Recommended Database Server Hardware MS SQL Server 2005 Express Edition

Number of Users

Recommended CPU Speed

Available Memory

Applicable Products

Intel®Pentium® IV 1.8 GHz Server

1 GB RAM

ACT! Premium for Web/Workgroups (EX Edition)

11 - 20

Intel®Pentium® IV 2.0 GHz Server

1 GB RAM

ACT!Premium for Web/Workgroups (EX Edition)

Please note: SQL Server Express can install and run on multiprocessor machines, but only a single CPU is used at any one time. The maximum database size is limited to 4 Gigabytes. SQL 2005 EX is limited to a maximum of 1 GB ram. Windows XP Home limits the number of concurrent users to 5. Windows XP Professional and Windows 2000 Professional limit the number of concurrent users to 10.

Recommended Database Server Hardware MS SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition

Number of Users

Recommended CPU Speed

Available Memory

Applicable Products

5 – 10

Intel®Pentium® IV 1.8 GHz Server

1 GB RAM

ACT!Premium for Workgroups 2007 (ST Edition)

11 - 30

Intel®Pentium® IV 2.0 GHz Server

2 GB RAM

ACT!Premium for Workgroups 2007 (ST Edition)

31 – 50

Intel®Pentium® IV 3.2 GHz Server

3 GB RAM

ACT!Premium for Workgroups 2007 (ST Edition)

Provides contact and customer management users with anytime anywhere access to centralised, secure data. Enables businesses and teams of selling professionals to instantly access key contact and customer information.

Enables remote or travelling users access to information in real time through a Web browser.

Act Premium for Web and Premium for Workgroups can share the same database, therefore office based users can use either the Windows or Web browser interface to access the database.

• Contacts and Companies - Associate contacts with with a Company Record and view a roll-up of all associateds notes, histories and opportunities.
  
  
• Groups - Track collections of related contacts using the Groups feature.
  
  
• Notes & Histories -Enter virtually unlimited date-time stamped notes and histories for contacts, companies and groups.
  
  
• Lookups - Find exactly what you are looking for quickly and easily with robust lookup capabilities.
  
  
• Schedule - calls, meetings and to-dos easily, access daily, weekly or monthly calendar views.
  
  
• Reports - Choose from numerous pre-formatted Reports or export to Excel with one click. Use the Report Designer to create custom reports.

• Sales Process Automation - Track sales from initial enquiry through to close using either a standard or customised sales process. Use the opportunity list to view all sales opportunities at once or filter the data.

• Manage security by user, teams, contact and by field. Assign up to five different levels of security for users. Utilize teams function to group users and easily grant contact access to them. With field level security, fields can be restricted by users or teams and defined as read-only or no access.
• ACT! Premium for Web is installed on the server and no end-user software installation is required. Centralised administration means that user permissions are easy to set-up and that selected selected users can create and modify layouts and reports which can then be accessed by both Windows and Webs users instantly.