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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Khoros Service

    Score8.5 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Khoros Service offers omnichannel engagement on publicly available channels like social, digital, chat, and voice, as well as owned online communities like Khoros Communities. The solution offers 1-to-1 and 1-to-many engagement with customers and consumers, bringing together automation through bots and human agents. Customer inquiries and support-related conversations can be routed and prioritized based on a variety of parameters, and the robust agent desktop solution…N/A

    Projector PSA

    Score1.1 out of 10
    N/AProjector's cloud-based Professional Services Automation (PSA) software helps project-based services organizations track time and expenses, invoice clients, schedule resources, and manage projects. Its three modules span a more comprehensive set of uses than typical project management software. The Accounting module helps the user track time and expenses and manage invoices and billing. Also it syncs with the company's accounting systems as a sub-ledger. The Resource Scheduling module matches…

    $15

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    Pricing
    Khoros ServiceProjector PSA
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Team Edition
    $15
    per user
    Professional Edition
    $25
    per user
    Enterprise Edition
    $30
    per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Khoros ServiceProjector PSA
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsPricing is variable based on the needs of the customer.—
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    Community Pulse
    Khoros ServiceProjector PSA
    Considered Both Products
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    No answer on this topic
    Projector PSA
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    89%
    Would buy again
    71 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    50 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    91%
    Happy with the feature set
    73 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    39 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    44 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Khoros ServiceProjector PSA
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Khoros Service and Projector PSA
    Feature
    Khoros Service
    -
    Ratings
    Projector PSA
    7.4
    11 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Task Management00 Ratings9.510 Ratings
    Resource Management00 Ratings9.510 Ratings
    Gantt Charts00 Ratings6.03 Ratings
    Scheduling00 Ratings8.511 Ratings
    Workflow Automation00 Ratings9.07 Ratings
    Team Collaboration00 Ratings7.57 Ratings
    Support for Agile Methodology00 Ratings5.82 Ratings
    Support for Waterfall Methodology00 Ratings5.23 Ratings
    Document Management00 Ratings8.57 Ratings
    Email integration00 Ratings7.65 Ratings
    Mobile Access00 Ratings3.77 Ratings
    Timesheet Tracking00 Ratings9.511 Ratings
    Change request and Case Management00 Ratings5.23 Ratings
    Budget and Expense Management00 Ratings8.19 Ratings
    Professional Services Automation
    Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Khoros Service and Projector PSA
    Feature
    Khoros Service
    -
    Ratings
    Projector PSA
    7.9
    3 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Invoicing00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Project & financial reporting00 Ratings8.52 Ratings
    Integration with accounting software00 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Khoros ServiceProjector PSA
    Small Businesses
    No answers on this topic
    Any.do
    Score8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    KanbanFlow
    Score7.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Brand Embassy (discontinued)
    Score7.9 out of 10
    Microsoft To Do
    Score7.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Khoros ServiceProjector PSA
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (113 ratings)
    7.0
    (12 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.2
    (79 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    7.3
    (7 ratings)
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.1
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.4
    (71 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.2
    (78 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Khoros ServiceProjector PSA
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    Less Appropriate Scenarios- A fintech company has highly specialized or industry-specific workflows that are not easily accommodated within the standard capabilities of Khoros Care. In such cases, the platform may be less appropriate for businesses with extremely unique processes that require a high degree of customization. Well suited- financial institutions face a high volume of customer inquiries related to account management, transactions, and security concerns. Khoros Care's security features, automation capabilities, and integration with banking systems make it suitable for managing customer interactions in the financial services sector.
    Incentivized
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    Projector PSA
    We think Projector PSA is a great tool to track and manage people in a professional service environment like management consulting. This system is easy to set up, easy to understand and should easily suit the needs of smaller and medium sized firms. It may be less appropriate for firms that rely very heavily on project management through another system (like MS Project) or firms that rely very heavily on a sales pipeline tracking system. While still very much possible to use, you would (I believe) have to do some re-keying between systems
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    Pros
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    • Tagging system - it's possible to add a wide variety of labels and categories
    • Search feature - being able to find users by conversation number, username, or keywords makes it easier to navigate old conversations
    • Easy system for assigning conversations to other users
    • When you claim a conversation, it gets removed from the queue. This is much more visually explicit than Khoros Marketing's queue, for example, where all content remains visible in the queue and a bookmark gets moved around to distinguish the point where other users left off
    Incentivized
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    Projector PSA
    • Projector is a very well designed tool for project management. It has allowed us to eliminate a number of auxiliary tools for project timelines and WBS for the vast majority of our projects.
    • Time and expense entry is intuitive and quick for our staff.
    • Our forecasting and resource management capability has improved greatly with Projector and allows us to grow our team efficiently with minimal additional administrative burden.
    • Reporting is extremely robust. It does require some time to really get a handle on the full functionality of the reporting tool, but once you do, you can get almost any kind of report you want out of the system!
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    Cons
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    • I would like to be able to see deleted comments/tweets so we can look into the issues.
    • I would like to be able to better customize dashboards for our exact metrics. Some things previously available in Spredfast are no longer available in Care.
    Incentivized
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    Projector PSA
    • Release management process needs to be improved. Currently no facility is provided to test the impact of new releases in a sand-box. This introduces business risk if there are interfaces into Projector PSA as part of it's use in the business.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    Simply, there isn't anything on the market that is quite as personable as Khoros Care. After using a few different client messaging systems, this program gave the closest feel to in-person interaction that we could get during the COVID-19 epidemic and is an important part of our agency still to this day in 2023.
    Incentivized
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    Projector PSA
    We have been using this tool for a year now and find our use of it continually evolves and broadens. We are also very excited about the overhaul that's under way and feel many of the improvements being put in place will help make us that much more effective and efficient. The Projector team is also very responsive and collaborative in terms of user feedback and improvement suggestions, which helps us know they will work hard to help us get what we need out of the tool.
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    Usability
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    The ability to auto tag, manually tag, make notes, and "snooze" posts is extremely helpful. The efficiency of the work flow for agents is also a huge plus. It keeps agents moving quickly and prioritizing responses for the cases that need it most.
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    Projector PSA
    Desktop interface feels complex to new users.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    No issues.
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    Projector PSA
    In 5 years of use we have never experienced an unscheduled outage.
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    Performance
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    No issues.
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    Projector PSA
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    Khoros Support has always very responsive and helpful when it comes to getting my issue/inquiry addressed. Their ticket portal is great for tracking any open tickets and they can be updated via the portal or by responding to the email thread. Support reps are always extremely knowledgeable and care about getting you taken care of
    Incentivized
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    Projector PSA
    No answers on this topic
    In-Person Training
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    The team received training (from the same executive team member who has been supporting us) over the web and this was of very high quality.
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    Projector PSA
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    Implementing the platform was not a big hassle for our client, it was seamless and easy we just had to follow a few steps and it was done. Just scaling was a bit of an issue but it got resolved with time and a bit of effort at both ends
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    Projector PSA
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    Alternatives Considered
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    Khoros is more than just a platform for social publishing. No other competitor provides the in-depth moderation and social listening services that they do. If you're looking for a one-stop-shop of a platform for all things social, this is the tool to be using. Others are better in usability and innovative functionality.
    Incentivized
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    Projector PSA
    We did pursue Quick Arrow another tool that was similar. We found that be in inflexible in use. Projector allows a lot of flexibility in setup. Our organization has very specific business processes and we were able to set up Projector to work with those processes. Several other systems we tried were not as flexible in allowing set up to our needs.
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    Scalability
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    Of course as the company grows owing to its growing customer base, they need to think of out-of-the-box solutions to offer its clients and customer satisfaction is one of them. Retention is very much needed in competitive environment like today and hence it becomes imperative for companies to find different ways to reach their client basis and fix their issues
    Incentivized
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    Projector PSA
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    • We have seen a positive shift of customers from reaching out to the Call Centre to the Social Care Team.
    • Monthly and Annual Reporting to keep track of performance and stats related to the team has been much easier to highlight areas for improvement (month2month and anually)
    • CSAT/NPS Survey results have increased via Khoros Care in comparison to the Call Centre.
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    Projector PSA
    • Even in the small time that I stayed to see Projector PSA reporting I saw ROI projections become more realistic. There was real data to analyze that proved we were spending way too much and charging way too less on some projects.
    • Although employees were not used at entering their hours, this single reporting improved operations management and validated employees concerns that more people were needed to manage workload
    • Project proposals were more realistic because they were driven by real data.
    • Decision making overall for the department became more efficient and effective
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Khoros Service Screenshots

    Screenshot of a customer conversation in Agent view. Access past customer conversations and interactions in a single pane of glass.Screenshot of the analytic dashboard used to monitor key metrics across a service organization, such as available agents, time to first response, and agent handle time.Screenshot of Khoros Agent Assist. This feature provides agents with real-time recommendations, reducing the time needed to handle customer inquiries, deliver accurate resolutions, and train new agents.Screenshot of Work Queues under Rules and Routing. This allows admins to build rules around tagging to ensure timely and effective follow-up from agents.

    Projector PSA Screenshots

    Screenshot of Employee Dashboards help resources stay on task by displaying schedules and alerts.