Nimble vs. Workbooks

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Nimble
Score 7.6 out of 10
N/A
Nimble is a social customer relationship management (CRM) system with features such as contact management and data-driven analytics.
$19
Per User Per Month
Workbooks
Score 4.9 out of 10
N/A
Workbooks offers cloud-based CRM, marketing automation and business applications to the mid-market. Workbooks includes order management and fulfillment, invoicing, and supplier management. Workbooks aims to provide a single 360° view of customers, where the information is accessible anytime, anywhere.
$30
per user/per month
Pricing
NimbleWorkbooks
Editions & Modules
Business
$19.00
Per User Per Month
Workbooks CRM Edition
$30
per user/per month
Workbooks Business Edition
$65
per user/per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
NimbleWorkbooks
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
NimbleWorkbooks
Considered Both Products
Nimble
Chose Nimble
I used to use Workdesk and it was fantastic, you could easily work out what was needed and help desk would support you not just give you the tips to read.
Chose Nimble
To help track products for the most demanding clients, Nimble has been an inspiration. With this tool, we can easily manage our customers and leads. This tool has many themes and templates for sending emails and notifications. In contrast to other CRM programs, Nimble is a …
Chose Nimble
I believe that Nimble is a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Software that is beyond conventionalism. I feel that when a business will implement Nimble’s channel then you will be able to have much more professional access to customer contact. I would say it is one of the …
Chose Nimble
I really like Nimble because it has always been influential and inspiring in fostering product tracking for the most influential and demanding clients. Other than that, Nimble has allowed me in choosing the correct moment to intervene and offer the required information to …
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 …
Chose Nimble
CRM tools need to be proactive, but unfortunately Agile didn’t fit well with our business demands, and we found Agile buggy and sometimes it results in slowing down our system, so that was a big issue for us. Luckily with Nimble, we haven't faced any such issue and it fit well …
Chose Nimble
Nimble is best of all. It has more reliable features than Freshdesk. I was using a lot of contact software for organization and it easily integrated with them effectively. Easily integrate with Google products, outlook and email
Chose Nimble
Nimble is mainly used for contact management and email tracking, linking companies and people into a single database, and using the database as a communication panel.
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.
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.
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.
Chose Nimble
Nimble is a good CRM for someone who wants to use it for what it can do out of the box. Someone who doesn't need social media links in the client records. If you want to customize a CRM to look and feel like you want it to, I'd suggest you go someplace else. Nimble does not …
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.
Chose Nimble
I think they are neck in neck. Nimble might be cheaper and their customer support might be just a smidge better. I would be happy with both products.
Chose Nimble
Nimble is much better than Salesmate as it's user interface having many features and helping me to manage all day-to-day activities easily without any interruption.
Chose Nimble
Both Insightly and HubSpot are very capable systems in terms of CRM capabilities. However, Nimble is indispensable to us for its data enrichment feature that gives us the advantage of intel that is crucial for getting responses from our email campaigns We love how smart the …
Chose Nimble
I haven't used another CRM for at least 8 years. While I keep up to date on key CRMs, I feel it would be unfair to Nimble and the other CRMs of me to compare them here.
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.
Chose Nimble
I selected Nimble for the group message integration and social media integration. The other tools that I looked at had restrictions that kept me from the ease of managing my customers. Prospecting is a big part of my business, and having the triggers for contact from Nimble is …
Chose Nimble
Google Apps combined with Communication History and the Social portion of Nimble places it in a category by itself, in my opinion.
It is very cost effective.
I have found other tools cannot compete on pricing and the social aspect.
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 …
Chose Nimble
We checked out Hubspot CRM. You get a lot for free from them but it seems that to get the functions contained in Nimble you'd have to spend 2X per user to get the sales pro. To get the marketing aspects you'd really need the HS marketing package which is far more expensive than …
Chose Nimble
See my previous comments in my first answer. I've detailed this answer with a comparison of Insightly vs Nimble.
Workbooks
Chose Workbooks
We felt the high amount of customisation available from Workbooks was much more beneficial to us than the offerings from the larger CRM companies. We also liked the smaller company mentality of Workbooks as it reminded us of ourselves. Ultimately the price also paid a factor as …
Chose Workbooks
We selected Workbooks because it had a more powerful reporting engine and a much slicker way of managing the sales pipeline and territories. It also gave us the ability to manage the support contracts better and ensure that the support team knew exactly who was in an active …
Chose Workbooks
The ability to customize Workbooks really gave them the lead against the other products that we have used or that we considered when upgrading from the Base CRM system.
Chose Workbooks
I've only used SugarCRM, Workbooks is a much more sophisticated product. A huge step in the right direction and the company are much better organized now, all across the board. The reporting, lead and support management are much more reliable for our business. We can do a lot …
Chose Workbooks
Workbooks was the best overall value. It had the functionality the client needed at the best price and the quickest implementation set up and overall time frame.
Chose Workbooks
Workbooks is highly customizable, affordable, scalable, and a workhorse when it comes to being able to design a system to get things done. There is almost no limitations to what can be done with it, and even if you don't want to use their built in automation engine to design …
Chose Workbooks
Stacks up well against private sector CRM, membership MRM and fundraising management systems - We needed functionality only normally seen within one or another of these system types and we chose Workbooks due to the comprehensive nature of what it can do, ease of use, …
Chose Workbooks
For us, SFDC was like using a sledge hammer to crack a walnut. Plus the cost put us off.
CallPro CRM came a close second in our review, but what made us eventually go with Workbooks was the UI. It was a much more friendly environment to work in.
Chose Workbooks
Have worked with the likes of SugarCRM, Salesforce, Siebel, and some of their predecessors. Most of them are too much, too complex and too expensive. Have seen most of these implemenations fail. Buying these typically require much consultancy and much bespoke implementation …
Chose Workbooks
We were previously with Sugar and this served us well when we started with very little money and a few staff, however we quickly outgrew Sugar and additional functionality required custom work or 3rd party plugin's. We needed a scalable system that could grow with our business, …
Chose Workbooks
We looked at Salesforce and Sage, they were too heavy and the custom work required meant any change would be cost prohibitive.
Chose Workbooks
Much lower cost than both products Very favourable comparison in user experience with M'soft Better GUI than S'force
Chose Workbooks
Salesforce, Pivotal and Sugar. I find Workbooks much easier to use and more efficient.
Chose Workbooks
Haven't used any similar products.
Chose Workbooks
Easier to use…….and less expensive to customise.
Chose Workbooks
Sage CRM overall is a good product, but it's ease of use left something to be desired, especially with our administrative department that had little to no experience with CRM.
Another BIG PLUS of Workbooks.com over Sage is the fact that it's somewhere between 50% to 30% cheaper! …
Features
NimbleWorkbooks
Sales Force Automation
Comparison of Sales Force Automation features of Product A and Product B
Nimble
8.5
Ratings
8% above category average
Workbooks
7.7
Ratings
2% below category average
Customer data management / contact management9.50 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Workflow management8.40 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Territory management8.70 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Opportunity management8.10 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)9.40 Ratings6.40 Ratings
Contract management8.50 Ratings7.20 Ratings
Quote & order management6.60 Ratings7.60 Ratings
Interaction tracking9.20 Ratings6.40 Ratings
Channel / partner relationship management8.10 Ratings8.40 Ratings
Customer Service & Support
Comparison of Customer Service & Support features of Product A and Product B
Nimble
8.1
Ratings
5% above category average
Workbooks
6.3
Ratings
20% below category average
Case management7.90 Ratings6.20 Ratings
Call center management8.20 Ratings6.80 Ratings
Help desk management8.30 Ratings5.80 Ratings
Marketing Automation
Comparison of Marketing Automation features of Product A and Product B
Nimble
8.7
Ratings
12% above category average
Workbooks
7.3
Ratings
6% below category average
Lead management8.40 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Email marketing9.00 Ratings6.60 Ratings
CRM Project Management
Comparison of CRM Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Nimble
8.2
Ratings
6% above category average
Workbooks
7.5
Ratings
3% below category average
Task management8.50 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Billing and invoicing management8.40 Ratings6.80 Ratings
Reporting7.70 Ratings7.80 Ratings
CRM Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of CRM Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Nimble
8.9
Ratings
15% above category average
Workbooks
8.6
Ratings
12% above category average
Forecasting8.90 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Pipeline visualization8.80 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Customizable reports9.00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of Product A and Product B
Nimble
8.6
Ratings
11% above category average
Workbooks
7.7
Ratings
0% above category average
Custom fields9.00 Ratings8.40 Ratings
Custom objects8.30 Ratings7.60 Ratings
Scripting environment8.50 Ratings7.50 Ratings
API for custom integration8.80 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Nimble
9.3
Ratings
10% above category average
Workbooks
7.5
Ratings
12% below category average
Single sign-on capability9.40 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Role-based user permissions9.30 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Social CRM
Comparison of Social CRM features of Product A and Product B
Nimble
8.4
Ratings
11% above category average
Workbooks
6.6
Ratings
13% below category average
Social data8.40 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Social engagement8.40 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Integrations with 3rd-party Software
Comparison of Integrations with 3rd-party Software features of Product A and Product B
Nimble
8.8
Ratings
15% above category average
Workbooks
6.9
Ratings
9% below category average
Marketing automation8.70 Ratings6.70 Ratings
Compensation management8.90 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Platform
Comparison of Platform features of Product A and Product B
Nimble
8.3
Ratings
8% above category average
Workbooks
4.2
Ratings
58% below category average
Mobile access8.30 Ratings4.20 Ratings
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Small Businesses
Salesmate
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Score 10.0 out of 10
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Score 10.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Creatio
Creatio
Score 9.3 out of 10
Creatio
Creatio
Score 9.3 out of 10
Enterprises
Creatio
Creatio
Score 9.3 out of 10
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Creatio
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User Ratings
NimbleWorkbooks
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
(0 ratings)
7.0
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.0
(0 ratings)
8.5
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(0 ratings)
7.3
(0 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.8
(0 ratings)
8.2
(0 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
6.4
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
NimbleWorkbooks
Likelihood to Recommend
[Nimble] has been the best platform for us to manage contacts and information from the
contacts. Great dashboard, fast UI, and complete package with all features
helping us a lot. I would definitely recommend this software to other
businesses to have this in their ecosystem to be more productive.
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Workbooks offers great support, as do ( in our experience) local partners. It works really well for our sales and marketing departments. Workbooks is really effective in tracking our marketing campaigns. It also keeps tabs on existing clients, and gives insight on how quickly potentials are turned to customers.
As with all CRM it strongly depends on how well it is being maintained and used by the user. We have found that with the ease of use of Workbooks its become much less of an issue. Where as before we didn't only look at the data produced but actually had to keep track of the system being used accurately. We constantly needed to keep tabs on the actual level of maintaining.
The fact that we see data being produced organically (naturally being updated and tracked) to me is a testament of the user friendly nature of workbooks.
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Pros
  • Nimble is the CRM solution used to strengthen business relationships with our frequent and potential customers.
  • We like that it allows us to follow up with our customers.
  • Its integration with email tools, social networks, and other programs allows me to keep in touch with customers and prospects.
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  • Sales process management from enquiry to delivery of product
  • This was previously on as many as 4 systems using excel and legacy applications such as the written word in log books
  • Automatic reporting for financial compliance: once built, the reporting process reduced the workload on a monthly basis from 2 days to 20 minutes
  • The FD loved it
  • The overall capability of the package enabled the sales force to rapidly pull our pertinent data for a sales call, plus managing time and resources better for increased efficiency
  • Business development and focussed marketing became so much easier, we noted that the process paid for itself many times over
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Cons
  • I dont like the functionality aspect of how one of the controllers is always on standby, they dont load balance, meaning you can be on the same controller for the life of the appliance
  • The 4.x firmware was pretty buggy and it gave off a lot of temp alarms
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  • We use it for support but find it difficult to easily link support emails that arrive to organisations, it requires a lot of manual input to open/close a case
  • The flexibility can be a hindrance as it can be difficult to work out exactly what you wish to see, especially in reports. Sometimes a simple report is all thats required but it provides a lot of information
  • Can sometimes be a little slow and goes down from time to time but this is fairly rare
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Likelihood to Renew
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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the product works. support has been good or great so far all has been great and we hope to get more from the product. we purchased for an initial year then renewed for a longer term, we have no regrets with this.
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Usability
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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Reliability and Availability
No answers on this topic
Workbooks CRM never let me down.
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Support Rating
Nimble customer service is enjoyable. With great patience, they work tirelessly to help their customers. It was highly beneficial to employees to have access to remote support sessions. We decided to get in touch with them to learn more about any previously mentioned features. Because of this, Nimble has a strong foundation. I think it's a fantastic option.
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Online Training
No answers on this topic
Workbooks online trianing does what it needs to; but some training will always be better suited to face to face..
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Alternatives Considered
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 feature of Nimble works excellently and Nimble is a complete package for CRM.
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Workbooks is highly customizable, affordable, scalable, and a workhorse when it comes to being able to design a system to get things done. There is almost no limitations to what can be done with it, and even if you don't want to use their built in automation engine to design highly specific workflows, the functionality out of the gates is a tremendous asset for most businesses
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Return on Investment
  • As the investment made with nimble is only 15 dollars per month, it is easy to return it and double profits in a short time, but this is totally relative to the number of people that are working on the platform account.
  • Based on the above, it is easy to deduce that nimble is a little better suited to small businesses that require a smaller number of sellers, since it does not ensure that all sellers can cover their quota.
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  • Tracking of customers who are in active support or not has benefited the support team's time by not supporting non paying customers.
  • Keeping track of why sales are won or lost has meant we can call upon times when new leads have the same characteristics as old wins/loses.
  • Creating auto invoicing scripts has drastically cut the finance team's invoicing time.
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ScreenShots

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