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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Salesloft

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/ASalesloft’s Revenue Orchestration Platform uses AI to help market-facing teams prioritize and take action on what matters most, from first touch to upsell and renewal.N/A

    InsideSales.com / XANT Predictive Pipeline (discontinued)

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/APredictive Pipeline kept track of every change in the sales pipeline and predicts quota attainment boasting 80% accuracy, with Neuralytics, the XANT predictive engine. The product was based on C9 Predictive Sales, owned and supported by XANT (formerly InsideSales.com) since May 2015, and no longer available for sale.N/A
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    SalesloftInsideSales.com / XANT Predictive Pipeline (discontinued)
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    SalesloftInsideSales.com / XANT Predictive Pipeline (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeRequired
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    Community Pulse
    SalesloftInsideSales.com / XANT Predictive Pipeline (discontinued)
    Considered Both Products
    SalesLoft
    Chose Salesloft
    I have not tried any but when making our buying decision we did review Xant, HighVelocity Sales, and a few others.
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesloft
    A couple reasons:
    1. Layout within SL was better than the competition, and seemed much more straightforward. From the demo on, ease of use seemed very clear and.
    2. The sales team was simply better. I felt like we'd have more support when working with them, and that our business would …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesloft
    SalesLoft continues to innovate their product unlike Insidesales.com
    Incentivized
    Discontinued Products
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    93%
    Would buy again
    95 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    74 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    95 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    73 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    93%
    Implementation went as expected
    65 Answers
    No answers on this topic
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    User Ratings
    SalesloftInsideSales.com / XANT Predictive Pipeline (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.9
    (325 ratings)
    10.0
    (8 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    7.4
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    7.8
    (8 ratings)
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    Availability
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    6.8
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    5.8
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.8
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.8
    (3 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.7
    (143 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    SalesloftInsideSales.com / XANT Predictive Pipeline (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    SalesLoft
    I find it to be the best resource for scheduling calls with clients. Specifically when the call includes multiple people using Salesloft, it's so simple and easy to use to send open times to client and then to be able to send active links to the client where with one click the calendar invite shows up on my calendar? it's the best most efficient tool I have in my toolbelt at the moment. When it comes to logging, it's also simple but I wish I could add a contact to SL from the Microsoft integration.
    Incentivized
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    C9 is a good and economical solution for what it does. If evaluating them today, I would want to clearly understand their product roadmap and their ability to execute against it.
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    Pros
    SalesLoft
    • Salesloft enables us to outreach at scale.
    • Salesloft helps us identify our warmest, most buyer ready prospects to streamline our outreach.
    • Salesloft helps us to identify quickly areas to course correct and provides the necessary data to do that.
    • Salesloft also surfaces data around outreach so we can ensure we are targeting our team with sensible KPIs that connect to our business goals.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • It gives you the ability to see where your pipeline was in the past and compare to how it is now. You can set queries that will allow you to show at risk deals, committed deals, etc.
    • This gives much better visibility for management to coach.
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    Cons
    SalesLoft
    • Would be nice to have custom reporting available. Coming from Salesforce, the included canned reports are useful but I like to roll my sleeves up and build exactly what I want.
    • Conversations will record meetings booked via MSTeams but requires the BDR/SDR to hit record. Other solutions (e.g. Chorus.ai) join as a participant and don't require a user hitting the "record" button. We have to change our flow to make this work and it is a bit clunky.
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    Discontinued Products
    • We had uptime issues, weird error messages, sluggish performance, and bad data. I hope that some of this can be attributed to growing pains as the company was relatively new when we signed our initial contract.
    • It was not dependable enough to trust the data and to count on accessing the app when we needed it.
    • It actually was unavailable at EOQ one time.
    • I also did not care for the lack of real-time pipeline information. If someone was doing a pipeline review, there was no instant gratification i.e. to see changes in pipeline occur as an AE made a change to an opportunity.
    • You couldn’t do any configuration at all. Even if you just wanted to change a field or add a filter, you had to go through their services team. It was a recognized challenge and I saw roadmap addressing it.
    • The query tool is a little hard to use and we have found that queries are very slow and lock up.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    SalesLoft
    SalesLoft is absolutely VITAL to our daily operations. We could not function without it or a program like it. Speaking as a Sales Person who has had to operate without a product like this, the difference is night and day. The ability to stay organized, automate tasks, easily log activities and notes, review calls, and coach team members is an absolute gamechanger.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    C9 is now part of the sales management culture here at IPC. There is no longer any guesswork about the funnel or the forecast. C9 does something that SFDC does not...it increases significantly the value of the information in SFDC by unlocking the meta data that we all need to run the business
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    Usability
    SalesLoft
    Drift was extremely easy for both our demand gen team and SDR to jump right into. It was feature rich and purpose-built for marketers—it was remarkably easy to connect our marketing automation, CRM, and more to the platform and get everything to work together. Now the ability to create digital experiences and conversation landing pages is democratized—empowering our team to do better work and provide better prospect/customer experience.
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    Discontinued Products
    From a sales manager’s perspective it was fairly easy to use the base
    functionality (just viewing current pipeline) and much harder to look at
    analytics (pipeline changes over time). C9 made this easier by allowing sales ops to publish views to sales managers. The query tool was harder to use than it had to be. For example, there were no out of the box relationships set up between Salesforce.com tables (e.g. accounts to opportunities), so I had to create those relationships myself.
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    Reliability and Availability
    SalesLoft
    The availability is pretty good, we do sometimes have errors or delays in syncing activities but nothing that has been too detrimental to our workflow. Most recently we had an issue with Lofting through Outlook due to a change in security token that took a few weeks to resolve but it is fixed now.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    In 2 years we have only had 1 uptime issue for around 45 min.
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    Performance
    SalesLoft
    Yes timely and easy to use. The only delays we have are when we run our big month sales blitz and activities take some time to sync to the reporting as well as SalesForce
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    We have experienced sluggish performance.

    We have found that queries are very slow and lock up.
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    Support Rating
    SalesLoft
    The support team was very responsive but at the end of the day they took a long time to fix our issue. The issue did get fixed, though, so that is what matters. Very nice people who are there to help in any way they can.
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    Discontinued Products
    C9 cares about their customers and responds quickly. However, the ticketing system could be better and there is no easy way to track the status of your requests.
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    In-Person Training
    SalesLoft
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    Good assistance on set up and detailed training
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    Online Training
    SalesLoft
    We had some virtual training with our CSM which was very well constructed. It took some time to get into the full swing of things but with a few weeks of hands on experience I was feeling confidant. The SL team was always available to answer questions or jump an a call to walk us through stuff. I also used the Customer Help Center for a few self guided learnings on how to use specific features related to reporting and team management.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    Online information and training was done reasonably well compared to other vendors, but would benefit from being more polished and rounded out.
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    Implementation Rating
    SalesLoft
    must invest time and effort in define the best way to integration with Salesforce in order to get data visualization
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    Very simple implementation. They basically set up the imports and then they configure the tool per customer requests.

    I wish there had been more consultation during the implementation, but it wasn’t bad given the effort expended. We ended up re-implementing after about a year and a half.
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    Alternatives Considered
    SalesLoft
    Salesloft blows outreach out of the water in all aspects. One of the biggest issues I had was their unwillingness to listen to customer feedback. I had requested several small changes to be made when I had previously used the platform that unfortunately fell onto deff ears. I am much happier using Salesloft and the positive results I've experienced are a direct result of that.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    Zoho CRM is less up to speed and much more out of date. The support at InsideSales.com Predictive Pipeline have been very helpful during the initial roll out face. Overall I was very happy!
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    SalesLoft
    The scalability was pretty good, we started with 4 or 5 users on one team and scaled into 30+ members across 3 teams
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    SalesLoft
    • I have been with a company that was using Salesloft, but moved to a competitor. I can't say it was exactly the competitors fault, as a lot of other internal changes were happening, (hence leaving the system that was working well), but we had the worst sales year in company history that year. Reps who consistently performed at or above quota were suddenly struggling to keep their pipelines in order, and the middle of the pack reps were going on PiPs and being let go.
    • Is it the dialer, or the leadership? You decide.
    • But the leadership also changed the dialer - so maybe it's both?
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • The product provides a single source for pipeline and forecast data and has scaled well with our organization. We have grown from 10 sales reps to 100 reps and we really needed a tool to to manage data and do roll-ups etc.
    • It's also important to provide senior management visibility into the pipeline, and the tool works well for this.
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