Instantly Features
Platform (14)
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.
Internationalization
Allows orgainizations multi-national organizations to use tool effectively accross multiple languages and currencies
User, Role, and Access Management
Grant access to select data, features, objects, etc. based on the users, user role, groups, etc.
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.
Reporting/Dashboards
Access pre-built and custom reports and dashboards.
Mobile User Support
Allows software to be easily used on multiple mobile devices include phone and tablet devices.
APIs
Enables integration to external systems
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 (4)
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.
Campaign Management
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.
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 (9)
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.
Data Import & Export Tools
Tools for importing/exporting data to/from the platform to support campaign setup and reporting.
Integration APIs
Supports extensibility through APIs to build and manage integrations with third-party tools.
Breadth of Partner Applications
"Offers a wide range of plug-and-play integrations with third-party applications. "
CRM Integration
Integrates with CRM software, which can help provide context to your mailing lists.
Social Media Integration
Integrates with Social Media platforms, which can help expand your reach.
E-Commerce Integration
Integrates with e-commerce platforms, which can link directly to your online store.
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 (5)
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.
A/B Testing
Run A/B tests on subject lines, areas of content (both images and text), from names, or send dates.
Basic Reporting
Basic campaign performance reporting such as delivery, open, click, and unsubscribe rates.
Email Marketing (9)
Email and Mobile Preview
Make sure subscribers see email as intended. View emulated inboxes of major email providers and mobile devices (e.g., iOS, Android) to resolve rendering issues.
Manage Email Lists
List management tools include importing and maintaining subscriber data. Manage list segmentation, profile attribute management, and delivery status. Subscribers self-manage preferences.
High-Volume Sending
Ability to send thousands of unique, personalized emails per second.
Building and Personalizing Emails
Tools for designing, editing, and personalizing email content for recipients.
Sending Outbound Emails
Supports the ability to send outbound email campaigns to external recipients.
Manage Email Deliverability
Maximizes inbox placement by managing spam compliance and sender reputation.
Automated Email Responses
Automatically respond to user actions or triggers with predefined email messages.
Multi-user Account
Enables multiple users to login to the same account to maintain a single account for your entire marketing team.
Surveys
Ability to send secure and personalized survey invites to your contact list.
Data Availability (4)
Contact Data Availability
Does this product have the amount of contact data you require? Contact data includes a persons company, role, experience, email, telephone, etc.
Company Data Availability
Does this product have the amount of company data you require? Company data includes data on companies leadership, financials, industry, products, etc.
Industry Research Availability
Does this product offer industry research data that you require?
Technographic Data Availability
Does this product offer the technographic data that you require? Technographic data includes identifying a company's technology, hardware, and software used
Data Accuracy (3)
Contact Data Accuracy
How accurate and up to date is the contact data?
Company Data Accuracy
How accurate and up to date is the company data?
Technographic Data Accuracy
How accurate and up to date is the technographic data?
Features (9)
Lead Builder
Ability to create targeted contact lists.
Integration to CRM/Marketing Automation
Integrations to popular CRM/Marketing automation software to enable sales/marketing team members to view contact and company data from within the CRM/Marketing automation software.
Data Cleaning/Enrichment
Ability to clean/enrich existing data that is maintained in other systems
Data Segmentation/Filtering
Functionality to filter or segment data from within sales intelligence software
Search
Offers search tools that allow users to find the data they need quickly
News/People Alerts
Alerts you to changes happening to industries, companies and people you follow
Connections
Find the people you know that can introduce you to contacts at prospects
Reporting
Provides ability to create the reports that meet your business requirements
Messaging
Provides ability to message contacts directly from within the sales intelligence software
Lead Intelligence (8)
Market Insights
Provides tools that help identify key topics that are trending, as well as the content that customers are more likely to engage with.
Account-level Insights
Helps determine the correlation between ad exposure and site visits, assets downloaded, content, leads generated, etc.
Lead Analysis
Prioritizes leads through lead scoring, market insights, account-level insights, etc.
Lead Validation
Product accurately cleans, deduplicates, and verifies lead data.
Lead Enrichment
Product enriches existing lead data with missing information.
Lead Quality
Product provides accurate, up-to-date contact information for leads, such as email address or phone number.
Lead Analysis
Prioritizes leads through lead scoring, market insights, account-level insights, etc.
Browser Extension
Product offers a browser extension that validates or enriches lead information within the user’s browser.
Lead Management (3)
Segmentation
Provides customer and prospect segmentation capabilities, which in turn assists marketing prioritization and effectiveness.
Predictive Scoring
Automatically scores prospects based on behavior and engagement levels.
Account Identification
Helps identify and distribute accounts internally, giving prioritization to those that are more likely to convert to sales.
Marketing Campaigns (5)
Omni-Channel Tracking
Provides tracking across multiple digital advertising channels, such as video, mobile, and social media.
Revenue Planning
Helps allocate marketing budget based predicted amount of incoming revenue.
Media Attribution
Assists in the attribution of marketing budget by identifying successful campaigns and initiatives.
Opportunity Timeline
Provides a timeline to visualize the effects of individual campaigns, leads, and other opportunities.
Customization
Allows for custom report types to match the goals of a company.
Campaign Execution (4)
Website Personalization
Provides tools that dynamically serve content, messaging, and calls-to-action.
Prioritized Accounts
Helps determine which accounts have the highest/lowest opportunity to convert.
Trending Accounts
Helps determine the direction of each individual account and how to engage through specific content.
Email Campaigns
Connects sales emails with cross-sell/upsell marketing campaigns across multiple channels.
Analytics (3)
Open Rates
Records the rate at which emails are opened.
Link Activity
Records the rate at which links in emails are followed.
Attachment Activity
Records the rate at which email attachments are opened or downloaded.
Customizations (5)
Email Platform Integration
Syncs information from other software such as contacts, emails and calls to reduce manual data entry.
Email Scheduling
Allows administrators to schedule out emails in advance.
Notifications
Reminds administrators to follow-up on emails based on pre-set reminders.
Email Categorization
Allows for the categorization of emails.
Templates
Allows for the creation of templates for frequently-sent emails.
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.
Diagnosis (4)
IP Address
IP address quality analysis.
Domains
Sending domain quality analysis.
Content
Email content analysis.
Policy Compliance
Determing email and domain compliance with policies such as DMARC.
Tracking (5)
Processing Time
Measuring of delivery latency/processing time.
Placement
Tracking which folder email appears in.
Open Rate
Tracking open rate across recipients.
Time to Open
Tracking time between delivery and open.
Alerts
Notifications related to placement and opening.
Reporting (4)
Campaign Performance
Measuring overall campaign performance across recipients.
Domain Reputation
Measuring overall reputation related to specific sending domains.
Brand Reputation
Measuring overall reputation of brand based on all email activity.
Blacklist and Whitelist
Tracking recipient tagging of domains for blacklists and whitelists.
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 (7)
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 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 Generation
Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.
Agentic AI - Lead Mining (2)
Cross-system Integration
Works across multiple software systems or databases
Proactive Assistance
Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting
Agentic AI - Lead Intelligence (1)
Cross-system Integration
Works across multiple software systems or databases
Agentic AI - Visitor Identification (1)
Cross-system Integration
Works across multiple software systems or databases
Agentic AI - Sales Intelligence (6)
Autonomous Task Execution
Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input
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 - 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 - Email Tracking (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 - Account Data Management (5)
Autonomous Task Execution
Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input
Cross-system Integration
Works across multiple software systems or databases
Adaptive Learning
Improves performance based on feedback and experience
Proactive Assistance
Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting
Decision Making
Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives
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
Agentic AI - Email Marketing (5)
Autonomous Task Execution
Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input
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
Cross-system Integration
Works across multiple software systems or databases
Agentic AI - Email Deliverability (5)
Autonomous Task Execution
Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input
Cross-system Integration
Works across multiple software systems or databases
Adaptive Learning
Improves performance based on feedback and experience
Proactive Assistance
Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting
Decision Making
Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives
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