Salesforce launched Data.com in 2011, in partnership with D&B, but has since decided to gradually sunset the platform. Data.com offered a store of company and customer data for use in sales and prospecting.
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RainKing (discontinued)
Score7.7 out of 10
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RainKing is a sales intelligence software solution offered by RainKing Software.
Business Development Manager in Sales at HireVergence (Computer & Network Security, 51-200 employees)
Chose Data.com (discontinued)
I feel RainKing is the winner regarding just contact details and org charts within companies. Their info is better up to date and a little easier to manage and search. However, Data.com might have the advantage when it comes to company breakdown, allowing for actual financial …
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Verified User
Chose RainKing (discontinued)
I have used Data.com via Salesforce, which I think the org chart and industry feature is easier to understand in Rainking. DiscoverOrg, it has been a while since I used it but I remember liking it. I think the information was not as accurate as the information of Rainking.
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Verified User
Chose RainKing (discontinued)
Hands down best tool in its space! The information provided across all levels is unmatched, whether it is about technology or initiatives or org charts or just getting a prospects contact info, I trust Rainking more than any other tool available.
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Key User Insights
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Delivers good value for the price
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Happy with the feature set
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Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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Implementation went as expected
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Features
Data.com (discontinued)
RainKing (discontinued)
Prospecting
Comparison of Prospecting features of Data.com (discontinued) and RainKing (discontinued)
Feature
Data.com (discontinued)
6.9
25 Ratings
11% below category average
RainKing (discontinued)
8.3
14 Ratings
7% above category average
Advanced search
6.523 Ratings
8.014 Ratings
Identification of new leads
7.623 Ratings
8.914 Ratings
List quality
7.424 Ratings
8.013 Ratings
List upload/download
7.124 Ratings
7.113 Ratings
Ideal customer targeting
6.422 Ratings
8.914 Ratings
Load time/data access
6.425 Ratings
9.014 Ratings
Sales Intelligence Data Standards
Comparison of Sales Intelligence Data Standards features of Data.com (discontinued) and RainKing (discontinued)
Feature
Data.com (discontinued)
7.8
24 Ratings
1% above category average
RainKing (discontinued)
8.6
15 Ratings
10% above category average
Contact information
7.924 Ratings
8.915 Ratings
Company information
7.424 Ratings
8.115 Ratings
Industry information
8.018 Ratings
9.014 Ratings
Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification
Comparison of Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification features of Data.com (discontinued) and RainKing (discontinued)
Feature
Data.com (discontinued)
7.0
25 Ratings
6% below category average
RainKing (discontinued)
8.4
15 Ratings
12% above category average
Lead qualification process
8.917 Ratings
8.911 Ratings
Smart lists and recommendations
6.713 Ratings
8.012 Ratings
Salesforce integration
7.222 Ratings
8.011 Ratings
Company/business profiles
7.422 Ratings
8.913 Ratings
Alerts and reminders
6.114 Ratings
7.18 Ratings
Data hygiene
5.623 Ratings
8.913 Ratings
Automatic data refresh
7.114 Ratings
8.010 Ratings
Tags
6.913 Ratings
9.08 Ratings
Filters and segmentation
6.824 Ratings
8.914 Ratings
Sales Intelligence Email Features
Comparison of Sales Intelligence Email Features features of Data.com (discontinued) and RainKing (discontinued)
There are many scenarios that make data.com well suited, but most specifically, it works very well when looking for contacts within a certain zip code. You can sort and find information about these contacts and pay by points. This helps because you are able to pick and choose which you want to pay for.
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RainKing is less appropriate when you don't have the funds or resources to pay for it. You could easily Google the information that you're looking for, or use CrunchBase, but it's extremely time-consuming. RainKing makes this very easy and the data seamlessly sends to Salesforce with the proper integration. RainKing is very appropriate when you have a large team of folks that need to source leads/accounts simultaneously and need licenses to do so - it's worth the money with a larger team.
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Data.com is a great way to find out accurate revenue and employee numbers for companies across various industries.
Data.com's filtering capabilities allow our team to quickly find the ideal prospects to reach out to.
Data.com, being owned by Salesforce, allows for a seamless integration into our CRM. This saves us an incredible amount of time and ensures data accuracy.
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Being able to search for companies that are currently evaluating solutions in your space.
The contact information for people and related people is also great, I have used dozens of other data solutions and prefer Rainking.
Rainking also gives you the ability to create lists of your ideal buyer and download them which was great for my team and I pull new contacts to prospect!
I can't get over how impressive the org chart info is in RainKing, it allowed myself and my team to find other involved prospects and get a good feel for organizations.
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Some contacts can be old. Perhaps they could consider validating some that are older than 5 years.
They don't always detect duplicate companies. For example, I've added the same company twice before, I don't understand how they allow that, or prevent others from adding duplicates. It doesn't happen very often,, only occasionally.
Sometimes data.com will "autocorrect" a job title incorrectly. For example, entering "Director of People & Culture" will autocorrect it to "Director of peopleandculture" If you don't catch it, it looks pretty bad for the next person who wants to view the contact.
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Very intuitive to use and I've never had any confusion with features. Anyone can create an account and use the platform simply by adding a contact or company into the database to earn points. It's a great option if you don't have budget for lists or pay services. It is easy to use and anyone can benefit from it.
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Whenever I've had a question their support has responded pretty quickly and gives me exactly what I am looking for. I have not had any technical issues so I can't speak to issues there, but as far as general questions from a free user they have impressed me with how quickly they get back to me and the thoroughness of their answers.
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Adobe Workfront may not be the direct competitor of Data.com, but for the services I was using, Workfront looked a little better when it comes to the user interface. But Data.com definitely had more powerful features & better integration capabilities. Also, it was easier to play around with the customer journey in Data.com as compared to other tools I have used in the past.
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I've used SalesNavigator and Zoom Info. I actually think that Ranking is a great solution if you can use it in tandem with SalesNavigator. When it comes to pulling lists, in my opinion, Ranking does it best. Now that it has the database combined with Discoverorg, it's even more powerful to use.
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I don't have that information readily available to quantify the positive impact. However, I will say that I've found a lot of good prospects via RainKing to target my outreach efforts to. I definitely feel like the product pays for itself.
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