Groove, a Clari company vs. Sugar Connect

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Groove, a Clari company
Score 6.2 out of 10
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Groove is a sales engagement platform that enables sales leaders to execute their strategy in a smarter and more adaptive way. With Groove, revenue leaders can use automation to do more with less, with the goal of driving greater efficiency and effectiveness across the customer lifecycle. Groove states they enable more than 75,000 users at ADP, Google, Uber, iHeartMedia, Capital One, and other large enterprises.N/A
Sugar Connect
Score 6.0 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
SugarCRM’s Sugar Connect (formerly Collabspot) is a sales email tracking tool specifically targeting Gmail’s integration with SugarCRM. Sugar Connect offers email syncing, archiving, and tracking to help sales reps track and manage customer data. It also provides some automation within the interactions between Gmail and SugarCRM, and sales reporting and analytics on prospects’ interactions with emails. The platform can also track prospects’ social media activity data.N/A
Pricing
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
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Groove, a Clari company
Groove, a Clari company
Score 6.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
Groove, a Clari companySugar Connect
Likelihood to Recommend
4.9
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7.0
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Likelihood to Renew
8.9
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Usability
5.4
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Availability
9.1
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Performance
9.1
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Support Rating
4.5
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In-Person Training
4.7
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Online Training
9.1
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Implementation Rating
9.0
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Configurability
8.9
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Ease of integration
9.1
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Product Scalability
9.1
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Vendor post-sale
9.1
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9.1
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User Testimonials
Groove, a Clari companySugar Connect
Likelihood to Recommend
When Groove was able to notify me that the other party already seen the email is pretty nice. It help us a lot to prepare what they will have to say. It will also help our business to grow more since they know that we are professionally waiting for them to reply.
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Great for tracking communications with anyone in your CRM. Because of Collabspot, we have a culture of documenting emails in Sugar. I suppose Collabspot wouldn't be necessary if your CRM had an extension for your email client.
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Pros
  • Groove lets us know real-time when a client has checked an email we sent them.
  • Groove helps us streamline our day-to-day events, meetings, and tasks with the help of the Calendar Booking feature.
  • Groove helps us save a lot of time on typing long letters when we explain our products to our customers with the help of their Templates feature.
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  • Makes saving emails in SugarCRM really easy
  • Flexible as to which types of records you can save to
  • Accurate reporting on opens and clicks
  • Easily add new records to SugarCRM from Gmail inbox
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Cons
  • The footprint of the person who lasts touches the information.
  • The footprint of the person who edited the information.
  • Date and time of the modification of the account owner.
  • Date and time of the modification of the last person touching the account.
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  • The payment plan that Collabspot provides does not have many advantages over the free plan.
  • The scores do not reflect the true assessment towards clients and candidates.
  • Mail templates have an outdated design.
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Likelihood to Renew
Groove is integral to our process and we're glad the price is affordable. The only way we would replace Groove is if the price went up or our C-suite decides to want a took that goes beyond Sales Enablement and Sales Automation
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Usability
Groove is incredibly easy to use, and is flexible enough to use in a way that suits each rep. With the Omnibar, it can be used directly from Outlook, or reps can use it directly in the Groove platform itself. You can use their built-in dialer, email functionality, and even some LInkedIn messages.
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Reliability and Availability
Our organization has not experienced any availability issues with Groove
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Performance
Everything is good
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Support Rating
Our Groove representative has been very attentive the the needs of our sales teams. They are always available to provide training for new employees and refreshers for members of the team who have been slow to adopt. The online support is also very good, I have had several questions answered quickly using the online support chat function.
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In-Person Training
It was okay. But, just the once. I had to figure it out with help of others on my team.
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Online Training
Easy to use
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Implementation Rating
At Nearpod, I have been impressed with the internal expertise and support around Groove as a key tool for the Sales and Customer Success business systems and operations.
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Alternatives Considered
Groove's integration with Salesforce is its primary differentiator. Outreach/Salesloft cater to all CRMs and their sync with SFDC has a delay, requires additional configuration, and is often frustrating for admins. Salesforce Sales Engagement (formerly High Velocity Sales) also has a native integration (with no sync), but Groove is easier to use for the typical sales manager/sales rep end user. With Sales Engagement, I would be needed to help build functionality and alleviate issues, whereas with Groove, our users are much more self-sufficient.
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Collabspot offers a better price compared to the competition and many customization possibilities. The emails are more direct and cause a great impact; against the competition, Collabspot has an advantage. Finally, Collabspot belongs to the select group of quality applications and with fairly good prices.
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Scalability
Our organization was able to quickly scale Groove from a pilot group of a few users to a department-wide solution
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Return on Investment
  • Reduced several hours a week of logging time in Salesforce that either wouldn't get done or would have been done to the detriment of more value add activities.
  • Saves hours per week by delivering actionable/useful info from Salesforce into Gmail
  • Gives me valuable insight on what emails are being opened and read. This helps plan targeting.
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  • The staff that enters is of guaranteed quality.
  • Customers can respond to our requests quickly.
  • The staff of the administration is much more committed to their work.
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Sugar Connect Screenshots

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