Membrain Features
Platform (8)
Customization
Allows administrators to customize to accommodate their unique processes. Includes ability to create custom objects, fields, rules, calculations, and views.
Workflow Capability
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.
User, Role, and Access Management
Grant access to select data, features, objects, etc. based on the users, user role, groups, etc.
Internationalization
Enables users to view and transact business with the same content in multiple languages and currencies.
Sandbox / Test Environments
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.
Document & Content Mgmt.
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.
Performance and Reliability
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.
Output Document Generation
Allows administrators to create templates that enable users to quickly generate dynamic documents in various formats based on the data stored in the application.
Sales Force Automation (9)
Contact & Account Management
Store and retrieve information associated to customer contacts and accounts. Track company-wide communication and information about contacts and accounts.
Partner Relationship Mgmt. (PRM)
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
Opportunity & Pipeline Mgmt.
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.
Task / Activity Management
Manage and track tasks and activities. Assign due dates and integrate to calendars to manage daily schedules and priorities.
Territory & Quota Management
Assign and manage sales quotas and territories. Track progress against quotas. Change as needed.
Desktop Integration
Allows users to sync their Email, Calendar and Contact tools with their CRM system. Includes Microsoft Outlook and Google integration.
Product & Price List Management
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.
Quote & Order Management
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.
Customer Contract Management
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.
Marketing Automation (3)
Email Marketing
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.
Lead Management
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.
Marketing ROI Analytics
Enables analysis of effectiveness of an organizations various marketing activities
Customer Support (5)
Case Management
Tracks issues/help requests reported by customers through the resolution process.
Customer Support Portal
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.
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.
Call Center Features
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.
Support Analytics
Enables analysis of customer support activities to optimize customer support professionals, processes and tools.
Integration (3)
Data Import & Export Tools
Ability to input, modify and extract data from the application in bulk through a structured file.
Integration APIs
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.
Breadth of Partner 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.
Mobile & Social (3)
Social Collaboration Features
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
Social Network Integration
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.
Mobile User Support
Allows software to be easily used on multiple mobile devices include phone and tablet devices.
Reporting & Analytics (3)
Reporting
Enables reporting of all data contained within the system. Typically contains standard reports as well as the ability to create ad-hoc reports.
Dashboards
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
Forecasting
Enables projection of sales revenue, based on historical sales data, analysis of market surveys and trends, and salespersons' estimates.
Content Management (5)
Content Import
Ability to import sales and marketing collateral built outside of the solution
Content Creation
Provides capabilities for building unique sales and marketing content within the product.
Templates
Provides pre-built templates for fast and simple content creation.
Advanced Search
Able to easily search, locate, and retrieve relevant content.
Content Storage
Provides the ability to store and organize content.
Analytics (4)
Reporting
Provides real-time reporting and analytics that track metrics and engagement data on sales enablement content, resources, activities, learning, etc.l
Alerts
Sends a notification when a prospect engages or interacts with content.
Account-Based Engagement
Tracks the level of engagement for a specific account based on the presented content.
Content Utilization
Tracks how frequently a particular piece of content is being used and monitors its effectiveness.
Training (4)
Knowledge Base
Organizes knowledge from fellow sales representatives and other experienced employees for reference.
Coaching Materials
Offers content and training for new hires within the tool.
Playbook Creation
Allows for the creation of a customized playbook that new hires can use for reference in understanding company-specific sales processes.
Video Record
Records users' practice or live pitches for future reference and improvement.
Feedback (6)
Review
Lets managers review recorded video pitches to discuss areas of skill and areas that require improvement.
Scorecard
Provides a scorecard to display team and/or individual performance.
Coaching Card
Allows managers to utilize and snapshot scorecards to coach new hires and assign action items.
Leaderboard
Projects team sales performance publicly to reward and motivate employees.
Real-Time Updates
Updates sales data in real-time so as to help teams remain close to their goals.
Notifications
Notifies users of company-specified "danger zones" to correct behaviors and re-align sales processes in the right direction.
Incentives (4)
Badges
Assigns achievement badges to high-performing employees based on pre-determined standards.
Triggers
Automatically recognizes achievements that should be added to the leaderboard.
Commission Calculator
Helps users determine sales goals by calculating potential commission rates.
Leaderboards
Highlights top-performing employees to publicly reward their achievements.
Personalization (4)
Profiles
Creates user profiles similar to social media pages that display private or public statuses and updates.
Custom Reports
Generates reports with customizable fields to further understand employee performance.
Dashboards
Visualizes individual and team insights such as new leads and outbound calls.
Goal Setting
Allows teams to set trackable goals within the tool.
Administrative (3)
Integration
Integrates with CRM and financial systems to help determine goals
Employee Structure
Organizes team members by roles, activities and objectives and weighs tasks by importance.
Behavior Monitoring
Allows managers and administrators to peruse profiles and monitor employee behavior and performance.
Lead Facilitation (4)
Customer-facing Chatbot
Offers a chatbot to initiate and carryout inital conversations with prospects and leads.
Lead Qualification
Automatically calculates which leads are the most likely to become a customer.
Lead Follow-up
Automatically contacts all leads.
Meeting Scheduling
Utilizes natural language processing to set up meetings.
Organization (3)
Opportunity and Pipeline Management
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.
Data Entry
Automates the entry of collected data.
Integrations / APIs
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.
Performance Analysis (2)
Coaching
Provides real-time coaching to sales representatives.
Peformance Tracking
Tracks and analyzes sales representative performance.
Sales Analysis (2)
ROI Forecasting
Measure return on investment and leverage data to predict profitability of future projects.
Sales Forecasting
Enables projection of sales revenue, based on historical sales data, analysis of market surveys and trends, and salespersons' estimates.
Integrated Workflows (7)
Task Management
Automates in-system tasks and provides reminders and details for manual tasks for sales team members to complete.
Email Tracking/Automation
Integrates tightly with email inbox and allows the scheduling and tracking of email outreach and correspondence.
Calls and Voice
Provides sales dialer functionality or integrates tightly with dialer software, with useful automation and high-quality calls.
Other Outreach Options
Provides relevant automation in sales channels outside of email and calls, like social media posts, SMS text messages and more.
CRM Integration
Provides two-way integration with sales CRM: (1) Tracking sales team actions and prospect responses and (2) Pulling CRM data to populate and personalize sales outreach.
Calendar
Integrates with calendar software so users can seamlessly schedule calls.
Shared Records
Automatically assign strategic leads and accounts to individual reps in a shared bucket for anyone to work on.
Repeatability and Reportability (5)
Content Management
Retains and incorporates company-approved messaging and presentations into emails, calls, meetings, etc.
Workflow Management
Orchestrates automated sales tasks and outreach across a number of channels (email, calls, social media, etc.) and/or integrated systems.
Workflow Performance
Reports on the effectiveness of an entire outreach workflow as well as the effectiveness of specific marketing materials, messaging, outreach tactics, and team members.
Sales Coaching and Insights
Surfaces relevant insights about how a team member can perform better, either with improved sales techniques or prospect-specific hints.
Gamification
Provides gamifaction features to rank sales reps on performance
AI and Automation (5)
Lead Prioritization
Allows users to create lead prioritization rules to prioritize the msot important bueyrs and customers.
Lead Scoring
Provides lead scoring features that allow user to target leads that are the most qualified and likely to engage
Best Time of Day Scheduling
Provides features that allow users to identify and automate the best time to send out emails or other sales engagement communcations
Buyer Intelligence
Provides features that allow users to have insight into buyer profiles such as likelihood to respond to emails and calls.
Machine Learning
Provides AI and machine learning features that offer predictive recommendations no how to engage with buyers based on historical buyer behavior.
Generative AI (5)
AI Text Generation
Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.
AI Text Summarization
Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.
AI Text Generation
Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.
AI Text Summarization
Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.
AI Text Generation
Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.
Agentic AI - CRM (7)
Autonomous Task Execution
Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input
Multi-step Planning
Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes
Cross-system Integration
Works across multiple software systems or databases
Adaptive Learning
Improves performance based on feedback and experience
Natural Language Interaction
Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation
Proactive Assistance
Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting
Decision Making
Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives
Agentic AI - Sales Performance Management (3)
Autonomous Task Execution
Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input
Natural Language Interaction
Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation
Proactive Assistance
Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting
Agentic AI - Sales Coaching (4)
Multi-step Planning
Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes
Cross-system Integration
Works across multiple software systems or databases
Adaptive Learning
Improves performance based on feedback and experience
Decision Making
Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives
Agentic AI - Sales Enablement (3)
Autonomous Task Execution
Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input
Natural Language Interaction
Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation
Proactive Assistance
Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting
Agentic AI - Sales Engagement (7)
Autonomous Task Execution
Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input
Multi-step Planning
Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes
Cross-system Integration
Works across multiple software systems or databases
Adaptive Learning
Improves performance based on feedback and experience
Natural Language Interaction
Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation
Proactive Assistance
Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting
Decision Making
Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives
Agentic AI - AI Sales Assistant (7)
Autonomous Task Execution
Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input
Multi-step Planning
Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes
Cross-system Integration
Works across multiple software systems or databases
Adaptive Learning
Improves performance based on feedback and experience
Natural Language Interaction
Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation
Proactive Assistance
Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting
Decision Making
Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives
Learning Management - Sales Enablement (3)
Sales Training
Provides interactive learning to improve skill gaps through role-playing, practicing pitches, scenario-based simulations, etc.
Sales Coaching
Offers real-time feedback and actionable insights from structured, customized sales coaching assessments and templates.
Sales Onboarding
Provides personalized, interactive training to onboard new hires successfully while monitoring their progress and readiness.
Revenue Enablement - Sales Enablement (3)
Cross-Functional Alignment
Provides the tools and resources for alignment of all revenue-generating teams to engage customers in a consistent and personalized way
AI and Automation
Uses AI for predictive insights, recommendations for content, or automating workflows for onboarding and learning assignments
End-to-End Customer Journey Insights
Delivers a holistic view of interaction data and behavioral patterns across the entire customer journey to improve the buying experience and drive revenue growth
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