Talisma CRM

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CRM suite with marketing and KB (Knowledge Base) tools

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3.7 /5
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Value for Money
3.3/5
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3.8/5
Ease of Use
2.7/5
Customer Support
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Daniel
Daniel
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  • Industry: Higher Education
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

As a scholarship assistant, Talisma made communication and data management a breeze.

Reviewed on 2018/01/09

Communicating essential information to large groups of people, and being able to quickly gather...

Communicating essential information to large groups of people, and being able to quickly gather information about what a student had been told by various members of the admissions staff made communicating consistently a breeze.

Pros

It is incredibly easy to see what has been said to someone who contacts you by going to their site profile. It was also an essential tool in our office for event registrations. Talisma makes life so easy. Being able to assign interactions to specific staff members also makes communicating consistently easy. As an administrator, I could make sure there was one "go-to" contact for each type of interaction so that communication was consistent.

Cons

Vigilance does need to be exercised if someone will e-mail you with multiple accounts. Linking up information from multiple users can be a bit time-consuming.

Kayla
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  • Industry: Higher Education
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Great CRM Tool!

Reviewed on 2023/06/22

If you are a team that has lots of communications, you should be using a CRM! Especially like...

If you are a team that has lots of communications, you should be using a CRM! Especially like Talisma. Being able to see past cases has helped a lot with conversations when folks contact you again, but more importantly, being able to see the case loads of each staff member has helped us advocate for more staff and compensation.

Pros

Talisma is a great CRM. I think the interface has improved significantly since I began to use it earlier on in my higher education career. It has a bit of a learning curve to learn at first, but eventually we rolled it out to our student workers as well! They would log calls, emails and other leads. IT made it so much more effective to analyze their value in the office and the work we all did to recruit the next class!

Cons

It just has a bit of a learning curve, but what doesnt! I think it took me a good two months to feel really comfortable with it and now I'm the trainer for our team!

Bethany
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  • Industry: Philanthropy
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10

Super hard to learn and use, and very outdated CRM

Reviewed on 2024/10/29

When I worked on a team using Talisma, we were completely reliant on our database manager to do...

When I worked on a team using Talisma, we were completely reliant on our database manager to do almost 100% of our database related work. No one else on the team could even figure out how to run reports. I absolutely do not recommend it! Although I believe it is being discontinued.

Pros

Very little - the product is overwhelming and incredibly difficult to use.

Cons

Confusing and incredibly difficult to learn.

juan
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  • Industry: Education Management
  • Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Great CRM System

Reviewed on 2016/12/05

It's been almost 5 years working with Talimsa, we just upgraded to version 10 which is way better,...

It's been almost 5 years working with Talimsa, we just upgraded to version 10 which is way better, at the beginning was hard to move from access to this CRM but at the end has many many helpful tools to keep data and track of everything in our company

Pros

Very helpful tool

Cons

Hard to understand at the beginning

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Performing Arts
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10

Database administrator at a Big 10 school

Reviewed on 2018/01/18

Pros

Call tracking and e-mail flow. They make tracking inbound and outbound correspondence with prospective students very simple and clear.

Cons

Not user friendly. There is a large learning curve. The training videos were extremely simple and high-level and not exactly "real world" training--more of a glossary to understand the terminology.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Higher Education
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10

Not bad. But definitely not good.

Reviewed on 2019/02/04

I've been using Talisma regularly for the past year and a half—at least five or six times a day....

I've been using Talisma regularly for the past year and a half—at least five or six times a day. I've used other similar programs in the past—Raiser's Edge, DonorPerfect. I know Talisma is a smaller CRM, so I don't expect it to be exactly like either of those. The problem is, however, that it's often more of a headache than boon to our non-profit.

The tabs in a donor's profile are un-intuitive and un-organized, for one. I often have to hunt down information that should be easy to find. Running a simple report isn't too bad, but once you start adding more variables it's bound to fail. I've also run in to quite a few weird glitches or bugs since I began using Talisma.

Still, it does the basics—even with some difficultly—so it's not horrible. Our department received Talisma free as part of a package other department purchased a number of years back. I don't always agree with the "you get what you pay for" maxim, but in this case it's true.

Pros

1) Pricing for Talisma is not bad at all.
2) Logging comments on donor files is easy.
3) Color scheme doesn't give me a headache.

Cons

1) Overall, Talisma is plagued by a clunky interface that is amazingly counter-intuitive.
2) I felt like I needed an additional degree to run some moderately complex reports.
3) Even logging in can be a pain.
4) Almost every aspects that should be easy to deal with is not. At all.

Naveen
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Best CRM and Experience Management product for Banks and Financial services Industry

Reviewed on 2020/06/01

It has been great if not greatest because modern day CRM's do a great job. I extensively used the...

It has been great if not greatest because modern day CRM's do a great job. I extensively used the Lead management , contact management as well the Campaign response management tool. It was good but can not be compared with today's breed of tools. It satisfied the expectations of very specific industries. I still would like to see room for an improvement

Pros

Features and functionalities. One of the oldest software built out of India from Greatest Product minds. One think i liked was during a decade back only they pioneered the fact of OMNICHANNEL and experience management in India. they aquired pretty much all of BFSI Customer base in the region. bespoke to BFSI companies and processes.

Cons

On-premise in Nature with no pure cloud version not being available, UI needs to improve, Speed and performance .

Alternatives Considered

Salesforce Sales Cloud

Reasons for Switching to Talisma CRM

I have worked for this company
Ashley
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  • Industry: Education Management
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 3.0 /10

Clunky and Outdated

Reviewed on 2019/03/20

Currently, we are in the process of switching over to another education management system because...

Currently, we are in the process of switching over to another education management system because of all of the issues that we have had with Talisma over the past few years. While learning new software is never fun, we are excited to leave Talisma behind.

Pros

The basic features are fine and they do what you need them to do.

Cons

The overall layout is complicated to figure out and just feels very outdated. It's not intuitive at all. I spend so much time trying to figure out how to run reports that it just doesn't seem worth it to me.

melissa
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  • Industry: E-Learning
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 2.0 /10

slowest CRM we have ever had

Reviewed on 2020/07/15

It started out great, but over the last year or so it has gone completely downhill...useless piece...

It started out great, but over the last year or so it has gone completely downhill...useless piece of software

Pros

There are useful features to help our team keep organized and find things.

Cons

Never experienced consistent sluggishness. Completely ruins the productivity for our teams here. So glad our company is looking elsewhere. We cant function successfully with this CRM

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Higher Education
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10

Not user-friendly

Reviewed on 2018/06/19

Pros

I like that you can customize your home screen to your most commonly used reports, although not very easy to do.

Cons

The software is not very user-friendly. Reports are difficult to work through to get the answers you are seeking. I have heard the software as numerous capabilities, but without extensive training, you cannot navigate easily. This is not a program where you can self-teach the system.

Maria
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  • Industry: Education Management
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Great tool but hard to learn to use

Reviewed on 2019/08/13

Pros

I used Talisma for a year and it was a big revolution for the university I worked for. The tool changed the way we planned marketing campaigns, flows, and contact strategies for students and prospective students.

Cons

I had a hard time adapting at first, it was not an easy tool to learn to use, it generated many doubts and with that the results were slow to appear.

Donson
Donson
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Reviewed on 2017/07/22

Pranav
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Flexibility is the key differentiator of Talisma

Reviewed on 2010/07/28

Strongly recommended.

Strongly recommended.

Pros

(1) Web Client is very effective for the Sales Force dispersed across geographical locations
(2) Rich in Functionality and the Product features are best in class. 90% of customer requirements can be handled through parameterisations
(3) Customisable Product where additional features such as customised SQL Reports etc. can be built with minimum time to market
(4) Customer focussed management which understands the
(5) Flexibility to interface with as may systems as possible with significant ease

Cons

(1) Effective Support and Root Cuse Analysis is severely lacking in Talisma Support.

Ravi
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  • Industry: Real Estate
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10

We had to replace Talisma

Reviewed on 2019/01/09

Pros

As far as the functionality and reports are concerned it has in depth options to manage these. However when we reviewed the usability among the multiple team levels, we found that it need highly analytical and attentive approach and the sales team specially being on the field dint show the interest in managing records in the system.

Cons

Multiple workspaces, mobile app's navigation is not user friendly

Justin
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Good CRM

Reviewed on 2011/09/08

I would recomend this product

I would recomend this product

Pros

Good system with lots of features

Cons

Non intuitive, Traning is required