Crownpeak CMS vs. Khoros Care

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Crownpeak CMS
Score 7.2 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Crownpeak CMS is a composable, enterprise-ready content management system that empowers global teams to seamlessly orchestrate personalized digital experiences across all content channels. Marketing teams can create, manage, and monitor inclusive, accessible, and transactional experiences fast without compromising on functionality, security, or service.N/A
Khoros Care
Score 7.9 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Khoros Care enables brands to serve their customers on their preferred digital channels, reducing costs and increasing customer satisfaction and revenue. It Offers: Web chat & messaging gives customers convenient, efficient channels to engage brands, while giving brands a single consolidated platform to manage customer engagements at scale. Supporting the widest range of digital messaging channels, including; web chat, in-app, email, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram,…N/A
Pricing
Crownpeak CMSKhoros Care
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Crownpeak CMSKhoros Care
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsPricing is variable based on the needs of the customer.
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Community Pulse
Crownpeak CMSKhoros Care
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Crownpeak CMSKhoros Care
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Crownpeak CMS
8.9
25 Ratings
10% above category average
Khoros Care
-
Ratings
Role-based user permissions8.925 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Crownpeak CMS
8.0
22 Ratings
4% above category average
Khoros Care
-
Ratings
API7.819 Ratings00 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language8.120 Ratings00 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Crownpeak CMS
8.1
27 Ratings
6% above category average
Khoros Care
-
Ratings
WYSIWYG editor7.726 Ratings00 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness7.626 Ratings00 Ratings
Admin section8.325 Ratings00 Ratings
Page templates8.427 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design8.425 Ratings00 Ratings
Publishing workflow8.527 Ratings00 Ratings
Form generator7.823 Ratings00 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Crownpeak CMS
7.9
27 Ratings
8% above category average
Khoros Care
-
Ratings
Content taxonomy7.725 Ratings00 Ratings
SEO support8.524 Ratings00 Ratings
Bulk management8.122 Ratings00 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions7.321 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Crownpeak CMSKhoros Care
Likelihood to Recommend
8.6
(30 ratings)
7.7
(110 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(5 ratings)
7.6
(77 ratings)
Usability
8.2
(16 ratings)
6.5
(8 ratings)
Availability
8.6
(2 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Performance
8.2
(2 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
7.6
(27 ratings)
8.2
(10 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.1
(1 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Online Training
8.2
(2 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.6
(15 ratings)
7.3
(69 ratings)
Configurability
8.2
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.1
(1 ratings)
6.4
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.6
(2 ratings)
8.0
(75 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Crownpeak CMSKhoros Care
Likelihood to Recommend
Crownpeak
Crownpeak DXM is a great solution if you are looking for a flexible platform that allows engineers to quickly develop while also making it easy for content authors to work especially in scenarios where you need multi-language support. It is also good for scenarios where you want a cloud-based solution and are looking for just one vendor to handle hosting and offer the CMS.
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Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
Less Appropriate Scenarios- A fintech company has highly specialized or industry-specific workflows that are not easily accommodated within the standard capabilities of Khoros Care. In such cases, the platform may be less appropriate for businesses with extremely unique processes that require a high degree of customization. Well suited- financial institutions face a high volume of customer inquiries related to account management, transactions, and security concerns. Khoros Care's security features, automation capabilities, and integration with banking systems make it suitable for managing customer interactions in the financial services sector.
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Pros
Crownpeak
  • Build & manage digital experiences without dependency on your IT team
  • Built-in Digital Quality tool (DQM) tool allows you to check the quality of content and any accessibility issues and immediately flag any issues before publishing.
  • Build websites with the component-based technology and spend less effort in creating the best user experience for the end-user
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Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
  • Tagging system - it's possible to add a wide variety of labels and categories
  • Search feature - being able to find users by conversation number, username, or keywords makes it easier to navigate old conversations
  • Easy system for assigning conversations to other users
  • When you claim a conversation, it gets removed from the queue. This is much more visually explicit than Khoros Marketing's queue, for example, where all content remains visible in the queue and a bookmark gets moved around to distinguish the point where other users left off
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Cons
Crownpeak
  • Crownpeak moved to a web browser admin tool in 2018, which has made the admin experience much better, but there are still a couple of features missing from the browser version that won't arrive until later in 2019.
  • Integration with 3rd party digital asset management tools would be great.
  • Smoother integration with source control would be nice.
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Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
  • I would like to be able to see deleted comments/tweets so we can look into the issues.
  • I would like to be able to better customize dashboards for our exact metrics. Some things previously available in Spredfast are no longer available in Care.
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Likelihood to Renew
Crownpeak
None of our Crownpeak clients are currently thinking about replatforming.
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Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
Simply, there isn't anything on the market that is quite as personable as Khoros Care. After using a few different client messaging systems, this program gave the closest feel to in-person interaction that we could get during the COVID-19 epidemic and is an important part of our agency still to this day in 2023.
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Usability
Crownpeak
Crownpeak DXM is a flexible easy to use CMS platform speaking to the most challenging localization scenarios. Crownpeak users have the freedom to integrate DXM platform with their existing technology at no cost. Moving from legacy systems to the Saas platform is painless and cost-effective. Extensive targeting and personalization options are something that users will benefit from.
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Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
The ability to auto tag, manually tag, make notes, and "snooze" posts is extremely helpful. The efficiency of the work flow for agents is also a huge plus. It keeps agents moving quickly and prioritizing responses for the cases that need it most.
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Reliability and Availability
Crownpeak
We have never encountered any issues with the availability.
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Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
No issues.
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Performance
Crownpeak
Pages load very fast on production (assuming you develop with basic SEO practices in place) due to Crownpeak's publishing architecture. The slide downside is that publishing can be a bit slow at times.
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Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
No issues.
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Support Rating
Crownpeak
Crownpeak DXM's service and support are outstanding. We have immediate access to both the tech support team and the software engineering team. We can get a support person on the phone whenever needed, and we can schedule impromptu training sessions at any time. Best support I have ever received from a platform provider in 20 years of software and application development.
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Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
Khoros Support has always very responsive and helpful when it comes to getting my issue/inquiry addressed. Their ticket portal is great for tracking any open tickets and they can be updated via the portal or by responding to the email thread. Support reps are always extremely knowledgeable and care about getting you taken care of
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In-Person Training
Crownpeak
We received on-site training from Crownpeak, the trainer had touched upon every possible scenario and provided great insights about the product & ease of implementation.
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Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
The team received training (from the same executive team member who has been supporting us) over the web and this was of very high quality.
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Online Training
Crownpeak
My team left training with a solid understanding of how to use the product and the developer training ended with a test to ensure the ability to properly develop was learned properly. Recently, Crownpeak has added a self-paced training option which makes it extremely flexible to on-board new developers.
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Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
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Implementation Rating
Crownpeak
SaaS model is perfect for us to avoid slow and costly version updates to get access to new features and functions. Crownpeak is a true SaaS model, so we get all the good new stuff without the need to invest in effort, time or money. this frees our teams to focus on content creation and deployment, which is pretty fast because the DXM publishes straight to html through the headless model.
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Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
Implementing the platform was not a big hassle for our client, it was seamless and easy we just had to follow a few steps and it was done. Just scaling was a bit of an issue but it got resolved with time and a bit of effort at both ends
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Alternatives Considered
Crownpeak
I was not at this team within my organization during the evaluation period of Crownpeak. However, my previous team used Sitecore. Crownpeak is a bit easier to use from a UI perspective and has more creative options within the tool. Sitecore's clunky UI also was a reason I found out later why we ended up using Crownpeak as our DXM.
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Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
Khoros is more than just a platform for social publishing. No other competitor provides the in-depth moderation and social listening services that they do. If you're looking for a one-stop-shop of a platform for all things social, this is the tool to be using. Others are better in usability and innovative functionality.
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Scalability
Crownpeak
In some recent projects we have delivered to our clients, we were able to roll out sites in shorter time period due the scalability of the Crownpeak's DXM solution.
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Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
Of course as the company grows owing to its growing customer base, they need to think of out-of-the-box solutions to offer its clients and customer satisfaction is one of them. Retention is very much needed in competitive environment like today and hence it becomes imperative for companies to find different ways to reach their client basis and fix their issues
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Return on Investment
Crownpeak
  • I'm pretty sure it raises our back-end development costs by making the development process (of creating input forms and producing outputs from the content) more complicated and painful than it needs to be.
  • It helps lock our clients in to us because not a whole lot of agencies have Crownpeak expertise.
  • It helps our clients not have to deal with their own IT teams, which they tend to dislike working with.
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Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
  • We have seen a positive shift of customers from reaching out to the Call Centre to the Social Care Team.
  • Monthly and Annual Reporting to keep track of performance and stats related to the team has been much easier to highlight areas for improvement (month2month and anually)
  • CSAT/NPS Survey results have increased via Khoros Care in comparison to the Call Centre.
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