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    Hearsay, now part of Yext

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AAfter the August 2024 acquisition, Hearsay Systems joined Yext, combining Yext's digital presence management with Hearsay's compliant customer engagement tools.N/A

    Pypestream

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AFounded in 2015, Pypestream created the Customer Engagement Center (CEC), a conversational AI solution where the core product, the Customer Engagement Center (CEC), is an all-in-one, cloud-based suite of 12 components designed to transform any business into a fully automated digital brand. With headquarters in New York, Pypestream has a customer base that includes Shell, Chase, Procter & Gamble, Google, Sling, and HBO Max. Pypestream provides customer engagement in several key industries,…N/A
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    Hearsay, now part of YextPypestream
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    Hearsay, now part of YextPypestream
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    Hearsay, now part of YextPypestream
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
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    Usability
    9.0
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    User Testimonials
    Hearsay, now part of YextPypestream
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Yext
    Apart from a few limitations, Hearsay Social is an excellent tool for managing your social media posts in one place. Its user-friendly interface allows you to analyze, track, schedule, and automate social media posts. This is a must in today's age. It saves a lot of stress and handwork and makes you efficient as it gives you tools to analyze the results of your posts in terms of reach, viewership, etc. Thereby helping you to formulate your social media strategy.
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    Pypestream
    Pypestream is suited for standard chatbot and conversational flows versus more multi-departmental scenarios. They do very well with guided flow bot services which are great for agent bots within a contact center, but less so for those implementations that have a large document management implementation for FAQs. They do well with service integrations; however, at times troubleshooting edge cases that are impacting performance and adoption can take a while to remedy. I want to believe that better monitoring tools on the platform side would alleviate this for them.
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    Pros
    Yext
    • Single dashboard of all your social media channels
    • Automation of posts
    • Scheduled posting as per design
    • Great for analytics & customer Interactions
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    Pypestream
    • Native live agent platform
    • Managed services for service creation and maintenance
    • Custom analytics
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    Cons
    Yext
    • Lacks ability for significant flexibility and customization
    • Mobile app sometimes does not save the posts that are edited
    • It does allow you to tag or hashtag any post.
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    Pypestream
    • Generative AI - Large Language Model Support
    • Standardized Reporting
    • Custom UI Support
    • Developer Tools
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    Usability
    Yext
    If you wish to reduce stress of managing multiple social media handles from a single place, you can use Hearsay Social. Hearsay Social helps you analyze, automate, schedule posts and even give ideas for posts. Rather than multitasking, one would obliviously choose a single place to track your posts. It also fares greatly as compared to its competitors. It has a great interface. Very easy and simple to use.
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    Pypestream
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    Support Rating
    Yext
    1. Simple to Use. 2. User Friendly Interface 3. Great Features 4. Very Few Limitations. 5. Automates my Tasks
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    Pypestream
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    Yext
    Facebook Business Manager is also good however it has some limitations like it's very difficult to remove an ad account, we cannot schedule shared posts and the user interface is a bit complicated and not user-friendly. I like the user interface of Hearsay Social. I find it very simple and easy to use. Also, it has all the features that you might require in Social Media Management tool.
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    Pypestream
    In comparison to Microsoft Bot Framework or now Azure AI service structure, where Pypestream is better suited is in those organizations who want to truly have a partner in development. Pypestream allows the flexibility for your Dev teams to do it themselves, or to be in a managed service where you provide requirements and information and they build and allow you to test and give approvals. They are more willing to work directly with you versus a Microsoft where you will eventually get pushed off to a 3rd party partner to help with advanced implementations.
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    Return on Investment
    Yext
    • It has helped us save time in maintaining our social media handles
    • It gave us a lot of intelligent insights on our posts, thereby helping improve our marketing strategy to perform better every time
    • It helped us design our posts better based on inputs & design ideas based on our past posts
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    Pypestream
    • Enabled the contact center business lane to grow a chat agent support channel that has a 2 to 1 (customer to agent) support ratio
    • Provides an alternate channel for training, marketing information, and data services which help grow our business and support different value streams
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