Sage ACT! White Papers
Work at the Speed of Light: Sage ACT! Connect Puts Your Contacts and Calendar in the Cloud
Audience: Owners, Sales People, and Sales Managers
Summary: This whitepaper provides you with an overview of industry trends in mobile devices, benefits of the leveraging the Cloud, a new Sage ACT! mobility offering, and a day-in-the-life with Sage ACT! Connect.[top]
Feeding Sales: Find targeted leads with Sage Business Info Services for ACT!, powered by Hoover's™
Audience: Owners, Sales People, and Sales Managers
Summary: This whitepaper explores how companies can expand their business with highly qualified leads from Sage Business Info Services for ACT!, powered by Hoover's™, a new cloud-based service that provides a rich source of new sales leads and research, accessed from within Sage ACT! 2011.[top]
Driving Business Growth in North America
Audience: Owners, Sales People, and Sales Managers
Summary: The goals of this white paper are threefold:
- Authenticate our role as a leader in the small and midsized business (SMB) market.
- Demonstrate our leadership in understanding and solving our customers' challenges.
- Provide Sage portfolio clarity, defining the best product for each target market. [top]
The Choice Between What's Cheap and What Works
Audience: Owners, Sales People, and Sales Managers
Summary: Authored by Aberdeen, this white paper examines the benefits of free and paid contact management solutions for small-to-medium sized businesses. Organizations in need of a sales automation solution to manage account, contact, and company information will be advised on how to select a contact management tool that can satisfy short-term needs and meet long-term goals.[top]
The Choice Between Contact Management and Customer Relationship Management
Audience: Owners, Sales People, and Sales Managers
Summary: Authored by Aberdeen, this white paper helps readers to determine which solution best fits their business type, as well as the organizational capabilities necessary to ensure the successful adoption of a Contact Management or Customer Relationship Management solution.[top]
The Automated Selling Machine
Audience: Owners, Sales People, Sales Managers, and Marketing Professionals
Summary: This white papers details the powerful, yet easy-to-use functionality in Sage ACT! that can help you turn your sales and marketing efforts into a consistent, systematic lead generation and selling machine.[top]
Your Guide to Email Marketing
Audience: Owners, Sales People, Sales Managers, and Marketing Professionals
Summary: This white paper provides you with a guide to email marketing so that you will ultimately increase your return on investment. After reading through this white paper, you should be well on your way to creating your first email marketing campaign.[top]
Microsoft® Office® Integration
Audience: IT Managers and System Administrators
Summary: This white paper explores how Sage ACT! users can leverage the capabilities of Sage ACT! integrated with Microsoft Office, and assumes the reader has a basic understanding of Office applications.[top]
Reporting and Data Access Methods
Audience: IT Managers and System Administrators
Summary: This white paper discusses the technical aspects of the Sage ACT! reporting and data access methods. For example, the Sage ACT! architecture provides four additional data access methods that can be used for querying, reporting and data extraction: Sage ACT! OLE DB Reporting Provider, Sage ACT! Reader Utility and account, Sage ACT! Password Utility, and the Sage ACT! SDK (Software Developers Kit) [top]
Architecture, Customization, and Integration
Audience: IT Managers and System Administrators
Summary: This white paper discusses the Sage ACT! architecture, deployment methods, customization, and integration capabilities with other products, and is intended for readers who want to better understand the underlying platform and capabilities.[top]
Keys to a Successful Deployment
Audience: IT Managers and System Administrators
Summary: This white paper explores various deployment scenarios possible with Sage ACT! based on the organization’s needs, and whether users require online, offline, or a combination of access methods.[top]
Security Model
Audience: IT Managers and System Administrators
Summary: This white paper explains the Sage ACT! security model, including descriptions of the key features, capabilities, and concepts.[top]
Synchronization Architecture
Audience: IT Managers and System Administrators
Summary: This white paper provides an overview of the Sage ACT! sync model, including a description of the key features, abilities, and concepts. Diagrams and examples are provided where appropriate, as well as greater detail on Internet synchronization, focusing on setup and configuration, and handheld device sync. [top]
Microsoft® Terminal Server Citrix® Presentation Server Deployment Environments
Audience: IT Managers and System Administrators
Summary: This white paper explores the benefits of deploying Sage ACT! Premium through Terminal Services, outlines deployment requirements and recommendations, and provides installation and performance tips.[top]
Scalability Results
Audience: IT Managers and System Administrators
Summary: This white paper includes performance and scalability test results, and hardware recommendations to deliver a cost effective and positive end-user experience. While each organization’s needs differ, this white paper provides guidance to help an organization select a hardware configuration to optimize performance across a variety of deployment scenarios and user counts.[top]
