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| WHAT CRM EXPERTS ARE SAYING |
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"Prophet, which enhances Outlook's functions, has salespeople hooked." |
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| CUSTOMER TESTIMONIAL |
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I've tried Act, Goldmine and even custom solutions but have been disappointed by the results. Since we already used Outlook, selecting Prophet made a lot of sense for us. |
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Joel Gendelman, President |
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Allegis Communications |
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Act Software Compared to Prophet Outlook CRM Software |
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Avidian's Prophet makes a huge leap in the “ease of use” over ACT Software by creating a sales and contact management solution INSIDE of Outlook. PC Magazine recently names Prophet as a “Favorite Small Business Tool.” for being easy to use and adding huge value.
Instead of requiring users to synch with Outlook and use an inferior email and calendaring system - Prophet builds on top of the database and features of Outlook with the .NET technology.
This means a simplified user interface, a seamless management of opportunities with your current contact database in Outlook and the continued use of the best email client for windows. Learn more how Prophet can help you...
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| Feature |
Prophet Outlook CRM |
ACT Software |
| Email Client |
Outlook 2000, XP
or 2003, 2007 |
ACT Software email manually synched with Outlook 2000 or XP |
| Calendar System |
Outlook 2000, XP
or 2003, 2007 |
ACT Software calendar manually synched with Outlook 2000 or XP |
| Contact Database |
Outlook 2000, XP
or 2003, 2007 |
ACT Software contact database manually synched with Outlook |
| Appointments |
Outlook 2000, XP
or 2003, 2007 |
ACT Software appointment system manually synched with Outlook |
| Task Management |
Outlook 2000, XP
or 2003, 2007 |
ACT Software task manager manually synched with Outlook |
| Company Accounts |
Prophet data relationship built on Outlook contact database |
ACT Software contact database manually synched with Outlook 2000 or XP |
| Standard & Customized Reports |
Prophet Report Manager built into Outlook |
ACT Software report manager |
| Personalized Group Emails |
Prophet Group Email Wizard using Outlook 2000 and XP email |
ACT Software email |
| Share Sales Opportunity Data |
Easy Peer to Peer or Centralize Server Sharing |
Give access to ACT Software database |
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Prophet 4.0 Professional
“Avidian's Prophet 4.0 is a well-designed, easy-to-use contact management tool that works directly in Microsoft Outlook.”
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“Act!" By Sage
"Increased options lead to increased complexity. Some features not intuitive. Integration with Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook a bit rough."
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| Here are some reviews of Act Software on Amazon: |
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 UTTER DISASTER - DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT!!!, August 12, 2007 |
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| By J. Neil (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews |
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I'm just joining the chorus. I used ACT! for years, when I bought it I trusted Symantec and it was a wonderful product. Sage Software has completely destroyed ACT! I HATE THIS SOFTWARE. Unfortunately moving to another software with many years of history in ACT! takes time, but I am slowly migrating away from this worthless software and will never in my lifetime buy ANY product made by Sage. (I have wasted money going through every version released by Sage, but it doesn't get better, it just keeps getting worse.) This company deserves a class action lawsuit over this!
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| Returned to Amazon, August 6, 2007 |
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| By James M. Moriyasu See all my reviews |
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I have used ACT! for 17 years and need the product for my work. I upgraded this year from Act!2004 because Sage discontinued support. Act!2007 is a huge disappointment for this user and my two assistants. Luckily, my company has a person who can troubleshooot Act!2004 so we have gone back to it and RETURNED ACT! 2007, for a full refund.
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| Can't wait to get rid of it!!!! ZERO STARS, July 19, 2007 |
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| By Michael Williams (Dallas, TX) See all my reviews |
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I have struggled with this software for six months, and like many other reviewers, I would like to give this ZERO stars. I have used ACT for over 10 years, and have always been very pleased. This version is a disaster--EXTREMELY slow memory hog, backup and restore is virtually impossible. I am completely frustrated and sorry I "upgraded" to this version. We will be converting (at significant expense) to other software as soon as possible. Why couldn't Sage just leave it alone?
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| What a disaster. DON'T BUY THIS PRODUCT, July 13, 2007 |
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| By K. Morgan (California) See all my reviews |
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Can I give it zero stars? Do not buy this product. Do not buy this product. Do not buy this product. We're a global audit company that was using ACT 6.0 and getting along just fine, thank you, until our CEO decided to upgrade to 2007 Workgroups. NIGHTMARE. The conversion process took us 2 days and multiple calls to tech support. We're pretty computer savvy since we've set up our own servers and developed software for our market, but we couldn't maneuver easily through converting our databases from 6.0 to 2007. We lost all our tasks, 1/2 our phone numbers and countless hairs off my head. The new version doesn't support our printing labels and when I tried to convert the old ones over it wasn't correct. All my letters didn't convert, so I had to start from scratch there. Each of these things took hours. In 6.0, when you created a task list, it was in the order of the date you set the task for. AS IT SHOULD BE. In 2007, when you create a task list and then go to the contacts to go through them, it's in alphabetical order and YOU CAN'T CHANGE IT!! Thanks Sage, for putting out a truly crummy product.
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| Zero stars - what a piece of garbage, July 2, 2007 |
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| By Derrick Palmer "Maus" (California) See all my reviews |
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Truly a miserable experience. Have been using ACT! through various upgrades since the early DOS days. It used to be a terrific program. The 2005 version was a disaster - slow, crashes, memory hog, you've no doubt heard it all before. I just tried uninstalling 2005 and going back to my 2000 version. According to the reviews 2007 is no better.
Save your money and sanity. Try something else.
-- A disillusioned former ACT! devotee.
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