Groove, a Clari company vs. Sugar Connect

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Groove, a Clari company
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Groove is a sales engagement platform that enables sales leaders to execute their strategy in a smarter and more adaptive way. With Groove, revenue leaders can use automation to do more with less, with the goal of driving greater efficiency and effectiveness across the customer lifecycle. Groove states they enable more than 75,000 users at ADP, Google, Uber, iHeartMedia, Capital One, and other large enterprises.N/A
Sugar Connect
Score 6.2 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
SugarCRM’s Sugar Connect (formerly Collabspot) is a sales email tracking tool specifically targeting Gmail’s integration with SugarCRM. Sugar Connect offers email syncing, archiving, and tracking to help sales reps track and manage customer data. It also provides some automation within the interactions between Gmail and SugarCRM, and sales reporting and analytics on prospects’ interactions with emails. The platform can also track prospects’ social media activity data.N/A
Pricing
Groove, a Clari companySugar Connect
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Groove, a Clari companySugar Connect
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Groove, a Clari companySugar Connect
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Groove, a Clari companySugar Connect
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Score 8.2 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
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Score 8.8 out of 10
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Enterprises
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Groove, a Clari company
Groove, a Clari company
Score 8.7 out of 10
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User Ratings
Groove, a Clari companySugar Connect
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(706 ratings)
7.0
(2 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.9
(33 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.7
(542 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
9.1
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
5.3
(145 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
In-Person Training
4.9
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
9.1
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.6
(13 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
7.5
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.1
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.0
(2 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.1
(3 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Groove, a Clari companySugar Connect
Likelihood to Recommend
Groove.co
  • 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.
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SugarCRM
It is a fantastic and very useful application. It has many customization options, but it does not have the power that a giant company requires.
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Pros
Groove.co
  • 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.
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SugarCRM
  • Makes saving emails in SugarCRM really easy
  • Flexible as to which types of records you can save to
  • Accurate reporting on opens and clicks
  • Easily add new records to SugarCRM from Gmail inbox
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Cons
Groove.co
  • 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.
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SugarCRM
  • The payment plan that Collabspot provides does not have many advantages over the free plan.
  • The scores do not reflect the true assessment towards clients and candidates.
  • Mail templates have an outdated design.
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Likelihood to Renew
Groove.co
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
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SugarCRM
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Usability
Groove.co
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.
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SugarCRM
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Reliability and Availability
Groove.co
Our organization has not experienced any availability issues with Groove
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SugarCRM
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Performance
Groove.co
Everything is good
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SugarCRM
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Support Rating
Groove.co
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.
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SugarCRM
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In-Person Training
Groove.co
It was okay. But, just the once. I had to figure it out with help of others on my team.
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SugarCRM
No answers on this topic
Online Training
Groove.co
Easy to use
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SugarCRM
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Implementation Rating
Groove.co
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.
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SugarCRM
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Alternatives Considered
Groove.co
I have used Dialpad. Dialpad is great, and Groove in my opinion does everything Dialpad does. Dialpad lacks the automation, which makes me feel that Groove is much better. I have not used any other CRMS besides these two, but I do believe Groove is light years ahead of Dialpad.
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SugarCRM
Very similar. Two different layouts for two totally different systems. Collabspot/Sugar is my primary system, but when I was an SDR, I used HubSpot for prospecting primarily because of email automation. Now that I'm a Territory Manager, I don't use HubSpot much anymore as my time is filled up with partners and clients--I do less "hunting" these days than I did as an SDR. Our company uses SugarCRM and Collabspot is integrated so I use Collabspot almost exclusively now. Right tool for the right job, I guess.
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Scalability
Groove.co
Our organization was able to quickly scale Groove from a pilot group of a few users to a department-wide solution
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SugarCRM
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Return on Investment
Groove.co
  • 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.
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SugarCRM
  • The staff that enters is of guaranteed quality.
  • Customers can respond to our requests quickly.
  • The staff of the administration is much more committed to their work.
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Sugar Connect Screenshots

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