DealCloud’s platform centralizes communication data and helps firms transform average day-to-day activities into actionable relationship intelligence. DealCloud is an Intapp company (acquired August 2018).
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Dynamo Software
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Dynamo Software is a purpose-built investment management platform that can support the entire private market investment lifecycle. It offers modules for CRM, deal management, investor relations, investor portal, portfolio monitoring, fund accounting, research management, portfolio management, and ESG reporting.
DealCloud is excellent for tracking the relationship with a contact and how they've added value to the firm by helping with specific request. Where I think it could improve is in offering more modern, AI powered reporting; where AI can tap into available data to generate richer insights, such as a company's key highlights from the past six months
I think to organise and view information Dynamo has shown it's capability. However, it's still not a workflow or project management tool. It's a great hub for inhaling and presenting information of magnitude, and it does so well. But there are limitations to how Dynamo can be used to allow interpersonal and teamed type collabs to happen. We know it's not an Asana and not built for that, so it's not a negative feedback, just not the appropriate platform if full fledged proj management and logistics, comms need to be housed somewhere along with the data, It's not within Dynamo for now.
Some functionality is clunky: Mailing Campaigns, Passthrough Integration, Dynamo Accounting Complex Transactions. At times it seems functionality is rolled out too soon.
Onboarding of new clients for us seems a bit haphazard. We just added a new tenant with CRM, Dynamo Accounting and the Investor Portal and we weren't exactly sure what the state of the new tenant should be based on what was copied over from a prior tenant or how much Dynamo Software time or support we would have to customize the new tenant.
At times it seems Dynamo Software's terminology with relationships either isn't intuitive or is repetitive creating additional time/confusion when modifying workspaces, portal set-up, etc.
Its excellent for tracking the investment and portfolio Management Lifecycle. Its a platform that helps organize and centralized all information in on place, making it especially useful for reviewing everything done for a portfolio companies and identifying business opportunities with other companies. It also tracks contact interactions, which makes it easy to assess relationships strength and evaluate how valuable that connections has been to the firm. Overall, the platform is solid and functional, but there's always room for improvement, implementing internal AI capabilities would be a huge plus
I find it easy to use and very intuitive once you get into the weeds. We also prepared an entire policies and procedures for utilizing it efficiently and not making many human errors. This guide has helped our employees understand how to use it. In addition, the help guides on the Dynamo website are really useful
Main arguments were: pricing as well as the usability. Setting up Dynamo is not difficult. Especially if you don't know what you really want. Dynamo offers out of the box views. Adjusting these is simple. Other competitiors like eFront are very customisable but need to be set up from scratch. Dynamo offered some type of canvas.
