Compare Open Text and CRD - Nov 2022

Shlomi LaviShlomi Lavi / Nov 19, 2022

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Bottom Line: Which is Better - Open Text or CRD?

CRD is more expensive to implement (TCO) than Open Text, and CRD is rated higher (80/100) than Open Text (62/100). Open Text offers users more features (3) than CRD (0).

Looking for the right Workflow Management solution for your business? Buyers are primarily concerned about the real total cost of implementation (TCO), the full list of features, vendor reliability, user reviews, and the pros and cons. In this article we compare between the two software products:

Cordys Vs. ChristianSteven Software

Cordys: Do you want to reduce your overall office collaboration suite costs by an order of magnitude? Put your office collaboration functionality on mobile devices? Compose outcome focused applications incredibly quickly? Cordys Process Factory is the ultimate “Enterprise Mash-up Platform” that allows you to easily develop and use process-centric cloud ap...

ChristianSteven Software: in September 2002, Christian Ofori-Boateng and Steven Amani founded ChristianSteven Software Ltd. to bring their Crystal Reports scheduling and business automation software to market. Since that time, ChristianSteven Software has extended support to include Microsoft Access and SQL Server.

Who is more expensive? Open Text or CRD?

The real total cost of ownership (TCO) of Workflow Management software includes the software license, subscription fees, software training, customizations, hardware (if needed), maintenance and support and other related services. When calculating the TCO, it's important to add all of these ”hidden costs” as well. We prepared a TCO (Total Cost) calculator for Open Text and CRD.

Open Text price starts at $19 per license , On a scale between 1 to 10 Cordys Cloud is rated 4, which is lower than the average cost of Workflow Management software. CRD price starts at $7,995 per user/year , When comparing CRD to its competitors, the software is rated 6 - similar to the average Workflow Management software cost.

Bottom line: CRD is more expensive than Open Text.

Which software includes more/better features?

We've compared Open Text Vs. CRD based on some of the most important and required Workflow Management features.

Open Text: Data Import/Export, Basic Reports, Online Customer Support.

CRD: We are still working to collect the list of features for CRD.

Target customer size

Open Text's typical customers include: Small, medium and large size businesses, The general users of CRD are the business people that have small (having 10 – 100 employees) and/or medium-sized (having 100 – 1,000 employees) businesses that make use of the benefits from the services of IT, web and data hosting and other information related service sector, mainly in the field of business process management and business workflow.

Open Text

ITQlick rating
(4.9/5)

starts at $19 per license

Open Text is a fast growing cloud-based Workflow software, it is designed to support small, medium and large size business. Open Text received a rating of 4.9 from ITQlick team. The software cost is considered ...

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CRD

ITQlick rating
(5/5)

starts at $7,995 per user/year

The CRD is an automation tool designed to help users in the automation of the generation and delivery of their crystal reports.

Categories: OLAP, Team Collaboration, Sales orders, Marketing, Scheduling.

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CRD Specifications

ITQlick Score: 80/100
ITQlick Rating:
Pricing: 6/10 - average cost
Category: Workflow Management -> CRD review
Company: ChristianSteven Software
Pricing: starts at $7,995 per user/year
Typical customers: Small, medium and large size businesses
Platforms: Desktop, Cloud
Links: CRD review, CRD pricing, CRD alternatives

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Open Text: 3 Features

Data Import/Export
Basic Reports
Online Customer Support

CRD: 0 Features

We are working to collect the information
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4.9/5
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5.6/10
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5/5
Score
80/100
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6/10
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$7,995 per user/year
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Shlomi Lavi is an entrepreneur and founder of ITQlick.com. He holds a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Information Systems Engineering from Ben Gurion University in Israel. Shlomi brings 17 years of global IT and IS management experience as a consultant and implementation expert for small, medium and large-sized (global) companies. Shlomi’s goal is to share the best knowledge and news about information systems so you can make smarter buying decisions for your business.