What's New in Sage ACT! 2013

Business never rests, and neither should your technology. Celebrating 25 years of serving the Contact and Customer Management needs for small businesses and sales teams, Sage ACT! 2013 delivers contemporary new features and enhancements that help you leverage the latest trends in mobility, social media, and e-marketing to propel your sales and marketing success.

• Sage ACT! Premium Mobile¹: Travel light and stay connected to your business from your iPhone^®, iPad^®, or Android™ device.
• Social Updates²: Capitalize on unique social insight by viewing and interacting with your contact's LinkedIn^® and Facebook^® profiles.
• Social Sharing: Extend your reach by automatically posting your Sage E-marketing for ACT!³ email messages to popular social media sites and allowing recipients to share with their network.
• Smart Tasks Enhancements: Get more done with Smart Tasks that now run offline⁴, and automatically update record fields once selected conditions are met.
• Usability Improvements, and more!

What's New Brief
Release Enhancements Chart
System Requirements

Here's what you get

• Travel light and stay connected to your business
• Capitalize on unique customer insight with Social Updates
• Connect to customers in more ways than ever through Social Sharing
• Put more time back on your side with enhancements to Smart Tasks

Sage ACT! Premium Mobile¹ gives you real-time, mobile access to your Sage ACT! Premium contact, calendar, and opportunity details from your iPhone^®, iPad^®, or Android™ device. Best part, Sage ACT! Premium Mobile is included with your upgrade to Sage ACT! Premium 2013! Take the tour

Additionally, Sage ACT! Pro users have the option to subscribe to Sage ACT! Connect⁵ for mobile access.

Social media gives you a fast, simple way to stay close to the things your customers care about. Sage ACT! Social Updates² helps you capitalize on this unique insight by integrating with popular social media services to view and interact with your customer's LinkedIn^® and Facebook^® profiles. Take the tour

• Leverage familiar social functionality like commenting on posts, endorsing skills, and sending private messages to engage with customers.
• Monitor customer's posts for specific product or service needs so the right messages and offers can be delivered at the right time.
• Enrich Sage ACT! contact records with missing or noteworthy customer information such as updated titles, email addresses, and personal interests.

Sage E-marketing for ACT!³ gives you a simple way to grow your business by regularly communicating with your contacts.

Create and send professional, eye-catching email campaigns that fit the style of your brand. Then, extend your reach beyond email addresses when you push your message to LinkedIn^®, Facebook, and Twitter^® using Social Sharing.

Sage ACT! Smart Tasks were designed to help you get more done by automating key activities. And with new productivity enhancements, you can save even more time because Smart Tasks now run even when Sage ACT! is closed⁴, as well as automatically update record fields.

• Set it and forget it! Enable Smart Tasks to run offline⁴ so your designated steps can keep moving forward, even when Sage ACT! is closed.
• Save precious time with data/field triggers⁶ that automatically update records once certain conditions are met, like assigning the sales rep for new customers in the Southwest territory.

Important Notes: For Sage ACT!: Review Sage ACT! system requirements here. You must purchase one license of Sage ACT! per user. Scalability varies based on hardware, size, and usage of your database. Visit www.ACTsolutions.com or contact your add-on product provider to determine compatibility for your add-on products. For Sage Connected Services for ACT!: The mobile component of Sage ACT! Connect requires an active data plan. You are responsible for all data related charges to your mobile phone. To facilitate mobile setup, Sage ACT! Connect sends a text message to your mobile phone. Based on your wireless plan, you may receive an extra charge from your carrier for this text message. Sage E-marketing for ACT! is powered by Swiftpage™.

¹ Sage ACT! Premium Mobile requires set-up and configuration of Sage ACT! Premium (access via web). Data access available via active Internet connection from supported device browsers. Review Sage ACT! system requirements at www.ACT.com/SystReq. You are responsible for all data-related charges to your device.
² This feature is not available in Sage ACT! Premium (access via web).
³ Requires additional subscription.
⁴ Sage E-marketing for ACT! steps will not run offline.
⁵ Review Sage ACT! Connect system requirements at www.ACT.com/ConnectSystReq to confirm supported mobile phones, tablets, and web browsers.
⁶ Data/field triggers are only available in Contact and Opportunity entities.
⁷ Customer is a participant in the Sage ACT! 2013 Beta Program and may be eligible for participation-based incentives.

* Sage ACT! Certified Consultants are third-party vendors. Sage is in no way liable or responsible for any claims made to products or services provided by third-party vendors.