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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cognism

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/ACognism is GDPR-compliant B2B sales and marketing lead generation platform, providing B2B revenue teams with a blend of real-time company, people and event data to streamline prospecting.N/A

    Drupal

    Score7.1 out of 10
    N/ADrupal is a free, open-source content management system written in PHP that competes primarily with Joomla and Plone. The standard release of Drupal, known as Drupal core, contains basic features such as account and menu management, RSS feeds, page layout customization, and system administration.N/A
    Pricing
    CognismDrupal
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CognismDrupal
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    CognismDrupal
    Considered Both Products
    Cognism
    No answer on this topic
    Open Source
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
    76%
    Would buy again
    13 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    88%
    Delivers good value for the price
    14 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    6 Answers
    76%
    Happy with the feature set
    13 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    12 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    13 Answers
    Features
    CognismDrupal
    Prospecting
    Comparison of Prospecting features of Cognism and Drupal
    Feature
    Cognism
    8.5
    4 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Drupal
    -
    Ratings
    Advanced search8.74 Ratings00 Ratings
    Identification of new leads8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    List quality8.24 Ratings00 Ratings
    List upload/download9.34 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ideal customer targeting8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Load time/data access9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sales Intelligence Data Standards
    Comparison of Sales Intelligence Data Standards features of Cognism and Drupal
    Feature
    Cognism
    7.8
    4 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Drupal
    -
    Ratings
    Contact information8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Company information7.74 Ratings00 Ratings
    Industry information7.74 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification
    Comparison of Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification features of Cognism and Drupal
    Feature
    Cognism
    8.4
    4 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Drupal
    -
    Ratings
    Lead qualification process7.74 Ratings00 Ratings
    Smart lists and recommendations7.74 Ratings00 Ratings
    Salesforce integration9.73 Ratings00 Ratings
    Company/business profiles8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Alerts and reminders9.33 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data hygiene8.33 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automatic data refresh7.74 Ratings00 Ratings
    Tags7.74 Ratings00 Ratings
    Filters and segmentation9.34 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sales Intelligence Email Features
    Comparison of Sales Intelligence Email Features features of Cognism and Drupal
    Feature
    Cognism
    9.5
    2 Ratings
    24% above category average
    Drupal
    -
    Ratings
    Sales email templates10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Append emails to records9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Cognism and Drupal
    Feature
    Cognism
    -
    Ratings
    Drupal
    8.3
    74 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Role-based user permissions00 Ratings8.374 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Cognism and Drupal
    Feature
    Cognism
    -
    Ratings
    Drupal
    7.8
    69 Ratings
    0% below category average
    API00 Ratings7.364 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language00 Ratings8.260 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Cognism and Drupal
    Feature
    Cognism
    -
    Ratings
    Drupal
    6.5
    78 Ratings
    19% below category average
    WYSIWYG editor00 Ratings6.371 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness00 Ratings8.275 Ratings
    Admin section00 Ratings7.078 Ratings
    Page templates00 Ratings5.677 Ratings
    Library of website themes00 Ratings5.568 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design00 Ratings6.572 Ratings
    Publishing workflow00 Ratings6.776 Ratings
    Form generator00 Ratings6.672 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Cognism and Drupal
    Feature
    Cognism
    -
    Ratings
    Drupal
    6.6
    77 Ratings
    13% below category average
    Content taxonomy00 Ratings6.971 Ratings
    SEO support00 Ratings6.472 Ratings
    Bulk management00 Ratings6.467 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions00 Ratings6.670 Ratings
    Community / comment management00 Ratings6.869 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    CognismDrupal
    Small Businesses
    Owler
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Umbraco CMS
    Score7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Clay
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Square Online
    Score7.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Gmail (discontinued)
    Score8.5 out of 10
    RWS Tridion Sites
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    CognismDrupal
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.5
    (6 ratings)
    6.8
    (87 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    1.0
    (19 ratings)
    Usability
    8.7
    (4 ratings)
    6.9
    (20 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.7
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.9
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    1.0
    (5 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.1
    (4 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CognismDrupal
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cognism
    Cognism works great for startups, scale-ups and large enterprises. It helps us close deals faster because we can very easily find the right people who can move our deal forward fast, and reach them directly instead of having to go through an HQ number/gatekeeper. It also saves us hours and hours on research we'd otherwise have to do manually.
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    Open Source
    If you want to set up a basic Not For Profit (NFP) Membership system and content base, Word Press is easier than Drupal. However, if you have specific needs that require a fair bit of customisation then Drupal is the best CRM available. If the webmaster is confident with PHP and SQL, Drupal allows a lot of creativity.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Cognism
    • They give us a headsup if the phone number is direct, mobile, or HQ
    • They advise us if the email is verified - that reduces our bounce rate.
    • They also advise us if our prospect's number is in the DNC list
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    Open Source
    • Drag and drop functionality is easy to use
    • Easy to switch between straight text and HTML content
    • Ability to easily have multiple environments so that pages can be built in b/c-stage before they are approved and published
    • Solid user experience where it's clear how to navigate the platform
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Cognism
    • The mobile number quality needs to improve as the connect rate is lower
    • It should also add sub industries to contract the list and find ICP
    • The AI assistant is not ideal
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    Open Source
    • This is not an easy CMS to work with if you don't have a good understanding of website development. It isn't "plug-and-play" like Wordpress or Shopify.
    • Over time, doing major updates to the system can be taxing, especially if you aren't well-versed enough in doing system updates in line with your "child" theme and code.
    • The CMS can become somewhat cumbersome with server resources if not carefully optimized while you build and customize it to your liking.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cognism
    No answers on this topic
    Open Source
    The time and money invested into this platform were too great to discontinue it at this point. I'm sure it will be in use for a while. We have also spent time training many employees how to use it. All of these things add up to quite an investment in the product. Lastly, it basically fulfills what we need our intranet site to do.
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    Usability
    Cognism
    Cognism's UI is modern and sleek. While some functions like setting up sequences required a few more clicks than I think is necessary, every other feature is intuitive and easy to use. Everything is easy to find and users are able to quickly navigate to where they need to go for different use cases like research, email creation and sequence building
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    Open Source
    As a team, we found Drupal to be highly customizable and flexible, allowing our development team to go to great lengths to develop desired functionalities. It can be used as a solution for all types of web projects. It comes with a robust admin interface that provides greater flexibility once the user gets acquainted with the system.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    Cognism
    No answers on this topic
    Open Source
    Drupal itself does not tend to have bugs that cause sporadic outages. When deployed on a well-configured LAMP stack, deployment and maintenance problems are minimal, and in general no exotic tuning or configuration is required. For highest uptime, putting a caching proxy like Varnish in front of Drupal (or a CDN that supports dynamic applications).
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    Performance
    Cognism
    No answers on this topic
    Open Source
    Drupal page loads can be slow, as a great many database calls may be required to generate a page. It is highly recommended to use caching systems, both built-in and external to lessen such database loads and improve performance. I haven't had any problems with behind-the-scenes integrations with external systems.
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    Support Rating
    Cognism
    No answers on this topic
    Open Source
    As noted earlier, the support of the community can be rather variable, with some modules attracting more attraction and action in their issue queues, but overall, the development community for Drupal is second to none. It probably the single greatest aspect of being involved in this open-source project.
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    In-Person Training
    Cognism
    No answers on this topic
    Open Source
    I was part of the team that conducted the training. Our training was fine, but we could have been better informed on Drupal before we started providing it. If we did not have answers to tough questions, we had more technical staff we could consult with. We did provide hands-on practice time for the learners, which I would always recommend. That is where the best learning occurred.
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    Online Training
    Cognism
    No answers on this topic
    Open Source
    The on-line training was not as ideal as the face-to-face training. It was done remotely and only allowed for the trainers to present information to the learners and demonstrate the platform online. There was not a good way to allow for the learners to practice, ask questions and have them answered all in the same session.
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    Implementation Rating
    Cognism
    No answers on this topic
    Open Source
    Plan ahead as much you can. You really need to know how to build what you want with the modules available to you, or that you might need to code yourself, in order to make the best use of Drupal. I recommend you analyze the most technically difficult workflows and other aspects of your implementation, and try building some test versions of those first. Get feedback from stakeholders early and often, because you can easily find yourself in a situation where your implementation does 90% of what you want, but, due to something you didn't plan for, foresee, or know about, there's no feasible way to get past the last 10%
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cognism
    Cognism is great as its positioned itself in the middle of the pack from a pricing perspective, as it provides quality data for campaigns. The lower and cheaper options do offer it at a fraction of the cost but that just means that data quality is lower. Cognism is the best allrounder
    Incentivized
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    Open Source
    Drupal can be more complex to learn, but it offers a much wider range of applications. Drupalโ€™s front and backend can be customized from design to functionality to allow for a wide range of uses. If someone wants to create something more complex than a simple site or blog, Drupal can be an amazing asset to have at hand.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Cognism
    No answers on this topic
    Open Source
    Drupal is well known to be scalable, although it requires solid knowledge of MySQL best practices, caching mechanisms, and other server-level best practices. I have never personally dealt with an especially large site, so I can speak well to the issues associated with Drupal scaling.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Cognism
    • The bounce rate is lower now by 50%
    • The lead quality is improved by 20%
    • We need all in one platform so we dont have to navigate between bundle of tools
    Incentivized
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    Open Source
    • Given the endless possibilities that Drupal can have, we tend to have great support going on when we get a website launched
    • It has become much much faster and easier for us to launch a new project due to reusability
    • Configuration management in Drupal helps greatly with CI/CD, saves us costs
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