Jeeva AI vs. KANA Express, discontinued

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Jeeva AI
Score 8.7 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Jeeva AI is an agentic AI platform for anyone who sells. It gives sellers their time back by allowing sales teams to focus on tasks that require human connection while automating the processes that don’t. Instead of wasting reps' time on list-building, inbox triage, and manual follow-ups, Jeeva AI automates the entire revenue workflow: discovering and enriching leads, writing personalized multichannel outreach, handling inbound replies, scheduling meetings, prepping…N/A
KANA Express, discontinued
Score 3.3 out of 10
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Verint Express (formerly KANA Express) was a cloud-based multi-channel customer engagement / experience platform that was owned and supported by Verint since that company's 2014 acquisition of KANA Software. The product has since been discontinued.N/A
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Jeeva AIKANA Express, discontinued
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Jeeva AIKANA Express, discontinued
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Jeeva AIKANA Express, discontinued
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User Ratings
Jeeva AIKANA Express, discontinued
Likelihood to Recommend
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User Testimonials
Jeeva AIKANA Express, discontinued
Likelihood to Recommend
Jeeva is well suited to the early stages of lead data collection and contact data requirements, it has room to improve on the full scope offering that it markets, good product and better than most "AI outbound" efforts on the market - not a huge fan of the AI linkedin feature as it comes across very fake to prospects, a good idea that could do with improvement, i.e. non AI generated profile photos, more customisation of the profile, AI outbound from the actual users profile, etc.
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If your business has more than 50 users, don't use KANA Express. User management and setup is not intuitive, and back-end email management takes a large amount of time. If your business emails more than one recipient and expects replies from more than one recipient, don't use KANA Express. The system is built for one-question-in, one-answer-out. Anything more than that requires extra customization or is impossible, according to their development team. If managing your inbound email either internally or externally is critical to your operations, don't use KANA Express. Downtime is more frequent than is acceptable, and their Netherlands advanced support team's hours make down-time in the western hemisphere a lot longer than it needs to be.
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Pros
  • Easy to use UI
  • Transparency around product roadmap & features
  • Account management/customer success
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  • Allows you to manage multiple email queues with different business rules.
  • User interface is somewhat intuitive, allowing users to navigate fairly easily.
  • Admin controls allow for a considerable variety of customization.
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Cons
  • Organize pull down menus.
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  • KANA Express is NOT set up for business models where email is conversational and involves multiple recipients and responses. If your business model is one-question-in, one-answer-out, then KANA Express will probably work for you.
  • Since signing on with them, KANA Express' support team has been severely lacking in expertise and acceptable turnaround times, especially when the platform encounters a system-wide issue to leads to downtime. Our assigned sales contacts jumped ship with the company almost immediately after we went live, which is never a good sign.
  • Admin panel and functions are very antiquated and not user-friendly at all. Email management through the admin tool lacks crucial insight that prevents admin users from being able to easily route and manage emails. Our organization had to write our own KANA user guides that KANA Express then took and started using themselves and for other clients.
  • The KANA Express platform does not have proper spam or auto-reply management tools. Admin users must manually turn off the KANA Express auto-response emails in order to prevent email loops with other parties' auto-responses.
  • Analytics options are lacking. Admin users must run at least three separate reports in order to gather appropriate insight as to user activities and metrics.
  • Email queue/user set up is not intuitive. If adding a new queue or user, all users must be manually adjusted to include that new queue. There is no mass-edit tool for KANA Express users.
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Usability
It's a very easy app to use. I was generating leads within an hour and had an entire campaign set up in less than 2 hours. The chatbot is pretty good and answers your questions quickly. The AI is used in every aspect of campaign setup is quick and provides excellent direction
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Alternatives Considered
ChatGPT doesn't find leads. It only gives you direction on how to find leads. So, Jeeva skips that and just finds the leads for you, which is huge. Omnisend does a great job of generating emails and email campaigns. Jeeva implements the lead list that it generated and enters it directly into the campaign, so you don't have to do extra steps
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Return on Investment
  • helping me send email campaigns better than any other software has
  • finally helped me understand how to do outreach properly by breaking each step down when it comes to building campaigns.
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  • KANA Express was originally presented as an excellent alternative to Fastraq, an email management system that was in EOL during the time we were shopping for alternatives. Unfortunately, our originally planned ROI was not achieved due to lost functionality and broken sales promises, leaving us with an email management system that's built more on workarounds than out-of-the-box solutions, requiring considerable time for admin activities that could be avoided by a better-designed system.
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