What's New in ACT 9.01?
Did you see this ACT Update message on your computer today? Today, Sage Software released an update to their ACT CRM Software and the ACT Update tool (enabled by default, or Help Menu- ACT Update) provides a way to alert you of these updates (can also be downloaded directly from their support site).
“Today an update to the ACT Software has been released and it may show up as an alert on your system.
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PLEASE DO NOT APPLY THIS TO YOUR SYSTEM.
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I am currently testing this patch, to verify it is ready for ‘Prime Time’ and as you all have a shared database, the update has to be applied to each system in a coordinated fashion.”
This patch can be applied to most individual systems with ease, those on shared systems I advise testing to make sure that it works properly, then deploy it in a coordinated fashion.
There are some pretty good improvements with this update, here is a link to the document offered at their support site (I made it into a PDF for easy reading).
One other piece of advice, if you are running any addon products like SwiftPage or HandHeld Contact, you may also want to check with them before updating…just to be sure their products have no issues with this update.
Here are the highlights as I see them:
o Limited Vista Support
o Activity scheduling improvements
o Copy and paste histories work properly
o Performance improvements with Outlook Integration
o Report filtering enhancements
o Database synchronization issue (attachments) resolved
o Data Import improvements
As with any software, it is not without flaws. The even included a list of known issues, which I think every software provider should to. Thanks Sage Software for all your hard work in getting this much needed release out the door!
Feel free to post your comments about experiences with this latest update.
