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    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

    Sprinklr Service

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/ASprinklr Service is a Contact Center platform for managing customer interactions across more than 30 voice, social, and digital channels. It centralizes conversation history and customer context as interactions move among email, chat, voice, and social channels. The platform includes embedded AI for intent classification, routing, agent assistance, quality review, and self-service automation. Sprinklr Service also supports Conversational AI, Social Media Customer Service,…N/A
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    KANA Express, discontinuedSprinklr Service
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    Sprinklr Service
    Custom, quote-based pricing
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    KANA Express, discontinuedSprinklr Service
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    KANA Express, discontinuedSprinklr Service
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    Sprinklr
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    User Ratings
    KANA Express, discontinuedSprinklr Service
    Likelihood to Recommend
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (26 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
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    7.5
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    Usability
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    9.0
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    Availability
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    9.9
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    Performance
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    9.9
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    Support Rating
    -
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    9.1
    (10 ratings)
    In-Person Training
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    10.0
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    Implementation Rating
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    9.0
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    User Testimonials
    KANA Express, discontinuedSprinklr Service
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    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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    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.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • 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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    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.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
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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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    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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    Likelihood to Renew
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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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    Usability
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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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    Reliability and Availability
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    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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    Performance
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    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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    Support Rating
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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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    In-Person Training
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    Sprinklr
    Our customer support team went through in-person training. I am not unable to rate.
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    Implementation Rating
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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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    Alternatives Considered
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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
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • 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.
    Incentivized
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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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