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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    BQE CORE

    Score9.4 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    BQE CORE is a business management solution built specifically for professional service firms. BQE CORE is a combination of a billing assistant, project management, and accounting solution. CORE is designed to do the hard work of delivering actionable insights directly to the user's dashboards or inbox. BQE CORE replaces the products Engineeroffice, Archioffice, and BillQuick; the functionality of these applications is now found in BQE CORE.N/A

    Kanbanchi for G Suite

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AKanbanchi is a project management solution built as a web-based deployment through Google Drive.

    $7.95

    per user

    Pricing
    BQE COREKanbanchi for G Suite
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Starter
    $7.95
    per user
    Professional
    $19.97
    per user
    Enterprise
    custom
    per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    BQE COREKanbanchi for G Suite
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details
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    BQE COREKanbanchi for G Suite
    Considered Both Products
    BQE Software Inc.
    No answer on this topic
    Kanbanchi
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    94%
    Would buy again
    142 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    104 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    148 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    68 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    81%
    Implementation went as expected
    79 Answers
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    Features
    BQE COREKanbanchi for G Suite
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of BQE CORE and Kanbanchi for G Suite
    Feature
    BQE CORE
    7.6
    73 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Kanbanchi for G Suite
    7.3
    1 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Task Management9.255 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Resource Management8.654 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Gantt Charts8.927 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Scheduling8.035 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Workflow Automation7.138 Ratings3.01 Ratings
    Team Collaboration5.245 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Support for Agile Methodology7.421 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Support for Waterfall Methodology4.518 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Document Management7.938 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Email integration6.433 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Mobile Access7.945 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Timesheet Tracking9.673 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Change request and Case Management7.131 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Budget and Expense Management8.857 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Professional Services Automation
    Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of BQE CORE and Kanbanchi for G Suite
    Feature
    BQE CORE
    7.5
    54 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Kanbanchi for G Suite
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Quotes/estimates6.328 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Invoicing8.147 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Project & financial reporting8.453 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Integration with accounting software7.334 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    User Ratings
    BQE COREKanbanchi for G Suite
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.4
    (165 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.0
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.3
    (115 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.4
    (90 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    2.3
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    BQE COREKanbanchi for G Suite
    Likelihood to Recommend
    BQE Software Inc.
    I would recommend this for our industry: architecture, engineering, or construction. I would recommend this for any larger firm with many employees or high number of projects. I would particularly recommend this for a company with projects that have budget constraints and where time tracking and expense tracking is very important. I would not recommend this complicated software for a small firm with a small amount of income or number of projects.
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    Kanbanchi
    • If you need transparency around your workloads the product is great as it is easy to use and visually tells a story.
    • It is ideal for SCRUM management as it plays into the ideas of Sprint
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    Pros
    BQE Software Inc.
    • Invoice Collections within Billing is a great tool because of the ability to take notes and track contact.
    • Invoices are professional looking and easy for our clients to understand the overall progress within each phase of their project.
    • Dashboards are the best tool EVER!
    • The Contact List feature within Clients setup is the perfect way to track multiple project managers within a large company that also has multiple contracts with us.
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    Kanbanchi
    • Great for supporting SCRUM as part of Agile deliveries. We use the ToDo, Doing and Done and build GANNT charts to facilitate resource planning.
    • We use it at a department level to manage workloads and help staff know what work is waiting for them and the relative priority.
    • We have deployed it across the organisation and also work with suppliers and offshore development teams to coordinate activities.
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    Cons
    BQE Software Inc.
    • Customizable Reporting
    • Linking Project to Payment all together
    • Assigning contacts to particular roles - such as Invoicing, Contracts, etc.
    • Accounting Functionality - they are basically a project management accounting software, so in my opinion, they could learn some things from other accounting software such as QuickBooks etc.
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    Kanbanchi
    • Occasionally hangs at login but this may be to do with our authentication service.
    • It would be nice when grouping cards together if there was an option to lay them over each other in a fan arrangement.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    BQE Software Inc.
    We have been using Core for a few years now, and honestly started to look at other software systems to see what was out there. What we chose was a nightmare for migration so we never left Core. Now we have added invoicing and payments from Core instead of double entry with QBO. Still only a few cycles in but looks like it will be up to speed soon and working smoothly.
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    Kanbanchi
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    BQE Software Inc.
    The foundation is awesome, like I have said before, however the house being built on it, the educational resources being provided to us (more of sales pitches that don't work), and flexible workflow opportunities, is making us look elsewhere for how much we will be spending on per user. It's crazy to think how flexible they are not when it comes to user settings. Lack of integration with other sources is awful.
    Incentivized
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    Kanbanchi
    No answers on this topic
    Reliability and Availability
    BQE Software Inc.
    I can only remember a couple of times in 4 years that Core has been unavailable.
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    Kanbanchi
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    BQE Software Inc.
    This is one area that does need some improvement. It can be slow at time, so we had our IT look at it from our side and we had no issues, so it has to be some slowness on their side.
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    Kanbanchi
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    BQE Software Inc.
    As a new employee and CORE user, I talk to support on a weekly basis. I have never had to wait for more than 3 min to get connect with a support rep, and all my questions have been answered. The support representatives are polite and eager to help no matter how simple your question is.
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    Kanbanchi
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    Online Training
    BQE Software Inc.
    Make sure you have someone training you that fits your style of learning.
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    Kanbanchi
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    Implementation Rating
    BQE Software Inc.
    It does take some time to understand the options and to find the best invoice template.
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    Kanbanchi
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    BQE Software Inc.
    Deltek Vision is far more advanced, more encompassing and offers more flexibility with what you want to do. However, it's also quite difficult to use, whereas BQE CORE is intuitive and user friendly. The trade off is worth it in some arenas but overall it's not suited for a larger fast paced company. Great for smaller companies.
    Incentivized
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    Kanbanchi
    We have used MS Project previously but ended up doing things in spreadsheets so KanBanchi has bridged this gap for us
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    BQE Software Inc.
    This software works on a small and large scale.
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    Kanbanchi
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    BQE Software Inc.
    • Quick setup of new tasks under a parent project, with immediate hourly billing to it.
    • Monitoring of details of non-chargeable efforts in appropriate detail
    • Validation of hourly cost, billing cost, benefit cost, profitability by person and role
    • Company tracking of write-off's included in corporate and project reporting, no data is "lost"
    • Can track excessive work time as +PTO in lieu of pay for use as future vacation
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    Kanbanchi
    • We have seen great value in our planning for Agile deliveries especially when applying it to SCRUM.
    • Using the product we have found it quickly surfaces resource constraints and blockers when planning for projects.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    BQE CORE Screenshots

    Screenshot of Core powered by BQE SoftwareScreenshot of BQE CORE Project Dashboard ViewScreenshot of BQE CORE 360* Firm Performance ViewScreenshot of BQE CORE Reporting & AnalyticsScreenshot of BQE CORE Project Time EntryScreenshot of BQE CORE Project Expense Tracking

    Kanbanchi for G Suite Screenshots

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