HG Insights Reviews in January 2025: User Ratings, Pros & Cons

Project Manger

What do you like best? I liked the integration with CRM and the match/update. What do you dislike? Would like to see improvements in the reporting capabilities. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Matching and appending technology data to customer base.

Great vendor experience with outstanding data information in return.

What do you like best? Simple. Easy to use. No messy integrations. Great instant lookup plug-in. What do you dislike? They need an Admin portal to activate and deactivate users as needed. Recommendations to others considering the product: If you want to seek information on what toolset a prospect or customer leverages, there is nothing better than HGData. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Identifying potential customers ...

HG Data is great for finding what tech your target companies are using

What do you like best? Data quality is good and coverage is best-in-class. There are also some data that requires more than scraping the web (like installs) that HGData covers. What do you dislike? Interface is kind of clunky, and some tech categories are confusing for companies with many products (Amazon and Microsoft, to name a few). Recommendations to others considering the product: As with every data provider, make sure you run some trials to make sure HG Data has the ...

Great detailed data tool

What do you like best? Great tool especially if you need specific relevant data in order to prospect most effectively What do you dislike? I wish that the data was More recent - also could potentially pull lien volumes of use What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Trying to make target specific AWS toolset and therefore need accurate data to send relevantly prospecting emails

Good Targeting Tool

What do you like best? Diversity of the data platforms on which HG Data records info What do you dislike? Binary nature of the reporting. Would prefer the reports to reference the confidence score in some way. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Targeting businesses to pitch

Good Insights

What do you like best? Speed of information population and ease of use What do you dislike? Lack of breadth in terms of tool details What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Prospecting insights

Easy extension to use when looking for website tech

What do you like best? Compared to other tools such as Builtwith, HG allows you to quickly thrawl through the hassle and identify the tools different websites are using. I frequently use this to understand whether a company is using a full Adobe, Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce stack or whether they seem to be more open source. I think this tool is especially helpful to tech inside sales as they often don't have the technical knowledge of different types of software. What do you ...

Great for identifying companies with the right tech

What do you like best? I like that I can use HG Data to quickly scan a prospects website and see if they have the proper tech stack for me to prospect into. What do you dislike? Sometimes the data isn't up to date. I know that this is something that is hard for them to handle but it can look bad on our side if we say oh well according to my sources you are using XYZ and them say that's not accurate. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you ...

Understand Prospect Technology

What do you like best? This plug-in is an excellent way to understand technology surrounding a perspective client account. What do you dislike? Nothing - the plugin works as intended for how I use it. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Prospecting - finding gaps in prospective clients' solutions. Determining how to help them.

Happy HG data customer

What do you like best? I love the capabilities of being able to see "Date First Verified" to identify buying cycles of competitors. What do you dislike? Previously, we only had access to data related to 5 technologies, though we are in the process of upgrading to the new offering. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? We are able to align lead generation with buying cycles to contact prospects during or before a buying window. We ...