Front vs. OpenText Exstream

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Front
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
Front is a communication hub that helps businesses keep the human touch in every interaction.
$29
per month per user
OpenText Exstream
Score 9.2 out of 10
N/A
OpenText Exstream (formerly HP Exstream) is a multichannel customer communication management solution that helps companies tailor customer communications through web, email, print and mobile channels.N/A
Pricing
FrontOpenText Exstream
Editions & Modules
Starter
$29
per month per user
Growth
$79
per month per user
Scale
$99
per month (billed annually) per user
Premier
$229
per month (billed annually) per seat (50 seat minimum)
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
FrontOpenText Exstream
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsDiscount for annual pricing on Starter and Growth plans. Scale and Premier plans are annual price only.
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
FrontOpenText Exstream
Features
FrontOpenText Exstream
Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
Front
9.0
1 Ratings
9% above category average
OpenText Exstream
-
Ratings
Organize and prioritize service tickets9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Ticket response9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Self Help Community
Comparison of Self Help Community features of Product A and Product B
Front
9.0
1 Ratings
12% above category average
OpenText Exstream
-
Ratings
External knowledge base9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-Channel Help
Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Product A and Product B
Front
8.8
1 Ratings
10% above category average
OpenText Exstream
-
Ratings
Customer portal9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Social integration9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Email support8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
FrontOpenText Exstream
Likelihood to Recommend
8.1
(29 ratings)
9.0
(4 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.8
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
3.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
FrontOpenText Exstream
Likelihood to Recommend
Front
I had a customer who has an urgent concern about their account. They already reached out to different departments but their resolution is unsatisfactory. [Its] good thing they tried to reply to our email campaigns and when a member of our team received it, it was answered and resolved quickly. Fronts really is a good tool to ensure timely resolution.
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OpenText
It's really helpful in all sort of ccm requirements special it handles high volume ccm requirements very smoothly and error free. Improvements in quality of product with new versions is remarkable.
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Pros
Front
  • Even if you are just trying to compose a single email, Front gives a smart system that has options such [as] organized templates, tags, alerts, [and] changing your outbound dpt email.
  • Tasks- with Front you will not miss any interaction. When you are required to get assistance from a coworker, you only need to mention him/her and that notification will appear automatically in their inboxes.
  • Smart Notifications- sometimes we are just overwhelmed about the several notifications on our devices that we tend to miss some of them, but Front offers a new way to notify every email, discussion, mentioning, or tag that you really would not want to miss.
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OpenText
  • Document creation
  • layouts
  • Document distribution
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Cons
Front
  • Their integration to Salesforce is lacking. As the owner of our productivity tools and how they are used, I have very little control over what things to enforce, or even change what objects are available. For example, we don't use Cases in Salesforce but with the Salesforce integration the Cases object shows up. There's no need to have that there. I've heard there is a roadmap improvement forthcoming.
  • One of our uses is for our sales development reps to prospect with visitors. Because of the high volume of inquiries it's difficult for our reps to efficiently manage all their follow ups. It would be nice if we could run a "scheduled campaign" where a predesigned cadence of email follow ups can be sent automatically. To be clear, they do have a scheduling capability, but it just can't be used as a prebuilt option.
  • Integrations to other systems require you have a user account to those systems. We have SSO and therefore we don't always have a user account. For example, out integration to Jira uses SSO so we don't each have individual Jira logins. This is an outage for us.
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OpenText
  • Vernacular document generation
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Likelihood to Renew
Front
We are very happy with Front and don't anticipate changing
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OpenText
No answers on this topic
Usability
Front
It's very easy to understand and use by new customer support agents as well. Be it a technology, product, or marketing person, we have trained most of the company folks to read and respond to customer conversations in their free time with the help of the Front app. It is also easy to set up for an admin and manage his/her team with communication rules.
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OpenText
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Front
The support is good, and it's definitely prompt, but still lags when it comes to technical requirements, as I guess they are slow in developing newer features fast. So no complaints in terms of responsiveness, but yeah, at times it's not very helpful when you need certain features or are blocked on things which can't be unblocked.
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OpenText
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Front
I have only used Gmail in the past and Front is any day better than Gmail in terms of the interface and ease of usage. The ability to send scheduling links and comments between the email threads makes it better than Gmail. The shared inbox also makes it easier for the entire team to understand the kind of email each CSM is receiving and sending
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OpenText
Exstream is more stable compare to all ccm available in market, it's reasearch and r&d team make really good progress to improve product quality.
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Return on Investment
Front
  • Saved our executive team considerable amount of time chasing support questions through different channels.
  • Gave our team clear accountability for who was lead on a support issue and how to escalate.
  • Customer regularly say our support is the best in the industry.
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OpenText
  • increased customer and employee satisfaction
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