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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Groove by OptimizeCX

    Score6.7 out of 10
    N/AGroove by OptimizeCX is a shared inbox for small and mid-sized SaaS teams. It’s presented as a help desk built for speed and not complexity, and is designed to help manage customer conversations across channels.

    $87

    per quarter per user

    Oracle Service

    Score5.1 out of 10
    N/AOracle Service is the help desk and customer experience management platform from Oracle. The technology was developed and supported by RightNow Technologies as RightNow CX for cloud-based call center automation, until that company's acquisition by Oracle in 2011 for about $1.5 billion.N/A
    Pricing
    Groove by OptimizeCXOracle Service
    Editions & Modules
    Standard
    $29
    per month (billed quarterly) per user
    Plus
    $45
    per month (billed quarterly) per user
    Pro
    $70
    per month (billed quarterly) per user
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Groove by OptimizeCXOracle Service
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Groove by OptimizeCXOracle Service
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Groove by OptimizeCX and Oracle Service
    Feature
    Groove by OptimizeCX
    1.4
    6 Ratings
    141% below category average
    Oracle Service
    7.5
    78 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets1.26 Ratings7.073 Ratings
    Expert directory1.23 Ratings7.553 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications1.03 Ratings7.057 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation2.03 Ratings6.750 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission2.05 Ratings9.074 Ratings
    Ticket response1.15 Ratings8.074 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of Groove by OptimizeCX and Oracle Service
    Feature
    Groove by OptimizeCX
    1.4
    5 Ratings
    139% below category average
    Oracle Service
    7.3
    74 Ratings
    7% below category average
    External knowledge base1.44 Ratings6.865 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base1.44 Ratings7.774 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Groove by OptimizeCX and Oracle Service
    Feature
    Groove by OptimizeCX
    1.0
    5 Ratings
    154% below category average
    Oracle Service
    7.2
    76 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Customer portal1.04 Ratings7.569 Ratings
    Social integration1.01 Ratings4.746 Ratings
    Email support1.15 Ratings7.874 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration1.03 Ratings8.654 Ratings
    IVR00 Ratings7.635 Ratings
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    Groove by OptimizeCXOracle Service
    Small Businesses
    Help Scout
    Score7.9 out of 10
    Help Scout
    Score7.9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    LiveAgent
    Score9.7 out of 10
    LiveAgent
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Front
    Score7.1 out of 10
    Front
    Score7.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Groove by OptimizeCXOracle Service
    Likelihood to Recommend
    1.6
    (7 ratings)
    5.1
    (89 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (9 ratings)
    Usability
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (11 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Groove by OptimizeCXOracle Service
    Likelihood to Recommend
    OptimizeCX
    Groove is great for people who are wanting to provide accountability and organization for teams across your business. It is suited well for an organization that has many email requests coming in every day, because you can assign tickets to specific team members. It would not be suited for an organization that utilizes more phone support, than email support
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    Oracle
    Oracle Right (Oracle Service Cloud) was an important evolution in the group's ombudsman channel management processes. We brought the Oracle Service Cloud to digitize the processes for capturing and managing the group's ombudsman channel, no longer operating manually (MS Excel).

    Oracle Service Cloud (Right Now) brought about an important evolution in the management processes of the group's ombudsman channel, where activities that were performed manually, repetitively and with risk of errors, are now operated by the Right Now platform itself, whether by API, or by automation of the tool.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    OptimizeCX
    • Creates Tickets when someone emails in or you can create a ticket within the groove system.
    • They have great reports on response times and the average amount of time it took for a ticket to close. You can even see individuals average response times as well as specific teams.
    • We use their Knowledge Base which is a great tool for creating FAQ and sending people to that.
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    Oracle
    • We can access the best-in-class features for cross-channel contact center management amd field service management.
    • It provides a great way to mobilize agents and boost collaboration within the office which in turn improves the overall customer experience.
    • Automation of back of the office repetitive tasks leading to a faster way of addressing customer concerns.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    OptimizeCX
    • Better Follow-up by customer success team
    • More customization within their major features to fit both, large and small sales teams, alike
    • Their site goes down fairly often
    Incentivized
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    Oracle
    • Oracle Service Cloud needs a better built in integration with Oracle Social Cloud or it needs to build in more Social network capabilities.
    • SMS is handle via a third party application but could be built in as part of the product.
    • The knowledge foundation product needs a better way to handle multiple languages. Currently you have to purchase an additional interface for each language. You can purchase the more expensive Knowledge Advance which does have a better language feature.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    OptimizeCX
    No answers on this topic
    Oracle
    Although RightNow is extremely flexible, the flexibility comes with a price. It is often not intuitive which settings you need to change (and under which menus these setting are buried) to enable the system to do what you want. Also, sometimes the system can do things you need, but you don't initially realize it. When RightNow sells a system to a new customer, I think it should come with X hours of consulting time with a RightNow expert. The customer should be able to consult with this expert over the next year to get advice concerning how to configure the system to achieve desired needs. Often RightNow Support would just answer "no" when I asked if I could do something, but then I would find another way to achieve my goals after talking with other companies using RightNow.
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    Usability
    OptimizeCX
    It's well organized, but slow.
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    Oracle
    The learning curve is fairly steep; but for something that has this much capability, it's nearly impossible to make it "easy". The layout and organization are at least reasonably intuitive. The hardest part-- the "weakest link"-- is the portal development (where you can build help centers and other end-user pages.) The capabilities there are significant, but the learning curve for that part is especially steep and it takes a fair amount of expertise to be able to update it.
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    Reliability and Availability
    OptimizeCX
    No answers on this topic
    Oracle
    We have never had issues with downtime or it not being available. Upgrades and maintenance also happens in weekends or at night.
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    Performance
    OptimizeCX
    No answers on this topic
    Oracle
    We use a lot of tabs and fields on our incident workspace, which should slow the system down, but it's still quite fast, and we continue to optimize whatever is possible.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    OptimizeCX
    I'm giving them a 3 for the really great support they gave for general questions. They also have a good knowledge base. I'm giving them only a 3 though because of my last customer service when I need a billing resolution. I was very disappointed in how they handled that. I also find it very bad practice to send out ONE email notice that they were raising my rate three times as much at the end of the month. When I was with Desk.com, I had numerous emails over months letting me know their billing plans were changing. Even worse than refusing to refund me the difference was that they just stopped responding to me.
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    Oracle
    Technicians seem to be assessed based solely on how quickly they close the issues. I've had to reopen requests multiple times because they didn't actually solve my problem. Also, when the issue has even a moderate amount of complexity, the technicians often instruct me to "open another SR" to handle the other issue. I'm the customer, I shouldn't have to follow their processes, they should handle that for me. But even when I create the new SR, it seems like their right hand isn't talking to their left - they aren't reading back to the previous issue for context. So I get bounced around a lot, and I have to tell them how to do their job
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    In-Person Training
    OptimizeCX
    No answers on this topic
    Oracle
    Most of our training was given while doing user acceptance testing, and getting the system approved by the market. When ever we were in doubt, our implementer helped us along. Later on we started exploring by our selves.
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    Implementation Rating
    OptimizeCX
    No answers on this topic
    Oracle
    Work with a RightNow expert during the implementation. Explain features that would you like to have. Often, somebody who really knows the system can show you what you need to do to achieve the desired results. Where a RightNow support engineer or a consultant might say "the system can't do that," a RightNow application engineer will listen to what you need, and often come up with an alternate path to achieve it
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    Alternatives Considered
    OptimizeCX
    We also use Trello for project management. I have used both systems and we like Groove because it allows for our clients to contact us via email. They do not have to go to a ticket submission page, they can just email us directly and it will create a ticket. Groove also provides analytics on how long it takes to respond to tickets
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    Oracle
    TCS' customers who also selected Oracle Service Cloud over Salesforce Service Cloud and GE's ServiceMax in the Mfg. vertical in which I work, did so because of the robust ability of Oracle Service Cloud and its APIs to integrate with other value-add solutions for manufacturers such as IoT applications, Big Data Analytics, and Field Service applications.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    OptimizeCX
    No answers on this topic
    Oracle
    We have never had any down time, slowness or anything. Any error or instability that has occurrred has so far has been caused by user errors.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    OptimizeCX
    • We wasted a lot of time setting up the product before we discovered a lot of features listed on the website aren't ready for public use
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    Oracle
    • Since its, it has significantly reduced our training time of new agents. What used to take 6 weeks in the class room, went to 4 weeks.
    • Service Cloud allows us to easily gather data to report to the other departments quickly.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Oracle Service Screenshots

    Screenshot of A pixel-perfect Customer Portal organizes self-service content in a way that makes sense to your customers.Screenshot of Customers can search, email, chat, and call your business from their mobile devices for immediate resolution.Screenshot of Bring omnichannel interactions together into an intuitive, unified agent desktop.Screenshot of A fully integrated knowledge solution is the backbone of all seamless and consistent service experiences.Screenshot of Tailor customer experiences with contextualized and personalized service using dynamic interviews.Screenshot of Predictive forecasting tools increase field service operational efficiencies to ensure timely job completion.