Exclaimer vs. Opensense

We needed to move away from self-designed signatures (or rather, signatures that staff were provided when they joined the company) and move to a more uniform solution that would allow us to make important changes forcibly appear on all emails - these were namely terms and conditions, especially during times of difficulty such as covid. Whilst this was a requirement, each branch had specific information such as a number and postcode, and some even had their own specific branding. It was vital that we be able to make a signature but still be able to control what does and doesn't apply.

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This solution is well suited for providing meaningful insights on brand reputation, compliance, and developing email/content strategies for marketing and sales team members. It integrates with email marketing software and provides very customizable analytics. It is not appropriate to be treated as a standalone email and content marketing solution, rather as an add-on to those tools.

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• Allows for easily customizing the templates for the signatures.
• Allows uploading custom logos or banners to be applied in the different signatures
• Allows assigning specific signatures to groups of users
• Connects easily with all Google Suite email accounts within the organization

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• Email Analytics
• Signature Compliance
• Integrations with other Marketing Tools

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• Exclaimer's campaign rotation feature is not under campaigns and could be more intuitively placed within the platform.
• It would be helpful if they had an infographic to guide not IT but everyday users through initial set up and use. They do have great videos, but the impatient people need an infographic.
• Exclaimer's language in the platform can be a little clunky. It might be good to have it reviewed by Americans and Brits and try and find a happy medium that is relatively intuitive for both.

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• UI is very clunky
• A ton in pipeline, but not much dev happening
• Targeting is restricted to only like 300 people

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We are very happy with exclaimer it runs 99.9% of the time without any issues. It also very easy to use and maintain and the design team are happy to use it as its so user friendly. When compared to how much time we used to spend updating banners exclaimer saves us hours. This more than justifies the cost and when it comes to renew we wont be thinking twice about doing so

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In the order that I recall the setup process: Signature templates need to be set up (attribute mapping to AD) Office 365 connector needs to be set up (global admin needed and exclaimer engineer for guidance) Signature policies need to be set up (who gets which signatures) Office membership groups need to be setup (who in the org will use exclaimer) Members need to be added to those groups (user membership) Agents need to be deployed on the end-user hosts (local agent)

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Overall all useability is great. The tool is dummy-proof, so anyone can use it and run it. No IT knowledge needed besides connecting it to your mail server which their team will walk you through. After that, you can have fun with the tools and create what you want to create for your teams.

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Never had any issues with availability during our outages.

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I have to admit that there has been an odd occasion when the pages have taken a while to load. This is the exception rather than the rule.

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I've only had one issue in 7 years where I needed to reach out to Exclaimer for support, but it was handled quickly and resolved my issue. No messing around to provide additional information. Just a quick solution to what I was facing which resolved the issue on the first go around.

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Opensense customer service is by far the best! I have never had an issue once when calling in or submitting a ticket! They are very kind while working on the phone with them, and they explain everything to you! They will take the time with you to make sure everything gets solved.

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Our implementation was relatively easy as we weren't cutting over from anything. We just got the software installed, set up the file share and got active directory set up. We got exsync on a scheduled task and it just worked. We built our templates and policies and it has always been relatively smooth.

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In my opinion, Exclaimer offers far superior ease of use while also offering much more functionality which is greatly appreciated for us. I've also found that Exclaimer is less prone to issues with users, which helps lighten the load on the IT team.

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Opensense was the first company we interviewed, so cannot compare them well against industry competition.

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Everything runs smoothly between us

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you can easily design more than one signature and spit it among the organisation

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We used the Design Template service; this was a very pleasant experience and the design team we in constant communication with us to ensure the templates were designed exactly to our remit.

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• Uniform feel for all emails sent by the organisation.
• Meets regulatory Compliance.
• Ability to send out the right phone numbers for the right departments.
• It is easy to onboard new staff with the correct details from day 1 (no setup is needed from the new starter).

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• It has positively impacted our ability to securely and safely deliver email content to mass audiences

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