The above chart combines the total time it takes for the ACT! application to launch and open a database. These record as two events, although users may view them as a single operation. The increase in startup time from ACT! by Sage 6.0 to ACT! by Sage 2005 (7.0) and up occurred because ACT! 2005 incorporated a true relational database to provide significant product improvements - including multiple user scalability - but caused a slower startup performance when compared to ACT! 6.0. As shown in Figure 2, ACT! by Sage 2009 (11.0) has reduced the time necessary to launch ACT! and open the database compared to ACT! 2005. Other application areas have experienced dramatic performance improvements version over version. Figure 3 shows that various often-performed ACT! tasks run faster in ACT! 2009, by percentage, when compared to ACT! 6.0. |