Dynamics 365 vs Influence: Which is a better fit?

Adoba: Hi everyone, my name is Adoba. I lead technical and product at Alphora, a team of roughly seven to nine. I rate Dynamics at a four out of five. So we use Dynamics most for sales and our marketing. The sales Microsoft relationship, sales is a big part of what we do. We also use the service part, which is the customer service. The marketing part of Microsoft Dynamics help us keep in touch with our customers and our sales reps with the product. So being in the Microsoft ecosystem is one of the best things with Dynamics. You have access to the entire product line that just works seamlessly together. Like I said, we do sales, CRM, marketing. All of those things are the individual products that we considered, but Microsoft was able to bring them together. The product for our sales, which we use the most, has really grown. The features that they've added has just been tremendous, and that's the best part about Microsoft Dynamics for us. I think there's always an issue with seat based billing, which is what we have with Dynamics today. I think that's just the biggest issue, and sometimes I think being part of the ecosystem of having access to Microsoft Dynamics to their products is an advantage but sometimes it can also be a disadvantage because, for us, we had everything siloed before in different other products but when we decided to use Dynamics we had to bring sales together into one product, bring marketing together into one product, bring our [inaudible 00:01:22] together into one product. That's sort of a disadvantage. I'm not sure how well these three things are able to work outside of each other if they're not connected under the same system so it was a huge consideration for us and I think for anyone who is wanting to use Dynamics.

Michael: Hello, my name is Michael. I'm an owner of a digital marketing agency. I give Influence a three out of five. I was considering Proof as well as when I was considering Influence. I chose Influence because it seemed to be a similar product to Proof, and I came across a lifetime sale for the product. Integrating it into a WordPress website was fairly easy. I did run into some issues on integrating it into a big commerce site. However, while the company took three months to fix its big commerce integration, it is now completely fixed and functional. Influence has served well for a business that has straightforward leads in it effectively encourages people to reach other. When people reach out for a single simple call to action, more complex e-commerce purposes can be quite limited as it is tough to display individual e-commerce products.