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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Vantage Circle

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AVantage Circle is a global Employee Engagement software provider that supports human resources (HR) teams in administering the employee experience. The platform focuses on four primary engagement areas: Rewards and Recognition, Corporate Discounts, Employee Feedback, and Employee Wellness. The Software as a Service (SaaS) solution is designed to standardize rewards and recognition distribution across global workforces. Vantage Circle provides a suite of cloud…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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    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredRequired
    Additional DetailsOne time implementation cost applicable.—
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    238 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
    228 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    99%
    Happy with the feature set
    237 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    99%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    178 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Score9.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Vantage CircleInsideSales.com / XANT Predictive Pipeline (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (239 ratings)
    10.0
    (8 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.5
    (8 ratings)
    7.4
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    6.8
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    5.8
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.8
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    6.8
    (3 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Vantage CircleInsideSales.com / XANT Predictive Pipeline (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Vantage Circle
    I think Vantage Circle is a great idea and would recommend all the organizations to use it to motivate and reward their employees. As of now I don't see any scenario which is less appropriate. This initiative definitely works well for larger companies and gives good flexibility to the managers to reward their teams.
    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
    Vantage Circle
    • It offers redemption Vouchers for most of the merchants like Amazon, flipkart etc.
    • It offers discounts for redirected sites and also provide additional discount on these sites.
    • It provides cashback vantage points on the purchase made using redirection on lot of merchant sites.
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    • 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
    Vantage Circle
    • There are 100+ options to choose from. Very wide range of options - catering to a wide spectrum of people from all walks of life, age, taste, and background with diverse options.
    • I never ever faced any issue- not even once, at the time of redemption & it was a smooth, seamless, wonderful & pleasant experience for me, always! Also, the redemption process is simple & could be done within a minute!
    • This redemption could be used not only for any tangible purchases - also for invaluable experiences like holidays, fine dining, Hotel stays, Donations, Taxi rides, etc.
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    • 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
    Vantage Circle
    Vantage circle has user friendly UI, easy to use, and reachable support thats why i selected vantage circle. Vantage circle definitely a good choice agianst other stacks up as it offers many online shopping apps and it covered most of deals. Redeemption of the rewards is straight forward and easy to claim.
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    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
    Vantage Circle
    Good reward
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    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
    Vantage Circle
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    In 2 years we have only had 1 uptime issue for around 45 min.
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    Performance
    Vantage Circle
    Pages load up pretty quickly.
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    We have experienced sluggish performance.

    We have found that queries are very slow and lock up.
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    Support Rating
    Vantage Circle
    The support can be easily reachable via emailid ,contact number. I had a chance to contact them it was went smooth and got ghe quick response from them. They also provided the quick resolution.
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    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
    Vantage Circle
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    Good assistance on set up and detailed training
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    Online Training
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    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
    Vantage Circle
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    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
    Vantage Circle
    Vantage Circle is better in terms of being more user-friendly and has a lot of different e-commerce sites to choose from ranging from food, fashion, health to travel and sports. It provides additional cashback if we order products from their platform which is an added advantage. The best thing is that there is no expiry date for the points earned.
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    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!
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    Scalability
    Vantage Circle
    I have never came across a scenario when the Vantage Circle was down or inaccessible and I was not able to redeem the vantage points. The platform is always available and the redemption process is very fast. Never faced the issue with the delay in the redemption of Vantage points.
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    Return on Investment
    Vantage Circle
    • I have gained 9 awards in the last 2 years, recognition was good and got promoted
    • Due to regular awards, got many vouchers for my hard work
    • Received many lucrative corporate offers as well
    • Due to multiple awards, was in hall of fame and received org wide recognition.
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    • 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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    ScreenShots

    Vantage Circle Screenshots

    Screenshot of Vantage Rewards: Recognizing Employees on the Go. Making recognition impactful and encouraging meaningful employee participation.Screenshot of Vantage Pulse: Enhancing employee experience with real-time employee feedback and actionable data.Screenshot of IT PartnersScreenshot of Vantage Circle: Homepage

    InsideSales.com / XANT Predictive Pipeline (discontinued) Screenshots

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