Because ACT! can be used by anyone with contacts or customers, a wide variety of industries utilize it including:
- Business owners and managers who need to track customers, prospects, vendors, and business associates.
- Sales professionals and consultants who need to manage clients and prospects.
- Real estate agents who need to maintain relationships with buyers, sellers, referral sources and other agents.
- Bankers, financial planners, and brokers who need to maintain contacts with clients and communicate with providers.
- Public relations and advertising professionals who need to manage clients, media, prospects, writers, designers and vendors.
- Recruiters who need to track job candidates and clients to match job seekers and employers efficiently.
- Seminar and training professionals who need to manage interactions with instructors, promoters, attendees, facility managers and equipments suppliers.
- Manufacturers' representatives who need to track transactions and interactions with manufacturers and customers.
(permalink) ACT! is designed for individuals, sales professionals and sales teams of up to 10 users who share data. ACT! Premium solutions (ACT! Premium and ACT! Premium for Web) are for sales teams, small businesses and corporate workgroups who require greater scalability and data sharing, more flexible deployment options, advanced workgroup functionality, and additional administration and security features.
(permalink)Both editions offer the same great feature set to accommodate your workgroup or team. The key difference lies with the database engine and scalability. The EX Edition ships with Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005 Express Edition, and the ST Edition ships with both SQL Server 2005 Express Edition and SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition. With a different database engine comes a different recommendation for scalability or networked user counts.
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