ACT! HOSTING

What are the benefits of Hosting ACT! with cloudtop office?

(1) Access to your company’s Act! database from anywhere.  Great for mobile teams and remote offices!

(2) Fewer IT resources needed, saving you time and money!

(3) Great support and training from one of Act!’s most qualified hosting providers.

(4) Use your Act! database on any internet-abled device*:  MAC, tablet, phone, old computer or slow computer (*Citrix solution only)

(5) And many more!

Hosting Options

There are 3 options for hosting your Act! database; Act! for Web, Act! Premium Synchronization and Act! over Citrix.

Act! for Web – our lowest cost solution, Act! for Web is easily accessible via the internet.  Although it lacks some of the marketing and administrative features of the full desktop product, it is easiest to deploy and access and is many times a good solution for sales professionals seeking a shared company database. There is also the benefit of nothing loaded on the client computer and near immediate deployment. We can literally have you up within an hour. This is an online only solution. There is no access to your data if you are not connected to the internet. This is also a secure solution in that if a computer is lost or stolen your valuable information is not lost. Most add on software requires the Act! desktop product and therefore is not functional via Act! for web.  Act! for Web is the “lightest” version of Act! and does not have all of the features that the other two solutions offer.  Nonetheless, it can still be a good tool if it is the right fit for your business.

Act! Premium Synchronization ‐ Benefits of this solution include offline access to your data and use of the full windows desktop program and most of its features.  Most Act! adds ons work in a synchronization environment.  Because Act! must be installed and maintained on each users workstation, this solution can be more costly to maintain. Users must be trained and responsible for keeping up the sync process as it is client initiated. Access to other user’s data is not in real time and is dependent upon all parties performing synch. Finally, this configuration is susceptible to security risks in there may be data loss due to physical loss of the computer and damage to the data not yet synchronized. Generally speaking a greater level of trust and responsibility is required of sync enabled users.

Act! over Citrix – This is our flagship product. With Act! over Citrix you have complete access to all of the functionality of the Act! software package.  Citrix allows you to log in remotely to our server and from your perspective, Act! shows up on your system just like any other program over a virtual desktop. However, the program anddata reside on our server. All that passes to you are screen views and keyboard commands. There are no programs to load on your machine, just a small IE Plug‐in. Our Citrix platform works on old machines, slow machines, Windows‐based and Mac based machines, including IPADs.

With our Citrix based solution, you use the full Windows desktop Act! product with none of the limitations incurred by the Act! for Web platform and none of the administrative and security risks of the Act! Sync model. Act! over Citrix is fast and secure and it’s very easy to deploy. Act! integration is fully functional, but only with Citrix based MS Office. It does not integrate with Microsoft Office on your local machine. IF this is a requirement, a combination Citrix‐Sync model may be employed.

With our Citrix based solution, we also bundle Microsoft Office and can provide a shared virtual folder in the cloud for your team. Imagine being able to log in to your system from anywhere!

We believe we are among the most technically capable ACT! hosting providers anywhere!

At Tandem CloudTop Office, Act! is our specialty. We have multiple Act!
Certified Consultants on staff and maintain Act! Premier Trainer
status. We are also a Platinum level Act! reseller which allows us to
provide the best possible pricing on Act! software. We have expertise
in the technical aspects of Act!, Software Training, and Sales Training.
We are committed to doing more than showing you how to use a piece of
software. We are all about helping you use Act! to become more
productive and sell more! We are proud that our team has a combined
total of over 100 days of training since 2000 in various technical
aspects of Act! Software. We have attended Certification Training, Act!
Premier Trainer Training and annual Act! Certified Consultant
Conferences. This is above and beyond that which most Act! Consultants
have achieved and beyond what is required by our certification.  When it comes to Act!, we are more than just your average local computer guy.

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