All information is in one place, easily accessible. Expirable reports are easy to run and it is easy to keep things up to date. Queries and reports can be easily customized to what you need.

The ability to write and customize reports and queries to what we need. We are soon to move to App Central and are looking forward to that functionality. The different modules that are offered are great.

Really I cannot say anything bad about the software. User friendly. The only con I have is not related to the software - it is technical support. In the past I could never say about word a tech support, they were awesome. Now tech support if very bad. Normally the phone does not get answered, you have to leave a voice mail that some times is returned and some times not. Then there are some tech support people that cannot help you. In the past you would call, your call would be quickly answered and your problem was quickly fixed allowing you to move on with your work. Definitely not the case any more. This has been going on for months and months with no improvement noted.

There are tons of little time savers that add up to a lot of efficiency. OIG sweeps, dashboards, links to NPPES and state licensing boards, ability to scan and screenshot documents straight into Cactus, NPDB queries, robust query tools, groups, workbooks, user-defined fields, databases of institutions, mail merge documents, contact log - it's all great!

The web-based version gave lots of improvements. I love the customer service! They are very responsive to their customers' needs. I love many things - easy queries, user-defined fields, NPDB access, scanning and screen shots directly into the software, dashboard!

They changed to a proprietary word processor instead of Word. There are things I can't do, and when I went to alter a Word document that I had created in Visual Cactus, it completely messed it up and made it unusable. I also find flat files more confusing than in Visual Cactus.

We're able to get the job done eventually

Dashboard, creating queries is easier (except one issue - note in Cons), it looks pretty. The pros do not outweigh the cons - a lot of functionality and speed was lost with Web Cactus. We have 18 entities, most of whom refuse to use web Cactus. We have put in requests with issues and even a few enhancement requests, which I've listed in the Cons below.

Cannot view multiple forms at the same time, VERY slow due to web-based, Reports keep breaking, queries come out funky sometimes - extra almost-blank lines (does not happen in Visual Cactus), sections that collapse can be "dangerous" - accidentally collapse something and a whole section is forgotten, excessive mouse usage - VC allowed us to tab and use arrow buttons to move around and use space bar to toggle checkboxes on and off, Running reports and documents is excruciatingly slow, editing Word documents is buggy, adjusting the light/dark contrast must be reconfigured every day, attaching documents to specialties is too complex, Updated crystal reports in Web Cactus does not carry over to VC and vice-versa, Fields in Web Cactus were moved around and even renamed which makes the transition from Visual to Web very painful, Verification Date and Verified By disappear when the Verified checkbox is unchecked, we are not able to delete NPDBs from Web Cactus which come back as an error - It works fine in VC.

System integration, better departmental communication, excellent informational tracking and accountability of task completion.

Provides a "one-stop-shop" for many needs and minimizes monotonous data entry through auto-population. Allows for simplified processes for credentialing and onboarding/physician relations.

I think my con would be not having adequate training on how to use all of the features. However, I do not think this is a software issues, just an issue with how the system was set up, implemented, and educationally developed. If I knew about the features that we had original capability, it would have been better utilized over the past two years.

Ability to track in Credentialing instances what verifications have been sent out and received. Ability to create widgets on the dashboard and track upcoming expirables is a great feature.

For a short period of time at a previous job, I used another credentialing software. The one thing I liked about that software was the auto verification and summary of those auto verifications at a glance to know OIG, SAM, Licenses, DEAs, ABMS were all automatically verified or all able to be ordered in a batch at any time. Cactus does have that functionality to some extent, but I think there is room for improvement.