BenchmarkONE

Collaboration

Includes ability to view, share and direct work between co-workers in real or near real-time.

Activity and Workflow Management

Text or code-based and visual workflow designers.

Marketing Management

Multi-channel campaign management and analytics, budget tracking, click-to-lead capabilities, and social property management, keyword mining, and analytics.

Lead Management

Track and optimize prospective customers through lead generation, customer inquiry and capture, filtering, grading distribution, and contact/lead nurturing.

Sales Management

Lead gen, pipeline management, team & geography-based assignment. Compensation & contract management. Ability to pull customer data from the social cloud.

Mobile

Ability to support multiple devices, OSes and platforms using mobile optimized, HTML-based web access and/or native applications.

Account and Contact Management

Customizable records with customer demographic information, account history, and billing information.

Analytics and Reporting

Includes historical & real-time dashboard visualizations, detailed & summary reporting and easy data extraction for data analysis.

Quality of Features

Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Availability and Quality of Training

Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Ease of Customization

Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Vendor Support

The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Business Value Created

Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Usability and Intuitiveness

End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Ease of Data Integration

Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Breadth of Features

Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Ease of Implementation

Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Ease of IT Administration

This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.