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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Outlook4Gmail

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AOutlook4Gmail is an Outlook add-in that helps users perform Google calendars sync with Outlook, as well as contacts and tasks sync. It also syncs Google calendars from multiple Google accounts with Outlook ones. The settings provide opportunities of duplicates check, their elimination and automatic data backup.N/A

    Zotero

    Score9.3 out of 10
    N/AZotero is a free reference management tool developed as a project developed at Carnegie Mellon and supported by a small team at George Mason University.N/A
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    Outlook4GmailZotero
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    Outlook4GmailZotero
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Outlook4GmailZotero
    Considered Both Products
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    83%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Outlook4GmailZotero
    Small Businesses
    Cloze
    Score9.9 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    ContactsFlow (formerly Shared Contacts for Gmail™)
    Score7.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Outlook4GmailZotero
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.5
    (2 ratings)
    Availability
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    9.0
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    Product Scalability
    -
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    10.0
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    Vendor post-sale
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    User Testimonials
    Outlook4GmailZotero
    Likelihood to Recommend
    SCAND
    It is well suited when you have three locations of dental practices and you can review all three emails in one spot. like having the microsoft apps to use quickly from the apps buttons. I wished that there was a short class on how all be different things work togather
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    Zotero is well suited for any researcher, student or writer that wants to easily cite sources for web platforms that do not have easy citing tools integrated within the website. There are many browser plug-ins built for Zotero that allow users to click a button directly from the source into the main software and from there can be more organized for citation export. Zotero doesn't work well if you open an external PDF from a website as it cannot pull author information correctly from a PDF source.
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    Pros
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    • Keep schedule's accessible to all with access to the shared pages.
    • Moving from task to task and keeping track of messages related to those tasks.
    • Being able to move emails from folder to folder as well as monitoring those mails as needed.
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    Open Source
    • Zotero, when paired with the Zotfile plugin, makes it incredibly easy to index sources and documents on a project-by-project basis. Users can store document files locally in a Zotero project filesystem, or merely store links to files stored elsewhere.
    • Zotero plays extremely nicely with PDF documents, thanks again to the Zotfile plugin: I can highlight sections of a PDF article's text and Zotero indexes these "pull quotes" in a searchable and well-organized manner for easy extraction when it comes time to synthesize my sources into a new paper.
    • Zotero automates the production of properly-formatted references (including APA, MLA, Chicago, and others), making it a breeze to create accurate and complete bibliographies.
    • Zotero's library system provides a straightforward graphical user interface to manage multiple research projects and associated files, including the ability to easily add items to a project by ISBN, DOI, PMID, and arXiv IDs.
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    Cons
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    • Needs improvement on scheduling emails for future delivery
    • Out of office feature - I use the gmail function
    • I would love my calendar to work through it. It may, but I haven't worked out how yet.
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    Open Source
    • Libre office integration was iffy
    • Using different word processors (i.e, Word, then Google Docs on the same file) can "break" embedded citations.
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    Likelihood to Renew
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    Open Source
    Zotero is a fantastic software for researchers. We do pay for 6 GB of storage for each user, so their libraries can be backed to the cloud beyond the 300 MB of allowed free storage. It's low-cost, or can be free if you don't opt into that version. No other citation manager comes even close to Zotero in its capabilities, user-friendly nature, and cost, nor do they innovate their features constantly like Zotero and have open source support online
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    Usability
    SCAND
    Easy to use for a email and calander. If offers a wide variety of ways to use and store data. Easy to search for old emails that may have gotten lost for quick reference. Like being able to see all of our offices emails in one spot. It is a great product
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    Open Source
    once you adapt to the interface, which could feel a bit outdated and old school, its incredible intuitive. An aesthetic improvement could make it reach a whole other level, just if it does not lose any of its usability features. Its quite intuitive and the learning curve is very short.
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    Reliability and Availability
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    Open Source
    Always available. I have it downloaded on my desktop and it opens quickly/immediately, holds open the articles I was reading on the page I was at, and is always ready-to-go for something like Word integration for adding citations
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    Performance
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    Open Source
    Everything loads shockingly quickly. PDFs open much faster in Zotero than they do in Adobe Acrobat, all changes to PDFs are saved, the citation manager opens relatively quickly in Word, the tool updates with the online Zotero interface and automatically syncs seamlessly
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    Support Rating
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    Open Source
    I have never used Zotero support. I can answer the questions I need to from googling or finding others who have asked my same question in the Zotero support community forums
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    Implementation Rating
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    Open Source
    I was not involved with the implementation
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    Alternatives Considered
    SCAND
    I believe Outlook4Gmail stacks up against AppNeta having a better graphic and simplicity. I have selected Outlook4Gmail because is more known and probably easier to find answers to questions when they may come.
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    Open Source
    Zotero is much less prone to glitches than Mendeley, and has much easier to use web extensions and word processor plugins. I found Zotero easy and intuitive to use
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    Scalability
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    Open Source
    All features of Zotero have always worked just fine to me. In my many years using it, I've never run into issues. And when I do want to maximize my use of some feature or learn more, the product support communities are helpful. It's an extremely consistent, reliable software
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    Professional Services
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    Open Source
    Skipping - did not work with their professional services for my purchase
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    Return on Investment
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    • Easily able to email frequent users at work.
    • Easily able to pull up my work email no matter the device I am using at the time
    • Easily able to find and locate most emails I would like to view or see
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    Open Source
    • More Credibility on Our Online Posts that is Informational
    • Less Chances of Potential Legal Issues When Writing
    • Less Time Spent Grabbing Sources from Browser History When Researching
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