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.
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Milanote
Score 9.1 out of 10
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Milanote, from the company of the same name in Melbourne, is a presented as an easy tool to organize creative ideas and projects into visual boards.
$9.99
per month
Pricing
BQE CORE
Milanote
Editions & Modules
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Pay per person billed annually
$9.99
per month
Pay per person billed monthly
$12.50
per month
Upgrade your team for up to 10 people
$49
per month
Upgrade your team for up to 50 people
$99
per month
Use Milanote for free
Free
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Pricing Offerings
BQE CORE
Milanote
Free Trial
Yes
No
Free/Freemium Version
No
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
No
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
No setup fee
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Features
BQE CORE
Milanote
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
BQE CORE
7.6
Ratings
1% below category average
Milanote
8.0
Ratings
4% above category average
Task Management
9.10 Ratings
10.00 Ratings
Resource Management
8.50 Ratings
10.00 Ratings
Gantt Charts
8.80 Ratings
6.00 Ratings
Scheduling
8.00 Ratings
9.80 Ratings
Workflow Automation
7.10 Ratings
5.20 Ratings
Team Collaboration
5.20 Ratings
10.00 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology
7.40 Ratings
6.00 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology
4.60 Ratings
9.90 Ratings
Document Management
7.90 Ratings
10.00 Ratings
Email integration
6.40 Ratings
4.00 Ratings
Mobile Access
7.90 Ratings
3.00 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking
9.50 Ratings
9.80 Ratings
Change request and Case Management
7.10 Ratings
10.00 Ratings
Budget and Expense Management
8.70 Ratings
7.90 Ratings
Professional Services Automation
Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Product A and Product B
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.
Milanote works great for scheduling work-related trips, events and/or photoshoots. Photoshoots in particular are easier to coordinate with Milanote because of the ability to build a board that functions like a calendar with multiple boards and links inside. The level of collaboration helps my team to organize events and check items off of our checklists in a timely manner.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Milanote is extremely user friendly and easy to learn. I have been able to add new users to our plan with little to no training and they were able to easily integrate themselves into the program. Once a user has been able to navigate through the software in its entirety, they are able to use it with little to no training.
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.
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.
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.
I think Milanote stacks pretty well. Lucidchart is great for outlining processes, whereas Milanote is excellent for creative mind-mapping and marketing presentations.
