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Aktana

Score8.5 out of 10

5 Reviews and Ratings

What is Aktana?

Aktana offers intelligent customer engagement for the global life sciences industry. By ensuring that every customer experience is tailored to individual preferences and needs, Aktana helps life science companies strengthen their relationships with healthcare providers to inspire better patient care.

Aktana services now include technology from Tact.ai, a virtual personal assistant that provides intelligence on a day's meetings and interactions, with scheduling functionality and CRM task completion capabilities.

Categories & Use Cases

Thanks to Tact.ai we are more productive

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are currently using this software Tact.ai to help with the performance and productivity of our sales agents. With the SalesForce integration, we can create a powerful crm, as we can record our activities in real time, synchronizing all customer history in the platform.

Pros

  • Allows us to have at hand the records of our calendar, customer notes, all completed and pending tasks.
  • Seamlessly integrates all the applications we need to make calls, emails, contacts, customers and crm. Synchronizes all the data recorded from each of the integrated applications.
  • Nearby contact search tools, is helping us to build close relationships with customers.

Cons

  • The notifications and alarms are not reaching me in real time, which causes a delay in the answers I give to customers via chat and mail.
  • Sometimes it does not read the scanning of the business card, you have to try several times for the reader to take the code.
  • The software can feel cumbersome when working offline. And when the connection arrives, it takes a while to synchronize all the new data.

Most Important Features

  • Can be used online and offline, which is indispensable to always have sales information at hand.
  • It allows us to see the customer's profile in 360º which has helped us not to lose detail of each step of the purchase.
  • The scanning of our customers' business cards helps us to be more entrepreneurial and organized.

Return on Investment

  • We have been able to experience better performance in our sales, as we spend more time dedicated to our customers than doing administrative tasks, thanks to Tact.ai.
  • Our team is more organized with clients, with meetings up to date, no delays in responding to clients, which has increased productivity and performance considerably.

Personal helper for salespeople out there in the field

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Tact.ai to maximize our sales team's performance and reduce their time spent on administrative activities. With Tact.ai, the sales process is going towards digitalization and at the same time keeping the core process in mind. Also, it can be integrated with many salesforces which gives freedom to go mobile.

Pros

  • It saves a lot of time which was wasted earlier in non-productive things
  • Proper scheduling and management can be done
  • Can create surveys with ease and have pre-built email templates available

Cons

  • Adding calendar is cumbersome. Integration between Outlook and Tact.ai is required
  • Time required to log in is very high. It wastes so much time every time.
  • Schedule view is limited to 2 weeks ahead only

Most Important Features

  • Integration with Salesforce
  • Easy to work with on a smartphone
  • All critical information is combined and presented through a simple interface and notifications.

Return on Investment

  • It is still in the growing phase and we consider it an investment. Currently, it has a negative impact but it is gradually decreasing with time. We think in the coming three years we will be on the positive side

Other Software Used

Amazon WorkSpaces (VDI), Tableau CRM (formerly Einstein Analytics), Microsoft Power BI

Best alternative to SalesForce App that sucks....

Pros

  • Scan Business Cards into SalesForce
  • Have the SalesForce Data Offline
  • Able to log notes from meetings

Cons

  • Better OCR for card scanning. I've seen a lot better.
  • Be able to look at the calendar in the app and then add the meeting notes. I feel that if I don't write notes when prompted, I can't get to that page again.
  • Be able to upload notes from OneNote or Evernote into Salesforce.

Return on Investment

  • Better documentation on sales process and logs of tasks that are done
  • We can access the Salesforce data no matter where
  • Better handle on sales business process.

Alternatives Considered

Salesforce.com