February 15, 2013 
Company Raises Significant Capital to Fund Acquisition and Fuel Growth, Global Expansion
Swiftpage, provider of the leading digital marketing platform for small business, announced it has reached an agreement with The Sage Group plc to acquire the Sage ACT! contact management and Sage SalesLogix customer relationship management (CRM) businesses. To finance the acquisition and to fund future growth and expansion, Swiftpage has raised significant capital from a group of partners that includes Sage and technology-focused private equity investment firm Accel-KKR.
Swiftpage President and CEO H. John Oechsle said the acquisition and new funding will accelerate the company’s strategy to deliver its digital marketing platform to small and medium-sized businesses worldwide. “Sage’s products are great complements to our own email marketing, social media marketing and contact management platform. Now, with direct access to these established CRM products, and with more technology and more resources, we’ll be in the strongest position to help our partners and customers deliver the tools that convert prospects, retain customers, and promote growth.”
Couldn’t be more devastated about the news
Sorry to hear that. I think in time you will see it is a great fit.
Audrey: Because of the acquisition, my free software that “grabs” contact data to create a new ACT! contact from Email and Webpage content says it “no longer supports ACT! 2013″.
Do you have a suggestion on how I can create new act records, without manually entering in all of the data?
James – Thanks for reaching out. I have sent your question along to our support team. I don’t think this has anything to do with the acquisition as it won’t close til the end of March. I will let you know what I hear.
James – We suggest you check out the Swiftpage Survey List Builder for ACT! which does work with ACT! 2013.
http://www.swiftpage.com/Support/docs/SEMA_Survey-Tab-Create-Surveys-and-Web-Forms.pdf
You may also want to visit the ACT! add-on directory: http://na.sage.com/Sage-ACT/services/solutions or contact ACT! support directly. They are part of the acquisition and we are thrilled to have them coming on board soon: 866-903-0006.
Congratulations Swiftpage. you’ve come along way! Look forward to seeing what’s next for ACT! under your stewardship.
The winners in this are Swiftpage, the ACT! & SalesLogix Teams, the ACT & SalesLogix Partner Community .. and of course the most important of all… the Customers!
Congratulations. I believe it will be beneficial to the ACT and Saleslogix products and also will help these products to become more focus on their market with the knowledge of the Swiftpage people.
Thanks! We think it will be really beneficial to all as well.
Hi Audrey – is there any info on how support for and sales of ACT! will be done?
(We’re a UK Sage Business Partner) Will it continue exactly as before?
Thanks for your question! Part of our acquisition will include the Support teams. We don’t anticipate any major changes to the current support structure.
Oh – personally, i see it as a logical step for Swiftpage. Well done :0)