Likelihood to Recommend Groove is excellent for the use case of improving sales representative and customer success representative productivity and data quality when used alongside Salesforce . It is a Salesforce focused tool. You should definitely consider Groove if you are a current Salesloft / Outreach user and you also use Salesforce . Groove would not be a good fit for an organization not using Salesforce . Read full review Excellent as a customer relationship management tool, sales forecasting, building better sales plan for the entire deal lifecycle using critical and complex data, a 360-degree comprehensive view of vendors, partners, customers. Ensuring high standards and consistency is maintained in pricing so that quotes are competitive for prospective customers. At the end of the day, this is an excellent tool for selling and closing deals while being able to access needed information in one place.
Read full review Pros Groove lets us know real-time when a client has checked an email we sent them. Groove helps us streamline our day-to-day events, meetings, and tasks with the help of the Calendar Booking feature. Groove helps us save a lot of time on typing long letters when we explain our products to our customers with the help of their Templates feature. Read full review Easy to sell products[.] Build customers and make customer hub[.] Tracking the sales cycle from marketing to sell the product[.] Build Reports and Anayltics related to opportunities, leads, and service requests[.] Getting customers issues after and before selling[.] High ability to integrate with Oracles other products and 3rd products using Rest and Soap APIs[.] Restrict users using RBAC role based access[.] Read full review Cons The footprint of the person who lasts touches the information. The footprint of the person who edited the information. Date and time of the modification of the account owner. Date and time of the modification of the last person touching the account. Read full review I would like to see more integration with other CRMs such as Salesforce. We have each business unit built into Salesforce and it can track the amount of gross profit that flows through our Oracle database. It then further it trickles to each sales rep and what they've closed during their time at the company. These figures are not always accurate. It be difficult navigating to accounts and drilling down into each specific customer to understand details. Simon Vargas Director Of Business Development - Operating Room / Urology / Vein Therapy
Read full review Likelihood to Renew I actually don't have any complaint regarding groove. It's just that I will give 9 since I confidently believe that there'd be updates in the future which would be more optimal not just for us users but for the business as well. The only regret I have with groove is I was not able to use it before the current company that I'm employed
Read full review Usability Groove has been an awesome platform to use for sales pipeline management. I really enjoy how it integrates with my
Salesforce , Gmail, and
Google Calendar . It makes my job easier by helping me keep track of the progress of each sales contact that I have. Leads are able to reply and notify us using Groove.
Read full review Overall our organization has completely moved to Oracle CX Sales and now is able to utilize the latest technology backed by AI to provide a much better experience to customers and saving money at the same time. So it's a Win-Win situation. I believe there is a slight learning curve to derive [the] full value out of this but once you are there, you can delight your customers.
Read full review Reliability and Availability Our organization has not experienced any availability issues with Groove
Read full review Performance Everything is good
Read full review Some of the more complex customer reports we have created are slow to run at times.
Read full review Support Rating My company has a team dedicated to supporting our implementation of operative tools and business systems such as Groove. For this reason, I feel that we have ample support for Groove, although I have not personally contacted Groove for any support issues.
Read full review The support the Oracle team gives is generally very good. They are patient, willing to help, and their training methods are collaborative and inclusive. They have conducted multiple support sessions and it’s always been a great user experience. The stellar team [is] always on hand to lend support when the right time comes and their helpdesk is always on hand to help.
Read full review In-Person Training It was okay. But, just the once. I had to figure it out with help of others on my team.
Read full review Online Training Easy to use
Read full review Excellent online training material. On-demand always helps to access anytime, anywhere. Also, it is essential that in this day and age, video tutorials with actual product screenshots make the learning more useful and fun at the same time. Certifications help test knowledge gained during these tutorial sessions. This was a blessing for fresh users.
Read full review Implementation Rating At Nearpod, I have been impressed with the internal expertise and support around Groove as a key tool for the Sales and Customer Success business systems and operations.
Read full review If you have never used a CRM program is is hard to know exactly what you need. We had lots of changes during implementation and even more afterward once the users started working in it everyday. Also the partner we used didn't inform us about Allotments and not being able to Batch delete custom objects (you can now in recent releases). There were so many unknowns, that if I had it to do over, I would educate myself more and ask more questions of the partner that we used for implementation.
Read full review Alternatives Considered Groove is simple. Like their competitors, they give you the ability to create templated "Flows" (sequences) of calls, emails, and LinkedIn touches. Some of them can be automated, but it's also simple to personalize outreach. Ultimately, my decision to purchase Groove over some of the competitors was based on their
Salesforce integration, as well as white-glove customer service.
Read full review As compared to other CRM, this happens to be one of the best and most affordable as there are some cons, but the pros are great, and I have seen an increase in sales by using this platform. It works great for the sales process from start to end, like lead generation to closure.
Read full review Contract Terms and Pricing Model When we purchased this system it was one of the more expensive options in the market. However, with an adjustment in service and a relative price structure, this has become a lot more cost-effective over the past few years. It’s now more of a middle-ranking in the pricing structure and I would definitely say this is value for money.
Read full review Scalability Our organization was able to quickly scale Groove from a pilot group of a few users to a department-wide solution
Read full review Return on Investment Reduced several hours a week of logging time in Salesforce that either wouldn't get done or would have been done to the detriment of more value add activities. Saves hours per week by delivering actionable/useful info from Salesforce into Gmail Gives me valuable insight on what emails are being opened and read. This helps plan targeting. Read full review We can very easily pull up a customer's order and provide any detail they need. The time this saves compared to manually tracking customer orders and accounts is incredible. Knowing exactly who is contacting customer service and what their orders status is before answering the calls makes the customer service reps job much easier than before. Read full review ScreenShots Groove, a Clari company Screenshots