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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Oracle CPQ

    Score5.5 out of 10
    N/AOracle CPQ is a cloud-based application that helps sellers configure the right mix of products or services and create accurate, professional quotes to quickly meet their customers’ pricing needs.

    $240

    per month per user

    Social Mention

    Score1 out of 10
    N/ASocial Mention is a free tool which is a kind of Google search for the social web. It provides basic search and alerts across a very broad variety of social channels.N/A
    Pricing
    Oracle CPQSocial Mention
    Editions & Modules
    CPQ Pricing
    $240.00
    per month per user
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Oracle CPQSocial Mention
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Oracle CPQSocial Mention
    CPQ
    Comparison of CPQ features of Oracle CPQ and Social Mention
    Feature
    Oracle CPQ
    6.7
    18 Ratings
    26% below category average
    Social Mention
    -
    Ratings
    Quote sharing/sending7.017 Ratings00 Ratings
    Product configuration8.017 Ratings00 Ratings
    Configuration options8.017 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pricing rules7.016 Ratings00 Ratings
    Price adjustment5.017 Ratings00 Ratings
    Purchase history and open contracts6.016 Ratings00 Ratings
    Guided selling/Sales portal7.016 Ratings00 Ratings
    CPQ reporting & analytics7.017 Ratings00 Ratings
    CPQ-CRM integration7.015 Ratings00 Ratings
    Attachments to quotes5.017 Ratings00 Ratings
    Order capturing7.07 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Oracle CPQSocial Mention
    Small Businesses
    QuoteWerks
    Score9.8 out of 10
    Mention
    Score8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    QuoteWerks
    Score9.8 out of 10
    Mention
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Agentforce Revenue Management
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Social Suite by Reputation.com
    Score9.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Oracle CPQSocial Mention
    Likelihood to Recommend
    1.0
    (45 ratings)
    1.0
    (9 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.0
    (26 ratings)
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    3.0
    (8 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    1.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    2.0
    (6 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Oracle CPQSocial Mention
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Oracle
    I think CPQ had worked so well for our company because of the widespread nature of our associates and tracking orders that were being placed in multiple time zones. My team specifically needed a way of analyzing these orders to track our progress in real time and sort out any supply orders before they became an issue. If you are in a centralized location with a smaller team then this may not yield much use to you.
    Incentivized
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    Social Mention
    Social Mention is a great tool for monitoring social media. This Tool can also be used to search specifically taking the keywords in the blogs, comments, news etc. It offers a third party API for users. It can be used to send email to clients of their brand performance data. This tool can indicate if your mentions are angry, happy or neutral but the data can't be reliable.
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    Pros
    Oracle
    • Leveraged automation to minimize headcount costs despite 10% year-over-year business growth, and enabled staff to focus on more strategic tasks.
    • Established a flexible CPQ system that scales on demand to easily accommodate the company’s multiple global locations.
    • Improved customer relations by reducing configuration time and allowing sales more time to meet with customers and close orders.
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    Social Mention
    • Can predict future response from today's number.
    • Let's you judge which types of campaigns to run.
    • Has a very well managed dashboard of results.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Oracle
    • Significant setup time, cost, and maintenance. We have to use an implementation partner
    • Does not always play well with other software, even Oracle software. While this is improved and being further improved, that it was a third party acquisition means things sometimes require a little extra care
    • Additional setup documentation and first walkthroughs would be helpful, especially if it was all in one place
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    Social Mention
    • Under the "Free" dashboard you are limited to only receiving weekly results.
    • Can't negate those tags which contain my tags.
    • Lots of tweets missing, no noise filtering. Sometimes we get very old contents which are not needed.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Oracle
    So far it is all good with BigMachines, looking for new features since Oracle acquisition has created a lot of expectations. We have outlined our limitations (out of box functionality) in our periodic customer successor advice meetings for a while, hope we get a resolution soon. Also, the BigMachines user license fee has increased a lot in the last three years.
    Incentivized
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    Social Mention
    I love that Social Mention is so easy to use. It does not take a long time to learn how to navigate the site when you need information quickly. I don't use it as much in my new job, but I recommend it for basic monitoring and when you need social media information right away
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    Usability
    Oracle
    The software UI can be as complex or as simple as you need it to be (depending on the business). It does require training others on quote configuration and the order in which to build out order positions prior to configuring a quote. Once users are trained;however, it is fairly straight-forward. The UI is still more static than other new wizard/drag-and-drop models, but it get's the job done
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    Social Mention
    While it's easy to use and pay for it's totally useless.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Oracle
    Other than one day two years ago and an hour or two a few times since then due to data center outages, it has been very reliable
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    Social Mention
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Oracle
    It depends upon the day however there are so many failure points with online services, including our internet service, that this is probably closer to 9 with the latest version
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    Social Mention
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Oracle
    Some specific support personal was good and fixed some problems fast using proper solutions. But when one of them went to sleep when we had critical issues and they do unreported commits to our production environment which caused issues and they were hiding it?? you can not give more than a two (maybe even that is too much). They also failed to add a feature for us which also bring the grade down.
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    Social Mention
    No answers on this topic
    In-Person Training
    Oracle
    They have pretty good training. Our business analysts have been able to go to entry and advanced level training. They have a train the trainer model. Our business analyst attended training, then trained the rest of our staff.
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    Social Mention
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Oracle
    It was a much more technical implementation than we thought. It involved much more code.

    Future releases have made and will make administering the tool easier.

    EDL consulting had one good developer, but when he was moved off, they were horrible to work with.

    The BMI sales team does a “BOA” or a “Business Operation Assessment” which is extremely valuable, not only for them to scope an implementation and get more reach within the organization, but it is also a documentation of business process that most organizations don’t have. It highlights inefficiencies and allows for correction during implementation.

    Having a dedicated team (in-house) for implementation is key
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    Social Mention
    It doesn't work as well since we changed our name. We used to have a very unique twitter handle etc. so it was easier for social mention to find us. For folks who have unique names it's excellent if you don't it may not be that helpful.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Oracle
    Oracle engagement is ahead. They are active in the development of the tool and provide great support after implementation. They also listen to their customers and offer opportunities to feedback and provide input through activities like the customer advisory board forum.
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    Social Mention
    Social Mention streamed everything together, calculated my sentiment for me, allows me to filter what results I am personally looking for, extract my RSS feed and navigate to one of the channels of buzz.
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    Return on Investment
    Oracle
    • Increased Sales Rep efficiency. Being able to create multiple quotes ACCURATELY and quickly was a game changer.
    • Large implementation time. It's a little difficult to fit BMI into a SCRUM style build, with multiple working models and prototypes of all 3 simultaneously.
    • A larger fee for licensing and implementation cost. ROI wouldn't be realized in the first year.
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    Social Mention
    • The paid-version actually had a negative ROI for us as it would sometimes feed us topically inappropriate articles and didn't allow us to filter by source so as to eliminate inappropriate blogs and inappropriate news sources (like highly politically partisan ones).
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