Boulder Logic Great for Automating a Manual Process
December 10, 2015
Boulder Logic Great for Automating a Manual Process
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with RO Reference Enablement
iCIMS is currently leveraging Boulder Logic to manage its customer reference program. The program is owned by the Customer Marketing department, but primarily supports our Prospect Sales team. Boulder Logic helps cut down on the manual process of tracking, searching, and fulfilling references. Since we've implemented Boulder Logic, we've been able to cut down on the number of coordinators assisting with the program - and also scale as our business grows (and requests for references increase).
- Automation: We used to track references manually via excel and outlook. With Boulder Logic we've automated much of the process so that requests are triggered directly to account managers for approval.
- Tracking: We now have greater viability into who is requesting references, how many references they are requesting, who denies the most references, and what the most common reference requests types are. This helps us proactively enroll hard to fill references.
- Attentiveness: The team at Boulder Logic has been receptive to suggestions we've made on how to improve the system.
- Reporting: Some of the reporting within BL is a bit wonky. As someone who isn't in the system every day, I have difficulty pulling reports that I might need to provide to my VP.
- Configurability: Some fields in BL are super configurable - some are hard coded, which causes some issues when we're looking to make changes to better suit our sales organization.
- Increase time to fill: All references are filled within 2.5 days or less. For a program that isn't managed by one person, full time, we look at this stat as a win for our organization. BL def. helped us in cutting down the time it takes to find a reference.
- Increased employee efficiency: The customer marketing team still owns the day to day administration (approvals) of the system, but we've drastically cut down their effort. We no longer need to search for the reference (the sales reps now do this themselves) - and the triggers to the account managers have been a huge help in cutting down the time to approve.
- Greater visibility: BL has allowed us to capture denial reasons - which means we know why a references is being denied - which means we can hide them from coming up in future search results.
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While I was one of the decision makers in this process, I didn't sit on the demos for the other providers (I was brought in further in the sales process). My understanding from my team was that BL was much more configurable and support more robust integrations that the competitors.