BIK Features
Integration (4)
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Data Import & Export Tools
Ability to input, modify and extract data from the application in bulk through a structured file.
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Integration APIs
Application Programming Interface - Specification for how the application communicates with other software. API's typically enable integration of data, logic, objects, etc with other software applications.
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Breadth of Partner Applications
To what extent are there partner applications readily available for integrating into this product? Partner applications typically provide complementary, best of breed functionality not offered natively in this product.
Social Media Integration
Integrate with social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.
Platform (21)
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Customization
System provides sufficient customization to meet business requirements
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Workflow Capability
Automates a process that requires a series of steps that typically require intervention by a several different users. Administrators can write rules to determine who and when a user needs to complete a step. Also includes notification of users when they need to take action.
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User, Role, and Access Management
Grant access to select data, features, objects, etc. based on the users, user role, groups, etc.
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Internationalization
Enables users to view and transact business with the same content in multiple languages and currencies.
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Sandbox / Test Environments
Allows administrators to easily develop and test changes to the CRM deployment. After changes are made admins can easily migrate the changes into the "live" or "production" environment.
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Performance and Reliability
Software is consistently available (uptime) and allows users to complete tasks quickly because they are not waiting for the software to respond to an action they took.
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Output Document Generation
Allows administrators to create templates that enable users to quickly generate dynamic documents in various formats based on the data stored in the application.
Lead Generation
Manage the process of attracting and converting business prospects into leads
Content Management
Handles digital content throughout its lifecycle, from creation and storage to distribution and archiving
Lead Management
Store information about leads or contacts and track, manage and nurture them throughout the sales process
List Management
Manage contacts across multiple mailing lists
Mobile Access
Access software remotely via mobile devices
Live chat
Provide tools for live chat on one's website.
Integrations
Allows easy integrations with applications, such as messenger applications, APIs, and customer support tools.
Branding
Has the ability to customize look and feel of chatbot to match` company branding.
Analytics
Gives user the ability to analyze conversations with the chatbot and see its performance.
A/B testing
Allows users to test the efficacy of various responses through A/B testing.
Role-based access
Allows for varying access to chatbot and admin settings, depending on user, their role, etc.
Collection of information
Can collect and store information from interlocators, such as email, phone number, etc.
Augmented Analytics
Analyze data and automatically generate insights using AI/ML technologies
Proactive Chat
Copy on the page or chat window encouraging the user to engage with the chat option
Email Marketing (4)
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Building and Personalizing Emails
Create and design emails with an editor; manage templates; personalize dynamically
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Sending Outbound Emails
Create targeted lists, schedule and manage bulk email sending.
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Manage Email Deliverability
Ensure inbox delivery. Includes opt-in management, bounce handling, unsubscribe processing, suppression lists, email preview, spam checking, link validation, and delivery monitoring.
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Automated Email Responses
Set up automated nurturing emails based on events, online activities, and lead scores
Online Marketing (8)
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Landing Pages and Forms
Build customized landing pages and lead capture forms for specific marketing campaigns to maximize conversion and to capture the right qualifying information.
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Dynamic Content
Dynamically customize emails, forms, and landing pages for specific segments of customers and prospects.
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A/B Testing
Test alternate versions of emails, landing pages, and forms. Learn what works, maximize response rates, and increase conversion.
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Mobile Optimized
Support mobile-optimized emails, online forms, and landing pages.
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Search Tracking and Optimization
Track performance of keywords and links in major search engines. Measure search rankings and performance. Improve page-level SEO with tools to diagnose and improve page performance. Integrate with Google AdWords.
Conversion Rate Optimization
Improving user journey to boost the percentage of visitors who take a desired action (sign-ups or purchases)
Multivariate Testing
Create many versions of emails, forms, or actions and gauge which is most effective
Customizable Forms
Customize contracts and forms to collect specific information
Lead Management (21)
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Marketing Lead Database
A marketing lead database is the system of record for your most important marketing asset: your leads and contacts. Includes a view of all marketing interactions between each prospect and your company, including website visits, email clicks, scoring changes, and data updates/history.
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Data Quality Management
Data quality consists of deduplication, cleansing, and appending your marketing database.
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Segmentation
Segment your database and build list of target leads and contacts. Filter on demographic and company attributes (title, company size, location) as well as behavioral filters and CRM information.
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Lead Scoring and Grading
Automatically qualify and score leads based on demographics as well as prospect online behaviors, including recency and frequency. Assign your own weights to determine lead scores for prioritization.
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Lead Nurturing
Automate drip marketing campaigns that send relevant messages over time, based on prospect behaviors and pre-defined campaign steps.
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Email Tracking
Track delivered, received, and opened emails
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Automated Alerts and Tasks
Create tasks automatically and provide real-time sales alerts over email, RSS or mobile device.
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CRM Lead Integration
Sync lead, contact, account, and opportunity information with your CRM system.
Third-Party Integrations
Set up connections to third-party platforms to improve business processes
Real-Time Data
Receive data and information in real time
Social Marketing
Manage campaigns and track engagement for marketing efforts across social media channels
Email Marketing
Create and send email blasts/campaigns
Multi-Channel Marketing
Coordinate marketing efforts across channels (email, landing pages, social media, etc.)
Conversion Tracking
Measure return on ad spend by tracking the actions people take such as sign up or download after engaging with ads
ROI Tracking
Monitor conversion rates and analyze effectiveness and profitability of marketing efforts
Activity Tracking
Track and document all activities across devices, networks, and other systems
Engagement Tracking
Tracks metrics that provide insight into how a user interacts with any interface or product
Campaign Segmentation
Search Marketing
Track visibility and traffic from search engines
SMS Marketing
Send promotional campaigns or transactional messages via text messages
Website Visitor Tracking
Monitor activity of individuals who visit your website using cookies
Campaign Management (7)
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Program Management
Manage marketing campaigns and programs across multiple channels, including online ads, video campaigns, mobile, virtual events, and social media. Create and optimize program assets such as landing pages, emails, campaigns, and lists. Track program objectives, results, and costs to assess the program ROI.
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Event / Webinar Marketing
Streamline the entire event process, including personalized invitations, registration, reminders, and post-event follow-up. Integrate with online meeting tools like WebEx, Adobe Connect, GoToWebinar.
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Calendaring
Maintain a marketing calendar across multiple groups. Manage the calendar for the entire marketing department, from promotions to content to PR.
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Budgeting
Manage all aspects of marketing investments, including assigning top-down budgets to various groups and divisions, planning marketing spending across programs, tracking open-to-spend, ensuring budget compliance, coordinating work-flows and permissions, and reconciling plans with actual invoices.
Campaign Management
Create a collection of marketing actions to complete specific goals and plan and analyze campaign results
Workflow Management
Create, design and manage workflows for repetitive tasks
Template Management
Create, save, and re-purpose templates for emails, forms, etc.
Social (7)
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Social Listening
Monitor what leads and contacts say on sites such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, blogs, and online communities. Incorporate into your lead and customer DB and use social insights to segment prospects. Trigger campaigns, and update lead scores.
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Social Sharing
Add intelligent social share buttons to your campaigns and content. Track who is sharing your content and driving conversions.
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Social Campaigns
Schedule automated posts to one or more social accounts; use or integrate with URL shortening services; and measure likes, comments, replies, and retweets.
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Social Media Engagement
Social apps including polls, sweepstakes, and referral programs can enhance audience engagement. Include these on your website, landing pages, Facebook pages, and emails.
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Social Media Advertising
Amplify brand and community stories; Reach customers by social profile and activity; Optimize social ad campaigns in real-time
Drip Campaigns
Send automated marketing emails based on user actions over a predetermined period
Multi-Campaign
Manage multiple campaigns in one system
Reporting & Analytics (11)
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Basic Reporting
Access pre-built and custom reports and dashboards to measure leads by source/campaign/month, email performance, landing page performance, and web and social activity. Create report subscriptions that can automatically send updates to your team and executives.
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Web Analytics
Track which pages prospects and customers visit and how often they come back. Capture the history in database for lead scoring and sales intelligence. Use anonymous company look-up to identify anonymous visitors. Send alerts to sales reps of which of their prospects and customers web activity.
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ROI Analytics
Measure leads, prospects generated, pipeline, revenue, investment, and ROI by marketing channel or program. The result is that you can see which marketing investments are generating the greatest return and get visibility into how marketing budget should be allocated going forward.
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Revenue Analytics
Analyze how leads flow through the funnel by measuring stage to stage conversion rates and velocity. Allocate pipeline and revenue credit among all the marketing activities that have successfully touched an opportunity as it moves through the pipeline.
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SEO / Keyword Analytics
Monitor and track how you rank for relevant keywords on major search engines and compare your overall performance to competitors.
Behavior Analytics
Track and analyze user behavior within a system or network
Real-Time Analytics
Analyze and gain insights into data in real-time
Campaign Analytics
Track and interpret campaign performance metrics
Website Analytics
Track and analyze information regarding website visitors
Visual Analytics
Interact with data visualization elements, such as charts and graphs, to drill down into data
Sales Analytics
Track in detail how users interact with your campaigns and pages (scrolling, button interactions, etc.)
Responses (5)
Customization
Customize your chat workflows with rules and automations.
Control
Control who the chatbot converses with (and when).
Route To Human
Has the ability to connect interlocator with a human agent when the need arises.
Menu bars
Can provide interlocators with menus, through which they can choose a relevant response.
Drip sequences
Can send triggered sequence of automated messages sent on a predefined schedule in a targeted fashion.
Content (4)
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Types
Manages multiple types of social content such as text, documents, videos, and images
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Migration
Allows users to migrate content and product data from other systems such as Product information Management (PIM)
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Publishing
Include workflows and rules for content sharing and publishing
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UGC
Provide features or integrate with sfotware to manage user-generated content (UGC)
Engagement (5)
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Live Streaming
Allows users to live stream content, which can be recorded and replayed on demand
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Omnichannel
Support engagement on multiple channels such as email, phone, and in-store
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Personalization
Provide pesonalization options such as dynamic templates, localized content, amd recommendations
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Conversational Commerce
Provides chatbots and intelligent assistants for conversational commerce
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Moderation
Include rules and workflows for moderation of social engagement
Social Shopping (4)
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Promotions
Provide coupons or discounts that are available exclusively on social media
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Shoppable Media
Manage shoppable content such as images or videos that buyers can click to access a store
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AR/VR
Utilize augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) technology to engage with social media users
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Social Store
Create social stores and customizable branded landing pages
Analytics (3)
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Product Insights
Analyze social media sales to determine which products sell better
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Social Listening
Monitor social media interactions to identify consumer trends
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Campaigns
Track the performance of marketing campaigns and social media advertising
Generative AI (3)
AI Text Generation
Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.
AI Text Summarization
Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.
Generative AI
Use AI to generate content in the form of text, images, videos, etc.
WhatsApp Messaging - WhatsApp Marketing (6)
Transactional Messages
Allows users to establish automated workflows and triggers to deliver transactional WhatsApp messages and notifications
Bulk WhatsApp Messaging
Enables users to send mass WhatsApp marketing campaigns
Conversational Messaging
Facilitates two-way WhatsApp messaging to encourage subscriber engagement and loyalty
Personalization
Offers features for personalizing WhatsApp messages based on customer information or past behavior
Promotional Messages
Allow users to share promotions with subscribers via WhatsApp
Automated Replies
Provides automated WhatsApp message replies to recipients
WhatsApp Business Platform - WhatsApp Marketing (4)
Segmentation
Deliver tailored promotions to specific audience segments
API Integration
Facilitates the integration of WhatsApp messaging into existing business applications through WhatsApp Business API
WhatsApp Commerce
Allow customers to browse, discover, research, purchase, and complete payment in real-time
Analytics
Provides analytics on opt-ins, open and delivery rates, and click-throughs
Agentic AI - Marketing Automation (7)
Autonomous Task Execution
Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input
Multi-step Planning
Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes
Cross-system Integration
Works across multiple software systems or databases
Adaptive Learning
Improves performance based on feedback and experience
Proactive Assistance
Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting
Decision Making
Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives
Campaign Planning
Plan and strategize marketing campaigns
Additional Functionality (50)
Social Promotion
Market event via social media tools
Customizable Branding
Add customized logos and colors to align with company branding
Monitoring
Observe and track the demand, usage, progress or quality of a system, product, or user
CRM
Built-in customer relationship management (CRM) capabilities or integration with a third-party CRM system
Reporting & Statistics
Collection, analysis, and representation of numerical data and generation of reports to understand various patterns
Live Chat
Ability to chat online in real time
Customer Journey Mapping
Visualize and analyze customer experience across all touchpoints and channels
Generative AI
Use AI to generate content in the form of text, images, videos, etc.
Mass Texting
Send messages to multiple subscribers at the same time
Drag & Drop
Assemble applications and processes by dragging over and arranging pre-built components
Email Templates
Pre-made examples and templates for emails
Automated Scheduling
Automatically create schedules based on business needs or employee availability and qualifications
Campaign Scheduling
Set campaign schedules by selecting start, pause, and end dates
AI Copilot
A virtual assistant that uses AI to pursue goals and complete tasks on behalf of users
Social Media Monitoring
Track activity on sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.
Activity Dashboard
Dashboard to view the status of ongoing processes, identify current incidents and track past activities
Lead Capture
Automatically identify and save contact information of potential customers
Customizable Templates
Pre-designed layouts that can be customized to match preferences and requirements
Marketing Automation
Automate workflows and trigger campaigns based on customer actions
Event Triggered Actions
Predefined actions automatically performed on the occurance of specific events
Marketing Calendar
See past and upcoming campaigns and communications in a calendar view
Customizable CTAs
Create unique call-to-actions to drive clicks (buttons, banners, graphics, etc.)
Multi-Channel Communication
Allows communication with customers or users via multiple channels such as phone, email, live chat, etc.
Data Import/Export
Import and export data to and from software applications
Lead Qualification
Score a lead on their quality or likelihood to buy based on certain behaviors
Customer Surveys
Tool to send questionnaires to customers to gauge feedback
Lead Qualification
Score a lead on their quality or likelihood to buy based on certain behaviors
Transcripts/Chat History
View messages sent by both parties during the chat conversation
Language Detection
Identify different languages
Pre-Configured Bot
Existing bot models for AI-based tools commonly used for auditory and textual conversation methods
Lead Capture
Automatically identify and save contact information of potential customers
Code-free Development
Assemble applications and bots from pre-made building blocks without having to write software code or knowing a programming language
Natural Language Processing
Process and analyze human language in text or audio form
Multi-Language
Manage and support multiple languages
For Sales/Marketing
Used as a promotional or demonstration tool in sales and marketing presentations
Contextual Guidance
Interprets what a user is doing based on context and helps guide them through the process.
Automated Responses
Automatic reply functionality for incoming messages
Customer Support
Provide online support for your customers through live chat or help desk functionality
Chatbot
AI-based platform which conducts a conversation via auditory or textual methods
Intent Recognition
Helps understand a user's intentions/actions
Sentiment Analysis
Categorize emotions expressed in written text or images and identify if they are positive, negative or neutral
Customer Experience Management
Track and understand a customer's overall satisfaction with a product or service to identify areas of improvement.
Query Suggestions
See options for potential search queries within the system
Transfers/Routing
Transfer queries and organize messages between agents
AI Copilot
A virtual assistant that uses AI to pursue goals and complete tasks on behalf of users
Canned Responses
Shortcuts for inputting frequently used messages
AI/Machine Learning
Software program that continuously adjusts its behavior based on observed data
Multi-Channel Communication
Allows communication with customers or users via multiple channels such as phone, email, live chat, etc.
Automated Routing
Tickets are automatically assigned to specific agents based on predefined rules
Workflow Automation
Streamlining repetitive tasks and activities through automated and predefined workflows