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SalesLogix |
Sage CRM
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Microsoft CRM |
ACT! Prem for Web |
ACT! Premium
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Easy of use and adoption
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Excellent |
Excellent
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Excellent |
Best |
Best
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Scalability (users)
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Hundreds |
Hundreds
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Thousands |
Under 100
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Under 100
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Flexibility to integrate/customize
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High |
High
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High |
Limited SDK |
Limited SDK
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Web client
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Web-based is an
add-on |
Yes (web-based)
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Yes (web-based) |
Yes (web-based) |
No
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Hosting available and optional
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Yes |
Yes
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Yes |
Yes |
Yes
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Offline-access
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Yes - Sync to Client |
Yes- Solo
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Yes |
No |
Yes-Sync
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Outlook synchronization and integration
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Contacts, email and
calendar, automatic |
Contacts, email and calendar, automatic
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Contacts, email and
calendar, automatic |
Email only |
Email and calendar
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Customizable fields
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Yes |
Yes
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Yes |
Yes |
Yes
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Customizable new tables
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Yes |
Yes
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Yes |
No |
No
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Customizable dashboard
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Yes |
Yes
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Yes (w/ SharePoint) |
No |
No
(See TopLine Dash)
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Client hardware requirements
|
512 MB RAM |
Light
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Light |
Light |
512 MB RAM
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SQL database (Sage CRM and SLX are also Oracle) Sage
CRM is also DB2
|
Yes - not included |
Yes - not included
|
Yes - not included |
Yes - included |
Yes - included
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Field security
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Yes |
Yes
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Yes |
Yes |
Yes
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Security profiles
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Yes |
Yes
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Yes |
Yes but limited |
Yes but limited
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Licensing is per named user
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Yes |
Yes
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Yes |
Yes |
Yes
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Optional licensing per concurrent user (additional
cost applies)
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Yes |
No
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No |
No |
No
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Summary reports
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Yes |
Yes
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Yes |
Yes |
Yes
|
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Account view
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Yes |
Yes
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Yes |
Yes |
Yes
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Contact management (companies, persons, communications)
|
Yes |
Yes
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Yes |
Yes |
Yes
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Crystal Reports integration
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Yes |
Yes
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Yes |
No |
No
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Duplication check
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Yes |
Yes
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• |
No |
Yes
|
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Library / document drop
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Yes |
Yes
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Yes |
Yes |
Yes
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Document attachments
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Yes |
Yes
|
Yes |
Yes (no labels) |
Yes
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Citrix
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Yes |
Web
|
Web |
Web |
Yes
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Multi-currency
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Yes |
Yes
|
Yes |
No |
No
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Multi lingual support
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No |
Yes
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Yes |
No |
No
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Team CRM (e.g. East coast, West coast, sales team,
support team)
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No |
Yes
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Yes |
No |
No
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Territory and team security
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Yes |
Yes
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Yes |
Only at contact level |
Only at contact level
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Opportunity workflow
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Yes |
Yes
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Yes |
No |
No
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Opportunity management
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Yes |
Yes
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Yes |
No |
No
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Quote production
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Yes |
Yes
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Yes |
No |
Yes
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Sales forecasting
|
Yes |
Yes
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Yes |
Yes |
Yes
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Sales reports
|
Yes |
Yes
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Yes |
Yes |
Yes
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Marketing functionality campaign management
|
Yes |
Yes
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Yes |
No |
No
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Lead management
|
Yes |
Yes
|
Yes |
Limited |
Limited
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Lead workflow / process
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Yes |
Yes
|
Yes |
Limited |
Limited
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|
Marketing reports
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Yes |
Yes
|
Yes |
No |
No
|
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Mass email
|
Limited |
Yes
|
Yes |
Limited |
Limited
|
|
Outbound call handling
|
Yes |
Yes
|
Yes |
No |
Yes
|
|
Target lists
|
Yes |
Yes
|
Yes |
No |
No
|
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Customer care functionality case and solutions pipeline
|
Yes |
Yes
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Yes |
No |
No
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Case reports
|
Yes |
Yes
|
Yes |
No |
No
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Case SLA management
|
Yes |
Yes
|
Yes |
No |
No
|
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Case workflow
|
Yes |
Yes
|
Yes |
No |
No
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Cases
|
Yes |
Yes
|
Yes |
No |
No
|
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Solutions
|
Yes |
Yes
|
Yes |
No |
No
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Solutions workflow
|
Yes |
Yes
|
Yes |
No |
No
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CTI
|
Yes |
Yes
|
• |
No |
Yes
|
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Mobile (connected PDA)
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Yes |
Yes
|
Yes |
No |
No
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Outlook synchronization for PDA (Blackberry, Palm,
PocketPC)
|
Yes |
Yes
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Yes |
No |
No
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Exchange synchronization (optional)
|
Yes |
Yes
|
Yes |
No |
No
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Lotus Domino integration
|
No |
Yes
|
No |
No |
Yes (6.5 or higher) |
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ACCPAC Advantage Series integration
|
Yes |
Yes
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No |
No |
No
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Web self service for clients (additional license required)
|
Yes |
Yes
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Yes |
No |
No
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