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SYMANTEC PROVIDES CUSTOMERS WITH THE MOST POWERFUL CONTACT MANAGER
FOR LOTUS NOTES
-- ACT! 1.5 for Notes Is A Complete Contact Management Solution for
Managing Business Relationships --
CUPERTINO, Calif. -- May 27, 1997 -- Symantec Corporation
(Nasdaq:SYMC) today announced the availability of ACT! 1.5 for
Notes 4.5, a new version of the powerful Notes-based contact manager.
Individuals and team members using Notes 4.5 require a day-to-day
reliable tool that will provide them with power and flexibility.
ACT! 1.5 for Notes provides workgroups and individual workgroup
members with customization and calendar functionality that builds on
an already feature-rich contact manager. ACT! 1.5 for Notes brings
teams together with its comprehensive contact database and integrated
activity scheduler. It is the most popular contact management
solution for the Notes platform that offers group scheduling and
customizable fields for professionals sharing contacts in a
collaborative environment.
"As professionals continue to look for ways to automate their
business processes, contact management applications are at the center
of their technology needs," said Christopher Calisi, Symantec's vice
president of Remote Productivity Solutions. "By integrating the
calendars, improving performance, and opening the design, Symantec
continues to deliver the highest quality Notes application in contact
management."
New Customer Benefits
With customization, links to word processors and integrated
calendaring and scheduling features in ACT! 1.5 for Notes,
contact intensive professionals can rely on powerful functionality
and a variety of new key process features. Customers can take
advantage of new group scheduling features and graphical calendars
and easily share calendars with the rest of their organization
including non-ACT! Lotus Notes and Lotus Organizer users. Individual
team members can choose a personal default word processor, with links
to popular word processors including 32-bit versions of Microsoft
Word, WordPerfect and Lotus WordPro. Documents can be automatically
saved and linked with contacts and letters can be easily mail
merged while using the full power of Lotus WordPro. Customers can
easily customize and also share form letters across an entire team.
In ACT! 1.5 for Notes users can also customize databases, build
additional functions, or link to other Notes databases. User can
schedule new activities or move existing ones with warnings of
conflicting activities.
Other new features based on Notes 4.5 include: faster access time,
access to activities directly from the calendar view, drag-and-drop
rescheduling, added graphics for inserting company logos or other
graphics on fax forms, and one-step scheduling of new activities
directly from the calendar.
ACT! 1.03 for Notes 4.0 Also Included
ACT! 1.03 for Lotus Notes 4.0 and the new ACT! 1.5 for Lotus Notes
4.5 are included together on a single CD. ACT! for Notes 1.03 which
began shipping in March, provides Notes 4.0 workgroups and individual
workgroup members with the ability to change database design and is
ready to use out of the box so administrators can make changes to the
database. These features are also included in ACT 1.5.
Pricing and Availability
ACT! 1.5 for Notes 4.5 is available through Symantec's corporate
resellers worldwide in a CD with an estimated price of a single user
at $249, 10 users: $225 per user, 25 users: $199 per user,
50 users: $189 per user, 100 users: $179 per user U.S.
respectively. Purchases over 10 nodes are available via most of
Symantec's distributors and resellers through the company's Value or
VIP programs. Customers using ACT! 1.0 for Notes or ACT! 1.03 for
Notes are eligible for a free upgrade to version 1.5 through Symantec
Corporation.
System Requirements
ACT! 1.5 for Notes requires a Pentium with 16 MB RAM, Notes Release
4.5 (desktop or the full Notes version), and Windows 3.1, Windows 95
or Windows NT. ACT! 1.5 for Notes also requires a Notes 4.5 server
running either OS/2 Warp or Windows NT. ACT! 1.03 for Notes requires
a Notes 4 server running either OS/2 Warp or Windows NT.
Symantec Corporation helps make users productive and keep their
computers safe and reliable anywhere and anytime. Symantec offers a
broad range of solutions and is acclaimed as a leader in both
customer satisfaction and product brand recognition. The company is
focused on addressing customer needs in three main application areas:
the Norton product line of anti-virus and PC-assistance products; the
pcAnywhere, WinFax and ACT! product lines that cater to remote user
productivity; and the Cafe product lines in Internet development
tools.
Founded in 1982, the company's global operations span North America,
Europe, Japan and several fast growing markets throughout Asia
Pacific and Latin America. Traded on Nasdaq under the symbol SYMC,
Symantec Corporation is based in Cupertino, California and employs
more than 2000 people. Information on the company and its products
can be obtained by calling (800) 441-7234 toll free, (541) 334-6054
or accessed on the World Wide Web at http://www.symantec.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements. There are
certain important factors that could cause Symantec's future
development efforts to differ materially from those anticipated by
some of the statements made above. Among these are the anticipation
of the growth of certain market segments, the positioning of
Symantec's products in those segments, the competitive environment in
the software industry, dependence on other products, changes to
operating systems and product strategy by vendors of operating
systems, and the importance of new Symantec products. Additional
information concerning those and other factors is contained in the
"Risk Factors" section of the company's annual report on form 10-K
for the fiscal year ended March 29, 1996 and the company's quarterly
report on form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended March 31, 1997.
NOTE TO EDITORS: If you would like additional information on Symantec
Corporation and its products, please view the Symantec Press Center
at http://www.symantec.com/PressCenter/ on Symantec's Website.
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are in US dollars and are valid only in the United States.