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Transfert de données depuis SQL Server vers Excel

Le transfert de données depuis SQL Server vers Excel est un processus important pour les entreprises qui souhaitent faciliter l’analyse et le partage des informations.

Dans cet article, je partagerai des informations sur la façon de transférer des données de n’importe quelle table de notre base de données vers un fichier Excel personnalisé à l’aide de l’outil SSIS fourni par les développeurs MSSQL.

Once the installation is complete, we can open Visual Studio and create a new project. We will select the Integration Services Project type, which will allow us to create a package that will contain our data transfer process. After that, we can add a Data Flow Task to our package. This task will be responsible for transferring data from any table in our database to the custom-designed Excel file.

In order to do this, we need to configure the Data Flow Task. We will start by adding an OLE DB Source component to our Data Flow Task. This component will be used to connect to our database and retrieve the data from the table we want to transfer. We then need to configure the Excel Destination component, which will be used to write the data into the custom-designed Excel file.

Finally, we can configure the Data Flow Task to run in debug mode. This will allow us to test the data transfer process and make sure that it is working correctly. Once we are satisfied with the results, we can deploy the package to our production environment and start using it for our data transfer needs.

Dans cet article, je partagerai des informations sur la façon de transférer des données à partir de n’importe quelle table de notre base de données vers un fichier Excel personnalisé à l’aide de l’outil SSIS fourni par les développeurs MSSQL.

Tout d’abord, pour permettre notre développement via Visual Studio, nous devons installer Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools sur notre ordinateur.

Une fois l’installation terminée, nous pouvons ouvrir Visual Studio et créer un nouveau projet. Nous sélectionnerons le type de projet Integration Services, qui nous permettra de créer un package qui contiendra notre processus de transfert de données. Après cela, nous pouvons ajouter une tâche de flux de données à notre package. Cette tâche sera responsable du transfert des données à partir de n’importe quelle table de notre base de données vers le fichier Excel personnalisé.

Pour ce faire, nous devons configurer la tâche de flux de données. Nous commencerons par ajouter un composant Source OLE DB à notre tâche de flux de données. Ce composant sera utilisé pour se connecter à notre base de données et récupérer les données de la table que nous voulons transférer. Nous devons ensuite configurer le composant Destination Excel, qui sera utilisé pour écrire les données dans le fichier Excel personnalisé.

Enfin, nous pouvons configurer la tâche de flux de données pour qu’elle s’exécute en mode débogage. Cela nous permettra de tester le processus de transfert de données et de nous assurer qu’il fonctionne correctement. Une fois que nous sommes satisfaits des résultats, nous pouvons déployer le package dans notre environnement de production et commencer à l’utiliser pour nos besoins de transfert de données.

Pour vérifier que le transfert des données se déroule correctement, nous pouvons utiliser l’outil SSIS pour exécuter des tests unitaires sur le package. Ces tests unitaires vérifieront que les données sont transférées correctement et que le fichier Excel personnalisé est correctement mis à jour avec les données provenant de la base de données. Une fois que les tests unitaires sont terminés

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Je suis ravi de vous annoncer que SAP lance plusieurs nouvelles offres pour aider les clients à maximiser les avantages de la technologie cloud.

Tout d’abord, la version privée de SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2023, est désormais disponible. Il s’agit d’une étape majeure pour SAP et nos clients, facilitant leur transition vers le cloud. Cette version offre des fonctionnalités améliorées basées sur un système ERP de pointe basé sur le cloud, qui est collaboratif, intelligent, interconnecté et durable.

Ensuite, nous avons lancé un nouveau forfait RISE with SAP premium plus, combinant la technologie de l’IA avec des solutions durables et avancées de finance pour aider les entreprises à innover plus rapidement, à prendre des décisions plus éclairées et à libérer la valeur des données d’entreprise.

Troisièmement, pour soutenir nos clients dans leur passage au cloud, nous avons créé un programme de conversion et de modernisation RISE, réunissant des outils, des conseils d’experts et des aides à la conversion.

SAP publie la dernière version de SAP S/4HANA Cloud, édition privée

La version 2023 de SAP S/4HANA Cloud, édition privée, ne se contente pas de couvrir l’ensemble des fonctionnalités de SAP ERP Central Component, mais elle intègre également la finance, le manufacturing, les opérations et les fournisseurs au sein d’une plateforme cloud unique, avec des applications métier basées sur la toute dernière architecture. En outre, dans le cadre de RISE with SAP, l’édition privée de SAP S/4HANA Cloud suit désormais un cycle de sortie de deux ans avec des innovations et des améliorations faciles à assimiler tous les six mois. La maintenance passera également de cinq à sept ans, ce qui permettra aux clients de mieux rentabiliser leur investissement.

SAP dévoile un nouveau Package Premium Plus pour RISE with SAP 

Face aux changements rapides du marché et aux exigences réglementaires complexes et en constante évolution, les clients de tous les secteurs et de toutes les régions géographiques ont besoin de systèmes et de processus basés sur le cloud. Les clients RISE with SAP peuvent choisir le package qui leur permet d’obtenir les meilleurs résultats, y compris un nouveau Package Premium Plus avec davantage d’outils pour accélérer et améliorer les décisions, et maximiser l’impact de l’IA dans les processus métier. Le Package Premium Plus comprendra :

  • Plus d’informations sur la durabilité en intégrant les données « carbone » et d’autres ressources dans les processus métier centraux, calculant et partageant ces données dans toute la chaîne de valeur, et en tenant compte de l’évolution rapide des normes de reporting environnemental, social et de gouvernance (ESG).
  • De nouvelles capacités d’IA pour l’ERP grâce à notre copilote d’IA récemment annoncé, Joule. Joule trie et contextualise rapidement les données issues de plusieurs systèmes pour fournir des informations plus intelligentes.
  • L’autonomisation des directions financières pour prendre des décisions plus rapidement avec des solutions qui rationalisent les opérations de planification, améliorent la précision des prévisions avec des données d’unités commerciales financières et non financières, et optimisent la gestion des encaissements.
  • La possibilité pour les clients de créer un ERP interconnecté avec un portail fournisseur qui simplifie la conformité des dépenses en permettant une collaboration étroite avec un large réseau de fournisseurs, ainsi que l’automatisation des transactions d’approvisionnement et de facturation.

Lors du récent événement Rise into the Future de SAP, nous avons entendu le témoignage de Mahindra & Mahindra, client RISE with SAP. L’entreprise ne se contente pas de migrer vers le cloud, elle transforme également ses activités avec la puissance de son ERP Cloud.

Selon Rucha Nanvati, directrice des systèmes d’information de Mahindra : « L’agilité est cruciale pour maintenir et consolider notre position de leader dans un environnement industriel dynamique. Le passage au cloud a amélioré le délai de mise sur le marché et a renforcé l’expérience client et employé. RISE with SAP nous permet également d’avoir un accès rapide à des innovations telles que l’IA, ce qui nous aide à innover plus rapidement et à rester compétitifs. »

SAP soutient le passage de ses clients vers le cloud

Le nouveau programme de migration et de modernisation RISE with SAP propose des offres adaptées aux besoins de chaque client. Le programme comprend :

  • Le cadre d’adoption RISE with SAP pour planifier votre conversion et la solution SAP Signavio Process Insights pour construire votre business case.
  • Le kit SAP Customer Evolution, un nouveau service gratuit qui propose des sessions individuelles avec des experts SAP dédiés pour évaluer la meilleure manière de migrer vers SAP S/4HANA Cloud. Le kit fournit un plan de transformation personnalisé et opérationnel dans un délai très court. Réservez dès aujourd’hui votre session Migrate Now.

Visitez le centre de conversion et de modernisation.

Pour reconnaître la contribution des clients SAP S/4HANA on premise, qui ont aidé à poser les bases de notre ERP moderne, SAP proposera des plans de soutien à la conversion, spécifiques à chaque client, et qui pourront offrir des avantages pour accélérer la transition vers un ERP cloud moderne.

Les événements de cette année nous rappellent une fois de plus que les entreprises qui peuvent se moderniser le plus rapidement ont de meilleures chances de réussite sur le long terme“, a déclaré Geoff Scott, CEO et Chief Community Champion de l’ASUG (Americas’ SAP Users’ Group)

« Les dernières annonces et innovations de SAP vont de pair avec les besoins liés à la transformation digitale, offrant aux clients une voie claire pour obtenir davantage de valeur de leurs investissements technologiques, dans des délais de plus en plus courts.”

De plus, nous travaillons sur un nouveau service qui offre une assistance de pointe aux clients RISE with SAP pour soutenir leur mise à niveau vers une version actuelle de SAP S/4HANA Cloud Ce service a pour but d’aider les clients à se mettre à niveau en réduisant les obstacles techniques et en rationalisant les processus de gestion, en s’assurant que leurs systèmes sont configurés au mieux pour fonctionner dans un modèle optimisé pour le cloud.

Il est clair que le moment est venu de passer au cloud et nous sommes ravis d’être votre partenaire de confiance dans cette aventure !


Eric van Rossum est chief marketing and solutions officer for Cloud ERP chez SAP.


A propos de SAP en France

La stratégie de SAP est d’aider chaque organisation à fonctionner en « entreprise intelligente » et durable. En tant que leader du marché des logiciels d’application d’entreprise, nous aidons les entreprises de toutes tailles et de tous secteurs à opérer au mieux : 87 % du commerce mondial total est généré par nos clients. Nos technologies de Machine Learning, d’Internet des objets (IoT) et d’analyse avancée aident nos clients à transformer leurs activités en « entreprises intelligentes ». SAP permet aux personnes et aux organisations d’avoir une vision approfondie de leur business et favorise la collaboration pour qu’ils puissent garder une longueur d’avance sur leurs concurrents. Nous simplifions la technologie afin que les entreprises puissent utiliser nos logiciels comme elles le souhaitent, sans interruption. Notre suite d’applications et de services end-to-end permet aux clients privés et publics de 25 secteurs d’activité dans le monde entier, de fonctionner de manière rentable, de s’adapter en permanence et de faire la différence. Grâce à un réseau mondial de clients, de partenaires, d’employés et de leaders d’opinion, SAP aide le monde à mieux fonctionner et à améliorer la vie de chacun.

Pour plus d’informations, visitez le site www.sap.com.

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Exécuter mes applications Go de manière sans serveur - Partie 2

Dans cet article, je vais vous montrer comment exécuter vos applications Go sans serveur, en utilisant des services cloud et des outils de développement. Partie 2 de cette série de tutoriels !

## La première partie de cette série vous a présenté le AWS Lambda Go API Proxy et comment ses implémentations d’adaptateur spécifiques au cadre / package (pour gorilla / mux, echo et net / http) vous permettent d’exécuter des applications Go existantes en tant que fonctions AWS Lambda frontées par Amazon API Gateway.

Le premier volet de cette série vous a présenté le AWS Lambda Go API Proxy et comment ses implémentations adaptées au framework/package spécifique (pour gorilla/mux, echo et net/http) vous permettent d’exécuter des applications Go existantes en tant que fonctions AWS Lambda frontées par Amazon API Gateway. Si vous ne l’avez pas encore fait, je vous encourage à y jeter un coup d’œil pour avoir une compréhension de base du AWS Lambda Go API Proxy.

Le AWS Lambda Go API Proxy prend également en charge Gin, qui est l’un des frameworks web Go les plus populaires ! Ce billet de blog suivant démontrera comment prendre un service de raccourcissement d’URL existant écrit à l’aide du framework Gin et le faire fonctionner en tant que fonction AWS Lambda sans serveur. Au lieu d’utiliser AWS SAM, nous allons changer un peu les choses et utiliser le AWS CDK pour déployer la solution.

Pour cela, nous allons créer une base de données DynamoDB pour stocker les URL raccourcies et une fonction Lambda pour gérer les requêtes entrantes. La fonction Lambda sera appelée par Amazon API Gateway et répondra aux requêtes GET et POST. La fonction Lambda utilisera la base de données DynamoDB pour stocker et récupérer les URL raccourcies. Une fois la base de données configurée et la fonction Lambda créée, nous allons utiliser le AWS CDK pour déployer le tout sur AWS.

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Créer une application To-Do avec React et Firebase

Créer une application To-Do avec React et Firebase est une tâche facile à réaliser. Découvrez comment le faire dans ce tutoriel !

Comment construire une application To-Do avec React.js et Firebase Database

The first step is to set up the React.js project. To do this, you will need to install the create-react-app package which is a tool that helps to quickly set up a React.js project. After the installation, you can create a new project by running the command “create-react-app todo-app”. This will create a new folder with all the necessary files and folders for the React.js project.

Les applications To-do sont un des moyens que vous pouvez utiliser pour gérer un ensemble de tâches. En tant que développeurs, apprendre à construire une application To-do vous aidera également à comprendre certains concepts, dont la compréhension de la façon de construire une application avec une base de données.

Dans cet article, vous apprendrez comment construire une application web To-do en utilisant React.js et Firebase Database.

La première étape consiste à configurer le projet React.js. Pour ce faire, vous devrez installer le package create-react-app, qui est un outil qui aide à configurer rapidement un projet React.js. Une fois l’installation terminée, vous pouvez créer un nouveau projet en exécutant la commande «create-react-app todo-app». Cela créera un nouveau dossier avec tous les fichiers et dossiers nécessaires pour le projet React.js.

Une fois le projet React.js configuré, vous devrez configurer Firebase Database. Pour ce faire, vous devrez créer un compte Firebase et créer une nouvelle base de données. Une fois la base de données créée, vous devrez ajouter les informations d’identification à votre projet React.js afin que votre application puisse se connecter à la base de données Firebase.

Ensuite, vous devrez créer le modèle de données pour votre application To-do. Vous pouvez le faire en ajoutant des collections et des documents à votre base de données Firebase. Une collection représente une table dans une base de données relationnelle et un document représente une ligne dans une table. Une fois le modèle de données créé, vous pouvez commencer à écrire le code pour l’application To-do.

Vous devrez écrire du code pour afficher les tâches à l’utilisateur et pour enregistrer les tâches dans la base de données Firebase. Pour afficher les tâches à l’utilisateur, vous devrez écrire du code pour récupérer les tâches à partir de la base de données Firebase et les afficher à l’utilisateur. Pour enregistrer les tâches dans la base de données Firebase, vous devrez écrire du code pour envoyer les données à la base de données Firebase.

Une fois que le code est écrit et que l’application est prête à être utilisée, vous pouvez la déployer sur un serveur web ou sur un service cloud tel que Firebase Hosting. Une fois déployée, votre application To-do sera prête à être utilisée par les utilisateurs.

En conclusion, construire une application To-do avec React.js et Firebase Database est relativement simple et peut être fait en quelques étapes simples. Cela permet aux développeurs de comprendre comment construire une application avec une base de données et comment intégrer une base de données à une application web.

Source de l’article sur DZONE

10 alternatives à Docker pour votre application SaaS

Découvrez 10 alternatives à Docker pour votre application SaaS afin d’améliorer votre expérience de développement et de déploiement.

Les technologies Docker ont révolutionné le paysage de gestion de l’infrastructure de telle sorte que Docker est maintenant devenu synonyme de conteneurs. Il est important de comprendre que tous les dockers sont des conteneurs, mais tous les conteneurs ne sont pas des dockers. Bien que Docker soit la technologie de conteneur la plus couramment utilisée, il existe plusieurs autres alternatives à Docker. Dans ce blog, nous explorerons les alternatives Docker à votre application SaaS. Qu’est-ce que Docker? Docker est une plate-forme de conteneurisation d’applications très populaire dans les cercles informatiques. Ce logiciel open source permet aux développeurs de facilement empaqueter des applications avec leurs dépendances, le système d’exploitation, les bibliothèques et autres ressources liées à l’exécution dans des conteneurs et de les déployer automatiquement sur n’importe quelle infrastructure. Avec l’architecture cloud-native et les environnements multi-cloud devenant des choix populaires pour la plupart des organisations, Docker est le choix le plus pratique pour construire, partager, déployer et gérer des conteneurs à l’aide d’API et de commandes simples dans ces environnements.

La technologie Docker a révolutionné le paysage de gestion des infrastructures de telle sorte que Docker est maintenant synonyme de conteneurs. Il est important de comprendre que tous les dockers sont des conteneurs, mais tous les conteneurs ne sont pas dockers. Bien que Docker soit la technologie de conteneur la plus couramment utilisée, il existe plusieurs autres alternatives à Docker. Dans ce blog, nous explorerons les alternatives Docker à votre application SaaS.

Qu’est-ce que Docker?

Docker est une plate-forme de conteneurisation d’applications très populaire dans les cercles informatiques. Ce logiciel open source permet aux développeurs de facilement empaqueter des applications avec leurs dépendances, le système d’exploitation, les bibliothèques et d’autres ressources liées au temps d’exécution dans des conteneurs et de les déployer automatiquement sur n’importe quelle infrastructure. Avec l’architecture cloud-native et les environnements multi-cloud devenant des choix populaires pour la plupart des organisations, Docker est le choix le plus pratique pour construire, partager, déployer et gérer des conteneurs à l’aide d’API et de simples commandes dans ces environnements. 

Les alternatives à Docker

Il existe plusieurs alternatives à Docker pour votre application SaaS. Ces alternatives peuvent être classées en fonction de leur fonctionnalité et de leur architecture. Les principales alternatives à Docker sont :

• Kubernetes : Kubernetes est une plate-forme open source pour automatiser le déploiement, la mise à l’échelle et la gestion des applications conteneurisées. Il offre une solution complète pour la gestion des conteneurs et peut être utilisé avec n’importe quel type de conteneur, y compris Docker.

• Rancher : Rancher est une plate-forme open source qui permet aux organisations de gérer facilement leurs clusters de conteneurs. Il fournit une interface utilisateur conviviale pour gérer les conteneurs et fournit des outils pour gérer les bases de données, les réseaux et la sécurité.

• CoreOS : CoreOS est une plate-forme open source qui fournit une solution complète pour la gestion des clusters de conteneurs. Il offre un ensemble complet d’outils pour gérer les conteneurs et fournit des outils pour gérer les bases de données, les réseaux et la sécurité.

• LXC : LXC (Linux Containers) est une solution open source qui permet aux développeurs d’utiliser des conteneurs Linux pour isoler et exécuter des applications sur un système d’exploitation partagé. Il offre une solution complète pour la gestion des conteneurs et peut être utilisé avec n’importe quel type de conteneur, y compris Docker.

• OpenVZ : OpenVZ est une solution open source qui permet aux développeurs d’utiliser des conteneurs Linux pour isoler et exécuter des applications sur un système d’exploitation partagé. Il offre une solution complète pour la gestion des conteneurs et peut être utilisé avec n’importe quel type de conteneur, y compris Docker.

• Apache Mesos : Apache Mesos est une plate-forme open source qui permet aux organisations de gérer facilement leurs clusters de conteneurs. Il fournit une interface utilisateur conviviale pour gérer les conteneurs et fournit des outils pour gérer les bases de données, les réseaux et la sécurité.

• Cloud Foundry : Cloud Foundry est une plate-forme open

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Enregistrer des Convertisseurs Spring en étendant son Interface.

En étendant l’interface, vous pouvez enregistrer des convertisseurs Spring pour faciliter la conversion des données entre différents formats.

Cet article est un guide étape par étape visant à démontrer une approche basée sur l’interface pour utiliser le système de conversion de type Spring.

The system is designed to be extensible, allowing developers to add their own custom type converters. In this article, we will demonstrate how to use the type conversion system in an interface-based approach.

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Le système de conversion de type de Spring 3 introduit un package core.convert qui fournit un système de conversion de type général. Le système définit une SPI pour implémenter la logique de conversion de type et une API pour effectuer des conversions de type à l’exécution. Le système est conçu pour être extensible, ce qui permet aux développeurs d’ajouter leurs propres convertisseurs de type personnalisés. Dans cet article, nous allons démontrer comment utiliser le système de conversion de type dans une approche basée sur l’interface.

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Le système de conversion de type Spring est basé sur l’interface ConversionService. Cette interface définit les méthodes pour convertir un objet d’un type à un autre. Le système fournit également une implémentation par défaut, DefaultConversionService, qui peut être utilisée pour effectuer des conversions simples. Cependant, si vous avez besoin de plus de contrôle sur la conversion, vous pouvez créer votre propre implémentation de ConversionService.

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Une fois que vous avez créé votre implémentation de ConversionService, vous pouvez l’utiliser pour effectuer des conversions. Pour cela, vous devez créer une instance de ConversionService et l’utiliser pour convertir des objets d’un type à un autre. Vous pouvez également utiliser le système pour effectuer des tests unitaires sur votre code de conversion. Pour ce faire, vous pouvez créer une instance de ConversionService et l’utiliser pour tester le comportement de votre code de conversion. Vous pouvez également utiliser le système pour tester la précision des conversions effectuées par votre code.

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Conversion chaîne en énumération - CVE-2020-36620 (50 Go)

Conversion chaîne en énumération – CVE-2020-36620 (50 Go): Découvrez comment convertir une chaîne en énumération avec 50 Go de données à l’aide de CVE-2020-36620.

## Discuter de la vulnérabilité CVE-2020-36620 et voir comment un package NuGet pour convertir une chaîne en énumération peut rendre une application C# vulnérable aux attaques DoS

En tant qu’informaticien enthousiaste, je vais discuter de la vulnérabilité CVE-2020-36620 et voir comment un package NuGet pour convertir une chaîne en énumération peut rendre une application C # vulnérable aux attaques DoS.

Imaginons une application serveur qui interagit avec un utilisateur. Dans l’un des scénarios, l’application reçoit des données de l’utilisateur sous forme de chaîne et les convertit en éléments d’énumération (chaîne -> énumération).

Le package NuGet en question est conçu pour faciliter ce processus de conversion. Cependant, le package ne vérifie pas si la chaîne reçue est valide et peut donc être exploité par un attaquant pour provoquer un déni de service. Lorsqu’un attaquant envoie une chaîne qui n’est pas valide, le package tente de convertir la chaîne en énumération et cela peut entraîner une exception et un plantage de l’application.

Pour résoudre ce problème, nous devons vérifier que la chaîne reçue est valide avant de l’utiliser. Nous pouvons le faire en utilisant le code C # pour vérifier si la chaîne est comprise dans l’énumération. Si ce n’est pas le cas, nous pouvons alors retourner une erreur à l’utilisateur et éviter ainsi tout plantage de l’application.

En résumé, le package NuGet pour convertir une chaîne en énumération peut être exploité par un attaquant pour provoquer un déni de service. Pour éviter cela, nous devons vérifier que la chaîne reçue est valide avant de l’utiliser. Nous pouvons le faire en codant une fonction qui vérifie si la chaîne est comprise dans l’énumération et retourne une erreur à l’utilisateur si ce n’est pas le cas. En appliquant cette méthode, nous pouvons éviter les attaques DoS et assurer la sécurité de notre application.

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WordPress is a highly flexible content management system for website creation. A key reason for this flexibility is the wide variety of plugins available. You can add features and other improvements to your site.

The thousands of available useful WordPress plugins cover almost every feature for any type of website. Your website’s niche determines the kind of plugins you should have. There are some great WordPress plugins that every blog site needs; security, speed, SEO, and contact form, to name several.

The most effective WordPress websites create an enjoyable visitor experience. Whether you’re blogging about the latest fashion trends or selling products for your brand, you can enhance your website. Do it with one or more of these ten great WordPress plugins.

1. Brizy: The Best Website Builder for Non-techies

You might want to approach Brizy with caution because once you start using it, no other website theme builder you might try will ever seem as easy to use. Even better, you can download this WordPress website builder for non-techies (and for techies as well) for Free.

With the Brizy WordPress theme builder at your fingertips, you can –

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  • easily customize your WooCommerce shop site.

Brizy’s Theme Builder, Global Blocks, and Global Styling features are right at your fingertips, and WooCommerce integration is also included.

You can also choose the 100% White Label option if you wish to brand the Brizy Builder as your own. A Pro option is available.

Click on the banner to learn more about Brizy and download it free.

2. WpDataTables – WordPress tables plugin

While there are a host of good reasons for using wpDataTables, the main benefit is that it works with any WordPress theme, it can create a responsive table in minutes, and it requires no coding to use.

With this WordPress tables plugin, you can take advantage of a host of useful features that include –

  • four chart-building engines: Google Charts, Highcharts, Chart.js, and the new Apex Charts;
  • connecting to multiple database sources, e.g., MYSQL, MS SQL, and PostgreSQL;
  • fine-tuning a table or chart to make it responsive or editable and using conditional formatting to highlight critical data;
  • the ability to create tables from a nested JSON file;
  • and use dynamic single-cell shortcodes in many different options;
  • integration with Elementor, Divi, WPBakery, and Avada.

wpDataTables is a robust table and chart-building plugin that’s remarkably straightforward. Just click on the banner to learn more.

3. Amelia – WordPress booking plugin

Amelia is a WordPress booking plugin that can fully automate and streamline its appointment booking operations when added to a business’s WordPress site. This makes Amelia an excellent choice for beauty, healthcare, fitness, consulting, educational, and similar client-dependent businesses.

The Amelia plugin can –

  • manage an unlimited number of appointment bookings at multiple locations, and do so from a single platform and dashboard;
  • enable clients to book appointments online 24/7;
  • easily manage group appointments, package bookings, and events;
  • send notifications and reminders to clients via Email or SMS, and make payments online with PayPal, Stripe, Mollie, or Razor;
  • customize booking forms to match its host’s brand.

Click on the banner to find out more about how the Amelia WordPress plugin could be used to upgrade your business’s booking operations.

4. Slider Revolution – more than a WordPress slider plugin

Slider Revolution is a WordPress plugin that is more than just a slider plugin. It’s a highly popular plugin that designers rely on to create visuals they know their clients and customers will love.

Slider Revolution features –

  • 250+ website and slider templates designed to impress;
  • innovative website animation effects and other features that push the boundaries of what is possible in web design.

Slider Revolution is trusted by over 9 million users around the world.

5. WordLift – AI-powered SEO

Structured data helps your website speak the language of Google, and WordLift is the most innovative way to create one.

It is an AI-powered SEO tool that: 

  • adds structured data to your content;
  • creates a Knowledge Graph that makes it easier for Google to understand the relevance of pages, their relationship, and their value;
  • build up the expertise, authority, and trustworthiness of your website.

As a result, you get more organic traffic and audience engagement.

6. TheDock – Ship Solid Websites

TheDock is a design team-oriented WordPress theme builder that supports collaboration, speeds up website design, and helps to create sites that look sharp, perform great, and are easily maintained because of its –

  • custom Post Types and Custom Fields;
  • speedy page load;
  • flexible auto-adjusting layout system with UI components;
  • white-label builder for sharing access to TheDock if you want to;
  • built-in features that assure excellent security and easy maintenance.

7. Download Monitor – Best WordPress Download Manager

Download Monitor is a WordPress downloads manager that can help you streamline your business operations without having to go through the process of setting up a complicated or costly tracking solution.

With the Download Monitor plugin, you can –

  • track any type of file download (ZIP, PPT, XSLX, PDF, etc.);
  • assemble aggregated file download statistics about different file download types;
  • establish access rules based on user roles and download quotas.

8. Essential Grid – best WordPress grid plugin

Essential Grid is, by all accounts, the best WordPress grid plugin on the market. Essential Grid makes it ever so easy to spice up your websites by using it to create superbly engaging and professional-looking galleries.

This WordPress plugin can give you –

  • stunning, fully customizable boxed and full-width to full-screen grid layout options and various grid designs;
  • responsive designs that enable you to control grid appearance on various devices;
  • access to social media content. 

9. LayerSlider – Best WordPress Slider Builder Plugin

LayerSlider is the best WordPress slider plugin, but it is not just for sliders. Create image galleries, popups, landing pages, animated page blocks, parallax and scroll scenes, and even full websites.

LayerSlider –

  • will fit your needs and is easy to use;
  • can spice up and add flair and style to an otherwise run-of-the-mill website;
  • supports any WordPress theme and page builder;
  • features 210+ highly customizable websites, slider, and popup templates.

10. YellowPencil – Visual CSS Editor

YellowPencil is a visual CSS editor you can use to customize any WordPress site in minutes.

Key features include –

  • a complete visual editing interface that allows you to redesign a page with a few clicks;
  • a simple interface that does not require coding;
  • the capability to edit any font and any color;
  • the capability to visually edit a design element’s size, margin, and padding properties;
  • the ability to undo/redo mistakes.

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It is almost needless to tell any WordPress user how important plugins are for a website. A good WordPress plugin has the power to boost the success of your business online by adding a range of helpful features and functionality to your website.

In this article, we have shared our expert pick of 10 great WordPress plugins for your websites in 2023.

 

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When you’re running a relatively small cluster, you might get away with having no structure in place for it. But with time, your cluster will inevitably scale to dozens of pods and hundreds of containers. If you keep running them carefree, you’ll deal with a mess sooner rather than later. Here’s your golden ticket to get out of this chaos: Kubernetes namespace.

By keeping your cluster organized with namespaces, labels, and annotations, you’ll avoid the performance, maintenance, and security issues that come together in a package with the lack of control over the deployed objects and services.

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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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