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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Zendesk Sell

    Score9.7 out of 10
    N/AZendesk Sell (formerly Base CRM) is a CRM that aims to give reps access to integrated tools that provide the full context of a customer account. This keeps them in the loop and allows them to capitalize on opportunities. Zendesk Sell can be extended with Reach, a lead generation and engagement tool that automates the process of finding and keeping leads interested, so reps can focus more on building relationships and crushing their quotas. Base CRM was founded in 2009, and acquired by Zendesk…

    $19

    per seat/month billed annually

    Pricing
    InsideSales.com / XANT Predictive Pipeline (discontinued)Zendesk Sell
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Sell Team
    $19.00
    per seat/month billed annually
    Reach prospecting enrichment add-on (requires a Sell Subscription)
    $27.00
    Per User Per Month (billed annually)
    Sell Professional
    $49.00
    per seat/month billed annually
    Sell Enterprise
    $99.00
    per seat/month billed annually
    Sell Elite
    $199.00
    per seat/month billed annually
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    InsideSales.com / XANT Predictive Pipeline (discontinued)Zendesk Sell
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
    Additional Details——
    More Pricing Information
    Features
    InsideSales.com / XANT Predictive Pipeline (discontinued)Zendesk Sell
    Sales Force Automation
    Comparison of Sales Force Automation features of InsideSales.com / XANT Predictive Pipeline (discontinued) and Zendesk Sell
    Feature
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    Ratings
    Zendesk Sell
    6.6
    15 Ratings
    17% below category average
    Customer data management / contact management00 Ratings8.914 Ratings
    Workflow management00 Ratings6.115 Ratings
    Territory management00 Ratings4.98 Ratings
    Opportunity management00 Ratings7.913 Ratings
    Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)00 Ratings6.915 Ratings
    Contract management00 Ratings5.410 Ratings
    Quote & order management00 Ratings3.97 Ratings
    Interaction tracking00 Ratings7.915 Ratings
    Channel / partner relationship management00 Ratings7.811 Ratings
    Customer Service & Support
    Comparison of Customer Service & Support features of InsideSales.com / XANT Predictive Pipeline (discontinued) and Zendesk Sell
    Feature
    InsideSales.com / XANT Predictive Pipeline (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Zendesk Sell
    9.0
    12 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Case management00 Ratings9.07 Ratings
    Call center management00 Ratings9.08 Ratings
    Help desk management00 Ratings9.011 Ratings
    Marketing Automation
    Comparison of Marketing Automation features of InsideSales.com / XANT Predictive Pipeline (discontinued) and Zendesk Sell
    Feature
    InsideSales.com / XANT Predictive Pipeline (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Zendesk Sell
    6.9
    12 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Lead management00 Ratings6.012 Ratings
    Email marketing00 Ratings7.89 Ratings
    CRM Project Management
    Comparison of CRM Project Management features of InsideSales.com / XANT Predictive Pipeline (discontinued) and Zendesk Sell
    Feature
    InsideSales.com / XANT Predictive Pipeline (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Zendesk Sell
    5.3
    13 Ratings
    37% below category average
    Task management00 Ratings8.013 Ratings
    Billing and invoicing management00 Ratings1.05 Ratings
    Reporting00 Ratings7.013 Ratings
    CRM Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of CRM Reporting & Analytics features of InsideSales.com / XANT Predictive Pipeline (discontinued) and Zendesk Sell
    Feature
    InsideSales.com / XANT Predictive Pipeline (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Zendesk Sell
    8.2
    15 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Forecasting00 Ratings7.812 Ratings
    Pipeline visualization00 Ratings7.914 Ratings
    Customizable reports00 Ratings9.014 Ratings
    Customization
    Comparison of Customization features of InsideSales.com / XANT Predictive Pipeline (discontinued) and Zendesk Sell
    Feature
    InsideSales.com / XANT Predictive Pipeline (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Zendesk Sell
    4.2
    15 Ratings
    58% below category average
    Custom fields00 Ratings7.815 Ratings
    Custom objects00 Ratings4.910 Ratings
    Scripting environment00 Ratings1.16 Ratings
    API for custom integration00 Ratings3.08 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of InsideSales.com / XANT Predictive Pipeline (discontinued) and Zendesk Sell
    Feature
    InsideSales.com / XANT Predictive Pipeline (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Zendesk Sell
    9.5
    14 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Single sign-on capability00 Ratings9.912 Ratings
    Role-based user permissions00 Ratings9.011 Ratings
    Social CRM
    Comparison of Social CRM features of InsideSales.com / XANT Predictive Pipeline (discontinued) and Zendesk Sell
    Feature
    InsideSales.com / XANT Predictive Pipeline (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Zendesk Sell
    4.0
    5 Ratings
    61% below category average
    Social data00 Ratings1.04 Ratings
    Social engagement00 Ratings6.95 Ratings
    Integrations with 3rd-party Software
    Comparison of Integrations with 3rd-party Software features of InsideSales.com / XANT Predictive Pipeline (discontinued) and Zendesk Sell
    Feature
    InsideSales.com / XANT Predictive Pipeline (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Zendesk Sell
    5.4
    7 Ratings
    33% below category average
    Marketing automation00 Ratings9.87 Ratings
    Compensation management00 Ratings1.03 Ratings
    Platform
    Comparison of Platform features of InsideSales.com / XANT Predictive Pipeline (discontinued) and Zendesk Sell
    Feature
    InsideSales.com / XANT Predictive Pipeline (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Zendesk Sell
    8.0
    13 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Mobile access00 Ratings8.013 Ratings
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    Salesflare
    Score10 out of 10
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    Kintone
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    Oracle Sales
    Score8.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    InsideSales.com / XANT Predictive Pipeline (discontinued)Zendesk Sell
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (8 ratings)
    10.0
    (15 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.4
    (6 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    8.9
    (4 ratings)
    Availability
    6.8
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    5.8
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    8.8
    (4 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    5.8
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    6.8
    (3 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    InsideSales.com / XANT Predictive Pipeline (discontinued)Zendesk Sell
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    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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    Zendesk
    Zendesk sell is best for organizations that want a clean and simple, yet powerfully effective CRM tool. It's intuitive, extremely user-friendly, supplies lots of video tutorials and access to the California team for FAQ's, and has all the features other, more complicated, expensive CRM's have. Great for institutions that have a need to tailor their database to fit your needs; and track sales, tasks, and pipeline projects in graphic form. It's affordable and has a great app for mobile phones that allows access to contacts, notes, tasks, and a workable platform while on the go in real time. It's simple to teach new users how to navigate and utilize. Adding or deleting users is simple, and access to the CRM information can be limited/private or made public for the entire team to access. Not as costly as some of the competing products, so if you are on a tight budget this may be the tool for you.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    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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    Zendesk
    • My favorite piece is the Tasks connected to the Clients OR the Deals themselves that keep the process moving with the right steps, and helps our team from doubling our work, or missing a piece that is crucial for the completion of the sale.
    • The email integration helps to keep all things housed in one place also, so that you're not bouncing back and forth in multiple platforms to stay on top of the orders.
    • Customizations are a HUGE part of why we use Base CRM right now. We can make sure we are recording all of the right information, and not wasting time by having to fill in or skip over content that doesn't apply to our business model.
    • I also like the ability to tied Deals to multiple people, especially as Referrals come across, so we don't forget how we got in touch with different clients.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
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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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    Zendesk
    • There was no ability to add prospects from a company domain or email to auto-fill any data.
    • You had to type in all of the data you gathered about that prospect.
    • The default only gave you two phone numbers for the company, too few.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    Zendesk
    The integration with the other Zendesk products is key. Allows other people in the company, such as support, to be involved in the sales process.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    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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    Zendesk
    I received about two hours worth of training on Zendesk Sell (formerly Base CRM). I will say it's a clean look and the ability to change views is extremely helpful. I do wish there were other features that allowed the views to be more simplistic. Some views can be overwhelming to look at. Nevertheless with the minimum training, I am still able to navigate through Zendesk Sell (formerly Base CRM) successfully due to the ease of usability.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    Discontinued Products
    In 2 years we have only had 1 uptime issue for around 45 min.
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    Zendesk
    Always available and easy connection from Zendesk Support
    Incentivized
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    Performance
    Discontinued Products
    We have experienced sluggish performance.

    We have found that queries are very slow and lock up.
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    Zendesk
    Never any latency issues
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    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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    Zendesk
    Due to the ease of the product, I have not had the chance to reach out to support yet. I’ve had no reason. The resources provided to clients are extremely helpful and detailed. So far my questions have been pretty basic and I generally just ask my colleague or teammate. They're able to assist with the answer.
    Incentivized
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    In-Person Training
    Discontinued Products
    Good assistance on set up and detailed training
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    Zendesk
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    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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    Zendesk
    This product has a great backing of users, but needs more options direct from Base CRM on all operations of the software. YouTube videos do a great job of helping implement, and the back end support is a great help as well. The CRM is a great free option, and should be treated as such.
    Incentivized
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    Implementation Rating
    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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    Zendesk
    Simple, and straight forward.
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Zendesk
    Simpler than most CRMs, which can be good if your sales team is not very tech savvy. We switched to HubSpot which provides a lot more value than Base did, but it isn't right for everyone. HubSpot is focused on capturing in-bound leads and has its own flaws and limitations, but overall it's a better fit for our needs.
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    Scalability
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Zendesk
    Always on, always available.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Zendesk
    • Using Base has allowed us to double the number of active sales and partner engagements that we can keep track of and make progress on.
    • This has led to us being able to follow up on many smaller deals that were falling through the cracks.
    Incentivized
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