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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Certinia FM Cloud

    Score7.3 out of 10
    N/ACertinia FM Cloud automates financial management on the Salesforce platform. The customer-centric software includes a general ledger, automated billing processes, and financial intelligence.N/A

    Agentforce Revenue Management

    Score8.6 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Salesforce Revenue Cloud (formerly Salesforce CPQ or SteelBrick) is built and delivered on the Salesforce Platform and Salesforce1 Mobile App which enables users to create accurate sales quotes quickly and submit error-free orders on the fly from any device.

    $30

    Per User per Month

    Pricing
    Certinia FM CloudAgentforce Revenue Management
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Basic
    $30
    Per User per Month
    Professional
    $50
    Per User per Month
    Enterprise
    $75
    Per User per Month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Certinia FM CloudAgentforce Revenue Management
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredOptional
    Additional DetailsCertinia Professional Services Cloud software follows a subscription-based pricing model that is typically structured according to the number of users and the level of features required. The software’s pricing may vary depending on the organization’s size and needs, with options to select modules or add-ons for additional functionality. Specific pricing details may require a consultation or quote from Certinia for tailored solutions.—
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    Certinia FM CloudAgentforce Revenue Management
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    Certinia
    Chose Certinia FM Cloud
    FFA is built on the Salesforce platform, giving us one source of data for our KPIs. Unlike Dynamics, FFA allows us to create custom reports and dashboards through which we can share financial results. We were able to better automate and streamline accounts payable using FFA. …
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    Salesforce
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    Would buy again
    29 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Happy with the feature set
    29 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    19 Answers
    Features
    Certinia FM CloudAgentforce Revenue Management
    Payroll Management
    Comparison of Payroll Management features of Certinia FM Cloud and Salesforce Agentforce Revenue Management
    Feature
    Certinia FM Cloud
    8.4
    2 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Revenue Management
    -
    Ratings
    Pay calculation8.52 Ratings00 Ratings
    Benefit plan administration8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Direct deposit files9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customization
    Comparison of Customization features of Certinia FM Cloud and Salesforce Agentforce Revenue Management
    Feature
    Certinia FM Cloud
    8.4
    4 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Revenue Management
    -
    Ratings
    API for custom integration8.84 Ratings00 Ratings
    Plug-ins8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Certinia FM Cloud and Salesforce Agentforce Revenue Management
    Feature
    Certinia FM Cloud
    8.4
    5 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Revenue Management
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    Ratings
    Single sign-on capability8.65 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-based user permissions8.15 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Certinia FM Cloud and Salesforce Agentforce Revenue Management
    Feature
    Certinia FM Cloud
    7.9
    5 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Revenue Management
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    Ratings
    Dashboards8.45 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports6.55 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom reports8.85 Ratings00 Ratings
    General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
    Comparison of General Ledger and Configurable Accounting features of Certinia FM Cloud and Salesforce Agentforce Revenue Management
    Feature
    Certinia FM Cloud
    7.9
    6 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Revenue Management
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    Ratings
    Accounts payable8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Accounts receivable7.14 Ratings00 Ratings
    Global Financial Support8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Primary and Secondary Ledgers7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Journals and Reconciliations6.33 Ratings00 Ratings
    Configurable Accounting7.43 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standardized Processes8.73 Ratings00 Ratings
    Inventory Management
    Comparison of Inventory Management features of Certinia FM Cloud and Salesforce Agentforce Revenue Management
    Feature
    Certinia FM Cloud
    10.0
    3 Ratings
    23% above category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Revenue Management
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    Inventory tracking10.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automatic reordering10.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Location management10.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Order Management
    Comparison of Order Management features of Certinia FM Cloud and Salesforce Agentforce Revenue Management
    Feature
    Certinia FM Cloud
    8.1
    2 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Revenue Management
    -
    Ratings
    Pricing8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Order entry8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Credit card processing8.52 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cost of goods sold8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Subledger and Financial Process
    Comparison of Subledger and Financial Process features of Certinia FM Cloud and Salesforce Agentforce Revenue Management
    Feature
    Certinia FM Cloud
    8.7
    1 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Revenue Management
    -
    Ratings
    Travel & Expense Management10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Budgetary Control & Encumbrance Accounting7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Project Financial Management
    Comparison of Project Financial Management features of Certinia FM Cloud and Salesforce Agentforce Revenue Management
    Feature
    Certinia FM Cloud
    9.3
    1 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Revenue Management
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    Ratings
    Budgeting and Forecasting9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Project Costing9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cost Capture10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Capital Project Management9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer Contract Compliance10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Project Revenue Recognition10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Project Execution Management
    Comparison of Project Execution Management features of Certinia FM Cloud and Salesforce Agentforce Revenue Management
    Feature
    Certinia FM Cloud
    8.2
    1 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Revenue Management
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    Ratings
    Project Planning and Scheduling7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Task Insight for Project Managers7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Project Mobile Functionality8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Definable Resource Pools8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    CPQ
    Comparison of CPQ features of Certinia FM Cloud and Salesforce Agentforce Revenue Management
    Feature
    Certinia FM Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Agentforce Revenue Management
    8.8
    38 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Quote sharing/sending00 Ratings9.037 Ratings
    Product configuration00 Ratings8.638 Ratings
    Configuration options00 Ratings8.536 Ratings
    Pricing rules00 Ratings8.835 Ratings
    Price adjustment00 Ratings8.037 Ratings
    Purchase history and open contracts00 Ratings8.830 Ratings
    Guided selling/Sales portal00 Ratings8.626 Ratings
    CPQ reporting & analytics00 Ratings9.030 Ratings
    CPQ-CRM integration00 Ratings9.035 Ratings
    Attachments to quotes00 Ratings9.337 Ratings
    Order capturing00 Ratings9.220 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Certinia FM CloudAgentforce Revenue Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.0
    (8 ratings)
    8.5
    (56 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.3
    (11 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.9
    (12 ratings)
    Online Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Certinia FM CloudAgentforce Revenue Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Certinia
    For accounting systems, users and/or evaluators often want to see some type of matrix or "heads up" comparisons of specific features and functionality of a system in key areas such as: 1) General Ledger 2) Order to Cash cycle 3) Purchase to Pay cycle 4) Cash management 5) Inventory and/or Cost Accounting (Projects/Jobs, etc) 6) Revenue Recognition 7) Fixed Assets management 8) Budgets 9) Tax 10) Reports and Analysis It would be great if this kind of matrix existed to be filled in by reviewers so that others could benefit from their perspectives about the applications and how they address or handle the specific features/functionality. With respect to FinancialForce, the company has found that nearly all the key features it needed were available from the application.
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    Salesforce
    What I like best is the ease of use to be able to track all opportunities and quotes in my daily sales tracker I also like the fact that you can reorganize the view for your opportunities. For instance, it is very similar to a spreadsheet where you can filter them by date, dollar amount, name, and several other ways. I found this to be less appropriate when we have to do multiple roles while assigning one task to multiple users. Column resizing within the Quote Line Editor is not supported in the Salesforce mobile app.
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    Pros
    Certinia
    • User interface is more modern and user-friendly than other software
    • Dashboards allow for good visual interpretation
    • Reports are able to be customized to better fit users' needs
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    Salesforce
    • It does a lot of pricing models really well. So like tiered pricing when you're selling a product has tiered pricing.
    • The out of the box approval functionalities is really good. It can trigger approvals based on a ton of different custom criteria.
    • The data it creates and tracks is really accurate and robust.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Certinia
    • Since SalesForce was not made with accounting in mind, building FinancialForce as a module on top of SalesForce gives problems because the overarching architect of SalesForce cannot facilitate all the accounting requirements.
    • The FinancialForce integration team was not very good, and did not help us set up our FinancialForce very well. Their customer support is also lacking and takes a long time to respond and troubleshoot our problems.
    • FinancialForce doesn't actually build financial statement reports. We were only able to run a trial balance, and we had to build the statements ourselves in Excel.
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    • Our Salesforce is very messy, which tells me it's not super easy to clean up.
    • I always have a really hard time removing a contacts from an account - it seems like you can't simply remove the relationship so we have lots of people named DO NOT CONTACT or things of that nature.
    • Sometimes when saving it doesn't seem like things actually save.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Certinia
    The company has now converted its legacy, "home grown" operations system and built it on the force.com platform, and the integration between it and FinancialForce is deeply entrenched. No other application would be able to replicate this functionality, and the company will be able to scale and leverage the force.com platform as it grows.
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    Salesforce
    The company is very easy to work with and is growing by leaps and bounds. We do not anticipate switching vendors anytime in the near future
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    Usability
    Certinia
    Change management is always an issue, but the evidence of the application's usability is that both long-time employees (used to the legacy systems for many years) and newer employees have been able to learn the system and improve their business processes.
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    Salesforce
    Because it looked almost impossible to integrate it with Zoho CRM while our Sales Operations team was working on it. But thankfully it worked at last but at the expense of a month's time. However, it has made every possible Revenue operations task simpler now. And that has ultimately made our team more efficient in terms of work hours spent on manual work.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Certinia
    Unless the internet is completely unavailable - which has not happened yet - the application is always accessible. Since FinancialForce is built on the force.com platform, it's uptime is tied to Salesforce security and system performance standards
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Certinia
    If Visualforce pages are enabled, they sometimes slow down the load time.
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Certinia
    The response time for FinancialForce is exemplary. Immediate acknowledgement of the support request by automatically logging a case/ticket on the provider side, then less than 24-hour follow up by a support team member with specific questions, information or resolution for the issue.
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    Salesforce
    There have been some issues with multi-year pricing of certain products and services which we have been assured will be resolved but I guess are still underway, the support team apart from this has not been needed much and in the rare scenarios, it has been needed the resolutions of conflicts has been prompt and quick, so the overall support would have my high regards for being so helpful and customer-oriented so as to assure good performance of their toolset and customer satisfaction.
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    Online Training
    Certinia
    Through its Xtra login website available to its customers, FinancialForce offers a complete set of online, video tutorials, training and documentation. Each tutorial is "bite-sized", meaning it imparts instructional, step-by-step information in 2-3 minute narrated videos. For a particular cycle or process, like invoices to payments for example, each tutorial builds on the last so that the user can get a complete picture of the steps and process in less than 10 minutes.
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Certinia
    The company decided to run parallel for three months in order to soften the impact of the change from the legacy "system" - which users had been interfacing with for over a decade - to FinancialForce. While not recommended, this did provide time for the in-house "super user" team of 2 people to become completely familiar with the application, and thus provide hands-on training and be a resource for the users who would be processing the daily accounting transactions.
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Certinia
    FinancialForce Subscription & Usage Billing has more features, more useability, and manages higher numbers of customers. The systems I have used in the past are easier to navigate but couldn't handle this number of customers.
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    There is no comparison to a fully functional instance of CPQ. Nothing comes close due to the amount of customization and ease of use that CPQ offers once it's fully built out. Other solutions may be easier to build or administer, but for the users and business needs, CPQ is the best solution possible.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Certinia
    • Beneficial to easily be able to track impact of fluctuating currencies.
    • Integration with Salesforce.com reduced/elimintated manual entry which saves various colleagues time.
    • Increased visibility over the entire sales cycle because of the integration between Salesforce.com & FinancialForce Accounting.
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    • Easy access to reporting on closed-won, closed-lost, and open quotes.
    • Accuracy in data referenced in a quote - it's typically accurate as it is pulled directly from opportunity, looking up to associated subscription start/end dates, etc..
    • We lose valuable time in creating quotes ourselves. Quotes were requested and created through sales ops previously, sales did not have access to the excel templates used to generate quotes.
    Incentivized
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