BlinkDMS vs. Conga Composer

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
BlinkDMS
Score 5.0 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
BlinkDMS is a lightweight DMS (Document Management System) for small companies (~500 employees) or other organizations. It is focused on version management and a controlled release process. Difference to other DMS systems: designed for the usage in a (medical) regulated environment (ISO13485, FDA CFR820) documents are organized in a flexible folder system, so people find documents in an intuitive way strict separation of the working area of…N/A
Conga Composer
Score 9.6 out of 10
N/A
Conga Composer is a document generation and automation tool designed to simplify and streamline the process of creating and distributing customized documents, presentations, and reports.N/A
Pricing
BlinkDMSConga Composer
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BlinkDMSConga Composer
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
BlinkDMSConga Composer
Considered Both Products
BlinkDMS
Chose BlinkDMS
The simple design of BlinkDMS is my preference. Especially when it comes to new employees. Currently using dropbox and we struggle to find things where more frequently than when I had used BlinkDMS.
Conga Composer
Chose Conga Composer
I've used PandaDoc before; it is nowhere near as good as Conga Composer in terms of usability and end-user experience. Conga is much more valuable and business-oriented.
Chose Conga Composer
Can have more control with Aspose by using more code to dynamically generate the document to your exact needs.
Chose Conga Composer
Easily the best In the market. Still needs massive improvements in my opinion. Alot of use cases look legacy today!
Chose Conga Composer
Conga Composer works well with Conga Grid.
Chose Conga Composer
Better pricing and better functionality.
Chose Conga Composer
IDK - I really don't have a comparison to give
Chose Conga Composer
No other tools that are comparable.
Chose Conga Composer
We used the out of the box salesforce functionality but realized when our order forms used multiple currencies and had some customization we realized we needed a tool like Conga Composer
Chose Conga Composer
We did not try any other products with our Salesforce instance.
Chose Conga Composer
Benchmarking is upcoming. Conga Composer was already implemented when I joined the company
Chose Conga Composer
We used Microsoft Excel to manipulate all the data from different objects, now we can click a button and the report is generated, Excel provides a powerful tool, but Conga Composer is better than Excel to generate the data in the format that the customer wants, you don't need …
Chose Conga Composer
Conga is better than the rest.
Chose Conga Composer
S-docs allows for much more dynamic flexibility. Additionally, S-Docs template maintenance is substantially easier than Conga Composer. Conga requires about 6 steps to make an update to your template. S-Docs has a simple template builder that makes the process substantially …
Chose Conga Composer
CPQ is more customizable and native to Salesforce, but it's extremely difficult to set up and maintain. The Conga Composer configuration is much simpler and quicker to implement.
Chose Conga Composer
I just wish that Docusign and Conga Document Generation could work together after the quote is generated to send out for signature.
Chose Conga Composer
Conga Composer is highly versatile as this can be easily integrated with Salesforce and other Conga products. Other products either lack integration or lack user experience but Conga Composer has provided both along with great integration which reduces manual tasks which was …
Chose Conga Composer
Conga Composer was easier to use by far than PandaDoc and had more options than DocuSign for our particular org.
Chose Conga Composer
We have not used any other app however from the user's experience it seems Conga composer is best. And being a Conga partner and implementing the Conga solutions and supporting the existing customers and hearing their success stories it is clear that conga composer and other …
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User Ratings
BlinkDMSConga Composer
Likelihood to Recommend
5.0
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9.7
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Likelihood to Renew
-
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8.9
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Usability
-
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7.5
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Availability
-
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3.6
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Performance
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3.6
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Support Rating
-
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5.6
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Implementation Rating
-
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3.7
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Configurability
-
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1.8
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Ease of integration
-
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2.7
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Product Scalability
-
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3.6
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Vendor post-sale
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1.8
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Vendor pre-sale
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3.3
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User Testimonials
BlinkDMSConga Composer
Likelihood to Recommend
A big organization. Where documents need to be shared or viewed by multiple parties. Easy upload and understanding with very little training needed. This helps workflows and saves time. We did run into issues where there was no multi language option
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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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Pros
  • UX
  • Data implementations
  • User count
  • Electronic signature support
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  • It allows us to generate multiple documents at once using batch generation. This simple automation saves a lot of time for our team.
  • Its very user friendly. Even a newbie can simply generate document by clicking a button once this is setup by the admin.
  • Integrate Conga Sign with Conga Composer and it will automatically sent for e- signature once generated saving lot of time. we previously had to wait a lot for the signature.
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Cons
  • More UX options
  • Long download
  • Better way to file within a file
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  • 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
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We most likely will renew conga because of it's strong salesforce integration and we're so engrained into it with all of our different brands and products/services. It would take a lot of time, money and resources to switch to something else.
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Usability
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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
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It was available, it just didn't always work depending on what glitches were happening within our app
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Performance
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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
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As a conga parter we have created more than 50+ cases with conga support and many times we have got the answers on the chat support itself. A very effective knowledge base and conga university give you all the study material to enhance your product knowledge. Conga support has been very effective and has always responded quickly to questions and issues
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Implementation Rating
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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
The simple design of BlinkDMS is my preference. Especially when it comes to new employees. Currently using Dropbox and we struggle to find things where more frequently than when I had used BlinkDMS.
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We have not been able to find an offering that allowed for the level of customization or could handle the complexity of the solutions we've built using Conga's products. We selected Conga originally as it was recommended at the time (2012) and there weren't any better alternatives - but we have looked recently and still can't find anything better.
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Scalability
No answers on this topic
We used it for something simple and it was still a pain to use
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Return on Investment
  • Time
  • Organization. Prevents mistakes
  • Awareness of system. Was easy to say its in Blink
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  • We have been able to standardize our branding in documents to give them a more professional appearance.
  • The number of manual errors is significantly reduced, thereby improving our turnaround time by 30%.
  • Our overall working efficiency has improved by over 70% with the introduction of Conga Composer.
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ScreenShots

BlinkDMS Screenshots

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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