Knack Features

Allows administrators to customize to accommodate their unique processes. Includes ability to create custom objects, fields, rules, calculations, and views.

Automates a process that requires a series of steps that typically require intervention by a several different users. Administrators can write rules to determine who and when a user needs to complete a step. Also includes notification of users when they need to take action.

Grant access to select data, features, objects, etc. based on the users, user role, groups, etc.

Enables users to view and transact business with the same content in multiple languages and currencies.

Allows administrators to easily develop and test changes to the CRM deployment. After changes are made admins can easily migrate the changes into the "live" or "production" environment.

Allows consuming, publishing and editing content from a central interface. Content management for CRM systems might include presentations, documents, images and other related electronic files.

Software is consistently available (uptime) and allows users to complete tasks quickly because they are not waiting for the software to respond to an action they took.

Allows administrators to create templates that enable users to quickly generate dynamic documents in various formats based on the data stored in the application.

Store and retrieve information associated to customer contacts and accounts. Track company-wide communication and information about contacts and accounts.

Manage partners by tracking channel partner leads and sales opportunities. Provide a partner portal to collaborate with channels on sales opportunities and to share product, pricing, quoting, ordering, and training information

Manage sales opportunities through their lifecycle from lead to order. Track stages, values, and probabilities of close. Manage sales pipelines by individual sales rep, team, region, and company-wide.

Manage and track tasks and activities. Assign due dates and integrate to calendars to manage daily schedules and priorities.

Assign and manage sales quotas and territories. Track progress against quotas. Change as needed.

Allows users to sync their Email, Calendar and Contact tools with their CRM system. Includes Microsoft Outlook and Google integration.

Enter product/part numbers and manage the prices associated with them. Typically functionality allows users to add products and prices to opportunities and quotes if these modules are provided within the same system.

Allows users to create a quote to be provided to a customer that contain at least products, prices and associated discounts. Order management allows users to process orders that contain products, prices and associated discounts.

Management of contracts made with customers. Contract management includes negotiating the terms and conditions in contracts and ensuring compliance with the terms and conditions, as well as documenting and agreeing on any changes or amendments that may arise during its implementation or execution.

Allows users to send email to contacts in bulk. Common features include: Built in Email templates, social media integration, Subscriber list management, sign up forms, success rate reports, AB testing and auto-responders.

Optimizes the process for organizations to develop and deploy multiple-channel marketing campaigns to target groups or individuals and track the effect of those campaigns, by customer segment, over time.

Allows users to manage and track leads though a process. The lead process typically involves steps such as: 1. Lead Generation, 2. Customer Inquiry, Inquiry Capture, Lead Filtering, Lead Grading, Lead Distribution and Lead Qualification.

Enables analysis of effectiveness of an organizations various marketing activities

Tracks issues/help requests reported by customers through the resolution process.

Provides a convenient way for customers to get answers to inquiries, post service issues, place orders, view order histories, and gain access to other information contained in the knowledge base.

Information repository that provides a means for information to be collected, organized, shared, searched and utilized. Allows customers to get answers to common questions.

Allows customer support professionals access to all information required to support the customer including customer information, case history and related customer social activity. Common features include: call recording, analytics, workforce management, call script management, and compliance management.

Enables analysis of customer support activities to optimize customer support professionals, processes and tools.

Ability to input, modify and extract data from the application in bulk through a structured file.

Application Programming Interface - Specification for how the application communicates with other software. API's typically enable integration of data, logic, objects, etc with other software applications.

To what extent are there partner applications readily available for integrating into this product? Partner applications typically provide complementary, best of breed functionality not offered natively in this product.

Enables multiple users to interact by sharing information to achieve a common goal. Social collaboration focus's on the identification of groups and collaboration spaces in which messages are explicitly directed at the group and the group activity feed is seen the same way by everyone

Use public social networks to listen and engage with customers. Allows users to filter what’s important and respond quickly. Often this functionality allows questions and requests from customers on social networks to case management.

Allows software to be easily used on multiple mobile devices include phone and tablet devices.

Enables reporting of all data contained within the system. Typically contains standard reports as well as the ability to create ad-hoc reports.

An easy to read, often single page, real-time user interface, showing a graphical presentation of the current status and historical trends of an organization’s Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to enable instantaneous and informed decisions to be made at a glance

Enables projection of sales revenue, based on historical sales data, analysis of market surveys and trends, and salespersons' estimates.

Provides the ability to drag-and-drop elements into the application to customize interface.

Provides tools for inserting brand logos, colors, quotes, and other proprietary content.

Provides base-level application templates to build atop and customize for specifc users and actions.

Allows the creation ofpage sequences, forms, and libraries for users navigating the application.

Lets users add data from existing sources when creating the initial application or changing data sources.

Continuously updates data as users or external data sources are edited.

Encrypts or provides some form of firewall to prevent external parties from accessing sensitive data.

Releases the application for access on desktop or mobile devices.

Lets users build cross-platform applications or provide specific templates for different device types.

Provides ability to manage application and maintenance from build, throughout the release, and until it's deactivation.

Allows users to simultaneously collaborate on a document within the application.

Stores different versions of a document.

Allows users to provide an e-signature within the platform.

Allows businesses to request files from clients.

Allows businesses to solicit feedback on projects or documents from clients.

Provides billing and invoicing within the application.

Provides internal and/or external instant messaging capability.

Offer project management features like task creation and tracking within the application.

Offer analytics concerning productivity or client engagement.

Allows businesses to track time spent on projects within the application.

Provides a mobile application.

Provides support for international character sets and full text search.

Supports multiple data types like primitive, structured, document etc.

Supports multiple procedural programming languages like PL/PGSQL, Perl, Python etc.

Available on multiple operating systems like Linux, Windows, MacOS etc.

Prevents other users and applications from accessing data while it is being updated to avoid data loss or update.

Allows permissions to be granted or revoked in the database, schema or table levels.

Built-in native encryption with enterprise key management.

Provides multi-factor authentication with certificates.

Provides data recovery functionality to protect and restore data in a database.

Allows multi-version concurrency control.

Handles workloads, from single machines to data warehouses or web services with many concurrent users.

Allows users to quickly retrieve data through various types of indexing like B-tree, hash table etc.

Helps interpret SQL queries and determine the fastest method of execution.

Data is organized as a set of tables with columns and rows like a table structure.

Allows users to create, update and retrieve data in a database.

Adheres to ACID (atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability), a set of database transaction properties.

Provides log-based or/and trigger-based replication.

Facilitates simpler user experience through syntax highlighting, shortcuts, completion aid automation, etc.

Manage individual software component files as a part of the greater overall project.

Provides the ability to write in more than one programming language.

Allows users to modify interface (e.g., theme selection) and layout by personal preference.

Performs core functionalities without the need of immediate additional feature or add-on installations.

Supplies users with basic-to-intermediate guides regarding IDE functionality and use cases.

Downloads and installs updates automatically for product improvement and pace-keeping with programming language evolution.

Allows users to add custom fields to forms that aren't already on the templates

Enables forms to hide or show certain fields based on respondents' answers

Allows users to create forms with more than one page

Gives users the ability to customize the design of forms (e.g. logo, brand colors, fonts, etc.)

Enables forms to be embedded onto a website without having to create code from scratch

Sends notifications when a completed form is recieved

Contains integrations with payment processors, enabling users to accept payments through forms

Allows users to build, distribute and access forms from a mobile device

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives