Bombora vs. Detective

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Bombora
Score 8.2 out of 10
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Bombora provides Intent data for B2B marketers. Bombora’s data promises to align marketing and sales teams and enable them to base their actions on the knowledge of which companies are in market for products and services. Bombora’s Company Surge™ data reports on changes in consumption of specific product related topics from within businesses. The source of this data is a co-operative of premium B2B media companies in the world. Members contribute content consumption and behavioral data about…N/A
Detective
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Detective (formerly Charlie App) helps salespeople to find high quality prospects, identify their pains and initiatives, and suggests relevant first touch messaging. Its precision targeting aims to displace a spray-and-pray approach to sales.N/A
Pricing
BomboraDetective
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
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BomboraDetective
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsBombora is based on: - The volume of Intent data needed - Preferred integrations or partner platforms - The level of support needed to get started
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BomboraDetective
Features
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Sales Intelligence Data Standards
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Bombora
7.7
Ratings
6% below category average
Detective
9.0
Ratings
15% above category average
Contact information3.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Company information10.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Industry information10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Prospecting
Comparison of Prospecting features of Product A and Product B
Bombora
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Detective
3.0
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88% below category average
Load time/data access00 Ratings3.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
BomboraDetective
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
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Likelihood to Renew
8.0
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Usability
8.2
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Availability
9.1
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Performance
9.1
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Support Rating
9.1
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Online Training
8.2
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Implementation Rating
8.2
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Configurability
9.1
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Ease of integration
8.2
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Product Scalability
7.3
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Vendor post-sale
8.2
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Vendor pre-sale
9.1
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User Testimonials
BomboraDetective
Likelihood to Recommend
If they want to use the data within the Bombora environment and generate reports within the environment, I think you get some great insights into what a company is researching. When you try to download the data and build your own reports, it is not easy to do. The download part is easy, it is the data wrangling afterward that is tricky.
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If you are in any type of sales, and meeting with people, it is a must. If you already know you contact well, it doesn't have as much value for that particular meeting. Also I wish there was a way to not sync internal meetings, as it just provides clutter, and I don't need info on those people.
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Pros
  • Makes it easy to find company’s with high intent around our services.
  • Makes prospecting more effective by allowing us to focus on the right accounts.
  • Allows us to spend our marketing dollars on the accounts that are most likely to convert.
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  • They easily connect with my Outlook to sync my upcoming meetings.
  • It provides me with the social profiles of people I am meeting with.
  • It gives me the ability to have all my info about my contact in one place to easily review.
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Cons
  • Analytics Reports - could be more automated and user-friendly. Instead of selecting all of the intent topics, it would be great to be able to use the previously defined intent clusters.
  • Industry categories - are very generic, making it difficult to identify the specific companies of interest.
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  • At times it doesn't pull a social profile for the contact correctly, or at all, when I know the person has a profile.
  • The interface is a little clunky, and the font is too large. It could be a lot smaller and still effective.
  • It takes a lot of time to sync at points, which is frustrating.
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Usability
I give Bombora an 8 as they do intent well for now. Not a 10 because again its a one trick pony where there are other platforms like ZoomInfo that offer intent as well plus so much more. From an end user perspective, I'd like Bombora to build out first party intent data capabilities to combine into the scoring.
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Support Rating
Our CSM team is always available for us to meet with via an outreach click to book an invite and we have standing meetings. They met with us on day 1 of implementation and had us up and running that evening. They even go to the lengths of matching industry tenured folks with us to help us move faster.
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Online Training
There is a room for improvement in a layman's perspective as it was difficult for our to understand things during training and had to rearrange sessions.
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Implementation Rating
Liked the implementation, however there is a still room for improvement for the support needed in overall implementation
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Alternatives Considered
Having a true understanding of WHERE the data comes from and how it is collected was a question no other intent data providers could give us a straight answer on. With Bombora, we know exactly where it comes from, how it's scored, and what our next step is to leverage the data.
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The thing that Charlie does best is it aggregates everything in one place. It allows me to have a one-stop shop, that I can quickly review prior to heading into a meeting. People are usually amazed with the amount of info that Charlie can give you, and it almost always works its way into my sales call.
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Scalability
Need improvement in places such as visualisation & UX
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Return on Investment
  • While ABM is always hard to specifically pinpoint a hard # against, I'd say that Bombora has been a big part of every marketing campaign, ad creation, go-to-market messaging towards x account, Refining Marketing & Sales intelligence from an ABM Function.
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  • The info I pull from Charlie prior to the meeting is almost always brought up as a conversation starter.
  • Charlie helps my relationships go deeper than just surface level info.
  • The ability to go deeper in my relationships while using Charlie has absolutely closed me business.
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