KANA Express, discontinued vs. Verint Voice of the Customer

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
KANA Express, discontinued
Score 3.3 out of 10
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Verint 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
Verint Voice of the Customer
Score 7.8 out of 10
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Verint® Experience Management™ empowers CX Leaders to optimize customer experiences in real-time. With Verint Experience Management, companies can listen everywhere, act immediately, and analyze. Verint offers prescriptive XM solutions across Web and Mobile, Enterprise-wide, and Location-Based experiences.N/A
Pricing
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
3.0
(1 ratings)
8.5
(8 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.7
(2 ratings)
Usability
-
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8.6
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(3 ratings)
User Testimonials
KANA Express, discontinuedVerint Voice of the Customer
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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Verint
Verint is very well suited for the corporate enterprise market as it has sufficient granular permission controls, feature rich and scalable. Their pricing model is also very cost effective as it doesn't punish you for being successful (getting lots of submissions or responses). If you are considering Verint, you should ask very specific questions for functionality to make sure it is covered.
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Pros
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  • 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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Verint
  • Flexible for making changes to survey questions, layout, and text
  • Great tracking of customer responses as well as ease of integrating Google Analytics for additional tracking
  • Support team was very knowledgeable and responses to requests
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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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Verint
  • Does simple very well, but complicated not as well. It is NOT a survey system.
  • Some of the reports are still a bit old for display, but new features have been released recently giving more options.
  • Standard deployment templates may be a bit limited for customization, or you need to go to fully customized and do the development yourself.
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Likelihood to Renew
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Verint
The cost versus product is a good value, so it all depends on the customer's needs/wants, and of course, budget
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Usability
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Verint
Overall usability is easy and while I have been using it for years and used to it, new users seem to be able to create surveys without any training or hand holding. Simply create a login and they can figure it out themselves quickly because of the intuitive nature of the layout. Verint could use to improve or update the user interface as it seems very dated visually.
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Support Rating
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Verint
Every support contact I have had, be it by email, live chat or phone, I have had my issue resolved very quickly, efficiently and professionally by a knowledgeable and well trained support team member. Having worked in technical support many years ago myself, I can appreciate the level of service and quality of support offered by Verint. I would, without hesitation, say that Verint offers one of the best support experiences out there.
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Alternatives Considered
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Verint
ForeSee offers data that is complimentary to Domo. ForeSee wins on ease of use, simple navigation and practical data from the consumer! ForeSee could be deadly when paired with Domo. The ability to pair sales with customer engagement visually is a valuable tool. ForeSee has the visual modeling down and can handle multiple data sets.
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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.
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Verint
  • Provides real-time voice of the customer feedback
  • Integration with other analytics platforms is a plus but can be cumbersome to set up
  • Initial setup can be problematic
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