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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Close CRM

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/AClose.io is a customer relationship management (CRM) software with call management and sales workflow automation capabilities.

    $19

    per month includes 1 user

    Verint Speech and Text Analytics

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AVerint Speech Analytics is a tool used to transcribe and analyze millions of calls to discover customer insights and improve contact center performance in the cloud.N/A
    Pricing
    Close CRMVerint Speech and Text Analytics
    Editions & Modules
    Solo
    $9
    per month (paid annually) per user
    Essentials
    $35
    per month (paid annually) per user
    Growth
    $99
    per month (paid annually) per user
    Scale
    $139
    per month (paid annually) per user
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Close CRMVerint Speech and Text Analytics
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsThe pricing listed here reflects up to a 35% discount for paying annually. Monthly billing is available at of $19 per user for the Solo plan (only 1 user allowed), $49 per user for the Essentials plan, $109 per user for the Growth plan, and $149 per user for the Scale plan.—
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    Community Pulse
    Close CRMVerint Speech and Text Analytics
    Considered Both Products
    Close
    No answer on this topic
    Verint
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    97%
    Would buy again
    90 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    66 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    92%
    Happy with the feature set
    86 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    98%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    47 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    81%
    Implementation went as expected
    56 Answers
    Features
    Close CRMVerint Speech and Text Analytics
    Sales Force Automation
    Comparison of Sales Force Automation features of Close CRM and Verint Speech and Text Analytics
    Feature
    Close CRM
    8.9
    8 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Verint Speech and Text Analytics
    -
    Ratings
    Customer data management / contact management8.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow management7.78 Ratings00 Ratings
    Territory management8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Opportunity management10.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)9.38 Ratings00 Ratings
    Contract management10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Interaction tracking8.38 Ratings00 Ratings
    Channel / partner relationship management9.73 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer Service & Support
    Comparison of Customer Service & Support features of Close CRM and Verint Speech and Text Analytics
    Feature
    Close CRM
    8.5
    6 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Verint Speech and Text Analytics
    -
    Ratings
    Case management8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call center management7.45 Ratings00 Ratings
    Help desk management10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Marketing Automation
    Comparison of Marketing Automation features of Close CRM and Verint Speech and Text Analytics
    Feature
    Close CRM
    9.0
    6 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Verint Speech and Text Analytics
    -
    Ratings
    Lead management8.76 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email marketing9.35 Ratings00 Ratings
    CRM Project Management
    Comparison of CRM Project Management features of Close CRM and Verint Speech and Text Analytics
    Feature
    Close CRM
    7.9
    6 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Verint Speech and Text Analytics
    -
    Ratings
    Task management8.35 Ratings00 Ratings
    Billing and invoicing management10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting5.45 Ratings00 Ratings
    CRM Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of CRM Reporting & Analytics features of Close CRM and Verint Speech and Text Analytics
    Feature
    Close CRM
    7.5
    6 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Verint Speech and Text Analytics
    -
    Ratings
    Forecasting10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pipeline visualization8.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable reports4.44 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customization
    Comparison of Customization features of Close CRM and Verint Speech and Text Analytics
    Feature
    Close CRM
    8.6
    8 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Verint Speech and Text Analytics
    -
    Ratings
    Custom fields10.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom objects10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scripting environment8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    API for custom integration6.47 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Close CRM and Verint Speech and Text Analytics
    Feature
    Close CRM
    8.0
    8 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Verint Speech and Text Analytics
    -
    Ratings
    Single sign-on capability8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-based user permissions8.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social CRM
    Comparison of Social CRM features of Close CRM and Verint Speech and Text Analytics
    Feature
    Close CRM
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    28% above category average
    Verint Speech and Text Analytics
    -
    Ratings
    Social data10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social engagement10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrations with 3rd-party Software
    Comparison of Integrations with 3rd-party Software features of Close CRM and Verint Speech and Text Analytics
    Feature
    Close CRM
    6.4
    4 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Verint Speech and Text Analytics
    -
    Ratings
    Marketing automation6.44 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform
    Comparison of Platform features of Close CRM and Verint Speech and Text Analytics
    Feature
    Close CRM
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    27% above category average
    Verint Speech and Text Analytics
    -
    Ratings
    Mobile access10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Salesflare
    Score10 out of 10
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    Score7.8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    Score9.7 out of 10
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    Enterprises
    Oracle Sales
    Score8.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Close CRMVerint Speech and Text Analytics
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.3
    (8 ratings)
    8.3
    (93 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.3
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    8.7
    (3 ratings)
    7.8
    (74 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.3
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Close CRMVerint Speech and Text Analytics
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Close
    Excellent software to increase sales and follow up with existing and new customers. Email and SMS handling are really easy for the sales team, managing leads is really great, and Close merges duplicate leads to help our Data Leads avoid repetitive and unnecessary calls. As mentioned in some comments before, must improve in reports, Close is not appropriate to handle or track agents' hours making it necessary to implement additional software to cover this area.
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    Verint
    In my experience, a lot of the times Verint Speech and Text Analytics is going to be the cheapest solution and this would be a good reason for a Business that does NOT currently have any solution whatsoever to get in at the cheaper price point. I think Verint does things well for a company that has not been in another solution that does it better. And Verint Speech and Text Analytics has a lot of areas that it can help business with that have not been in a different solution
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    Pros
    Close
    • Email sequences. Create and send a sequence of emails until the sequence finishes or the contact replies to your email. You can also pause the sequence manually.
    • Email sync. Syncs in real time with your email account, which is huge.
    • Zapier integration. We've automated a lot of our pipeline management through the Zapier integration. This saves us soooo much time.
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    Verint
    • One of the things that I find extremely beneficial about Verint Speech Analytics is the transcription. Sometimes you have an hour call, an hour and a half call, and you don't have time to listen to an hour and a half call. The beauty is that we can find the transcription and then we can look in it. It specifies where if you look in the interaction details in the back of the call, you can actually see the transcription. You can see it'll identify where in the call, what line at what timestamp did that call hit your category and with what string, with what term did it hit. And that is extremely beneficial. And we're trying to go through and find those little points of, sometimes they're points of abrasion, sometimes there are things that are going really well. I love that we have a transcription. I love that we can also see the screens that is vital because a lot of times, and again, not that we're trying to find something bad, but the reality is in any industry, there's in any call center environment, should I say, there's call avoidance. There's always going to be some agents, it's just in any call center, in any industry, it happens.
    • Or sometimes our agents are just struggling. And if you see in real life, for example, a very high silence time, when we notice a trend, we'll start going into those calls and actually looking at those screens and seeing, is silence time call avoidance or could it be the agents are having difficulty utilizing the resources? Are the resources not clear? Is that what the delay is? Are they having trouble trying to find the answer? And a lot of times we found that too. We found they're searching and clicking and searching and clicking and it's because they just didn't know where to go. So that is a coaching opportunity. And sometimes it's a coaching opportunity, not so much in a positive way because they're purchasing things from Amazon. But I think, like I said, that's inherent in any call center environment. I do find the screens, the transcription, the trend analysis that's available within speech, there are so many things I could literally sit here and talk to you for quite some time.
    • We love it. And I'm even more excited personally now because I learned so much, as I was saying, about being in the cloud and being in that open-source environment where all of these enhancements that Verint has. And they're so often that they enhance their products and their offering now these little bots and AI to help with all of these different aspects, but that's only available if you're in the cloud and the open source. So there's a lot of benefit in being in prem, in net platform, which is where we are. And we were able to provide a lot of meaningful insight and guidance into a lot of different pain points in the company. But I anticipate, and I have full confidence, that we'd be a much more effective team once we're able to move into the cloud. So I'm very hopeful for that. I'm anticipating what else we could discover.
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    Cons
    Close
    • Make it so one can set the time at which the emails go out.
    • Make it easier to set up my workflow.
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    Verint
    • Automated scrubbing of PCI and PII data from transcription transcripts and recordings. Using AI to detect the payment screens in a real time manner vs having to program triggers.
    • Easier way to bulk export transcriptions and recordings for our legal teams.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Close
    No answers on this topic
    Verint
    So excited for all the new bot functionality that is to come with Verint Interaction Analytics. AI is the future and Verint is leading the way!
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    Usability
    Close
    It's my favorite CRM to recommend to sales organizations. Robust Telephony options including a Power Dialer, SMS, and Voice Drop, are completely integrated into the CRM. The kicker is you can have "Unlimited" contacts where many platforms charge based on the number of users. This can make a huge difference in monthly billing.
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    Verint
    Easy to use, the language model can be custom-tuned to your company's specific lingo and terms. It also has great front-end reporting and ease of back-end custom reports and integrations to the rest of the Verint ecosystem. This is a one-stop shop for great insights and a stepping stone to much more.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Close
    No answers on this topic
    Verint
    There are few unplanned outages within the platform
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    Performance
    Close
    No answers on this topic
    Verint
    There is often latency within the Speech Analytics module.
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    Support Rating
    Close
    I haven't really had the need to use their support, but the only time I had an issue with the platform, the Close team was very attentive and responded in a short span of time. Also they take minimal time to solve issues. The only con here is there is no way to reach out to them apart from email.
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    Verint
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    Alternatives Considered
    Close
    Pipedrive was great for us for a long time. We used it for over 4 years. Our product and process was simple. When things got more complex, we needed something that could handle our growing needs and Pipedrive kept falling short. We built our own custom solution in Airtable and though it worked, we spend a lot of time managing it. Close was able to solve all our issues and save us hours per week in admin work.
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    Verint
    We did not have anything like this before but we did go through a long review and found out no other company had everything we needed. With our security and technology department we did decide that this was the best product for our business. Have all great thing to say and would recommend this to everyone
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    Scalability
    Close
    No answers on this topic
    Verint
    The system is relatively reliable with minimal downtime. However, when there is an issue, it is often addressed slowly and causes significant business issues
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    Return on Investment
    Close
    • Positive - It's much easier now with Close.io to make sure that no deal falls through the cracks. Therefore helping us recover lost revenue.
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    Verint
    • We are still developing ROI; we have a lot of data, but it's hard to get insights from the data at times. Adoption is something we are working on evaluating.
    • We have alerts that have saved us $ on benefit quoting errors.
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    ScreenShots

    Close CRM Screenshots

    Screenshot of Close's Inbox, which keeps sales team's emails, calls, and follow-ups in one unified view, so nothing slips through the cracks and every lead gets the attention it deserves.Screenshot of Close's Sales Pipeline, which offers a visual overview of every deal in progress, so your team can track opportunities, forecast revenue, and stay focused on moving deals forward.Screenshot of Close's Predictive Dialer. This automatically connects sales reps to live answers back-to-back, eliminating manual dialing and maximizing talk time to reach more prospects in less time.Screenshot of Close's Lead Profiles, which gives team a complete, centralized view of every contact, communication, and activity.Screenshot of Close's Smart Views, which prioritize leads with dynamic, customizable filters that keep sales teams focused.Screenshot of Close's Workflows, which automate repetitive sales tasks and follow-up sequences.