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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Conga Composer

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/AConga Composer is a document generation and automation tool designed to simplify and streamline the process of creating and distributing customized documents, presentations, and reports.

    $30

    per month per user

    OutSystems

    Score6.4 out of 10
    N/AThe OutSystems Platform is a Platform-as-a-Service solution for rapid delivery of responsive web and mobile applications. It includes functionalities required to develop, deploy, manage and change web and mobile applications. It is targeted at the delivery of enterprise applications that require integration with backend systems, complex business rules and logic, usable interfaces and flexibility to change. It can be deployed in the cloud, on-premises or in hybrid environments.

    $4,000

    per month

    Pricing
    Conga ComposerOutSystems
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Basic
    $4,000.00
    per month
    Pro
    $10,000.00
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Conga ComposerOutSystems
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional Details——
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    Community Pulse
    Conga ComposerOutSystems
    Considered Both Products
    Conga
    No answer on this topic
    OutSystems
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    91%
    Would buy again
    128 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    52 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    112 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    44 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    91%
    Happy with the feature set
    127 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    52 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    80 Answers
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    33 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    95 Answers
    98%
    Implementation went as expected
    40 Answers
    Features
    Conga ComposerOutSystems
    Low-Code Development
    Comparison of Low-Code Development features of Conga Composer and OutSystems
    Feature
    Conga Composer
    -
    Ratings
    OutSystems
    7.9
    54 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Visual Modeling00 Ratings5.251 Ratings
    Drag-and-drop Interfaces00 Ratings8.052 Ratings
    Platform Security00 Ratings6.251 Ratings
    Platform User Management00 Ratings8.049 Ratings
    Reusability00 Ratings9.954 Ratings
    Platform Scalability00 Ratings9.951 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Conga ComposerOutSystems
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (160 ratings)
    8.0
    (131 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.9
    (15 ratings)
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    7.4
    (7 ratings)
    8.1
    (5 ratings)
    Availability
    3.6
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    3.6
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.0
    (10 ratings)
    7.5
    (44 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    3.7
    (5 ratings)
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    1.8
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    2.7
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    3.6
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    2.7
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    1.8
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    3.3
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Conga ComposerOutSystems
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Conga
    From my experience, Conga Composer is particularly well-suited for generating documents, such as quotes and contracts, directly from Salesforce. It saves us a great deal of time, which is remarkably beneficial for companies with sales teams. Not suitable for companies lacking significant Salesforce expertise or administrative support.
    Incentivized
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    OutSystems
    Well suited for internal exposure of business processes (invoicing, API layer to other systems, customer maintenance etc), whether a UI is required or not. Not so well suited for full fledged web design. An OutSystems application must serve one particular business need, if gets too much functionalities and responsibilities it tends to get chaotic and complex.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Conga
    • One great feature of Conga Composer is the ability to create various document types, including Word files, PDFs, and even PowerPoint presentations.
    • The ability to encrypt and share data is quite impressive with Conga Composer.
    • The integration, especially with different email providers, is quite good with Conga Composer.
    Incentivized
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    OutSystems
    • Developing end user interfaces with ease and speed with a modern look and feel.
    • First class low code development to reduce time to market with visual programming
    • Their technical support team is fast and responsive. We've yet to have any issues they could not resolve.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Conga
    • Not very intuitive. Once you know the system it's fine but there is a learning curve
    • I would like to see training opportunities on features that I am not using or aware of
    • I am sure I am only using about 3% of it's full potential
    Incentivized
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    OutSystems
    • Price – The licensing model of OutSystems is very expensive and not suitable for small scale developments. This is offset by the time to develop and stability for larger scale developments
    • Flexibility on PaaS version – The PaaS hosted version of OutSystems limits your flexibility to access the front end and backend database systems which can significantly restrict your options on high data volume developments or where anything requiring slightly out of the ordinary access is required
    • Same price for PaaS and self-hosted system. Licensing model dictates that you pay the same price even when you host the system on your own hardware which effectively means you pay more to manage the infrastructure yourself
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Conga
    Though I love how easily Conga Composer ties into Salesforce and its given analytics, it takes a lot of data entry to get up and running. I don't love that sometimes queries can take a long time to pull. I like keeping our marketing templates consistent via templates in the system. Pulling multiple objects into one report is fantastic too.
    Incentivized
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    OutSystems
    We are very happy with OutSystems and our developers deliver good work. OutSystems lets us build new software on a regulare (2 weekly) basis, which is highly flexible and adjustable. Even without very much experience, our developers manage to build usefull software, which is working a lot better than our previous (legacy) software.
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    Usability
    Conga
    It's a fairly simple tool to integrate into your current business structure. When we've had issues, we were able to resolve them extremely quickly. The users click a button and it can bring in all the quote lines, and our credit application seamlessly into our tool. I'd definitely recommend it to other colleagues
    Incentivized
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    OutSystems
    OutSystems has a feature in which we can develop a functionality in a application and can use that functionality in another application without developing it again. That is main plus point for the development team so they can work with different functionalities rather focusing on the same thing again and again. if we want to make any change on the user side then we can make it live with just the deployment using the service center.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    Conga
    It was available, it just didn't always work depending on what glitches were happening within our app
    Incentivized
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    OutSystems
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Conga
    This product appears to work well. It was not a fit for us this time, but we would consider in future
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    OutSystems
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Conga
    It's been hit and miss depending on the issue. We use javascript to generate the urls which has confused many techs even though it generates a clean url - they are overwhelmed by the concept of code and can't understand that the url is all that matters.
    Incentivized
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    OutSystems
    The tech support is very reachable. Usually by [email] from but also by phone if needed. We had some difficulties at the start with understanding "what our machine was doing" under high performance load. After some good sessions understanding our needs they delivered good solutions for our problems we had in the beginning.
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    In-Person Training
    Conga
    No answers on this topic
    OutSystems
    Excellent material full of hands on that improve the understanding of the platform.
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    Online Training
    Conga
    No answers on this topic
    OutSystems
    The online training material is well designed and explanations are step by step, helping trainees to understand and follow each exercise and new concept.
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    Implementation Rating
    Conga
    It was painful internally to build out all of the templates, but the actual implementation of the product was okay.
    Incentivized
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    OutSystems
    In a large company, patiently and consistently work the behind the scenes politics with business and IT partners across the firm.
    This is transformational - you will need a solid set of key business partners to lock arms together to move forward.
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    Conga
    I think Nintex is the primary competitor for Conga Composer, but I have not personally used it. I was not present for the decision to purchase Conga but I would recommend it in future document automation vendor selection processes because I have seen how well it works! We are especially fond of complementary features in Conga Composer, including Conga Email Templates and Conga Global Merge.
    Incentivized
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    OutSystems
    I tried to use WordPress with some success. Also looked at Joomla. But when I saw OutSystems I knew I had been wasting my time there. It takes you longer to get going with OutSystems - but even I as a novice realized immediately that Outsystems is simply in another league. Outsystems is powerful. (Can you compare WordPress and Joomla to Outsystems - I don't think so).
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Conga
    Not fair. Its an upfront cost and then pay per use
    Incentivized
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    OutSystems
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    Conga
    We used it for something simple and it was still a pain to use
    Incentivized
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    OutSystems
    No answers on this topic
    Professional Services
    Conga
    Needs additional training on what they are selling, how to install and use to explain to customers
    Incentivized
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    OutSystems
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Conga
    • Could really use better error handling on the product when the document doesn't generate. Zero notifications are provided right now and have no idea where in a 20 page template the error is. Need to keep cutting the template into pieces to find the error.
    • The report generates 90% of the time so far.
    • Getting easier to generate templates when knowing how the JSON will be structured to add to merged fields.
    • Use Work Plan Template Entries and Work Steps to dynamically generate many deliverables.
    Incentivized
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    OutSystems
    • The ease of use of the OutSystems development process has been the biggest ROI for us. We have developed our Framework product and maintained/enhanced it with only 4 workers.
    • OutSystems has enhanced their product very significantly over the last 4 years. They have gone from a simple to use tool to a very simple to use sophisticated tool that covers the standard mainframe-based computing apps and the apps used on handheld mobile devices all using the same basic set of development tools.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Conga Composer Screenshots

    Screenshot of how documents are created automatically, directly from SalesforceScreenshot of documents generated with any data, from any object - standard or customScreenshot of Conga Document GenerationScreenshot of popular document formats available, like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HTML, and PDFScreenshot of how large documents are sent via a link - and they provide visibility into customer document engagementScreenshot of how multiple documents can be sent with one or no clicks