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Interactive Intelligence vs Zoho CRM comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

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Categories and Ranking

Interactive Intelligence
Ranking in CRM
45th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Zoho CRM
Ranking in CRM
2nd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
61
Ranking in other categories
Opportunity Management (3rd), Sales Force Automation (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the CRM category, the mindshare of Interactive Intelligence is 0.6%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zoho CRM is 2.3%, up from 1.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
CRM Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Zoho CRM2.3%
Interactive Intelligence0.6%
Other97.1%
CRM
 

Featured Reviews

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CX Team Lead
A customizable solution that can be integrated with almost anything
The best thing about this solution is the customizability because it can be integrated with pretty much anything. There are many solutions that are black boxes and we're unable to make any modifications to the call flows. With Interactive Intelligence, we can utilize APIs and variables. With the REST call, you can send a request and response. Elements can be incorporated into the workflow based on the response. This is the go-to thing with Interactive Intelligence. The Interactive Intelligence is quite user friendly. And Avaya, in that case, is not that great solution, on user friendliness. Basically, yeah, the same purpose I've used, but you need more expertise to manage the product. And Interactive Intelligence is one box. It contains a lot of features and we don't need to have much resources. But Avaya and others have many servers to be maintained with a single solution. It has a CN. You have to go for session manager and lots of other product servers. So, for a single solution, you need to maintain a lot of servers. This is more or less an easy environment to manage, but Avaya is very complex on the architectural level.
HarshVardhan1 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at Evoluz Global Solutions
Automates client workflows and data validation reliably but has faced limits in complex integrations
While applying some integrations or automations, if we need to take an action between two modules' fields, we have to write SOQL, and it can miss the data. I had a scenario where I had to use two fields from two different modules, and based on that condition, we had to send a follow-up to our team member to complete the task. We could not find any direct integration, direct SOQL query, or direct workflow that could do that work. However, I think the wizard is performing better now for such tasks. I had a two-part scenario where I had to get data from two modules or two fields in Zoho CRM and send a follow-up to our team member based on that data. We were unable to find any direct integration for this. Another issue is that a Zoho CRM function can run for only three minutes. After three minutes, the function will fail, and we have to rerun the function.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The stability is really good and it's a really powerful platform that is more powerful than Avaya or other kinds of vendors for contact centers."
"The social media integration is excellent."
"Being able to automate aspects such as outbound confirmation calls has saved us a lot of time and money."
"Interactive Intelligence is quite user friendly."
"Zoho CRM is very simple and easy to use."
"One of the most important features is that it's a cloud base and, it's also quite cheaper when compared to other solutions. Zoho CRM is customizable as per your requirement and, the Zoho team is able to help you to customize the CRM based on your requirements, and you can integrate to any third-party solution."
"Customer tracking, order management, sales tracking and PO tracking provide efficiency."
"We're able to easily track messages and notes."
"What I like most about Zoho CRM is its configurability. We can adapt it to our needs in terms of the sales process. It has automation capabilities, but we mostly use it as a static system, except for sending emails and information about updated products."
"For the most part, the solution is stable."
"Zoho CRM is easy to use and easy to understand."
"We use the solution for different projects. We use it to patch lead details from clients' sources."
 

Cons

"The initial setup can be a bit difficult."
"We are not happy with the technical support. They take too long to answer."
"The problem with this current system is that the support is not great."
"The main improvement needed for Zoho CRM is introducing SQL code for reports, similar to what's in Zoho Analytics."
"It would be useful to have some way of mapping organizations that could add more value."
"I'd like the solution to offer more integrations with other products."
"I would like to see better integration with Zoho Creator."
"It is hard to modify information around a customer. You need to pay for the features and the tool needs to improve it."
"There are at least two big pieces. One is just the ability to reorganize the data and clean it up to eliminate duplicates and things like that. It is very manual at the moment. It only gives us certain fields that we can check on. Because of our particular database, it creates a problem. We deal with hospitals, and there are 50 hospitals. It is tough to figure out which one is which. Is it this one or the other one? So, trying to clean things up is very difficult. I'd like to have more ability to share data fields. The data is structured into different buckets, and I frequently have to create the same field in two different buckets. It would be nice if I could just do a view-only field in another bucket. In my contact bucket, I would like to be able to have just a view-only of the account information so that I don't need to enter it again, which is what I have to do currently."
"Some of our clients could not develop their requirements using the product."
"A more user-friendly interface is what I'd like to see in Zoho CRM."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"We have an annual license fee that costs $12,000."
"There is an annual license."
"The solution has standard pricing plans."
"I rate the product a four out of ten. The cost for Zoho CRM is not fixed; different editions are available, and the features depend on the edition chosen. Some capabilities, such as integrating with workflows, might incur additional costs, but these are well-documented and not hidden."
"Zoho CRM has a subscription-based license, which is not too expensive."
"Professional plans cost $35 per user in the USA and EUR 35 in Europe."
"On a scale of one to ten, where one is a high price and ten is a low price, I rate the pricing a five. However, the pricing is fine because we chose the enterprise plan as a private limited company."
"The licensing is the subscription, where we pay $50 per month per user."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Comms Service Provider
18%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Construction Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Outsourcing Company
13%
Construction Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Comms Service Provider
11%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business49
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise10
 

Questions from the Community

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Zoho CRM?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that those details were taken care of by our operations team, and I am not sure about the specifics.
What needs improvement with Zoho CRM?
I think Zoho CRM can be improved because everything is good, but the UI can be improved. That is the main area where improvements are needed.
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My main use case for Zoho CRM is to maintain our prospects database, track our email interactions, and manage our entire sales operations. A quick specific example of how I use Zoho CRM in my daily...
 

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