CiraSync vs. GridBuddy Connect

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
CiraSync
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Cira Apps in San Jose offers CiraSync, a secure, Azure-based SaaS platform that automates the syncing of Office 365 Global Address Lists, shared calendars, Public Folders, and CRM contacts to a business smartphone in about a minute.
$1
per month
GridBuddy Connect
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
GridBuddy Connect, from Validity, is a data productivity platform that keeps teams more focused on growing the business rather than updating data. GridBuddy Connect combines data from separate systems into an editable, spreadsheet-simple view. Users finally have all insights they need in one place, and they can engage confidently using the right data.N/A
Pricing
CiraSyncGridBuddy Connect
Editions & Modules
Enterprise Edition
$1
per user, per month
No answers on this topic
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CiraSyncGridBuddy Connect
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Small Businesses
Affinity
Affinity
Score 9.1 out of 10
vCita
vCita
Score 9.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Shared Contacts for Gmail
Shared Contacts for Gmail
Score 8.7 out of 10
Shared Contacts for Gmail
Shared Contacts for Gmail
Score 8.7 out of 10
Enterprises
Shared Contacts for Gmail
Shared Contacts for Gmail
Score 8.7 out of 10
Shared Contacts for Gmail
Shared Contacts for Gmail
Score 8.7 out of 10
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User Ratings
CiraSyncGridBuddy Connect
Likelihood to Recommend
9.7
(4 ratings)
7.9
(13 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
8.3
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
CiraSyncGridBuddy Connect
Likelihood to Recommend
Cira Apps
CiraSync is well suited to syncing company contacts into the Outlook user's mailbox. This could allow for calling with an IP phone, or from a cell phone. It's also well suited to syncing Calendars and Notes into the Outlook user's mailbox, where they do not already have permission on the calendar. However, to avoid confusion it is better not to duplicate calendars when the user can see them from Outlook.
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Validity
1. Making broad changes to data, like moving ownership of records from one user to another for a new Sales Rep or a moved Sales Rep. 2. Making broad changes to data for product changes, product introductions and such (product naming changes, product description changes, etc.). I recently had to make a change to the name of a Product Option. Product Options are a sub-object related to Product. This name change was in 22 places. Okay, 18 [is] not a lot, but to make this change individually 22 times is still very tedious and takes too much of my time. Instead, I set up my Grid with the Object and sub-Object and made all 22 changes at once with a mass change. Piece of cake. And I don't have to go back to several of the records to see if the change was made successfully (something you have to do with Dataloader). I could see the effective change all at once on my Grid screen.
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Pros
Cira Apps
  • Share important information with your staff consistently, easily and quickly. Regardless of their geographic location.
  • Friendly, easy to use user interface that makes managing complex rules of which information you want sent to subsets of people very easy to manage.
  • A very responsive support team. They get back to you quickly and you typically have a solution or answer in one iteration.
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Validity
  • Reshapes the user Interface into an intuitive, clean, easy and thoughtful way, meaning Salesforce can be practically used for applications that (in my Opinion) salesforce was never designed for.
  • Mass updates are a God send, Leaving quick and meaningful notes, setting up meetings with clients or upcoming calls to maintain contact, all from the same screen without information overload... a real achievement.
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Cons
Cira Apps
  • I'd like to see a few different options regarding licensing option.
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Validity
  • Does not allow users to create new Campaign Member records; we would like to be able to add multiple Campaign Member records to a Campaign in a Grid.
  • Does not allow users to create new Task records; we would like to be able to add multiple Tasks records related to the same user but multiple Opportunities and Contacts.
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Likelihood to Renew
Cira Apps
No answers on this topic
Validity
- Easy of use - Visual nature of using the product (as compared to Dataloader) - Quickness of making changes/updates/edits to long lists of records, live and real-time
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Usability
Cira Apps
No answers on this topic
Validity
- Ease of use - Real-time and visible nature of making mass changes - Ease of setting up a Grid - Ease of filtering the Grid to see the records that I need to change
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Support Rating
Cira Apps
The documentation isn't the most robust. Most support sites are very detailed and easily searchable.
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Validity
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Cira Apps
No answers on this topic
Validity
GridBuddy was very easy to implement
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Alternatives Considered
Cira Apps
We tried 4Team Sync2 Cloud and also itrezzo. While we were not able to justify installing a server, installing a cloud app from the Microsoft store was easy and fit our business needs.
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Validity
This is the 1st inline editing product we have tested. The only reason we would ever go with another product is the price.
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Return on Investment
Cira Apps
  • It is difficult to capture specific dollar based ROI in this circumstance. Anecdotally, when it is 3 a.m. and I get an urgent call about an emergent issue at a remote location -- at my fingertips and the fingertips of everyone I work with are the names and phones numbers of our important contacts, site codes that we need to relay to emergency services, and other important information. I don't waste time searching for a piece of paper. I don't worry whether the next person I'm calling has a different site code or phone number. The data is readily available and consistent with all employees.
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Validity
  • Our sales executives save a lot of time reviewing all opportunities in a single editable view.
  • Gridbuddy improves the functionality of our CRM by allowing us to edit multiple opportunities in one place.
  • It is generally faster and easier to build a report in GridBuddy than it is in SAP C4C.
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ScreenShots

GridBuddy Connect Screenshots

Screenshot of Conditional formattingScreenshot of ForecastingScreenshot of ConnectorsScreenshot of Mass UpdateScreenshot of Multi-object inline editing