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    Aline

    Score8.7 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Aline, a product formed from the merger of Sherpa CRM, Glennis, and Enquire, provides a senior living operating system created to meet the industry’s challenges. The company serves sales, operations, and clinical teams across the senior living, post-acute, and home care sectors.N/A

    Emptoris

    Score5.5 out of 10
    N/AN/A

    $59

    Per User Per Month

    Pricing
    AlineEmptoris
    Editions & Modules
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    Emptoris
    $59.00
    Per User Per Month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AlineEmptoris
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    AlineEmptoris
    Considered Both Products
    Aline
    No answer on this topic
    IBM
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    15 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    10 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    15 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    88%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    7 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    8 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    AlineEmptoris
    Contract Authoring
    Comparison of Contract Authoring features of Aline and Emptoris
    Feature
    Aline
    -
    Ratings
    Emptoris
    8.3
    4 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Contract creation00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Contract templates00 Ratings7.84 Ratings
    Clause library/saved fields00 Ratings8.34 Ratings
    Guided logic00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Contract Collaboration
    Comparison of Contract Collaboration features of Aline and Emptoris
    Feature
    Aline
    -
    Ratings
    Emptoris
    7.9
    4 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Contract sharing00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Contract editing00 Ratings8.74 Ratings
    Collaborating on contracts00 Ratings7.53 Ratings
    MS Word plug-in00 Ratings7.52 Ratings
    Approval process00 Ratings8.24 Ratings
    Interdepartmental workflows00 Ratings7.84 Ratings
    Contract Monitoring
    Comparison of Contract Monitoring features of Aline and Emptoris
    Feature
    Aline
    -
    Ratings
    Emptoris
    7.8
    5 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Contract database00 Ratings7.75 Ratings
    Contract search00 Ratings7.55 Ratings
    Contract milestone reminders & alerts00 Ratings8.53 Ratings
    Custom contract reports00 Ratings7.44 Ratings
    Tracking contract status00 Ratings8.44 Ratings
    Compliance check00 Ratings7.93 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    AlineEmptoris
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (15 ratings)
    8.1
    (15 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (10 ratings)
    Usability
    8.7
    (15 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (15 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    AlineEmptoris
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Aline
    Aline is suited for scenarios where it is crucial to gather and document a large amount of key information from prospects and their influencers in order to move the sales process forward. Aline is only as effective as the user chooses to utilize the tools provided. A great CRM should be one that, if another individual needs to access and take the lead over, should be seamless and informative.
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    IBM
    If you have a highly bureaucratic organization that is heavily focused on procurement, Emptoris can provide some value. It seemed to be very good at linking the contract information to procurement for better spend control. If you are trying to implement a standalone contract management solution that allows you to easily create contracts and store them in a central location, this isn't the tool for you. There doesn't appear to be a simplified implementation. In general, when a SaaS solution has a complicated and expensive implementation, I am very skeptical. This does not show that the vendor is trying to move customers forward on a single code base. If that many things need to be done during implementation, you are starting to customize the solution for every customer. This hurts the vendor's ability to scale and make improvements in the future.
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    Pros
    Aline
    • Helps me keep track of my daily, monthly and annual progress
    • Keeps me organized and on task
    • Shows me our business progress
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    IBM
    • Document protection - the Check Out contract feature is a great way to allow external parties to make modifications to contract language without the ability to accept those changes. Those redlines can then be imported back into Emptoris and reviewed or further modified as needed.
    • Notifications & reminders - you can trigger an email manually from within the system, or you can configure automated notifications andreminders to alert users when a new task is received or has aged a given amount of days, etc.
    • Interview wizard - there is a lot of value in the interview wizard. Administrators can configure screens with selecting options via check boxes, radio buttons, or typed-in values. Variables and conditions can be used to selectively populate fields within the contract or apply other options, making for a quick and convenient method to generate contracts conforming to corporate standards.
    • Field customization - administrators can customize a list of options for various fields including contract substatus, address type, and user created business term variables.
    • Approvals - many different options are available to configure approvals to trigger automatically upon presenting and/or executing the contract including specific individuals, one or more approver groups, or based upon various criteria including terms within the contract, type of contract, or the contract's owning organization.
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    Cons
    Aline
    • Amount of calls in the team progress section
    • Team productivity report fixing so as to not have to scroll through
    • In the calendar option the ability to move tasks more than a month at a time, if it could scroll down so I could move it to a few months ahead
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    IBM
    • Reporting, Emptoris comes with standard reports which can not always can be fit into our business. This needs to be improved. I hope Emptoris is addressing this issue in their latest releases.
    • Though the feature of editing language in MS word is excellent, loading MS word takes time.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Aline
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    There are a lot of new, exciting products coming out in every field and I believe that there is always something better right over the horizon. If it was my choice, I would review my usage of Emptoris and other software periodically to make sure I'm using the most efficient software possible.
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    Usability
    Aline
    I think it is a very user-friendly platform where you can find all the information that you need within a few clicks. It is important to be able to navigate the system quickly to communicate with the prospect quickly, and Aline helps in this process.
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    IBM
    Emptoris is a pretty robust tool overall. Learning curve is small and it is simple to use
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    Support Rating
    Aline
    We have utilized Aline's customer support in the past when we were having difficulty curating a list for a needed report. The customer support team was very responsive and followed up to ensure that we were not having any issues following the call. The product training has been very helpful with new hire training.
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    IBM
    The above rating for the overall support from Emptoris is for their product / product support, roll out training and refresher training / ongoing training, which is not only good but superior. There is no major or reconizable bad review that can be given to Emptoris at this point in time, from where is stands.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Aline
    I worked with Sales Force Assistant for a short time Thus far, Aline has not disappointed me in any way both CRMs are top notice and incredibly user friendly I could not perform my role effectively with Aline
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    IBM
    I am a fan of Ariba to be used for the entire lifecycle of Sourcing. From RFX's to cutting PO's. I feel Emptoris misses the boat on the idea of a "One Stop Shop" for all of your Sourcing/Purchasing needs
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    Return on Investment
    Aline
    • When we implemented Aline the team occupancy was 76% by year end we were at 86.4%, this took 10 months.
    • The platform saves me countless hours each month for datamining for board reports. The system has paid for itself several times over
    • We can now compare year of year marketing campaigns to find out which campaigns to keep or no longer suit our market.
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    IBM
    • We won the 2005 Baseline Magazine Award for best ROI related to a technology implementation with an ROI 5544% (see 2005 Baseline ROI Awards, GlaxoSmithkline).
    • We always felt we could do "two times the work, with half the people and deliver double the savings".
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