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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    CallidusCloud LeadRocket (discontinued)

    Score4.3 out of 10
    N/ACallidusCloud LeadRocket offered users the ability to consolidate online and offline leads in one single platform. It has been discontinued in favor of SAP's Sales Cloud.

    $50

    per user per month

    Higher Logic Thrive

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AHigher Logic Thrive is a private community platform that empowers members, customers, support and product teams to create and manage meaningful, engaging online communities. The solution is designed to keep users coming back. They can find support, best practices, peer-to-peer connections, resources, events, and networking, all in one destination.N/A
    Pricing
    CallidusCloud LeadRocket (discontinued)Higher Logic Thrive
    Editions & Modules
    Marketing
    $50
    per user per month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CallidusCloud LeadRocket (discontinued)Higher Logic Thrive
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeRequired
    Additional DetailsAdditional users, domains, DNS, dedicated IP, and email volume are available as add-ons. Monthly pricing is available upon request.—
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    Community Pulse
    CallidusCloud LeadRocket (discontinued)Higher Logic Thrive
    Considered Both Products
    Discontinued Products
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    Higher Logic
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    80%
    Would buy again
    4 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    80%
    Delivers good value for the price
    4 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    CallidusCloud LeadRocket (discontinued)Higher Logic Thrive
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of CallidusCloud LeadRocket (discontinued) and Higher Logic Thrive
    Feature
    CallidusCloud LeadRocket (discontinued)
    6.5
    3 Ratings
    18% below category average
    Higher Logic Thrive
    -
    Ratings
    WYSIWYG email editor6.63 Ratings00 Ratings
    Landing pages6.43 Ratings00 Ratings
    Lead Management
    Comparison of Lead Management features of CallidusCloud LeadRocket (discontinued) and Higher Logic Thrive
    Feature
    CallidusCloud LeadRocket (discontinued)
    6.5
    3 Ratings
    20% below category average
    Higher Logic Thrive
    -
    Ratings
    Lead scoring and grading8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data quality management6.43 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated sales alerts and tasks5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social Media Marketing
    Comparison of Social Media Marketing features of CallidusCloud LeadRocket (discontinued) and Higher Logic Thrive
    Feature
    CallidusCloud LeadRocket (discontinued)
    5.0
    1 Ratings
    41% below category average
    Higher Logic Thrive
    -
    Ratings
    Social sharing and campaigns5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of CallidusCloud LeadRocket (discontinued) and Higher Logic Thrive
    Feature
    CallidusCloud LeadRocket (discontinued)
    6.4
    3 Ratings
    17% below category average
    Higher Logic Thrive
    -
    Ratings
    Role-based workflow & approvals6.43 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Small Businesses
    Vbout
    Score9.9 out of 10
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    Score7.6 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Bloomreach
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Higher Logic Vanilla
    Score5.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Iterable
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Verint Community
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    CallidusCloud LeadRocket (discontinued)Higher Logic Thrive
    Likelihood to Recommend
    2.9
    (15 ratings)
    9.0
    (18 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    6.0
    (13 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    7.4
    (2 ratings)
    6.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.8
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CallidusCloud LeadRocket (discontinued)Higher Logic Thrive
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    We have really enjoyed the personal level of customer service with CallidusCloud and the quick turn around on any concerns and issues. CallidusCloud works well as an integrated instance with Salesforce and also as a stand alone instance that can send to csv files. We have been able to build campaigns, track success of said campaigns and manage automation. The level of integration has been key to our success and to the ability to create professional, personalized templates that are true to our brand but allow us to innovate. We also are pleased with the way that we can add blocks of emails on during our busy times so that service is not interrupted.
    Incentivized
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    Higher Logic
    Higher Logic works very well for our business purposes. We can very easily create new communities when we need to (and this is often!). Our association isn't as concerned with driving engagement, but the tools Higher Logic provides allows us to take a closer look at the engagement level of our committee members when needed
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • Reporting - we can send out emails all day, but if we don't have something to report to the client after-the-fact it voids the entire process. Genius provided a visually stimulating reporting tool.
    • Tracking - Genius was great at tracking opens, clicks, bounces, hard bounces, etc. This helped us clean up our system as we sent campaigns out.
    • CRM Integration - Genius was great about tracking each contact (in Salesforce) and their activity via emails.
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    Higher Logic
    • Higher Logic product managers are probably some of the best in the industry. They know their products and aren't pushy in trying to sell them to you. Don't get me wrong, they do try to sell you a product, but they understand that not everyone who is tasked with learning more is also a decision maker. That doesn't stop them from being professional and thorough in their demonstrations or explanation of fees.
    • Their technical support is top notch. Not only do they work to resolve issues, they also work with you to help you with non-issues. Our initial redesign was done by an agency that worked with HL directly to set up the new site. When I was tasked with a mini-redesign this year, HL technical support offered me a lot of insight on how to best do this using just my skills and HL.
    • They offer training on their platforms to ensure your success as an administrator. There is no cost and you can either go to their onsite two days "boot camp" or you can access a plethora of training videos and webinars through their online users' community.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Discontinued Products
    • One area of LeadFormix that could be improved is the way it schedules out an email to multiple lists. It can get problematic when an email scheduled to ten lists takes ten hours (one list per hour) to go out. It also isn't efficient to make us schedule individual emails instead of this process. I would like to be able to send out an email to ten lists and have it arrive in everyone's mailboxes at the time I scheduled it for.
    • The email design platform could use work. I've resorted to coding my emails using html, since the WYSIWYG platform seems to add unwanted and un-needed style codes throughout the email (it's not a platform for people unfamiliar with coding).
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    Higher Logic
    • Reporting is copious but you cannot build your own reports so you may have lots of information in several different reports and have to pick and choose across several to combine manually. Exporting functionality is there but there are some reports that are only a screen shot and you cannot export them.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Discontinued Products
    Since the company has grown, the personal touch has dispatched and it's more difficult to get a rep. There is no longer a phone call that can be made but the responses don't take as long as others and the glitches are becoming more and more frequent.
    Incentivized
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    Higher Logic
    They are a great company that offer great products - primarily their community. As they continue to grow and expand their offerings, I believe they will increase the number of products that offer and in turn grow their client base. We use their community, activity synch, and volunteer manager currently.
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    Usability
    Discontinued Products
    Very easy to use and designed well.
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    Higher Logic
    The software is not that simple to use when you have to get volunteers involved in the content assembly process. The content management system that is native to Higher Logic could improve to make the task of training volunteers far easier. Given its simplicity, it is hard for the system to rival more developed websites that use advanced CMS software.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
    It has declined since we started with this company and it could be better.
    Incentivized
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    Higher Logic
    Higher Logic's support is sub-par at best. It can be difficult to get in contact with anyone from the support team, and when you do, it seems as if they don't want to talk to you and don't even have the answers to your questions. Within the past few months, we've contacted them twice and both times have been very disappointing. The first time was to let them know there was an inconsistency between the analytics report and the heat map. They basically said that they already knew about the problem but didn't have any set plans to fix it because they were working on other "more important" things. The second time was for a conference call to go over some additional features that we wanted to implement. And the lady we spoke with seemed very disgusted to have to speak with us and then rushed us off the phone because she had another call.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    We selected CallidusCloud (Genius) based on the level of service for the price. It was more cost effective then Silver Pop which was another tool recommended to us. On the other hand, mail chimp did not provide the level of integration needed with our CRM - Salesforce. We need to be able to connect the response to an email campaign to the individual contact (student) record and determine the success of the campaign.
    Incentivized
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    Higher Logic
    We are just in the early stages of looking into HubSpot Service Hub to determine if it will be a viable replacement for Higher Logic Community. We have other uses for the ServiceHub so there is an appeal to have it be a "one stop shop" for us. The big question however is how it will stack up to Higher Logic for the online communities. Candidly, while Higher Logic may be tough to beat in this area, it is something we will be looking closely at in the next 12 months.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • We have had problems with our emails landing up in spam which was hampering out marketing efforts.
    • Too many features that add very little value to business
    • You spend too much of time on the tool because the UI is very confusing
    Incentivized
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    Higher Logic
    • Understanding preferences-- Higher Logic helps us tap in to how our members want to hear from us.
    • Data collection-- Since we started using Higher Logic the amount of data we get from our members has increased greatly.
    • Consolidation of tools-- Higher Logic replaced 2 or 3 additional SAAS options being utilized by us. This helped save money!
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    CallidusCloud LeadRocket (discontinued) Screenshots

    Screenshot of Gain superior lead intelligence as you capture behavioral information such as path-to-discovery, areas of interest, level of engagement, and focus of each visit.Screenshot of See detailed information about who visits your website: prospects, leads, partners, or competitors.Screenshot of Create, test, schedule, automate, and measure email campaigns and nurture campaign workflows.Screenshot of Plan, automate and monitor complex, multi-step, trigger-based lead nurturing campaigns.Screenshot of Create, edit, and deploy your landing pages in minutes.

    Higher Logic Thrive Screenshots

    Screenshot of Higher Logic Thrive Community logged in view
Bring members together 24/7. Discussions, Q&A, events, and engagement tools like automation and a mobile app – Higher Logic Thrive Community provides everything you need to bring members back from wherever they are.Screenshot of Higher Logic Thrive Community logged out view
Your value proposition shines on the logged out view of Higher Logic Thrive Community. Use this valuable space to remind members and prospects about the important work your association does.Screenshot of Target groups
Tailor every email or automated campaign with dynamic content, segmentation, and personalization. Integrations with your AMS or online community make adding contacts and creating compound distribution lists a breeze.Screenshot of Message designer
Save time with pre-built email templates and automated campaigns based on nearly two decades of association experience.Screenshot of Reports
Refine your programs with data. Gain insight from email interactions and web tracking so you can refine your offerings and prove ROI.Screenshot of Engagement scoring
See how engaged your members are so you can be sure you are providing value.