Bonterra Advocacy vs. Ellucian CRM Advance

Every Action is perfect, powerful tool for nonprofit and political advocacy organizations to cultivate a membership and utilize this base to advocate for change at the state and local level

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A potential student calls in and we can enter all the information in CRM right then. Ellucian CRM Advance makes it easy for when we go back a week later to see all the notes on the student rather than asking them all over again. Admissions takes the call and enters all info into CRM Advance and then Academics can just log in and see all the notes Admissions took on the student.

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• Targeted actions
• Drag and drop editor for emails

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• Ties fundraising efforts to alumni.
• Seamless integration from Ellucian Colleage or Banner.

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• Some different views to examine audience at different engagement levels. Some more visual tools on engagement levels and the 'shape' of our audience in terms of opens, engagement, actions, etc.

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• Some of the data is not in the most intuitive location.
• The initial learning curve of the system was a bit steep, but after working with the system exclusively, our users got proficient very quickly.

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never had a problem

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CRM Advance is very efficient and overall a great product. We have been using CRM for many many years with really no complaints. It fits our needs.

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We actually recently dropped CRM Advance and are now live with Raisers Edge. Raisers Edge was much more user friendly and built around the fundraising experience. Integration was possible through a secure FTP interface with Ellucian Colleague. Other Blackbaud products have since been purchased to further enhance fundraising and gift giving.

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• Allowed easy metrics reporting for funding, unified engagement of advocates, and easy to learn.

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• We are now able to do a more effective review of applicants and see overall trends of characteristics such as source locations. This helps to focus other efforts such as marketing to support those areas and increase others.
• There is now a full picture of the needs of our students. By being able to view information in a logical progression, trend data can be identified and reacted to.

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