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    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

    Agentforce

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AAgentforce is a solution that provides intelligent bots created and customized via a low code builder. Agentforce agents operate autonomously by retrieving data on demand, building action plans for any task, and executing these plans without human intervention.N/A

    Smartsupp

    Score9.8 out of 10
    N/ACzech company Smartsupp offers a live chat tool with a free version. The paid versions include visitor tracking and recording, and agent performance statistics.

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    Pricing
    Khoros ServiceAgentforceSmartsupp
    Editions & Modules
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    Free
    $0
    per month Live chat, WhatsApp, Messenger
    Solo
    $24
    per month Multichannel + Unlimited conversations
    Plus
    $35
    per month Automated workflows
    Expert
    $117
    per month Premium support
    Ultimate
    $280
    per month Individual limits
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Khoros ServiceAgentforceSmartsupp
    Free Trial
    NoNoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup feeOptional
    Additional DetailsPricing is variable based on the needs of the customer.Discount available for annual pricing.
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    Khoros ServiceAgentforceSmartsupp
    Considered Multiple Products
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
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    Salesforce
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    91%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
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    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
    Features
    Khoros ServiceAgentforceSmartsupp
    Chat Analytics and Reports
    Comparison of Chat Analytics and Reports features of Khoros Service and Agentforce and Smartsupp
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    Smartsupp
    8.2
    7 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Chat history and transcripts00 Ratings00 Ratings8.27 Ratings
    Chat reporting00 Ratings00 Ratings8.57 Ratings
    Chat and web analytics00 Ratings00 Ratings7.97 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Khoros ServiceAgentforceSmartsupp
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (113 ratings)
    8.3
    (5 ratings)
    7.9
    (7 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.2
    (79 ratings)
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    Usability
    7.3
    (7 ratings)
    8.3
    (4 ratings)
    8.1
    (7 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
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    Performance
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    8.1
    (9 ratings)
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    In-Person Training
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Online Training
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
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    Implementation Rating
    7.5
    (71 ratings)
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    Product Scalability
    8.2
    (78 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Khoros ServiceAgentforceSmartsupp
    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.
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    Salesforce
    Agentforce has a lot of applications. We are using it in consulting to benchmark other clients, what they're doing, where we stand, how can we have better efficiencies coming in, et cetera. Those are the areas where it is doing exceptionally well. The area where we feel it can do much more better is maybe a market benchmark because it's been used across by so many players and it's a connected ecosystem. If Salesforce can have something where it gives me the market view of things, I can then benchmark rather than in my own universe to the broader university Salesforce and I know where I exactly stand and what more can I achieve, what's my final goalpost. So that would be something really great.
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    Smartsupp
    Smartsupp is good for every ecommerce with need to answer questions of clients and comunicate with them. A lot of convesations can be automated, so I need less people to do the same work
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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
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    Salesforce
    • Which helps in creation of Autonomous AI agents to operate
    • Multi-System Integration with "Zero-Copy" Data Access
    • To built chatbots and copilot tools by utilizing the Atlas Reasoning Engine to function as an autonomous digital workforce
    • Order and Transactional Management
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    Smartsupp
    • Ability for multi-platform login between Android, Apple IOS, and Windows
    • Much less buggy than our previous Chat provider
    • Ability to see Live and Offline visitors
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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.
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    Salesforce
    • It is complex too, more help documentation or videos will help
    • AI assistance doesn’t work well for specific or detailed questions
    • So much configuration available it can put off new users
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    Smartsupp
    • I wish we would be able to check ip adresses so we can link the chats so companies before they fill out a contact form
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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.
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    Salesforce
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    Smartsupp
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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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    Salesforce
    The platform offers an intuitive overall experience and the expected strong integration with other Salesforce existent tools. It has a low learning curve for new users on the commom use cases, such as intent classification, routing and knowledge-based answers. It could be improved with more transparency regarding to the AI decision logic.
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    Smartsupp
    Customer response has been much better.In the past, the conversion rate for our services has been very low, probably due to poor UI/UX.But considering that we were still getting a certain number of conversions, we believe that the demand from users was very strong.With the addition of the chat function, we now have a point of contact with customers who had not converted.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    No issues.
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    Salesforce
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    Smartsupp
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    Performance
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    No issues.
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    Salesforce
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    Smartsupp
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    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
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    Salesforce
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    Smartsupp
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    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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    Salesforce
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    Smartsupp
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    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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    Salesforce
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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.
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    Salesforce
    We did evaluate the EVA bots, which are coming in market for Salesforce effectiveness. Those bots are good, but they're based out of very traditional use cases in the life sciences space. Agentforce is very, very advanced, right? Eva can talk about a typical sales rep coming in, logging in the day, log their entire day, and then probably having a simple text to reporting kind of a view. And that's it. Agentforce gives me a lot of insights, it gives me a lot of actionable insights. It uses its own brain. That's where Salesforce is an AI company. So we trust the Salesforce banner for it to innovate more and more, more and more. And that's where we chose Agentforce over.
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    Smartsupp
    All the features found in other programs in Smartsupp are brought together. In addition, the price offer is attractive, and the multitude of selection of options and possible add-ons is very large and tailored to different thresholds, so everyone should choose an offer perfectly suited to their needs. I haven't had the need to use support, so it's hard for me to judge, but the very fact that I haven't had to do so probably speaks well for it.
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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
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    Salesforce
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    Smartsupp
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    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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    Salesforce
    • We were able to assist customers with the self service option, without wasting effort from a real CS advisor
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    Smartsupp
    • It has a very positive impact. I need less workers to do the same job.
    • A lot of communication can be automated - especially answers for simple questions.
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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.