Reporting - Need to improve within ACT

[#1]

The current ACT reports are poor in comparison to other CRM packages and could do with a shake up. I know you can use external reporting or add-ons but is it not about time that ACT improved the internal reporting functions.

Just a couple of examples of where improvements can be made.

Activity reporting is in Contact order and then Data order. Most users want to see activity in date order but I have found no way of achieving this.

Opportunity reporting only show a summary but sales managers etc want to see the opportunity and all the products against that opportunity in a report.

Resources are now in the Activity section of the product but there is no way of running a report to see what resources have been used or booked against dates.

Why not add your reporting improvement requests?

[#2]

The Reports Designer has always been difficult to work with. We use a 3rd party package, Stonefield Query. Sage should just buy out Stonefield or buy the ACT! package from them and integrate it into ACT 13.