S alesforce Sales Engagement, formerly Einstein High Velocity Sales, is a cloud-based sales engagement platform that uses artificial intelligence capabilities to increase sales productivity.
We've had to return to ZoomInfo Engage, since High Velocity Sales hasn't worked out for us. HVS should be well suited for automated email responses and cadences. However, we have been unable to get it to work as we would like it to. Engage is not a great program either, but the …
HVS ranks very low on my list of tools for cadence and outreach management. Pipedrive, when I used it, was fairly bare bones and leveraged for a smaller book and volume of outreach. I didn't need a deep list of features at the time. SalesLoft far outpaces HVS in terms of …
HVS comes across as an early stage cadence management too and feels steps behind competitors in the space. It has great integration with Salesforce, being a Salesforce-owned platform this makes sense. It does a nice job making it easy to move between cadences with a clean list and sublisting design. This is largely where the benefits of HVS end. Currently, it is severely lacking features of some of the other cadence management tools. It is difficult to access important information like call notes, call disposition and history of outreach. It's there -- it's not easy to quick glance and see. A couple other misses are lacking account news -- Salesforce has account news on a tab but it rarely seems to pull press releases or relevant information. It really needs the ability to sort prospects within a cadence by account, time zone, or even by tag/star/priority. There is no simple way to see statistics from outreach across the board on a micro or macro level -- particularly without having the proper reports or dashboards setup for you in SF. Overall, HVS is functional but not bringing a lot of the luxury features that feel built in with other tools. The lack of these features does not make it impossible to get work done but it does affect productivity and the ability to move quickly during prospecting and outreach blocks. The only silver lining, and one that does not bring a lot of comfort at this exact moment, is that this is a Salesforce property. I can only imagine that SF has its eye on improving HVS and turning it into a really effective, highly competitive outreach tool.
Loads of room for improvement; the entire UI, in fact. Please make it easier to make edits after a cadence has been activated, add prospects to cadences, and create the cadences in the first place.
We've had to return to ZoomInfo Engage, since High Velocity Sales hasn't worked out for us. HVS should be well suited for automated email responses and cadences. However, we have been unable to get it to work as we would like it to. Engage is not a great program either, but the simpleness has made it more effective for our current use case.
