Creatio CRM vs Mailchimp: Which is a better fit?

Heather: I'm Heather, sales operations manager. I give Creatio a four out of five. For more reviews like this, click below. Before Creatio, we had Sales Logics CRM. It was a program that wasn't cutting edge enough. Didn't have enough ability to move with the direction that our company was going in. And we weren't able to change it as much as we would like to. And so we were looking for a more versatile product. And we did look at salesforce.com and have used it in the past. And that one was just a little bit too large for what we wanted and Creatio was just a better fit. We chose Creatio because it required low code. It was easy to customize to what we needed. Its price point was better than some of its larger competitors. Another big reason we chose Creatio is because of its user-friendly UI. User adoption is very important to us and we wanted to make sure that we had as much compliance as possible. We also really enjoyed the app feature that they have with a lot of our sales reps being outside sales. Getting started with Creatio CRM is difficult as getting into any CRM. Usually is, we had to migrate all of our data into a new system and learn a new process. It took a matter of months to get everything situated and looking exactly like we wanted it to and then train our new team. We didn't have any major hiccups in the process. And the support team was very helpful in getting us ready to go. And everything did happen on time and pretty seamlessly. I think that Creatio CRM is a good fit for mid-sized companies that are looking for a malleable CRM and aren't looking to go full blown into the CRMs and going into something like salesforce.com and they want something that is user-friendly. You'd want to also check out what connectors they have. Very similar to other CRMs that you look at. They do have an app store that's helpful. And so depending on what your industry is, you'll be able to shop around and see what's available. You also can check out their academy and see what the community has to say about their products. The other thing that's really helpful with Creatio is that they do respond quickly to Request Me by the community. And so going on their website and viewing, that would also be very helpful in making your decision.

Duncan: My name's Duncan. I'm the community editor with Pullman's Weekly News and Advertiser series. Our company's a news company with an employment size of 14, and I would give MailChimp a user rating of five out of five. Our company uses MailChimp on a day-to-day basis to reach more readers and an audience digitally. Obviously, the newspaper business as a print business has declined significantly in the past years. It's essential for us to communicate to our readers through digital means, and as such, MailChimp proves an excellent provider. The reasons I personally like MailChimp is it's very easy to use. You can have a drag and drop system for placing the templates in emails. You can select photographs to go with news stories very, very quickly. There's no need to download any complicated software. The platform of MailChimp contains all of the necessary infrastructure. I simply upload the database of our readers, and these readers receive the email through MailChimp servers. Some of the cons of MailChimp are its cost. Obviously, the more users you have, the larger the subscriber list, the larger the cost incrementally. It would also be nice to be able to send videos of a longer duration through MailChimp. I'm sure that would be achieved at some point, but that's one of the requests I would make.