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    eGain Conversation Hub

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AeGain Conversation Hub unifies and automates customer conversations across channels, featuring comprehensive capabilities for messaging, social, chat, email, cobrowse, video, and phone.N/A

    KANA Express, discontinued

    Score3.3 out of 10
    N/AVerint Express (formerly KANA Express) was a cloud-based multi-channel customer engagement / experience platform that was owned and supported by Verint since that company's 2014 acquisition of KANA Software. The product has since been discontinued.N/A
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    eGain Conversation HubKANA Express, discontinued
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Testimonials
    eGain Conversation HubKANA Express, discontinued
    Likelihood to Recommend
    eGain Corporation
    Search function Global Synonyms Guided Helps. Documentation does a great job of describing features but lacks the big picture of how things relate to one another. Strong consulting partnership and customer focus. There are areas where they need to improve - Improve compliance & risk management plus Improve customer relations/service.
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    If your business has more than 50 users, don't use KANA Express. User management and setup is not intuitive, and back-end email management takes a large amount of time. If your business emails more than one recipient and expects replies from more than one recipient, don't use KANA Express. The system is built for one-question-in, one-answer-out. Anything more than that requires extra customization or is impossible, according to their development team. If managing your inbound email either internally or externally is critical to your operations, don't use KANA Express. Downtime is more frequent than is acceptable, and their Netherlands advanced support team's hours make down-time in the western hemisphere a lot longer than it needs to be.
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    Pros
    eGain Corporation
    • Multiple options to choose channel of your convenience
    • The product capabilities are very good. Easy for integration and deployment
    • Strong consulting partnership
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    • Allows you to manage multiple email queues with different business rules.
    • User interface is somewhat intuitive, allowing users to navigate fairly easily.
    • Admin controls allow for a considerable variety of customization.
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    Cons
    eGain Corporation
    • Service and support needs to be done better.
    • Compliance and risk management needs to be improved
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    • KANA Express is NOT set up for business models where email is conversational and involves multiple recipients and responses. If your business model is one-question-in, one-answer-out, then KANA Express will probably work for you.
    • Since signing on with them, KANA Express' support team has been severely lacking in expertise and acceptable turnaround times, especially when the platform encounters a system-wide issue to leads to downtime. Our assigned sales contacts jumped ship with the company almost immediately after we went live, which is never a good sign.
    • Admin panel and functions are very antiquated and not user-friendly at all. Email management through the admin tool lacks crucial insight that prevents admin users from being able to easily route and manage emails. Our organization had to write our own KANA user guides that KANA Express then took and started using themselves and for other clients.
    • The KANA Express platform does not have proper spam or auto-reply management tools. Admin users must manually turn off the KANA Express auto-response emails in order to prevent email loops with other parties' auto-responses.
    • Analytics options are lacking. Admin users must run at least three separate reports in order to gather appropriate insight as to user activities and metrics.
    • Email queue/user set up is not intuitive. If adding a new queue or user, all users must be manually adjusted to include that new queue. There is no mass-edit tool for KANA Express users.
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    eGain Corporation
    While searching for a Customer Experience software, eGain came first in the search and we were pretty satisfied with the product features it has. We liked the support and customer service which made sure all our queries were answered in a very short turnaround time.
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    Return on Investment
    eGain Corporation
    • eGain helped in improvising our customer engagements
    • Customer retention was made possible as the tool helps us analyse the painpoints of the customer
    • Social Media Marketing helped to gain a lot of customers with minimal cost incurred.
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    • KANA Express was originally presented as an excellent alternative to Fastraq, an email management system that was in EOL during the time we were shopping for alternatives. Unfortunately, our originally planned ROI was not achieved due to lost functionality and broken sales promises, leaving us with an email management system that's built more on workarounds than out-of-the-box solutions, requiring considerable time for admin activities that could be avoided by a better-designed system.
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