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Sage ACT! 2012
New Features
NEW Universal
Search- increase your
productivity with the new ACT! Universal
Search feature. This more expansive search
facility will search Contacts, Groups,
Companies, Opportunities, Notes and
History and now Attachments stored within
Sage ACT!.
NEW Scratch Pad-
transforms the way you manage your time
with the new Virtual Notepad in ACT! 2012.
Eliminate the need for post its and note
pads. Instead use the ACT! Virtual Notepad
to capture priorities, plus check off
notes and reminders. What’s more, tasks
that require greater activity can be
easily pushed into Sage ACT! as Activities
or Notes and History, and assign them to
contacts.
NEW Google
Integration- with Sage ACT! 2012
seamlessly integrate ACT! with Google
(including Gmail, Google Contacts and
Google Calendars). Sage ACT! Google
Integration offers you a centralized
location to manage the details of your
business relationships more efficiently
and eliminates the need to access
information in two locations.
NEW Improved
Import from Excel- Importing data
is now much simpler in ACT! 2012, you can
now import Excel files directly into the
ACT! database without the need to convert
to a .csv file. The import process is now
more transparent than ever with a log of
records migrated and if any errors
encountered during the process.
NEW Sage ACT!
Connect- access your Sage ACT!
data any time anywhere with Sage ACT!
Connect, a subscription based service to
store and update contact information in
the Cloud. Sage ACT! Connect is compatible
with Windows Mobile, Blackberry and
Android devices, as well as web browsers
such as Internet Explorer, FireFox and
Google Chrome. Though we haven't tested
this one yet, it will hold upwards of
2,500 contacts.
NEW Enhanced
Compatibility- ACT! 2012 offers
user enhanced compatibility and now
interfaces with Micorosoft Office 2010,
Microsoft Small Business Server 2011 and
Sage ACT!for Web now operates within
Internet Explorer 9 and FireFox 4.
Anywhere
Anytime ACT!
Be free! Why be tied to your desk
when you can use one of two solutions to
have your data as accessible as your own
brain!
ACT!
Private Cloud As of June
2011, we are hosting the full featured
windows desktop including ACT Premium,
(sorry no ACT Pro) for firms with a
diverse workforce. Mac and or iPad
users can enjoy full functionality.
Remote in from anywhere via the
internet. Sync ACT! with your
smartphone (BlackBerry®, Windows
Mobile®, Android™ or many more) for
real time access
Sage
ACT! Connect Yes, this
too plays well with iPad, or
laptop. Sync with your
smartphone (BlackBerry®, Windows
Mobile®, Android™ or many more)
for real time access. Request
get your 30 day free trial now.
Link ACT! &
QuickBooks in Private Cloud
We are the first Intuit Solution Provider
to offer a secure private cloud hosting of
linked desktop versions of ACT! and
QuickBooks. Save yourself a ton of
typing. Hey, no more double entry,
it auto sets up new customers in
QuickBooks and so much more. Contact
us now to get your own private demo.
Recent
Reviews of Sage ACT! 2011
Law
Office Software:
"...incredibly popular software "
The 2011 version embraces the fast
changing pace of social networking by also
allowing the organizing of social media
profiles on such sites as LinkedIn,
Facebook and other leading social
networking sites.
CEO Published by Intuit
ProLine News
ProLine News, published by Intuit,
commissioned an article for accounting
pros to get the most out of
QuickBooks. Top 10
Productivity Tips for QuickBooks focuses
on the most dyanmic time saving
tricks. You can find a copy at our
sister site, www.qb-it.net.
Intuit has also engaged Ms. Marechal to
share her expertise regarding fraud
prevention in an upcoming 2011 edition of
ProLine News.
Beta Test: Four
ACT! Link to QuickBooks Solutions
In August 2010 the group Sister ACT II
completed a series of beta tests on
recently released solutions to link Sage
ACT! with QuickBooks. Of the four
tested only two were found to be suitable
to support.
For more information on our findings
please click here to contact
us.
Announcement:
Sister ACTII Formed
Sister ACT II, named in honor of
the initial Sister ACT!, a group of
female ACT! Certified Consultants, banded
together to support each other in an
organization largely dominated by men.
Membership is by invitation only for ACT!,
QuickBooks, and accounting consultants who
do or wish to support ACT! Link for
QuickBooks or similar solutions.
Forensic Consulting
Highlighted by Intuit
Recently Victoria Marechal served as an
outsource forensic auditor for a
nationwide business consulting firm
regarding a suspected fraud/embezzlment
case. Because the experience expanded her
understanding of consulting in a forensic
manner, she wrote up a first person
account of this job.
To read all about this fascinating
case go to Intuit
ProConnection Newsletter.
Symantec
Uses Free Anti-Malware Tool
The ultimate
endoresment of a programmer's work is
when a major player in the world of
software picks up their application. You
gotta know it is good. Maybe in
this instance it's not an official seal
of approval. Or could it be one
better?
According to a recent review of
Symantec's Tech Support in PC Mag
March 2009 article, "Symantec
Support
Gone Rogue" a support rep,
presented with a problem on a
delibertely infected system, used Malwarebytes as one of
his clean up tools.
Quoting Neil J. Rubenking
in this article: "To my
surprise, he downloaded and ran the
free Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
utility. This is, of course, not a
Norton program by any stretch of the
imagination. It did find a few traces
of various threats left behind...."
Consider, if the front line of Symantec
are using this tool, it seems worth a
try if you are caught with an
infection. Others have gotten the
word. According to CNET.com, it is
the second most downloaded anti-malware
with over 400K downloads just behind
AdAware. It's something we are going to
add to our security kit.
Quality Control
At CRM-IT.net we take pride in
using state of the art security methods to
protect our data. Our protections
include both hardware and software
firewalls. We also rely upon
Symantec's Norton Internet Security
package which includes Norton Internet
Security, Norton Anti-virus, and Norton
Spam e-mail protection. In addition
we use Microsoft Baseline Security
Analyser as well as AdAware.
We walk the talk regarding backups.
On site we have redudant backup
systems. In addition we also have
storage online with one of our two our web
hosting arrangements.
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