Alida CXM vs. InMoment XI Platform

From my experience, I believe that Vision Critical offers the best software to manage an insights community. They are great to work with, and my opinion has only improved over time. However, that doesn't mean it is the best survey software overall. If someone simply needs to program and distribute surveys, this may or may not be the right solution. There are some other really great survey tools on the market that are competitively priced and offer very intuitive interfaces (like Qualtrics). If you are going to recruit people to answer surveys or provide feedback on an ongoing basis (re-contacting and engaging with the same people repeatedly), though, Vision Critical would be my #1 recommendation.

InMoment VOC is well suited for any hospitality-based company that is guest-centric. It's like receiving a report card every day with info about what we are doing well and where we need to improve. I like how we were able to customize so many things like how often our managers receive emails and how organized guest recovery is now. I don't care for the reply templates. I don't like the idea of a guest feeling the reply is robotic in any way. Especially, if the guest reaches out more than once and the team uses the template provided in the system again. I think it takes away from the sincerity of the managers' response.

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• The team is helpful in creating complicated survey logic
• The team is accommodating in creating interfaces that suit our desired look
• The team keeps in regular contact in order to effectively manage our requests and goals

• Houses all of our information in one convenient location that everyone at any time can access
• Praise and coach our employees on customer service
• Problem solve using the reporting tools such as add criterion to narrow down on specific points of interest. I love how detailed the reports can be, it really takes the guess work out of problem solving

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• The functionality when creating a new questionnaire is rather clunky, particularly when there are a few conditional factors in the logical flow; being able to see those factors and how they apply with some sort of other logical layout would really help when creating a longer survey.
• There are quite a few steps that aren't intuitive when launching a survey, for instance all the various dates (launch date, reserve date, survey date, etc etc etc). If there were a description field if you hovered above labeled areas of sections that explained what this field was for that would really help
• It doesn't help either that the entire site is grey; it's a cold environment to be in for a long time, and the simple design makes it seem more clunky than it probably really is.

• I wish we could edit some of the information on our end. Sometimes it takes a little while to get access issues resolved from the support team going back and forth in emails.

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Vision Critical often requires you to dump the data to a statistical program. I hate that step. You waste time, and improve the chance of data being lost, or changed.

I think there is a ton of room to improve, in things as simple as aesthetics and other areas of logical flow when it comes to creating and then launching a survey, as well as providing descriptors for what each field is referencing. For instance, there are like 5 date fields to be filled out, but no button near them that says "this date will determine _________" and I am not about to go back into the training module, which was confusing enough to FIND, let alone work through to find just ONE answer.

Absolutely fantastic support team. Willing to help you online through vast collection of how-to guides and resources, online via chatbox, or over the phone. Even though we were in different time zones, they were always available. Very helpful and knowledgeable

Vision Critical is more appealing visually but no where near as complex or robust. Vision Critical is also much more expensive though.

• Our use of Vision Critical's software has allowed us to dramatically increase the amount of research that we do, at a much lower cost. Since there is no incremental cost for each survey we field, we can ask many questions we wouldn't have been able to otherwise.
• Our use of an insights community has also sped up the research process, allowing us to write, program, field and report on a survey within only a few days.
• Because of the two advantages listed above, we have been able to listen closer to our customers' opinions.

• Our Guest Care dept. became more efficient and productive overnight when we adopted the InMoment systems. Too many hours of tedious work was being done internally to track and report trends. The guest was taken care of but the root of the problem was solved. InMoment provides us with the tools needed to do so which boosts sales.

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