Khoros Marketing vs. Oracle Social Cloud (legacy)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Khoros Marketing
Score 7.9 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
Oracle Social Cloud (legacy)
Score 7.6 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Oracle Social Cloud helped marketers to discover, analyze, and respond across paid, owned and earned social channels to measure the impact of their data-driven campaigns. Oracle Social Cloud is a legacy product, and no longer available for sale.N/A
Pricing
Khoros MarketingOracle Social Cloud (legacy)
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Khoros MarketingOracle Social Cloud (legacy)
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Khoros MarketingOracle Social Cloud (legacy)
Considered Both Products
Khoros Marketing
Chose Khoros Marketing
There really isn't any comparison. Khoros is definitely a leader in the market!
Chose Khoros Marketing
All tools were piloted in a controlled environment Khoros ticked all the boxes.
Chose Khoros Marketing
• Yes, we evaluated other systems. I immediately eliminated any vendors that did not have enterprise clients listed on their websites. Also, a couple of vendors never called me back (Sprinklr and Buddy Media). • Our eventual shortlist comprised: • Khoros • Vitrue
Oracle Social Cloud (legacy)
Chose Oracle Social Cloud (legacy)
Oracle is a very strong platform. Spredfast is strong at content management and approvals. Salesforce is great at real time.
Chose Oracle Social Cloud (legacy)
At the time we reviewed the services Oracle SRM delivered the full range enterprise package for the most effective cost. I plan to reevlauate after another 6 months to ensure we are still getting the best deal.
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Khoros MarketingOracle Social Cloud (legacy)
Listening/monitoring
Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Product A and Product B
Khoros Marketing
6.4
117 Ratings
18% below category average
Oracle Social Cloud (legacy)
-
Ratings
Boolean keyword searches7.290 Ratings00 Ratings
Filtering out noise/spam5.999 Ratings00 Ratings
Sentiment analysis6.889 Ratings00 Ratings
Broad channel coverage5.8111 Ratings00 Ratings
Publishing
Comparison of Publishing features of Product A and Product B
Khoros Marketing
7.3
148 Ratings
8% below category average
Oracle Social Cloud (legacy)
-
Ratings
Content planning and scheduling8.4146 Ratings00 Ratings
Audience targeting7.2112 Ratings00 Ratings
Content optimization5.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow management8.4130 Ratings00 Ratings
Engagement
Comparison of Engagement features of Product A and Product B
Khoros Marketing
7.5
113 Ratings
7% below category average
Oracle Social Cloud (legacy)
-
Ratings
Automated routing and prioritization7.290 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer interaction histories7.7103 Ratings00 Ratings
Bulk actions7.494 Ratings00 Ratings
Marketing
Comparison of Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Khoros Marketing
7.0
103 Ratings
9% below category average
Oracle Social Cloud (legacy)
-
Ratings
Lead generation6.747 Ratings00 Ratings
Content marketing6.686 Ratings00 Ratings
Paid media management7.12 Ratings00 Ratings
Campaigns and promotions7.790 Ratings00 Ratings
Channel coverage/integration
Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of Product A and Product B
Khoros Marketing
7.6
147 Ratings
11% below category average
Oracle Social Cloud (legacy)
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Ratings
Twitter7.7138 Ratings00 Ratings
Facebook7.9143 Ratings00 Ratings
LinkedIn7.5105 Ratings00 Ratings
Google+9.018 Ratings00 Ratings
Instagram7.3132 Ratings00 Ratings
Pinterest6.346 Ratings00 Ratings
YouTube7.533 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting/analytics
Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of Product A and Product B
Khoros Marketing
7.1
131 Ratings
10% below category average
Oracle Social Cloud (legacy)
-
Ratings
Campaign success analytics8.0121 Ratings00 Ratings
Real-time tracking6.6120 Ratings00 Ratings
Competitor analysis6.777 Ratings00 Ratings
Account management
Comparison of Account management features of Product A and Product B
Khoros Marketing
6.1
136 Ratings
29% below category average
Oracle Social Cloud (legacy)
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Ratings
Role-based user permissions & privileges6.4132 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile access5.8112 Ratings00 Ratings
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Khoros MarketingOracle Social Cloud (legacy)
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Score 9.8 out of 10
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Score 7.8 out of 10
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Social Suite by Reputation.com
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Score 9.3 out of 10
Mention
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Score 9.4 out of 10
Enterprises
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Social Suite by Reputation.com
Score 9.3 out of 10
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Score 9.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
Khoros MarketingOracle Social Cloud (legacy)
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(184 ratings)
7.6
(35 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.9
(34 ratings)
9.0
(10 ratings)
Usability
8.9
(29 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Availability
9.7
(11 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
8.0
(8 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(31 ratings)
8.3
(4 ratings)
In-Person Training
8.9
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
6.0
(7 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.7
(24 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
5.4
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
7.3
(122 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Khoros MarketingOracle Social Cloud (legacy)
Likelihood to Recommend
Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
The best it could be used for is running campaigns. Be it a product launch or be it any new event that you are hosting. If you need to quickly grab attention, then this might be your choice. Also the report given after the campaign is a good insight for improving your next campaign.
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Discontinued Products
If you are looking to manage multiple social channels and quickly schedule posts it's a great tool. Not the best tool if you're looking to provide real time or near real time support and feedback to customers who are in the moment.
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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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  • The ability to schedule months of content at a time and view it across a calendar.
  • The approval process - you can set up teams to create, edit, publish, approve etc.
  • The content and apps module allows you to create modules which can be displayed on your Facebook page under the tabs section. You can create interactive modules for your customers to view.
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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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Discontinued Products
  • Videos posted to Facebook via SRM have to be clicked to run instead of running automatically.
  • No ability to boost posts or ads from SRM.
  • Due to privacy restrictions of various social streams, unable to listen to 'people'; can only listen to business pages.
  • Not able to publish the same post at the same hour across time zones. So, if you want to publish a post at 8 am EST and 8 am PST, you have to do 2 separate posts. Otherwise your 8 am EST will post at 5 am PST.
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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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Discontinued Products
Our personal support finally came back at the end of our contract, but their product just could not offer what the competition offered. Social media is moving fast, and you need to work with companies that understand that and are at the forefront of trends, you can't get stuck with a company that is standing still.
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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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Discontinued Products
Within a few hours you should be able to get up to speed to do the basics. I find it very intuitive
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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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Discontinued Products
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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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Discontinued Products
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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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Discontinued Products
The personalized support of a single individual who gets to know your business and your needs is priceless. They will assist with anything from a technical glitch to a campaign strategy that has worked for other companies
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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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Discontinued Products
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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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Discontinued Products
Vitrue's training was limited online and not very in-depth, but the the platform is overall very easy to use and doesn't necessarily need a large amount of training.
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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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Discontinued Products
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Alternatives Considered
Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
On some accounts that I am on, I use Asana in place of Khoros marketing but I much prefer Khoros Marketing. I prefer Khoros Marketing over Asana because I can post directly (and schedule posts) on Khoros but not on Asana. Also, I can moderate directly on Khoros but not Asana
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Discontinued Products
I have used one other enterprise level application; it was comparable to SRM. We moved away from the first application because our parent company uses many other Oracle applications, not because we were 'unhappy' with the application we had at the time. Having said that, SRM does everything we need from it; in fact, there are features we aren't fully leveraging at this point. I especially find Engage, Content and Apps and Publish particularly useful. This is the kind of platform that is very robust; you get out of it what you have the time and resources for
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Scalability
Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
Khoros seems to struggle a little past a certain level of scale. More than 30 separate per day makes it difficult to view all content in the weekly calendar view, which is frustrating and could cause issues. However, the ability to schedule one post across multiple channels is hugely valuable and cuts down on a lot of duplicative work.
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Discontinued Products
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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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  • Audience. Before SRM, we had 1,000 Likes on Facebook. In 1 1/2 years using SRM, our Likes have grown to 20,000.
  • Frequency. Before SRM, we posted once a week on Facebook & Twitter. In 1 1/2 years using SRM, we now post 54 times a month, or about twice a day on weekdays.
  • Internal acceptance. Before SRM, social was considered "a hobby" by senior management. Now, social marketing is a key part of the strategy of every product launch. That is due to the hard work of our social marketing manager, of course, but her efforts were amplified by SRM.
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