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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Pega Platform

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/APega Platform is a combined business process management and robotic process automation (RPA) platform with advanced workforce analytics from Pegasystems.

    $0.45

    one-time fee per case**

    Agentforce 360 for Nonprofits

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ASalesforce for Nonprofits, the Salesforce.org Nonprofit Cloud, is a nonprofit constituent relationship management platform from Salesforce, which supports constituent engagement, fundraising, and grants. Nonprofit editions contain Salesforce Lightning Edition along with the former Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP) combined.

    $36

    per month per user

    Pricing
    Pega PlatformAgentforce 360 for Nonprofits
    Editions & Modules
    Low-code Factory Edition
    $0.45
    one-time fee per case**
    Standard Edition
    $0.80
    one-time fee per case**
    Enterprise Edition
    Custom Quote
    Sales Cloud - EE
    $36
    per month per user
    Sales + Service Cloud - EE
    $48
    per month (billed annually) per user
    Nonprofit Cloud - EE
    $60
    per month (billed annually) per user
    Nonprofit Cloud - UE
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Pega PlatformAgentforce 360 for Nonprofits
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details**350,000 cases / year minimum. Additional cases available in blocks of 150,000.—
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    Community Pulse
    Pega PlatformAgentforce 360 for Nonprofits
    Considered Both Products
    Pegasystems
    No answer on this topic
    Salesforce
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    90%
    Would buy again
    9 Answers
    92%
    Would buy again
    22 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    22 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    10 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    24 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    88%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    14 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    78%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
    74%
    Implementation went as expected
    14 Answers
    Features
    Pega PlatformAgentforce 360 for Nonprofits
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Pega Platform and Salesforce Agentforce 360 for Nonprofits
    Feature
    Pega Platform
    5.3
    63 Ratings
    37% below category average
    Salesforce Agentforce 360 for Nonprofits
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    Ratings
    Dashboards4.062 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports6.062 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom reports6.061 Ratings00 Ratings
    Process Engine
    Comparison of Process Engine features of Pega Platform and Salesforce Agentforce 360 for Nonprofits
    Feature
    Pega Platform
    8.0
    66 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Salesforce Agentforce 360 for Nonprofits
    -
    Ratings
    Process designer9.065 Ratings00 Ratings
    Process simulation7.957 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business rules engine10.065 Ratings00 Ratings
    SOA support7.151 Ratings00 Ratings
    Process player7.048 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for modeling languages5.46 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form builder9.059 Ratings00 Ratings
    Model execution8.956 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collaboration
    Comparison of Collaboration features of Pega Platform and Salesforce Agentforce 360 for Nonprofits
    Feature
    Pega Platform
    9.0
    50 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Salesforce Agentforce 360 for Nonprofits
    -
    Ratings
    Social collaboration tools9.050 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Management Capabilties
    Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of Pega Platform and Salesforce Agentforce 360 for Nonprofits
    Feature
    Pega Platform
    4.4
    9 Ratings
    59% below category average
    Salesforce Agentforce 360 for Nonprofits
    -
    Ratings
    Content management4.49 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Pega PlatformAgentforce 360 for Nonprofits
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.9
    (74 ratings)
    8.5
    (33 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.8
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    8.2
    (10 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Pega PlatformAgentforce 360 for Nonprofits
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Pegasystems
    Pega Platform has introduced the low code feature, using app studio seasonal and professional developer can develop application easily and quickly. The initial application can be build by Business analyst and product owner who has less knowledge of Pega Platform, further application can be enhanced/extended by professional developer. We can develop end to end application and promote to higher environment. Easily we can perform parallel development using branch.
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    I’d say it’s very well suited for organizations looking to move toward AI integrations and make more data-driven decisions. As I mentioned, I’ve also used the competing product from Blackbaud, which is a very closed system — you can’t really pull out the data. Salesforce, on the other hand, has a big advantage with its APIs, allowing you to extract data, store it in Data Cloud, and do much more with it.
    However, if your requirements aren’t clearly defined or if there’s heavy customization involved, the implementation can get messy. So I wouldn’t recommend using Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud in cases where the requirements and structure aren’t clearly laid out.
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    Pros
    Pegasystems
    • Quick development time. Much of the Pega "rules" are easy to configure and implement.
    • Visually friendly and modern. Much of the UI/UX elements in the system are continuously supported and updated, giving a nice feel to the apps.
    • Many of the configurations and rules Pega gives to the developers can also be delegated to business users. The organization and structure of the client's business can easily be adapted in the Pega platform.
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    Salesforce
    • NPSP is designed to help with donor management.
    • There are free add-ons for volunteer management.
    • There is a new Program Management Module to better manage program participation and attendance.
    • Campaigns help organize and report on marketing efforts though we use a third-party solution to send out marketing materials.
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    Cons
    Pegasystems
    • Need more learning materials. For Beginners who have previous programming experience with another language takes more time to learn.
    • If the developer is met with an issue in pega platform , they have to rely on Pega supporting team to fix it.
    • Customization is available but is not encouraged. Pega does not support faults that occur in customized solutions.
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    Salesforce
    • Organizations that are new to Salesforce need to be prepared for report building and other configurations. Customization is a great feature, but it can be overwhelming if not impossible for a brand new user.
    • Salesforce Trailhead is robust but can be confusing and overwhelming.
    • I'm currently comfortable with only using Salesforce CMS or any iteration on a desktop.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Pegasystems
    Pegasystems has continued to demonstrate a strong partnership with our organization and investment in their product that aligns with our overall vision and need. Pegasystems has engaged us at every level, with the assistance of minor defects to the overall roadmap planning and alignment of our goals
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    Salesforce
    There is really no other tool to compare and especially since Salesforce for Nonprofits is free!!
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    Usability
    Pegasystems
    Pega Platform is enhancing its product and launching new features day by day which help to achieve customers needs. If I talk about the earlier version of Pega Platform (i.e. pega v5 and 6.3) there were many numbers of limitations in Pega Platform and if we need to do some customization then needed to write custom java and jave scripts to achieve the functionally. Now I can say Pega Platform is running with market trends and demand. Pega Platform is giving all the options which support the current technologies like decisioning capabilities, real time processing, mashup, process fabrics etc..
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    Salesforce
    Salesforce CMS is very intuitive and easy to use. I have not found where it glitches or crashes out. You can tell where data is "supposed to live" and it you aren't sure, there is an easy search function. Support is made readily available.
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    Support Rating
    Pegasystems
    It’s very slow sometimes, but that may be our servers. Also the Knowledge Library needs some work - again, not sure if it’s our setup or what- but I’m unable to search the body of an article for content, so I have to be very intentional with tagging, but it’s not ideal.
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    Salesforce
    I have never had bad conversations with any support people with Salesforce but we also have not used them very much. I put it a little less because we are struggling to switch to lightning (some of our custom features do not migrate well) and it feels like the help and support for a little organization is not incredibly helpful unless we want to spend a lot of money.
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    Online Training
    Pegasystems
    The online training is an excellent one, but still it is missing hands on development.
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Pegasystems
    Implementation is totally depend up on the requirement
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Pegasystems
    We did evaluate multiple products offerings with Pega Platform capabilities and observed that Pega PRPC rules engine and case management capabilities are better over so many BPM Tools. We also conducted a detailed study with developers to identify the best products out of Suite of BPM products. It's observed that Rules engines integration is very streamlined with forms in Pega whereas other tools multiple have powerful data model capabilities but lacks the ease of creating business rules.
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    Salesforce
    As a cloud native organization with no previous Microsoft infrastructure, Salesforce was a more logical and effective option for us. The suite of products was also far more comprehensive and required less customization. We were able to adopt a "configure not code" approach to our development of systems to support our mission that lowered the cost of upgrades.
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    Return on Investment
    Pegasystems
    • For one of the applications we worked on, we were able to reduce the processing time on a case from 2 days to 20 minutes by utilizing Pega
    • We were able to resolve the issue of the routing of cases to users based on a specific algorithm by use of Pega
    • Pega case management feature was extensively used in one of the application to establish a parent-child relationship which was very helpful for all the business users
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    Salesforce
    • New email platform (integrated with Salesforce and based on Salesforce segmentation) increased open rate by 7%
    • Using Salesforce Flows to design a custom batch process for approving small grants reduced days of work to one or two clicks.
    • We replaced a paper system (walking around with a clipboard) to a virtual system (you can do it from anywhere!) for approving payments.
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