Sofon Proposal Organizer vs. XaitPorter

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Sofon Proposal Organizer
Score 10.0 out of 10
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Sofon Proposal Organizer is more than a simple proposal generator. Per their website "Sofon Proposal Organizer takes care of requirements analysis, product configuration, three dimensional product visualization (when applicable), calculation of sales prices and margins, calculation of cost, generation of complete multi-level bills of material and routings and the production of all relevant documents including proposals, contracts and any internally required document."N/A
XaitPorter
Score 9.0 out of 10
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XaitPorter is a co-authoring software solution for teams to collaboratively create, manage and produce documents. With it, users can streamline and optimize document production to maximize revenue from bids and proposals and other business-critical documents. XaitPorter is designed to enable co-authors to focus on creating bid-winning content so that teams can become more efficient while production time and costs are reduced.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
7.1
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9.3
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Likelihood to Renew
7.5
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10.0
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Usability
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9.5
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Availability
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10.0
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Performance
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10.0
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Support Rating
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10.0
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In-Person Training
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10.0
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Online Training
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9.9
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Implementation Rating
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10.0
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Configurability
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10.0
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Ease of integration
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10.0
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Product Scalability
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10.0
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Vendor post-sale
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10.0
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User Testimonials
Sofon Proposal OrganizerXaitPorter
Likelihood to Recommend
In my opinion, the most valuable characteristic of SPO is that by answering simple questions a very complex product can be configured; therefore the scope of delivery is defined very well. In addition, SPO has great flexibility to manage prices and costs. However, SPO is configurator of parts that allows incorporating basic design rules for their selection. SPO is not a optimised for developing complicated engineering design rules.
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XaitPorter is ideal when a large document, containing many (preferably independent) sections is being created by more than five writers across different office locations and is subject to review by multiple reviewers and requires formal approval. It is particularly suited for external documents which are to be delivered as a non-editable PDF file.
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Pros
  • Sofware works correctly with no crashes
  • Sofon's support is quick and efficient
  • User-friendly interface
  • Easy maintenability
  • Wide range of Sofon products allows for expanding the software scope
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  • Enables several writers to write in the same document at the same time, which means that it is always possible to get the latest version printed and see the current state.
  • Because we are limited in the template to a few styles we don't use a lot of time after completion checking up on which style the writers has been using. This saves us a lot of editing.
  • Before we got XaitPorter the drawing team didn't get the figures to quality control until the final stages of the process, but now the figures are received as soon as the writer uploads them. This also saves a lot of overtime, because the drawing team is involved earlier on.
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Cons
  • Give us an easier way to configure from an admin point of view
  • More reporting possibilities
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  • The dashboard is complex and not easily understood. Since we only worked on a few documents at a time, we went straight into the document and never spent time on the dashboard.
  • Being cloud based, the time taken to move from one section of the document to another becomes painful.
  • The word import function could be improved.
  • There are some functionalities in Word that are not available in XaitPorter. For example you can insert pictures within a table in Word but you cant do that in XaitPorter.
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Likelihood to Renew
Generally speaking the company is satisfied with SPO; knowledge on how to use SPO and on how to code in the product have been developed, and has led to good results. In addition, customer service provided by Sofon is efficient and quick. Finally, SPO guarantees that product -specific knowledge stays in-house, reducing the risk of 'knowledge leakage to competitors.
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It's very basic. More features would be better.
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Usability
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We find it to be intuitive to use with a simple menu and right-click based functionality in place.
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Reliability and Availability
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XaitPorter is always there even though we have issues with outages (suddenly the network does not work, but that is internal issue)
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Performance
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Our reports/Tenders complete in a reasonable time frame, actually faster than Word. We have not integrated with other systems or softwares.
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Support Rating
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They have a clear method for reporting any issues and work hard to get a resolution, keeping me informed of progress.
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In-Person Training
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He was really good. He came from Xait and trained us for several days. He got all involved and answered the questions asked. He was a professional trainee
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Online Training
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The online training was really good. They know the way of getting people involved and they answered all questions asked. They were there for us.
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Implementation Rating
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I was really satisfied with the implementation
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Alternatives Considered
The previous product we used was developed by ourselves so my experience is very limited. I can say that having a software like SPO we can configure the product without any programming experience and this makes things faster and better. Moreover, I can say that MS Office compatibility is a strong point.
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We looked at every major product and some newer ones. We liked Xait's general robustness and handling of images (despite the issue about the internal library), as well as the output quality in PDF. Also, we're a Mac shop so we could not be chained to a Windows editor.
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Scalability
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I just love the system
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Return on Investment
  • Fast lead conversion
  • Increased sales representatives effort
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  • We have seen reduced overtime costs for tender support staff who used to spend a lot of time managing and dealing with version control issues, formatting issues, layout issues and printing issues
  • We have experienced that Porter has allowed us to handle more work without increasing our staffing.
  • The quality of our submissions has improved both by the switch to Porter, and further by the increased proficiency of both our administrators and writers.
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ScreenShots

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