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ACT! by Sage Premium for Workgroups 2007 (9.0) Receives Product of the Year Award From Communications Solutions
Sage Software Contact and Customer Management Solution Honored for Commitment to Quality and Outstanding Innovation
| Source: Sage Software
SCOTTSDALE, AZ -- (MARKET WIRE) -- May 4, 2007 -- Sage Software announced today that
Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC)'s Communications Solutions® has
named the ACT! by Sage Premium for Workgroups 2007 (9.0) contact and
customer management solution a 2006 Product of the Year Award winner. TMC
recently honored the most innovative products and services brought to
market in 2006 as part of its seventh annual Communications Solutions
awards program, recognizing vendor vision, leadership, and attention to
detail in business application development. ACT! Premium for Workgroups
2007 was released in September 2006.
"This award speaks directly to the granular level of detail we build into
the total ACT! solution," said Joe Bergera, senior vice president and
general manager for ACT! and Sage Software Global CRM. "We have
successfully grown ACT! to support the on-line and off-line working
requirements of our customers and, in this, our ACT! 20th Anniversary year,
we look forward to continuing development of new capabilities that will
further help sales teams, small businesses, and individuals accelerate
their own business growth."
ACT! Premium for Workgroups is now being featured with Product of the Year
award winners on the Communications Solutions Web site
(www.tmcnet.com/comsol).
"ACT! has been recognized for excellence in technological advancement and
application refinement," said Rich Tehrani, TMC President and Group
Editor-in-Chief of Communications Solutions. "Sage Software has proven its
commitment to quality and excellence by delivering solutions that benefit
the customer experience and provide ROI for the companies that use them. I
am pleased to honor these accomplishments and look forward to more
innovative solutions from Sage in the future."
About ACT!
The introduction of ACT! in 1987 established the "Contact Management"
software category. For more than 20 years, ACT! has been the number-one
selling contact and customer management solution and preferred choice of
over 2.7 million registered users and more than 38,000 additional corporate
customers to organize, access and manage their critical customer
information. ACT! delivers powerful contact and customer management
capabilities with flexible deployment and customization options to help
individuals, selling professionals and corporate workgroups improve
productivity and increase sales.
ACT! by Sage is part of Sage CRM Solutions, the only family of CRM products
designed specifically for the needs of small and mid-sized businesses that
also includes SageCRM, SageCRM.com and Sage SalesLogix. For more details,
visit www.sagecrmsolutions.com or call (888) 855-5222.
About TMC
Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes four print publications:
Customer Inter@ction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY Magazine, IMS Magazine
and Unified Communications (launching summer 2007). TMCnet, TMC's Web site,
is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and
technology industries. Ranked in the top 0.003 percent of sites in the
world by alexa.com*, TMCnet serves nearly two million unique visitors each
month, according to WebTrends. TMC is also the first publisher to test new
products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. In addition,
TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, Communications Developer
Conference, IMS Expo and Call Center 2.0 Conference. TMCnet.com publishes
more than 15 topical online newsletters. (*alexa.com is an amazon.com
company that ranks Web sites by their traffic levels. Neither alexa.com nor
amazon.com is affiliated with TMCnet). For more information about TMC,
visit www.tmcnet.com.
About Sage Software
Sage Software supports the needs, challenges, and dreams of more than 2.7
million small and
mid-sized business customers in North America through easy-to-use, scalable
and customizable software and services. Our products support accounting,
operations, customer relationship management, human resources, time
tracking, merchant services and the specialized needs of the construction,
distribution, healthcare, manufacturing, nonprofit and real estate
industries. Sage Software is a subsidiary of The Sage Group plc, a leading
international supplier of accounting and business management software
solutions and related products and services for small and mid-sized
businesses. Formed in 1981, Sage was floated on the London Stock Exchange
in 1989 and the Group now has 5.2 million customers and employs over 13,000
people worldwide. For more information, please visit the Web site at
www.sagesoftware.com/moreinfo or call (866) 308-2378.
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