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ACT GT 2.0 (i.e. 5.0) Sucksby wahart - November 25, 2005
Pros: ACT 2.0 was a great piece of software
Cons: This is not a product you want to purchase
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Several years ago I had my whole company using ACT 2.0 (marketing, sales, customer support, invoicing ect.) I upgraded my home PC to ACT 5.0 and really wish I had not made that mistake. First instruction was to disable my firewall. What moron would write this into a requirement to install software!? I found the tricks not to disable the wirewall after hours of research. The response time is horrible (launch, load a new database, etc.) Today I am getting CRC errors when launching the database and I have uninstalled ACT 5.0 for the last time. I would not consider ACT 6.0 if they gave me $1,000.00.
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Amazingly un-intuitive, sloppy, interface.by petr0lb0mb - September 3, 2005
Pros: It beats using a pen and scratch-paper (sometimes).
Cons: Lacks functionality-|-Hard to configure-|-Limited options-|-Slooow.
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One gets the feeling that designer of this software was self-taught on how to program without ever having used a PC before.
The layout really eats it. Navigating Act! is very mouse intensive. Having said that, the mouse isn't very useful for anything other than dragging scrollbars around and moving the mouse cursor from field to field.
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ACT- The worst Software choice I have madeby chvytrkn - July 5, 2005
Pros: Customizable
Cons: synronization, too many bugs, very hard to deal with,
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I recently upgraded a previous version of ACT to the latest 2005. This was a very big mistake. after my frustrations with 6.0 I had decided to look for a different software. But after discussing this move with some employees they wanted commonality and talking to the folks at ACT I decided to give the new software a try. The new software is very slow and awkward. Our company had been so busy for the first few months after the purchase we didn't have the time to convert to the new software until recently. I called their so called support to ask one question and I needed to send them three hundred bucks before they would even talk to me. Is this customer service? I can not treat my customeres that way. They were kind enough to take my check, but God forbid I actually want to ask a simple question or opinion. What a joke. My company will not be using this product and anyone who asks me will not be as far as I am concerned. I do not need to do business with people like that.
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Save your moneyby pastacuz - June 22, 2005
Pros: Weak database features
Cons: Everything about it
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I am so frustrated with Best Software. They have butchered the old ACT and made it so I don't even want to use it. I have problems and bugs with everything I try. Even the upgrades shut down after downloading. They are too interested in selling maintenance packages instead of helping. Gee, I wonder why? Don't waste your money on this sham of a product. I sure miss the old ACT!
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A perfectly good product gone badby dougt02 - May 2, 2005
Pros: good history and pipeline reports
Cons: slow, poor networking and poor synchronizing.
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I have used ACT for many years and Best has made it worst. This is something I never even thought about in years past, it just worked. Now it my biggest headache. If you are one man band, it's OK although integration with other products is iffy at best. But networking a department and sycnchronizing is a giant headache in the best case and impossible in the worst. I bought a 5 User package. Nobody is looking at the same thing. And Best is no help at all. This was money down the toilet. I only hope I can export what I put in it to the next database program I buy.
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Too Buggy not even worthy of a Beta Release yet.by - September 20, 2003
Pros: Good Functions if i could get it to work
Cons: Waited for v6.03 thought it was all sorted out but still buggy as hell. I can't believe how buggy it is, its unbelievable as they have such a massive user base. Such a shame as great potential but will be looking at MSCRM et al now. Worst thing is Act [
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Stick with 5.0 or get SalesLogixby - August 15, 2003
Pros: Haven't found any yet.
Cons: Just hung up with customer support after spendning $1,000 on upgrades...was told in response to our problem that ACT 6.0 crashes when we try to blind copy e-mails... "well sometimes that happens". RUN RUN RUN AWAY!!!!
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Garbage! A total nightmare to install. Crashes constantly.by - July 14, 2003
Pros: None. Stay with Act2000. Do NOT upgrade.
Cons: I've been using Act for over 12 years, even the DOS version. It was all good, until now. Act6 is not only the worst Act release ever, it is one of the worst pieces of garbage software I've ever seen. I am disgusted with the company and the product. Lousy
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Best Product ont he marketby - July 14, 2003
Pros: Completely New ACT! E-mail Enhanced Outlook Integration New Active Libraries New Contact Activity Lookups New Calendar Pop-Ups & Totals Advanced Alarms New Annual Event Tracking Improved Internet Services Easy Installation and Instant Data Con
Cons: NONE!
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Act 6.0 does not sync with PPC 2003by - July 7, 2003
Pros: It works as well as Act 2000
Cons: 1. See One-line summary. 2. Should have stayed with Act 2000
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ACT! is my Heroby - June 18, 2003
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I use ACT! for everything. Having a contact list the size of mars and keep track of my tasks is critical to my job. I mean, it's like I have 50,000 friends! It's awesome. I highly reccomend it! That and my Winfax. It's grand.
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It's Not What It Used to Beby - June 18, 2003
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For users of ACT! 5/2000, stay with what you have, particulary if you "tweaked" the ACT! registry to add modifications to pointers, adding icons and cataloging saved lookups into dropdowns. If you have done this and plan to upgrade to 6.0, you can expect to lose all of your changes and the ACTREG file won't help you. Prior to upgrading, I spoke with no less than a dozen techs at Best who all swore that my customization of ACT! would be preserved through the upgrade. NOT! It took nearly ten hours to manually restore my previous configurations to 6. Not feeling my pain when I took them to task on it, I found their support to be inept, at times rude and always lacking any real concern for their customer. I've spoken with a great number of folks at Best and for the most part, they all act this way. This would be representative of their corporate culture itself. So .. it's buyer beware unless all you need is a simple contact manager. On another note, Act! 6 does have a built in browser which is great but it won't take you back to previous pages. The ACTDIAG utility works better than its predessor but I seem to be scratching for nice things to say about the application. You can add functionality to ACT! by beefing it up with some of the freeware programs out there on the web. My version of ACT! now performs in-field computations for forcasting purposes, does multiple name lookups, writes notes to entire lookups simultaneously, and can lookup a contact while the database has another contact open. With a little work, it can be what you've wanted it to be. ACT! isn't bad for what it does .. just don't expect too much from it.
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Weak, buggy, poor Outlook compatibilityby - April 24, 2003
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I actually prefer the user interface of Act! 6 over that of Goldmine 6. However, the inability of Act! to play nicely with Outlook is a show stopper.
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Manuals can a user's best friend.by - April 22, 2003
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Good program, don't expect it to make coffee for you. Online knowledge base is great, and if you know how to turn on the computer, most likely you can learn how to use the program. It's very windows based, and is pretty easy to use if one actually reads the owners manual. Unfortunately, this is often a very neglected tool to the average user. (The same one who adamently thinks that it HAS to be a bug in the software if they can't figure out a feature in the software... haha)
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You Don't Always Get What You Pay Forby - April 19, 2003
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The product is great if you are using it by yourself. As soon as you start to network it becomes unstable. Oh, did you want to use the email sync feature. I hope you like re-indexing a lot. What...did you say you really like that caller ID feature and have XP NT or 2000???? Surprise! There's a small "by the way" in the user manual (not on the website or sales literature)that tells you it's not compatible. They also want to charge you extra to make this advertised feature actually work. I hope if you bought this you are within the 30 days because guess what? They'll fight you real hard on the money back issue.
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Tech Support Charges for Bugsby - April 9, 2003
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Our company has used act for several years and moved to 6.0 earlier this year with the intention of enhancing our sales/marketing outreach. We have approximately 20 licenses. Since moving to 6.0, the system will crash or register a fatal error at least once during every session for every user. We have invested more than 40 hours of our own IT time in investigating and working to resolve this error. When we contacted Act! in regards to this product behavior, we were told that we had to purchase tech support ($199/user) before they would address the performance glitches. Unbelievable. I buy product. Product does NOT work. Company says I must buy support to fix a product that never worked. If MS did something similar they'd be sued for fraud. I strongly encourage others to avoid doing business with this company under any circumstances.
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Most unreliable software everby - March 22, 2003
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I've been an ACT! user for years and really wanted this upgrade so I could have better integration with Outlook and keep the ability to sync with my palm. What a nightmare! I have never had an application crash so often as 6.0. After purchase I found out that ACT! won't let you use MS-Word in Outlook as an email editor (Surprise!) and now, after finally having made ACT! and Outlook work together for a few months it suddenly stopped working. 2 full days wasted trying to put Humpty Dumpty together again. I'm buying Goldmine . . .
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Totally Sucks!!by - March 21, 2003
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We are a small business that lives and breathes around our management of information. We used to use old Access 97 based product. Completely chnaged over to act 6.02 with the "help" of a cerified act consultant! What a joke! None of the features we changed over for work well. We have Email and fax constantly all day.We were told that they integrated with outlook express and winfax pro that we were using as stand alone products. Once we installed it the email integration was awfull with outlook express and we found out that you couldn't send html email if you use outlook express and act together! We then tried the email client that came with act.. the worse most basic email client I have in ten years. Very few email management and very little customization. Since that wasn't an option either we "upgraded" to outlook XP with was supposed to solve all our email problems NOT! Kept on crashing and basically not working. OH and talk about slow! Try to use the "interated" act address book in outlook take 10-15 to access everytime. Email searchs take 2 mins EACH! The basic contact management works on it you want to look address up and that it! Not what I spent all this money for! Summary look elsewhere for a contact manager if you network it!
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This company is unethicalby - March 6, 2003
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Last fall Act offered a $70 rebate on version 6.0. I submited all the required information and the my request for the rebate was denied. My suggestion do not purchase any product from a company that does not offer a rebate right at the store. The ACT product is not worth the list price and the company is practicing price baiting.
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Stay with ACT 5.0by - March 1, 2003
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Should you make the jump from ACT2000 to ACT6.0? I say, probably not. The benefits are marginal. I would advise most people to stay on ACT 2000, especially if your use of ACT is moderate to light. The only strong reason I?m upgrading is to be able to sync data with the new ACT for Palm (which I think is a good product). Here?s Interract?s top reasons to upgrade (along with my comments in parentheses): Completely new ACT! e-mail (I actually like the old ACT2000 email better. Since I use Outlook Express, my email features are limited. If you use Outlook, your results may be better. They say you can add HTML objects to your emails to make them look slicker.) Improved Mail Merge Wizard (A slight improvement for sending fax/printed/email merges). Enhanced Outlook integration (No benefit for me. I use Outlook Express.) New Active Libraries (Don?t doubt that I?ll ever use them. Must be for real power-users) New Contact Activity Lookups (I?ll use this feature about once every 3 months. Not that big a deal) New Calendar Pop-Ups & Totals (A cute little item, not a big deal) Advanced Alarms (Not useful to me, because I don?t use SideAct) Improved Internet Services (Not a good improvement. They have an ACT window that simulates Internet Explorer, and not 100%. I prefer ACT2000 which, when you click on a Contact?s website, it opens up your default browser. Why re-invent the wheel?) Internet Directory Services (They removed this from ACT2000, so its good to have it back, but that seems like an underhanded incentive to get people to upgrade. I do use this MapQuest link to plot driving directions from my house to the Contact?s location. You can still do this in ACT2000, but it takes some more clicks and some cutting/pasting. ) New Annual Event Tracking (I have a few dozen contacts that use this feature, but its not a big help for me.) Links to Accounting programs. (I don?t use any accounting programs). New Contact Layouts (2 to be exact, neither is that impressive). Easy installation and instant data conversion (True, it was very easy.) It?s guaranteed! (True, they do offer money back if you?re not satisfied.)
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Waste of money. I moving to goldmineby - February 22, 2003
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What has ACT been doing for 3 years? Outlook integration is poor at best. Slow and sent some of my emails to the same person 50 times. Forget about support it doesn't exist unless you want to pay.
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Help Software, what's that?by - February 19, 2003
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The User Guide that came with the program is incomplete and does not correspond with either the Help software or the program itself. It references windows that don't even exist in the instructions. I've spent a sick amount of time just trying to find out HOW to change the layout and use other alleged features. The Help Software is without question the poorest I have used to date. My only option is to pay these people to get the to tell me how it works, since help doesn't. Well that's a great scam, isn't it? One reason I bought this software was because the other CM's were supposed to be very complicated. Help Software that does not work makes ACT! 6.0 not just complicated, but impossible. Do not waste your time or money.
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ACT! 6.0.2.720 is buggyby - February 17, 2003
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I spent nearly 6 hours on ACT! chat (which was free in Feb. 2003) with 3 different techs to try to get the email feature to work. Finally was told to uninstall the upgrade and go back to 6.0.0. Email worked then but with XP I get crashes in ACT! 6.0 so much that I can only do one thing. If I try to do a second (like another lookup) it crashes and closes. I'm looking into Goldmine after being an ACT! user for as long as I can remember. I wish I could stay with ACT.
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Don't waste your time or moneyby - December 29, 2002
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I have been using act since 3.0 and this has to be fixed immediately. If you own a PDA do not get this program. Since when has a program not supported its previous database? 6.0 is a joke.
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Bring back 2000 all is forgivenby - December 17, 2002
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Since upgrading (for free) we have spent hours trying to integrate remote users, to no avail. I think staying with 2000 would be sound advice to anyone considering upgrading their ACT! product
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Learn from your customers!by - December 2, 2002
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I waited patiently for HTML email,or Outlook support in 6.0. It looks good, but it is always crashing. Now the ACT Icon is missing from Outlook and there is no one to tell me how to put it back. Maybe there should be free customer support for the first 4 months after release? Maybe your customers can tell you what you QA group can't!
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I must be a suckerby - November 27, 2002
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All these sunny positive comments must be Interact employees. Worst problem (even after 6.01 "fixes": when I try to change from contact view to calendar or contact list it either takes 10-20 seconds (50%) or crashes Windows 2000 beyond being able to close ACT with task manager. I don't think this company will be around long.
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ACT 6.0 not ready for prime timeby - November 23, 2002
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ACT 6.0 is not ready for prime time. We have had email messages not delivered, Outlook crash, and system instability both in 98 and XP Professional. Also, it appears to be IMPOSSIBLE to share data files with other sales people using the "data exchange" "export" feature. Also, they are happy to help you with problems for only $3.95 per minute, including wait time!! Will likely return to an earlier version of the software... Sounded good, but too good to be true!
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Email Feature is Shockingly Badby - November 21, 2002
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I cannot believe the email has to be opened up in a new window. It looks as if they are two separate programs poorly linked together. Nowadays, email is a much preferrable communication than writing letters. This oversight is the reason why I'm returning for a refund. Time to get Goldmine!
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12 year user no longerby - November 8, 2002
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Summary: Look for another contact manager. They are milking the userbase. Not worth the time effort or money- releasing 6.0 shows me the don't care about quality -only have can they get money for an inferior upgrade and more money from the unavoidable tech support calls
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Disappointed that 6.0 hasn't moved closer to Goldmineby - October 29, 2002
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I moved back to 5.0 after a few weeks of hassles with 6.0 (mostly e-mail hang ups). After several weeks, ACT! still hasn't responded to me about a refund. Here are my disappointments (in general) with this product: 1. It still does not properly support PDA sync (ACT! tech support tells me I will get corrupt data if I use Link if I'm also using user-to-user data sync). 2. In general, user to user sync is weak. No support for sync of e-mail, documents, reports, layouts, etc. Most problematic, it is not possible to designate which info. gets synced to individual users. 3. E-mail history taking is irksome. Even with the new version, you still have to manually look up the contact for each e-mail you want to save in the history (even if that contact with correct e-mail is already in the database). There are no e-mail filters. I'm probably going to take another look at Goldmine. Alas, if only someone had taken up development of ECCO Pro (added an email client and beefed up sync a bit). I have gained very little moving from ECCO to ACT!, and I have lost a lot (I'm still using ECCO as a general information manager, since ACT! is strictly contact-based it makes management of projects, even categorized to-dos, and other info. hard or impossible).
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e-mail workds even worse-not fixedby - October 22, 2002
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act 2000 e-mail was bad enough, but at least I could get it to work most of the time. Now it does not work at all!!!!
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Great Features Poor Supportby - October 16, 2002
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I just called Act. I bought the program yesterday. I wanted to sync this program with Outlook and my Palm. Whew, you would think I was doing something extraordinary. They are trying to bill me for everything + 45 minute hold time. SUPPORT SUCKS!
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What's all the cryin about?by - October 15, 2002
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I have never used a CRM and I am having no trouble with Act version 6.0. The setup is somewhat involved but nothing that can't be done. I have two Palms that I sync on the same computer...one which I use with this program and everything seems to be working fine.
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DON'T DO IT!! Stay Away!by - October 9, 2002
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I've just gone back to ACT 2000. I experienced 3 weeks of one calamity after another with 6.0. We synchronize daily via email among several remote sites. In 3 weeks we were unable to sych once. 6.0 is slower than 2000, and an unmitigated disaster for anyone who relies on email synchronization. We got it as a "free" upgrade and the time we lost contending with its many shortcomings made me rue the day I installed it.
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Same as the last versionby - October 8, 2002
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This is not really much of an upgrade. Unless you like to use Outlook (my company uses Notes) there is absolutely no reason to buy it. No increased integration with the Palm (or Pocket PC), Still lots of quirks like not being able to edit email addresses in list view or replace them for a look-up or have more than one email address per record.
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ACT! 6.0 = Fraudby - October 3, 2002
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If you go to ACT!'s message board, you'll find that there are multiple problems with ACT!6.0 -- especially if you are upgrading. Email integration is bad, it looses old links when you upgrade, some printer functionality no longer works so that you cannot print envelopes, etc. What they advertised was good - the ads turned out to be false, presumably to milk cash from customers who got nothing in return. Sounds like fraud to me.
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Keep Act 5.0! Wait for 7.0...Maybe.by - September 30, 2002
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I upgraded to 6.0 because of Outlook email integration and a few other new features. But I still use Outlook 2002 and my iPaq 3950 and sync with Intellisync. Act 6.0 database does not integrate with Act 5.0, and Interact has no solution to sync 6.0 with PPC or Outlook (other than email). Now my Intellisync won't work and can't find a solution. Interacts support is useless since they want to charge me to support my situation. Money down the drain since I'll end up going back to Act 5.0 and never trust an Interact upgrade till half a dozen friends recommend it.
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A real piece of doggy pooby - September 26, 2002
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Haven't seen it this bad since Act 3.0. When will software companies learn to not take their "cash cow" for granted. After 10 years will finally give up on this travesty and switch to Goldmine, which does not suffer from this type of obvious neglect. Specifically, I dislike this upgrade for reasons that have already been highlighted by others. I can not help but notice that lookups in the list view now take longer, and the monthly calendar pops up after a lengthy wait. The calendaring in general is still very flawed, and the so called email integration they brag so much about is still very much lacking.
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Not Worth the Money OR Your TIME!!!by - September 25, 2002
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I have been using Act for more than 10 years and was eagerly awaiting ACT 6.0. After the last upgrade to ACT 2000 it was a toss-up, e-mail integration that had worked well with the earlier version no longer worked in a manner that was useful. Now ACT 6.0, Outlook integration has improved but still leaves a lot to be desired. Messages in sub-directories in Outlook cannot be linked. Messages that are moved from one folder in Outlook to another are no longer linked in ACT. Internet Links do not work. The browser window crashes and/or loses it's connection. The browser window disappears when trying to resize it. Drag and drop of appointments in the calendar doesn't work. And, there's more. Finally, after 1 hour and 58 minutes (1 hour and 48 minutes hold time). The best tech support could tell me is to uninstall ACT and re-install it. All-in-all it looks like I bought the early production, maybe later builds will be better. AND... I'm finding features in the last version that were not used often but were very useful are gone. Looks like they take features away on the even numbered versions and you buy them back on the odd versions.
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Poor execution of basicsby - September 25, 2002
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I am shocked at how poor the Act 6.0 release is. I had been using Act 5.0 for about a year and a half, and had not been thrilled with how it worked. In a database of a few thousand records, email address look-ups took 5-10 second each (and had to be done just to reply to incoming messages). Email merges were extremely slow (about 1-2 seconds per email sent) and sometimes delivered only fragments of the original message. Basically, I found Act 5.0 to totally lacking the BASICS you'd want from contact management software. So, I was quick to purchase 6.0 assuming these basic problems would have been addressed. But not only were they not addressed, many were made worse. As far as I can tell the main difference with 6.0 is a snazzier GUI. Email lookups are even SLOWER than before, and the kicker: after 3 weeks of usage, my sales guy just discovered that the Outlook integration is totally broken. Depending on your Outlook configuration, emails you think have been sent may have JUST DISAPPEARED. We found this out only after calling $200/year tech support (ie, no pro-active notification). You can imagine that this has not been a good thing for sales of our new product. Avoid this product.
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Wait for 6.1by - September 23, 2002
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Crashes way too frquently. Online Internet links are all gone. Very long wait time to talk to tech support (1 hour plus). They are 0 for 3 as far as answers go. The only real improvement seems to be in Outlook integration, but then again ACT email is where some of the crashes come from. If had it to do all over again I'd stick with 5.04.
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Organizes my Business & personal affairs fullyby - September 20, 2002
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as a long term user of previous versions I am sold on ACT! but version 6 is easy to set up and now it integrates so well with outlook I hardly see any other screen beside ACT! on my monitor.
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overall best deal out there for managing customer infoby - September 17, 2002
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Best deal overall. Easy to use. Good email system now. Few bugs, but that is normal for a new product release.
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Maintains lead as easiest to useby - September 17, 2002
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They really took care of the one thing ACT! needed - BETTER E-MAIL! Still easiest to use.
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Beats Outlook hands downby - September 16, 2002
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Same old interface, lots of new features. Email app is nice, however it lacks filtering, a must in todays spam riddled world. Great product - highly recommended!
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A dot-release at bestby - September 12, 2002
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If you use Outlook and are maniacal about tracking sales prospects, this might be a worthwhile upgrade. But for everyone else, it's a waste of your money. There's no Eudora interface (as limited as was) and several of the online features were removed. The "annual event" feature is bogus as is the document library (hey Interact, take a look at Goldmine -- they've had a good document library feature for years). And there's the incompatability between ver. 5 and 6 file format (anyone remember the screw-up Microsoft did when they changed the Word formats a few years ago? Well, Interact obviously didn't learn anything from that.) The e-mail client is great if you really love getting spam and are willing to give up filters, rules and other ways to manage your e-mail. Fortunately, there's a way to downgrade back to ACT 5.
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Support sucks!!!by - September 11, 2002
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Crashed my system repetitively due to a conflict with HotSync (I use a HandSpring Visor). Claims to support PDA's but want to charge you for any assistance. Apparently ACT! feels that since it doesn't work with the PDA it must be the PDA's fault and not theirs.
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Dependable and Eazy to Useby - September 10, 2002
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I have been an Act user for more than 6 years now. Act 6.0 has my vote! It just keeps getting better.
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Stay with 5.0by - September 6, 2002
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I purchased 6.0 after attending one of their product debut presentation. The main reason I decided to upgrade is the new enhanced email function: HTML. I figured with this new function I can send nice email broadcast to our customers. Other than the email enhancement, everything else is pretty much the same. However, they fail to mention during the presentation that 5.0 and 6.0 users CANNOT SHARE DATABASE. Since there is no need to upgrade all 10 computers in our office just for the e-mail feature, I ended up uninstalling the 6.0, returned it, and reinstalled 5.0.
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No longer has online "profile tab" online Map!by - September 6, 2002
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They removed the online mapping feature, so you must now manually go to a different website (like the maps over on yahoo) and then type in the address in order to see where the customer is. That funtion for us (in the service business) used to be wonderfully convenient, but now no longer.
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Glitchy, Enhanced, Buggy, Easier...by - August 27, 2002
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Yes, rather schitzophrenic - to say the least. Not so many "new" features as there are enhanced ones over Act 5. Nice enhancements, but with them come bugs and glitches that Act still needs to work out. Calendar is terrible, always has been, but Act is determined to keep it there (for some unknown reason.) They have "enhanced" it by adding "rollover" information pop-ups. But, more of a "nice to have" than anythign else. Would have gladly given up the roll-overs for a better calendar/group scheduler. Calendar isn't for the small office who wants to communicate with each other's calendars. And, you won't find much support from Act, on anytyhing. Recommendation: Wait until Act 6.1. If you need something along the lines of calendaring, look elsewhere.
