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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Ellucian Banner

    Score5.2 out of 10
    N/AEllucian offers Banner educational ERP, including its student management system emphasizing control and reporting of process-oriented facets of education such as grading and attendance.N/A

    Insightly

    Score7.8 out of 10
    N/AInsightly is presented as a modern, affordable CRM that is easy to use, simple to customize, and that scales with companies as they grow, designed to solve common pain points that legacy CRMs can't. Available in any vertical, Insightly CRM customers can add companion products for marketing automation, customer service, and integrations in the same platform. Insightly has more than a million users worldwide.

    $348

    per year per user

    Pricing
    Ellucian BannerInsightly
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Plus
    $29
    per month (billed annually) per user
    Professional
    $49
    per month (billed annually) per user
    Enterprise
    $99
    per month (billed annually) per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Ellucian BannerInsightly
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Ellucian BannerInsightly
    Considered Both Products
    Ellucian
    No answer on this topic
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    80%
    Would buy again
    12 Answers
    88%
    Would buy again
    117 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    82%
    Delivers good value for the price
    9 Answers
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    103 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    80%
    Happy with the feature set
    12 Answers
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    117 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    83%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    88%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    72 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    78%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    86 Answers
    Features
    Ellucian BannerInsightly
    Student and Faculty Administration
    Comparison of Student and Faculty Administration features of Ellucian Banner and Insightly
    Feature
    Ellucian Banner
    8.5
    8 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Insightly
    -
    Ratings
    Integrations with 3rd-Party Education Technology7.98 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Registration Management8.97 Ratings00 Ratings
    District Communications, such as messaging and alerting8.94 Ratings00 Ratings
    Roster Management8.56 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform Customization8.16 Ratings00 Ratings
    Teacher Self-Service8.86 Ratings00 Ratings
    Student Data Security8.67 Ratings00 Ratings
    Community Support8.66 Ratings00 Ratings
    Class Scheduling8.67 Ratings00 Ratings
    State and National-level Reporting9.27 Ratings00 Ratings
    Compliance Support8.96 Ratings00 Ratings
    Teacher and Parent Mobile Application7.25 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sales Force Automation
    Comparison of Sales Force Automation features of Ellucian Banner and Insightly
    Feature
    Ellucian Banner
    -
    Ratings
    Insightly
    7.4
    423 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Customer data management / contact management00 Ratings8.2405 Ratings
    Workflow management00 Ratings7.2372 Ratings
    Territory management00 Ratings7.390 Ratings
    Opportunity management00 Ratings8.2368 Ratings
    Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)00 Ratings7.3379 Ratings
    Contract management00 Ratings6.521 Ratings
    Quote & order management00 Ratings7.275 Ratings
    Interaction tracking00 Ratings7.2333 Ratings
    Channel / partner relationship management00 Ratings7.724 Ratings
    Customer Service & Support
    Comparison of Customer Service & Support features of Ellucian Banner and Insightly
    Feature
    Ellucian Banner
    -
    Ratings
    Insightly
    7.1
    13 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Case management00 Ratings7.011 Ratings
    Call center management00 Ratings7.28 Ratings
    Help desk management00 Ratings7.19 Ratings
    Marketing Automation
    Comparison of Marketing Automation features of Ellucian Banner and Insightly
    Feature
    Ellucian Banner
    -
    Ratings
    Insightly
    7.2
    330 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Lead management00 Ratings6.8314 Ratings
    Email marketing00 Ratings7.7263 Ratings
    CRM Project Management
    Comparison of CRM Project Management features of Ellucian Banner and Insightly
    Feature
    Ellucian Banner
    -
    Ratings
    Insightly
    6.8
    406 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Task management00 Ratings7.1392 Ratings
    Billing and invoicing management00 Ratings6.039 Ratings
    Reporting00 Ratings7.3342 Ratings
    CRM Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of CRM Reporting & Analytics features of Ellucian Banner and Insightly
    Feature
    Ellucian Banner
    -
    Ratings
    Insightly
    7.6
    367 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Forecasting00 Ratings7.092 Ratings
    Pipeline visualization00 Ratings7.9344 Ratings
    Customizable reports00 Ratings7.8331 Ratings
    Customization
    Comparison of Customization features of Ellucian Banner and Insightly
    Feature
    Ellucian Banner
    -
    Ratings
    Insightly
    7.5
    369 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Custom fields00 Ratings8.4368 Ratings
    Custom objects00 Ratings7.7126 Ratings
    Scripting environment00 Ratings6.86 Ratings
    API for custom integration00 Ratings7.3195 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Ellucian Banner and Insightly
    Feature
    Ellucian Banner
    -
    Ratings
    Insightly
    7.6
    316 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Single sign-on capability00 Ratings7.8282 Ratings
    Role-based user permissions00 Ratings7.4217 Ratings
    Social CRM
    Comparison of Social CRM features of Ellucian Banner and Insightly
    Feature
    Ellucian Banner
    -
    Ratings
    Insightly
    7.4
    90 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Social data00 Ratings6.825 Ratings
    Social engagement00 Ratings8.078 Ratings
    Integrations with 3rd-party Software
    Comparison of Integrations with 3rd-party Software features of Ellucian Banner and Insightly
    Feature
    Ellucian Banner
    -
    Ratings
    Insightly
    6.4
    159 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Marketing automation00 Ratings7.7159 Ratings
    Compensation management00 Ratings5.14 Ratings
    Platform
    Comparison of Platform features of Ellucian Banner and Insightly
    Feature
    Ellucian Banner
    -
    Ratings
    Insightly
    5.9
    328 Ratings
    25% below category average
    Mobile access00 Ratings5.9328 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Ellucian BannerInsightly
    Small Businesses
    No answers on this topic
    Salesflare
    Score10 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Schoolmint Hero
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Kintone
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Schoolmint Hero
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Oracle Sales
    Score8.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Ellucian BannerInsightly
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.4
    (21 ratings)
    7.8
    (444 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.5
    (2 ratings)
    8.7
    (36 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.5
    (180 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.9
    (25 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.9
    (34 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (26 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.9
    (18 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.4
    (3 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (10 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.8
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Ellucian BannerInsightly
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Ellucian
    As a SIS, Banner Pages is the full meal deal. There are multiple modules that integrate out of the box. Because Banner is all I've ever used as a SIS, I can't contrast it with another program. I can say, it gets the job done for us. I will also say that a tremendous amount of time goes into strategizing how to get new functions to work for us and there always seems to be some catch that requires even more work. In general, the university has been hesitant to build too many modifications into Banner because they take a lot of time to maintain. Inevitably, a new update (of which there are MANY for Banner) will break stuff that isn't "vanilla." This is unfortunate because we've had some great ideas for how to make Banner better for us, but also understandable. If you're looking for a highly modular system, this isn't it. Banner has lots of components, but the components work the way they work and that's that. Also, don't expect very quick responses to bugs or glitches. If the bug is major, yes, it will be addressed. But, little function issues seem to be regularly overlooked.
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    There are a lot of things Insightly is great with for Career Services but much of my job is updating things manually because Insightly doesn't have a way to help me manage the database the way we need to. We have multiple academic records per students but needed to have fields that are multiselect on our contacts. These are all manually updated which are very tedious and not the best for what we need it to be able to do
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    Pros
    Ellucian
    • I think it's great to use if you are tracking grades for certain classes, especially if you'd like to see how students do, comparing midterm to final grades. If you have the permissions, you can see both.
    • It's also good to track students individually. You can look up a certain semester, and see how they did in that particular time frame, but you can also see their cumulative gpa, or even look up their entire course history.
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    • The ability to set up filters to generate lists based on just the categories I am interested in.
    • It's integration with our sales data so we can see customer spending trends across multiple years and seasons.
    • The ability to circle back to previous email correspondence to refresh on past conversations with individual clients.
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    Cons
    Ellucian
    • One thing I miss from the previous version of Ellucian Banner, is the control + page down. I struggle with alt + page down.
    • I love the Ellucian Banner favorites; however, it is a little difficult to navigate.
    • I can honestly only think of 2 things that could be improved. I use Ellucian Banner daily.
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    • Once you are immersed in the platform, for all of its integration kudos, the platform became "intuitive" if that is the right word for it. There was some push back from staff on deployment.
    • The service and support team at Insightly was very responsive, but it seemed as if they had fielded similar complaints, and slower learning curves than we expected.
    • Unfortunately, while all has worked out nicely now and we are very happy with the platform, we had to have additional instruction time for all the staff during onboarding as workflows, dashboards, and pipelines were more time intensive than expected on the demo.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Ellucian
    We have no reason not to renew with Ellucian - we are in deep with the ecosystem, and have Ellucian providing us with information technology support. If anything, should the opportunity arise, we'd probably consider adding a different ellucian tools into the suite of applications we already have on board.
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    Insightly offers a great product; it's the right fit for our company at this time. We were, however, considering moving to Contactually due to their cost effective automation features. However, they lacked the project management capabilities of Insightly. As our company grows, we would love to stay with Insightly - and if they can nail the automation and add the ability to customize a little bit more, it would be the perfect solution for us. For a larger company with a more involved sales team, you might find the metrics/reporting to be a bit basic. Insightly offers great customer service even to free customers
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    Usability
    Ellucian
    You definitely have to learn it before it becomes easy to use. It's better than it was, but it's still not entirely intuitive. You can't just look at it and play around to figure out how it works
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    Anyone with any experience with a working knowledge of Facebook or using a Windows computer will be able to quickly adapt to Insightly and use it to suit their needs. It can become more difficult to use as a company might have custom workflows or Insightly customer service might need to customize the program to better suit a company's need. A slow introduction to the system is better than having to learn the program quickly. Parts and knowledge build on each other so it hard to grasp all at once. The learning curve for Insightly is 2-3 weeks while mastery comes with time and exposure to the program
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    Reliability and Availability
    Ellucian
    It's pretty much up all the time.
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    The provider is 100% available, with no downtime, maintenance, or unexpected outages. We have been able to perform solid continuous services for 12 months without any interruptions. We have backups as well, unlike the in-house backup that they keep on their end. I believe they have a very good redundancy and backup infrastructure in case they get any outages.
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    Performance
    Ellucian
    Has gotten much better due to new hardware.
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    Pages normally load quickly, but every now and then, as entering updates to fields, it take a while to update. Sometimes even after refreshing the screen, we have to exit and go back in to get the fields or queries to update.
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    Support Rating
    Ellucian
    Our department generally does not contact the support center for Banner but the IT department does. That being said, in the seven years that I have been here, I have not once needed to contact the support center; we have had no glitches on Banner's side that needed to be addressed.
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    We have used Insightly for almost 2 years now. We have always been able to get in touch with support for a variety of reasons and they have never disappointed us. The support staff have always been very understanding. They have assisted with answers to our questions and have provided great tech support. We would highly recommend them.
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    In-Person Training
    Ellucian
    No answers on this topic
    Unbounce
    Well, we didn’t get the chance to do this in-person training but rather one-on-one online training with HR in-house. There were PowerPoints to discuss as well as video instructions on how to use the app, so it was okay. We were able to play around with it during the training or onboarding session.
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    Online Training
    Ellucian
    No answers on this topic
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    I've used Insightly's online training &/ or learned as I went. I've found the blogs and online written material helpful. I've also attended a few webinars, which can be useful if you use a J-I-T approach so as not to overwhelm you (or your staff) with functionality that you are using just yet. The fact that it's all available on their website and you can learn at your own pace is invaluable
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    Implementation Rating
    Ellucian
    very satisfied, along with the IT staff and ellucian support the upgrades do very well and have minimum down time.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Ellucian
    PeopleSoft was more user-friendly. It also provided the ability to save and bookmark queries. PeopleSoft will allow users to use common names to search for queries. Overall, it seemed much more current than Banner. PeopleSoft provided enrollment data for specific sections which allowed one to spot trends of enrollment in a given class.
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    Insightly is significantly better than Zendesk. It is easy to use, pleasant to look at, and makes sense. However, I don't think Insightly is fair now compared to Salesforce. Insightly can do many of the same things as Salesforce, but I've only started on some of these features. Insightly has excellent potential, and its support team drives me to make it what I believe it can be. For the price, I believe Insightly is worth it.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Ellucian
    No answers on this topic
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    I don’t have the exact answers for this, but our accounting or finance department negotiates this. They always handle this kind of stuff and negotiate yearly licenses. Usually, they purchase 10 licenses in bulk and ask for a discount in bulk. Other than that, if there are any issues encountered on the app, they account for that. If it’s broken, that’s also taken into consideration when renewing the contract.
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    Scalability
    Ellucian
    being able to scale with hardware was easy and not cumbersome. We were allowed to user virtual machines which made things very scalable.
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    (+) Being able to download my LinkedIn connections was a huge benefit. (+) I use the task function to stay on top of my follow-up activity which is another positive feature. (+) The sorting capabilities also help me pinpoint the contacts that I need to stay on top of. (-) When I add a new lead from an existing organization, I would like the organization's information to automatically populate the fields like address, website, description. I enter all that information manually. (-) My mass mailing experience has been tedious due to the email function being interrupted and crashing due to bad email addresses in some of my records. (-) Many of my leads do not have current email addresses. I wish Insightly offered a tool to help find email addresses. I spend too much time researching to find email addresses.
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    Professional Services
    Ellucian
    No answers on this topic
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    Our Customer Success Manager was great. A real professional and knowledgeable about the features and how they worked with our requirements
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    Return on Investment
    Ellucian
    • There is positive ROI on the product overall. It had reduced or allowed us to focus our staff members on something which is very use and it does the job in the background.
    • The application has supported in a lot of ways in saving resources and utilizing them in very productive & efficient manner
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    • Positive Impact>Visibility is critical when it comes to taking proactive measures within the organization. The Insightly Tool has helped use with that which minimizes costs when it comes to rework. We can proactively plan for upcoming growth and identify areas of improvement.
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    Screenshot of Insightly's lead status and activity tracking, available so that nothing falls through the cracks.Screenshot of the reporting feature, which provides insight into sales and productivity performance.Screenshot of the Insightly Opportunities dashboard.Screenshot of Insightly on mobile.Product screenshotProduct screenshot