Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Emplifi
Score 8.7 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
Sprinklr Service
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
Sprinklr Service is a cloud-native unified customer service platform powered by AI that enables customer and agent experience across 30+ digital, social and voice channels, and delivers real-time insights. Enables customers to interact with a brand on their preferred channel for consistent brand experience. Empowers agents with unified/360 customer view and recommends the most relevant responses with AI to improve agent productivity and experience.…
$249
per month per seat
Zendesk Suite
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Zendesk is a customer support solution with built-in ticketing, conversational messaging, and live chat, designed to help businesses of all sizes and industries deliver personalized service at scale. Zendesk's AI agents are trained in CX to help Service teams resolve customer issues faster and more accurately while still providing a human-centered experience. Zendesk ultimately aims to help businesses improve time to value, reduce effort per ticket, and keep costs low.
$69
per month per agent
Pricing
EmplifiSprinklr ServiceZendesk Suite
Editions & Modules
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Self-Serve Customer Service Solution
$249
per month per seat
Suite Team
$69
per month per agent
Suite Growth
$115
per month per agent
Suite Professional
$149
per month per agent
Suite Enterprise
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
NoNoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptionalOptional
Additional DetailsOmnichannel Automation, AI and Insights Reporting20% discount available with annual pricing.
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Considered Multiple Products
Emplifi

No answer on this topic

Sprinklr Service
Chose Sprinklr Service
First, we had a social studio which was good in terms of functionalities but slow. After that, we had the chance to use Talkwalker & social bakers which were good tools yet not enough compares to Sprinklr
Chose Sprinklr Service
• We use a tool called HelpSpot for email ticketing. They have a knowledge base for FAQs but no forum / community platform. Their technology not nearly as good • We looked at a number of tools that did either FAQ or feedback or community, but none except Sprinklr Modern Care …
Zendesk Suite
Chose Zendesk Suite
The customisable reporting every time. Our leadership reply on me to run my team and want to know what customers are telling us so they can elevate our products. We have extensive custom reports that tie up all aspects of our product and customer journeys. I've not found …
Features
EmplifiSprinklr ServiceZendesk Suite
Listening/monitoring
Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
6.4
7 Ratings
17% below category average
Sprinklr Service
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Zendesk Suite
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Boolean keyword searches6.75 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Filtering out noise/spam6.46 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Sentiment analysis5.55 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Broad channel coverage7.07 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Publishing
Comparison of Publishing features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
7.3
8 Ratings
10% below category average
Sprinklr Service
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Zendesk Suite
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Content planning and scheduling7.38 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Audience targeting7.07 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Content optimization7.38 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow management7.67 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Engagement
Comparison of Engagement features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
7.3
7 Ratings
10% below category average
Sprinklr Service
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Zendesk Suite
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Automated routing and prioritization7.37 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer interaction histories8.25 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Bulk actions6.46 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Marketing
Comparison of Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
7.6
6 Ratings
1% below category average
Sprinklr Service
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Zendesk Suite
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Lead generation8.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Content marketing7.66 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Paid media management7.74 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Campaigns and promotions7.34 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Channel coverage/integration
Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
5.8
8 Ratings
36% below category average
Sprinklr Service
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Zendesk Suite
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Twitter6.18 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Facebook7.98 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
LinkedIn4.17 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Google+8.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Instagram7.38 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Pinterest3.25 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
YouTube3.95 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting/analytics
Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
6.4
8 Ratings
19% below category average
Sprinklr Service
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Zendesk Suite
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Campaign success analytics7.07 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Real-time tracking6.78 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Competitor analysis5.57 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Account management
Comparison of Account management features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
6.7
8 Ratings
17% below category average
Sprinklr Service
-
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Zendesk Suite
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Role-based user permissions & privileges7.38 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile access6.15 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
-
Ratings
Sprinklr Service
7.1
2 Ratings
16% below category average
Zendesk Suite
-
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Agent dashboard00 Ratings8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Validate callers00 Ratings6.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Outbound response00 Ratings6.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Call forwarding00 Ratings7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Click-to-call (CTC)00 Ratings8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Warm transfer00 Ratings8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive dialing00 Ratings5.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Interactive voice response00 Ratings8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
REST APIs00 Ratings8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Call scripts00 Ratings7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Call tracking00 Ratings7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Multichannel integration00 Ratings8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
CRM software integration00 Ratings6.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
-
Ratings
Sprinklr Service
8.1
2 Ratings
2% below category average
Zendesk Suite
-
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Inbound call routing00 Ratings7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Recording00 Ratings7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Quality management00 Ratings7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Call analytics00 Ratings8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Historical reporting00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Live reporting00 Ratings8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer surveys00 Ratings8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics00 Ratings8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
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Sprinklr Service
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Zendesk Suite
8.8
173 Ratings
7% above category average
Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings00 Ratings9.3172 Ratings
Expert directory00 Ratings00 Ratings8.2118 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings00 Ratings8.7119 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings00 Ratings8.2122 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings00 Ratings9.4173 Ratings
Ticket response00 Ratings00 Ratings9.2172 Ratings
Self Help Community
Comparison of Self Help Community features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
-
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Sprinklr Service
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Zendesk Suite
8.2
157 Ratings
2% above category average
External knowledge base00 Ratings00 Ratings8.1151 Ratings
Internal knowledge base00 Ratings00 Ratings8.3144 Ratings
Multi-Channel Help
Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
-
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Sprinklr Service
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Zendesk Suite
8.8
169 Ratings
10% above category average
Customer portal00 Ratings00 Ratings9.1138 Ratings
IVR00 Ratings00 Ratings8.471 Ratings
Social integration00 Ratings00 Ratings8.4112 Ratings
Email support00 Ratings00 Ratings9.3166 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings00 Ratings9.0128 Ratings
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
9.2
(110 ratings)
9.0
(26 ratings)
9.1
(208 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(6 ratings)
7.5
(7 ratings)
10.0
(43 ratings)
Usability
8.3
(36 ratings)
9.0
(4 ratings)
8.8
(82 ratings)
Availability
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9.9
(3 ratings)
9.1
(14 ratings)
Performance
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9.9
(3 ratings)
9.1
(11 ratings)
Support Rating
8.5
(43 ratings)
9.1
(10 ratings)
5.6
(31 ratings)
In-Person Training
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10.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
6.0
(1 ratings)
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6.4
(10 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.1
(2 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
9.1
(19 ratings)
Configurability
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9.1
(4 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
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9.1
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Ease of integration
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9.1
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Product Scalability
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9.1
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Professional Services
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9.1
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Vendor post-sale
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9.1
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9.1
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User Testimonials
EmplifiSprinklr ServiceZendesk Suite
Likelihood to Recommend
Emplifi Inc
- 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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Sprinklr
Sprinklr Service has always been well-suited for all of the work we do. As it's all social media content, and most require responses or escalations, Sprinklr Service covers all of that. The only time I think we wouldn't need it is if we were working with a much smaller client who didn't need us to have eyes on so many platforms at once.
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Zendesk
Being a customer support agent, I found it very good when it comes to send an email or call or chat- with the user. I can do all that from the one single platform which is so easy and time saving for you. It does not take much time to use this, We can chat- with the user and at the same time we can send an email to them as well.
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Pros
Emplifi Inc
  • 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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Sprinklr
  • Automated routing to appropriate teams
  • Automated notifications for certain types of content or posts from certain users
  • The reporting options are fantastic.
  • We've integrated a chatbot seamlessly with Sprinklr modern care so our team members can pick up a conversation if our bot isn't able to provide an answer.
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Zendesk
  • UI/UX; mature macros and automations, slick and well thought out UI.
  • Reporting, reporting, reporting. With user, org, and ticket level tags, we can track every aspect of our ticket flow.
  • Extensibility; the app marketplace is a great resource for expanding functionality from the baseline offering.
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Cons
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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Sprinklr
  • I find it difficult to dive into analytics for each social post. The reporting tool gives me an overview of the channels but I would love to look at a breakdown of each post performance.
  • You currently can't add closed caption subtitles to videos uploaded through Sprinklr so this results in having to revert to the native platform.
  • I would love to be able to set up a newsfeed that includes posts from a number of our partner accounts, so I can keep up to date with what they're posting.
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Zendesk
  • Is there a way for AEs and CSMs to be informed in a weekly summary of all their accounts and any tickets? Example: Disney submitted a ticket on XYZ. Google has an urgent issue on X still unresolved.
  • Is there a way for CSMs or AEs to have a Dashboard that's specific to their accounts instead of seeing all the tickets in the queue that are not relevant to them?
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Likelihood to Renew
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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Sprinklr
The biggest reason we renewed, and kept up with Sprinklr Modern Care is because it is an active community and there is customer buy-in already. They continue to update and improve the product, but more importantly, the customers are using it. It's easy to switch products when it's not an active component in your daily structure, but switching and migrating the data or providing alternatives becomes difficult when customers have grown accustomed to a specific experience. As long as they continue to improve the available features and the community stays active, renewed use will continue.
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Zendesk
Zendesk is an amazing tool for communicating with your customers easily. The communication tickets from sellers to us or from us to sellers are stored, and there are statuses used to make communication easy. We have internal conversations between departments, linked with useful software such as Zingtree, Talkdesk, and Webs.
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Usability
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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Sprinklr
I've spent year designing products so I'm a tough judge when it comes to other solutions. It's clear that Sprinklr Modern Care was designed for the average online consumer with a very user friendly interface. They have made improvements to the admin tools to make that area of the product easier to use as well.
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Zendesk
Pros: The agent interface is sleek, contemporary, and relatively easy to learn compared to many other enterprise tools. For common tasks, admins are given point-and-click options- adding fields, modifying workflows, constructing macros. The knowledge base (Guide) editor is easy to use for non-developers. Drawbacks: Once you move past the initial things - complex automations, reporting/analytics in Explore, and/or customizations integrating the API, it requires much more advanced training to use successfully. Navigating between the different modules (Support, Explore, Chat, Guide) can feel very disconnected; often you are reminded that it really is a "suite" of products brought together -not really one unified platform. If you're using multiple brands managing simultaneous support tickets, or heavily customizing workflows to meet your brand, you may run into a bit of struggle with usability. So: it's a lot more user friendly than the palaces (Salesforce Service Cloud, ServiceNow), but is not used as quickly or with as much streamlined flow as a product made for a small shop. So if you are looking for a great balance, this is a good option if you are a net new organization or an organization on their way to scaling from 15 - 50 employee. Expect some elbow grease from the admin team once learning, adapting, and working efficiently once you move past the basics with your support tickets and initial customizations.
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Reliability and Availability
Emplifi Inc
No answers on this topic
Sprinklr
No issues with system availability. They manage updates in off-peak hours and I usually don't notice the changes until I log into the system the next day.
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Zendesk
In the past year, I'd say I have only noticed maybe two hours total of downtime in my own usage. Very minimal.
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Performance
Emplifi Inc
No answers on this topic
Sprinklr
Performance is great and is not negatively effecting our processes. We have to make sure it doesn't effect out load times. Not currently seeing any issues with widgets affecting page load times.
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Zendesk
There has been minor performance degradation on a very few days out of the two years I have been using the product.
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Support Rating
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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Sprinklr
I know the Sprinklr conference calls have been helpful, but sometimes submitting a ticket can be a little daunting. In the past, we've included information in screenshots that are then asked for by a member of the support staff. The turnaround time has been between 3 days, which isn't horrible.
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Zendesk
We rarely need to contact their support team, but when we do they are responsive. However there have been notable times when communication between myself and the support rep was challenging despite me providing clear explanation of the issue, screenshots, and a thorough explanation of the goal we hope to achieve. It took several back and forth attempt, on a few occasions, to get resolution on an otherwise simple request
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In-Person Training
Emplifi Inc
No answers on this topic
Sprinklr
Our customer support team went through in-person training. I am not unable to rate.
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Zendesk
No answers on this topic
Online Training
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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Sprinklr
No answers on this topic
Zendesk
Zendesk has tons of available material for training - videos, webinars, articles, etc. The only reason this is not a 10 is because it can be hard to figure out how to navigate to these things and find what you are looking for.
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Implementation Rating
Emplifi Inc
The platform is so easy to understand that no "expensive consulting firm" is necessary to implement it!
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Sprinklr
Basic setup took me less than 30 minutes. This includes initial configuration, putting in the initial content, and getting the look-and-feel customized. The domain routing took the normal lag time any other website or blogging service. The really important thing was to get the user accounts setup and begin seeding the system with content before a public launch.
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Zendesk
I was very satisfied. They have a free trial for 30 days and I recommend you do that and use it. It is very easy to get started with the basics and the build on over time.

The only thing technically complex was single sign-on and integration to Salesforce.com required some tweaks – otherwise setting up system was very easy
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Alternatives Considered
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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Sprinklr
First, we had a social studio which was good in terms of functionalities but slow. After that, we had the chance to use Talkwalker & social bakers which were good tools yet not enough compares to Sprinklr
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Zendesk
The customisable reporting every time. Our leadership reply on me to run my team and want to know what customers are telling us so they can elevate our products. We have extensive custom reports that tie up all aspects of our product and customer journeys. I've not found another product that allows me as much freedom as Zendesk Suite explore does, so far.
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Scalability
Emplifi Inc
No answers on this topic
Sprinklr
No answers on this topic
Zendesk
WHY we will use Zendesk in HR and PD internally
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Return on Investment
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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Sprinklr
  • Increased employee efficiency: Having a clear, one-stop "shop" where users can leave feedback, ask questions, and find bug fixes or workarounds has saved me (and other community managers at my company) loads of time that was once spent responding to numerous emails on an individual basis.
  • Better customer service: Since everyone in the company is alerted of what's being written on our forum, it's easy to spot a high-priority issue, delegate to the person in charge, resolve it, and respond as soon as possible.
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Zendesk
  • Integrating other AI solutions for an organization with high volumes can cost about USD5000 monthly. With Zendesk AI and by building onto the same with AI powered apps built for Zendesk Suite we save a projected USD4000 monthly.
  • Robust Zendesk APIs have enabled us to integrate our internal system with a customized app saving us hundreds of hours every quarter spent loading customer profiles that are not loaded instantly from the app.
  • Plug and play apps like Round robin save us weeks of sprint delay timelines as they do not require additional coding or developer support to install and start using.
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ScreenShots

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.

Zendesk Suite Screenshots

Screenshot of the Zendesk Agent WorkspaceScreenshot of Omnichannel MessagingScreenshot of Zendesk TicketingScreenshot of Bots powered by Zendesk AIScreenshot of Tone shift with Zendesk AIScreenshot of Zendesk ticketing side conversations