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    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

    monday.com

    Score8.6 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    monday.com Work OS is an open platform designed so that anyone can create the tools they need to run all aspects of their work. It includes ready-made templates or the ability to customize any work solution ranging from sales pipelines to marketing campaigns, CRMs, and project tracking.

    $36

    per month (3 seats)

    Pricing
    BQE COREmonday.com
    Editions & Modules
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    Basic
    $12
    per month per user
    Standard
    $14
    per month per user
    Pro
    $24
    per month per user
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    BQE COREmonday.com
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    BQE COREmonday.com
    Considered Both Products
    BQE Software Inc.
    Chose BQE CORE
    The previous version was pretty similar
    Incentivized
    Chose BQE CORE
    BQE CORE combined numerous products for us. It allows everything to be in one place which cuts down on the back and forth, as well as user error.
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    monday.com
    Chose monday.com
    monday.com is so much easier to use & project-tracking is not only easy to do, but the visuals are far from complicated & make it that much easier to keep track of everything.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    94%
    Would buy again
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    99%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    104 Answers
    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
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    99%
    Happy with the feature set
    2151 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    68 Answers
    98%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    1512 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    81%
    Implementation went as expected
    79 Answers
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    1677 Answers
    Features
    BQE COREmonday.com
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of BQE CORE and monday.com
    Feature
    BQE CORE
    7.6
    73 Ratings
    1% below category average
    monday.com
    9.0
    2230 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Task Management9.255 Ratings9.52216 Ratings
    Resource Management8.654 Ratings9.31893 Ratings
    Gantt Charts8.927 Ratings8.41294 Ratings
    Scheduling8.035 Ratings8.71852 Ratings
    Workflow Automation7.138 Ratings9.71923 Ratings
    Team Collaboration5.245 Ratings9.42173 Ratings
    Support for Agile Methodology7.321 Ratings8.81153 Ratings
    Support for Waterfall Methodology4.418 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Document Management7.938 Ratings8.51792 Ratings
    Email integration6.533 Ratings9.41596 Ratings
    Mobile Access8.045 Ratings8.61772 Ratings
    Timesheet Tracking9.673 Ratings9.11037 Ratings
    Change request and Case Management7.131 Ratings9.71151 Ratings
    Budget and Expense Management8.857 Ratings9.21024 Ratings
    Professional Services Automation
    Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of BQE CORE and monday.com
    Feature
    BQE CORE
    7.5
    54 Ratings
    1% below category average
    monday.com
    9.8
    1001 Ratings
    26% above category average
    Quotes/estimates6.228 Ratings9.9670 Ratings
    Invoicing8.147 Ratings00 Ratings
    Project & financial reporting8.553 Ratings9.8884 Ratings
    Integration with accounting software7.334 Ratings9.8498 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    BQE COREmonday.com
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.5
    (165 ratings)
    9.1
    (2235 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.0
    (8 ratings)
    9.0
    (31 ratings)
    Usability
    9.3
    (115 ratings)
    8.7
    (2163 ratings)
    Availability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (8 ratings)
    Performance
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    8.6
    (8 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.4
    (90 ratings)
    9.5
    (1883 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    2.3
    (6 ratings)
    9.1
    (7 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (6 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    6.9
    (8 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    BQE COREmonday.com
    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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    monday.com
    The platform is very well suited for our nonprofit programs that serve low-income clients who need diapers, wipes, and period products. It has helped us run our programs, capturing information and allowing us to view the data for reporting purposes. The ability to filter data is very helpful by allowing us to categorize information to get a better picture of the progress of our programs.
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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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    monday.com
    • I like summary of subitems, especially with subitasks as subitems and add item tracking for each subtask it can show total tracked in parent item. Similar with other columns, like numbers, status, date.
    • Dashboard features, Many kinds of dashboard view available, we can utilize on the basis of requirements.
    • monday.com workform is very powerful, easily share form link when submitted it will create line item in board with provided data.
    • monday.com automation is very helpful in order to automate steps with specific rules and easy setup.
    • monday.com also provides integrations in order to automate processes if need to integrate multiple app together. or need to transfer data between multiple apps.
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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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    monday.com
    • The desktop app for Mac seems to have a few issues with visual glitches appearing on screen, it only seems to go away when I close the tool and reopen it
    • Subtasks don't show on the individual users to-do list, only main level tasks
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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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    monday.com
    Teams involved in content creation, such as marketing or editorial teams, could use monday.com to manage the entire content lifecycle. Boards might track content ideas, assignments, drafts, reviews, approvals, and publication schedules, helping teams collaborate and keep content production on track.
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    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.
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    monday.com
    I give monday.com a 10/10 because I almost never encounter any lag or connectivity issues despite all of the many templates, boards, and automations we have. As a matter of fact, I feel like the last issue I encountered was over a year ago... and I'm in monday.com every single work day. Not only is monday trustworthy, it is easy to find what I'm looking for... making the overall usability extremely hard to beat.
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    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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    monday.com
    There have only been 2 instances in the past year where monday.com was down.
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    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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    monday.com
    Everything performs fairly well. Every now and then there are user errors where an employee will not click "ok" on a note they've created and simply exit out (I do wish that something was in place to prevent this, such as a pop "are you finished?")
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    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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    monday.com
    monday.com only really care about accounts that have 20 seats or more. While this is great for monday.com, it pushes smaller organisations to evaluate alternatives. We rate monday.com highly in our organisation because key staff have already got good experience with the application and we know we will get to 20+ seats one day. But, till then the billing model and lack of permanent enterprise features is a dread.
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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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    monday.com
    To have someone walk you thru the features and capabilities of Monday.com is priceless. Someone also coming along later in the contract to see if you are maximizing the program to suit your company needs is beyond helpful. The staff that have provided this training are fun, creative and very patient.
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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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    monday.com
    We signed up for the accounts. Created the accounts. Ran the trial version and tested it live while we were running multiple projects and found that it was fitting our needs perfectly. When the trial ended and we were asked to purchase the full version, we did. We have found other ways to use it and it's a breeze.
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    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.
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    monday.com
    monday.com is simpler and easier to grasp, apply and navigate than ClickUp, but the ClickUp free version has so much more functionality available than the monday.com free / low-cost options (sorry, but it's true!). Google Tasks is really simple and I shouldn't really compare them - it's just really nice to be able to see my tasks right next to my Google Calendar or Gmail (widget) - the "all on one" view on the screen is really nice ease of access, but the power of monday.com outweighs the nice-to-have of an all-in-one screen layout - it feels clumsy to bring in all my Calendar items from Google to monday.com, so an integration app to the Google screen where you can see monday.com tasks would be amazing.
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    Scalability
    BQE Software Inc.
    This software works on a small and large scale.
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    monday.com
    For it to work across multiple departments and sites, I would like to see improvements made with integrations and automation. For this question, I am acknowledging not only the addition of internal triggers/automation, but also an expansion on external ones.
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    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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    monday.com
    • >25% of our org is using monday.com to build Boards & projects. Only 5% used our prior Work Management System.
    • 100% of project communication is kept within monday.com. Which means we don't have to search Slack, Email, or other places to find a message.
    • 100% of our project files are kept or linked with monday.com. So, we don't have to find missing files in other locations.
    • monday.com integrates with Salesforce, so we don't have to manually duplicate data
    • 3rd-Party solutions are linking to our monday.com data and producing reports as humans read reports.
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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

    monday.com Screenshots

    Screenshot of Work OSScreenshot of Ready-Made TemplatesScreenshot of MobileScreenshot of Visual BoardsScreenshot of Real-time NotificationsScreenshot of Automations