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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Parature (Discontinued)

    Score5 out of 10
    N/AParature was a self-service customer support platform providing a self-service knowledge base to connect with customers across multiple channels. The company was acquired by Microsoft in January 2014 and reached EOL in 2017.N/A
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    eGain Conversation HubParature (Discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    eGain Conversation HubParature (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 Ratings
    eGain Conversation HubParature (Discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
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    6.7
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    Likelihood to Renew
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    6.1
    (10 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    2.0
    (2 ratings)
    Availability
    -
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    7.5
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
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    1.0
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    User Testimonials
    eGain Conversation HubParature (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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    The single element of Parature I've not seen in any other system of this kind is the Download Module. You can post files in the open, or protect them by any number of entitlement methods. The solution is also appealing to those who don't want to manage the back-end/IT needs as it is a hosted solution and has proven to be very reliable.
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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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    • Clean/Friendly UI. It was extremely easy to navigate around Parature's menus at a high level, and you could take advantage of the more robust features as you became more comfortable and familiar with how Parature operates!
    • Strong Knowledge Base. Writing KB articles or ticket summaries and making use of the search function within Parature allows for expedient recovery of past ticket information. Being able to search for a fix action, or at least a troubleshooting article that can guide you towards a resolution is extremely valuable.
    • Enhanced Notation Capability. Being able to send/post internal or external updates to a ticket is great! You can leave the wordy technical details for other employees while making sure to communicate the high-points and fix action to the end-user.
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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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    • Reporting is barebones at best. If you need special reports, we had to go through Parature to have them built.
    • The use of frames on a website is very 1990s. It actually impacts usability of the product, especially when combined with how Parature handled sessions. An engineer could only work one ticket at a time which, honestly, isn't very realistic for a busy support team that is working on several issues at a time.
    • Support was often unresponsive when contacted for unplanned problems.
    • The knowledge base was not very friendly for clients and it provided no real encouragement for it to be used.
    • It took several clicks to do something as simple as edit and assign a ticket or to close a ticket.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    eGain Corporation
    No answers on this topic
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    Parature has been the best option for this campus in terms of what we use it for and there is no alternative
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    Usability
    eGain Corporation
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    It was bulky, cumbersome, and didn't allow us to handle the volume of cases we received on a daily basis. Many of our issues were highly technical in nature and we would often need to work on 2 or 3 at once. The poor design choices prevented this, which was unfortunate.
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    Reliability and Availability
    eGain Corporation
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    Discontinued Products
    They recently had one very extended outage. It was a data center issue - but they were not diversified enough so in the end the system was down for almost 8 hours. There are also periods of time where for no reason the system simply doesn't respond. This small outages are usually short (just a few minutes), and have in fact been occurring less often, so it appears some corrective actions have been taken.
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    Support Rating
    eGain Corporation
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    Discontinued Products
    Nothing ever seemed to get resolved
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    There are services that do bits and pieces of what Parature does. We liked the idea of having one service that meets our needs
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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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    • Parature allows for better Customer Service
    • Can follow up automatically for tickets
    • Will automatically close tickets that haven't been responded to.
    • Allows customers to reopen tickets easily and not allow them to be missed.
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