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Office Outlook 2007 provides an integrated solution to help you better manage your time and information. View larger.

Keep Better Track of Your Daily Priorities
Outlook 2007 now features a re-designed interface within the authoring experience, making composing, formatting, and acting on e-mail an easier and more intuitive experience. Specifically, all of the rich features and capabilities of Outlook 2007 are now accessible and easy-to-find within the message. For instance, you can use the To-Do Bar--which gives you a consolidated view of your calendar, upcoming appointments, tasks, and flagged mail--to organize your day and manage your priorities.

Manage Your Time and Information
Outlook 2007 gives you a wide variety of time-saving options, including Instant Search to help you quickly locate all the information you're looking for right from within the Outlook 2007 interface. Not only can you search by keyword through your information, but Instant Search also looks for those keywords within your e-mail attachments. For more directed search results, the Instant Search pane provides helpful criteria to narrow your entry.

Calendar overlay view makes it easy to navigate your personal calendar and your team calendar at the same time. View larger.

Visually Identify Information
Using Outlook 2007 Color Categories, you can easily personalize and add categories to any type of information. Color Categories give you an easy, visual way to distinguish items from one another, so it's a snap to organize your data and search your information. Preview attachments in one click with Attachment Preview and avoid having to re-send attachments repeatedly.

Connect Across Boundaries
Outlook 2007 lets you share all types of information with coworkers, customers, friends, and family. First, you can create and subscribe to Internet calendars (which provide a way to view and remain up to date on industry events) or personal interest calendars and schedules. Then, send your calendar information to anyone with calendar snapshots, an HTML representation of your calendar that lets you share this information with anyone. Or you can publish your Internet calendar to Microsoft Office Online. Using Microsoft Passport credentials, you can then invite a group of your coworkers, customers, friends, or family to view and work with your calendar so that everyone has the latest information.

Enjoy Full Integration with Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Technology
With Outlook 2007, you can fully interact with information stored in Windows SharePoint Services technology anywhere, anytime, and connect Windows SharePoint Services calendars, documents, contacts, or tasks. Once you've done so, you'll enjoy full editing capabilities, so that any changes you make to the information stored in Outlook 2007 can be reflected in the server version.

Increased Functionality and Collaboration
You also have the option of enjoying increased functionality and collaboration with Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. Using Outlook 2007 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 in conjunction results in increased collaboration capabilities and security enhancements. Exchange Server 2007 provides the latest in dynamic mailbox connections, unified messaging features, and improved protection from junk e-mail.

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You can also send text messages from Outlook with one easy click, thanks to Outlook Mobile Service, a feature that allows you to send and receive text and picture messages between Outlook 2007 and any mobile phone. Outlook Mobile Service also enables you to forward Outlook e-mail messages, contacts, appointments, and tasks to yourself or other people as text messages. You can even set Outlook 2007 to automatically send e-mail messages, reminders, and your daily calendar as text messages right to your mobile phone.

Work With RSS Feeds
You can now fully subscribe to and interact with Really Simple Syndication (RSS) Feeds right from Outlook 2007, the most natural place to manage this kind of information. It's easy to get started adding RSS Feeds using the RSS Subscriptions home page within Outlook 2007.

Electronic Business Cards
Outlook 2007 lets you customize and share electronic business cards so you can create, customize, and share your information with customers, clients, or friends. Effortlessly add photos, company logos, or other personal information to your card so that the recipients have an easy way to identify and remember you and your business.

Anti-phishing capabilities in Office Outlook 2007 warn you about potentially threatening content right from within the e-mail message. View larger.

Improved E-Mail Control and Protection
Outlook 2007 helps you control your information while keeping you safer from junk mail and malicious sites. The junk e-mail filter, introduced in Outlook 2003, helps prevent junk e-mail messages from cluttering your Inbox. Outlook 2007 also features new anti-phishing features that disable threatening links and warn you about possibly malicious or phishing content within an e-mail message. For additional protection and security, Exchange Server 2007 acts as the first scan on incoming e-mail, determines the legitimacy of the e-mail message, and if applicable, disables links or URLs present in the e-mail message to help protect users.

Control Distribution of Sensitive Work
Help protect your company assets by preventing recipients from forwarding, copying, or printing important e-mail messages by using information rights management (IRM) functionality. You can even specify an expiration date for the message, after which it cannot be viewed or otherwise acted upon. (IRM functionality requires Microsoft Windows Server 2003 or later running Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services).

Maintain Compliance With Managed E-mail Folders
Exchange Server 2007 offers managed e-mail folders, a new approach to document retention, archiving, and regulatory compliance. You'll be able to see and interact with these folders just like any other mail folder, but the messages stored within them gain retention, archive, and expiration policies defined by the administrator. With managed e-mail folders, users and administrators can easily comply with various forms of external regulation and internal company policies regarding message retention.

Outlook 2007 E-mail Postmark
The Outlook 2007 E-mail Postmark helps ensure that e-mail reaching your inbox is legitimate and that e-mail you send will be trusted by the recipient's client. Creating mail with E-mail Postmark uses new technology that Microsoft has developed as part of the ongoing effort to curb junk mail. This technology asks the sender's computer to perform a computation or puzzle, and then assigns this work as a token of legitimacy to the e-mail message. These e-mail postmarks are designed to make it very time-consuming and technologically detrimental for users to send mass e-mail like spam, yet they do not change the user experience of sending e-mail.

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Gather and Organize Everything in One Place
With so much information coming your way--and in so many different forms--you need one place to keep it all and a tool that's flexible enough to capture it. Otherwise, information that could have been used to help make better decisions or make you more efficient is lost or difficult to find. Unlike paper-based systems, word processing programs, e-mail systems, or other productivity programs, OneNote 2007 delivers the flexibility to gather and organize text, pictures, digital handwriting, audio and video recordings, and more--all in one digital notebook on your computer. This software can help you become more productive by keeping the information you need at your fingertips and reducing time spent searching for information across e-mail messages, paper notebooks, file folders, and printouts.

Save Time By Consolidating Information
Taking notes on paper and transcribing them later can be time-consuming and difficult, and you run the risk of losing important pages. In addition, it's difficult to share data kept in a conventional paper notebook, and they're only good for capturing one kind of information: handwritten notes. When it's time to gather information from other sources and in different ways, other difficulties can arise. For instance, because most people don't have a way of digitally capturing unstructured information, they often print out Web research, and store information in file folders or on desks, which is difficult to find later and inaccessible when you're away. And sharing information with others can be challenging--even when using e-mail, it can be hard to hard to figure out what the plan is without reading through long e-mail threads that may or may not contain the information you need. OneNote 2007, however, gives you a solution with a flexible software program that enables you to gather virtually any type of information in one place. With your information readily available, you can be more prepared and informed.

Quickly Find What You Need
With OneNote 2007, finding information is easy and fast because it eliminates the guesswork of figuring out where you stored critical information. No more clicking through file folders and sorting through pages of paper notebooks to find the information you're looking for. Powerful search features give you the ability to locate information quickly, while allowing you to search across new types of content, like text in scanned documents or images, and spoken words in audio and video recordings. With easier access to the facts, you and your teammates can make better decisions.

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Protect Your Intellectual Property
OneNote 2007 helps you consolidate various types of information--including freeform notes, images, documents, files from other Microsoft Office system programs, and rich media--and organize it in the way that works best for you. And because it keeps everything in one place, you don't have to worry about frequently saving or creating backups of your information--OneNote 2007 does this for you.

Ideal For Businesses
If you're attending an important meeting and don't want to rely on your memory, simply take meeting notes in OneNote 2007 to create a living repository of group decisions and brainstorming sessions that adds continuity and context to subsequent meetings. You can also catch all the details of customer calls and meetings by synchronizing typed or handwritten notes with Office OneNote 2007 audio and video recordings. If you're working outside of the office, gather information on your Microsoft Windows Mobile powered devices (including notes, audio recordings, and pictures) and transfer it to OneNote 2007.

And when it's time to share data with your colleagues, take advantage of OneNote 2007's export application programming interface to easily transfer information gathered in OneNote 2007 to your company's business systems, and in so doing reduce errors and wasted time spent rekeying the same information in different systems. Need to copy, paste, or print information from and into other 2007 Microsoft Office system programs? It's no problem with OneNote; this software lets you access and exchange information in Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint. You can even use OneNote 2007's drawing tools and tables to annotate and easily organize and manage information.

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Search and Link Options
OneNote 2007 lets you search and find keywords quickly within text, in images, and in audio recordings made within the application. You can also view hyperlinked search results in a summary task pane; a single click takes you to relevant results. For added convenience, view all open notebooks at once, use drag-and-drop functionality to easily arrange and rearrange your notes, and add hyperlinks to other pages in your notebook to quickly find relevant content. Manage tasks easily with two-way synchronization between OneNote 2007 and the 2003 and 2007 versions of Outlook, or link notes and other information to specific Outlook 2007 or Outlook 2003 contacts to help you better prepare for meetings and recall information easily. If you want to underscore a particularly important point, date, or other piece of information, mark notes with note tags, visually rich icons that make it easier to return to reminders, to-dos, and other action items.

Work Together More Effectively
With team members working from different locations and on multiple projects, communication, coordination, and information sharing can challenge group effectiveness and productivity. Teams often rely on e-mail messages to share information, causing confusion and bloated e-mail inboxes. Tasks, action items, agendas, and issues stored within static documents or document management systems are difficult to update, track, and access, and they prevent multiple people from working with the same information at the same time. OneNote 2007 helps people work together better by eliminating roadblocks that arise when information is isolated in paper notes or file folders, or on one person's computer. Groups can share information easily, work more productively, and keep track of projects, issues, and goals more effectively. Individuals can work together from the same notebook--whether online or offline--using shared notebooks. OneNote2007 manages changes made to the same notebook, eliminating the need to track versions or upload changes.

You can also create a team knowledge base so that everyone has access to the same information, helping to get new team members up to speed quickly, and minimizing duplicate efforts. Share notes even with non-OneNote 2007 users by sending your notes as HTML so that anyone with an e-mail client or Web browser can view them, and stay in control of your information by choosing which notebooks to share with your teammates and which to keep private, and help ensure privacy with password protection. You can even use OneNote 2007 as a shared digital whiteboard, enabling virtual teams to work together in real time, viewing and editing the same set of notes.

• Updated maps--New geographic and demographic data
• Custom territories--Define your own delivery or sales areas
• Go mobile--Send addresses and phone numbers to your mobile device

Business Mapping Made Simple
Microsoft MapPoint 2009 gives you the power to visualize business data, communicate insights with instant impact, and integrate maps into the work you do in Microsoft Office. MapPoint 2009 with GPS Locator adds routing and directions to easily plan your trips and track your location in real-time.

MapPoint 2009 makes it easy for organizations to visualize their business in a whole new way:

• Map business data.
  Create and view sales territories, analyze trends, and evaluate performance by geography.
• Identify new business opportunities.
  Combine business data with included demographics to target potential customers and focus decisions.

MapPoint 2009 helps you streamline your travel:

• Arrive on time.
  Detailed directions--voice* and text-prompted--make it easy to follow your route.
• Optimize your trip.
  Quickly calculate mileage, drive time, and expenses in advance.
• Easy-to-see navigation.
  Track your route in real-time in Full Screen display.* Change to the special Night Map display with a single click.

MapPoint 2009 makes it easy to use maps in combination with your Microsoft Office documents:

• Tell a story, visually.
  Insert maps into Word documents and PowerPoint presentations to illustrate everything from sales performance and customer locations to new business opportunities.
• Tap into existing data sources
  Create maps from data stored in current versions of Office Excel, Office Access, Office Outlook, Microsoft SQL Server, or other database sources.
• Extend your business.
  Take advantage of the extensible MapPoint object model to build custom business solutions such as fleet tracking and business intelligence.
• Map business data.
  Create and view sales territories, analyze trends, and evaluate performance by geography.

New and Improved Features

MapPoint 2009 builds upon the success of MapPoint 2006 with:

• Refreshed data.
  Use updated geographic and demographic data sets in MapPoint to display trends and illustrate key points on maps.
• Optimize your trip.
  Quickly calculate mileage, drive time, and expenses in advance.
• Send to mobile.
  Send point-of-interest and "business card" details such as addresses and phone numbers to your mobile device.
• Advanced GPS features.
  New full-screen navigation mode with driving guidance tracks your route and provides turn-by-turn directions--including spoken street names.
• Zoom with a view.
  Use the new Navigation view option* to see a perspective map road view of your route.
• Enhanced Live Search.
  Quickly find listings when online and add them to a route. Use descriptive words such as "coffee" and "restaurant" to find points near your location.
• Updated user interface.
  Streamlined redesign simplifies tasks and improves usability while driving.

* GPS functionality requires a GPS device that supports NMEA 2.0 or later.

• Organize all the details of your busy life in one place
• Links with Mac OS X Address Book and iCal; Imports spreadsheets and other CSV files
• Just point and click or drag and drop to change the look of any form and see information in a way that makes sense to you

Manage contacts, coordinate events, track projects, and prioritize tasks faster and easier than ever before.

Substance, meet style
It's never been easier to get organized thanks to built-in links with Mac OS X Address Book and iCal, ready-to-use templates, and elegant themes designed by Mac artists.

Built-in Links to Address Book and iCal
There's no need to re-enter all your contact and calendar info to get started with Bento. It has built-in links to your Mac OS X Address Book and iCal applications.

In seconds, you'll be viewing all your contacts, tasks, and events in beautiful Bento templates that make searching, sorting and organizing simpler and faster than ever before.

Great-looking templates
Bento also comes with more than 20 ready-to-use templates. So you can easily get started organizing just about any kind of information you have--for work, home, school or community projects.

Add beautiful themes with a click
To make your templates look even better, you can add an elegant theme, designed by Mac artists, that suits your style and personality. Themes include coordinated colors, layouts, fonts and text styles that bring style to your templates with a single click.

Help stop spreadsheet abuse
Let your spreadsheet crunch the numbers, and let Bento do the rest.

If you're managing lists in Microsoft Excel or just about any other program that exports to Comma Separated Values, you can import them with a simple drag and drop.

Bento makes it possible to connect related information together so you can see a more a complete picture of everything you're tracking--all in one place.

Bring it together
From contacts and calendars, to projects and events, you can organize just about every type of information you have--and access it instantly--all from one place.

Get the big picture
Bento makes it possible to connect related information together so you can see a more a complete picture of everything you're tracking--all in one place.

Bringing things together to get you organized--that's what Bento is all about.

Find what you need fast
Ever search for music with iTunes? It couldn't get much easier. And Bento carries on the Mac tradition by using familiar iTunes-like searching. You can find the things you store in Bento instantly. From phone numbers for friends in Fiji to deadlines due in December.

Display your information in a familiar spreadsheet-like Table View to see multiple records at once.

Switch to Form View to see one record at a time.

What's your type?
Because Bento is a flexible database, you're not forced into tracking pre-set types of information. You can store virtually any type of information you want in Bento choosing from a variety of field type options.

For instance, let's say you're putting on your company party and all your contacts are already stored in the Mac Address Book. You could simply add a "Checkbox" to your Address Book form to track who's coming, and add a "Choice" pop-up list to store each person's food preference. It's that easy!

See things your way
Just point and click or drag and drop to change the look of any form and see information in a way that makes sense to you.

Set the table, and sort it, too
Display your information in a familiar spreadsheet-like Table View to see multiple records at once. Sort columns with a single click, and get quick stats through the handy Summary Row.

If you use the Mac OS X Address Book, you'll appreciate this new view, because you'll be able to see many contacts all at once.

Forms flow freely
Switch to Form View to see one record at a time. This view is especially useful when entering large amounts of text, like notes from lectures, meetings and conversations.

You can also view different slices of your information by adding as many new forms as you'd like. And each new form can show a different grouping of information, so you can see your data from every angle.

Customize with a click
Resize, rearrange, and regroup to your heart's content. Just point and click to change themes, columns displayed, label positions, text sizes, shading, alignment, and more.

• Manage all your contact, prospect, and customer information in one place
• Easily manage marketing campaigns from concept to delivery
• Share information easily and more securely with multi-user access

The new information dashboard provides a snapshot of your sales pipeline so you can make decisions and stay focused on your priorities.

Now you can integrate all of your contact and customer information and history, including communications, tasks, and appointments, with your e-mail and calendar in Outlook.

The information you need to pursue sales opportunities is at your fingertips.

Organize All Your Customer Information in One Place
New contact and customer management features are integrated into the powerful and familiar functions of Outlook.

• Get a consolidated view of contacts and customers.
  Centralize all contact-related information within the familiar look and feel of Outlook. With contact history, source, status, sales amount, closing potential, e-mail messages, phone calls, tasks, appointments, documents, and notes all referenced in one place, you can effectively manage your sales opportunities and activities, and provide better service to your customers.
• Customize contact and customer information.
  Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager is flexible and adaptable, so you can capture the information that is most relevant to your sales and business processes.
• Share customer information with coworkers.
  Provide employees throughout your company with more secure multiuser access to customer, lead, and opportunity information.
• Stay productive when you are out of the office.
  While on the road, you can work offline on your portable computer or Pocket PC and then synchronize data when you return.
• View customer financial history at a glance.
  When used together with Microsoft Office Accounting 2007 , Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager provides a complete view of customer financial information and communication history all in one place. Changes in either Office Accounting 2007 or Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager result in automatic updates to the other program.
• Simplify your billing process.
  When used together with Office Accounting 2007, Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager helps you track appointments on your Outlook calendar, mark them as billable, and automatically send them to Office Accounting 2007 for easy customer invoicing. Phone logs and project tasks can also be marked as billable.
• Easily import contact information from other applications.
  To get started fast, you can easily transfer contact information from your other applications, including Microsoft Office Excel, Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office Access, or ACT!.

Use new filtering features to select data and then export the information to Excel for further analysis.

Step-by-step guides lead you through the process of creating marketing campaigns.

Use Mail Merge to personalize marketing communications and generate greater response.

Forecast and Manage Sales Opportunities
Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager integrates your e-mail, calendar, and customer information so you can easily identify and follow up on opportunities throughout the sales process.

• Identify your best opportunities.
  Track your prospects, leads, and customers from initial contact through closing and after the sale. Monitor opportunities by type, sales stage, projected amount of sale, and probability of closing, and then easily assign leads to your employees.
• Get a snapshot view of your sales pipeline.
  The new central information dashboard summarizes your important sales metrics to help you make decisions and prioritize tasks, and you can customize the metrics to meet your unique needs.
• Forecast sales and analyze data.
  Get a consolidated view of your sales pipeline and easily forecast sales. Choose from a variety of customer, lead, and opportunity reports with advanced capabilities to help get a complete picture of your sales activities. You can sort and filter information, drill deeper for more details, and export your findings to Excel for further analysis.
• Convert sales opportunities into quotes, orders, and invoices.
  When you use Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager with Office Accounting 2007, you can automatically turn sales opportunities into quotes, orders, and invoices.

Track and Monitor Marketing Campaign Activities
Easy-to-use tools help you distribute personalized marketing communications and track the results in-house.

• Get step-by-step guidance for creating your campaigns.
  New tools guide you through marketing campaign activities, including compiling your mailing list, distributing materials, and tracking your results.
• Track marketing campaign activity by customer.
  The marketing materials you send are automatically included in customer and prospect communications histories.
• Measure the success of your campaign.
  Use the new marketing campaign tracking feature to track campaign responses and assess the success of your campaign so you can target your marketing budget effectively in the future.
• Market more effectively using personalized communications.
  Create custom mailing lists by filtering customer and prospect data from within Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager. Then use improved Mail Merge integration with Microsoft Office Publisher, Word, and HTML to personalize, print, and send marketing materials via e-mail.

Manage Project-Related Information in One Place
New capabilities help you manage project-related tasks and information in one place and share project-related information with others in the company.

• Track, view, and access project activities and tasks in one place.
  The new Business Projects feature in Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager centralizes all your project information, including activities, e-mail messages, meetings, notes, and attachments.
• Assign project tasks to others.
  Using the new Project Tasks feature, you can assign tasks to others and automatically transfer the task information to their task lists, To-Do Bar, and Outlook reminders.

• The #1 selling contact and customer management solution for over 20 years
• integrates with everyday solutions such as Microsoft Office

• Improves productivity by helping you and your team organize contact information, manage daily responsibilities, and communicate more effectively
• Usability enhancements to common features for improved efficiency
• Improvements to Group and Company management for easier tracking

Seize the day. Get a quick view of all calls, meetings, and to-dos for the day, including activity type and time. Customize your "Schedule-at-a-Glance by filtering which Activity Types" and which Priorities are displayed so you see precisely the information that is important to you. Drill down into any activity for more detail or to take further action.

Allocate your time wisely. "My Activities" is a complete, graphical view of all activities, including all calls, meetings, to-dos, and custom activities for a given date range you specify. Customize by filtering by Activity Type and Priority, and by private, cleared, timeless, and even Microsoft Outlook tasks.

Make the most of your opportunities. The "Opportunities Pipeline by Stage" pie or bar chart shows you where each of your opportunities stands, and is usable whether you're using the ACT! Sales Process or one customized to suit your business. Includes the total associated with each stage for the date range and status you specify.

Know who your best customers are. "My Opportunities" is a graphical representation of all your sales opportunities... by total and weighted total. Customize to see opportunities by date ranges including 30 days, 60 days, or 90 days, or view by opportunities open, "closed and won," "closed and lost," and inactive to for a deeper analysis.

Know who your best customers are. "Top 10 Opportunities" is a quick view of who they are, by total and weighted total. Customize to view by date range, status, or sort most columns in the list by name, total, company, and more. Drill down and take further action: add more detail to any opportunity, move it through the sales process, or schedule a follow-up. Even create, edit, and delete an opportunity directly from this view.

Gauge your success. This graphic representation of all "Closed Sales to Date" includes the total and weighted total for all closed sales opportunities. It gives you a better sense of how you're tracking towards your opportunity goals Ð and you can specify targets to easily see your progress. Customize by date range or status for deeper analysis.

MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR TIME. MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR OPPORTUNITIES

Multiple Contacts per Opportunity
Associate multiple contacts to a single opportunity to ensure you are aware of every contact within an organization that could impact the closing of a deal, whether they are an influencer, decision maker, or play another role. Multiple Contacts per Opportunity allows you to track more than one contact associated with an Opportunity without having to create separate opportunities for each Contact, and allows for a more comprehensive view of all the contacts that are involved with an opportunity.

INTRODUCING THE ALL-NEW, INTERACTIVE DASHBOARD

Your critical information, all in one place.
The all-new interactive ACT! Dashboard gives you a comprehensive glance at your key information in a visual easy-to-use format. Roll-up key activity and opportunity information all in the single Dashboard view with the information you need to tackle your day and be more productive.

ACT! FUNCTIONS YOU USE EVERY DAY ARE STREAMLINED FOR GREATER EFFICIENCY.

Save Space in your Database by Adding Document Shortcuts to Activity and History Items
You can now add document shortcuts to Activity and History items without having to attach the full document. You save space and allow other non-ACT! users to edit the same document--ensuring you have the most updated document in the database.

Keep your Database Clean and Accurate With an Automatic Check for Duplicates by First and Last Name
You can automatically check for duplicate First and Last names contained within ACT! when entering a new Contact Record. When a duplicate record is found, a prompt will inform you that you are creating a duplicate Contact and will provide you with the option to continue or cancel the entry. You also have the option to set and define checking criteria for up to three fields so you only get the duplicate prompt when it matters to you.

Works With Other Software
ACT! 2008 works with multiple operating systems (including Microsoft Windows XP and the new Windows Vistaª operating system), and is compatible with the most popular releases of Office and Internet Explorer, including Office 2007 and Internet Explorer 7.0.

FASTER ACCESS TO MORE COMPREHENSIVE OPPORTUNITY INFORMATION.

Know All the Decision Makers By Tracking Multiple Contacts in One Opportunity
Make sure you're aware of all contacts within an organization that could impact the closing of your deal, whether they are influencers, decision makers, or in other positions. Multiple Contacts per Opportunity allows you to track more than one contact associated with an Opportunity without having to create separate opportunities for each Contact, and allows for a more comprehensive view of all the contacts that are involved with an opportunity.

View the Complete Details of an Opportunity from a List View with Opportunity List Details
View all contacts or products associated with an opportunity from the Opportunity list view without having to open the opportunity. Save time by simply mousing over the opportunity in the List view to quickly identify additional information for that opportunity in seconds.

EASIER WAYS TO SEARCH AND ORGANIZE GROUPS AND COMPAINES.

Automatically Check for Duplicate Group and Company Records to Ensure Your Database Remains Clean and Accurate When a duplicate record is found, a prompt will inform you that you are creating a duplicate Group or Company and will provide you with the option to continue or cancel the entry. You also have the option to set and define duplicate record checking criteria for up to three fields so you are only prompted when required by your pre-determined conditions.

Maintain More Consistent Groups and Companies Record Structures By Using the Label Subgroups and Divisions
For example, many companies in your database may have divisions or departments with the same names, like "Sales" or "Marketing." With ACT! 2008, you can utilize "Sales" and "Marketing" as division names for as many company records as you wish. This improvement lets you maintain more consistent Group and Company Record structures for improved organization and data accuracy.

Enhance Your Search and Reporting Needs by Performing Advanced Queries for Groups and Companies
This will allow you to find Group and Company information more easily. Create new queries identifying all Groups and Companies listed as prospects or located in the same territory. You can save the Advanced Query for later searching and easily re-define the search criteria, reducing time spent on future searches. This enables you to better leverage your customer information based on the query results.

Easily Determine Group and Company Hierarchy--Including Subgroups and Divisions--by Viewing in Dialog Boxes
This not only allows for easier navigation, it also allows you to more clearly see relationships. With this hierarchy you can easily decipher which Subgroup and Division is associated with parent Group and Company records.

ACT! BY SAGE 2008 (10.0) FEATURES AND BENEFITS

Organize Contacts and Leads

• Track contact details, notes and history, appointments and to-do items, documents, and opportunities.
• Populate 60+ pre-defined fields including Name, Company, Phone, Address, Web site, E-mail, and ID/Status, or add your own.
• Attach documents directly into Activities, History, or Documents tabs. Even when you are in Microsoft Word and Excel, you can attach documents and spreadsheets to ACT! contacts so it's easy to quickly locate presentations, proposals, quotes, and more.
• Create Company Records and view a roll-up of notes, history, and opportunities tied to contacts at those companies.
• Use Groups with 15 levels of hierarchy (14 Subgroups) to easily organize, communicate, and schedule related contacts.

Manage Daily Responsibilities

• Schedule calls, meetings, and to-dos quickly and easily, and filter each by priority, date range, or user. Access each with 5 Calendar views including Daily, Weekly, and Monthly, or from the Task List.
• Calendar pop-ups make it easy to view activity details instantly by mousing over any activity for an at-a-glance view.
• Use Activity Alarms to stay on top of deliverables. Incomplete activities roll over to the next day.
• Schedule an activity series for activities with multiple tasks. Activities are linked to one another so a date change in one will realign other activities if appropriate.
• Synchronize your ACT! and Outlook calendars to facilitate appointment scheduling with company employees not using ACT!.
• Utilize ACT! Dashboard components Schedule At-a-Glance and My Activities to get a fast, accurate snapshot of key calls, meetings, and to-dos.

Track Sales Opportunities

• Use the built-in ACT! sales process or customize the sales process to suit your specific needs.
• View all sales opportunities at once or filter by Users, Estimated Close Date, Status, Sales Stage, Amount, or Probability of Close.
• Use the Product List to easily enter repeated products or services and automatically fill in information such as name, item number, cost, and price. And, generate instant quotes1 for any opportunity without having to re-key information.
• View the graphical Sales Pipeline and drill down to see opportunity details.
• Choose from 20+ pre-formatted Sales Reports or export to Excel2 with one click for further analysis using built-in, customizable pivot tables.
• Utilize ACT! Dashboard components Opportunity Pipeline by Stage, My Opportunities, Top 10 Opportunities, and Closed Sales to Date for a graphical snapshot of how you're tracking toward metrics.

Communicate More Effectively

• Create, send, and track e-mail to/from contacts using ACT! E-mail Client integrated with Outlook Express or Lotus Notes, or integrate ACT! directly with Outlook.3
• Track customer correspondence for a history of all communications with a contact and its organization.
• Quickly identify your last communication with a contact using the Last Communication fields, including Last Reach, Last Attempt, Last Meeting, Last Letter, and Last E-mail fields.
• Write letters in ACT! using Word or the ACT! built-in Word Processor, which supports tables, graphics, HTML, and spell checking. And, use pre-formatted templates for e-mails, letters, and memos, and easily customize the HTML graphical templates to e-mail customers.
• Select a contact or a group of contacts and perform a Mail Merge to a letter or e-mail.

Gain Business Insight

• Perform a look-up on most fields or use Keyword Search and ACT! will highlight the keyword in a particular note, history, activity, or opportunity. Or, perform numeric look-ups such as greater than or less than queries.
• Access 40 standard reports including Phone Lists, Activity Reports, Referral Source, and Sales Summaries. Or, use the Report Designer to create custom reports and send most reports to Excel, HTML, PDF, or e-mail.
• Get a pulse on your business in a single view with comprehensive, graphical representations of key information with the ACT! Dashboard.
• Tailor ACT! to suit your business by customizing Priority, Activity, and History types, allowing for better tracking and analysis.
• Customize layouts, including changing colors, adding logos, and moving relevant field displays for greater visibility.

Access While Mobile or Remote

• Synchronize your ACT! Calendar, Contact and To-Do information, Notes, and History items to Palm OS, Pocket PC, Windows Mobile 5.04, or BlackBerry4 devices.
• Print over 20 templates designed for popular paper organizers so you always have your schedule with you.
• Print from any ACT! calendar template and the contact phone number for any scheduled call is automatically printed on the calendar.
• Access critical contact and customer details through Citrix or Terminal Services5 when out of the office.

ACT! 2008 bundled with High Impact eMail and OfficeReady
The #1 selling contact and customer manager for 20 years, ACT! by Sage 2008 (10.0) improves productivity by helping you organize contact information, manage daily responsibilities, and communicate more effectively. With all your contact details at your fingertips, you can focus on what's important to your business--building stronger customer relationships. ACT! is easy to learn and use, and can be used out-of-the-box or customized to suit your needs. It also integrates with everyday tools like Microsoft Outlook, Excel, and Word. With more than 2.7 million individual users, ACT! continues to lead the industry in helping customers like you connect and succeed.

Special Promotion:
When you purchase ACT! 2008, you are also entitled to a free download of High Impact eMail and OfficeReady (a $199 value!).

High Impact eMail Professional lets you create dynamic e-mail marketing campaign in minutes. It is an easy and smart way to communicate with your clients, customers, and colleagues. Plus it works directly with ACT! Contact lists.

• Customize and personalize your e-mails with eMail Merge.
• Use the 1,100+ pre-designed HTML templates and color themes for a professional look.
• Save time and money using ACT! Contact lists.

OfficeReady Platinum comes packed with 600+ templates to help you easily design professional marketing and business documents. Create polished newsletters, brochures, product sheets, proposals, and more!

• Save money and hours of work using templates designed for Microsoft Office.
• Gain flexibility by creating PDFs or converting PDFs back into Word documents using PDF RoundTrip technology.
• Personalize documents and marketing collateral using ACT! data.

• Integrated photo-editing tools; set audio alarms; save as screensaver
• Pre-designed template in multiple planner sizes or start from scratch
• Personalize design with 200,000 premium images, borders, and colors

• The #1 selling contact and customer manager worldwide; keeps track of all your contact and customer information in a single location
• Ideal for traveling; links to a Palm OS or Pocket PC device to synchronize your ACT! Calendar, Contacts, To-Do information, Notes, and History items
• Improved search functionality and greater integration with Outlook over previous versions

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Organize Your Contacts
ACT! is a single, central repository for critical contact and customer information captured across your business. It enables you to access detailed contact and customer information, manage calendars and activities, capture all customer communications, track opportunities through the sales process, and report on overall effectiveness.

With ACT! you can track complete customer data, including all contact details, your personal notes and customer history, appointments and vital to-do items, documents, and more. Offering over 60 pre-defined fields for each contact, you can easily sort and track your customers by any number of characteristics. The software even lets you attach documents directly into your customer's account information. If you are in Microsoft Word and Excel, you can easily attach documents and spreadsheets to ACT! contacts so it's easy to quickly locate vital information such as presentations, proposals, and quotes. Advanced customization features let you design your own layouts, and you can move relevant field displays to suit the unique needs of your business.

Stay in Touch and Connected
ACT!'s Contact Record lets you track all of your critical contact and customer communications for quick and easy referencing. With the software's e-mail client integrated with Lotus Notes or Microsoft Outlook Express, or integrated directly with Outlook, you can send outbound e-mails to contacts and create contact history on the Contact Record. ACT!'s Mail Merge feature even allows you to correspond with multiple contacts, either via e-mail or paper correspondence, and automatically tracks a history on each Contact record.

A built-in word processor that supports tables, graphics, HTML and spell checking makes it easy to write letters directly from ACT! You can select a group of contacts and perform a mail merge to a letter or e-mail. Best of all, a history is automatically generated on each contact record every time you send correspondence. With ACT! you'll never lose track of your past correspondence again.

Prioritize Your Work
ACT! can help you stay on top of your deliverables by offering multiple calendar views, including daily and customizable work week views. Calls, meetings, and to-do items can be filtered by priority, date range, or user, and you can display totals for each type of activity. Built-in activity alarms will help you stay on top of all your time-sensitive deliverables, so you'll always be ahead of the game with your contacts. If you rely on communicating with colleagues who are not using ACT!, you can also synchronize your ACT! calendar with their Microsoft Outlook calendar to facilitate appointment scheduling and tasks.

Track Sales Opportunities
ACT! enables you to track sales opportunities from the initial inquiry through the closing to utilize the standard sales process, or you can create a customized process to suit your business. When working an opportunity, simply click follow-up and a new activity will be created automatically with details, thereby ensuring the prospect is managed as it moves through the process. The product list lets you easily enter repeated products or services, and can automatically fill in information such as name, item number, cost, and price. ACT! also gives you the options of choosing from over 20 pre-formatted Sales Reports, or exporting to Microsoft Excel with a single click for further analysis using built-in, customizable pivot tables.

Information on the Go
If you are on the road with your business, you can take your critical contact and customer information with you no matter where you go. With ACT!, you can link to a Palm OS or Pocket PC device to synchronize your ACT! Calendar, Contacts, To-Do information, Notes, and History items. Are you still using a paper organizer when you're out of the office? Don't fret! ACT! features over 20 printable templates designed for popular paper organizers so you always have your schedule with you.

• Student version intended for student and educational use only
• An integrated part of the 2007 Microsoft Office system
• Creates a living repository of class notes and brainstorming sessions that adds continuity and context to study sessions or group projects

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Licensing Restrictions
Please note these Microsoft Home and Student Edition licensing restrictions: This version of OneNote 2007 is for non-commercial, non-commercial location, educational use only, and is intended for use by qualified educational users only. (Example: In a household, only the students are eligible to use the software, however parents can use the software when assisting students.) You can install this edition on one PC in your home. This product does not qualify for future upgrade pricing or installations). You may not transfer your usage rights to another individual or allow them to install the program at another location. You are only eligible to use this product while you are a qualified educational user. Microsoft provides only installation support for this product.

Gather and Organize Everything in One Place
With so much information coming your way--and in so many different forms--you need one place to keep it all and a tool that's flexible enough to capture it. Otherwise, information that could have been used to help make better decisions or make you more efficient is lost or difficult to find.Unlike paper-based systems, word processing programs, e-mail systems, or other productivity programs, OneNote 2007 delivers the flexibility to gather and organize text, pictures, digital handwriting, audio and video recordings, and more--all in one digital notebook on your computer. This software can help you become more productive by keeping the information you need at your fingertips and reducing time spent searching for information across e-mail messages, paper notebooks, file folders, and printouts.

Save Time By Consolidating Information
Taking notes on paper and transcribing them later can be time-consuming and difficult, and you run the risk of losing important pages. In addition, it's difficult to share data kept in conventional paper notebooks and they're only good for capturing one kind of information: handwritten notes. When it's time to gather information from other sources and in different ways, other difficulties can arise. For instance, because most people don't have a way of digitally capturing unstructured information, they often print out Web research, and store information in file folders or on desks, which is difficult to find later and inaccessible when you're away. And sharing information with others can be challenging--even when using e-mail, it can be hard to hard to figure out what the plan is without reading through long e-mail threads that may or may not contain the information you need. OneNote 2007, however, gives you a solution with a flexible software program that enables you to gather virtually any type of information in one place. With your information readily available, you can be more prepared and informed, especially when it comes to homework and exams.

Quickly Find What You Need
With OneNote 2007, finding information is easy and fast because it eliminates the guesswork of figuring out where you stored critical information. No more clicking through file folders and sorting through pages of paper notebooks to find the information you're looking for. Powerful search features give you the ability to locate information quickly, while allowing you to search across new types of content, like text in scanned documents or images, and spoken words in audio and video recordings. With easier access to the facts, you can focus on completing your schoolwork in a timely, organized fashion.

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Protect Your Intellectual Property
OneNote 2007 helps you consolidate various types of information--including freeform notes, images, documents, files from other Microsoft Office system programs, and rich media--and organize it in the way that works best for you. And because it keeps everything in one place, you don't have to worry about frequently saving or creating backups of your information--OneNote 2007 does this for you.

Ideal For Students
If you're attending classes where you need to take detailed notes, writing papers, or doing research, OneNote makes sure you can save and store large amounts of different kinds of information in one place. When it's time to prepare for an exam, or draft a research paper, everything you need will be at your fingertips. You can also catch all the details of different lectures by synchronizing typed or handwritten notes with Office OneNote 2007 audio and video recordings. If you wish to work from different locations, gather information on your Microsoft Windows Mobile powered devices (including notes, audio recordings, and pictures) and transfer it to OneNote 2007.

And when it's time to share data with teachers or other students, take advantage of OneNote 2007's export application programming interface to easily transfer information gathered in OneNote 2007 to your school's systems, and in so doing reduce errors and wasted time spent rekeying the same information in different systems. Need to copy, paste, or print information from and into other 2007 Microsoft Office system programs? It's no problem with OneNote; this software lets you access and exchange information in Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint. You can even use OneNote 2007's drawing tools and tables to annotate and easily organize and manage information.

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Search and Link Options
OneNote 2007 lets you search and find keywords quickly within text, in images, and in audio recordings made within the application. You can also view hyperlinked search results in a summary task pane; a single click takes you to relevant results. For added convenience, view all open notebooks at once, use drag-and-drop functionality to easily arrange and rearrange your notes, and add hyperlinks to other pages in your notebook to quickly find relevant content. Manage tasks easily with two-way synchronization between OneNote 2007 and the 2003 and 2007 versions of Microsoft Office Outlook, or link notes and other information to specific Outlook 2007 or Outlook 2003 contacts to help you better prepare for meetings and recall information easily. If you want to underscore a particularly important point, date, or other piece of information, mark notes with note tags, visually rich icons that make it easier to return to reminders, to-dos, and other high-priority items.

Work Together More Effectively
Group projects or study groups with other students working from different locations and on multiple projects can often be challenging. Too much reliance on e-mail to coordinate meeting times or share information can cause confusion and bloated e-mail inboxes. Key topics, assignment requirements, and other issues stored within static documents or document management systems are difficult to update, track, and access, and they prevent multiple people from working with the same information at the same time. OneNote 2007 helps people work together better by eliminating roadblocks that arise when information is isolated in paper notes or file folders, or on one person's computer. Groups can share information easily, work more productively, and keep track of projects, issues, and goals more effectively. For added convenience, individuals can work together from the same notebook--whether online or offline--using shared notebooks. OneNote2007 manages changes made to the same notebook, eliminating the need to track versions or upload changes.

If you're organizing a study group, you can also create a group knowledge base so that everyone has access to the same information, helping to get new members up to speed quickly. Share notes even with non-Office OneNote 2007 users by sending your notes as HTML so that anyone with an e-mail client or Web browser can view them, and stay in control of your information by choosing which notebooks to share with your teammates and which to keep private, and help ensure privacy with password protection. You can even use OneNote 2007 as a shared digital whiteboard, an option that is particularly helpful when studying for a test, enabling a virtual group to work together in real time, viewing and editing the same set of notes.