Best Software today announced ACT! for Palm OS handhelds. Based on and designed to work with the popular contact manager of the same name, ACT! for Palm OS allows individuals as well as sales teams to access notes, histories and appointments for each contact record, view custom and user defined fields from their ACT! desktop, and manage sales opportunities.

According to Best Software, ACT! for Palm OS enables individuals to access their complete customer information, even while on the road, including contact, calendar and to-do items, which are all integrated at the contact level. For example, from the daily view, users can click on a calendar appointment and go to the contact record to review recent notes and histories prior to a meeting. It also has drop-down menus and pop-up lists, minimizing the need to type or use Graffiti. The company said with ACT! for Palm OS, users can access contact and activity information instantly; access pre-defined and custom fields; view and enter time stamped notes and histories; manage calendars; work with data at the Group level; and manage sales opportunities from a handheld.

"ACT! for Palm OS offers significant new capabilities to mobile business and sales professionals for whom conventional look-up of PIM data on mobile device is not enough," said ACT! General Manager Greg Head. "As our four million individual users and over 12,000 corporate customers already know, the benefit of contact management with ACT! -- over PIMs like Outlook and the Palm OS address book -- is that every call, meeting, note, or sales opportunity is integrated with the contact. ACT! for Palm brings the richness and power of contact management to the Palm OS."

ACT! for Palm OS ships with ACT! Express, a limited version of ACT! for Windows that includes an contact database, built-in calendar, word processor and report generator. For existing ACT! users, the product integrates with ACT! 6.0. ACT! for Palm OS can be run on any Palm OS handhelds running Palm OS versions 3.5, 4.0 and 4.1.

ACT! for Palm OS is available for $79.95 with a $10 mail-in rebate for existing ACT! 6.0 users. Volume licensing is also available for companies wanting 10 licenses or more.