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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    IBM Sterling Order Management

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AIBM now owns and supports Sterling Commerce products (since August 2010), the most notable product being IBM Order Management. The platform emphasizes order promising and fulfillment and provides tools to adaptively complete orders specified to customer demands.N/A

    WellSky CareTend

    Score7.1 out of 10
    N/ACareTend is an integrative healthcare solution that is customized to meet the needs of a dynamic industry. CareTend is used to schedule visits, record patient records, create claims, fill prescriptions, manage inventory, bill, and record.N/A
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    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Score9.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    IBM Sterling Order ManagementWellSky CareTend
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (5 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.4
    (3 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    -
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    1.0
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    Online Training
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    IBM Sterling Order ManagementWellSky CareTend
    Likelihood to Recommend
    IBM
    It's perfect for medium to large retailers
    Incentivized
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    WellSky
    This company is extremely difficult to work with. They have expressed that CareTend users are not important to them since that is such a small part of the WellSky business. They are very focused on extra fees and extra charges for everything. We have not even had the program for a year and they have changed everything initially promised related to pricing. They continue to come up with new ways they can get more money out of you. I would recommend for anyone considering this program, to look at other options first
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    Pros
    IBM
    • Centralizing data.
    • Instantaneously updated data.
    • Ad hoc reporting.
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    WellSky
    • I am very unsatisfied with WellSky CareTend. The original CPR+ program was efficient and this copy they forced provider to switch to has many issues and does not include all of the capabilities in the prior program or as promised.
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    Cons
    IBM
    • RCP Based deployment
    • Wider variety of sourcing configuration
    • Product Documentation
    • COM Features need to better so that Customer case handling is facilitated
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    WellSky
    • Poor customer service. Upper Management fired much of the staff soon after our transition.
    • Outrageous fees that keep changing and increasing multiple times since we transitioned 9/2019. Getting a contract up front proves pointless as they find crafty ways around agreements to charge exorbitant fees. We are always overbilled. Just transitioned and bought a new server and now they tell us they are eliminating that process and we will be forced to host with them at a price of $66k/year for 20 users. This is above and beyond the 5% increase they gave us across the board 3 months after transitioning and the quarterly support fees that are outrageous.
    • Any attempt to discuss or protest the charges is met with the explanation that WellSky is a very big company and CareTend is such a small component that they are not interested in our concerns.
    • They do not have any clinical staff consulting or employed and are definitely missing functionality for what is needed in different clinical components or operations of the program.
    • WellSky bought the CPR+ program that we were using and decided to eliminate all support of that program and forced customers to purchase the CareTend program. They promised we could do everything we could in CPR+ plus much more. That has not been the case. Our staff has spent unbelievable amounts of hours just to try to get some of the basic functions of CPR+. We have adapted many work arounds. CareTend sees fixes to their program issues as enhancements and insists on charging exorbitant fees to add these corrective updates.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    IBM
    The package of Sterling Order Management / Sterling Store / Sterling Call Center works very well and it supports the expansion to Geographies like US/EU/JP/China, some of hottest markets for e-commerce.
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    WellSky
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    Support Rating
    IBM
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    WellSky
    They fired most of the support staff. When your staff is new to the program, yet knows more than who you speak to when you call into support, you know that there is an issue. It can take a week or longer at times for a support person to get back to you about an issue. We have met with management on these issues and when they do acknowledge a functionality issue, they want to charge you a fee to provide the fix even though you already pay support fees
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    Alternatives Considered
    IBM
    Warehouse Management System which is mainly focussed on warehouse fulfillment but not on the routing and availability tracking
    Incentivized
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    WellSky
    We utilized CPR+ prior to WellSky and it was basically the same product. Much more cost effective and many fewer issues.
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    Return on Investment
    IBM
    • Optimal inventory management resulted in more orders per minute and good ROI and customer experience
    Incentivized
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    WellSky
    • Our annual computer/program budget has risen beyond what is affordable since 9/2019.
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