Jeeva AI is an agentic AI platform for anyone who sells. It gives sellers their time back by allowing sales teams to focus on tasks that require human connection while automating the processes that don’t. Instead of wasting reps' time on list-building, inbox triage, and manual follow-ups, Jeeva AI automates the entire revenue workflow: discovering and enriching leads, writing personalized multichannel outreach, handling inbound replies, scheduling meetings, prepping…
$1,000
per month
KANA Express, discontinued
Score 3.3 out of 10
N/A
Verint Express (formerly KANA Express) was a cloud-based multi-channel customer engagement / experience platform that was owned and supported by Verint since that company's 2014 acquisition of KANA Software. The product has since been discontinued.
If anyone is looking to pile up the list of email lists to send out e-blast or cold messages, I would highly recommend Jeeva AI. However, if anyone needs more of organic work, I would recommend using Jeeva AI to collect contact information, but do the work manually.
If your business has more than 50 users, don't use KANA Express. User management and setup is not intuitive, and back-end email management takes a large amount of time. If your business emails more than one recipient and expects replies from more than one recipient, don't use KANA Express. The system is built for one-question-in, one-answer-out. Anything more than that requires extra customization or is impossible, according to their development team. If managing your inbound email either internally or externally is critical to your operations, don't use KANA Express. Downtime is more frequent than is acceptable, and their Netherlands advanced support team's hours make down-time in the western hemisphere a lot longer than it needs to be.
KANA Express is NOT set up for business models where email is conversational and involves multiple recipients and responses. If your business model is one-question-in, one-answer-out, then KANA Express will probably work for you.
Since signing on with them, KANA Express' support team has been severely lacking in expertise and acceptable turnaround times, especially when the platform encounters a system-wide issue to leads to downtime. Our assigned sales contacts jumped ship with the company almost immediately after we went live, which is never a good sign.
Admin panel and functions are very antiquated and not user-friendly at all. Email management through the admin tool lacks crucial insight that prevents admin users from being able to easily route and manage emails. Our organization had to write our own KANA user guides that KANA Express then took and started using themselves and for other clients.
The KANA Express platform does not have proper spam or auto-reply management tools. Admin users must manually turn off the KANA Express auto-response emails in order to prevent email loops with other parties' auto-responses.
Analytics options are lacking. Admin users must run at least three separate reports in order to gather appropriate insight as to user activities and metrics.
Email queue/user set up is not intuitive. If adding a new queue or user, all users must be manually adjusted to include that new queue. There is no mass-edit tool for KANA Express users.
Jeeva is composed of individual products / features that form a robust, automation-based, outbound system when combined. Parts of the tech stack within Jeeva itself – can be difficult to work with independently. Some of what the individual products provided makes you ask why? Why was this individual product / feature implemented
Jeeva AI is less straightforward than Sales Nav. It seems that it is trying to be everything that Sales Nav is, but not quite achieving it yet. The customer service for Linkedin is far superior to Jeeva's. Jeeva's team refused to give me a refund on my first month's subscription despite their refund policy clearly stating that I was entitled to it. This has never happened before with Linkedin Sales Nav.
KANA Express was originally presented as an excellent alternative to Fastraq, an email management system that was in EOL during the time we were shopping for alternatives. Unfortunately, our originally planned ROI was not achieved due to lost functionality and broken sales promises, leaving us with an email management system that's built more on workarounds than out-of-the-box solutions, requiring considerable time for admin activities that could be avoided by a better-designed system.
