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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Sansan Scan (discontinued)

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AScan to Salesforce was a free business card scanning application specifically built for integration with Salesforce, available for iOS and Android, from Sansan, a Salesforce AppExchange Partner. The product has been discontinued.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
    Pricing
    Sansan Scan (discontinued)Zotero
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
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    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    Sansan Scan (discontinued)Zotero
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    9.5
    (2 ratings)
    Availability
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
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    10.0
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    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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    10.0
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    10.0
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    User Testimonials
    Sansan Scan (discontinued)Zotero
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    Sansan Scan to Salesforce is well suited for scanning multiple business cards into Salesforce.
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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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    • Quick and accurate scanning of multiple cards at once.
    • Simple to use.
    • Simple to make edits when importing into Salesforce.
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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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    • I told Scan to Salesforce that I would appreciate an improvement that auto-corrects for all-capital letters, replacing them with lower case. They are currently looking into a fix.
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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
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    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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    They are great
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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
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    We tried another app, and it wasn't as quick or accurate.
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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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    • Saved 30-45 minutes each day.
    • Allows me to engage with leads by email much more quickly.
    • Staying organized. (I can throw away old business cards after scanning)
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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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