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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Nimble

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/ANimble is a social customer relationship management (CRM) system with features such as contact management and data-driven analytics.

    $15

    per month

    Agentforce Sales

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/ASalesforce' Agentforce Sales (formerly Salesforce Sales Cloud) is the company's flagship CRM platform. The AI CRM for Sales features data built right in.

    $25

    per month

    Pricing
    NimbleAgentforce Sales
    Editions & Modules
    Business
    $19.00
    Per User Per Month
    Starter
    $25.00
    per month per user
    Professional
    $80.00
    per month per user
    Enterprise
    $165.00
    per month per user
    Unlimited
    $330.00
    per month per user
    Agentforce 1 Sales
    $550
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    NimbleAgentforce Sales
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    NimbleAgentforce Sales
    Considered Both Products
    Nimble
    Chose Nimble
    I cannot regard Salesforce as a perfect tool for CRM. I found Salesforce lacks many important features that we were looking for. Moreover, [the] email marketing feature of Salesforce wasn’t working well and I didn’t like that feature. But on the other side, the email marketing …
    Incentivized
    Chose Nimble
    Nimble was either on par or much better than most platforms we evaluated in the initial stage of shortlisting the top 2 or 3 platforms.
    Incentivized
    Chose Nimble
    Nimble has a straightforward setup, [is] easy to use, and has a fast and intuitive interface. This was the plus point for their choice.
    Incentivized
    Chose Nimble
    It has all the necessary tools in different areas; we can have specific monitoring, sales, and advertising goals.
    Incentivized
    Chose Nimble
    Nimble has given me the tools I need to get the data from potential customers and use it to transform them into potential customers.
    Incentivized
    Chose Nimble
    Nimble is more cost effective than both. Easier to use than Salesforce. It's built for the user and the person in the customer facing role to make their lives easier. The others are built for making managers lives easier and can get frustrating for end users.
    Incentivized
    Chose Nimble
    Every CRM has about 80% of what I need so there is always a few details that don't work exactly how we need them.
    Incentivized
    Chose Nimble
    Nimble has proven to be a positive and well-respected application within our company for setting us up for success at building personal and meaningful associations with decision makers. It has been a significant reason why we have gained acceptance and trust from those who we …
    Incentivized
    Chose Nimble
    Nimble is a 1:1 social CRM -- it's not an email marketing system (although they integrate well with others).
    Salesforce - is amazing for reporting -- but to get some of the functions, I think it might be beyond most SMB budgets. Nimble is easier to use.
    SimplyCast - integrates …
    Incentivized
    Chose Nimble
    ACT!, SageCRM, Outlook, Google Contacts, Zoho CRM, SugarSync, Vtiger, Salesforce, iCloud Contacts (iPhone)plus many others. Most of these systems don't do a good job of connecting with email let alone social media and in today's world, you need both. Nimble does things that …
    Incentivized
    Chose Nimble
    Nimble gives me better heads-up reporting on a daily basis and allows me to take action straight away. No need to open multiple views. It's all there. Nimble gives me emails and addresses so I can switch to the appropriate channel for each person. Nimble lets me know the last …
    Incentivized
    Chose Nimble
    As a sales manager, i need to access all the data in an easy and comprehensive way. In my professional experience I have used various CRMs to accomplish this goal. Namely, Salesforce, SugarCRM, and Nimble. Each of these CRMs have there strengths and weaknesses, and pros and …
    Incentivized
    Chose Nimble
    Nimble fits nicely in the "contact management" "social crm" space. As mentioned, it's not a full fledged CRM tool yet (sales, marketing, service, projects, defect tracking) etc. but it's in a good class for those small organizations who haven't any experience with automated …
    Salesforce
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    89%
    Would buy again
    16 Answers
    91%
    Would buy again
    209 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    88%
    Delivers good value for the price
    15 Answers
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    179 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    16 Answers
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    216 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    94%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    16 Answers
    91%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    143 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    17 Answers
    81%
    Implementation went as expected
    125 Answers
    Features
    NimbleAgentforce Sales
    Sales Force Automation
    Comparison of Sales Force Automation features of Nimble and Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    Feature
    Nimble
    8.5
    30 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    8.2
    268 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Customer data management / contact management9.529 Ratings8.6268 Ratings
    Workflow management8.428 Ratings8.6258 Ratings
    Territory management8.724 Ratings7.5211 Ratings
    Opportunity management8.128 Ratings9.0258 Ratings
    Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)9.429 Ratings7.7243 Ratings
    Contract management8.523 Ratings8.0214 Ratings
    Quote & order management6.621 Ratings7.6197 Ratings
    Interaction tracking9.227 Ratings8.9228 Ratings
    Channel / partner relationship management8.126 Ratings8.0190 Ratings
    Customer Service & Support
    Comparison of Customer Service & Support features of Nimble and Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    Feature
    Nimble
    8.1
    22 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    7.7
    104 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Case management7.922 Ratings8.3102 Ratings
    Call center management8.220 Ratings7.782 Ratings
    Help desk management8.321 Ratings7.286 Ratings
    Marketing Automation
    Comparison of Marketing Automation features of Nimble and Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    Feature
    Nimble
    8.7
    27 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    7.8
    243 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Lead management8.426 Ratings7.8238 Ratings
    Email marketing9.026 Ratings7.9205 Ratings
    CRM Project Management
    Comparison of CRM Project Management features of Nimble and Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    Feature
    Nimble
    8.2
    29 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    8.0
    247 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Task management8.529 Ratings8.3235 Ratings
    Billing and invoicing management8.418 Ratings7.078 Ratings
    Reporting7.725 Ratings8.7200 Ratings
    CRM Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of CRM Reporting & Analytics features of Nimble and Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    Feature
    Nimble
    8.9
    27 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    8.3
    260 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Forecasting8.923 Ratings7.8228 Ratings
    Pipeline visualization8.827 Ratings8.5247 Ratings
    Customizable reports9.023 Ratings8.7257 Ratings
    Customization
    Comparison of Customization features of Nimble and Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    Feature
    Nimble
    8.6
    29 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    8.4
    251 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Custom fields9.029 Ratings9.0248 Ratings
    Custom objects8.322 Ratings8.7238 Ratings
    Scripting environment8.518 Ratings7.7175 Ratings
    API for custom integration8.820 Ratings8.5209 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Nimble and Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    Feature
    Nimble
    9.3
    26 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    9.0
    282 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Single sign-on capability9.424 Ratings9.0220 Ratings
    Role-based user permissions9.324 Ratings9.0254 Ratings
    Social CRM
    Comparison of Social CRM features of Nimble and Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    Feature
    Nimble
    8.4
    29 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    7.7
    160 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Social data8.429 Ratings8.0158 Ratings
    Social engagement8.429 Ratings7.4156 Ratings
    Integrations with 3rd-party Software
    Comparison of Integrations with 3rd-party Software features of Nimble and Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    Feature
    Nimble
    8.8
    25 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    7.9
    216 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Marketing automation8.725 Ratings7.9212 Ratings
    Compensation management8.919 Ratings7.9146 Ratings
    Platform
    Comparison of Platform features of Nimble and Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    Feature
    Nimble
    8.3
    27 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    8.3
    231 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Mobile access8.327 Ratings8.3231 Ratings
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    NimbleAgentforce Sales
    Small Businesses
    Salesflare
    Score10 out of 10
    Salesflare
    Score10 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Kintone
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Kintone
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Oracle Sales
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Oracle Sales
    Score8.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    NimbleAgentforce Sales
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (33 ratings)
    8.9
    (470 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.1
    (61 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (19 ratings)
    8.4
    (166 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (29 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (20 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.8
    (19 ratings)
    9.0
    (98 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (12 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (15 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (19 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.8
    (9 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (5 ratings)
    Data Sources
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (5 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.9
    (85 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.3
    (8 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    NimbleAgentforce Sales
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Nimble
    This tool is suitable for all sizes of organizations since it has the capacity to manage customer relations in the best possible way. Its features like task management, reports, social collaboration, and forecasting are always considered important for CRM and they all work without causing any trouble. But its Reports need to be more elaborate and its interface should be made easier and less tricky.
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    Salesforce
    Obviously, for any business, there are two main areas to focus on — the sales path and the service path. Sales Cloud wouldn’t be suited for a company that’s primarily into support services. For those kinds of companies, Salesforce has a different product — Service Cloud. So, for anyone in the support or service space, Sales Cloud isn’t the right fit.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Nimble
    • Importing contacts in the CRM is very much consist of easy steps.
    • It allows me to create, edit and view contacts records anywhere from the web.
    • It is helping me to stay organized in terms of marketing needs and providing real-time information automatically.
    • it is playing an excellent role in managing our all relations.
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    Salesforce
    • The customizations - We have an organization that operates differently from most companies, so we’ve had to implement quite a few customizations — and Salesforce allows us to do that quite quickly. Most of the time, delays come from dependencies on other internal parties rather than the system itself.
    • From my perspective as a consultant, one of the biggest advantages is that everything is in Salesforce — all the details, all in one place. The ability to customize it easily is a big plus; there’s really a lot you can do with it.
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    Cons
    Nimble
    • Nimble's storage space is very sparse, but we have found that it can be expanded at an additional cost.
    • Their mobile application is not as good as some of us expected, and we strongly recommend improving it to make it work effectively.
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    Salesforce
    • We still need to include the production part. We started using Salesforce to sell the seeds — our inventory is in SAP — and from there we handle sales and track the process of planting, harvesting, selling, and then collecting payments. But we don’t yet manage the earlier production processes, like production planning. We handle allocation, but not full production planning, and that’s an area where we still have room for improvement.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Nimble
    It's truly a great system if you get it for the right reasons. Don't expect it to do everything a mid market organization would require but for any small business or mid to large organizations which would like to integrate to it for the social insights capabilities this is a leading solution which can add value immediately
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    Salesforce
    There are days when I wish we hadn't switched, but I know that if we put in the time, we will get to where we want to be with the software and that it has many more capabilities than anything else we looked at. However, the amount of time and onboarding we need to do is also far greater than we realized/were told when we originally bought the product. They told us we should hire onboarding support, but at the end, after we had already reached our budget maximum for this, so it's been slower than we had hoped.
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    Usability
    Nimble
    The platform has more advantages and positives as compared to challenges or negatives in comparison to other comparable products and platforms available in the marketplace. It was extremely easy to get started with the initial deployment which makes the choice much clearer. Finally its tight integration not just with Microsoft O365 suite, but also with [the] most popular social media platforms available makes it a very favorable platform in its domain.
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    Salesforce
    Because I think it could be easier. We have different standards today since we’re used to interacting with consumer apps like Starbucks, where all you do is scan your card. Then, when you use Sales Cloud, there are still a lot of manual inputs. So my mission with AI is really about figuring out how to make that easier.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Nimble
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    Salesforce is always available securely from any internet-capable device anywhere in the world, UNLESS you choose to set security measures so that ONLY trusted IP ranges may access the system at certain times of the day. It's all about choice and flexibility with Salesforce products.
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    Performance
    Nimble
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    Salesforce performance in general is excellent. "The cloud infrastructure beneath Force.com has been fine-tuned over the past 10 years. It powers nearly 100,000+ businesses running more than 185,000 applications that 3 million users count on every day."
    Points per Salesforce -
    1) Multitenant kernel - With a multitenant platform, each business that uses the app doesn’t have its own copy. Instead, all businesses share a single copy and then customize it for their specific needs.
    2) ISO 27001 certified security - You can’t compromise when it comes to enterprise-level security. Force.com is road-tested and trusted by nearly 100,000+ companies, including many of the world’s most security-conscious organizations, such as banks and health care providers.
    3) Proven reliability - All Force.com apps run on world-class data centers with backup, failover, and disaster-recovery facilities. Force.com has had a proven 99.9 percent uptime record for years.
    4) Proven, real-time scalability - Force.com is used by many of the world's largest enterprises, including Cisco, Japan Post Network, and Symantec. Applications can automatically scale from a few users to millions of page views, as needed.
    5) Real-time query optimizer - You need fast access to your data. The Force.com query optimizer delivers under 300ms response time, at a massive scale.
    6) Real-time transparent system status - You can always see real-time system performance, availability, and security information at trust.salesforce.com.
    7) Real-time upgrades - Unlike traditional software platforms, our upgrades never break your customizations, code, or integrations. We upgrade the platform for you 3 to 4 times each year. As a result, you’re always on the latest version, with access to the latest features, performance, and security enhancements.
    8) Real-time sandbox environments - With a single click, you can create copies of your applications, configuration, and data in separate environments for development, testing, and training.
    9) Three global production data centers and disaster recovery - Force.com runs on three geographically dispersed, mirrored data centers with built-in replication, disaster recovery, a redundant network backbone, and no single points of failure
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    Support Rating
    Nimble
    It was productive to be able to access remote support sessions from nimble employees, whom we decided to contact to have one of the features mentioned above explained to us. They were methodical and easy to explain solutions, so we recommend them for any kind of doubt.
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    Salesforce
    The overall support has been good. More and more features are being released quite frequently. Very small features are also making big difference in how the tool can be adapted and used better. If there is anything we need or are stuck, the support team sets up a call and helps in resolving the issue/provides workarounds.
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    In-Person Training
    Nimble
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    I attended two training sessions. I would rate them a 4 as an advanced user. It was very basic – great for someone new – would give 8+ for new person.

    I had 3 years of experience at the time. I skipped basic and went onto advanced and still not helpful. A lot of it was best practices that didn’t feel relevant for our business
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    Online Training
    Nimble
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    I have gone through multiple. The content that’s delivered is quite basic – I wish they had more advanced training.

    We are grandfathered into premium support plus training. We get unlimited access to instructor led and online training for free. We have taken advantage of this
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    Implementation Rating
    Nimble
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    Just from an organizational standpoint - we standardized our data prior to moving to Salesforce. But we essentially standardized it wrong. That's created a big disgusting mess for us know that I'll have to deal with as the Admin. Be sure you think through use cases prior to doing something like that - seek outside opinions on how the data will work best, especially depending on what else you're going to integrate with Salesforce.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Nimble
    Nimble has proven to be a positive and well-respected application within our company for setting us up for success at building personal and meaningful associations with decision makers. It has been a significant reason why we have gained acceptance and trust from those who we have introduced ourselves to over time. The ability to feel a true understanding of our prospects and customers as real human beings with unique interests and common aspirations opens up doors of valuable conversation. The other options that were reviewed and considered provided many of the common ways from the past that stored CRM information. This method was much more of a static representation of the real interactions made between a company or salesperson with the prospects and customers. Nimble has brought back what should never have been lost - being like neighbors who spoke to each other about more things than just business.
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    Salesforce
    So I've evaluated, implemented Microsoft Dynamics in the past. I've used Oracle CRM solutions. I've used Daylight, which is a very niche CRM system the last couple of years. And I've evaluated a variety from Legacy Microsoft Ones to Zoho and Sugar when making implementation decisions at other companies. But usually I've gone with Salesforce. I'd say it's better than most. The only one that I generally prefer, and last time I chose an implementation from scratch, I did Microsoft Dynamics. And the reason is for small mid-size organization, Microsoft Dynamics, if you already have Microsoft Office products, it's much better integrated to all of the Excel, Word, OneNote, Outlook email than what you get from Salesforce. And so that's the only one that if someone's a Microsoft organization and small sized company, it'll save a lot of integration things, a lot of security, a lot of login and access and IT management by just sticking within the Microsoft ecosystem. But outside of that, if you don't use Microsoft or if you're a large organization or have other needs that you want, Salesforce I'd say is better than all of the other CRM offerings out there. It's the easiest to use and the most robust and the most vendors and products for the ecosystem.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Nimble
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    Salesforce is the most widely used CRM system. Professionalism tends to increase when things go wrong for market leaders. Salesforce considers us as users because they own the market. Having all of our data in one place and all of our teams working within Salesforce. Anyone who uses Salesforce is impacted by it, even if they don't.
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    Scalability
    Nimble
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    It's very scalable as it has a ton of features (but you do need an admin who understands how to leverage these features). Because of the various features, we've also needed to host onboarding sessions with our users so that they can familiarize themselves with the platform, which isn't always super user-friendly or intuitive.
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    Professional Services
    Nimble
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    Using Salesforce.com has made my daily routines more efficient and simplified the manual tasks I had to perform independently. I can now access data from any device, online or offline, and provide better guidance to my team about the forecasts provided by the built-in artificial intelligence (AI). A chat with a Salesforce support specialist would be great. The knowledge base has a community forum where Salesforce users can ask questions and learn more about the product.
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    Return on Investment
    Nimble
    • Time-Saving is one of the biggest ROIs for me. 30-60 minutes a day means I can focus on more marketing, sales, or client work.
    • A soft ROI is in better contact relationships. People are often impressed that I follow-up after meetings, and especially when they say to contact them in 6 months or next year.
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    Salesforce
    • It allows me to keep a close eye on all of my performance metrics through the Dashboard Reporting, ie what my sales pipeline looks like, how much it's changed in the last 60 days, new opportunities created in the last 7 days, # of emails sent for the week, etc. The ease of the design and output make it really easy to check my progress throughout the day to find where I have holes and am falling short on my personal and work goals. It's resulted in greater transparency with my Mgmt Team and shorter 1-on-1 mtgs with my boss as he can see exactly where I am at all times (to be fair, I'm a senior sales rep, so he pretty much lets me do my job completely unfettered), but it does prove that I am continually producing which recently resulted in a raise I didn't even ask for.
    • The SF repository is so detailed that I don't have to spend tons of time finding frequently used websites attached to a client or see what all interactions with the company look like. Even though I don't use SF for my bulk emails and email sequences, SF provides me with an email to use in the bcc of these emails which links everything back to SF. I find that extremely helpful. This really impacts my efficiency and I can honestly say that once I started using all the functionality of data management, it saved me about 20% of my time/week that I could then allocate towards other revenue-generating tasks like prospecting and account management. The more time I have for those, the better. My year-over-year on accounts 1 year and older just grew by 17% this last year.
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