Progress Podio 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.

Integrate with CRM, marketing, or customer service software.

Provide integration with accounting software and ERP systems.

Connect to external data sources such as databases or BI software.

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.

Create and assign tasks for individual users with details and due dates.

Set deadlines and milestones for tasks, manually or automatically (based on project templates).

Set priority levels on tasks so individuals can organize their work.

Each user can view their list of tasks to be completed without having access to other tasks.

Define dependencies between tasks and the rules to manage them.

Allows users to update multiple tasks at the same time, accross multiple projects.

Users can move tasks and change dependencies using drag and drop.

Define recurring tasks that can be scheduled automatically at pre-defined intervals.

Plan and create work breakdown structure (WBS) based on the scope of the project.

Projects can be mapped out with milestones, due dates, deliverables and interdependencies.

Provide visual representations of tasks, dependencies, and progress.

Planned projects are mapped to a schedule with due dates and deliverables detailed day-by-day.

Create customized project views for internal and external purposes (eg: for customers).

Associate a budget with a project and allocate it accordingly by task or resource.

Track issues at the project or task level, and manage resolutions.

Provide standards templates that can be customized by users to create new projects.

Automatically calculate the critical path for projects and update it when projects change.

Track time and expenses associated with projects or tasks.

Support agile and waterfall project management methodologies.

Create human and material resources and categorize them based on skills and other criteria.

Monitor capacity in real time to track resource use and identify bottlenecks.

Allocate resources by matching capacity and demand, by project, team, or department.

Track key performance indicators or baseline assessments throughout project lifecycle or across multiple projects.

Monitor resource allocation to identify shortages and adjust accordingly.

Deliver dashboards that display project data and KPIs in real time.

Create and assign tasks for individual users with details and due dates.

Set deadlines and milestones for tasks, manually or automatically (based on project templates).

Users can move tasks and change dependencies using drag and drop.

Allows users to update multiple tasks at the same time, accross multiple projects.

Set priority levels on tasks so individuals can organize their work.

Each user can view their list of tasks to be completed without having access to other tasks.

Define dependencies between tasks and the rules to manage them.

Define recurring tasks that can be scheduled automatically at pre-defined intervals.

Provide standard workflows that can be used accross the company.

Allow administrators to configure workflows and processes.

Deliver a single data repository for all project information.

Define and manage roles and access rights for the entire system.

Maintain procedures for data access and governance.

Allow users to use the system online and on mobile devices.

Set priority levels on tasks so individuals can organize their work.

Define dependencies between tasks and the rules to manage them.

Plan and create work breakdown structure (WBS) based on the scope of the project.

Create customized project views for internal and external purposes (eg: for customers).

Allocate resources by matching capacity and demand, by project, team, or department.

Automatically calculate the critical path for projects and update it when projects change.

Deliver dashboards that display project data and KPIs in real time.

Monitor resource allocation to identify shortages and adjust accordingly.

Define customizable workspace for teams, departments, and external users.

Provide drag and drop options to configure workspaces.

Monitor work accross the company and analyze performance.

Support multiple channels for internal and external communications.

Allow users to share and collaborate on documents and files.

Help users meet, share workspaces, and collaborate on tasks.

Associate a budget with a project and allocate it accordingly by task or resource.

Track time and expenses associated with projects or tasks.

Monitor project proftability by team or department.

Provide live chat tools for instant messaging

Ability to involve multiple users in public or private discussions

Allow external users to use chat and discussions

Provide functionality to create and manage polls and surveys

Manage news and announcements by company or department

Documents can be shared between users and teams

User can share notes with colleagues or external users

Help users find documents and other types of content

Keep track of document versions and related changes

Create personalized project views for collaboration

Allow users to follow tasks which are not assigned to them

Define and manage users access to documents and collaboration features

Manage private and shared calendars and associated events

Make project views available for the public.

Include features to create, assign, and manage tasks.

Deliver project plans that can be customized by users.

Provide visibility into collaborative processes accross the company

Provide integration with task management and project management software.

Align remote employees with their colleagues and external users

Define and track responsabilities for remote users

Allow users to connect to tools that they use remotely

Users can work offline and changes are synced when they back online

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.

Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes

Works across multiple software systems or databases

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

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

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

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes

Works across multiple software systems or databases