Outreach vs. InsideSales.com / XANT PowerDialer for Salesforce (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Outreach
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
Outreach is a sales execution platform that helps market-facing teams create and predictably close more pipeline. From prospecting to deal management to forecasting, Outreach leverages automation and artificial intelligence to help revenue leaders increase the efficiency and effectiveness of go-to-market activities and personnel across the revenue cycle. Outreach offers sales engagement, revenue intelligence, and revenue operations functionalities in a unified platform. The software…N/A
InsideSales.com / XANT PowerDialer for Salesforce (discontinued)
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
PowerDialer for Salesforce, from InsideSales.com / XANT is a discontinued sales dialer.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalRequired
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
Outreach
Chose Outreach
The Outreach sales team is accommodating, and it has more users & a better community. SalesLoft was more expensive as compared to Outreach and their sales process is difficult. InsideSales.com has a better sales process and expertise in this domain, but Outreach was more …
Chose Outreach
Outreach is way better. InsideSales.com has no UI, their integration was spotty at best, and we had very little insight or control at the rep level of what was going on. May be more ideal for account executives, but in my role, we need to be more agile.
Chose Outreach
Much like the Treasure Data platform, Outreach provides an end-to-end platform but for completing daily tasks. Though it's easy to use the taskbar or homepage, I can complete my tasks and follow-up proactively with my prospects. I have not seen another product much like this …
InsideSales.com / XANT PowerDialer for Salesforce (discontinued)
Chose InsideSales.com / XANT PowerDialer for Salesforce (discontinued)
Outreach is great if you need your calls and emails to happen at certain sequences. InsideSales is better for just doing calls and logging tasks in Salesforce. Because PowerDialer does not connect with gmail, I have to go in and send emails and open up another windows to do so. …
Chose InsideSales.com / XANT PowerDialer for Salesforce (discontinued)
Insidesales.com works well with Salesforce, and definitely augments some of the processes that Salesforce is pretty clunky with like calling lists.
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
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Preview Dialer
Comparison of Preview Dialer features of Product A and Product B
Outreach
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Ratings
InsideSales.com / XANT PowerDialer for Salesforce (discontinued)
7.3
14 Ratings
2% below category average
Contact preview00 Ratings8.012 Ratings
Dialer-CRM integration00 Ratings8.014 Ratings
Call notes & tags00 Ratings7.014 Ratings
Automatic call logging00 Ratings6.014 Ratings
Core Dialer
Comparison of Core Dialer features of Product A and Product B
Outreach
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Ratings
InsideSales.com / XANT PowerDialer for Salesforce (discontinued)
7.0
14 Ratings
11% below category average
Outbound dialing00 Ratings8.014 Ratings
Inbound routing00 Ratings7.011 Ratings
Custom caller ID00 Ratings7.012 Ratings
Click-to-call00 Ratings7.013 Ratings
Recorded voicemail drop00 Ratings6.08 Ratings
Dialer contact import00 Ratings7.011 Ratings
Campaign & list management00 Ratings7.09 Ratings
Call Follow-up and Quality Assurance
Comparison of Call Follow-up and Quality Assurance features of Product A and Product B
Outreach
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Ratings
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6.7
11 Ratings
16% below category average
Follow-up calls00 Ratings7.010 Ratings
Dialer reporting & analytics00 Ratings6.010 Ratings
Dialer compliance00 Ratings7.010 Ratings
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OutreachInsideSales.com / XANT PowerDialer for Salesforce (discontinued)
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
7.9
(202 ratings)
8.0
(32 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.0
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.2
(149 ratings)
8.0
(6 ratings)
Support Rating
2.3
(20 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
6.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Outreach
Outreach is well suited for teams that need to do cold outbound to prospects. It's easy enough to create sequences that will use a variety of touchpoints (email, inMail, call, etc...). It's also easy to share sequences with team members to collaborate and the very best messaging. Outreach's integration over Salesforce and Gmail is also invaluable, without it each team member would probably spend hours per week clicking between tabs just to get to prospect information On the other hand, Outreach is not the best to help you create content, as of this writing there is no AI support. It is also worth noting that Outreach's permission structure can create a lot of confusion for team members and that untangling errors at times can become complex
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Outbound dialing is where it excels. It's especially good with larger teams of reps. Organizing through campaigns and seek lists is very powerful once you understand how to use it. There is definitely a learning curve with seek lists (I've spent tons of time on the phone with their support staff) but once you understand it the possibilities are endless. You can sort which leads show up by a variety of filters. Even with a list of 10,000+ leads and 5 reps calling on it, you can ensure no leads show up in two reps lists, the reps are calling specific territories, and even skipping leads that are likely on their lunch break! One my of favorite tricks with seek lists and only calling people with titles like Director/VP/C-Level before 8:30am or after 5pm their time, when those people are more willing to pick up the phone. They also appreciate a sales rep who is putting in the extra time to call during those blocks.
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Pros
Outreach
  • Organization - I know when to make calls/emails/LinkedIn connections without having to overthink anything.
  • Alignment - the colleagues I work with on my accounts can keep tabs on my activity so there is no redundancy or overcommunication.
  • Ease of use - all my contacts are in one place, and sending automated emails I have built in my sequences give me so much time back in my day.
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  • Organizes your leads based on the parameters you set so you call the hottest leads first.
  • Connects with your phone so you can dial from your computer without having to enter the numbers every time.
  • It also allows you to record the notes from the call right there and they get added to the completed task in Salesforce.
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Cons
Outreach
  • Customer Service - zero support for small - medium businesses.
  • Billing - billing is messy, and customer service for billing questions is pretty awful (if anyone is ever available).
  • Bounce Rates - our bounce rates are through the roof when using Outreach which isn't a problem we have with HubSpot or Pardot.
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  • No call parking features for inbound calls, if on a call through the dialer, one cannot place that call on hold to take the second call.
  • All notes are lost when another inbound call comes in, whether or not you accept that call.
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Likelihood to Renew
Outreach
I like Outreach, but I do wonder about new competitors that are 25-50% less expensive.
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Usability
Outreach
The ease of use for outreach is next to none. Everything is clearly explained, you can hop on a call with their support team whenever, and it effortlessly integrates into your computer. You can do everything you need sales related on it, and the learning curve is small. I'd recommend it as a first and last CRM.
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I like that it is simple, functional and I can rely on it to help me get my work done everyday. My job became much harder without InsideSales.com. The new CRM I am using has confusing features and too much going on sometimes. There are so many fields and functions that I find unnecessary--what sucks is when I look at my screen at all these empty fields, it makes me feel incomplete. With InsideSales.com, I knew what to put in every box and why it would be important. I could put it in once and whether it was my manager, case admin or data analyst or me, we all knew where to find it. With our new system, I find myself having to do more input and data entry for other people to benefit--no longer a "one shot, one kill" deal.
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Support Rating
Outreach
The overall support of Outreach has been great. Whenever I have a problem, they were quick to fix it and typically respond within one business day. I don't typically have many requests for support because a lot of my questions can be answered through their knowledge panel. They have been fantastic to work with overall.
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They are providing good support. We can contact any time to raise our query.
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Online Training
Outreach
Lots of attention from the Outreach training team, with a great willingness to customize to our needs. To be clear, you get out what you put in. If you don't work with them, you'll get cookie-cutter training. But we asked for a lot of customization, and they delivered what we asked for.
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Implementation Rating
Outreach
Although we required a special setup, the process was quick. But we paid a lot for the implementation and didn't use 33% of the hours we purchased.
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Alternatives Considered
Outreach
We found that Outreach was superior to Salesloft and Gong, and a better fit for our organization for the following reasons:
  • User interface and overall experience: it's just a cleaner platform and easier to work in than the other two.
  • Feature set: the other two tools had more bells and whistles, but sometimes less is more, and the core functionality of Outreach is preferable.
  • Integration with Salesforce
  • Price
  • Customer support and training options are superior on Outreach
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I am actually not on the decision making side, but we used PowerDialer because of the easy to use integration with our CRM with Salesforce. Having these two tools in tandem was a great platform for us to do prospecting.
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Return on Investment
Outreach
  • The huge positive impact it had was the team not needing to spend as much time as disengaged opps as they were engaged ones. We were able to set sequences to work with them while the team could focus on generating new leads or converting Opps.
  • For an AE - post demo communication is important. With templates and snippets we could just click a few buttons and have a really nice email sent out with the relevant information and then the next several steps already planned out. This freed up time for us and even allowed us to take calls a lot sooner after demo's then before. For busy days this was very helpful.
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  • Improved Connect Rates - Knowing when our team has the highest chance of success has helped us optimize our call blocks, leading to an improved connect rate.
  • Dials - With dialer lists and click to call functionality, we are able to make more dials to the right people.
  • Rep achievement - Though harder to quantify, the gamification has focused the team around the right KPIs.
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ScreenShots

Outreach Screenshots

Screenshot of Help reps engage buyers with personalized interactions throughout their buying journey. Orchestrate all key sales activities — like emails, phone calls, social media touches — utilizing proven playbooks & messaging.Screenshot of Outreach Kaia - AI-powered virtual assistant that joins live meetings, captures real-time transcription, and delivers on-demand confidence with competitive and product details in the moment.Screenshot of Outreach Commit delivers real-time pipeline analysis and buyer engagement signals to bring science to the art of forecasting, enabling revenue leaders to go from guessing the future to changing it with recommended actions.Screenshot of Outreach Everywhere - Outreach is everywhere work happens, including Gmail and Salesforce.com.Screenshot of Outreach Success Plans provide complete visibility into a team’s deals at both a granular and big-picture level.Screenshot of Reporting - To improve results with actionable insights. Know the times, channels and sequences that reach prospects best.

InsideSales.com / XANT PowerDialer for Salesforce (discontinued) Screenshots

Screenshot of Click-to-call panel in SalesforceScreenshot of Logging a call within Salesforce using the click-to-call panel.Screenshot of PowerDialer interfaceScreenshot of Live call monitoring