Aptean CRM vs. Front

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Aptean CRM
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
CDC Software (CDC) and Consona Corporation (Consona), both enterprise application software (EAS) providers of on-premise and cloud technologies to form Aptean in 2012. Onyx supports more than 1,700 mid-market and enterprise customers in approximately 50 countries. While Onyx is largely known for its on-premise horizontal customer relationship management software suite, it also provides industry specific versions for the healthcare, financial services, professional services, contact center, high…N/A
Front
Score 9.1 out of 10
N/A
Front is a communication hub that helps businesses keep the human touch in every interaction.
$29
per month per user
Pricing
Aptean CRMFront
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Starter
$29
per month per user
Growth
$79
per month per user
Scale
$99
per month (billed annually) per user
Premier
$229
per month (billed annually) per seat (50 seat minimum)
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Aptean CRMFront
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsDiscount for annual pricing on Starter and Growth plans. Scale and Premier plans are annual price only.
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Community Pulse
Aptean CRMFront
Features
Aptean CRMFront
Sales Force Automation
Comparison of Sales Force Automation features of Product A and Product B
Aptean CRM
9.2
2 Ratings
16% above category average
Front
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Ratings
Customer data management / contact management10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow management9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Territory management9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Opportunity management9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Contract management10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Quote & order management9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Interaction tracking9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Channel / partner relationship management9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer Service & Support
Comparison of Customer Service & Support features of Product A and Product B
Aptean CRM
9.7
2 Ratings
23% above category average
Front
-
Ratings
Case management9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Call center management10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Help desk management10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Marketing Automation
Comparison of Marketing Automation features of Product A and Product B
Aptean CRM
9.5
2 Ratings
20% above category average
Front
-
Ratings
Lead management10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Email marketing9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
CRM Project Management
Comparison of CRM Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Aptean CRM
9.0
2 Ratings
16% above category average
Front
-
Ratings
Task management10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Billing and invoicing management9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
CRM Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of CRM Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Aptean CRM
9.0
2 Ratings
15% above category average
Front
-
Ratings
Forecasting9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Pipeline visualization9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable reports9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of Product A and Product B
Aptean CRM
9.0
2 Ratings
16% above category average
Front
-
Ratings
Custom fields9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Custom objects9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Scripting environment9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
API for custom integration9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Aptean CRM
8.5
2 Ratings
1% above category average
Front
-
Ratings
Single sign-on capability9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Role-based user permissions8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Social CRM
Comparison of Social CRM features of Product A and Product B
Aptean CRM
9.5
1 Ratings
24% above category average
Front
-
Ratings
Social data10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Social engagement9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Integrations with 3rd-party Software
Comparison of Integrations with 3rd-party Software features of Product A and Product B
Aptean CRM
9.5
1 Ratings
23% above category average
Front
-
Ratings
Marketing automation10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Compensation management9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform
Comparison of Platform features of Product A and Product B
Aptean CRM
9.0
1 Ratings
17% above category average
Front
-
Ratings
Mobile access9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
Aptean CRM
-
Ratings
Front
7.8
6 Ratings
5% below category average
Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings8.46 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings6.94 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings7.94 Ratings
Ticket response00 Ratings7.94 Ratings
Self Help Community
Comparison of Self Help Community features of Product A and Product B
Aptean CRM
-
Ratings
Front
7.1
6 Ratings
12% below category average
External knowledge base00 Ratings7.16 Ratings
Multi-Channel Help
Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Product A and Product B
Aptean CRM
-
Ratings
Front
8.8
4 Ratings
10% above category average
Customer portal00 Ratings8.43 Ratings
Social integration00 Ratings9.33 Ratings
Email support00 Ratings9.14 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings8.52 Ratings
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User Ratings
Aptean CRMFront
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(2 ratings)
9.1
(35 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
9.4
(9 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(1 ratings)
9.8
(5 ratings)
User Testimonials
Aptean CRMFront
Likelihood to Recommend
Aptean
As I am highly satisfied with the working of Apteama CRM I would like to recommend it to everyone with all sizes of the firm as it is ideal for firms from small to large ones. With its features, I can guarantee the best CRM solutions along with marketing automation. Although I am looking forward to it to offer more customizations.
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Front
I think Front is very useful for every company with multiple teams working together on different emails from clients. Not so useful if a lot of different teams need to work on a request at the same time, because when an email is sitting in multiple shared inboxes things can get messy. Also would not recommend for teams that work is individualized, as team work is the main point of Front.
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Pros
Aptean
  • Simple: it isn't too convoluted with too many features
  • Flexible: user-defined fields are able to be added to every segment of both opportunities and incidents
  • Dynamic: Integrates with the existing ERP system to pass customer and vendor data back and forth
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Front
  • Even if you are just trying to compose a single email, Front gives a smart system that has options such [as] organized templates, tags, alerts, [and] changing your outbound dpt email.
  • Tasks- with Front you will not miss any interaction. When you are required to get assistance from a coworker, you only need to mention him/her and that notification will appear automatically in their inboxes.
  • Smart Notifications- sometimes we are just overwhelmed about the several notifications on our devices that we tend to miss some of them, but Front offers a new way to notify every email, discussion, mentioning, or tag that you really would not want to miss.
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Cons
Aptean
  • I was expecting some more flexibility in it.
  • Its customer support is highly non-vigilant and should learn how to work responsibly.
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Front
  • Their integration to Salesforce is lacking. As the owner of our productivity tools and how they are used, I have very little control over what things to enforce, or even change what objects are available. For example, we don't use Cases in Salesforce but with the Salesforce integration the Cases object shows up. There's no need to have that there. I've heard there is a roadmap improvement forthcoming.
  • One of our uses is for our sales development reps to prospect with visitors. Because of the high volume of inquiries it's difficult for our reps to efficiently manage all their follow ups. It would be nice if we could run a "scheduled campaign" where a predesigned cadence of email follow ups can be sent automatically. To be clear, they do have a scheduling capability, but it just can't be used as a prebuilt option.
  • Integrations to other systems require you have a user account to those systems. We have SSO and therefore we don't always have a user account. For example, out integration to Jira uses SSO so we don't each have individual Jira logins. This is an outage for us.
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Likelihood to Renew
Aptean
No answers on this topic
Front
We are very happy with Front and don't anticipate changing
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Usability
Aptean
Its simple yet full-fledged interface is doing wonders in making our work time- effective. It is not just cost-effective but the marketing automation and sales force automation has proved very beneficial for us. By the grace of its reports, we can analyze intricacies.
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Front
It's very easy to understand and use by new customer support agents as well. Be it a technology, product, or marketing person, we have trained most of the company folks to read and respond to customer conversations in their free time with the help of the Front app. It is also easy to set up for an admin and manage his/her team with communication rules.
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Support Rating
Aptean
Apean CRM gives adaptability in working hours to timetables and they give client service all day, every day. This application has progressed highlights CRM, Distribution of the executives, announcing/investigation. Thing and Support are simple to utilize and easy to adjust subject to the business. Modify reports and structures we can associate with no issue.
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Front
The support is good, and it's definitely prompt, but still lags when it comes to technical requirements, as I guess they are slow in developing newer features fast. So no complaints in terms of responsiveness, but yeah, at times it's not very helpful when you need certain features or are blocked on things which can't be unblocked.
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Alternatives Considered
Aptean
IntuitiveERP included this CRM package with our license, so there was no extra cost to implement it. Salesforce is expensive so we felt that we could use this package to justify our need for CRM by implementing this package, and if it was improving our sales we could say that a larger package would give the ROI we expect.
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Front
This is something I am not familiar but it seems like it is [available] in Gmail. Thus I cannot give any feedback about it. What I am sure about is Front works for our team and I see Zoom using the service in the Customer Success Organization in a long run.
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Return on Investment
Aptean
  • Improved interaction with customers for incident management.
  • Greatly improved opportunity management.
  • Lead management for marketing is improved and centralized.
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Front
  • Saved our executive team considerable amount of time chasing support questions through different channels.
  • Gave our team clear accountability for who was lead on a support issue and how to escalate.
  • Customer regularly say our support is the best in the industry.
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