ZoomInfo Operations vs. Salesforce Agentforce Marketing

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
ZoomInfo Operations
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
ZoomInfo OperationsOS/RingLead is a comprehensive data quality management platform for sales and marketing operations teams to clean, enrich, and route their go-to-market data.N/A
Agentforce Marketing
Score 7.7 out of 10
N/A
Marketing Cloud is a cloud-based digital marketing platform, used by marketers can segment their audience, deliver personalized messages, track campaign performance, engage leads and accounts, and optimize strategies based on real-time insights.
$1,250
per month per installation
Pricing
ZoomInfo OperationsSalesforce Agentforce Marketing
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Account Engagement
$1,250
per month
Engagement
$1,250
per month
Intelligence
$3,000
per month
Loyalty Management
$20,000
per month
Personalization
$100,000
per year
Data Cloud for Marketing
$108,000
per year
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ZoomInfo OperationsAgentforce Marketing
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
Additional Details
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ZoomInfo OperationsSalesforce Agentforce Marketing
Features
ZoomInfo OperationsSalesforce Agentforce Marketing
Data Quality
Comparison of Data Quality features of Product A and Product B
ZoomInfo Operations
8.7
21 Ratings
3% above category average
Salesforce Agentforce Marketing
-
Ratings
Data source connectivity8.421 Ratings00 Ratings
Data profiling8.720 Ratings00 Ratings
Data element standardization8.820 Ratings00 Ratings
Match and merge9.218 Ratings00 Ratings
Address verification8.621 Ratings00 Ratings
Email & Online Marketing
Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Product A and Product B
ZoomInfo Operations
-
Ratings
Salesforce Agentforce Marketing
7.5
171 Ratings
2% below category average
WYSIWYG email editor00 Ratings7.6122 Ratings
Dynamic content00 Ratings8.0153 Ratings
Ability to test dynamic content00 Ratings6.7112 Ratings
Landing pages00 Ratings7.6121 Ratings
A/B testing00 Ratings7.2151 Ratings
Mobile optimization00 Ratings6.8111 Ratings
Email deliverability reporting00 Ratings7.5132 Ratings
List management00 Ratings8.2129 Ratings
Triggered drip sequences00 Ratings7.495 Ratings
Lead Management
Comparison of Lead Management features of Product A and Product B
ZoomInfo Operations
-
Ratings
Salesforce Agentforce Marketing
8.1
124 Ratings
4% above category average
Lead nurturing automation00 Ratings8.6109 Ratings
Lead scoring and grading00 Ratings8.1110 Ratings
Data quality management00 Ratings7.5116 Ratings
Automated sales alerts and tasks00 Ratings8.3101 Ratings
Campaign Management
Comparison of Campaign Management features of Product A and Product B
ZoomInfo Operations
-
Ratings
Salesforce Agentforce Marketing
7.5
114 Ratings
1% above category average
Calendaring00 Ratings7.6103 Ratings
Event/webinar marketing00 Ratings7.497 Ratings
Social Media Marketing
Comparison of Social Media Marketing features of Product A and Product B
ZoomInfo Operations
-
Ratings
Salesforce Agentforce Marketing
7.5
88 Ratings
2% above category average
Social sharing and campaigns00 Ratings7.583 Ratings
Social profile integration00 Ratings7.539 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
ZoomInfo Operations
-
Ratings
Salesforce Agentforce Marketing
7.7
124 Ratings
5% above category average
Dashboards00 Ratings8.2118 Ratings
Standard reports00 Ratings7.6123 Ratings
Custom reports00 Ratings7.4100 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
ZoomInfo Operations
-
Ratings
Salesforce Agentforce Marketing
7.6
124 Ratings
2% above category average
API00 Ratings6.890 Ratings
Role-based workflow & approvals00 Ratings6.989 Ratings
Customizability00 Ratings7.0111 Ratings
Integration with Salesforce.com00 Ratings7.8113 Ratings
Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM00 Ratings8.814 Ratings
Integration with SugarCRM00 Ratings8.311 Ratings
Third-party software integrations00 Ratings7.424 Ratings
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User Ratings
ZoomInfo OperationsSalesforce Agentforce Marketing
Likelihood to Recommend
9.2
(126 ratings)
8.0
(328 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.2
(6 ratings)
8.1
(114 ratings)
Usability
9.2
(26 ratings)
8.4
(37 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(1 ratings)
10.0
(11 ratings)
Performance
9.1
(1 ratings)
9.6
(9 ratings)
Support Rating
8.5
(4 ratings)
7.0
(36 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
5.0
(4 ratings)
Online Training
9.1
(1 ratings)
8.1
(7 ratings)
Implementation Rating
10.0
(3 ratings)
3.0
(17 ratings)
Configurability
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.1
(1 ratings)
7.0
(2 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.1
(1 ratings)
7.2
(39 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.1
(1 ratings)
8.0
(3 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.1
(1 ratings)
7.0
(3 ratings)
User Testimonials
ZoomInfo OperationsSalesforce Agentforce Marketing
Likelihood to Recommend
ZoomInfo
We used to suffer with the leakage of leads and with duplicate entries, just like how I mentioned earlier. After implementing it, our data hygiene has improved by a huge quantity. Our team has become more efficient in terms of reaching out to the prospect within minutes of showing interest in our SAAS security products and services, instead of spending time on data entry in the Excel sheets and then working on the lead. It has reduced our manual research time by almost 36 %, allowing the team to focus on revenue generation rather than Sales operations.
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Salesforce
I think the product, by definition, is meant for marketing — and we use it exactly for that, for running campaigns. That’s the best-suited use case for the product. I don’t think it’s really meant to be used for anything else — that’s just not how it’s designed.
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Pros
ZoomInfo
  • EverString allows us to build account lists based off in-depth firmographic or technographic data. It's far more accurate than trying to build these lists any other way.
  • EverString is fast. Where it might've previously taken us weeks to build lists of this quality, we now can build them in a matter of minutes (and have them ready to be published in a couple of hours).
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Salesforce
  • Filter relevant content so you can priorize those that are more relevant and resolve it first
  • Measure the traffic in the different social networks, as well as the response rate, average response time and other relevant metrics
  • Configure automation rules to order the work of those who must interact with the customer
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Cons
ZoomInfo
  • Lower pricing tier, some other zoom products have freemium versions which would be nice
  • Faster import/export time for data, depending on the size of the data, it may take close to more than a few minutes.
  • Merging data does not always report 100% of data merged.
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Salesforce
  • The email builder does not offer any way to catch/check bugs across different email service providers
  • Creating SQL is not as easy as drag-and-drop; a lot of technical knowledge is required
  • Salesforce Marketing Cloud is sold as a marketing tool, but to be honest, you need a LOT of technical IT support to run the tool
  • Einstein metrics are across the board; if you have multiple audiences in one instance of Salesforce Marketing Cloud you can't segment the data.
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Likelihood to Renew
ZoomInfo
I give this rating because I feel that ZoomInfo Operations has made our work easier and smoother than before. Like now we manage our sales leads, new engagements, easily, and the data we get from ZoomInfo Operations helps us a lot to move in the right direction. our customer success rate is higher than before after implementing it.
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Salesforce
As of right now we have not seen any other program that integrates as seamlessly into our Salesforce platform. We have barely scratched the surface of all the features and use cases. It would be irresponsible to make a move to another platform in the near future. We have not come up against any limitations that would prompt a need to switch
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Usability
ZoomInfo
Very easy to use - there are only a couple of areas that I need to think through how best to build specific rules or logic to ensure updates are made as expected. The ability to easily add filters and immediately see how many records match them creates a use case in itself. Sometimes we pull up Ringlead just to gain quicker access to counts of records that meet specific criteria, because it is faster than building views or reports in Salesforce. It is also extremely easy to see what records were updated, imported, or merged - the reporting and access to the history of activities are very helpful.
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Salesforce
You won't find another solution that has as many features as Salesforce Marketing Cloud Interaction Studio. We all know Salesforce, we all know how big they are and it's not for nothing... Their tools do most of the things you want, need and even imagine. Using it is complicated, but the usability is infinite.
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Reliability and Availability
ZoomInfo
I have been using ZoomInfo on and off since 2018, and I have NEVER had the site go down on me once. I'm not sure how they do it, I'm not a software engineer, but they have 100% up time compared to other software as a service. Our CRM has already gone down a couple times this year, but not ZoomInfo.
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Salesforce
Upgrades and timing of the upgrades were communicated well and planned during off hours for our work. If we did have a campaign scheduled during that time, it would kick-off after the system was back active. There were a few unplanned system down times, but it was a rare occurrence and those times were also short in duration.
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Performance
ZoomInfo
I would rate its performance 9. I do not doubt its performance, the pages load quickly withour laging or error. It gives a report within the time frame without errors, no matter how complex the report is. We integrated it with our CRM; at first, it tended to slow a little, but later it was fixed and ran smoothly.
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Salesforce
Though the make up of MA apps is not built this way today, it would be nice to see them become more real-time. The integration between Salesforce and Pardot is not a true real-time integration. If I modify something in Salesforce, those changes are not automatically reflected in Pardot immediately. There is a delay of about 15 minutes before the systems sync. This delay, although not long, is less than ideal We would love the systems to be integrated real time such that changes are propagated from one system to the other immediately.
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Support Rating
ZoomInfo
I give this rating because I never feel they deserve less than it. Their commitment towards the customer is outstanding, whenever I need to reach out to the supprot, I feel like I am just talking to a person who is sitting beside me. They respond quickly and solve the problems easily, even guiding us on how not to get into the same problem again and again, so we can avoid going back to support.
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Salesforce
They are really responsive and more than not solve the problem or give you insight to how you can manage the solution yourself. I do find however sometimes a long delay on the more complex issues when they need to loop in other departments. but overall a good experience with support
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In-Person Training
ZoomInfo
No answers on this topic
Salesforce
The trainers at the Pardot user conference (Elevate and Connections) were very knowledgeable and presented the material well. Again, the content was targeted to more of a new user audience, and was not really relevant for folks who had been using the product for 2+ years.
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Online Training
ZoomInfo
I gave 10 cause , We took an training from their dedicated ZoomInfo university with quick support and valid certifications.
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Salesforce
Pardot's online training touches on all topics briefly and vaguely without much indepth exploration into how a final outcome could look, such as Nurturing Campaigns, Email templates, landing page templates, etc... The only true way to uncover Pardot's full capabilities is to have Front End design and coding experience. Without this key skill set, I would not recommend Pardot to another business.
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Implementation Rating
ZoomInfo
Have a plan on how you're going to evaluate. We had a two-month trial period, but a six-month average lead cycle time, making it impossible to evaluate on a purely new-business ROI basis within the trial. We applied the model to our prior data, which demonstrated how much time and effort was devoted to accounts that weren't going to close
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Salesforce
From an IT perspective, once you set up the Javascript beacon and start collecting data there is a waiting game. During this time you can start labeling your site actions which can be labor intensive for a single person, but you don't really have the final end-users on the platform yet. We did a lot of training so users were experienced, but it wasn't until they had their first tasks to accomplish that they started using the system and had questions. I'd recommend setting up some immediate goals for an end-user to start segmenting for the purpose of displaying message campaigns so you can jump start end-user action.
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Alternatives Considered
ZoomInfo
We had looked at a few other tools alongside ZoomInfo Operations, including Clearbit and Apollo. Of course, they all had their strengths and their weaknesses. But ZoomInfo Operations really stood out for the accuracy as well as the depth of its data. Also, the Salesforce integration and the EverString capabilities were important
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Salesforce
We use Salesforce Marketing Cloud for lead management, generating reports, tracking customer and dealer information, inputting orders, and more. I prefer HubSpot for email marketing and automation because it is easier to use and the emails are designed much better. We currently use Salesforce and HubSpot, and we are very happy to have both, as they have different pros/cons.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
ZoomInfo
No answers on this topic
Salesforce
was not involved with this part but i have not heard about clompaints
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Scalability
ZoomInfo
It can be scalable, and I've seen it at organizations that made it scalable, and organizations that did not. It really depends how well it integrates with your CRM (does great with Salesforce, for example). If a company doesn't take it serious, it will never scale unless you have decision makers and C-Suite pushing for it.
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Salesforce
Prior to this, we had no solution and literally were doing things on paper in a world where technology is outpacing paper. Having this process optimized has made it easier for the sales and marketing people to change information. From the training perspective, it has allowed us to see holes in where we could create additional support training, so the ROI here has been a lot more than just the optimization of a process.
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Return on Investment
ZoomInfo
  • Generate more pipeline - indirectly. Data from anywhere still needs to be transformed and used for a business objective.
  • Saved time in doing research and data population.
  • Assuming a business will purchase a data vendor, the comparison between other vendors is a factor of cost, functionality, and data quality. ZoomInfo has higher costs typically - which would lower the ROI - but with proper incentives or discounts, the comparative ROI grows.
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Salesforce
  • Salesforce Marketing Cloud allows us to more efficiently reach out to a higher number of prospects.
  • Salesforce Marketing Cloud allows us to nimbly communicate important messages in a timely fashion to facilitate conversion.
  • Salesforce Marketing Cloud allows us to track who is opening our messages so that we can stop sending to those not interested and focus on the most engaged audiences.
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ScreenShots

Agentforce Marketing Screenshots

Screenshot of Pardot Analytics - Pardot's reporting and analytics can be used to perform true revenue impact analysis and closed-loop reporting.Screenshot of Pardot Email Analytics - The reach and impact of  email marketing efforts are displayed in real-time with advanced reporting and analytics by device, and email client.Screenshot of Pardot Forms and Landing Pages - Pardot's form and landing page builders are used to turn online traffic to leads with targeted offers and content marketing.Screenshot of Pardot Email Marketing - Lead nurturing flows are defined via an interface that enables definition of the simplest or most complex segmented and targeted campaigns.