Simply Stakeholders vs CRMs

Simply Stakeholders vs CRMs

Curious about how we’re different from a CRM like Hubspot, Salesforce, or Dynamics? Simply Stakeholders is purpose-built for managing complex stakeholder relationships.

For long-term engagement, not sales pipelines

Track and manage complex relationships

Understand issues, sentiment, and relationship health

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Simply Stakeholders vs CRMs

Using CRMs in Stakeholder Management

Advanced stakholder tracking
ADVANCED TRACKING

CRMs can store basic stakeholder information, but that’s all

While CRMs can track basic contact details and interactions, they lack the specialized features and insights that come with purpose-built stakeholder software like Simply Stakeholders. For example, you can’t use CRMs for stakeholder mapping or to track multiple stakeholder roles.

Stakeholder Register
BUILT FOR CONSULTATIONS

CRMs are built for sales pipelines, not ongoing engagement with many types of stakeholders

In stakeholder management, you need to track long-term engagement data and mapping criteria (like influence, impact, and criticality) across all your stakeholder groups, not just customers. You often need to track stakeholder involvement (sometimes in different capacities) across multiple projects and areas of your business. You won’t find these capabilities in a CRM that’s built to track customers through a linear pipeline process with an endpoint. You need software like Simply Stakeholders.

Open Up to Instant Insights
ACTIONABLE INSIGHTS

CRMs lack insights into stakeholder issues and sentiments

While CRMs can track interactions, they can’t analyze stakeholder sentiment, issues, priorities, or relationship health. Simply Stakeholders delivers actionable insights through multi-dimensional stakeholder mapping, sentiment analysis, and relationship scoring so that you can understand what truly matters to your stakeholders — and which stakeholders you need to engage with next.

When Relationships Are Your Advantage
RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT

CRMs aren’t designed for managing stakeholder relationships

CRMs limit contacts to single roles and companies, but real stakeholder relationships are multi-dimensional. Simply Stakeholders lets you track multiple roles, multiple associations, complex one-to-many relationships, and more. Get relationship insights that unlock collaboration opportunities, smarter decisions, and better project outcomes.

Better Value
BETTER VALUE

CRMs are complex and costly

Although most CRMs are packed with features for managing customers, they lack most of the features needed to manage stakeholders. Trying to customize a CRM for stakeholder relationship management will make it even more complex to use, as well as costly. Instead, you’ll get better results and better value from Simply Stakeholders.

CRMs vs Simply Stakholders

Just like CRMs are built for sales, Simply Stakeholders does exactly what it’s built for. There’s no better solution for managing complex stakeholder relationships.

Simply Stakeholders vs CRMs

When it’s time to upgrade from your CRM, Simply Stakeholders will help you make the leap.

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Easily add, import, and export stakeholders

Track simple stakeholder data, including role, organization, contact information, file attachments, and more

Create stakeholder segments or contact groups

See an interaction history that includes who your stakeholders have talked to in your organization, and what was said

Track and organize complex stakeholder data to create a complete history of your engagement, including relationships, multiple roles and organizations, and more

Create dynamic, visual stakeholder charts and analyses, including stakeholder maps, 3D stakeholder network maps, geographical mapping, stakeholder priority graph, and relationship health scores

Analyze stakeholder sentiment and issues in real-time using AI

Get real-time alerts to see where to focus your efforts

Flexible data capture, including custom fields and the ability to assign fields as mandatory/optional

Create customizable dashboards

Easily find data with universal Smart Search and filters

Distribute information via built-in tools, including email and SMS outreach

Collect feedback via embeddable web forms and surveys

Run sophisticated reports to analyze data ranges, segments, and interaction summaries

Streamline data input via integrations with other platforms via APIs, Zapier, and email plugins

Streamline work with workflows, triggers, and Kanban task tracking

Stay on top of tasks and relationships with real-time alerts, automatic reminders, and complaints/commitments tracking tools

Tag people, tasks, documents, and even specific sentences within documents — then use filters to show all the records for a specific tag

Link projects to multiple organizations and individuals

Link individuals to multiple organizations, business units, roles, and other individuals

Create multiple projects, workspaces, and records

Access stakeholder data on-the-go via a mobile-friendly platform

Multiple languages

Set up multi-factor authentication (MFA) and single sign-on (SSO)

SOC2 compliant and ISO27001 certification, with detailed audit trails

Keep data private and secure with role-based permissions management

Comprehensive onboarding and training

Dedicated account manager

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