Item: Data.com (discontinued)
Rating: 8
Author: Elizabeth Rodriguez

Overall Satisfaction with Data.com

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Data.com is used by our sales team to for lead generation and contact information. It provides great contact information such as emails and direct phone numbers for hiring managers.

Pros and Cons

Pros

The contact information the website provides tends to be accurate.
I like that it is free and works on a point system- the more info you give, the more info you get.
I like that you can update contact information as needed.

Cons

If it provided more details about the company it would be great- information such as employee size or software used would be great.
The ability to add a contact with just a number would be great- sometimes you don't have an address.
It would be helpful to be notified when a contact you have "purchased" has been changed/updated.

Return on Investment

The positive impact is gaining more direct contact information for hiring managers.
Another positive factor is that it is completely free. You gain points for contact information when you add contact information.
Since it is a free resource, there are no real negative impacts.

Alternatives Considered

Jobscience, Google Forms, ScienceLogic, Oracle Application Testing Suite, Oracle CRM, Oracle PeopleSoft HCM, HubSpot and D&B Hoovers (formerly Avention)

Data.com is free. That is definitely the most appealing part. You have nothing to lose, so might as well utilize an additional resource.

Other Software Used

ScienceLogic, Oracle CRM, Oracle PeopleSoft HCM, D&B Hoovers (formerly Avention), HubSpot

As a salesperson, there is no such thing as too many resources for contact information. So although I would not be able to make Data.com my primary resource, it is definitely user-friendly and super easy to use to obtain more much-needed information.

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