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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Desk.com (discontinued)

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/ADesk.com was a helpdesk, ticketing, and customer support product offered by Salesforce, and oriented towards the needs of small businesses. It is no longer sold and support has been discontinued. Salesforce recommends its modern Service Cloud as a replacement.N/A

    Emplifi

    Score8.9 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Emplifi offers a platform that enables brands to manage social marketing, commerce, and care. At the core of this platform is Emplifi Fuel — the outcome and enablement layer that connects all modules across marketing, commerce, and care. Fuel empowers brands to optimize the customer journey, unifying data, automation, and AI-driven insights to ensure every interaction drives meaningful business outcomes. The platform's core capabilities include:…N/A
    Pricing
    Desk.com (discontinued)Emplifi
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
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    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Desk.com (discontinued)Emplifi
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    78%
    Would buy again
    14 Answers
    95%
    Would buy again
    76 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    88%
    Delivers good value for the price
    14 Answers
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    63 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    83%
    Happy with the feature set
    15 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    80 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    85%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    11 Answers
    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    51 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    13 Answers
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    63 Answers
    Features
    Desk.com (discontinued)Emplifi
    Listening/monitoring
    Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Desk.com (discontinued) and Emplifi
    Feature
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    Ratings
    Emplifi
    6.4
    7 Ratings
    18% below category average
    Boolean keyword searches00 Ratings6.75 Ratings
    Filtering out noise/spam00 Ratings6.46 Ratings
    Sentiment analysis00 Ratings5.55 Ratings
    Broad channel coverage00 Ratings7.07 Ratings
    Publishing
    Comparison of Publishing features of Desk.com (discontinued) and Emplifi
    Feature
    Desk.com (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Emplifi
    7.3
    8 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Content planning and scheduling00 Ratings7.38 Ratings
    Audience targeting00 Ratings7.07 Ratings
    Content optimization00 Ratings7.38 Ratings
    Workflow management00 Ratings7.67 Ratings
    Engagement
    Comparison of Engagement features of Desk.com (discontinued) and Emplifi
    Feature
    Desk.com (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Emplifi
    7.3
    7 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Automated routing and prioritization00 Ratings7.37 Ratings
    Customer interaction histories00 Ratings8.25 Ratings
    Bulk actions00 Ratings6.46 Ratings
    Marketing
    Comparison of Marketing features of Desk.com (discontinued) and Emplifi
    Feature
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    Ratings
    Emplifi
    7.6
    6 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Lead generation00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Content marketing00 Ratings7.66 Ratings
    Paid media management00 Ratings7.74 Ratings
    Campaigns and promotions00 Ratings7.34 Ratings
    Channel coverage/integration
    Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of Desk.com (discontinued) and Emplifi
    Feature
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    Ratings
    Emplifi
    5.8
    8 Ratings
    36% below category average
    Twitter00 Ratings6.18 Ratings
    Facebook00 Ratings7.98 Ratings
    LinkedIn00 Ratings4.17 Ratings
    Google+00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Instagram00 Ratings7.38 Ratings
    Pinterest00 Ratings3.25 Ratings
    YouTube00 Ratings3.95 Ratings
    Reporting/analytics
    Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of Desk.com (discontinued) and Emplifi
    Feature
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    Ratings
    Emplifi
    6.4
    8 Ratings
    19% below category average
    Campaign success analytics00 Ratings7.07 Ratings
    Real-time tracking00 Ratings6.78 Ratings
    Competitor analysis00 Ratings5.57 Ratings
    Account management
    Comparison of Account management features of Desk.com (discontinued) and Emplifi
    Feature
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    Ratings
    Emplifi
    6.7
    8 Ratings
    17% below category average
    Role-based user permissions & privileges00 Ratings7.38 Ratings
    Mobile access00 Ratings6.15 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
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    Small Businesses
    Help Scout
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Sendible
    Score7.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    LiveAgent
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Vista Social
    Score9.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Front
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    Score8.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Desk.com (discontinued)Emplifi
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (38 ratings)
    9.2
    (110 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.4
    (14 ratings)
    9.1
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    8.3
    (19 ratings)
    8.3
    (36 ratings)
    Availability
    1.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.2
    (21 ratings)
    7.7
    (43 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Desk.com (discontinued)Emplifi
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    Once I had to search the logs to find cases and data on a particular keyword, but I was not able to do so as there was no search tool available, nor was there a sort or filter tool. I was totally frustrated as I had to skim through the data to complete my task manually.
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    - Very well suited to grabbing top-level and more in-depth social performance data, across campaigns and BAU activity. - Not as well suited for moments where you need benchmarking or context of your performance compared with a previous time frame. This can be a bit clunky to go back and forth with as it requires multiple dashboards or consistent manual time-frame changes.
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • Desk.com automatically tracks analytics on all cases coming in and going out.
    • Desk.com helps prevent multiple people from working on the same case. However, it does allow us to assign the case to someone else if we feel that person is more qualified to address the case.
    • Desk.com has very few bugs or server issues that we've seen. This helps prevent any delays in communicating with our customers.
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    • Helps us prioritize requests based on urgency and tone
    • Helps us divide work between several teams
    • Helps us keep an eye on how our posts are being recieved and are performing
    • Helps us stay in contact with customers, and helps us understand particular customers needs
    • Helps us separate the chaff from the wheat
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    Cons
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    • Internal knowledge tools are clunky and annoying to access, outside the regular workflow of everyday staff
    • Arbitrary and confusing limitations in business rules and custom fields
    • Arbitrary and confusing limitations in case handling - for example, if you begin a case as a phone call you CANNOT email the customer from the case. As though no one working at Desk has ever sent a follow-up email...?
    • Not very good for B2B, mid-to-large businesses. Difficult to set business rules based on company information (for example, service level/tier) and nearly impossible to track key stakeholders and get clear insight into the relationship at a high level
    • Reporting tools are clunky, slow, and just all-around pretty useless
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    Emplifi Inc
    • Would love more robust search parameters for labels. ex. search for tickets labeled 'Availability' AND 'United States' but excluding any that are only one of those labels
    • Ability to break conversations into multiple tickets; so labels can be more accurate if the same person reaches out again after 3 months with a totally different question
    • The social account quick view doesn't always load the follower count for people reaching out to us. it makes it slower to manager messages from high level creators
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Discontinued Products
    We will be very likely to renew our contract with Desk.com. It is easy to use, and provides us with everything we need to keep our customers and employees happy. They have also been very helpful in catering the application to our specific and unique needs, including working across brands and adding specific content for our products
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    Emplifi Inc
    the balance between quality and price si perfectperfect for agency that have many client to manage, because it helps us to save time (we don't have to plan content from every single account, only one click to look at different community and moderate...)it also help the team works: senior can review content direcly from emplifi; labeling DM/comments as done help us to track where a collegue stop and we have to startIt makes the content approval from clients very easy
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    Usability
    Discontinued Products
    Desk.com and Salesforce Service Cloud's usability is seamless to get up and running, administer, and scale across the organization. It allows us to get up and running in days rather than weeks and has transformed our customer support teams globally into efficient, world-class teams. The best practices that the Salesforce and Desk.com teams provide are also very valuable, as we have the right case studies and tips to implement right away in our organization.
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    Emplifi Inc
    Since the main use of the Live Advisor is on the website that doesn't have e-commerce capabilities, it has been challenging to attach an specific metric to Emplifi's solutions and their usability in our websites. The Live Advisor is helping us to deliver our unique sale proposition in digital channels, which is great, but it is difficult to assign a higher mark in usability due to the limitation just explained.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Discontinued Products
    We've never had a problem with Desk.com's availability.
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    Emplifi Inc
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    Performance
    Discontinued Products
    Fast, responsive, gorgeous, and fun. It's always run like a thoroughbred for me.
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    Emplifi Inc
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    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
    Their support leaves much to be desired. They do not respond quickly and do not follow up with feature requests. There is also a lack of on-demand or live training available for the teams to use as they learn a new tool. Because there is so much customization, a lot of questions do come up regularly.
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    Emplifi Inc
    We have a dedicated Customer Success manager, and that is very helpful. Anytime we have questions or need support, they are always there to answer. If thety do not know the solution, they always go around the bend to find one and provide it to us. They are always very kind.
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    Online Training
    Discontinued Products
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    Emplifi Inc
    The online training was fine but, in the end, the best way to learn any product is by actually using it.
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    Implementation Rating
    Discontinued Products
    As I stated earlier, implementation of Desk.com went more smoothly than most. The resources in the "Support Center" are fantastic, and I never ran into anything that left me stumped, angry, or disappointed.
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    Emplifi Inc
    The platform is so easy to understand that no "expensive consulting firm" is necessary to implement it!
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    Overall, it performs a lot better than all three combined, with a lot fewer glitches and a lot more user-friendly and user experience efficiency. Any new link that needs to be done, takes a lot less time to execute on desk compared to the three others. Simply advanced when it comes to execution this platform is.
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    Emplifi Inc
    We have used Sprinklr to source UGC content as well, but found the platform to be much more time intensive when searching for the desired images. Additionally, Emplifi's UGC tool has incremental tools the other platforms do not provide, including the ability to share images on digital screens within the property and put carousels on our websites.
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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • Better customer service and employee efficiency when dealing with cases
    • It's so universal, meaning that everyone can use it and it's easy to understand.
    • The only negative impact is that our IT department who is assigned tickets has responded to customers instead of to the local reps and we have to ensure they know to change the email if it's assigned to them.
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    Emplifi Inc
    • reporting - this has massively reduced the time spent on creating reports for social media activities
    • paid ads - has provided detailed analysis of how our ads are performing
    • community - reduced the time taken to respond to social messages, resulting in more leads
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    Desk.com (discontinued) Screenshots

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    Emplifi Screenshots

    Screenshot of Emplifi Fuel Command CenterScreenshot of Emplifi Fuel ObjectivesScreenshot of Emplifi Unified AnalyticsScreenshot of social listening with AI-Powered Spike Alerts.Screenshot of the integrated social care interface.