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Conversica vs. Pega Customer Decision Hub

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Conversica

    Score9.9 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Conversica provides lead management software for marketing, inside sales and sales groups.

    $1,499

    per installation

    Pega Customer Decision Hub

    Score7.4 out of 10
    N/APega Customer Decision Hub optimizes customer lifetime value by providing an “always-on brain” to unify data, analytics, and channels into one connected experience. Customer Decision Hub collects data from every interaction as it’s taking place, combines that with the customer’s full interaction history to determine their current context, and then delivers nextbest-action recommendations. Pega aims to enable users to pivot between selling, serving, retaining, and nurturing in real time.

    $97

    Per User Per Month

    Pricing
    ConversicaPega Customer Decision Hub
    Editions & Modules
    Starter Edition
    $1,499
    per installation
    Case Management
    $97.00
    Per User Per Month
    Unified Messaging
    $145.00
    Per User Per Month
    Enterprise
    $165.00
    Per User Per Month
    Digital Customer Engagement
    $260.00
    Per User Per Month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ConversicaPega Customer Decision Hub
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsA Conversica subscription includes an unlimited number of seats for marketers, sales reps and managers. Different editions include different levels of functionality to match your needs. The service is a monthly subscription with an annual commitment.
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    User Ratings
    ConversicaPega Customer Decision Hub
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.3
    (95 ratings)
    8.3
    (9 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.5
    (6 ratings)
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    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    8.9
    (73 ratings)
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    Implementation Rating
    8.1
    (49 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    ConversicaPega Customer Decision Hub
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Conversica
    Conversica is an excellent tool if you have a large database of potential students, sales leads, or other forms of potential customers/users. It does not replace human interaction, but instead supplements it - allowing your admissions/sales/retention team to spend their time with those individuals that are in most need of assistance - whether that be because they are "hot leads" for a sale, students with a sincere interest, or customers needing assistance beyond the capabilities of an automatic system.
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    Pegasystems
    PRPC is a BPM and Case management suite from Pega Systems. Pega is a comprehensive suite which offers a unique theme of BPM development in the market. A no-coding approach based on rules with inheritance makes Pega a very powerful product but is very difficult to learn. Even, if we go to Pegasystems for training, we have to work on a project at least for a year to have some confidence. Areas where it requires improvements: 1) One of the first things that client's IT department questions about is proprietary BLOB column in PRPC, for them, it is a disadvantage, but as we all know BLOB is what makes the highly complex data model of any BPM application fit inside to a common schema which eliminates the help of a DBA. 2) Another area of improvement is: when using the wizards to generate rules (such as the connector wizards) you have to be careful about the level of coupling between the work object's data model and the interface's data model. This can also create maintenance issues. 3) The complete Pega suite of products have a long time to develop and deploy and it can be easily done using other low-cost software.
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    Pros
    Conversica
    • Conversica is great at working low level leads and surfacing those that are in fact interested in your product or service.
    • Conversica is also useful in weeding out leads that are not strong.
    • Since Conversica is sending emails to various prospects, customers and opportunities, it allows sales, account managers, service etc, to focus on other activities, thereby saving time and freeing up resources.
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    Pegasystems
    • Ability to design custom integrated campaigns
    • Analytics to provide key insights and ability to tune your campaign accordingly
    • Ability to design agent workflows
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    Cons
    Conversica
    • The method of standing up campaigns can be a little tedious for administrators because it uses copy/paste of Salesforce Campaign ID instead of just searching for active Salesforce campaigns.
    • Understanding the conversation path options that the AI could take is improving greatly, but can still use some improvements for admin awareness when standing up a new conversation.
    • Understanding what conversation types exist and how they differ from one another is sometimes difficult to self-serv, but the Conversica team is always very good about helping out explaining these.
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    Pegasystems
    • Pega Customer Engagement Suite is ready to use out of the box with several features, but custom development is always needed.
    • Although new features can be quickly implemented, they have to go through a screening Business analysis process, QA screening and SCRUM based development.
    • Pega eliminates the need for custom code, but there are rare cases where an specific requirement has little to no support from Pega, and implementing custom code can break OOB functionality and make the system unstable.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Conversica
    Tool is extremely powerful but comes with a heavy price tag. As long as we close more than 30 deals with year with Conversica's assistance it will be an easy choice to renew. If we don't we will have to figure out if these funds are best spent in other lead generation places.
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    Pegasystems
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    Usability
    Conversica
    Standalone, it's very easy to use. It becomes a little more complicated when you're working with it as an integration in Salesforce.
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    Pegasystems
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    Support Rating
    Conversica
    Our account manager and support rep have been extremely helpful in helping us get the system where we wanted it. Given our original use case as a lead qualifier, a lot of the conversations needed to be altered or exceptions created in order to provide the customization we needed. Our AM and support rep were able to accommodate most of our requests and were extremely helpful in working with us on a solution.
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    Pegasystems
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    Implementation Rating
    Conversica
    The implementation went smoothly. The only advice I would give for anybody looking to integrate Conversica with Salesforce is to ensure that either you or somebody within your organization has experience with process builder as you'll need to create some processes to force your leads into Salesforce campaigns for the Conversica system to pick them up.
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    Pegasystems
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Conversica
    I haven't looked into many other conversational ai products - we received a solid recommendation about using this and have been happy with the process and experience. Price was also pretty good, so we didn't feel a need to shop around on that front. If things change I'll do that homework, but we're happy for now
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    Pegasystems
    I explained in detail in previous questions.
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    Return on Investment
    Conversica
    • We have found that each conversation type has a different ROI. Some are very hard to report off of, whereas others are easy. this is because some are more built around building awareness of what we offer where they may not purchase it for months down the line.
    • Has helped us to save on salaries. If staff were to try to do the same thing our AI Assistant does, it would take them many hours to be as successful.
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    Pegasystems
    • Cost savings on print marketing and email due to better targeting
    • More timely campaigns to reach customers at the right time
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    ScreenShots

    Conversica Screenshots

    Screenshot of Dashboard showing an overview of important metrics, like response rates, hot leads and top-performing lead sources

    Pega Customer Decision Hub Screenshots

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