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Great idea that needs some stability work.
January 29, 2018

Great idea that needs some stability work.

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Outreach

The software is buggy, doesn't always sync with Salesforce the way you'd expect it to, and frequently has reliability issues. The Outreach extension is a requirement for full functionality of the software, but it seems poorly coded and caused our team issues with giving demos because it ate up a ton of CPU, making our product appear to load slowly. All this detracts from what is otherwise a well designed CX.
We use Outreach to ensure proper lead followup and consistent messaging.
  • Prescribed touch patterns
  • Templating
  • Follow up touch patterns
  • Buggy
  • Wrecks browser performance
  • Difficult to administer
  • Is lead based rather than account based and doesn't recognize the account object very well
  • We've been able to get our AEs to do better prospecting
  • We've ensured all leads are treated correctly
I wasn't a part of the process to purchase Outreach so I haven't had a chance to compare it against competitors. I do know that it does a better job of logging to Salesforce than a number of others in the market based on what I've seen with our own customers.
Outreach is great for making sure a BDR team does consistent work, but you need to be careful to make sure that it doesn't become a second marketing automation system that turns your team into spam machines. Really conscientious use of the product with attention to detail is absolutely a requirement.