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    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

    MACAW CRM

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AMACAW CRM system has been designed exclusively for the insurance sector. Prospects lead to opportunities, which leads to quotes, which leads to payment to the policies. In insurer requires, the underwriting and rating engines can be added. Salesforce can be deployed, managed and paid for. The policy servicing and claims tracking has been integrated in the system. The "digital" elements are integrated as various portals and mobile apps. The software has in…N/A

    monday.com

    Score8.2 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    monday.com Work OS is an open platform designed so that anyone can create the tools they need to run all aspects of their work. It includes ready-made templates or the ability to customize any work solution ranging from sales pipelines to marketing campaigns, CRMs, and project tracking.

    $36

    per month (3 seats)

    Pricing
    BQE COREMACAW CRMmonday.com
    Editions & Modules
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    Basic
    $12
    per month per user
    Standard
    $14
    per month per user
    Pro
    $24
    per month per user
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    BQE COREMACAW CRMmonday.com
    Free Trial
    YesNoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional DetailsAn 18% discount is available for annual billing.
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    Community Pulse
    BQE COREMACAW CRMmonday.com
    Considered Multiple Products
    BQE Software Inc.
    Chose BQE CORE
    The previous version was pretty similar
    Incentivized
    Chose BQE CORE
    BQE CORE combined numerous products for us. It allows everything to be in one place which cuts down on the back and forth, as well as user error.
    Incentivized
    Nest Innovative Solutions Private Limited
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    monday.com
    Chose monday.com
    monday.com is so much easier to use & project-tracking is not only easy to do, but the visuals are far from complicated & make it that much easier to keep track of everything.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
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    98%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    2243 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    98%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    1572 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    82%
    Implementation went as expected
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    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    1745 Answers
    Features
    BQE COREMACAW CRMmonday.com
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of BQE CORE and MACAW CRM and monday.com
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    monday.com
    7.6
    2321 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Task Management00 Ratings00 Ratings8.92314 Ratings
    Resource Management00 Ratings00 Ratings7.71984 Ratings
    Gantt Charts00 Ratings00 Ratings7.91370 Ratings
    Scheduling00 Ratings00 Ratings7.71931 Ratings
    Workflow Automation00 Ratings00 Ratings7.82014 Ratings
    Team Collaboration00 Ratings00 Ratings8.62269 Ratings
    Support for Agile Methodology00 Ratings00 Ratings7.21218 Ratings
    Support for Waterfall Methodology00 Ratings00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Document Management00 Ratings00 Ratings6.91877 Ratings
    Email integration00 Ratings00 Ratings7.21667 Ratings
    Mobile Access00 Ratings00 Ratings7.01848 Ratings
    Timesheet Tracking00 Ratings00 Ratings7.61091 Ratings
    Change request and Case Management00 Ratings00 Ratings7.91210 Ratings
    Budget and Expense Management00 Ratings00 Ratings7.21086 Ratings
    Professional Services Automation
    Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of BQE CORE and MACAW CRM and monday.com
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    monday.com
    6.9
    1058 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Quotes/estimates00 Ratings00 Ratings6.5713 Ratings
    Project & financial reporting00 Ratings00 Ratings7.5943 Ratings
    Integration with accounting software00 Ratings00 Ratings6.7534 Ratings
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Workday Professional Services Automation
    Score8.2 out of 10
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    KanbanFlow
    Score7.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Planview AdaptiveWork
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    User Ratings
    BQE COREMACAW CRMmonday.com
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.4
    (167 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.4
    (2335 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.0
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (34 ratings)
    Usability
    9.6
    (117 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.1
    (2263 ratings)
    Availability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (11 ratings)
    Performance
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.4
    (11 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.4
    (90 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1963 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    7.3
    (5 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    2.3
    (6 ratings)
    -
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    7.9
    (10 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
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    -
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    7.6
    (9 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    8.5
    (9 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    8.5
    (11 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    7.9
    (9 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
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    8.5
    (9 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    BQE COREMACAW CRMmonday.com
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Nest Innovative Solutions Private Limited
    MACAW integrates well with Salesforce. As they say, they manage leads, opportunities, quotes and policies well. The underwriting and rating engines can be integrated if it's required. MACAW is a great solution for combining multiple systems into one and lowering overhead. It is not a great fit for non-technical departments.
    Incentivized
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    monday.com
    Another feature I love in the free plan is the “Sort” feature, which enables me to sort all my clients by name alphabetically. Or sort by date,
    status, progress notes, etc. I make extensive use of the text column, where I can keep ongoing, detailed notes on the progress of a particular client's work and the information I am still waiting on. I have it open automatically every day, and my tasks are listed there for me to follow through on.
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    Pros
    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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    Nest Innovative Solutions Private Limited
    • Blending of CRM within an insurance flow
    • Great Lead Management, Quotation and Underwriting
    • High level support for marketing campaigns and setting up successful content strategies
    • Great support for legacy back-office system
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    monday.com
    • Intuitive board functionality with a variety of column types and customizations to address different use-cases, such as templates for user lifecycle management, checklists for onboarding.
    • Extensive automation capabilities to reduce tedium in more complex boards, such as our company's computer asset inventory board, to ensure devices are kept organized within the board for quicker reference.
    • The ability to connect boards and mirror info across them allowed us to build out a cross-functional, quasi-ticketing system enabling more efficient processing of requests that involved action items from different departments and/or teams.
    • We could use both the many board functions in tandem with the WorkForm feature to create an IT ticketing system that could be replicated and tailored for other teams needs.
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    Cons
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Nest Innovative Solutions Private Limited
    • Not very user friendly
    • Configuration with older back-office system is a bit of a hassle
    • Searches and uploads sometimes take a long time
    Incentivized
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    monday.com
    • The management of holdable items, continuously drops in incorrect places or doesn't show the 'correct way' to handle in the wished place, it happens with the dragable items on dashboards
    • The 'favorites' menu on desktop is now with 'Use my IA feature' everywhere and has removed the Fav section of for the boards in the sidebar. It was so useful when there were hundreds of Tables and only work on or update 3 - 4 of them (it is still visible on the mobile version, by the way)
    • The errors after using for a while, like 90 minutes, I am writing something and unexpectedly the app says something is wrong and I need to reload the page, and the thing I was doing doesn't still local storage as in other use cases
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    Nest Innovative Solutions Private Limited
    No answers on this topic
    monday.com
    Teams involved in content creation, such as marketing or editorial teams, could use monday.com to manage the entire content lifecycle. Boards might track content ideas, assignments, drafts, reviews, approvals, and publication schedules, helping teams collaborate and keep content production on track.
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    Usability
    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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    Nest Innovative Solutions Private Limited
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    monday.com
    monday.com was pretty easy to use from the get-go. Their automation templates are really easy to get things set up. A few of my monday.com boards are essentially upgraded spreadsheets that are much easier to digest and automatically send out reminder email to myself and my team.
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    Reliability and Availability
    BQE Software Inc.
    I can only remember a couple of times in 4 years that Core has been unavailable.
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    Nest Innovative Solutions Private Limited
    No answers on this topic
    monday.com
    There have only been 2 instances in the past year where monday.com was down.
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    Performance
    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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    Nest Innovative Solutions Private Limited
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    monday.com
    Everything performs fairly well. Every now and then there are user errors where an employee will not click "ok" on a note they've created and simply exit out (I do wish that something was in place to prevent this, such as a pop "are you finished?")
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    Support Rating
    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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    Nest Innovative Solutions Private Limited
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    monday.com
    I personally haven't found their customer success managers to be proactive or useful as the primary user of our monday.com account. This is different from a few years ago, when I had a contact that I reached out to as-needed (we are an enterprise account). I don't get a lot of touchpoints with anyone from monday.com and rarely submit tickets.
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    Online Training
    BQE Software Inc.
    Make sure you have someone training you that fits your style of learning.
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    Nest Innovative Solutions Private Limited
    No answers on this topic
    monday.com
    To have someone walk you thru the features and capabilities of Monday.com is priceless. Someone also coming along later in the contract to see if you are maximizing the program to suit your company needs is beyond helpful. The staff that have provided this training are fun, creative and very patient.
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    Implementation Rating
    BQE Software Inc.
    It does take some time to understand the options and to find the best invoice template.
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    Nest Innovative Solutions Private Limited
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    monday.com
    We signed up for the accounts. Created the accounts. Ran the trial version and tested it live while we were running multiple projects and found that it was fitting our needs perfectly. When the trial ended and we were asked to purchase the full version, we did. We have found other ways to use it and it's a breeze.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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.
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    Nest Innovative Solutions Private Limited
    MACAW provides deep integration with insurance-relevant tools, like underwriting and rating engines, which are not supported in shallow CRMs like Hubspot.
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    monday.com
    monday.com gives us the most flexibility when it comes to its features -- to create templates and quickly modify or customize. While limited in its overall functionality, it is secure and does what it is supposed to do well. An ability to interpret documents given to it -- not just its own assets -- would take monday.com to the next level.
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    Scalability
    BQE Software Inc.
    This software works on a small and large scale.
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    Nest Innovative Solutions Private Limited
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    monday.com
    For it to work across multiple departments and sites, I would like to see improvements made with integrations and automation. For this question, I am acknowledging not only the addition of internal triggers/automation, but also an expansion on external ones.
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Nest Innovative Solutions Private Limited
    • Allowed work from home due to its web UI
    • Made using legacy back-office system easier, except for more complex cases
    • Not user friendly and a bit hard to onboard into
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    monday.com
    • The platform has saved us time by allowing us to have all of our program information in one place.
    • The fact that it is easy to set up has saved us countless hours of trying to learn the platform.
    • The platform has helped us greatly with collaboration with our program partners who need to use our data.
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    ScreenShots

    BQE CORE Screenshots

    Screenshot of Core powered by BQE SoftwareScreenshot of BQE CORE Project Dashboard ViewScreenshot of BQE CORE 360* Firm Performance ViewScreenshot of BQE CORE Reporting & AnalyticsScreenshot of BQE CORE Project Time EntryScreenshot of BQE CORE Project Expense Tracking

    MACAW CRM Screenshots

    Screenshot of Single Customer Overview DashboardScreenshot of Opportunity DashboardScreenshot of Quotation DashboardScreenshot of Policy Overview Dashboard

    monday.com Screenshots

    Screenshot of Work OSScreenshot of Ready-Made TemplatesScreenshot of MobileScreenshot of Visual BoardsScreenshot of Real-time NotificationsScreenshot of Automations