult to argue with this philosophy.

Sage Act! 2012 - A First characterize

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Evidently, the marketing division then decided that software that just works wasn't going to be adequate to illustrate the upgrade fee for existing users, so a few new bells and whistles were dreamed up for the new release.

Before getting into the details, it's prominent to realise that Act!, sorry, that's "Sage Act!", exists in three unavoidable flavours.

The "standard" version is called Act! Pro, the fully featured version is called Act! Premium. Now I don't know either the nuances of this terminology are dissimilar in the Usa but to my British ears the term "Pro" says "Professional" and doesn't distinguish itself from the term "Premium" which sounds to me about the same. Just to confuse the issue further, a few years ago both the acceptable and prime versions were both referred to as "Act! Professional" in the Uk.

So, what are the differences between Pro and Premium? Well, not a great deal to be frank. Pro has 90% of the features of Premium, and a few of the other features are restricted in Pro. There's a maximum of 10 users in Pro, no petite passage facility, no field level passage control, no reserved supply scheduling and no network synchronisation capability, though you can still synchronise a remote database providing the programme is de facto running on your server. There are other differences, some of which seem inconsistent. For example, both Pro and prime offer Dashboard reporting, but in Act! Pro the reports are restricted to the person logged in; you can't get company-wide reports on Pro Dashboards. Any way you can get company-wide information from the primary text reports.

I mentioned there were three flavours of Act!, well the third is Act! for Web. In the Uk this is currently bundled in the box free of charge when you buy Act! Premium. Essentially it is Act! prime with the extra bits needed to release the database to an Iis web server which you need to host yourself (or use one of the paid-for Act! hosting services). The nice thing is that, in the Uk at least, the licenses are mix-and-match so you can log in through both the desk-top application and through a web browser using the same credentials. Sage Act! 2012 sees the introduction of keep for browser passage using Internet Explorer 9 and Firefox 4.

Having set the scene, let's get down to the main event.

One of the much trumpeted new features is Google integration. For this you will need a Gmail account, and it doesn't work with Google business accounts. The mental behind this is that lots of the young habitancy arrival into business already use Google for email, contacts and calendar and this allows them to continue using the tools they are well-known with. I have to say that personally I've never been asked by any business for this facility, but others may get the invite all the time, so let's accept it's a good thing to have.

Like the existing Outlook integration you set up Google integration in three unavoidable parts, email, calendar and contacts (you can have one two or all three). Basically, it works. The main limitations are that you need to be linked to the internet (doh), and more seriously, as with the Outlook integration, the contacts synchronisation into Act! is all or nothing. Whilst I can see the inherent advantage of this feature, my main concern is (as with Outlook) if the highlight is turned on you risk importing everyone's Google experience "friends" into your business-critical sales database.

The second new toy is called "Universal Search" which provides a more "Google-like" crusade ability (anyone detecting a theme here?). The main divergence between Universal crusade and the existing Keyword crusade is that the new crusade machine can look inside attached files as well as in the usual fields, notes and history. The order in which the results are displayed will make you scratch you head, but there is a logic to it if you know what it is. The main limitation of Universal crusade is that you can only agree one item from the crusade results; you can't agree three or four and do a lookup. In reality it does what it does highly well. Just keep in mind this is a way of finding a particular item you've mislaid somewhere in your database. For all else use the acceptable Lookup/Advanced Query options.

The next item to keep you amused is called ScratchPad. No that's not something you use for cleaning the oven, and it's not a way of entering the national lottery. It's a notepad. If you remember "SideAct!" in Act! version 6 you get the picture. So it's a petite utility application that can run independently of Act! where you can scribble your to-do list. You can later sync your ScratchPad with Act!, but only if Act! is running.

Other changes include a Services Discoverability button which opens a screen like the Welcome Page which describes and has links to the Sage Act! linked subscription services such as the Email Marketing and business information Services. The plan that there are millions of Act! users out there who simply didn't know they could link to these external services seems a bit unlikely, but as more linked Services are introduced this does at least contribute a tidy way of presenting them.

One of the new linked Services is Sage Act! Connect. This has evolved from the Act! mobile Live subscription aid which allows users to synchronise some of their Act! data to their mobile phones. You can still do this, but the divergence is that the data goes via a Sage-hosted web site where the same data can be viewed via a browser. Now the data that can be accessed in this way is petite to the usual experience address fields and the last five notes/history items. You can't view Opporunities through this method. There's also no keep for international phone numbers. However, if the petite whole of information that is ready is all you need then this aid may be for you. It gives you another way to passage your database information whilst on the move. If your phone/device is one of those that can't sync to the data (e.g. Iphone/iPad) you might still be able to passage it on the Sage Act! associate portal through a web browser. The costs for this aid vary from country to country.

One rather scary highlight of the Act! associate portal, designed to motion yet again to the Twitterati, is the ability to import yet more "friends" from their Facebook Google and Yahoo accounts. Once again, why anyone would want their sales and marketing database corrupted by importing twaddle in this way is beyond me. If you are using Act! to run the local flower-arranging community it inherent has a value but for business to business relationships I fail to see the point.

There have also been some improvements to existing functionality.

Firstly, the installation process has been streamlined and made faster. There's also a database discovery installation which makes it easier to find Act! databases on your computer if you have more than one and you've lost it (and it's on your computer). Smart-Tasks have seen modest improvements and the Outlook integration has been tweaked to allow for larger time frames when syncing calendars.

One final flourish is that if you import data from spread-sheets you now get a article when it's done to tell you all went well or what went wrong, if de facto it did. Whilst I would have adored a article at the beginning of the process to tell me what is going to go wrong before I do the import, it's a welcome addition.

So there we have it.

To be sure, the major additions in functionality will be useful to those who use them, and the minor tweaks and under the bonnet improvements in speed and reliability will be welcomed by every person else.

I just worry slightly that Act! is losing its way in the rush to embrace communal networking in an exertion to attract the trendy young managers and sales habitancy whilst at the same time trying to keep existing users on board. There are some things in business that have to be fairly disposition and we should make these as easy to do as possible, but I sense the marketing troops within Sage are losing sight of the requirement for persisting improvement of the core theory and are instead trying to motion to the communal networking generation. My biggest concern is that in doing this the inherent for erroneously importing unwanted information into our sales and marketing databases has increased enormously.

All in all, even if we ignore the new headline features that you may or may not use, the modest improvements to speed, reliability and functionality are welcome, and anyone with a version of Act! more than a year old will advantage from an upgrade to the latest offering.

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