Groove, a Clari company vs. InsideSales Playbooks

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Groove, a Clari company
Score 8.7 out of 10
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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
InsideSales Playbooks
Score 7.0 out of 10
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InsideSales Playbooks (formerly XANT Playbooks) aims to help SDRs and AEs quickly build closeable pipeline, by helping salespeople get a hold of more of the right people. InsideSales.com uses their A.I.-platform called Neuralytics to target likely buyers combined with their cadence engine to help sales reps consistently engage all of their prospects in a personalized way. Just like Waze from Google helps drivers get to their destination quickly based on the data from other drivers,…N/A
Pricing
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredRequired
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
Groove, a Clari company
Chose Groove, a Clari company
10 to 1. The difference is night and day. It's not just that Playbooks was riddled with bugs and the tool would just be unusable VERY often, but it just wasn't a very user-friendly tool, to begin with. It was the first experience I had with a tool like that, and I just remember …
Chose Groove, a Clari company
No communication between the legacy products, Xant and Yesware, so having a unified tool to look at my activity and tie pieces of an account together under a unified dashboard makes my life much easier. In addition to that, my connection on OmniDialer is much more reliable than …
Chose Groove, a Clari company
Groove is the best sales enablement tool I've ever used. The email campaigns, scheduling, and automated features are the most impactful for my role as an enterprise strategic account executive role.
Chose Groove, a Clari company
Groove blows Xant out of the water. Xant was clunky, glitchy, and constantly disconnected my phone. I was contacting Xant support on a weekly basis. While the support was great, the tool could have been better. Groove never glitches, my phone has only disconnected once and it …
Chose Groove, a Clari company
When evaluating these products, we ultimately went with Groove for a few reasons. All of the products were very similar in the functionality department, so that wasn't a big factor. The biggest factor was the price. Groove was drastically lower than any of the other products …
InsideSales Playbooks

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User Ratings
Groove, a Clari companyInsideSales Playbooks
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(706 ratings)
1.3
(127 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.9
(33 ratings)
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Usability
8.7
(542 ratings)
3.3
(101 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(5 ratings)
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Performance
9.1
(5 ratings)
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Support Rating
5.3
(145 ratings)
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In-Person Training
4.9
(2 ratings)
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Online Training
9.1
(4 ratings)
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Implementation Rating
8.6
(13 ratings)
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Configurability
7.5
(6 ratings)
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Ease of integration
9.1
(2 ratings)
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Product Scalability
9.1
(5 ratings)
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Vendor post-sale
9.0
(2 ratings)
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Vendor pre-sale
9.1
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User Testimonials
Groove, a Clari companyInsideSales Playbooks
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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Aurea
It is well suited for any sales department, to try to get ahold of the person you are trying to get ahold of. Playbooks has increased the number of decision makers that I can get ahold of on a day to day basis. This tool would probably be less suited for people that do not have calls to make outside of the company.
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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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Aurea
  • Playbooks does a great job of letting reps know when phone numbers are not a working number.
  • Playbooks does a great job being able to be tailored to your specific organization or business.
  • Playbooks does a great job of having a very friendly user experience.
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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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Aurea
  • The ability to filter specific plays or pieces of information so that it's more user-friendly for the overall organization. Essentially, more room to customize the organization of accounts and how you're working them.
  • The initial onboarding process of accounts results in high levels of tasks - the ability to break these down in an easier way to help with time management would be helpful.
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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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Aurea
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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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Aurea
It only took a day to get comfortable with Playbooks. The ease of use and overall usability is fantastic in the sense that it's pretty straightforward once you get enough repetitions in the tool. I also like all of the videos and resources available if support is needed
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Reliability and Availability
Groove.co
Our organization has not experienced any availability issues with Groove
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Aurea
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Performance
Groove.co
Everything is good
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Aurea
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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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Aurea
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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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Aurea
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Online Training
Groove.co
Easy to use
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Aurea
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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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Aurea
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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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Aurea
The Insidesales Playbooks is by far more intuitive and organized than other programs I have used in the past. Unfortunately I have not had experience with other products that are available out there. I would hope we will see more improvements from the ISDC tool as we all use it more and provide feedback
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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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Aurea
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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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Aurea
  • 100's of hours back in our week due to Salesforce Integration!
  • We have more clients answering the phone due to creative caller ID solutions.
  • We can standardize our messaging by partnering with Marketing to help build plays and auto-enroll certain contacts based on messaging.
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