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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Sparkcentral (discontinued)

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ASparkcentral was a social customer care solution and cloud-based customer engagement platform that catered specifically to customer care teams within large enterprises, enabling them to deliver real-time social customer service. Sparkcentral was acquired by Hootsuite in January 2021. The product has since been discontinued.N/A

    TeamWave (discontinued)

    Score6 out of 10
    N/ATeamWave was a platform that combined sales, projects, team, clients and marketing, as a work management software for small businesses. The platform is discontinued.N/A
    Pricing
    Sparkcentral (discontinued)TeamWave (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Sparkcentral (discontinued)TeamWave (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details——
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    Features
    Sparkcentral (discontinued)TeamWave (discontinued)
    Sales Force Automation
    Comparison of Sales Force Automation features of Sparkcentral (discontinued) and TeamWave (discontinued)
    Feature
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    -
    Ratings
    TeamWave (discontinued)
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Customer data management / contact management00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Workflow management00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Opportunity management00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    CRM Project Management
    Comparison of CRM Project Management features of Sparkcentral (discontinued) and TeamWave (discontinued)
    Feature
    Sparkcentral (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    TeamWave (discontinued)
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Task management00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Billing and invoicing management00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Reporting00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    CRM Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of CRM Reporting & Analytics features of Sparkcentral (discontinued) and TeamWave (discontinued)
    Feature
    Sparkcentral (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    TeamWave (discontinued)
    6.0
    1 Ratings
    24% below category average
    Forecasting00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Pipeline visualization00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Customizable reports00 Ratings4.01 Ratings
    Customization
    Comparison of Customization features of Sparkcentral (discontinued) and TeamWave (discontinued)
    Feature
    Sparkcentral (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    TeamWave (discontinued)
    6.0
    1 Ratings
    24% below category average
    Custom fields00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    API for custom integration00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Platform
    Comparison of Platform features of Sparkcentral (discontinued) and TeamWave (discontinued)
    Feature
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    -
    Ratings
    TeamWave (discontinued)
    3.0
    1 Ratings
    87% below category average
    Mobile access00 Ratings3.01 Ratings
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    Score8.5 out of 10
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    Score9.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    User Ratings
    Sparkcentral (discontinued)TeamWave (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (16 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.7
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Sparkcentral (discontinued)TeamWave (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    Sparkcentral has an extremely dedicated customer service team The platform UX is brilliant Reports are very detailed & easy to export The system is stable more than 98% of the time Queue management is extremely easy They need to work on a mobile app / making the website mobile friendly The ability to add more social media channels is essential
    Incentivized
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    Only if you are constrained on cost and you need a good user experience.
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • The biggest advantage of the Sparkcentral platform is its "inbox zero" philosophy. With this, our customer support requests are queued within the app, and agents need to work down the queue to keep it empty.
    • The app is designed from the ground up for customer care - instead of taking a generic social platform, and sprinkling in some customer care tools. Everything about Sparkcental is designed for helping our customers.
    • Sparkcentral allows us to do much better CRM. We can make customer notes, see recent interactions, determine who helped the customer (and when).
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    • Unlimited users
    • CRM & Project management in one tool
    • Visual Cards
    Incentivized
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    Cons
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    • In the beginning our team had the option to see what another user was typing as they responded to a post. With the latest update, this was taken away. That feature was key for us to shadow agents remotely who are still in training to provide real time feedback.
    • Our company has a number of different brands that we manage. Having a truly unified queue would be a great addition for us!
    • The bulk resolve should allow the option to select on the posts that you wish to resolve instead of selecting a time frame for bulk resolve. Often we find that marketing posts generate more volume in the evening. However, there are sometimes posts where the customer needs assistance during that time. So, if we were to bulk resolve for a certain number of evening hours we would potentially miss a customer's concern through that option as it is currently. But, if the option was to go through and select on all marketing posts and then bulk resolve you would ensure that you are not missing a post where a customer needs assistance.
    Incentivized
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    • [I feel] Product management is tedious
    • Flexibility of Integration with TPA
    • Mobile App is not robust.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
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    Sparkcentral has never given us a good reason to consider any other option. Aside from all the positive points I mentioned in previous areas of this review, something else that has really impressed us is their customer service (makes sense, they're a customer service company after all!). Any time we have a question or concern, we send them an email and we get a response almost instantly.
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    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
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    The system meets all my expectations.
    Incentivized
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    As the organization scale and capability increases and the cost is not a constraint.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
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    Incredible customer service team that replies back very quickly, follows up on the reported issue till it's resolved in a very timely manner.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    Responsive and solution oriented.
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    Sparkcentral does what it has offered to do, where other software made empty promises, Sparkcentral delivers. They also inform us, anytime they are undergoing maintenance or when Twitter or Facebook has an API change, where in previous cases we would have to discover this ourselves.
    Incentivized
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    TeamWave provides real value for its cost - but after using it for a while the need of real feature which other similar tools offer at higher price starts to become important. Unless you really need those advanced features, TeamWave fits the bill.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
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    • Customers appreciate fast responses to the things they post on social media. This tool allows that to happen.
    • The dashboard allows us to keep up with how many are waiting in our queue so we can keep up with how busy we are during the day and manage it.
    • Customer satisfaction has seemed to increase while using this tool.
    • Being able to add notes with the customers address and phone info is awesome as well.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • Easy to scale of operations, since unlimited users are allowed.
    • Database cost is not recurring
    Incentivized
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