Ringostat vs. ServiceMax

Ringostat is a perfect all-in-one solution for companies that have more than 20,000 visits on their website per month. This service can help with: - call tracking service and tracking sources of your calls. - organizing virtual PBX with the voice menu and workspace for managers. - providing analytics of manager's efficiency in working with calls.

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ServiceMax boasts that it runs natively on the SalesForce platform however, in reality, it functions less as a native component and more so as a confusing doppelganger that redirects your work at every turn from its intended output to something else entirely. Although it blends right into SalesForce on a surface level it is by no means seamless as it takes every frustrating or slow element of its host platform and amplifies them, seeming exponentially at times. This is of course until you'd like the ServiceMax components to differentiate themselves in some manner from elements that are actually native to SalesForce. For example, let's say you'd like to run a report of tickets pending review for invoicing but both SalesForce and ServiceMax's service platforms have the record types "Ticket" and "Invoice", what do you do? Well, you get to take part in what will soon become your new top housekeeping task, hours of trial and error until you stumble upon the magic combination of selections that might get you *most* of your data. In short, ServiceMax is...

1. Painfully slow - I wrote this review while waiting for it to update a single line in Price Book)
2. Inherently buggy
3. Unintuitive
4. Hopefully shortlived

• Calltracking service. You can track sources of your calls (ads campaigns), also you can set up calls as goals in Google Analytics.
• Virtual PBX service. You can set up your own call center with voice menu for different schemes of routing calls.
• Works with your CRM. You can get all the info about your client from the CRM right before the call.
• Integrates with different services. You have ready integrations for Google Analytics and amoCRM.
• Rich API. You can build your custom solution with simple API.
• Productivity reports. You have all analytics about work of your managers and track their personal efficiency.

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• ServiceMax easily creates service tickets and tracking information.

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• Lacking of full support for end-to-end analytics.
• Price. It might be expensive for small companies with a not so huge amount of traffic.

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• The offline sync is very buggy and has many limitations. Recovery of the sync if it fails because of technicalities is in many ways, unrecoverable and unexplainable by the user.
• No integration with Salesforce knowledge articles.
• Support is limited and usually not knowledgeable about their own products.

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Engaged account management. Support is based worldwide but handoffs have not been too painful.

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We chose this service because of these reasons: 1. It's an all-in-one solution for virtual PBX and call tracking. 2. The ability to fully track the personal efficiency of our managers. 3. It's a complete solution, our manager could call from the browser without installing apps, also service provided full info about the client before calling. 4. All calls can be recorded, so we had all the history of calls to check out the work of our managers. 5. Has a trial period to check out if this solution could satisfy our needs.

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ServiceMax has an offline capability, and also integrates with our Salesforce side of business. At the time, Salesforce did not have a field service application so we could not consider it, but if we could now, we would probably go with that instead. ServiceMax is also expensive. But at the time, ServiceMax was the only offering out there that integrated with Salesforce, had mobile offline capability, and could operate at the scale we needed.

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• We determined what are the sources of our leads, and which ads worked more effectively to provide them.
• Our company didn't need to buy a separate virtual PBX service.
• We completely eliminated the problem with missed calls.

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• We are able to track and easily report on the location of all our installed hardware to pinpoint issues.

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