TrustRadius Insights for LeanData are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Business Problems Solved
LeanData is a valuable tool recommended for companies that have achieved scale and sophistication in their sales and revenue operations. Users praise LeanData for its ability to orchestrate the demand flowing into an organization, allowing for precise routing based on account data, opportunity data, and other business logic. This solves the problem of connecting customer interest with the best person in the organization to serve that interest, eliminating the need for complex Salesforce Lead Routing Rules.
LeanData is primarily owned by Revenue/Sales/Marketing Ops teams but directly benefits sales, sales development, marketing, partnerships, and customer success functions. Users appreciate LeanData's Lead2Account Matching Engine, which provides a truly automated Round Robin system for new leads while handling complex filters and rules for routing. Additionally, LeanData's Account2Account feature complements the Lead2Account Matching Engine by efficiently managing lead/account/opportunity territory assignments.
Customers find LeanData especially helpful in addressing pain points related to lead routing and duplicate management. Its efficient and easy-to-use lead routing solution surpasses Salesforce's out-of-the-box offering. Moreover, LeanData excels at lead matching to accounts, auto conversion to contacts, and advanced routing to users and queues. With thousands of leads pouring into Salesforce daily, LeanData effectively manages sorting, classification, and deduplication.
Users also emphasize the outstanding support provided by the LeanData team throughout onboarding and implementation. The Customer Success Manager receives particular praise for their understanding of organizational needs. Overall, LeanData proves invaluable for lead routing and attribution, benefiting both sales and marketing teams. Its scalability allows it to handle large volumes of records and users with ease. By providing highly automated solutions for complex routing rules, LeanData offers efficient lead distribution, account matching, and lead transferring capabilities.
Our biggest use case was with analyzing lists for matches against our database. While I could run formulas, there was never as much certainty as there is with LeanData, and it saves me hours that I can better use for other initiatives! Additionally, we love it for its flow functionality and the immediate, direct messages we can send to our sales reps based on an inbound lead's source, associated account details, and other information.
Pros
Contact flow based on criteria.
Lead list analysis against a large database.
Immediate alerts to reps for inbound leads right in Teams.
Cons
I would love the ability to expand the number of flows, but I understand why it's all-in-one.
Some of the routing options are a tad confusing - variables, particularly, but I've discussed these limitations with support.
I can't think of a third!
Likelihood to Recommend
As mentioned earlier, I was losing hours to manual list analysis post-trade show. Thousands of leads with hundreds of accounts meant I had to dedicate whole afternoons after one show. The list analyzer is a lifesaver. Additionally, we experienced routing limitations with other CRMs and MAPs. LeanData provides direct messaging to Teams (unlike others that only send to channels, and we don't use those), and allows for flexibility in routing criteria, unlike any other!
LeanData is an instrumental part of our lead routing process. We use it to identify duplicates, create new leads, and route to the appropriate teams, reducing our speed to lead and follow-up times. Prior to LeanData, this was a manual process, and we have now made this a fully automated workflow.
Pros
Identifies any existing duplicates in our CRM.
Follows our workflow and lead assignment rules.
Routes leads to the appropriate team in seconds.
Cons
Better explain the licensing model.
Have a more comprehensive product offering vs modular.
Continuously improve the reporting.
Likelihood to Recommend
Great for organizations that are looking to automate and optimize their lead assignment and routing processes. The tool also integrates well with the rest of the GTM tech stack, like database tools, sales engagement platforms, and lead and marketing automation systems. The tool is easy to implement and deploy, and is now mission-critical for us.
LeanData is utilized today for lead, contact, and account routing. We have successfully set up trigger nodes and validation rules that let us instantly assign inbound calls, reducing AHT for interested prospects. We have used our LeanData tool to apply normalization to our inbound leads and identify duplicates before they even reach someone. We can determine whether the inbound contact should be routed or placed in a lead repository for evaluation to determine whether further action is needed. Overall, it has given us a sense of organization that no other tool has provided before.
Pros
Routing.
Reducing AHT.
Normalization.
Round Robin.
Cons
UI
Integrations.
Likelihood to Recommend
LeanData is best suited for lead contact or account routing. If you need Round Robins. If you need reporting on AHT. If you need normalization. If you need a way to identify inbound duplicates. If you want to set up a schedule link and calendar invites for your Sales Reps.
VU
Verified User
Analyst in Research & Development (201-500 employees)
We experienced issues with speed to lead from our website form fills. It was taking a lot of time for our revops team to route each inbound request manually, and our close rates were lower than expected due to slow turnaround times. LeanData reduced our time to contact from 66 minutes to an average of 8 minutes. We found a few other use cases for LeanData internally such as approval notifications.
Pros
Multple objects can be routed
Clean UI, easy to use
Seamless use in SFDC
Cons
Onboarding process was not smooth
Likelihood to Recommend
The price is higher than expected but the tool works well
As the primary technical owner of this product in our organization, LeanData has been super helpful for me especially how we manage lead routing and account assignment to our sales reps based on certain criteria. The flowcharts really give me an excellent high level overview on the flows and allows for easy management and tweaking as business requirements and processes change from time to time. LeanData allows for scalability, which means if there are additional workflows needed on top of existing workflows, I can just drag and drop how I want it to be, test some use cases and eventually save and deploy.
Pros
Lead/Contact Routing
Account Assignment
Territory Management
Roundrobin Pooling of Sales Representatives
Cons
Accessing certain objects and fields in SFDC
Limited Multi-System Orchestration
Manual Error Checking
Likelihood to Recommend
I am overall satisfied with how LeanData has been helping the business as it really revolutionized the way we process our leads/contacts and have them assigned and actionable by our sales reps. It takes away the once repetitive and tedious tasks that are done manually which really introduces a lot of error and consumes a lot of time and effort. LeanData seamlessly does that job for you on your behalf. Definitely recommend
We use LeanData to match and route leads and to allow prospects to book meetings directly with our team (bookit) using a variety of logic and matching
Pros
lead routing
easy to use interface
great customer support
Cons
some of the nodes are a bit complicated and require quite a bit of trial and error to determine what the correct node should be. that said this is really a reflection on how robust the platform is.
Likelihood to Recommend
If I had a colleague looking for a best in class lead routing and scheduling tool this is the one I'd recommend. For more price sensitive buyers I'd probably recommend something else.
We used LeanData as our bridge to do lead routing for new contacts that we pulled from 6sense insights, into Salesforce, and then distributed to the appropriate team member based on whether the account was new or not. On top of that, we ensured that we weren't creating duplicate contacts and/or accounts throughout this process to make sure our data stayed as clean as possible. We also leveraged LeanData to standardize a few frequently used properties like country and region so that we used a consistent naming convention throughout out our CRM. For example, all contacts/companies from the US were listed as USA with the region being NA.
Pros
Standardizing Data/Properties
Simplifying complex lead routing
De-duplication of contacts/companies
Cons
Make it free? haha
A free trial would be a great addition
Perhaps a credit-like system for one-time de-duplication jobs.
Likelihood to Recommend
It's essential if you're using Salesforce and another CRM like Marketo. The bigger the tech stack, the more likely you're to run into instances of non-standardization and errors in your data. LeanData helps clean this up and takes out a lot of legwork in adding additional properties that may not have been collected during the initial input.
We primarily use LeanData for contact and opportunity routing.
Pros
LeanData is able to route our contacts based off our business requirements easily through a series of logic
LeanData is great at identifying duplicate prospects/contacts and merging them for a cleaner contact database
LeanData help to create opportunities and route them while identifying the appropriate campaign attribution with custom rules, exclusions, and qualification
Cons
When deduplicating prospects, we lose some of the prospect details
Likelihood to Recommend
LeanData helps solve common contact routing needs that many customer have traditionally had to build custom solutions for through their MAP and/or CRM.
We use LeanData for lead and contact account matching mainly. We have a very complex account structure with parent and children account relationships based on location, and LeanData is vital to be able to match the location of the person with the regional office that they belong to and route correctly to the sales rep in that territory.
Pros
Lead to Account Fuzzy Matching
Territory Routing
Contact to Account Fuzzy Matching
Auto conversion flows
Cons
I like most of the functionality, don’t have too many areas to improve
Always welcome more integrations
Likelihood to Recommend
I love the routing and matching engine it provides. It is a lot more robust that ootb SFDC functionality