A lifecycle management tool for your applications, ACT 5.0 assists in identifying and managing your overall application portfolio, reducing the cost and time involved in resolving application compatibility issues, and helps you quickly deploy Windows Vista and Windows XP/SP2 operating systems. Key features include:

• New Windows Vista-specific compatibility evaluators
Let you capture your portfolio of applications, identify possible User Account Control and Internet Explorer compatibility challenges, and identify applications that may be affected by Windows updates.

• Updated user interface
Allows you to centrally manage evaluator settings, perform evaluator job scheduling, and gather compatibility information.

• New data organizing features
Categorize and prioritize your applications, maintain the status of issues and resolutions, and include/exclude applications being reviewed.

• New data analysis features
Allow you to view compatibility reports for applications, computers, and Web sites, which can then be exported for workgroup collaboration.

• The online application compatibility community
Gives customers and ISVs the opportunity to share information about their own application compatibility testing results.