1. Salesforce Sales Cloud CRM

Actualités, Méthodes et organisation des process IT

27 février 2023/par Service comm.

Utiliser FaceIO pour développer le module d’authentification d’utilisateur d’une application web basée sur l’IA.

Utiliser FaceIO pour développer le module d’authentification d’utilisateur d’une application web basée sur l’IA est une solution innovante et sécurisée. Découvrez comment cela fonctionne!

Comment développer le module de connexion d’utilisateur du projet d’application Web à l’aide de l’interface de service AI tiers

Dans le passé, le développement des systèmes d’informations web application a nécessité une fonction module d’authentification d’utilisateur indispensable. La fonction d’authentification d’utilisateur comprend l’enregistrement et l’authentification de connexion des utilisateurs. Dans les méthodes de développement passées, la manière courante de réaliser le module de fonction d’authentification d’utilisateur est d’utiliser l’e-mail et le SMS pour vérifier. Maintenant, de nombreux ordinateurs des utilisateurs sont équipés de caméras, qui peuvent pleinement utiliser la technologie d’intelligence artificielle de reconnaissance faciale pour réaliser l’authentification d’utilisateur. J’ai utilisé la bibliothèque JavaScript de FaceIO pour mettre en œuvre l’authentification d’utilisateur dans le projet web app.

Cet article présente principalement comment développer le module de connexion utilisateur du projet web application à travers l’interface de service AI tiers. Le code source du projet web application a été téléchargé sur GitHub et est basé sur le protocole MIT. Il n’y a pas de restrictions.

En tant qu’informaticien enthousiaste, j’ai trouvé que l’utilisation de la reconnaissance faciale pour l’authentification d’utilisateur était très pratique. En outre, j’ai également constaté que la base de données des services AI tiers était très riche et complète. Cela me permet de trouver facilement les informations dont j’ai besoin pour le développement du projet web application. De plus, ces services AI tiers fournissent également des API très pratiques pour intégrer leurs fonctions à mon projet. Grâce à ces API, je peux facilement intégrer la reconnaissance faciale à mon projet web application et réaliser l’authentification d’utilisateur.

Source de l’article sur DZONE

26 février 2023/par Service comm.

Comment un ERP cloud peut éviter à votre entreprise d’autres licenciements

Actualités, ERP & Applications, SAP

Licenciement : quatre syllabes qu’aucun collaborateur n’a envie d’entendre, et qu’aucun dirigeant d’entreprise n’a envie de prononcer. Malheureusement, les entreprises confrontées à un ralentissement de la croissance, à une forte inflation et à l’augmentation des coûts de la main-d’œuvre peuvent se trouver contraintes d’envisager une telle option.

Mais les licenciements posent un problème : généralement, ils sont une réaction plus qu’une précaution ou un choix stratégique. La première vague est souvent déclenchée par la crainte en cas de baisse prévue de la demande ou de ralentissements économiques. La seconde, la troisième, voire la quatrième, quant à elles, sont autant de mouvement de repli après des pertes financières. Mais le plus préoccupant dans une réduction de personnel, c’est le risque accru de voir baisser la productivité, la qualité des produits et des services, et de perdre des talents qualifiés dont vous aurez besoin pour saisir les occasions futures de rebondir.

Selon LeadershipIQ, 74 % des collaborateurs encore en poste après une vague de licenciements indiquent que leur productivité a décliné, et 69 % pensent que la qualité des produits et des services de leur entreprise s’est détériorée. Encore plus dommageable peut-être : 87 % des travailleurs restants sont moins enclins à recommander leur entreprise à de futurs candidats.

Anticiper la courbe des données

Après une réduction des effectifs, on peut s’attendre à des sentiments de culpabilité, d’anxiété ou de colère. Toutefois, les entreprises ne peuvent pas se permettre de les laisser impacter leur santé financière immédiate et leurs perspectives de croissance à long terme. Alors comment faire face à l’effet accordéon des licenciements et des embauches de masse ?

La technologie utilisée par une entreprise peut, sans le moindre doute, être un facteur de transformation ou de rupture. Ainsi, l’automatisation des tâches simples, des flux de processus, des simulations de scénarios et de la planification de gestion renforce l’efficacité opérationnelle. Les innovations intelligentes (telles que l’intelligence artificielle, l’apprentissage automatique, l’automatisation robotisée des processus, le traitement du langage naturel et l’analytique prédictive) transforment les données d’entreprise en insights riches. Exécutées dans le cloud, ces technologies permettent à vos collaborateurs de prendre des décisions stratégiques et précises, dans le feu de l’action – partout et à tout moment.

Selon IDC, toutes ces fonctionnalités numériques peuvent participer à améliorer les résultats de l’entreprise en augmentant de 75 % à 95 % le chiffre d’affaires, le resserrement des coûts, les bénéfices, la satisfaction client, l’efficacité opérationnelle, la productivité des collaborateurs et l’innovation. Cependant, elles sont inefficaces, voire contre-productives si elles s’appuient sur des données inexactes, incomplètes ou obsolètes.

Heureusement, les solutions d’ERP cloud sont conçues pour relever le défi, de manière à devancer les incertitudes économiques et les turbulences du marché. Les technologies d’entreprise ont le pouvoir de limiter les risques financiers en générant des rapports précis et complets sur les opérations de gestion en temps réel. Ainsi, il est possible d’intégrer un ERP cloud aux solutions de gestion des RH et du personnel afin d’obtenir une vision globale et transparente des performances, des compétences et de l’expérience de vos effectifs.

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En agrégeant des applications, des systèmes et des référentiels auparavant cloisonnés, l’ERP cloud constitue une source d’informations unique. Il traite l’ensemble des données générées par les différentes fonctions, vérifie leur qualité et leur exactitude, et les synchronise dans toutes les applications. Résultat : une compréhension globale des besoins de l’entreprise, basée sur les données et tournée vers l’avenir, qui combine des informations opérationnelles, expérimentales et autres insights essentiels.

Armées de toutes ces informations, les entreprises sont à même d’expérimenter de meilleures façons de gérer l’évolution de leurs besoins. Ainsi, elles peuvent identifier les rôles redondants ou qui ont perdu leur pertinence. Mais au lieu de réduire les effectifs et d’embaucher de nouvelles personnes pour combler un manque de talents, elles ont la possibilité de former les salariés concernés à de nouveaux postes. En retour, les connaissances internes sont conservées et la confiance des collaborateurs dans la direction générale s’en trouve renforcée – des atouts critiques pour stimuler l’implication, l’innovation et les performances.

En adoptant les solutions d’ERP cloud, les dirigeants se dotent d’une nouvelle boussole qui guidera leur philosophie en matière de personnel, et leur permettra d’éviter de futurs licenciements. À partir des données concernant leurs collaborateurs et les performances de leur entreprise, ils sont en mesure de procéder à des modifications qui augmentent la valeur ajoutée de leurs activités, mais aussi de respecter les engagements pris envers leurs collaborateurs, leurs clients et leurs partenaires.

Mais le fait de disposer d’une vue d’ensemble des opérations de gestion (incluant les flux de trésorerie, les risques concurrentiels et les prévisions de la demande) est peut-être plus précieux encore. Grâce à cela, les décideurs mesurent mieux les impacts à long terme d’un licenciement, et peuvent imaginer des scénarios plus efficaces qui préserveront l’entreprise dans l’immédiat, tout en la préparant à progresser et à saisir les opportunités de reprise le plus rapidement possible.

Faire face à aujourd’hui et se préparer pour l’avenir

Un licenciement peut être inévitable. Mais au lieu d’y recourir automatiquement, planifier soigneusement sa main-d’œuvre est un meilleur moyen de faire face aux difficultés de l’économie mondiale et aux incertitudes du paysage concurrentiel.

Les solutions d’ERP cloud permettent aux dirigeants de redéfinir leurs priorités, afin de continuer à fournir des produits et services qui génèrent une croissance constante du chiffre d’affaires. Plus important encore : elles stimulent la confiance, poussant ainsi le personnel à tout mettre en œuvre pour aider l’entreprise à réussir dans une conjoncture délicate.

Pour découvrir comment un ERP cloud peut aider votre entreprise à faire face aux incertitudes, à relever les défis financiers et à améliorer ses résultats, consultez le rapport Aberdeen intitulé « Comment l’efficacité et l’innovation basées sur le cloud permettent de résoudre les défis financiers ».

– Par Wynona Benson, SAP

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1 février 2023/par Service comm.

L’innovation continue : le véritable levier de compétitivité des entreprises de taille moyenne

Actualités, ERP & Applications, SAP

En triant de vieux cartons dans mon garage, mon fils est tombé sur ma collection de films des années 1980 et 1990. Tandis que je le regardais exhumer les cassettes VHS, les DVD et quelques LaserDiscs de cette capsule temporelle de ma jeunesse, j’ai réalisé à quel point nous avons rapidement cessé de stocker nos films sur des étagères pour nous tourner vers le visionnage en streaming à la demande, sur un seul et même terminal qui tient dans une poche.

Plus frappantes encore sont les leçons tirées de chaque évolution de la livraison à domicile. Certaines entreprises ont conservé des modèles économiques classiques, convaincues que toute nouveauté n’est qu’une passade. D’autres se sont adaptées à chaque fois qu’elles se sont senties réellement menacées par la concurrence.

Mais les entreprises qui ont réellement tiré leur épingle du jeu sont celles qui ont mis en place et pérennisé de vraies innovations transformationnelles, avec la volonté assumée de toucher de nouveaux marchés, d’attirer de nouveaux clients et de répondre aux demandes et aux attentes.

Malheureusement, la plupart des entreprises de taille moyenne n’ont pas encore assimilé cette leçon en matière d’innovation. D’après un Info Snapshot IDC sponsorisé par SAP, seules 18 % des entreprises interrogées jugent que la transformation de leur modèle économique est une priorité – ce qui suggère que la plupart d’entre elles comptent seulement réagir aux bouleversements du secteur.

« Globalement, les entreprises de taille moyenne n’accordent pas la priorité à l’innovation, même si la rapidité d’adaptation et l’évolutivité stratégique sont inscrites dans leur ADN », explique Jeremy Rader, directeur général Stratégie et solutions d’entreprise (ESS) des groupes Data Platforms (DPG) et Cloud & Enterprise Solutions (CESG) d’Intel. « Soyons réalistes : le temps, l’argent et les ressources sont déjà comptés. Mais la technologie cloud peut permettre de rendre l’innovation plus abordable et plus facile à gérer pour celles qui explorent de nouvelles opportunités de transformation, moins coûteuses, moins risquées, et découvrent ainsi de meilleures manières de rester compétitives. »

Une étape essentielle pour assurer la prospérité d’une entreprise

Les défis de gestion et les demandes du marché sont chaque jour plus complexes, substantiels, et de plus grande envergure. Mais plutôt que de suivre chaque nouvelle tendance en matière de produits, chaque évolution des clients ou chaque innovation de la concurrence, les entreprises doivent concevoir les produits et services dont leur clientèle a réellement besoin. Cela implique d’établir une passerelle entre le cycle de vie des produits et des données de qualité, prises en charge par une plateforme interconnectée dotée des fonctions de gestion, d’analytique et d’intelligence artificielle nécessaires pour les collecter, les intégrer et les contextualiser en temps réel.

« Le plus grand obstacle à l’innovation est la crainte du changement et de l’échec », rappelle M. Rader. « Quand les gens sont capables de gérer, de protéger, de contextualiser et d’analyser des volumes considérables de données en toute confiance, ils ont toutes les clés pour obtenir des résultats plus significatifs, quoi qu’ils fassent. Tout cela commence par la mise en place d’une plateforme cloud interconnectée et fiable. »

Lorsque les données de différents services et fonctions (marketing, ventes, services, opérations et finances) sont intégrées, consolidées et recoupées avec la veille concurrentielle, les entreprises de taille moyenne sont mieux à même de justifier leurs investissements dans l’innovation produit. Elles peuvent alors établir le calendrier, les étapes, l’expertise et les technologies nécessaires pour concrétiser ces innovations d’une manière qui favorise la croissance.

Lorsqu’une entreprise obtient les bonnes données et sait comment en tirer les insights stratégiques dont elle a besoin, une culture de l’innovation commence à se mettre en place. Par exemple, les collaborateurs se mettent à surveiller étroitement les indicateurs de performance clés qui évaluent la demande de produits, la satisfaction client et les inquiétudes des services au regard des performances financières, de manière à pouvoir réagir plus rapidement et efficacement aux bouleversements.

Une innovation alimentée par les données pour garder une longueur d’avance

Les entreprises de taille moyenne ne peuvent pas se permettre de perdre du temps, ni de réaliser un projet d’innovation en se contentant d’espérer qu’il fonctionne. Mais ne pas innover est un risque encore plus grand dans un marché en constante évolution, rempli de clients qui en attendent chaque jour davantage.

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Et lorsque les entreprises accordent davantage d’attention à la qualité et à l’impact de ces données, l’innovation n’est plus reléguée au second plan, comme une activité dont chacun sait qu’elle est nécessaire sans pouvoir s’y consacrer. Il devient possible d’allouer les ressources adéquates à explorer les opportunités, expérimenter de nouvelles idées et renforcer son avantage concurrentiel.

Si vous souhaitez approfondir la question, regardez la rediffusion du webinaire sponsorisé par Intel sur la manière dont les entreprises de taille moyenne peuvent favoriser une culture de l’innovation, dans le cadre de notre série #ConnectGrowWin.

– Par Richard Howells, vice-président Gestion des solutions pour la Supply Chain numérique, SAP

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1 février 2023/par Service comm.

Il est grand temps de prendre la « servitization » – les nouvelles prestations de services – au sérieux

Actualités, ERP & Applications, SAP

Les modèles « en tant que service » font désormais partie de notre quotidien de consommateurs. À quand remonte la dernière fois que vous avez acheté un CD ou un DVD ? En ce qui me concerne, je ne m’en souviens pas. Toute ma famille utilise des plateformes de diffusion continue pour tout cela. Mes fils et moi commandons même nos lames de rasoir et nos crèmes de rasage selon un modèle similaire. Bien sûr, on dirait bien que c’est toujours moi qui paye, mais c’est un autre sujet !

Ce concept de vente d’un résultat en tant que service est communément appelé « servitization ». Hier simple modèle de consommation, c’est aujourd’hui une approche commerciale plus large, dans laquelle les dépenses d’investissement pour un équipement représentent de plus en plus un obstacle aux yeux de l’acheteur. Souvent, il est bien plus intéressant d’avoir accès au même équipement moyennant des frais mensuels, basés sur une utilisation à l’heure ou encore sur le débit.

Grâce à la servitization, les fabricants trouvent de nouveaux moyens de se rapprocher de leurs clients à travers des modèles économiques inédits. Pour ce faire, ils établissent une relation suivie, basée sur des transactions mensuelles alignées sur la consommation, le débit, la disponibilité ou l’exploitation des équipements plutôt que sur une transaction ou une vente ponctuelle attribuant la responsabilité de la maintenance au prestataire de services.

La servitization appelle des produits plus intelligents

Pour rendre la servitization possible, les équipementiers doivent concevoir des produits plus intelligents, capables de collecter les informations nécessaires à une facturation précise de leurs clients. Ils doivent également s’assurer que leurs équipements fonctionnent en permanence, et génèrent les données dont ils ont besoin pour prévoir les opérations de maintenance qui éviteront les pannes. Grâce à l’Internet des Objets (IdO), des capteurs emmagasinent les informations d’utilisation, de débit ou de performances pertinentes pour alimenter le processus de gestion en tant que service.

Grâce à un jumeau numérique de la machine, le fabricant et le client sont tous deux en mesure d’en surveiller les performances et d’utiliser les algorithmes d’apprentissage automatique afin d’évaluer le degré d’efficacité de son utilisation.

La valeur ajoutée de la servitization

Faire des services une part croissante et dynamique de votre activité, c’est accéder à de nouvelles sources de revenus et améliorer vos marges tout en évitant la banalisation et en érigeant la durabilité en véritable facteur de différenciation.

Prenons un exemple fictif. Soit une entreprise qui produit des machines à laver. Cette entreprise souhaite mettre en place un modèle de « lavage en tant que service », dans lequel elle facturerait ses clients en fonction du nombre de lavages réalisés chaque mois par leurs appareils.

Si, comme moi, le client fait partie d’une famille de cinq personnes, qui utilise la machine quotidiennement, il paiera davantage qu’une personne seule qui ne l’utilise qu’une fois par semaine. Le dénominateur commun est que la machine à laver doit fonctionner à pleine performance chaque fois que nécessaire.

Réinventer les modèles de services

Cette nouvelle offre de service requiert des contrats basés sur les résultats, qui incluent des mesures de performances des cycles de lavage et des accords de niveaux de service (SLA) garantissant une disponibilité à 100 %.

Afin de proposer une expérience immersive aux clients, une application peut leur fournir des données en temps réel sur leurs cycles de lavage : le moment où ils se terminent, combien de cycles ont été exécutés dans le mois, le coût, l’empreinte carbone, les performances de la machine…

Ces informations sont également utilisées par le fabricant et par une société de maintenance tierce pour gérer le cycle de vie complet des services, dans tous ses aspects : de l’installation à la facturation en passant par la garantie, l’émission de tickets de service, les interventions sur site, les réparations en atelier, la facturation et les solutions de financement.

Le modèle de service réduira également l’impact environnemental global de la machine en permettant une surveillance de la consommation d’énergie et d’eau, ainsi qu’une prise en charge de la mise hors service et du recyclage afin de maintenir l’équipement dans l’économie circulaire.

Des services précis afin de réduire les coûts et d’améliorer l’expérience client

La disponibilité des données relatives aux machines aide le fabricant et le partenaire de maintenance à repenser leurs opérations de gestion des services. Ils s’appuient sur une planification avancée basée sur l’IA pour hiérarchiser les interactions, améliorer l’utilisation des ressources et réduire les temps de déplacement.

Lorsqu’un technicien de service est dépêché pour réparer une machine, il doit avoir toutes les pièces nécessaires et toutes les informations de dépannage à portée de main via un appareil mobile. Il peut même être guidé dans son travail de réparation grâce à des lunettes à réalité augmentée. Le problème peut ainsi être résolu en une intervention, ce qui évite les longs délais provoqués par une commande de matériel après le rendez-vous.

Révolutionner le retour sur investissement en augmentant les performances des équipements et en allongeant leur durée de vie

Grâce à la visibilité accrue garantie par les capteurs d’IdO intégrés aux machines à laver, le fabricant est désormais en mesure d’assurer un suivi continu des performances de tous les équipements utilisés. Il peut ainsi surveiller leur état et leurs performances par rapport aux accords de niveau de service.

Le fabricant peut également tirer parti des données émises par toutes les machines et, grâce à des algorithmes d’intelligence artificielle, identifier des tendances ou encore anticiper le risque de défaillance. Il peut aussi proposer des opérations de maintenance préventive afin de limiter les pannes et de renforcer le service client. Enfin, ces informations peuvent être transmises aux équipes de recherche et de développement afin qu’elles éliminent tout problème récurrent au moment de concevoir la prochaine génération de la machine.

Un cycle de service de lavage vraiment complet

Il est évident que le modèle économique « en tant que service » perdurera – dans nos vies privées bien sûr, mais aussi de plus en plus au sein des entreprises modernes, auxquelles il permettra de dégager des gains dans tous les domaines.

Pour découvrir comment tracer votre voie vers une gestion de service d’excellence, téléchargez le récent livre blanc de Copperberg intitulé « Transformer la gestion des services pour une servicisation fructueuse ».

– Richard Howells, Vice-président ERP et Supply Chain numérique chez SAP

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1 février 2023/par Service comm.

21 Best CRM Software

Actualités, Actualités

The best CRM (Customer Relationship Management) software solutions help sales teams streamline critical processes to improve productivity, track customer interactions and gain actionable insights to deliver a personalized experience to sell smarter, shorten the sales cycle and drive better retention rates.

This article reviews the 21 best CRM software to help you streamline your searches. We’ll cover the key features, user experience, pricing plans, strengths, and weaknesses. So, let’s get to it.

1. Salesforce Sales Cloud CRM

Salesforce Sales Cloud is a cloud-based customer relationship management solution that supports large sales teams and every customer touchpoint.

Over 150,000 companies, including world-leading brands like IBM, NBCUniversal, and Sonos, use the CRM system to streamline workflow automation.

Key Features

Project Management — The software natively integrates with Slack, allowing you to seamlessly manage your Salesforce tasks in one central location and collaborate remotely with colleagues, customers, and partners in real-time.

Sales Forecasting — Salesforce can estimate your future sales revenue using your current and historical pipeline data. Again, integrating with apps like revVana helps you gain better revenue insights.

Flexible and Scalable — This CRM software helps small businesses and enterprises meet their growing needs without sacrificing performance. Salesforce CRM is entirely cloud-based, supports over 8,700 integrations, and has an open API, making it highly extensible.

User Experience

Setting up an account only takes three steps.

The dashboard is clean and straightforward, making it easy to use. You can click the modules on the navigation menu to use its features. Additionally, the CRM software displays information in graphs, pie charts, and tables in an easy-to-understand way.

Salesforce Sales Cloud has a robust knowledge base to hit the ground running immediately.

Pricing

Salesforce offers four subscription plans, billed annually:

Essential $25 per user per month
Professional $75 per user per month
Enterprise $150 per user per month
Unlimited $300 per user per month

Strengths

It’s fully cloud-based (you don’t need to install anything)
30-day free trial
Customer relations management automation
Supports over 8,000 integrations and apps
Multilingual and multi-currency support
Open API
Leads management and business intelligence tools
Round-the-clock support
Multiple appointment scheduling
Mass emailing capability

Weaknesses

It doesn’t support live chat
Not suitable for on-premise deployment

2. Pipedrive

Pipedrive is one of our top options for the best CRM software today. The cloud-based solution helps marketers set up their pipelines, track progress in real-time and automate routine tasks. Over 100,000 companies in 179 countries use the software.

Key Features

Real-Time Alerts — Pipedrive has a built-in reminder that keeps you posted on all your sales activities so you don’t miss a follow-up.

Reporting — The CRM provides detailed reports on pipeline performance. With this insight, you can measure your progress against your business goals.

Revenue Forecasting — The software can forecast your sales volume and revenue using your pipeline data. It automatically updates the estimate when a lead’s status changes.

Leads Capture — Pipedrive has a customizable web form that helps you capture leads for your pipeline. Also, you can segment the leads for personalized communications.

User Experience

Pipedrive is user-friendly. New users will be able to get the hang of it quickly. Also, the CRM software has a robust help center to help users set up and customize their accounts.

It features a visual pipeline that lets you see your sales strategies and process and update a lead status by dragging and dropping it. Additionally, it presents reports in easy-to-understand ways.

The software offers live chat and round-the-clock email support for quick resolutions.

Pricing

Pipedrive offers four plans, billed monthly and annually.

Essential $11.90 per user per month
Advanced $24.90 per user per month
Professional $49.90 per user per month
Enterprise $74.90 per user per month

Strengths

Faster deal closing
Omnichannel lead generation
Efficient customer relationship management
Free trial (no credit card required)
Goal setup and tracking
Sales forecast
Over 350 integrations
14-days free trial
API support
Real-time support

Weaknesses

No free plan
The dashboard could feel overwhelming

3. Oracle Netsuite CRM

Oracle NetSuite Customer Relationship Management software promises to deliver the real-time data you need to manage interactions with potential customers, existing customers, and suppliers, deliver exceptional customer experiences and drive sales.

Over 32,000 customers use Oracle NetSuite products.

Key Features

Sales Force Automation — NetSuite CRM SFA unifies your sales processes and provides unprecedented insights into every aspect of your customer relationship to supercharge your sales performance.

Marketing Workflow — You can create and launch targeted marketing campaigns to grow your leads pool. Also, the CRM lets you segment your leads to deliver a personalized experience, shortening the sales cycle.

Customer Service Management — NetSuite automates customer service management, allowing users to focus on other pressing day-to-day activities. For example, it can review the status of submitted tickets and reply with follow-up communications.

Partnership Relationship Management — NetSuite CRM is not just a customer relationship management software. Instead, the platform is a complete business management tool that helps you manage relationships with partners, share real-time information, and maintain control over partner-focused sales processes.

User Experience

This CRM could be more beginner-friendly if not for its many features and advanced functionalities. However, the software offers a search feature to help users find things faster. Another user experience challenge is Netsuite’s time-demanding customization.

Plus, some users have reported crashes and downtime.

Besides these challenges, NetSuite has an excellent user interface that makes it exciting. Also, it offers live chat support, helpful resources, and a comprehensive knowledge base.

Pricing

NetSuite charges an annual license fee but doesn’t provide any pricing plans. You must contact their customer support to learn about the deployment needs of their CRM systems.

Strengths

A centralized data source that gives users unprecedented visibility into their sales process
Salesforce, marketing, and customer service automation
Partner relationship management
Advanced reporting and analytics
Great user interface
Sales forecasting
Mobile

Weaknesses

No monthly subscription plans
Not-too-great user experience
Expensive compared to other CRM solutions

4. Zoho CRM

Over 250,000 businesses worldwide use Zoho CRM software solutions. It helps management, marketing, support, and sales teams address their customer relationship management and omnichannel engagement needs.

The platform empowers users to deliver personalized experiences and drive sales through multiple channels.

Key Features

Sales Force Automation — You can create workflows to reduce manual data entry, eliminate redundancies and automate repetitive sales, marketing, and customer service functions.

Journey Orchestration — Zoho CRM lets users create personalized customer journeys and track each prospect’s path to identify delays or loopholes and optimize the sales process.

Omnichannel — With the Zoho CRM software, you can engage and track customer interactions across multiple channels, including email, social media, phone, and the self-service channel.

Sales Enablement — Zoho CRM enables frictionless sales processes. You can generate quotes, invoices, and orders within the CRM software. Also, it lets you set up partner portals to grow your business and manage relationships with stakeholders.

User Experience

The Zoho CRM dashboard is clean, straightforward, and user-friendly. So, you can use all of its features as a first-time CRM user.

For example, the software lays the module tabs above the fold at the top bar, making them easily accessible. The reports are also less overwhelming as you can drill into the report you want to see, one at a time.

Zoho CRM offers webinars, tutorials, free eBooks, and documentation for easy setup and customization. No live chat support.

Pricing

Zoho CRM offers four subscription plans billed monthly and annually:

Standard $18 per user per month
Professional $30 per user per month
Enterprise $45 per user per month
Ultimate $55 per user per month

Strengths

Mobile
Marketing and sales automation
Advanced template and layout customization
Insightful reporting and analytics
Team collaboration
Support customer self-service portal
Predictive sales and intelligence
Voice assistant
Multilingual and multi-currency support
App marketplace with several third-party developers
REST API support
Activity reminders and sticky notes
15-days free trial

Weaknesses

No live chat support
Limited native marketing automation (needs extensions)

5. HubSpot CRM

HubSpot CRM is a cloud-based customer relationship management solution for salespeople, marketers, customer service agents, operations managers, and business owners. Top global brands like Atlassian, Doordash, and Wistia use the HubSpot CRM software.

Key Features

Multiple Hub — HubSpot CRM offers five hubs—marketing, sales, customer service, CMS, and Operations—that lets you pay for your needs. In addition, you can integrate up to five hubs into a single CRM to streamline your business processes.

Email Marketing — The software has a built-in email marketing capability for targeted campaigns to your audience. In addition, you can create customized emails with the intuitive drag-and-drop editor.

Lead Generation — With the built-in lead-capturing forms, ad management tools, and landing pages, you can generate leads online, feed them directly into the CRM and convert them to customers.

Customer Support Portal — You’ll get a customer support portal to manage customer services and support requests, minimizing the burden on your customer service team. With the portal, you can also set up your knowledge base.

SEO Advisor — The SEO Advisor provides actionable SEO tips which can help you rank essential keywords on Google search results. It comes in handy when creating blog posts or developing landing or website pages.

User Experience

You can set up HubSpot CRM quickly and get it running immediately.

The CRM is easy to use and has an excellent user interface. You can customize your dashboard to quickly view your sales pipeline all in one place to enhance your user experience. Also, HubSpot presents its reports in an easy-to-understand way.

It also integrates seamlessly with other tools. In addition, HubSpot offers onboarding services and multiple support channels—phone, email, live chat, and online community.

Pricing

HubSpot offers a free version but with limited access to its tools. You can extend its functionality based on your needs by subscribing to a plan in the appropriate hub.

Marketing Hub

Starter $45 per month
Professional $800 per month
Enterprise $3,600 per month

Sales Hub

Starter $45 per month
Professional $450 per month
Enterprise $1,200 per month

Customer Service Hub

Starter $45 per month
Professional $450 per month
Enterprise $1,200 per month

CMS Hub

Starter $23 per month
Professional $360 per month
Enterprise $1,200 per month

Operations Hub

Starter $45 per month
Professional $720 per month
Enterprise $32,000 per month

Strengths

Powerful collaborative tool, Integrating marketing, sales, customer service, CMS, and operations in a single CRM solution.
A free version
User-friendly and intuitive
Large CRM database
Sales and marketing workflow
Insightful reporting and analytics
Lead management
Seamless third-party integration
Social posting from the CRM
Meeting scheduling
Mobile app

Weaknesses

Limited features that could push to acquire other HubSpot licenses
HubSpot licenses are on the high side.

6. Freshworks

Freshsales is a sales CRM software that promises to help you gain a 360-degree view of your customers, deliver personalized engagement, shorten the sales cycle and accelerate revenue with context-driven sales. Brands like Klarna, Blue Nile, and PharmEasy use the CRM system.

Key Features

Lead Generation and Scoring — Freshwok offers CRM tools to help you run personalized campaigns and generate leads from your website visitors. You can also score the leads based on their engagement level.

Deal Management — Freshworks provides a birds-eye view of the deals in your pipeline, making it easy to prioritize and work on them immediately. You can also collaborate with multiple salespersons on the same deal.,

Workflow Automation —The software’s built-in workflow automation lets users automate repetitive tasks to save and boost the sales force’s productivity. You can quickly create automation with the pre-set templates.

AI-Powered Insights —Freshworks’ algorithm, Freddy AI, does the heavy lifting so that you can focus on only deals that convert. Additionally, it delivers AI-powered insights that help you drive faster deal closure.

Omnichannel — The software enables users to reach customers on their preferred channel without exiting the CRM software. For instance, you can connect with your contacts via email, phone, live chat, WhatsApp, SMS, and Zoom.

User Experience

You can set up an account in three simple steps and connect your email account to the CRM software.

The dashboard is clean and less overwhelming. As a result, you are likely to crack the software at first use without facing many challenges. Also, you can import your sales data and start using the CRM tools immediately without starting from scratch.

You can use the FAQ, help center, or live chat for quick resolutions when you run into issues.

Pricing

Freshworks offers the best free CRM software with basic features—ideal for beginner users. In addition, you can subscribe to a paid plan to access more tools.

Growth $15 per user per month
Pro $39 per user per month
Enterprise $69 per user per month

Strengths

Email marketing within the CRM software
AI-powered deal insights
Built-in lead generation capability
Seamless sales process automation
Multilingual and multi-currency support
Territory management
Omnichannel customer engagement
Over 30 reports
A free plan
Mobile app
21 days free trial of the highest tier plan
Provides a 360-degree view of the business
AI-based leads scoring
Pipeline visualization

Weaknesses

Hard-to-reach support
Limited third-party integrations

7. Monday

Monday CRM software is one of the best CRM software in the industry. Over 125,000 businesses use it to generate leads from multiple sources, qualify them in a central location, and track and manage all aspects of the sales cycle, from pre-sales to post-sales, all in one place.

Key Features

Email Tracking — With Monday, you can centralize your email communications and track essential email metrics to learn when to reach out, saving you time on cold leads. It also lets you create personalized emails with built-in templates.

Sales Process Automation — You don’t have to waste time on repetitive sales processes. It’s one of the best CRM software for automating your workflows, enabling you to focus on essential things. For instance, it can assign leads to sales reps, notifies you when a prospect opens an email, and more.

Leads Capturing — You can feed your sales pipeline with steady streams of qualified leads collected from multiple sources, qualify them on the CRM, and automatically score them based on pre-set criteria.

Post-Sales Management — Monday’s post-sales management capability lets you continuously manage customer relationships and drive after-sales customer satisfaction to boost customer retention.

User Experience

You can quickly sign up with Gmail and set up your account in a few more steps.

You can sell your sales pipeline and customer journey at a glance. Also, the user interface is excellent, and the software presents information in ways anyone can quickly grasp. In addition, it has a desktop notification feature that keeps you updated on your sales activities in real-time.

Users can customize their dashboards to see only the things they like. Unfortunately, the support doesn’t provide live chat support; however, it tries to compensate for this with a robust help center and round-the-clock email support.

Pricing

Monday offers a free plan for its CRM software and four premium subscription plans.

Basic $10 per month
Standard $14 per month
Pro $24 per month
Enterprise (custom package)

Strengths

Free and custom plans
Workflow automation
Email tracking and centralized communication
Pipeline visualization
Customizable reporting dashboard
Built-in lead management (capturing and auto-scoring)
Post-sales customer relationship management
Third-party integrations
Mobile app
Online community and robust help center

Weaknesses

Limited native marketing automation
No live chat support

8. Keap

Keap is one of the leading sales CRM solutions that cater to small businesses. The software promises to help them grow their leads, improve revenue and drive customer retention through enhanced customer relationship management and marketing workflows.

Key Features

Email and Text Marketing — It’s the right CRM software for small businesses seeking to bring email and SMS marketing into their marketing mix and manage them in one place. They can quickly create email and SMS campaigns with built-in templates and send them to their segmented lists.

Sales and Marketing Automation — With Keap, small business sales teams can automate critical sales and marketing processes to deliver a personalized experience to customers and drive targeted business growth while saving valuable time and human resources.

Lead Capturing — You can acquire and track leads at every touchpoint. This CRM software comes with CRM tools for capturing leads like landing pages, dedicated sales funnels, forms, and appointment schedulers, which you leverage to generate consistent leads.

eCommerce — Keap supports payment processors like Stripe, PayPal, and Wepay, allowing you to send and receive payments within your CRM software. The platform has facilitated over $2.6 billion in online sales since its launch.

User Experience

Keap promises a 14-day free trial. But I need help accessing the feature after signing up; the offer is only available to randomly selected businesses.

If the software can deliver on its promises, it will be great for the user experience.

Pricing

Keap offers three subscription plans, billed monthly and yearly.

Pro $129 per month
Max $199 per month
Max Classic (custom plan)

Strengths

A referral program that pays up to 30% commission
A high-reaching user community
Knowledge base and help center
Native payment platform
Built-in email and SMS marketing
Advanced automation
Expert assistance

Weaknesses

No mobile app
Limited subscription plan
Expensive annual packages
The free trial is often unavailable
unreliable

9. Sage

Sage integrates sales, marketing, and service modules to deliver world-class customer relationship management software.

It’s one of the best CRM software in the market. With this solution, you can gain valuable insights into where your business stands to make better business decisions.

Key Features

Service Module — This module brings customer service management functionality within the CRM, enabling you to deliver an exceptional experience to prospects and customers, nurture them into long-term relationships and generate repeat businesses.

Sales Modules — With this module, you can automate your sales processes to accelerate sales performance and boost productivity. The company’s customer data shows that sales reps using this feature improved productivity by up to 40%.

Marketing Module — You can plan and run omnichannel, targeted marketing campaigns within the CRM and optimize campaigns to deliver more results with the built-in insightful reports.

User Experience

Sage doesn’t offer its pricing plans upfront. Also, you can’t sign up online. Instead, you’ll need to leave your business information online and wait for their support team to call, which might take time to come.

The user interface is excellent, but the CRM software integrates with only limited applications. In addition, real-time case resolution still needs to be improved. However, the software offers a community forum.

Pricing

Sage doesn’t have public pricing information.

However, the software license could cost approximately $600 annually for each user. In addition, one-time initial implementation and related services could take the total cost to about $8,000.

Strengths

Single modules to fully Integrated solution
Powerful real-time insights
Team collaboration
Sales and marketing automation
Customer service management

Weaknesses

No straightforward signup
No subscription plan
Limited integration

10. Insightly CRM

Insightly is a popular CRM tool developed to help businesses streamline their processes, collaborate across teams, and integrate all the applications they need to drive sustainable growth.

Over 25,000 companies, including Bloomberg, Bosch, and Sanofi, use the platform, making it one of the best CRM software platforms today.

Key Features

Relationship Mapping — You can link your customer data to existing contacts to map and understand how your customers relate. This feature helps you get a high-definition picture of your customers.

Marketing — Insightly’s unified marketing platform enables marketing teams to build sales pipelines, attract and engage ideal customers with intelligent and segmented campaigns and automate marketing processes to grow the business faster.

Sales — You can centralize your customer data in one place, managing leads and spotting and prioritizing those most likely to convert. You can also create and send emails within Insightly and automate your workflows.

Service — Insightly empowers customer service teams to solve customer challenges more effortlessly. You can receive customer support tickets in one place, quickly share information across the organization and receive actionable insights to improve customer experience.

Integrations — You can connect all the tools you need to grow your business and manage them under one app. Also, Insightly’s AppConnect supports this CRM’s users in building custom integrations and workflows.

User Experience

Insightly has a clean design with a user-friendly interface.

Some users complained that it could be challenging to grasp all its possibilities fully. However, it features a knowledge base, videos, and tutorials that could bring you up to speed as quickly as possible. The platform also offers live chat support.

The filters and bulk email could be better.

Pricing

Insightly’s CRM systems come in three plans, billed annually:

Plus, $29 per month
Professional $49 per month
Enterprise $99 per month

Strengths

Custom integration and workflow builder
Project management and team collaboration
Sales and marketing automation
Module for customer service teams
Scalable CRM
Live chat support
Free trial
Low-entry cost
Mobile app
Customer relationship mapping

Weaknesses

Annual billing
Learning curve

11. SugarCRM

SugarCRM is one of the best CRM platforms in the market. It delivers CRM solutions that help companies gain a comprehensive high-definition view of their customers in the past, present, and future to enable predictability, boost situational awareness and reach new levels of business performance.

Key Features

Predictive Forecasting — SugarCRM leverages historical and real-time data from multiple points to identify issues, root causes, and opportunities and deliver actionable sales insights. In addition, it offers automatic alerts for fast response.

Sales and Marketing Automation — You can automate anything with SugarCRM, from data collection, leads routing, and quote approval to leads scoring and marketing to deliver meaningful buying experiences, shorten the sales cycle, and drive revenue.

Customer Service Management —SugarCRM native customer service management support enables you to deliver a personalized, positive experience to customers at every touchpoint. In addition, the software automates critical processes to reduce the burden on your customer support team.

User Experience

SugarCRM has a solid user interface.

However, you must pay for at least three users before you sign up for any plan, making the software expensive. Also, the CRM software offers a more complex signup process. You’ll need to fill out an online form to contact support.

SugarCRM has a user community and resource center that can help you quickly set up your account and learn how to make the most of the CRM software. Also, phone support is available in four languages.

Pricing

SugarCRM has four monthly plans, billed annually and requiring a minimum of three users.

Market $1000 per month/user
Sell $45 per month/user
Serve $80 per month/user
Enterprise $85 per month/user

Strengths

AI-Powered prediction
Full situational awareness
Sentiment assessment
Powerful automation and workflow
The built-in customer service solution
On-premises deployment
Omnichannel customer engagement

Weaknesses

No complimentary or trial plan
Lacks a mobile app
Expensive plan

12. NetHunt

NetHunt is one of the best CRM platforms built for Gmail and Google Workspace users, designed to help them manage leads, nurture prospects, and stay on top of their sales performances. The solution also plays well with LinkedIn and eight other tools.

Key Features

Data Organization — With NetHunt, you can organize your business data effectively and productively. Also, the solution organizes your deals and sales pipelines in an easy-to-understand manner, providing insights into what works and doesn’t.

Sales Force Automation — Using this sales CRM means your sales team won’t have to waste time on repetitive tasks. Instead, the solution automates key sales processes like leads capturing and nurturing, contact updates, and others so they can focus on other things.

Centralized Communication — You can centralize your business communications, regardless of your customer’s preferred channel, whether social media, email, telephone, messenger, or live chat, and manage everything on the go under one app roof.

User Experience

You can create an account in three clicks. The interface is clean and user-friendly. You can quickly update your deals by dragging and dropping them and visualize your pipeline to see your entire sales process and performance at a glance.

Also, you can set up workflows and integrations in a few minutes. Both processes are intuitive and might not require any learning curve. In addition, NetHunt has a help center and offers live chat support.

Pricing

NetHunt is available via four subscription plans, billed monthly and annually.

Basic $24 per month
Business $48 per month
Advanced $96 per month
Custom plan

Strengths

Zapier integration
Advanced data organization and visualization
Workflow automation
Omnichannel communication
Mobile apple
Live chat and phone support
Code-free web form for leads capture
Low-entry fee
Free trial and custom plan
Chrome browser extension
Open API
Cancel anytime

Weaknesses

Available only to Gmail and Google Workplace users
Limited integration options
Limited marketing automation

13. FreeAgent

FreeAgent CRM helps teams collaborate more effectively to get things done. The software promises to help users track their progress in real-time and gain actionable insights to optimize their performance. Over 1,000 businesses worldwide use the platform.

Key Features

All-In-One Solution — With FreeAgent CRM, you won’t need to open multiple browser tabs to get your job done. Instead, you get everything done in one place. You can also automate repetitive tasks to get more done in less time.

Workflow Optimization — You can streamline business processes to complete more work efficiently. The CRM tool can help you organize and prioritize deals so you can focus on those most likely to move the needles for your business.

Code-Free Customization — FreeAgent code-free customization enables you to set your account to meet your business’s unique needs. The software also integrates with other apps, making it highly extensible.

User Experience

FreeAgent CRM is easy to use and has a visually appealing user interface. The software enables complete funnel visualization and presents reports in ways anyone can understand.

You can quickly connect with the company’s in-house CRM experts to set up and customize your account to explore its full possibilities. The solution also offers live chat and helpful resources.

Pricing

FreeAgent offers “Unlimited Users” and “Per User” pricing packages with different plans, billed monthly and annually. The Per User package has three plans.

Starter $45 per month
Professional $90 per month
Enterprise $120 per month

Strengths

Highly extensible
All-in-one solution
Fully cloud-based
Code-free customization
Workflow automation
Full funnel visualization
Customer service management
Third-party integrations
Live chat support
Custom app
ISO 27001 compliant

Weaknesses

No mobile app
Poor search and filter

14. Creatio CRM

Creatio CRM is one of the best CRM software used by small and medium-sized businesses in over 100 countries to automate end-to-end customer journeys with no code. You can purchase separate modules or deploy the software as a unified CRM tool.

Key Features

Marketing Creatio — With this module, you can automate your marketing campaigns, lead management, and deliver personalized omnichannel communication to boost business revenue and drive customer retention.

Sales Creatio — Creatio supports sales teams to collaborate across boards and automate mission-critical sales processes to get more things done. The software also provides a 360-degree view of customer journeys to personalize their experience.

Service Creatio — You can automate and manage customer service workflows on Creatio to save the support team valuable time and deliver an enhanced, personalized experience to customers. The software uses AI to streamline the handling of service cases.

Studio Creatio — Creatio’s no-code UI builder helps non-technical users build business applications and processes with maximum freedom using easy-to-use drag-and-drop visual design tools.

User Experience

The analytics and reporting are insightful, and you can quickly visualize the data in a few clicks.

The software’s no-code capability means you can complete projects that usually take months or even days. In addition, support is multilingual, so you’ll always get assistance whenever the need arises in your preferred language.

Also, the platform has helpful resources for quick self-help.

Pricing

Creatio has different subscription packages for each module (Creatio).

The monthly sales and service modules subscriptions range between $25 and $60, while Marketing Creatio goes for a $1,000 to $100,000 yearly fee. You’ll need to contact support to understand the cost of deploying its unified CRM solutions.

Strengths

Cost Calculator
Cloud and on-site deployment
360-degree customer view
Unlimited no-code customization
End-to-end workflow automation
Real-time analytics
Trial plan
Custom plan

Weaknesses

Expensive plan
No mobile app

15. Close

Close is a cloud CRM solution for remote salespeople. As one of the best CRM software in the industry, it makes team onboarding a breeze, automates and analyzes workflows, and helps you grow revenue quickly. It also integrates well with some of your tools, bringing your software stack to one place.

Key Features

Calling — Close has built-in call software to help you reach more people effortlessly and double your call volume and velocity. With the predictive dialer, you can call multiple numbers at once, and the software automatically routes answered calls to available reps.

Video — Close natively support Zoom, enabling remote selling with videos. The software can connect your Zoom account and sync your previous recordings with the CRM software. It also alerts you five minutes before every meeting, and you can add notes during the meeting for context.

Call Coaching — With Close, you can train your sales team, no matter where they are, all within the CRM without needing to invest in expensive online training tools.

Workflow Automation — The CRM solution offers in-app email and calls automation that can simplify your workflow and help you get more work done. Also, you can save and share winning templates with team members to boost the reach rate and close deals faster.

User Experience

Close is an easy-to-use CRM software for busy salespeople with no learning curve.

You can quickly create an account, set up your workflow sequences, and immediately put the CRM to work. The software also has dynamic smart views that let you prioritize your leads and quickly find what you need.

Close offers free migration and support, so you can get assistance whenever needed. However, it might not be real-time since the software doesn’t offer live chat.

Pricing

Close offers four subscription plans billed monthly and annually.

Starter $25 per month
Basic $59 per month
Professional $89 per month
Business $129

Strengths

Remote selling
Power and predictive dialer
Built-in email and SMS marketing
Powerful reporting insights
Free trial, migration, and support
Sales force automation
Phone and email support
Pipeline visualization

Weaknesses

No mobile app
No live chat support

16. Nutshell

Nutshell is an all-in-one B2B CRM software designed to help teams manage contacts and leads, sell smarter and gain valuable insights to track performance and optimize the sales process. Over 30,000 sales and marketing professionals use the software to streamline their workflow.

Key Features

Pipeline Management — Like most CRM, you can visualize your customer’s journey at a glance. With this feature, you can view, manage and prioritize leads for a faster closing.

Sales Automation — From lead assignments to scoring, task reminders, and more, Nutshell automates these tasks at the snap of a finger, allowing your team to focus on actual closing.

Email Marketing Campaigns— Nutshell helps you send targeted, beautifully designed marketing emails. You can save time with the built-in template and see who engages with the email in real time.

Leads Capturing — The CRM has a native web form to capture leads and feed them directly to your pipeline. In addition, you can embed the form on your website to generate leads from web visitors.

User Experience

Nutshell reporting is top-notch, with an excellent interface.

However, some users complained the email builder is subpar and could need improvement. Also, it offers limited customization.

Besides these, the software is excellent for quickly connecting all your software tools and accessing them in one place. The company doesn’t charge for customer support, and they can help you migrate your data to hit the ground running immediately.

The CRM offers several helpful resources to help you resolve issues and put the software to full use.

Pricing

Nutshell offers two plans, billed monthly and annually. Here’s the cost per user per month:

Nutshell $19
Nutshell PRO $49
Nutshell Marketing (custom plan)

Strengths

Open API
Mobile apps
Free Migration
Sales force automation
Leads generation
Pipeline visualization
Email marketing campaigns
Sales forecasting
Dependable support
Custom marketing plan

Weaknesses

No live chat

17. Nimble

Nimble is one of the best CRM software for small and midsize businesses, used by over 140,000 professionals. Also, world-leading brands like UpWork, GoDaddy, and Flexjobs use the platform.

Key Features

Nimble Prospector — With Nimble, you can efficiently prospect leads on any social site, website, or cloud application and connect with them in less time. The prospector is available as a browser extension, making it readily available.

Relationship Management — The software helps users manage customer contact details, automate key business processes, enable social listening and gain valuable business intelligence to deliver superior customer experience.

Email Marketing — The built-in email campaign management functionality means you won’t need to switch tabs or need third-party services to engage customers via personalized emails and track your progress.

Smarter Actions — Nimble provides actionable business and customer intelligence to take more intelligent actions to gain complete control of your sales process. For example, you can visualize your sales funnel, gain social insights to prepare for meetings, and discover engagement opportunities.

User Experience

You’ll likely start your Nimble experience by importing a CSV file of your existing contact database; thankfully, the software makes this process very straightforward. Also, the CRM makes importing and syncing data with other apps seamless.

Additionally, Nimble’s “Today Page” feature provides an overview of all your upcoming activities, deals, and engagement opportunities from social mentions and essential contacts to reach out to, making prioritizing more effortless.

The software has a support center and a live chat for quick assistance.

Pricing

Nimble offers only one subscription plan—Nimble Business, available for $25 monthly for a user. However, you’ll pay only $19 if you opt for the annual plan.

Strengths

App Marketplace
Native leads prospector
Browser extension
Activity tracking and team tasks management
Built-in calendar
Pipeline management
360-degree view of customers and leads
Marketing automation
Contact management
Live chat
Business and customer intelligence
Office 365 and Google Workspace integration
Low entry fee
Social listening and mentions

Weaknesses

No mobile app
Limited subscription plan

18. MailChimp

Mailchimp is not just an email service provider. It’s also one of the best CRM software for small businesses. With this solution, you can build better customer relationships and sell to them more creatively. In addition, the CRM is scalable and can support your business growth and needs.

Key Features

Contact Management — Whether importing an existing contact database or building from scratch, MailChimp helps you manage them all from one location. Also, you can create or use the built-in segments to organize your contacts.

Email Marketing — Email marketing and campaign management are probably MailChimp’s best selling point and are natively supported in the CRM, meaning you can run effective email campaigns. Also, it comes with pre-built email templates, and you can run A/B tests in-app.

Behavioral Targeting and Personalization — MailChimp can predict customers buying behaviors, enabling you to segment your contact effortlessly to launch campaigns that feel like a one-on-one conversation at the right time or deliver personalized product recommendations.

User Experience

You’ll only need to fill out three fields to sign up. However, it would have been better if users could create accounts automatically with their Gmail. It’ll save you the stress of logging into your email to activate the MailChimp account.

Mailchimp’s user interface is excellent, with many white spaces, but I don’t find the yellow background and black font colors easy on the eyes while signing up. Also, the software can integrate neatly with other tools, so you can easily manage your stack in one place.

MailChimp support is excellent, and case resolution is always fast.

Pricing

MailChimp CRM offers free, and three paid plans.

Premium $350 per month
Standard $20 per month
Essentials $13 per month

Strengths

Highly scalable
Mobile app
Predictive segmentation and behavioral targeting
Holistic audience view
Live chat support
Seamless contact management
Actionable customer insight
Free plan
Low-priced starting plan
Extensive third-party integrations

Weaknesses

Limited native Salesforce automation

19. Apptivo

Apptivo is a CRM software used by over 200,000 businesses, including Sephora, UNAIDS, Exult, and Los Angeles Times. The solution simplifies customer relationship management so sales and marketing teams can be more efficient and close deals effortlessly.

Key Features

Win and Loss Analysis — You can track the sales opportunities your sales team prospected and analyze the employees that contributed to winning the opportunity. Additionally, the app can help you analyze lost opportunities and the reasons behind them.

Territory management — You can quickly delineate and manage your sales territories to boost team collaboration, improve sales efficiency, and maximize territorial benefits. With the built-in assignment rules, you can automatically segment leads based on territories.

Sales Planning — With Apptivo, you’re sure you won’t be tracking your sales targets with spreadsheets. Instead, the software comes with a sales planning app to measure your team members’ KPIs and implement scalable sales processes to facilitate faster deal closing.

User Experience

Apptivo has an excellent user interface.

But new users might need help navigating the software. Also, the customization and app integrations are not a walk in the park.

However, the CRM system offers an extensive knowledge base for self-help.

Pricing

Apptivo offers three subscription plans.

Lite $10 per month
Premium $15 per month
Ultimate $25 per month

Strengths

Project management
Integrated CRM software
Activity tracking
Performance analysis
Pipeline visualization
Contact Marketing
Email campaigns
Leads management
Salesforce automation
Sales planning
Territory management
30-day free trial
Mobile apps

Weaknesses

Hard customization
No real-human live chat

20. Act! CRM

Act! is a cloud-based CRM software designed for small and midsize businesses to manage customer relationships and sell better seamlessly. The CRM system has been in play for over 35 years, powering over 800,000 users worldwide.

Key Features

Marketing Automation — Using Act! means you won’t need to spend much hiring and maintaining an in-house marketing team. Instead, this CRM software can handle most of your crucial marketing processes effectively.

Sales Pipeline Management — With Act! built-in sales pipeline management, you can automate your sales tasks and maintain a 360-degree view of your customers and their journey to close deals faster.

Activity Management — Act! helps you stay on top of all the happenings around you, including critical projects, enabling you to prioritize and stay more productive.

User Experience

Act! offers a user-friendly interface and intuitive customization.

However, some users complained that each new update tends to drag the software backward. Additionally, you might need help setting up custom reports and dashboards.

Also, I can’t vouch for their support. You might struggle to reach them whenever the need arises. However, there is an extensive resource you can always fall back on for self-help.

Pricing

Act! offers two plans billed annually.

Act! Premium Desktop $37.50 per user per month
Act! Premium Cloud $40 per user per month

Users opting for the Premium Cloud plan pay an additional $10 monthly for desktop sync.

Strengths

Sales and marketing automation
Customer management
Sales pipeline visualization
Activity tracking
Advanced reporting capabilities
14-day free trial
Live chat support
Flexibility and Extensibility
Cloud and on-premises deployment

Weaknesses

No mobile app
Limited pricing plans
Annual billing

21. Agile CRM

Agile CRM is one of the best CRM services in the market. It promises to help you sell and market like Fortune 500 companies. In addition, the software packs several core CRM features like sales enablement, marketing automation, and customer service.

Key Features

Sales — The CRM system can help your sales teams manage their contacts in one place, track deals to keep the sales process on track, and automate sales calls. The CRM system also lets you manage appointments and gamify sales.

Marketing — Agile CRM has an intuitive drag-and-drop builder to set up a marketing workflow and build landing pages in minutes. It also extends its CRM capabilities with social media, email, and SMS features for multichannel marketing campaigns.

Service — The software streamlines your customer service management so that your support can focus on only tasks that matter. It also allows you to provide pre-formatted replies for faster and more consistent responses.

User Experience

Agile CRM has a clean and intuitive dashboard. Using the features doesn’t require any learning curve. Also, the CRM software displays information in an easy-to-understand way.

The customer relationship management software has a robust knowledge base. Also, you can schedule a chat with any of their specialists within a few minutes.

Pricing

AgileCRM has free CRM software alongside three premium packages, billed monthly, yearly, and bi-annually. If you go for the bi-annual plans, you’ll pay the following:

Starter $8.99 per user per month
Regular $29.99 per user per month
Enterprise $47.99 per user per month

Strengths

Free plans with ten users
Yearly and bi-annual subscription plans
Lead management
Appointment scheduling
Two-way telephony
Contact management
Email and SMS marketing
Marketing automation with exit intent.
Social monitoring
Project management
Landing page builders
Chrome extension
Post-call automation
Push notification

Weaknesses

No mobile app
No live chat support

Choosing the Best CRM Software

The right CRM software providers for your business would offer you the best customer relationship management and engagement solutions. So, consider only CRM software vendors that offer you business solutions to meet your specific needs within your budget and integrate seamlessly with all your business tools.

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11 Best Video Editing Apps

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We’re living in a world where video content is everywhere. So if you’re not creating videos, you’re probably consuming them. It’s a massive part of our online lives.

Video is also more popular than ever before. According to statistics, 78% of people watch online video content weekly, while about 55% of internet users view videos daily. And that number is only increasing as time goes on.

That means that if you want to be successful, it’s essential that you learn how to use video editing software and create compelling visual content for your business or personal brand.

When you’re ready to start editing your videos, you’ll want to consider a platform that’s easy to use, has plenty of features, and makes it easy to share and collaborate with others.

There are many video editing programs, each with its strengths and weaknesses. Some are free, and others cost money, but they all have something to offer.

Here are some of the best video editing tools on the market today:

1. Adobe Premiere Pro

Adobe Premiere Pro is one of the most popular video editing software packages, and for a good reason. It’s an excellent tool for both beginners and professionals alike.

With Adobe Premiere Pro, you can create professional-quality videos, add motion graphics and effects, create titles, and much more. The software is easy to use, but there is a steep learning curve. If you’ve used Adobe Creative Cloud applications before, Premiere Pro will seem more familiar. That said, Creative Cloud Learning Center offers many materials for users at every level.

To start, open a project and import your video and audio files using the media browser. You can also use dynamic linking to bring in Illustrator, Photoshop, and After Effects files. Then create or edit the sequence, add titles to your video, and add transitions and effects. You can edit colors, mix audio, change speed, and export your video file.

The user interface isn’t too complex, considering it’s a video editing platform with many editing options. The UI consists of panels, a workspace, and a blue highlight. After using Photoshop and Illustrator for so long, the panels were easy to understand.

The best part? Premiere Pro’s customizable workspace!

You can arrange the panels however you want and save different setups for different projects or tasks. For example, you could have one workspace with your video and audio files open and another workspace with only your timeline open.

As you resize one panel, the other gets resized to adjust automatically—this makes it a cinch to move around the interface to find what you’re looking for.

Here’s a quick breakdown of the workspace:

On top, you will see a menu including assembly, editing, color, effects, audio, graphics, and library.
Assembly is where you import your files. You cannot simply drag & drop your files here.
Editing is where you can mix your audio and video and drag & drop them into your timeline.
The color area will give you outstanding control over your video colors.
On the right side, you will see color balance details; on the left, you will see the Lumetri Scopes of your video clip.

Key Features:

You can import single or multiple images from other Adobe applications such as Illustrator and Photoshop.
You can add animated graphics and edit them.
With Fram.io, you can get time-stamped feedback from the reviewers.
It offers stunning video and audio transition effects and lighting effects.
Version 23.0 offers the best titling toolsets, with the ability to bulk-edit your clip titles in the timeline and flexible alignment controls.

Pros:

It offers a 7-day trial period, where you can try out all of its features to see if it is the right fit for your business.
It has a flexible and customizable workspace.
The site’s learning center is packed with valuable resources.

Cons:

It takes some time to get used to it.
It doesn’t offer a freemium version.
The program has a lot of effects you may never use.

Pricing:

It starts at $20.99 for 100 GB of cloud storage.

2. Pinnacle Studio 26 Ultimate

Pinnacle Studio 26 Ultimate is one of Pinnacle’s more powerful video editing software. It lets you create stunning videos with accurate keyframing, high-level performance, and professional-level editing.

Pinnacle Studio’s interface looks like a mini version of Adobe Premiere Pro, but some crucial differences exist. For example, Pinnacle Studio doesn’t have as many effects or color correction tools as Premiere Pro.

The first thing I noticed when I started using the editor was its color grading controls. The toolkit lets you adjust your clip’s tone, brightness, hue, and other color levels.

You can also create animated video overlays to direct viewers’ attention to a specific part of the screen. These overlays can contain any image, logo, graphic, or text with a transition.

In addition to these features, you can also create video masks and edit YouTube videos, drone videos, 360 videos, and other types of videos.

Key Features:

It lets you make targeted edits with motion tracking.
You can create two types of video masks: shape masks & panel masks. You can use them to add creative effects to your video, censor a part of the video, overlay some elements of the video, and even use it to hide objects.
Smart object tracking lets you create shape-aware masks in the video, and smart technology means you don’t have to recreate masks for each frame.
Have you seen those popular gaming videos on YouTube? You can make them with MultiCam Capture 2.0 Lite, which allows you to record your screen and add audio overlays. This product is also suitable for making tutorial videos.

Pros:

It offers MultiCam editing.
Its UI is clean and easy to navigate.
In addition, they have plenty of helpful information and learning material on their website.

Cons:

It’s costly.
With so many effects and detailed masking features, it can confuse some users.

Pricing:

It starts at $129.99 for the complete version.

3. Apple Final Cut Pro

Apple Final Cut Pro is a powerful video editing tool for Mac users. It’s been around for years, but it’s still one of the most popular options for video editing. The software has many features, from basic video editing to advanced compositing.

From editing, mixing, audio, motion graphics, object tracking, and color grading to plugins, cinematic mode, and effects, it offers everything a professional video editor would want.

There are many built-in effects and transitions which you can use to enhance your videos. For example, you can add titles and text to your footage by dragging the product onto your footage or clicking on it directly from the library window. This is much faster than using hundreds of effects individually, which takes much more time than this method!

In addition, the newest version of the Final Cut Pro 10.6.2 makes it easier to track down duplicate clips in the timeline and timeline index, as they’ll be highlighted automatically. It also improves speech clarity by using machine learning to minimize or adjust background noise levels. And it’s easier to move, rotate, and resize clips.

Final Cut Pro is also optimized for Apple Silicon, Mac Studio, and Macbook Pro, which means you can work with high frame rates with high performance. Let’s take a look at some of its key features.

Key Features:

Apple Final Cut Pro lets you move and trim your clips seamlessly. It also enables you to pack multiple video and audio clips into one bundle with its compound clips feature.
You can add metadata tags to your clips, which will help you find them quickly. You can create custom column views and sort your clips by proxy or media types.
The Duplicate Detection feature highlights duplicate clips in the timeline.
With its Multicam editing feature, you can automatically sync up to 64 angles of videos with different frame sizes, frame rates, and formats.

Pros:

UI is easy to understand and navigate.
It offers magnetic timelines.
It provides a free trial.

Cons:

Available for Mac OS systems only.
Very expensive. If you need it for a shorter period, you cannot get a monthly or yearly subscription.

Pricing:

It costs $299.99 for a one-time purchase.

4. CyberLink PowerDirector

CyberLink PowerDirector 365 is a powerful video editing program that is especially easy for beginners.

What’s appealing about it is that you don’t need to have any experience working with editing software—PowerDirector provides amazing customizable templates. The templates save plenty of time, as they are organized into proper categories such as Beauty, Business, Design, Education, and more.

Focused on making video editing easier for people without technical know-how, PowerDirector offers essential editing tools with advanced features – such as Mask Designer for creating images, text, and custom masks.

It also has a Title Designer that lets you add animated stickers, shapes, and call-outs to your video. Choose from a drag-and-drop menu for motion graphics, sound effects, and special effects. You can also add animated stickers, shapes, and call-outs to your video using its PIP Designer.

Key Features:

It offers AI Motion Tracking, which means you can add text and graphics that will directly follow the object’s motion in your video.
It offers automatic AI Object Detection.
You can use its Chroma Key feature to use the green screen effect.
It lets you correct the colors in your video in one click.
You can also use its preset lens correction feature to remove distortion in your video and change video speed.

Pros:

You can add multiple trackers and apply different effects to each for motion trackers.
A free trial is available.

Cons:

If you apply reverse, it gets applied to the entire video.
Expensive monthly subscription.

Pricing:

It starts at $99.99.

5. Apple iMovie

Apple iMovie is the best free video editing app that comes with all Macs and iOS devices. It’s also an excellent choice for beginners.

You can use iMovie to edit videos, add music and effects, and create slideshows. It’s also great if you need to make simple edits, such as trimming clips or adding transitions.

It allows you to create/edit your videos in 4 simple steps:

To start a trailer using iMovie, first select a theme from Apple’s pre-designed themes. Then add visual effects to your video. Next, add the music of your choice, choose one of Apple’s pre-designed templates, and your video is ready to export.

To make a movie, select a project and photos and videos to add from the library. You can record directly in iMovie before editing. Like other phone apps, you can add text, effects, and music to your video.

Next, trim and arrange your clips and images in the timeline. When you’re done with that, click the Add Media button to add a soundtrack to your project. Your track will be automatically placed in the beginning and will fit your clip length. You can also add sound effects by browsing and selecting from their built-in sound effects.

Next, add your titles and text. You can make title screens, end credits, or other text elements with this feature. In your timeline, click the clip and then click Titles in the toolbar and choose from the title styles to add your titles.

You can now add filters to your videos to give them a complete makeover. Click the Filter button and choose from the built-in filters, and then preview your video as you choose the effect.

Now, you’re ready to export your video file. To do so, click on the Share button in the project browser and then choose Email or Text Message.

Yes—it’s that simple. So simple that even a complete newbie can get started right away.

However, note that iMovie is suitable only if you want to create basic videos, such as slideshows, short clips, and home movies. If you’re looking for more advanced features like motion graphics or adding filters to your videos, then Adobe Premiere Pro or Apple Final Cut Pro might be better suited for you.

Key Features:

The Magic Movie feature allows you to create videos with pre-styled templates and added titles, music, and transitions.
Storyboards: You can select from 20 storyboards with different genres, such as cooking or science experiment, and more.
Cinematic Mode: You can edit clips shooted in Cinematic Mode on iPhone 13.
Extra Special Effects: Add special effects such as slow-motion, speed it up, and use picture-in-picture and split-screen effects.
High-Fidelity Filters: It comes with 13 video filters to help you add a professional and cinematic look to your video.

Pros:

It’s free! If you have an iPad, Macbook, (or iPhone), then you already have access to iMovie.
The app lets you crop, trim, and adjust the brightness of your footage before you start editing it, making it easier to start creating a movie right away.
Lots of different templates are available for creating different types of videos (like slideshows with music)

Cons:

Not available for Android, Windows, or Linux systems.
It’s a basic video editing software – with limited editing options for professional video editors.

Pricing:

It’s free for all users.

6. Adobe Premiere Elements

Adobe Premiere Elements is a video editing program that offers the best of both worlds: it’s simple enough for beginners to use yet has enough advanced video editing features for professional editors to create stunning content.

The software also uses artificial intelligence to help you add cinematic effects to your movies.

Starting with the specifications, Premiere Elements offers a range of tools to help you resize and trim clips, add effects or overlays, and much more. In addition, its 2023 version comes with Adobe Sensei, which means you can add effects to your videos with one click. You can also use its newly-added audio tracks and slideshow templates to change the look and feel of your entire video.

You can also arrange your photos and videos in any way you want in the element organizer. It brings together all the photos from different locations on your computer and saves them there, so you don’t have to find them separately in different folders.

You can also import files from your camera or card reader by selecting the import option ‘From Camera or Card Reader.’

Adobe Premiere Elements offers a user-friendly workspace that groups its features into Quick, Guided, and Exper views. You can choose any of these depending on your level of expertise.

If you choose Quick, you can trim video clips, create a movie by putting photos and videos together, and also choose never to see this option again.

In Guided view, you can get a step-by-step guide throughout the creation.

Expert view offers more advanced tools and features – for example, an audio mixer or time-stretches abilities.

In addition, video tools let you mark and extract favorite moments, freeze a frame as an image, track moving objects, and smart-trim low-quality parts of the clip. You can adjust the audio balance with the audio mixer and narrate clips.

However, most of its features are designed for beginners rather than for professional videographers.

Key Features:

AI & Automation: Premiere Elements uses Adobe Sensei AI technology to automate common video editing tasks. You can add effects used in some popular artworks, and the program will automatically adjust them to match the aspect ratio you choose.
Guided Edits: It offers 26 different guided edits that you can customize to suit your needs.
Templates: It offers plenty of slideshow templates, backgrounds, and patterns.
Organization: It automatically organizes your files according to date, subject, people, and places.

Pros:

It offers three views based on complexity.
It provides in-depth guides for users.
Guided edits are available.
It offers a free trial.

Cons:

It has limited features for professional filmmakers.

Pricing:

7. Clipchamp

Clipchamp is another easy-to-use video software for beginners on this list – and it’s ideal for small businesses looking to create videos for marketing purposes. It’s a template-based video editing program, so each stage of the process is faster.

The app comes with pre-shot videos that you can use in your projects. These videos are in a 16:9 aspect ratio, and they are royalty-free. Click on the stock video tab to add these videos to your project.

There will be multiple categories to choose from, and once you find your video, drag it and drop it into the timeline. Now you can start editing them!

You can also use its beginner-friendly video templates from the video editor homepage. Once you add a video to your timeline, it will automatically fit into the aspect ratio. But if you want to edit the video size, just click on the aspect ratio on the right side and choose from the options.

Now, you can make changes to the text and title. On the right side of your screen, click the text box and edit the text in the window that opens. You can also change other aspects of your project this way, such as the font, alignment, color, or transparency.

With its branding features, you can add logos or brand colors to your videos, which you can use in all of your videos.

Now, you can either use templates audio or add your own. If you want to upload your audio, upload it to the editor and drag and drop it into the timeline.

After that, you’re all set to export your video. Again, you can choose from three video resolutions: 480p, 720p, or 1080p.

Key Features:

Video Editor: It comes with customizable templates, which you can trim, cut, rotate, crop, and add images and audio to. You can also balance color and do much more.
Stock Library: Its stock library has free stock videos and audio tracks – you just have to add your own titles and other minor changes. It also comes with a free camera recorder which lets you add filters, balance colors, and adjust contrast in your footage.
Text-to-speech: With its AI voice generator, you can choose from 170 voices to add a voiceover to your video.
Green Screen: Remove unwanted elements while shooting using the green screen, then remove them while editing with the background removal feature.
Video Overlay: You can spice up your videos with animated graphics, stock videos, transitions, and more using its built-in styles.

Pros:

There Are so many templates to choose from.
It’s very affordable and also offers a free version.

Cons:

It offers limited options for professional filmmakers.
Rendering takes more time than it should.

Pricing:

It starts at $11.99 per month or $119.99/per year (if you pay yearly).

8. Coral VideoStudio Ultimate

Coral VideoStudio Ultimate is one of the powerful video editors that starts you with basics and takes you through very advanced editing features.

To get started, you have to import your media into the library folders. Then, you can simply drag and drop your files or click on the import button and choose your file from the media browser.

Just like any other video editing software, you can drag and drop your media files to your timeline to start editing them.

Choosing an instant project template will help you get the result quickly. Now you can trim your clips, adding transitions, effects, and more.

To add a title to the video, click the title button [T] and add text. In addition, you can add transitions between your clips by dragging the transition thumbnail to your timeline.

Once you have added your video, you can add filters, effects, and music. Just click the respective button and follow the instructions. Once everything is done, you can save it and share it on blogs or websites, email or social media channels, YouTube, and more.

Key Features:

Drag and Drop: Drag and drop elements in your timelines, such as a text box, an effect, or a transition.
Color Grading: Using color grading, you can enhance your video by boosting the colors and correcting their balance.
Premium Effects: Use animated AR stickers, Face Effects, blend overlays, and more.
Advanced Tools: Make your videos stand out with cinema-grade effects using masking, facial recognition technology, dynamic split screen templates, and more.

Pros:

Online reviews hint at its fast rendering speed.
Screen Recording is available.
One-time fee structure.

Cons:

There aren’t enough effects and transitions available.

Pricing:

It costs $99.99 / one-time payment.

9. Movavi Video Editor

If you’ve been in the industry for a considerable time, you must have heard of Movavi Video Editor.

It’s a powerful video editing software that allows you to edit videos, create slideshows and convert videos from one format to another. It is an award-winning video editor with readymade intros, keyframe animations, and many special effects.

Let’s see how to edit a 4K video in Movavi. As you see in the screenshot below, the user interface is spotless and straightforward. You just have to click on the “Add file” option to start importing your 4K video into the library and then add it to your timeline to begin editing it.

You’ll see icons for transitions, filters, and more on the left panel. From there, you can add different effects to your video. To cut your video into multiple parts, look above the timeline — you’ll see an icon for “Split Clip.” Select the clip and move the red marker to where you want to cut. Then click on the split icon.

You can also add titles to your video by clicking on the title tag in the left pan. Simply select the one that you want to use and drag it to the timeline. Now double-click on the title in the timeline and start editing the text.

After adding titles and special effects or transitions, save your file. Make sure you save in ultra-high definition.

Key Features:

AI background removal: Change your video background without using a green screen – with the power of AI.
AI noise removal: Its AI-based noise removal tool will help you remove car sounds, wind sounds, or other unwanted sounds.
Special effects for Youtube: It offers five frames and an exclusive pack of effects for YouTube.

Pros:

You can directly upload your finished video on TikTok.
Clean user interface.
Free version available.
The video editing app has sound-accompanying transitions.

Cons:

Slow rendering.
It does not offer more advanced features for filmmakers.

Pricing:

It costs $74.95 for a one-time license.

10. DaVinci Resolve

DaVinci Resolve is an excellent video editing program – with a free version with many high-level features that you would expect from a much more expensive product. DaVinci Resolve also makes other products specifically for editors, including keyboards, color grading panels, and more.

In its latest release, they have included support for Blackmagic Cloud and Blackmagic Proxy Generator. You can host your media library on this cloud and share your work with other collaborators and editors.

To start editing in DaVinci Resolve, you must import your video by dragging and dropping your videos from the hard drive to the media pool on the top of the screen.

Many professional video and audio file formats are supported, including H.264, H.265, DNX, Blackmagic RAW, and more. You can mark the part of the clip that you want to use by specifying a start and endpoint for it.

Once you’re done adding clips to the timeline on the right side of the screen, you can edit them further using options from the editing overlay. This tool can replace, insert and overwrite clips in your movie project.

DaVinci Resolve has a library of 30 different transition effects, including wipes, dissolves, warps, flares, and more. All you have to do is select the effect you want and drag it into your timeline on top of a clip.

You can also add 2D and 3D titles to your project from the title library. Drag Fusion Titles from the library onto the timeline to add a title. You can then customize the text, font, color, etc.

You can do much more with videos, such as making animations, creating soundtracks, controlling the speed of your video, and adding picture-in-picture effects, dynamic zoom effects, and timeline curves.

Key Features:

Multi-User Collaboration: It’s possible to work with editors, visual effects artists, colorists, and sound engineers who are also online at the same time.
Fairlight: It features tools to produce audio. You can use up to 2K tracks at a time.
Media and Delivery Page: It offers a fullscreen workspace to prepare clips, sync audio, and organize media files into bins.
Resolve FX: You can add advanced effects such as blur, noise, light effects, beauty enhancement, image restoration, and more.
Color Collector: DaVinci’s 32-bit image processing enhances your photos, making them look their best.

Pros:

It offers a free version with various editing options.
The paid version is also affordable, considering the features you get.
Clean and easy-to-use UI.

Cons:

Steep learning curve.

Pricing:

It costs $295 for features like stereoscopic tools, Resolve FX filters, more Fairlight FX audio plugins, and advanced HDR grading.

11. Wondershare Filmora

Wondershare Filmora is an easy and simple video editing software that frequently updates with new features and advancements.

Using the software is incredibly easy. You can create a new project for every video or start working on an existing project from the file menu.

Then you can import video, audio, or image by clicking on Import Media from the drop-down menu. You can either drag and drop your files in the library area, click on import media in the library, and select from the media browser.

Now add this video file from the library to your timeline to start editing.

This can be done in two ways: drag and drop it to the timeline or right-click on the clip and choose the action from the insert, add to a new track, overwrite and append options.

This UI is straightforward, you don’t have to go back and forth, and mostly all options are on a single page. You can start adding titles, effects, animations, etc., by dropping them in the timeline. Then, select the option from the top of the window.

That’s it. Your first video in Wondershare Filmora is ready to be saved and exported. Click on the Export link on the topmost menu, choose the location, enter the video name, choose format, and click the Export button.

Filmora has the edge over other video editors, such as Adobe Creative Cloud, in its price point. Its rendering speed and performance are comparable to those of Creative Cloud products, but it lacks more advanced features, such as motion tracking and speed remapping. If you don’t require those features at all, though, it’s a good choice.

Key Features:

Split Screen: It offers a split-screen template where you can add multiple videos in one to make it more fun. It has more than 30 split-screen templates.
Keyframing: Enlarge, narrow, or rotate your clips with its Keyframig feature and create many more visual animations.
Motion tracking: It automatically tracks the object movement and lets you pin the graphic or other elements to move in the same motion.
Screen Recorder: It allows you to record your screen with system and microphone audio.
Video effects: It offers over 900 video effects, including titles, filters, transitions, motion, and more.
Green Screen: You can change your video backgrounds or elements with the green screen.

Pros:

Great selection of features
Easy-to-use interface
Fast rendering.
A free version is available.

Cons:

So many features might be overwhelming for new users.
Users have reported that the software sometimes crashes.

Pricing:

It starts at $19.99 per month.

12. FlexClip

With FlexClip It’s very easily to create and edit videos for the brand, marketing, social media, family, and any other purpose.

You can make a Video in 3 Steps :

Add videos or photos from computer or stock libraries,
Add text, music, elements, and more to customize your video,
Export your video, then share it via a link or post to social media platforms.

FlexClip is a simple yet powerful video maker and editor for everyone. It help users easily create compelling video content for personal or business purposes without any learning curve.

Key Features:

AI auto subtitle generator, GIF maker, image background remover, screen recorder and video converter supported.
Millions of Royalty-free Stock Media including photos, videos, and music.
4000+ exquisitely-designed templates in diverse categories.
Cloud-stored function for trans-devices editing, anywhere and anytime.
Storyboard and timeline mode for both beginners and professionals.

Pros:

Great selection of features
A free version is available.

Cons:

Pricing:

It starts with a free licence and go at $19.99 per month for the business licence.

Frequently Asked Questions about Video Editing Platforms

What is a video editing platform?

A video editing platform is a software platform that allows you to edit your videos, photos, and other media files.

How do I choose the right video editing platform?

The first thing you should do when choosing a video editing platform is to find out whether it supports the features you need for your project. Then check if it supports multiple file types and if it has tools for basic editing.

How much does a professional video editing platform cost?

You can find affordable professional-grade video editing software for less than $100 per year. The more advanced platforms with additional features cost more, but they also offer more capabilities than basic ones like iMovie or Windows Movie Maker that come free with your operating system.

How do I edit a video?

Editing a video can be done on any video editing platform. The process of editing varies from platform to platform, but the basic steps are the same:

Import your media (photos and videos) into the program
Arrange your media into a sequence for your video
Add transitions between scenes or clips
Add titles and other text elements to enhance visual storytelling
Save the project file

What features do video editing platforms have?

Video editing platforms provide many features to help users create their own videos. Some of these features include:

Video creation and editing tools
Audio mixing capabilities
The ability to add titles, images, and animations

Over to You!

The choice of a video editing platform can be one of the most important decisions you make when creating your video. First, you must choose a platform that will allow you to create high-quality videos suitable to your requirements. And if you’re looking for a basic and free video editor, there are options for that too.

If you’re a professional, use advanced video editing software tools like Adobe Premiere Pro, Pinnacle Studio 26 Ultimate, and Apple Final Cut Pro. They will take time to get used to, and you’d have to shell out a considerable budget, but it will be well worth it.

If you’re an amateur or a beginner, I recommend using Movavi Video Editor Wondershare Filmora or Clipchamp. They are easy to use and the best bang for the buck.

And if your purpose is just to create personal videos for your family and acquaintances on social media, then you can use a free video editing software like Apple iMovie.

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27 Best Small Business Ideas for Designers

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Designers have a wide range of lucrative career options.

This resource puts together some of the best small business ideas to help chart your career path.

It covers the market size, earning potential, estimated startup cost, the target audience, and the value they bring to the table. You’ll also learn how to launch the business, the required training and licenses, and a few companies already killing it in the space for your inspiration.

So, let’s begin.

Table of Contents

Online Course for Designers and Animators

Graphics Design Business Serving Brick-and-Mortar Outlets

Graphics Design and Animation Coach

WordPress Themes and Website Templates

Email and Newsletter Templates Creator

Fonts

Graphics Templates and Marketing Collateral

Presentation Template Designer

Custom T-Shirts and Screen Prints

Comics

Sewing Patterns and Fashion Designs

Wrap Designer

Videographer and Video Editor

Online Freelance Designer

NFT Artist

Event Designers

Extended Reality Designer

Photographer and Photo Editor

Sell Coloring Books

Products and eCommerce Packaging Designer

Publish Books and eBooks

Printing Press

Website Design Services

Graphic Design Academy

Design Teams

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