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Kintone

Score9.6 out of 10

60 Reviews and Ratings

What is Kintone?

Kintone is a customizable digital workplace platform used to manage data, tasks, and communication. The no-code drag-and-drop interface can be used to create custom applications.

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Top Performing Features

  • Territory management

    Users can defines salesperson territories based on customer or market characteristics.

    Category average: 7.3

  • Opportunity management

    Users can track deals and create quotes.

    Category average: 8.4

  • Case management

    This includes incident/ticket creation, routing, escalation, and resolution.

    Category average: 8.3

Areas for Improvement

  • Reporting

    Software provides a broad range of standard and the ability to build custom reports.

    Category average: 8.1

  • Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)

    Users can perform tasks within their inbox, such as logging emails, creating contacts, and creating events.

    Category average: 8.3

  • Marketing automation

    The software can integrate with marketing automation software such as Eloqua, Marketo or Pardot.

    Category average: 8.2

Kintone was our perfect solution

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Kintone to manage an internal service ticket database, as well as to manage our contacts and integrate contacts into email lists. We are still new to the platform and these are the main ways in which we are using it for now, but see potential for greater scope in the future.

Pros

  • Simple, user friendly interface
  • Report building from stored data
  • Easy to update and add new functionality to apps

Cons

  • Would love to be able to easily link records within a single app. For example, in our contact database app, it would be great to be able to have a link on one contact's record to the record of their associate. We have been over this with Kintone support and have not found a suitable way to do this.
  • Greater customisation of the layout would be nice.
  • Ability to change the placement of field labels

Return on Investment

  • It has allowed us to move entirely to a cloud based system, accessible from anywhere, eliminating the need to maintain on site servers.
  • Allows us to customise our data storage to our unique needs, which helps improve productivity and reduce redundancy.
  • It is still early in our experience with Kintone, but we expect to see monetary savings from the switch to using our custom built Kintone apps.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Zendesk Suite, monday CRM and Microsoft Access

Kintone is amazing

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Being a dispute resolution center, case management is critical. Kintone provides customized and adaptive solutions for our ever changing workflow. With Kintone, we are able to track and manage any and all case notes and data points.

Pros

  • Amazing customer service!
  • Flexibility in system configuration
  • Integration options for most any other architecture.

Cons

  • External communication capabilities
  • AI integration
  • Cheaper options for 3rd party integration tools

Return on Investment

  • Organization
  • Reporting
  • Resource referral

Usability

Other Software Used

Flutter by Google

Simple and Affordable

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We were looking for a simple, inexpensive data base solution so that we could eliminate the use of multiple spreadsheets that contained parts of the same data.

Kintone assigned us a technical support engineer that was extremely helpful with the initial set up and follow up afterwards.

Kintone has been a perfect solution for what we were looking to accomplish, and the support has exceeded our expectations.

Pros

  • Set up support.
  • Follow up support.
  • Ease of use.
  • Ease of updating.
  • Ease of reporting.

Cons

  • When running reports it would be helpful to have the fields listed in alphabetical order or by section. Currently they are listed in the order that they were added during set up.

Return on Investment

  • Efficiency - Has saved hours of time from previously needing to update multiple sources.
  • Efficiency is quickly locating data.
  • Increase accuracy with having all relevant records on the same platform.

Usability

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365 Business Premium, Slack, DocuSign

Quality data management product

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Kintone to keep track of all of our conference data including attendee records, faculty information, and course details. This includes thousands of records, all of which are now easily linked and searchable with simple reports and chart creation. This saves us time and keeps things more organized year to year.

Pros

  • Creates clear and customizable reports
  • Organizes data
  • Connects databases

Cons

  • Syncing between databases could be more seamless
  • When searching, the results are not always clear

Return on Investment

  • Improved efficiency for updating and accessing records
  • More reliable data management

Usability

Other Software Used

Microsoft SharePoint, Asana

Game changer software

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Kintone to help manage our inventory. We use it to track incoming material, material that has been sold but is not yet shipped out and material that has been sent out. We also use it to create invoices for our clients. It really helps us quickly and accurately look at our data to see what material is needed.

Pros

  • It’s very accurate at its calculations and provides a worry free experience. I know as long as I enter the correct data it will give me accurate out puts.
  • The customer service is top notch. It allows you to customize things just how your company needs.

Cons

  • There is so much you can do with kintone which makes it hard at times to customize. It can get confusing for some of the employees to navigate because it can do complex things. This is solved at times with the help of the customer service rep.
  • Kintone focus on the quality of the products functionality and not necessarily how pleasing it is to the eye.

Return on Investment

  • It has helped us reduce the amount of people we need to track our inventory. We’ve saved time and money using less people.
  • We are able to see our data much better now and have a spot that we can all look at the database on the go.

Alternatives Considered

QuickBooks Commerce