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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Khoros Social Media Management

    Score6.5 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium) is a social media management platform. Key features include: Plan and Organize Social Campaigns, Manage Real-Time Engagement, and Learn and Prove Social ImpactN/A

    Visual Studio

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AVisual Studio (now in the 2022 edition) is a 64-bit IDE that makes it easier to work with bigger projects and complex workloads, boasting a fluid and responsive experience for users. The IDE features IntelliCode, its automatic code completion tools that understand code context and that can complete up to a whole line at once to drive accurate and confident coding.

    $45

    per month

    Pricing
    Khoros Social Media ManagementVisual Studio
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Professional
    $45.00
    per month
    Enterprise
    $250.00
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Khoros Social Media ManagementVisual Studio
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Khoros Social Media ManagementVisual Studio
    Considered Both Products
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    No answer on this topic
    Microsoft
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    88%
    Would buy again
    107 Answers
    98%
    Would buy again
    40 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    90%
    Delivers good value for the price
    77 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    40 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    90%
    Happy with the feature set
    109 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    41 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    88%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    52 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    32 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    83%
    Implementation went as expected
    55 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    36 Answers
    Features
    Khoros Social Media ManagementVisual Studio
    Listening/monitoring
    Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Khoros Social Media Management and Microsoft Visual Studio
    Feature
    Khoros Social Media Management
    6.9
    123 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Microsoft Visual Studio
    -
    Ratings
    Boolean keyword searches7.296 Ratings00 Ratings
    Filtering out noise/spam6.5105 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sentiment analysis7.194 Ratings00 Ratings
    Broad channel coverage6.9116 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publishing
    Comparison of Publishing features of Khoros Social Media Management and Microsoft Visual Studio
    Feature
    Khoros Social Media Management
    8.2
    153 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Microsoft Visual Studio
    -
    Ratings
    Content planning and scheduling8.8151 Ratings00 Ratings
    Audience targeting8.0116 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content optimization9.010 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow management7.1136 Ratings00 Ratings
    Engagement
    Comparison of Engagement features of Khoros Social Media Management and Microsoft Visual Studio
    Feature
    Khoros Social Media Management
    7.5
    118 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Microsoft Visual Studio
    -
    Ratings
    Automated routing and prioritization6.996 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer interaction histories6.6108 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bulk actions9.199 Ratings00 Ratings
    Marketing
    Comparison of Marketing features of Khoros Social Media Management and Microsoft Visual Studio
    Feature
    Khoros Social Media Management
    6.7
    108 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Microsoft Visual Studio
    -
    Ratings
    Lead generation6.252 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content marketing6.491 Ratings00 Ratings
    Paid media management7.12 Ratings00 Ratings
    Campaigns and promotions7.195 Ratings00 Ratings
    Channel coverage/integration
    Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of Khoros Social Media Management and Microsoft Visual Studio
    Feature
    Khoros Social Media Management
    7.0
    152 Ratings
    17% below category average
    Microsoft Visual Studio
    -
    Ratings
    Twitter7.9143 Ratings00 Ratings
    Facebook6.2148 Ratings00 Ratings
    LinkedIn6.0109 Ratings00 Ratings
    Google+9.018 Ratings00 Ratings
    Instagram7.3137 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pinterest5.450 Ratings00 Ratings
    YouTube7.333 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting/analytics
    Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of Khoros Social Media Management and Microsoft Visual Studio
    Feature
    Khoros Social Media Management
    7.0
    136 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Microsoft Visual Studio
    -
    Ratings
    Campaign success analytics6.9126 Ratings00 Ratings
    Real-time tracking7.5125 Ratings00 Ratings
    Competitor analysis6.581 Ratings00 Ratings
    Account management
    Comparison of Account management features of Khoros Social Media Management and Microsoft Visual Studio
    Feature
    Khoros Social Media Management
    6.5
    141 Ratings
    20% below category average
    Microsoft Visual Studio
    -
    Ratings
    Role-based user permissions & privileges7.2137 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile access5.8116 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Khoros Social Media ManagementVisual Studio
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.8
    (189 ratings)
    9.1
    (118 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (34 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    8.5
    (29 ratings)
    9.2
    (15 ratings)
    Availability
    9.7
    (11 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.7
    (31 ratings)
    8.8
    (15 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.9
    (7 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    6.0
    (7 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.7
    (24 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    5.5
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.0
    (127 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Khoros Social Media ManagementVisual Studio
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    While I cannot say any scenarios where Khoros wouldn't be useful (when it comes to social media moderation), I can say it is very well suited for clients who have time constraints on their work. With the speed Khoros can pull in new content, we see issues for the client almost immediately.
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    Microsoft
    When working with base C# code for desktop and web projects, then Microsoft Visual Studio is ideal as it provides the libraries and interfaces needed to quickly create, test and deploy solutions. It is when slightly more complex scenarios are required that issues can arise. The built-in integration for things like PowerBI Paginated Reports and dashboards is far from ideal.
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    Pros
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    • Reporting is great - easy to create bespoke dashboards for multiple ways to view the data and trends in platform
    • Onboarding and training - a good repository of knowledge articles for users to access on most aspects of the platform for self-learning
    • The user-friendly and intuitive interface allows any user to quickly assimilate how to use the platform.
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    Microsoft
    • I like how the tabs and panels are organized; everything is gathered together so you can find what you're looking for quickly.
    • If you can't find something, there's a thorough search engine that searches all of Visual Studio's features.
    • The Team Foundation Server feature is fantastic since it allows us to easily deploy and roll back changes on the server.
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    Cons
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    • Look and feel of the interface could use a refresh as it's not very exciting to use
    • Improve analytics features and accuracy
    • Facilitate bulk actions
    • Better alerts/visibility of collaborative actions and assigned tasks
    • Clearer communication around new feature releases and announcements
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    Microsoft
    • Would be great if there was a better way to save and restore open tabs.
    • The built-in test runner can be improved, for example, by adding the ability to save a set of commonly run tests, etc.
    • Better integration for Microsoft SQL server would be great.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    There is no product like Khoros. Our company lives and dies by the analytics, and to date, we have not seen a more comprehensive analytics structure for any social media management tool. Khoros support is also fantastic, responding and resolving any and all questions, ideas, or complaints, usually in 24 hours.
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    Microsoft
    VS is the best and is required for building Microsoft applications. The quality and usefulness of the product far out-weight the licensing costs associated with it.
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    Usability
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    Khoros Marketing is very user-friendly and easy to navigate. The calendar visibility is the view I use most so I can see all posts going out on all of our channels. It allows us to time posts in a proper cadence so we don't overlap with other pressing content.
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    Microsoft
    I love the overall usability of Microsoft Visual Studio. I’ve been using this IDE for more than 20 years, and I’ve seen it evolve by leaps and bounds. Today, with AI and code-suggestion/completion features, developers no longer need to remember countless libraries, methods, or language syntax, or invest a huge amount of programming effort to complete a project. It truly offers everything a developer needs to program, debug, test, and deploy in a single IDE.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    • We still experience a bit of downtime and slowness here but things have drastically improved in the last year with their feature updates and reconfigured hosting.
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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    Khoros has greatly improved the performance of its SaaS products in the last 5 years. Their applications, including Conversations, Intelligence, and Experiences, all load quickly with real-time data. This performance is critical to provide meaningful, social customer support, and marketing. The performance maintains integrity even when you deploy powerful integrations like Salesforce Customer Relationship Manager.
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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    Overall, support does a great job and is timely in their responses and efforts. We have had to contact support many times due to the Capture app. Some tickets have remained open for months, while others get resolved quickly. I understand this is not always up to support and they often have to wait for their engineering team to fix issues that we identified, but it's difficult to deal with issues that are affecting our workflow, especially for extended amounts of time.
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    Microsoft
    There are many resources available supporting Visual Studio IDE. Microsoft whitepapers, forum posts, and online Visual Studio documentation. There are countless demonstration videos available, as well. If users are having issues, they can call Microsoft Support, but depending on the company's agreement with Microsoft, the number of included support calls will vary from organization to organization. I've found that Microsoft support calls can be hit or miss depending on who you get, but they can usually get you with the right support person for your issue.
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    In-Person Training
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    • As a very early customer, we did not undergo formal training but worked closely with the team to get the system set up to do what we wanted. However, online training resources are now available with many blog posts / video lessons and tutorials.
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    Microsoft
    IT is very complicated to understand all the functions that the environment has if you are not familiar with this type of development environments. It is important to select a good in-person training to achieve to understand all the possibilities and the capacity of the application. In this case, you will be able to develop a lot type of different applications.
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    Online Training
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    it is important to note that my perspective is not necessarily common - I'm a geek/nerd/poweruser in general, so I found the online resources to be more than adequate (and often very aesthetically pleasing, too). That said, a less "geeky" person might struggle a bit.
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    Microsoft
    If you are not accustomed to develop in this type of development environments it would be complicated to follow all the parts of the course because if the course does not include a great tour with all the concepts to develop you will not have the option to understand all the functions.
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    Implementation Rating
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    The implementation team from Khoros were great - they worked hard to understand our somewhat complex organization, and were with us all the way through face to face meetings, user training, and technical training. We had a clearly defined account manager and implementation manager, who worked really effectively together and with us.
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    Microsoft
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    Alternatives Considered
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    At the time of purchase, Khoros met a specific technical need that other vendors couldn't provide for us. Now, however, Sprout Social has this same capability, and Khoros is massively inferior to it on everything but price and some minor UX issues. At this point Khoros seems to be lagging badly behind most competing products
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    Microsoft
    I personally feel Visual Studio IDE has [a] better interface and [is more] user friendly than other IDEs. It has better code maintainability and intellisense. Its inbuilt team foundation server help coders to check on their code then and go. Better nugget package management, quality testing and gives features to extract TRX file as result of testing which includes all the summary of each test case.
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    Scalability
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    Again, I am a fairly new employee to The Social Lights (I've only been here for 11 months) and I am also fairly new to the workforce (I've only just graduated from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities) so it's hard for me to talk too much about the scalability of businesses; however, I feel like this would help
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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    • Negatively impacted relationship with Khoros as they're notoriously difficult to engage with or able to produce viable results from our feedback.
    • Negatively impacted KPI reporting, as metrics were inaccurate for six months.
    • Negatively impacted resource management, as there've been so many restrictions with this platform that simple, day-to-day tasks take so much longer.
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    Microsoft
    • Using the integration between Visual Studio and our source control service, the cost of re-work and losing code is drastically reduced.
    • Paid versions of Visual Studio enable developers to be so much more productive than hacked-together open source solutions that it's hard to imagine developing in Windows without it.
    • When combined with support subscriptions and the vast array of free online help options available, Visual Studio saves our developers time by keeping them coding and testing, not wasting their time trying to guess their way out of problems or spend endless hours online hoping to find answers.
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    ScreenShots

    Khoros Social Media Management Screenshots

    Screenshot of the channel performance dashboard, for monitoring different metrics and comparing the performance of posts by content type and labels to optimize for the audience.Screenshot of the cross-channel dashboard. It provides a holistic view of paid and organic campaigns, allowing teams to compare performance and optimize for engagement and reach with campaigns.Screenshot of the cross-channel dashboard. Users can compare the performance of posts across channels, ensuring that time and resources are allocated effectively to reach the target audience.Screenshot of the calendar view. This presents all scheduled posts by assignee, channel, and tags so that nothing is missed and content is delivered on time.Screenshot of approval paths in Khoros. Get sign-off and feedback across teams for paid and organic posts to reduce brand risk.