Sage Software Receives Multiple Market Leadership Awards for Entire CRM Product Portfolio and CEO? Strategic Vision
Fourth Annual CRM Magazine Market Leader Awards honor ACT! by Sage, Sage CRM and SalesLogix, and name CEO Ron Verni a CRM industry influential leader
Scottsdale, Ariz. ?September 26, 2005 ?Sage Software today highlighted four market leadership awards presented by CRM Magazine spanning the company? entire CRM product portfolio. ACT! by Sage, the best-selling contact and customer management solution with over 2.5 million users worldwide, was awarded top honors again this year winning the sales force automation category. Sage CRM, the company? newest product, available both as a hosted service and on-premises solution , was awarded SMB Suite market leadership. SalesLogix, on the strength of its vertical market customization capabilities, was again awarded Midmarket Suite market leadership. Additionally, Ron Verni, Sage Software CEO, was named an Influential Industry Leader.
The CRM Market Leader awards recognize CRM vendors based on their measured reputation for customer satisfaction, depth of functionality, company direction, year-over-year revenue growth and industry analyst rankings.
?his is quite an impressive collection of accolades from one of our industry? authorities on CRM market development and customer success,?noted Ron Verni, CEO for Sage Software. ?ur specific focus on small and medium-sized businesses and the extensive value added for customers by our business partners have clearly led us to these honors.?/p>
The 2005 CRM Market Leader Awards are featured in the October issue of CRM Magazine. Editors highlight ACT!, Sage CRM and SalesLogix as ?art of any sensible list of leading CRM and SFA software for the SMB market.?The publication further recognizes ACT! for its growth to a full-featured SFA solution, Sage CRM for being the industry? first CRM product offered both as an on-premises or hosted solution, and Sage Software? continued focus on delivering mobile CRM solutions including SalesLogix for Pocket PC.
ACT! Product Family
ACT! created the contact and customer management software category in 1987. Today, ACT! is the preferred choice of over 2.5 million users and more than 30,000 corporate license customers to help increase productivity by managing the appointments, activities, documents and notes/histories required for effective customer communications. ACT! helps individuals, small business and corporate workgroups improve bottom-line results by automating and customizing key aspects of the sales cycle to provide better forecasting and opportunity tracking.
Sage Software introduced ACT! by Sage 2006 and ACT! by Sage Premium for Workgroups 2006 in September, adding enhanced sales opportunity tracking, expanded accounting link integrations and additional workgroup collaboration capabilities, among many new features. For more information, visit www.act.com or call 888-855-5222.
Sage CRM
Sage CRM is full-suite configurable customer relationship management software for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) that is available both as a hosted service at SageCRM.com, and for on-premises deployment. In addition, a Sage Accpac edition provides bi-directional front office/back office integration with the award-winning Sage Accpac ERP accounting and operations management software. Sage CRM is fully Web-based and comes with an industry first rent-to-own investment protection guarantee that provides businesses with a critical safety net for their hosted CRM investment. Sage CRM is available through the Sage Software CRM business partner channel. For more information, visit www.sagecrm.com or call 800-975-5441.
SalesLogix CRM Suite
With over 7,000 customers and more than 300,000 users worldwide, SalesLogix is the CRM leader for small to medium-sized businesses. SalesLogix delivers easy-to-use and integrated sales, marketing, customer service and support automation solutions that can be tailored to an organization? unique customer acquisition, retention and development processes. SalesLogix is available through the Sage Software CRM business partner channel. For more information, visit www.sagesaleslogix.com or call 800-643-6400.
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