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Choosing Outlook vs.
Act
Act! By Sage Software is a contact and customer relationship management application.
Prophet CRM Outlook vs. Act is an add-on to Microsoft Outlook that allows seamless
contact and customer relationship management within the Microsoft Outlook application.
No more fussing with two programs!
What Are The
Advantages Of Using Prophet CRM Outlook vs. Act?
When you choose to use Prophet CRM Outlook vs. Act you will be opting to use an
application that has been built on top of Microsoft Outlook using Microsoft’s
.net technology. Outlook vs. Act will allow you to directly manage your contacts,
email, and calendar without the bother of having to synchronize the two programs.
You will be able to seamlessly and quickly work with real time information instead
of waiting for your programs to update themselves. When using Act vs. Outlook
you will be required to manually synchronize the Act database with Microsoft Office
products to take advantage of additional features within the program. This
can be a burden if the synchronizing does not go smoothly and you will spend valuable
time waiting for the data transfer to finish.
As most users are already familiar with Microsoft Outlook, when you chose to use
Prophet CRM Outlook vs. Act you will spend less time training employees how to use
the software as it is similar to what they have already been using. Act vs.
Outlook has features that may not be as intuitive for users to understand and figure
out which as a result will require more extensive training to ramp employees up.
One benefit of using Prophet CRM Outlook vs. Act is the easy configuration for sharing
the sales opportunity data. With Prophet CRM Outlook CRM you will be able
to take advantage of peer to peer technology or utilize centralized server sharing.
With Act you will be required to grant each user that needs the sales opportunity
data permission to enter the Act database.
Because Prophet Outlook CRM is an add-on to the Microsoft Outlook application you
will only need to manage one program. Using Prophet CRM Outlook vs. Act will
prevent you from having to spend extra money managing two programs. You will
also need to spend less time and use fewer resources by only having to configure
one application when you choose Prophet CRM Outlook CRM vs. Act.
If you already use Microsoft Outlook to track email, contacts, and calendar events
you are already one step ahead of the learning curve. Prophet CRM Outlook
CRM vs. Act utilizes the same instruction to accomplish tasks within the application.
Once you install Prophet CRM Outlook CRM you will notice a new toolbar that will
present you with the new CRM functionality that you have just integrated within
Microsoft Outlook.
With Prophet CRM Outlook CRM vs. Act you can take advantage of the search functions
already built into Microsoft Outlook. You can easily find emails, contacts,
calendar events and accounts by taking advantage of powerful search features.
When needing to send group emails you can count on Microsoft Outlooks extremely
proficient and intuitive system. Prophet CRM Outlook CRM vs. Act will allow
you to count on the flexibility of distribution lists to make sure all contacts
make it on to the correct list and receive the important email you need to send
them. With Act vs. Outlook you will rely on their software to organize your
client lists and help prepare group emails for distribution.
With Prophet CRM Outlook CRM vs. Act you will be able to take advantage of a flexible
report manager integrated directly into Microsoft Outlook. One more great
feature to add to its list.
System Requirements
For Prophet CRM Outlook CRM vs. Act
Prophet CRM Outlook CRM vs. Act can be installed on Windows 2000, Windows XP, and
Windows Vista and can be used with Microsoft Outlook 2000 to 2007.
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