Outstanding ACT! 2012 new features

Written by Jordan Ofri | 10 February 2012

Often I am asked by our clients if ACT! 2012 would be a suitable upgrade for them. As an ACT! Certified Consultant, I look to make my answers specific to the client’s needs, budget and expectation. In general, I have found a number of noteworthy feature upgrades in Act! 2012 that I would like to highlight in this article.

Sage has kept up with current trends which allow a user to access their ACT! data from numerous locations, devices or web services. In light of these trends, the move to connect ACT! to Gmail, Google Contacts and Calendars makes sense. Any Gmails that you send are recorded in your ACT’s History. Also your ACT! contacts and calendar can synchronize with their counterparts in Google. I’m impressed.

Also added to this version to assist you in having your ACT! data anywhere (aka in the cloud) is Sage ACT! Connect. What this feature does is synchronizes your local ACT database to a server in the cloud that enables a web page to display your Contacts and Calendar. This data can be seen on any PC, numerous popular Smart phones and also a iPad. This is not a full version of ACT!, simply a web program to keep you contacts and calendar in front of you to help you navigate the business of the workday.

Why Remote Desktop for Act

Written by Jordan Ofri | 22 July 2011

Reasons to consider ACT! in Cloud

Today, fortunately, there are many different methods available to access ACT!. In this section, I will focus on ACT! in the Cloud also know as ACT! in the Remote Desktop. Specifically, we are going to focus on utilizing Remote Desktop Server from Microsoft which is an affordable and highly prevalent method of working remotely in Corporate America today. There are a number of benefits to setting up a remote desktop (aka Terminal Server), so I will try to order them in a sequence that would be of most interest to the ACT! small to medium business community.

When comparing this approach to the ACT! for Web model, the first item of consideration is that the ACT! in the Cloud users get an entire desktop of programs in addition to ACT!. For example, when you log into your Remote Desktop session, it will look and fell just like your underlying Windows desktop, [Start] button and all. You can include the entire Microsoft Office suite on there along with any other software packages you use. I should also mention that you can view your remote desktop on not just your PC, but remote devices such as iPad and other brands.