Conga Contracts vs Adobe Acrobat: Which is a better fit?

Kelly: Hi, my name is Kelly. I am a digital transformation director. I would give Conga Contracts a four out of five star rating. And for more reviews, you can click below. Before Conga Contracts, we were just using out-of-the-box PDF templates, and I think the biggest issue with that was just the manual data entry required. So it was not connected to our CRM, and therefore, we needed to copy paste all of the information to populate the quote or contract from the CRM into these templates, which was a huge, huge productivity burden. We chose Conga Contracts for two primary reasons. The first one is that it wasn't that different from a user perspective than our previous solution. We were really happy with the way our contracts looked previously. They just took too much time. So the first one was the familiarity. The second point of why we chose them was the integration with our CRM. So we used Salesforce, and it was really great to be able to, with a click of a button, populate all of the Salesforce data that we needed to into the contract, so that instead of entering 70 to 80 fields, we were really entering four to five per contract. So Conga Contracts's start is actually, I think, the most difficult part of Conga Contracts. Once you set up your templates and connect them to your CRM, it's very, very easy to manage and make minor tweaks. However, the setup process is actually the most difficult piece. So it does take a little bit of training or working with an implementation partner, but the way we looked at it was that, for us, the productivity improvement was well worth the investment to implement. And after about three months, we had broken even from our implementation costs and were just constantly saving time and productivity and money as well. So I think if you're considering Conga Contracts, if you rely and use your CRM heavily, it's wonderful because it can tap into all of the data in your CRM, whether it be deals or contacts or accounts or leads. It's really, really nice to have that integration. If you don't have the strong CRM use in your organization, it might be a little bit overkill for your needs. So I would evaluate the CRM strength of your org, and also just understand that it's going to be a little bit more expensive than the solution that you're probably using out of the gate, but you get that ROI back really quickly once you see the productivity benefits.

Bernhard: Hi, my name is Bernie and I'm a business and executive coach, and I work with business owners, executives in all different kinds of companies and their leadership teams, helping them to be more successful at what they do. And I like Acrobat DC. I give it a five rating. I've upgraded from an older version of Acrobat and of course the Acrobat Reader, but those are... And I've tried some other programs from time to time to try to work with sort of PDF files, but I find none of those have the functionality or certainly the ease of editing like Acrobat DC does. I have been using an older version of Adobe Acrobat, and the functionality just doesn't work. It didn't work for me anymore in terms of being able to print different things. So I love in the newer versions you have many more options for printing, like printing booklets and things like that. Also, the ease of editing text. Those were all cumbersome in the older versions. So it was very easy to get started with Acrobat DC. Downloaded it. It was very intuitive. I'd like how the upgrades are easier. Or the changes certainly from the older versions are much easier to find in the way they've laid out the menu structure. So I was up and running with using it very quickly. And I quickly noticed how you can now highlight the different fields and move things around. So it was much easier to get to know than I remember when I first started with the old one. It was fairly cumbersome to figure out in which menu you could do what kind of access, what sort of tools. It's very nicely laid out now and very easy to use. Yeah, I'd recommend everybody use it. I think PDF files are ubiquitous at this point. We're always getting them. We always need to go in and make some edits on them. And certainly the free reader, everybody has that, but it doesn't help you except to be able to read it. Also for creating forms, sometimes you can edit things when somebody else has given it to you that they want to give you information. But if you want to set that up, create your own forms to have other people fill in and just manipulating the documents that you're getting, creating new documents, I highly recommend it. I think it works very, very well.