Akeneo vs. Propel

It's well suited to an environment which has multiple users working on product information at the same time. For smaller organisations, it would be easy to segregate products for the different users to focus on their span of work, but this has been somewhat tricky in a multi-company environment like ours where we have different users working on the same / similar products. Overall though, we're happy with the product.

Incentivized

Scenario in which Propel is best on the grounds are : 1. Customer support is very enriching and helpful. 2. OMS electronic system is best part of it. 3. Salesforce platform is very user friendly. Scenario in which it needs improvement: 1. Platform releases sometimes affect business operation. 2. Preview and collaboration should be made very user friendly. 3. Variant and sharing management could be improved.

Incentivized

• Product Data Management
• Product Asset Management
• Data Quality & Consistency

Incentivized

• Offers full PLM capabilities on my mobile phone.
• Greater flexibility to manage other customer facing processes.
• Customer service is very fast.

• Product approval & multi-tier workflow for larger organisations
• Table attributes are limiting
• Access rights and product segmentation to user groups

Incentivized

• Some of the platform issues and releases are still there which affect business operations.
• Reporting option could be made better with Excel or Word.
• Preview functionality is discouraging and needs to be addressed.

Incentivized

A major requirement for us was the ability to have a traditional ECN workflow, with multiple documents changed on the same workflow; most eQMS solutions do not include this capability. That ruled out several solutions for us. We selected Propel primarily because the cost was in-line with expectations and the reporting capabilities were excellent.

Incentivized

• Time to market has reduced
• Increased efficiencies due to the reduction of duplicate work
• Increase in data quality

Incentivized

• Has allowed us to improve revenue at least 5% per campaign since we started using it
• Has allowed us to realistically model marketing costs that are within 10% of the projected values
• All of our 4 teams can see all marketing data

Incentivized