Bigin by Zoho CRM vs. Microsoft Visual Studio

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Bigin by Zoho CRM
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Bigin by Zoho CRM is a simplified customer relationship management (CRM) software designed specifically for small businesses, startups and teams. Bigin helps small businesses unify customer-facing operations— marketing, sales, onboarding, delivery, and support, and it offers features that help to manage these customer relationships effectively.
$9
per month
Visual Studio
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
Visual Studio (now in the 2022 edition) is a 64-bit IDE that makes it easier to work with bigger projects and complex workloads, boasting a fluid and responsive experience for users. The IDE features IntelliCode, its automatic code completion tools that understand code context and that can complete up to a whole line at once to drive accurate and confident coding.
$45
per month
Pricing
Bigin by Zoho CRMMicrosoft Visual Studio
Editions & Modules
Express
$9.00
per month per user
Premier
$15.00
per month
Professional
$45.00
per month
Enterprise
$250.00
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Bigin by Zoho CRMVisual Studio
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details20% discount for annual pricing.
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Bigin by Zoho CRMMicrosoft Visual Studio
Features
Bigin by Zoho CRMMicrosoft Visual Studio
Sales Force Automation
Comparison of Sales Force Automation features of Product A and Product B
Bigin by Zoho CRM
7.9
100 Ratings
2% above category average
Microsoft Visual Studio
-
Ratings
Customer data management / contact management8.590 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow management8.094 Ratings00 Ratings
Opportunity management8.292 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)8.287 Ratings00 Ratings
Contract management6.951 Ratings00 Ratings
Interaction tracking7.986 Ratings00 Ratings
Marketing Automation
Comparison of Marketing Automation features of Product A and Product B
Bigin by Zoho CRM
8.0
79 Ratings
4% above category average
Microsoft Visual Studio
-
Ratings
Lead management8.476 Ratings00 Ratings
Email marketing7.770 Ratings00 Ratings
CRM Project Management
Comparison of CRM Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Bigin by Zoho CRM
8.1
81 Ratings
6% above category average
Microsoft Visual Studio
-
Ratings
Task management8.179 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting8.056 Ratings00 Ratings
CRM Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of CRM Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Bigin by Zoho CRM
8.1
84 Ratings
7% above category average
Microsoft Visual Studio
-
Ratings
Pipeline visualization8.584 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable reports7.875 Ratings00 Ratings
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of Product A and Product B
Bigin by Zoho CRM
8.0
89 Ratings
5% above category average
Microsoft Visual Studio
-
Ratings
Custom fields8.089 Ratings00 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Bigin by Zoho CRM
8.6
84 Ratings
3% above category average
Microsoft Visual Studio
-
Ratings
Single sign-on capability8.669 Ratings00 Ratings
Role-based user permissions8.582 Ratings00 Ratings
Social CRM
Comparison of Social CRM features of Product A and Product B
Bigin by Zoho CRM
7.6
48 Ratings
3% above category average
Microsoft Visual Studio
-
Ratings
Social data7.547 Ratings00 Ratings
Social engagement7.747 Ratings00 Ratings
Integrations with 3rd-party Software
Comparison of Integrations with 3rd-party Software features of Product A and Product B
Bigin by Zoho CRM
8.0
64 Ratings
8% above category average
Microsoft Visual Studio
-
Ratings
Marketing automation8.064 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform
Comparison of Platform features of Product A and Product B
Bigin by Zoho CRM
8.4
82 Ratings
11% above category average
Microsoft Visual Studio
-
Ratings
Mobile access8.482 Ratings00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Bigin by Zoho CRMMicrosoft Visual Studio
Small Businesses
Salesmate
Salesmate
Score 9.9 out of 10
PyCharm
PyCharm
Score 9.1 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Creatio
Creatio
Score 9.2 out of 10
PyCharm
PyCharm
Score 9.1 out of 10
Enterprises
Creatio
Creatio
Score 9.2 out of 10
PyCharm
PyCharm
Score 9.1 out of 10
All AlternativesView all alternativesView all alternatives
User Ratings
Bigin by Zoho CRMMicrosoft Visual Studio
Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
(101 ratings)
9.0
(105 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.6
(3 ratings)
10.0
(3 ratings)
Usability
8.6
(72 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
4.7
(8 ratings)
8.8
(15 ratings)
User Testimonials
Bigin by Zoho CRMMicrosoft Visual Studio
Likelihood to Recommend
Zoho
Startups Needing Quick Setup with Low Overhead
Startups that need a CRM quickly and don’t have the time or resources to onboard heavy tools can set up Bigin in a matter of hours. It covers all the basic CRM needs out of the box, making it ideal for teams just getting started.
Read full review
Microsoft
It's useful for app development, debugging, and testing. I've been using it for two years and have seen it grow into a fantastic tool. All of the features, NuGet packages, and settings that enable different types of projects are fantastic. It also has a connection to Azure DevOps and Git. It's a fantastic product that's simple to use.
Read full review
Pros
Zoho
  • Manage big databases. We have a large database of contacts and partners (more than 5,000 contacts), which are updated day by day, as a result of our participation in conferences, webinars, etc. For this reason, we needed a platform that would allow us to always have our database up to date, and accessible and editable by any member of the company.
  • Pipelines. Pipelines are very necessary in our daily lives, since we present many service proposals to different clients, and until now we control the status very manually. With Bigin by Zoho CRM, we can have all this information centralized in a single place, and know at all times the status of the service proposals we present (sent, pending decision, lost, won...).
  • Product definition. The product definition block has allowed us to further structure our typologies of products and services. At least, it has allowed us to reflect on them and what is the best way to package the service offered.
  • Control panel. The control panel has been very useful for us to be able to quickly see the main indicators (offers presented, next actions to be taken, etc.).
Read full review
Microsoft
  • Since Microsoft offers a free Community Edition of the IDE many of our new developers have used it at home or school and are very familiar with the user interface, requiring little training to move up to the paid, enterprise-friendly editions we use.
  • The online community support for Visual Studio is outstanding, as solid or better than any other commercial or open-source project software.
  • Microsoft continuously keeps the product up to date and has maintained a history of doing so. They use it internally for their own development so there is little chance it will ever fall out of favor and become unsupported.
Read full review
Cons
Zoho
  • I would like to link the same contact to more than one company.
  • I would like to be able to use only the name field, but I need to use first and last name
  • I would like to have a plan where there is no limit on the number of customizable fields
Read full review
Microsoft
  • Certain settings and features can sometimes be challenging to locate. The interface isn't always intuitive.
  • Sometimes there are too many ways to do the same thing. For example, users can quickly add a new workspace in Source Control Explorer when a local path shows as "Not Mapped," but it doesn't indicate that the user might want to check the dropdown list of workspaces. The shortcut of creating a new workspace by clicking on the "Not Mapped" link can lead to developers creating too many workspaces and causing workspace management to become unwieldy. If the shortcut link were removed, the user would be forced to use the Workspace dropdown. While it can add an extra step to the process, workspaces would be managed more easily, and this would enforce consistency. At the very least, there should be a high-level administrative setting to hide the shortcut link.
Read full review
Likelihood to Renew
Zoho
Sales Development Representative Account Executivessss sssssssssssssssss ss ssss s ss s ssssss ss s s ss sss sssssss sssss s ssssssss sssss sss sssssssssssssss ss ss sss sssss s ssss sssssss s s s s ssss sss s s ss ss ssss s s sssssss s ssssssssss sssss sss ss eads sd
Read full review
Microsoft
VS is the best and is required for building Microsoft applications. The quality and usefulness of the product far out-weight the licensing costs associated with it.
Read full review
Usability
Zoho
This is because ever since my team and I started using Bigin we have never been stuck to a point where we have no clue on how to use Bigin, the app can be used even by someone who has just started working and has never been exposed to any type of training and soft wares before.
Read full review
Microsoft
The thing I like the most is Visual Studio doesn't suffer from Microsoft's over eager marketing department who feel they need to redesign the UI (think Office and windows) which forces users to loose large amounts of productivity having to learn software that they had previously known.
Read full review
Support Rating
Zoho
The support is all international and it takes a while to get support as you have to go through chats and set up times, not as easy to just call and get the support you need. They are very nice when you do finally connect with someone and they are knowledgeable, just challenging being international sometimes.
Read full review
Microsoft
Between online forums like StackOverflow, online documentation, MSDN forums, and the customer support options, I find it very easy to get support for Visual Studio IDE when I need it. If desired, one can also download the MSDN documentation about the IDE and have it readily available for any support needs.
Read full review
Alternatives Considered
Zoho
The price is much more attractive than equivalent tools. Pipe drive is as good, but the cost is a big factor when you are a small company, especially at the beginning. So that is why we chose BIgin, and we are delighted with it. With five members, it saves a few hundreds of euros a year.
Read full review
Microsoft
I personally feel Visual Studio IDE has [a] better interface and [is more] user friendly than other IDEs. It has better code maintainability and intellisense. Its inbuilt team foundation server help coders to check on their code then and go. Better nugget package management, quality testing and gives features to extract TRX file as result of testing which includes all the summary of each test case.
Read full review
Return on Investment
Zoho
  • I was able to migrate from Hubspot CRM easily saving me hours of time
  • I have recieved 5 x replies to the email sequence i set up since i started using it
  • I have improved lead conversion by 5% so far
Read full review
Microsoft
  • We've had hundreds of hours saved by the rapid development that Visual Studio provides.
  • We've lost some time in the Xamarin updates. However, being cross platform, we ultimately saved tons of time not having to create separate apps for iOS and Android.
Read full review
ScreenShots

Bigin by Zoho CRM Screenshots

Screenshot of Screenshot of Screenshot of Screenshot of