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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Aurea CRM

    Score6 out of 10
    N/AAurea CRM is a comprehensive customer relationship management solution that is designed to enable companies to drive customer engagement tools deep into their sales organization. The vendor says with end-to-end capabilities for sales and marketing, this solution provides a one-stop-shop that delivers a compact overview of team activities, sales pipelines, and key performance indicators so companies can set priorities and make informed decisions. The vendor’s value proposition is that the…N/A

    BQE CORE

    Score8.8 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    BQE CORE is a business management solution built specifically for professional service firms. BQE CORE is a combination of a billing assistant, project management, and accounting solution. CORE is designed to do the hard work of delivering actionable insights directly to the user's dashboards or inbox. BQE CORE replaces the products Engineeroffice, Archioffice, and BillQuick; the functionality of these applications is now found in BQE CORE.N/A
    Pricing
    Aurea CRMBQE CORE
    Editions & Modules
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    Aurea CRMBQE CORE
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Aurea CRMBQE CORE
    Considered Both Products
    Aurea
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    BQE Software Inc.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    94%
    Would buy again
    144 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    106 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    150 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    70 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    82%
    Implementation went as expected
    81 Answers
    Features
    Aurea CRMBQE CORE
    Sales Force Automation
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    Feature
    Aurea CRM
    8.6
    1 Ratings
    9% above category average
    BQE CORE
    -
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    Customer data management / contact management9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow management8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Territory management8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Opportunity management9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Quote & order management8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Interaction tracking9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Channel / partner relationship management9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Marketing Automation
    Comparison of Marketing Automation features of Aurea CRM and BQE CORE
    Feature
    Aurea CRM
    7.0
    1 Ratings
    10% below category average
    BQE CORE
    -
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    Lead management7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    CRM Project Management
    Comparison of CRM Project Management features of Aurea CRM and BQE CORE
    Feature
    Aurea CRM
    8.5
    1 Ratings
    10% above category average
    BQE CORE
    -
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    Task management8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    CRM Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of CRM Reporting & Analytics features of Aurea CRM and BQE CORE
    Feature
    Aurea CRM
    6.3
    1 Ratings
    19% below category average
    BQE CORE
    -
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    Forecasting6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pipeline visualization4.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable reports9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customization
    Comparison of Customization features of Aurea CRM and BQE CORE
    Feature
    Aurea CRM
    8.5
    1 Ratings
    11% above category average
    BQE CORE
    -
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    Custom fields8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom objects9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform
    Comparison of Platform features of Aurea CRM and BQE CORE
    Feature
    Aurea CRM
    1.0
    1 Ratings
    154% below category average
    BQE CORE
    -
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    Mobile access1.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Salesflare
    Score10 out of 10
    Autotask PSA
    Score7.7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Kintone
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Workday Professional Services Automation
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Oracle Sales
    Score8.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Aurea CRMBQE CORE
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.4
    (167 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (8 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.6
    (117 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.4
    (90 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    2.3
    (6 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
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    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
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    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Aurea CRMBQE CORE
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Aurea
    I have prepared deeply detailed customised queries to prepare detailed customer reports including markets, segments, classifications and potentials to present to our company management which have been highly appreciated. So, it was well suited in that case. Since I'm traveling a lot for customer visit activities, I frequently need to use it as mobile but it's slightly nightmarish to use its unfriendly search function as well as very slow loading speeds. So, it's less appropriate in that case.
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    BQE Software Inc.
    I would recommend this for our industry: architecture, engineering, or construction. I would recommend this for any larger firm with many employees or high number of projects. I would particularly recommend this for a company with projects that have budget constraints and where time tracking and expense tracking is very important. I would not recommend this complicated software for a small firm with a small amount of income or number of projects.
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    Pros
    Aurea
    • customised and detailed query preparation
    • offer creation
    • creation of detailed activity reports
    Incentivized
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    BQE Software Inc.
    • Invoice Collections within Billing is a great tool because of the ability to take notes and track contact.
    • Invoices are professional looking and easy for our clients to understand the overall progress within each phase of their project.
    • Dashboards are the best tool EVER!
    • The Contact List feature within Clients setup is the perfect way to track multiple project managers within a large company that also has multiple contracts with us.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Aurea
    • slightly complex user interface and menu items
    • very slow loading speeds particularly for mobile smartphone use
    • missing information for current or next steps of the menu while typing or entering something
    Incentivized
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    BQE Software Inc.
    • Customizable Reporting
    • Linking Project to Payment all together
    • Assigning contacts to particular roles - such as Invoicing, Contracts, etc.
    • Accounting Functionality - they are basically a project management accounting software, so in my opinion, they could learn some things from other accounting software such as QuickBooks etc.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Aurea
    No answers on this topic
    BQE Software Inc.
    We have been using Core for a few years now, and honestly started to look at other software systems to see what was out there. What we chose was a nightmare for migration so we never left Core. Now we have added invoicing and payments from Core instead of double entry with QBO. Still only a few cycles in but looks like it will be up to speed soon and working smoothly.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Aurea
    Since it's providing useful features, I like to use Aurea CRM on my company PC at the office for my daily activities. However, we are in highly digital age via mobile devices particularly smart phones and we need to use softwares even in mobility which is highly weak feature of Aurea CRM and needs to be improved as soon as possible.
    Incentivized
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    BQE Software Inc.
    The foundation is awesome, like I have said before, however the house being built on it, the educational resources being provided to us (more of sales pitches that don't work), and flexible workflow opportunities, is making us look elsewhere for how much we will be spending on per user. It's crazy to think how flexible they are not when it comes to user settings. Lack of integration with other sources is awful.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Aurea
    No answers on this topic
    BQE Software Inc.
    I can only remember a couple of times in 4 years that Core has been unavailable.
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    Performance
    Aurea
    No answers on this topic
    BQE Software Inc.
    This is one area that does need some improvement. It can be slow at time, so we had our IT look at it from our side and we had no issues, so it has to be some slowness on their side.
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    Support Rating
    Aurea
    I'm not getting in touch directly with Aurea CRM support team member because they have trained our company's IT team members that are in direct contact with Aurea CRM support channel. As far as I know, the overall support for Aurea CRM is quite good and highly prompt in a professional way.
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    BQE Software Inc.
    As a new employee and CORE user, I talk to support on a weekly basis. I have never had to wait for more than 3 min to get connect with a support rep, and all my questions have been answered. The support representatives are polite and eager to help no matter how simple your question is.
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    Online Training
    Aurea
    No answers on this topic
    BQE Software Inc.
    Make sure you have someone training you that fits your style of learning.
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    Implementation Rating
    Aurea
    No answers on this topic
    BQE Software Inc.
    It does take some time to understand the options and to find the best invoice template.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Aurea
    I didn't select Aurea CRM myself. Since our company is global, our headquarter has selected Aurea CRM after certain years of old Oracle based Crm use. As far as I know the old one was having some weaknesses about reporting, analysing via queries, lack of marketing activies etc. That's why our top management has selected Aurea CRM for a better solution which I highly agree with it except terrible mobile use.
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    BQE Software Inc.
    Deltek Vision is far more advanced, more encompassing and offers more flexibility with what you want to do. However, it's also quite difficult to use, whereas BQE CORE is intuitive and user friendly. The trade off is worth it in some arenas but overall it's not suited for a larger fast paced company. Great for smaller companies.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Aurea
    No answers on this topic
    BQE Software Inc.
    This software works on a small and large scale.
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    Return on Investment
    Aurea
    • positive impact for efficiency of indoor sales activies
    • positive impact for better report preparation
    • negative impact for mobile use
    Incentivized
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    BQE Software Inc.
    • Quick setup of new tasks under a parent project, with immediate hourly billing to it.
    • Monitoring of details of non-chargeable efforts in appropriate detail
    • Validation of hourly cost, billing cost, benefit cost, profitability by person and role
    • Company tracking of write-off's included in corporate and project reporting, no data is "lost"
    • Can track excessive work time as +PTO in lieu of pay for use as future vacation
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