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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Conga Composer

    Score9.6 out of 10
    N/AConga Composer is a document generation and automation tool designed to simplify and streamline the process of creating and distributing customized documents, presentations, and reports.

    $30

    per month per user

    IBM Content Manager OnDemand

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AIBM Content Manager OnDemand automatically captures and stores documents, with search and retrieval options. The solution can be deployed on premises or in a secure, single-tenant IBM Cloud® infrastructure.N/A
    Pricing
    Conga ComposerIBM Content Manager OnDemand
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Conga ComposerIBM Content Manager OnDemand
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Conga ComposerIBM Content Manager OnDemand
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    Conga
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    90%
    Would buy again
    105 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    90 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    90%
    Happy with the feature set
    105 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    91%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    64 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    78 Answers
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    User Ratings
    Conga ComposerIBM Content Manager OnDemand
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.7
    (112 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.9
    (15 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.5
    (7 ratings)
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    Availability
    3.6
    (1 ratings)
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    Performance
    3.6
    (2 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    5.5
    (9 ratings)
    -
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    Implementation Rating
    3.7
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    1.8
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Ease of integration
    2.7
    (2 ratings)
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    Product Scalability
    3.6
    (1 ratings)
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    Professional Services
    2.7
    (1 ratings)
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    Vendor post-sale
    1.8
    (1 ratings)
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    Vendor pre-sale
    3.3
    (2 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Conga ComposerIBM Content Manager OnDemand
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Conga
    From my experience, Conga Composer is particularly well-suited for generating documents, such as quotes and contracts, directly from Salesforce. It saves us a great deal of time, which is remarkably beneficial for companies with sales teams. Not suitable for companies lacking significant Salesforce expertise or administrative support.
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    IBM
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    Pros
    Conga
    • One great feature of Conga Composer is the ability to create various document types, including Word files, PDFs, and even PowerPoint presentations.
    • The ability to encrypt and share data is quite impressive with Conga Composer.
    • The integration, especially with different email providers, is quite good with Conga Composer.
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    Cons
    Conga
    • Not very intuitive. Once you know the system it's fine but there is a learning curve
    • I would like to see training opportunities on features that I am not using or aware of
    • I am sure I am only using about 3% of it's full potential
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Conga
    Though I love how easily Conga Composer ties into Salesforce and its given analytics, it takes a lot of data entry to get up and running. I don't love that sometimes queries can take a long time to pull. I like keeping our marketing templates consistent via templates in the system. Pulling multiple objects into one report is fantastic too.
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    Usability
    Conga
    It's a fairly simple tool to integrate into your current business structure. When we've had issues, we were able to resolve them extremely quickly. The users click a button and it can bring in all the quote lines, and our credit application seamlessly into our tool. I'd definitely recommend it to other colleagues
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    Reliability and Availability
    Conga
    It was available, it just didn't always work depending on what glitches were happening within our app
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    Performance
    Conga
    This product appears to work well. It was not a fit for us this time, but we would consider in future
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    Support Rating
    Conga
    It's been hit and miss depending on the issue. We use javascript to generate the urls which has confused many techs even though it generates a clean url - they are overwhelmed by the concept of code and can't understand that the url is all that matters.
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    Implementation Rating
    Conga
    It was painful internally to build out all of the templates, but the actual implementation of the product was okay.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Conga
    I think Nintex is the primary competitor for Conga Composer, but I have not personally used it. I was not present for the decision to purchase Conga but I would recommend it in future document automation vendor selection processes because I have seen how well it works! We are especially fond of complementary features in Conga Composer, including Conga Email Templates and Conga Global Merge.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Conga
    Not fair. Its an upfront cost and then pay per use
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    Scalability
    Conga
    We used it for something simple and it was still a pain to use
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    Professional Services
    Conga
    Needs additional training on what they are selling, how to install and use to explain to customers
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    IBM
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    Return on Investment
    Conga
    • Could really use better error handling on the product when the document doesn't generate. Zero notifications are provided right now and have no idea where in a 20 page template the error is. Need to keep cutting the template into pieces to find the error.
    • The report generates 90% of the time so far.
    • Getting easier to generate templates when knowing how the JSON will be structured to add to merged fields.
    • Use Work Plan Template Entries and Work Steps to dynamically generate many deliverables.
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    IBM
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    ScreenShots

    Conga Composer Screenshots

    Screenshot of how documents are created automatically, directly from SalesforceScreenshot of documents generated with any data, from any object - standard or customScreenshot of Conga Document GenerationScreenshot of popular document formats available, like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HTML, and PDFScreenshot of how large documents are sent via a link - and they provide visibility into customer document engagementScreenshot of how multiple documents can be sent with one or no clicks