Contact Management. Web Engagement. Marketing Automation. Rich Analytics
While MS Dynamics CRM may serve well for huge enterprises, Agile CRM is its best alternative for small and medium sized businesses. With a remarkable sales and marketing feature set that includes marketing automation, web engagement, real-time analytics and advanced reporting, Agile lets SMBs and SMEs sell and market like the Fortune 500, at a fraction of the cost of Microsoft Dynamics.
Let's compare MS Dynamics and Agile CRM in each segment to see how they perform.
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CRM Features |
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Marketing Automation |
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Pricing & Plans |
Plans start from $65 + setup fee | Plans start from $9.99 + No setup fee |
Timeline for Setup |
Many days | Few hours |
Emailing is integral to both MS Dynamics CRM and Agile CRM. Both offer email templates, email personalization and email tracking. Agile goes further with its popular link personalization feature.
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Email Templates & Themes |
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Email Personalization |
Advanced with conditional logic |
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Email Tracking |
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Link Personalization |
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Both MS Dynamics and Agile offer robust contact management enabling access to leads, contacts & deals, calendars and tasks, and a comprehensive contact view. Also, both offer 2-way email sync - an essential feature for today's on-the-go SMBs.
MS Dynamics | Agile | |
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Leads, Contacts, Accounts & Opportunities |
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Tasks, Calendars and Notes |
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360o Contact View |
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2-way Emails |
Engage your web visitors and online prospects with personalized, well-timed popups in Agile. Combat exit intent with Exit Intent popups that conjure up the perfect information at the right moment. Take surveys, offer perfectly timed discounts and automatically respond to user behavior on your site or app.
MS Dynamics doesn't provide web engagement.
MS Dynamics | Agile | |
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Personalized Pop-ups |
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Form Pop-ups |
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Timed Pop-ups |
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Both MS Dynamics and Agile include social CRM features. Both provide for social profiling on contact pages, social media monitorting and social updates.
MS Dynamics | Agile | |
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Contact info from Twitter & other Social Media Websites |
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Social Media Monitoring |
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Social Updates |
Agile provides powerful email tracking along with real-time notifications on email opens, link clicks and your contacts' web activity.
MS Dynamics only offers email tracking.
MS Dynamics | Agile | |
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Email Tracking |
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Email Open Notifications |
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Page View Notifications |
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Web Visitor Tracking |
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Canvass your business performance with Agile's advanced reporting features. Measure KPIs with graphical reports and growth analysis in Agile. See how your leads are transitioning with Funnel and Cohort Analysis. SMBs and SMEs use Agile's reports to scale quickly on a daily basis.
MS Dynamics CRM provides for periodic email reports, growth graphs and various graphical reports.
MS Dynamics | Agile | |
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Periodic Email Reports |
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Graphical Reports |
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Growth Analysis |
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Funnel Reports |
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Cohort Analysis |
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Microsoft Dynamics offers its API in REST while Agile offers its API in REST and multiple other languages. Agile's extensive front-end & back-end API in REST, Javascript, Java, .Net and PHP gives complete control to users over their data.
MS Dynamics | Agile | |
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API |
REST | REST, PHP, Javascript, Java, .Net |
Both MS Dynamics and Agile CRM offer seamless integrations for telephony, email synchronization, help desk, web forms and billing. Agile alone allows for building custom widgets using its API.
MS Dynamics | Agile | |
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Telephony |
Twilio, plivo, -Asterisk | VoIP, Twilio, Ring Central |
Web Forms |
also integrates withWufoo, Unbounce, Gravity Forms |
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Email Sync |
Google Apps, IMAP | |
Helpdesk |
Zendesk, ClickDesk, Help Scout | |
Billing |
Using support software | Stripe, FreshBooks, QuickBooks, Xero |
Custom Widgets |
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We like Agile CRM because it's built for a combination of offline/online business, like a SaaS company that manages enterprise deals. It's full of features, but doesn't feel cluttered as they keep things clean and simple. And we love that they keep adding integrations.