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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Bombora

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/ABombora 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

    PersistIQ

    Score1.6 out of 10
    N/APersistIQ is a sales intelligence solution. The solution integrates with Salesforce as well as marketing automation platforms.N/A
    Pricing
    BomboraPersistIQ
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    BomboraPersistIQ
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    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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    BomboraPersistIQ
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    Bombora
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    PersistIQ
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    90%
    Would buy again
    36 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    27 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    90%
    Happy with the feature set
    36 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    24 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    85%
    Implementation went as expected
    22 Answers
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    Features
    BomboraPersistIQ
    Sales Intelligence Data Standards
    Comparison of Sales Intelligence Data Standards features of Bombora and PersistIQ
    Feature
    Bombora
    7.7
    35 Ratings
    6% below category average
    PersistIQ
    1.0
    5 Ratings
    154% below category average
    Contact information3.01 Ratings1.05 Ratings
    Company information10.035 Ratings1.05 Ratings
    Industry information10.030 Ratings1.05 Ratings
    Prospecting
    Comparison of Prospecting features of Bombora and PersistIQ
    Feature
    Bombora
    -
    Ratings
    PersistIQ
    1.7
    12 Ratings
    128% below category average
    Advanced search00 Ratings1.08 Ratings
    Identification of new leads00 Ratings1.06 Ratings
    List quality00 Ratings1.06 Ratings
    List upload/download00 Ratings5.012 Ratings
    Ideal customer targeting00 Ratings1.05 Ratings
    Load time/data access00 Ratings1.010 Ratings
    Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification
    Comparison of Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification features of Bombora and PersistIQ
    Feature
    Bombora
    -
    Ratings
    PersistIQ
    1.9
    12 Ratings
    118% below category average
    Lead qualification process00 Ratings1.05 Ratings
    Smart lists and recommendations00 Ratings1.04 Ratings
    Salesforce integration00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Company/business profiles00 Ratings1.04 Ratings
    Alerts and reminders00 Ratings1.011 Ratings
    Data hygiene00 Ratings1.06 Ratings
    Automatic data refresh00 Ratings1.06 Ratings
    Tags00 Ratings1.09 Ratings
    Filters and segmentation00 Ratings1.09 Ratings
    Sales Intelligence Email Features
    Comparison of Sales Intelligence Email Features features of Bombora and PersistIQ
    Feature
    Bombora
    -
    Ratings
    PersistIQ
    3.0
    12 Ratings
    85% below category average
    Sales email templates00 Ratings3.011 Ratings
    Append emails to records00 Ratings3.09 Ratings
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    BomboraPersistIQ
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    Owler
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    TechTarget Priority Engine
    Score9.9 out of 10
    UpLead
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    TechTarget Priority Engine
    Score9.9 out of 10
    LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Gmail
    Score8.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    BomboraPersistIQ
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (41 ratings)
    1.3
    (12 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    BomboraPersistIQ
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Bombora
    Bombora is the perfect tool for anyone looking to understand their B2B customer and their buyer's journey better. Companies produce tons of content - and pay lots of money creating and then amplifying it too. But is it really what the customer is interested in? Now you don't have to guess, you can know thanks to company surge data.
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    PersistIQ
    PersistIQ is well suited for outbound marketing. It's great for setting up sales and marketing campaigns to new and prospective clients. The fact that PersistIQ emails are basic (they look like normal personal emails) and easy to personalize, makes the whole process feel more genuine than, say, MailChimp. PersistIQ won't replace a bulk emailing tool or CRM. It serves a different purpose than, for example, Marketo or MailChimp, two products we also use
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    Pros
    Bombora
    • Intent topics, as well as the clusters tied to them, have enabled our PMMs to be more granular with specific workloads that are based on industry.
    • The "Account Intent" option within the "Insights" tab allowed us to look specifically into historical data tied to current activities that we were experiencing with that account.
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    PersistIQ
    • Integrates well with tools that work with LinkedIn Sales Navigator to scrap lead emails.
    • Makes it easy to manage large-scale cold email campaigns with 3+ steps.
    • When a prospect replies to an email, it doesn't send them any of the automated emails which allow me to follow-up with those warm leads correctly.
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    Cons
    Bombora
    • Downloading intent data and trying to use it outside of their environment is tricky because the data is essentially one large worksheet. We want to overlay the data with our own data but joining it all together is tricky. Our data comes from D&B so the names provided by D&B don't always match what we get from Bombora so account matching is not very clean.
    • Customer service is a bit hit or miss. I worked with an account rep to try and resolve it but she couldn't. However, she did open a ticket with the Bombora help desk to try and get me answers. I waited more than a week and got no answer. I followed up and the reply was the original owner of the ticket is out and the new ticket owner was wondering if I had rerun the report to see if the problem went away.
    • Despite having a self-service type set up for the dashboards and reports, trying to understand what exactly needs to be filled in isn't always easy. The data doesn't match up with what we download so trying to compare the dashboards/reports to the extract is next to impossible?! It shouldn't be this way.
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    PersistIQ
    • I wish there was a way to send more than 1,000 emails per day.
    • If it had more integrations with data scrapers or ways to add new leads it would be much better.
    • I'd like a way to go deeper into a lot of my stats on various emails.
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    Usability
    Bombora
    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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    PersistIQ
    In my opinion, poor service, and in our experience, ignoring our advise on who our customers are.
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    Support Rating
    Bombora
    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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    PersistIQ
    Terrible; non-existent. Weeks without replies, and no improvements in 4 months.
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    Online Training
    Bombora
    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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    PersistIQ
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    Implementation Rating
    Bombora
    Liked the implementation, however there is a still room for improvement for the support needed in overall implementation
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    PersistIQ
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    Alternatives Considered
    Bombora
    Bombora doesn't give you a token for the number of accounts that are populated. You can search and request as many as you'd like. With other platforms, they provide you a token, and if you use all your tokens for the month, then you have to wait til next month.
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    PersistIQ
    We decided on PersistIQ because it was cheaper than the incumbents and as we were starting we wanted to see if this would be helpful or relevant to us. We later discovered Apollo.io and we might switch to them as they are also cheap and look better, but we might also get back to manual emailing and Linkedin connecting.
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    Scalability
    Bombora
    Need improvement in places such as visualisation & UX
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    PersistIQ
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    Return on Investment
    Bombora
    • Bombora played a big role in us proving the effectiveness of ABM for our organization and had a huge impact on us gaining approval for a full ABM platform.
    • Bombora helped us identify key target accounts that brought great net new business to our company.
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    PersistIQ
    • Using PersistIQ has allowed us to engage more people more quickly than other outbound processes. So, more leads.
    • We're able to understand message performance more rapidly and readily having used PersistIQ.
    • PersistIQ has improved our bottom line by getting us more leads. So, increased ROI.
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