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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Improvado

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AImprovado is a marketing intelligence platform designed for medium to large enterprises and agencies. Improvado integrates, simplifies, governs, and attributes complex data from various sources, delivering a unified view of marketing ROI and performance.N/A

    Salesforce CRM Analytics

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ASalesforce CRM Analytics (formerly Tableau CRM) is a cloud-based business intelligence solutions and analytics software. It provides users with automated data discovery, CRM-connected analytics, top-down views of data, augmented analytics, predictive insights, and customizable data visualization tools.

    $125

    per month

    Pricing
    ImprovadoSalesforce CRM Analytics
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    ImprovadoSalesforce CRM Analytics
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    ImprovadoSalesforce CRM Analytics
    Considered Both Products
    Improvado
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    73%
    Would buy again
    8 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    89%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    91%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    9 Answers
    Features
    ImprovadoSalesforce CRM Analytics
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Improvado and Salesforce CRM Analytics
    Feature
    Improvado
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce CRM Analytics
    7.8
    48 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings7.541 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards00 Ratings8.548 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings7.546 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Improvado and Salesforce CRM Analytics
    Feature
    Improvado
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce CRM Analytics
    7.8
    49 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Drill-down analysis00 Ratings8.548 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities00 Ratings7.548 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings7.537 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings7.546 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Improvado and Salesforce CRM Analytics
    Feature
    Improvado
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce CRM Analytics
    8.1
    47 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Publish to Web00 Ratings9.037 Ratings
    Publish to PDF00 Ratings7.044 Ratings
    Report Versioning00 Ratings8.543 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.540 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings7.534 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Improvado and Salesforce CRM Analytics
    Feature
    Improvado
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce CRM Analytics
    7.4
    45 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings8.042 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings6.540 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics00 Ratings7.042 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Improvado and Salesforce CRM Analytics
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    Improvado
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    Ratings
    Salesforce CRM Analytics
    9.0
    48 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings9.046 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings8.546 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings9.042 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings9.541 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Improvado and Salesforce CRM Analytics
    Feature
    Improvado
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce CRM Analytics
    6.7
    45 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings7.543 Ratings
    Mobile Application00 Ratings7.034 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings6.539 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Improvado and Salesforce CRM Analytics
    Feature
    Improvado
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce CRM Analytics
    8.2
    33 Ratings
    6% above category average
    REST API00 Ratings8.031 Ratings
    Javascript API00 Ratings8.529 Ratings
    iFrames00 Ratings8.525 Ratings
    Java API00 Ratings8.528 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings7.528 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings8.527 Ratings
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    Score8.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    ImprovadoSalesforce CRM Analytics
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (51 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.5
    (10 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.7
    (6 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.1
    (41 ratings)
    Data Sources
    -
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    7.7
    (41 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ImprovadoSalesforce CRM Analytics
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Improvado
    This solution helped us when we were stuck trying to explore data deeper and didn’t have enough resources to prepare data for further analysis. The software solves data integrity problems bringing more granularity to all insights. Integration with data visualization tools and well-arranged insights shows how each of the company’s marketing channels performs in real-time. Improvado is also useful for risk mitigation when launching or adjusting marketing strategies. It may also become a valuable tool for businesses, who are aiming at automation and the elimination of routine processes. ETL processes automation unleashes marketing analysts’ potential granting them more time for research of marketing reports.
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    Salesforce
    For us it really comes down to that book management and next best contact for our advisors. When we're thinking about a book of business that may range, depending on the advisor, from 400 clients to a thousand clients, how do they really optimize their time? Who do they call next? Who do they work with to make sure not only they're keeping those clients engaged, they're not leaving the firm going to other advisors who they haven't talked to in a while who might need their attention. That's really where that CRM analytics is really proven pretty powerful for us.
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    Pros
    Improvado
    • ETL processes. Once adjusted, Improvado never fails to streamline data from our advertisement platforms to the data warehouse.
    • Variety of data sources. Improvado extracts data from over 200 sources, including both well-established platforms and the ones that are rapidly gaining momentum.
    • Full-cycle support. Improvado provided us with a dedicated manager available 24/7. Any issues that arose during the product integration were settled in a matter of minutes.
    • Flexibility and client-focused approach. After the integration, we adjusted our marketing campaign and needed new ad platforms to be integrated. The vendor allocated the development team ASAP to add new connectors to our existing network.
    • Professional services package. The company doesn't provide dashboard views by default. However, we had no time to figure out how to do it ourselves, so we hired a team of Improvado's analysts that set everything up for us.
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    Salesforce
    • Interactive Dashboards, it [consists] of wide variety of charts
    • Data from different sources can be easily integrated with it
    • Security, it provides easy way to secure and share the information with the users
    • Support actions like opening hyperlink etc
    • Almost everything can be done from configuration
    • Data can easily be managed from dataflow.
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    Cons
    Improvado
    • Improvado didn’t have all the integrations that we needed. However, they offered full coverage and quickly found ways to extract data from the sources we required.
    • The user interface for BI tools may be confusing to inexperienced users. Personally, I didn't have any problems. However, some of the junior marketing specialists from my department needed more time to adapt to the UI. Otherwise, the interface is great.
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    Salesforce
    • Implementation takes time and resources. It is a heavy lift to implement and at first, it can take a little bit of time to understand what you are looking at. But once it's implemented it's easy to get started.
    • Without any BI expertise or resources available to your organization, the implementation of this is difficult. If you aren't used to BI tools and don't have an expert in house, the terminology can be difficult to understand at first.
    • Their support is not on hand to help you if you encounter any issues, at least not on all the plans or the basic plans. Real-time support service is an add-on, so you'll need to be patient if you require help or pay extra money.
    • More functionality for the tool is needed to compete with other heavyweights in the arena like Tableau, Qlik, and Microstrategy. Still lacks the robustness, functionality, and flexibility other competing products possess.
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    Usability
    Improvado
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    For someone who don't have coding background, this could be a useful tool and fairly easy to learn and use given the good support. However, if you know other open source tools, it would be much easier to use the other tools and the knowledge is more transferable in the future.
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    Support Rating
    Improvado
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    I was not able to be in interaction much with Salesforce support team since every feature works the way it should be working. So far I have not experienced any bug or major glitches that would delay the result of my work and performance. There is also a hotline in our company for Salesforce issue but so far I have not used it.
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    Implementation Rating
    Improvado
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    An implementation partner would certainly result in greater output in a more efficient amount of time. However, I have found implementation partners to be extremely expensive for the output received (at least working for a non-profit company they are frequently unaffordable). Internal implementation does help with usable output though since internal knowledge would better know the data architecture and business processes
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    Alternatives Considered
    Improvado
    We chose Improvado for the following reasons:
    • Their data transformation framework cleans, normalizes and prepares data for loading into our data visualization tool;
    • We connected our CRM to our analytics tool and as ad account;
    • Extensive social media reports - the marketing team can view our ads, posts, comments right from the dashboard.
    • Scheduled reports and immediate data sync options help us to get the reports with the most accurate data at the time we need them;
    • Google Ads auto-connect new ad accounts.
    Our marketing team evaluated Funnel.io and has opted for Improvado because of the following drawbacks:
    • With Funnel we’d have to set up an extraction process for each campaign and account manually;
    • The more accounts you need to connect or integrations to use, the more you’ll pay;
    • Limited data storage options;
    • Complicated account export. We had to filter accounts to export through the custom filter rules.
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    Salesforce
    Tableau is the absolute top of the class when it comes to business intelligence, but it doesn't make sense for every business case. In our case, we needed a simple data visualization platform for our CRM platform and sales pipeline. Salesforce Analytics, while nowhere near as robust, did the job we needed it to do perfectly in a significantly more cost-effective manner.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Improvado
    • Increased ROI
    • Improved cost of acquisition analysis
    • Improved CPA, CPI, CPL report drawing process
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    Salesforce
    • I would say it's been positive just because as a company, anyone that has access to it can go in there and pull any company information and we're very up to date then on all of our client base. So I would say it's been a very positive impact.
    Incentivized
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    Screenshot of an extensive list of data sources to pull the dataScreenshot of connectionsScreenshot of the DataPrep tool to transform the data efficiently