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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Oracle Sales

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AOracle Sales guides sellers with intelligent recommendations to help them focus on the most valuable prospects at the right time. These machine learning-based CRM selling tools center around clean, complete customer data from internal and external sources.

    $65

    Per User Per Month

    Pricing
    BQE COREOracle Sales
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Professional
    $65.00
    Per User Per Month
    Standard
    $100.00
    Per User Per Month
    Enterprise
    $200.00
    Per User Per Month
    Premium
    $300.00
    Per User Per Month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    BQE COREOracle Sales
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details
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    Community Pulse
    BQE COREOracle Sales
    Considered Both Products
    BQE Software Inc.
    No answer on this topic
    Oracle
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    94%
    Would buy again
    144 Answers
    83%
    Would buy again
    10 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    106 Answers
    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
    10 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    150 Answers
    83%
    Happy with the feature set
    10 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    70 Answers
    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    8 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    82%
    Implementation went as expected
    81 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
    Features
    BQE COREOracle Sales
    Sales Force Automation
    Comparison of Sales Force Automation features of BQE CORE and Oracle Sales
    Feature
    BQE CORE
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle Sales
    7.6
    17 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Customer data management / contact management00 Ratings7.017 Ratings
    Workflow management00 Ratings8.016 Ratings
    Territory management00 Ratings7.616 Ratings
    Opportunity management00 Ratings7.815 Ratings
    Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)00 Ratings9.014 Ratings
    Contract management00 Ratings7.914 Ratings
    Quote & order management00 Ratings6.116 Ratings
    Interaction tracking00 Ratings7.014 Ratings
    Channel / partner relationship management00 Ratings8.013 Ratings
    Customer Service & Support
    Comparison of Customer Service & Support features of BQE CORE and Oracle Sales
    Feature
    BQE CORE
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle Sales
    5.7
    15 Ratings
    30% below category average
    Case management00 Ratings5.615 Ratings
    Call center management00 Ratings6.412 Ratings
    Help desk management00 Ratings5.313 Ratings
    Marketing Automation
    Comparison of Marketing Automation features of BQE CORE and Oracle Sales
    Feature
    BQE CORE
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle Sales
    8.5
    13 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Lead management00 Ratings9.013 Ratings
    Email marketing00 Ratings8.012 Ratings
    CRM Project Management
    Comparison of CRM Project Management features of BQE CORE and Oracle Sales
    Feature
    BQE CORE
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle Sales
    7.6
    14 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Task management00 Ratings6.513 Ratings
    Billing and invoicing management00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Reporting00 Ratings8.414 Ratings
    CRM Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of CRM Reporting & Analytics features of BQE CORE and Oracle Sales
    Feature
    BQE CORE
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle Sales
    8.1
    16 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Forecasting00 Ratings7.615 Ratings
    Pipeline visualization00 Ratings7.515 Ratings
    Customizable reports00 Ratings9.116 Ratings
    Customization
    Comparison of Customization features of BQE CORE and Oracle Sales
    Feature
    BQE CORE
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle Sales
    5.6
    17 Ratings
    31% below category average
    Custom fields00 Ratings5.617 Ratings
    Custom objects00 Ratings5.617 Ratings
    Scripting environment00 Ratings6.315 Ratings
    API for custom integration00 Ratings5.016 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of BQE CORE and Oracle Sales
    Feature
    BQE CORE
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle Sales
    8.7
    18 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Single sign-on capability00 Ratings8.017 Ratings
    Role-based user permissions00 Ratings9.317 Ratings
    Social CRM
    Comparison of Social CRM features of BQE CORE and Oracle Sales
    Feature
    BQE CORE
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle Sales
    10.0
    11 Ratings
    28% above category average
    Social data00 Ratings10.011 Ratings
    Social engagement00 Ratings10.011 Ratings
    Integrations with 3rd-party Software
    Comparison of Integrations with 3rd-party Software features of BQE CORE and Oracle Sales
    Feature
    BQE CORE
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle Sales
    7.8
    14 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Marketing automation00 Ratings8.013 Ratings
    Compensation management00 Ratings7.612 Ratings
    Platform
    Comparison of Platform features of BQE CORE and Oracle Sales
    Feature
    BQE CORE
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle Sales
    7.5
    16 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Mobile access00 Ratings7.516 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    BQE COREOracle Sales
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    Autotask PSA
    Score7.7 out of 10
    Salesflare
    Score10 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Workday Professional Services Automation
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Kintone
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Planview AdaptiveWork
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Agentforce Sales
    Score8.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    BQE COREOracle Sales
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.4
    (167 ratings)
    8.4
    (40 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.0
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.6
    (117 ratings)
    5.7
    (13 ratings)
    Availability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.4
    (90 ratings)
    7.3
    (10 ratings)
    Online Training
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    2.3
    (6 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    5.0
    (16 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    BQE COREOracle Sales
    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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    Oracle
    Excellent as a customer relationship management tool, sales forecasting, building better sales plan for the entire deal lifecycle using critical and complex data, a 360-degree comprehensive view of vendors, partners, customers. Ensuring high standards and consistency is maintained in pricing so that quotes are competitive for prospective customers. At the end of the day, this is an excellent tool for selling and closing deals while being able to access needed information in one place.
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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.
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    Oracle
    • Easy to sell products[.]
    • Build customers and make customer hub[.]
    • Tracking the sales cycle from marketing to sell the product[.]
    • Build Reports and Anayltics related to opportunities, leads, and service requests[.]
    • Getting customers issues after and before selling[.]
    • High ability to integrate with Oracles other products and 3rd products using Rest and Soap APIs[.]
    • Restrict users using RBAC role based access[.]
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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.
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    Oracle
    • I would like to see more integration with other CRMs such as Salesforce.
    • We have each business unit built into Salesforce and it can track the amount of gross profit that flows through our Oracle database. It then further it trickles to each sales rep and what they've closed during their time at the company. These figures are not always accurate.
    • It be difficult navigating to accounts and drilling down into each specific customer to understand details.
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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.
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    Oracle
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Oracle
    Overall our organization has completely moved to Oracle CX Sales and now is able to utilize the latest technology backed by AI to provide a much better experience to customers and saving money at the same time. So it's a Win-Win situation. I believe there is a slight learning curve to derive [the] full value out of this but once you are there, you can delight your customers.
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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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    Oracle
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Oracle
    Some of the more complex customer reports we have created are slow to run at times.
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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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    Oracle
    The support the Oracle team gives is generally very good. They are patient, willing to help, and their training methods are collaborative and inclusive. They have conducted multiple support sessions and it’s always been a great user experience. The stellar team [is] always on hand to lend support when the right time comes and their helpdesk is always on hand to help.
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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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    Oracle
    Excellent online training material. On-demand always helps to access anytime, anywhere. Also, it is essential that in this day and age, video tutorials with actual product screenshots make the learning more useful and fun at the same time. Certifications help test knowledge gained during these tutorial sessions. This was a blessing for fresh users.
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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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    Oracle
    If you have never used a CRM program is is hard to know exactly what you need. We had lots of changes during implementation and even more afterward once the users started working in it everyday. Also the partner we used didn't inform us about Allotments and not being able to Batch delete custom objects (you can now in recent releases). There were so many unknowns, that if I had it to do over, I would educate myself more and ask more questions of the partner that we used for implementation.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Oracle
    As compared to other CRM, this happens to be one of the best and most affordable as there are some cons, but the pros are great, and I have seen an increase in sales by using this platform. It works great for the sales process from start to end, like lead generation to closure.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    BQE Software Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Oracle
    When we purchased this system it was one of the more expensive options in the market. However, with an adjustment in service and a relative price structure, this has become a lot more cost-effective over the past few years. It’s now more of a middle-ranking in the pricing structure and I would definitely say this is value for money.
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    Scalability
    BQE Software Inc.
    This software works on a small and large scale.
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    Oracle
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Oracle
    • We can very easily pull up a customer's order and provide any detail they need. The time this saves compared to manually tracking customer orders and accounts is incredible.
    • Knowing exactly who is contacting customer service and what their orders status is before answering the calls makes the customer service reps job much easier than before.
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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

    Oracle Sales Screenshots

    Screenshot of Task Based Home PageScreenshot of MobileScreenshot of Sales AssistantScreenshot of Sales ForecastingScreenshot of Win Probability