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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cortana (discontinued)

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft's Cortana was a general purpose productivity assistant, that has been deprecated as a standalone product.N/A

    Surfe

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/ASurfe is a lead gen tool used to add contacts, manage deals and pipelines straight from LinkedIn, and move this data into a CRM. Without tab-switching or manual data entry, Surf makes CRM fields accessible on LinkedIn, and users can input information, create new fields, and edit existing ones, while syncing this to a connected CRM in real-time. Surfe also helps users to save time by adding prospects from LinkedIn with a click of a button directly from their profile, and it does that without…

    $23

    per year per seat

    Pricing
    Cortana (discontinued)Surfe
    Editions & Modules
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    Free
    $0
    Basic
    $23
    per year per seat
    Professional
    $29
    per year per seat
    Business
    $59
    per year per seat
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Cortana (discontinued)Surfe
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Prices are for annual subscriptions. Monthly subscriptions are available. No credit card is needed for the trial and free.
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    Affinity CRM
    Score9.2 out of 10
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    Score7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Cortana (discontinued)Surfe
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.1
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cortana (discontinued)Surfe
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    It's easy for anyone who is expecting some simple AI problems like fetching the keywords, understanding the intent, language translation, etc. to be solved from an existing database and all they need is to connect to their APIs via a subscription model. But for complex use cases, there is still room for improvement like customization of underlying AI models for a specific use case like identifying some unique identifiers with respect to industry.
    Incentivized
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    Surfe
    Surfe is really a great help/support for our marketing and data team. It saves plenty of time and manual work. We are totally happy with the product and also setup was done in 5 Min.
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • Being hosted in Azure solves a massive hosting problem
    • The language understanding system has the ability to revolutionize many vertical markets
    • Integrating with Cortana Analytics was really simple due to easy to understand documentation
    Incentivized
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    Surfe
    • Easy to set up in both directions
    • Getting account data out of LinkedIn
    • Searching for Contact options, i.e. E-Mail and phone
    • Getting Company Data out of LinkedIn
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    Cons
    Discontinued Products
    • More partnerships with colleges and schools to increase the workforce with technical knowledge (increase local workforce)
    • Have more online training and documentation in other languages
    • Have affordable prices for students
    Incentivized
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    Surfe
    • After installing the Chrome Plugin, LinkedIn is a bit slower than before
    • Pricing is okay, but import from Sales Navigator should be included in the Basic Package
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    IBM Watson Assistant has been early into this market and has improved a lot over time compared to Azure AI Cortana. More documentation related to the services. But Ease of integration Azure AI ranks over IBM Watson Assistant. And again in terms of services offered under the ecosystem, Azure AI precedes IBM Watson Assitant.
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    Surfe
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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • Difficult to ascertain the ROI as we are a software house who have developed a module in our application using Cortana. However for companies that use our software I would say the use of sentiment analysis in our application could free up at least 1 full time resource to be used elsewhere in their organisation.
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    Surfe
    • Saves time in research
    • Getting data and helping to build a database out of a paid platform
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    ScreenShots

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    Screenshot of Adds contacts to a CRM, and exports whole SalesNav contact lists in one go to save time.Screenshot of Finds emails and edit CRM fields. Automatically sources verified emails, and keep contacts updated.Screenshot of Syncs messages with a CRM, and offers reuseable personalized message templates on LinkedIn.Screenshot of Deal management and pipeline access from LinkedIn, with a side panel to create and configure deals.Screenshot of Keeps contacts updated, and sends notifications when someone in the associated CRM changes their position & company.Screenshot of Task creator, to keep track of a to-do list by creating tasks as reminders for specific CRM records