Gold-Vision CRM is a customer relationship management (CRM) solution built as an integration for Microsoft Outlook.
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Sparkcentral was a social customer care solution and cloud-based customer engagement platform that catered specifically to customer care teams within large enterprises, enabling them to deliver real-time social customer service. Sparkcentral was acquired by Hootsuite in January 2021. The product has since been discontinued.
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Features
Gold-Vision
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Sales Force Automation
Comparison of Sales Force Automation features of Gold-Vision and Sparkcentral (discontinued)
Feature
Gold-Vision
10.0
1 Ratings
24% above category average
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Customer data management / contact management
10.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Workflow management
10.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Opportunity management
10.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)
10.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Contract management
10.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Quote & order management
10.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Marketing Automation
Comparison of Marketing Automation features of Gold-Vision and Sparkcentral (discontinued)
Feature
Gold-Vision
10.0
1 Ratings
26% above category average
Sparkcentral (discontinued)
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Email marketing
10.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
CRM Project Management
Comparison of CRM Project Management features of Gold-Vision and Sparkcentral (discontinued)
Feature
Gold-Vision
9.5
1 Ratings
21% above category average
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Billing and invoicing management
10.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Reporting
9.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of Gold-Vision and Sparkcentral (discontinued)
Feature
Gold-Vision
9.5
1 Ratings
22% above category average
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Custom fields
10.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Custom objects
9.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Gold-Vision and Sparkcentral (discontinued)
It is the best available solution for small businesses due to the licensing model and the ease of use. For companies like us who implement this for customers, it is easy to implement and train users. Larger companies would prefer to use existing products that have been developed for their specific industry or department.
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Sparkcentral has an extremely dedicated customer service team The platform UX is brilliant Reports are very detailed & easy to export The system is stable more than 98% of the time Queue management is extremely easy They need to work on a mobile app / making the website mobile friendly The ability to add more social media channels is essential
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A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
The biggest advantage of the Sparkcentral platform is its "inbox zero" philosophy. With this, our customer support requests are queued within the app, and agents need to work down the queue to keep it empty.
The app is designed from the ground up for customer care - instead of taking a generic social platform, and sprinkling in some customer care tools. Everything about Sparkcental is designed for helping our customers.
Sparkcentral allows us to do much better CRM. We can make customer notes, see recent interactions, determine who helped the customer (and when).
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In the beginning our team had the option to see what another user was typing as they responded to a post. With the latest update, this was taken away. That feature was key for us to shadow agents remotely who are still in training to provide real time feedback.
Our company has a number of different brands that we manage. Having a truly unified queue would be a great addition for us!
The bulk resolve should allow the option to select on the posts that you wish to resolve instead of selecting a time frame for bulk resolve. Often we find that marketing posts generate more volume in the evening. However, there are sometimes posts where the customer needs assistance during that time. So, if we were to bulk resolve for a certain number of evening hours we would potentially miss a customer's concern through that option as it is currently. But, if the option was to go through and select on all marketing posts and then bulk resolve you would ensure that you are not missing a post where a customer needs assistance.
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Sparkcentral has never given us a good reason to consider any other option. Aside from all the positive points I mentioned in previous areas of this review, something else that has really impressed us is their customer service (makes sense, they're a customer service company after all!). Any time we have a question or concern, we send them an email and we get a response almost instantly.
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A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
Probably the most important aspect would be the licensing model which makes it affordable for all businesses. Can be adapted to the business without having to change the business model around the CRM product.
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Sparkcentral does what it has offered to do, where other software made empty promises, Sparkcentral delivers. They also inform us, anytime they are undergoing maintenance or when Twitter or Facebook has an API change, where in previous cases we would have to discover this ourselves.
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It really filled a gap in the market where small business could not afford expensive CRM solutions.
As we are implementing this as a solutions for our customers we don't pay for it, but it provides a monthly income from supporting the infrastructure this has been deployed on.
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