Higher Logic Vanilla vs. Verint Community

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Higher Logic Vanilla
Score 6.0 out of 10
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Higher Logic Vanilla is a customizable and themable forum software. It can be used for support communities, Q&A Communities and more. There are numerous integrations, including SSO, and connectors to popular software such as Mailchimp, WordPress, Zendesk and Salesforce.N/A
Verint Community
Score 8.3 out of 10
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Verint Community (Telligent) is a community and collaboration software platform developed by Telligent Systems and was first released in 2004. Telligent's focus was on offering a platform that can be integrated and extended, but this requires technical expertise. Verint acquired Telligent in 2015.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Higher Logic VanillaVerint Community
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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Community Pulse
Higher Logic VanillaVerint Community
Considered Both Products
Higher Logic Vanilla

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Verint Community
Chose Verint Community
Both Higher Logic and Khoros came in with very few benefits compared to Verint with a much higher price point, and potential for additional expenses. With Verint, we added some initial implementation services but were able to plainly see and understand any future financial …
Chose Verint Community
Verint Community has an open marketplace that has some really nice widgets and customizations that can come in handy for just about anything that we need. I feel that this platform needs a little bit more polish, especially for the reporting metrics. Also, lot of those widgets …
Chose Verint Community
We selected Verint due to the flexibile UI, the applications included in the licensing fee, ease of launch, price point and access to their support team.
Chose Verint Community
Forum support was the best that we have found for a support community. It was also an easy transition from Jive and provided a level of comfort and ease of use that our community managers were familiar with coming from Jive. Verint Community offerings had everything all the …
Chose Verint Community
I believe Verint Community stacks up very against previous solutions I have worked with. For an externally facing community, I think Jive-X was the best in class for many years, and Verint matches up very well from a features and configuration perspective.

The other key point …
Chose Verint Community
Verint is easier to use, but we are able to grow our community without limitations. Pricing model is more competitive than the larger platform providers and the professional services and Support services are excellent.
Chose Verint Community
There are many different enterprise ready community platforms on the market, and each one has its own superpowers. The greatest strength Verint has to offer is the complete control a community leader has over the design of the community to build their vision with few …
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User Ratings
Higher Logic VanillaVerint Community
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(10 ratings)
8.5
(29 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
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10.0
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Usability
9.0
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9.0
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Availability
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Performance
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Support Rating
9.0
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10.0
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Implementation Rating
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9.0
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Configurability
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10.0
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Ease of integration
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7.0
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Product Scalability
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Vendor post-sale
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User Testimonials
Higher Logic VanillaVerint Community
Likelihood to Recommend
Higher Logic
For companies that want to customize almost anything and make the forum look like your site, Vanilla Forums is the one for you. Customization and automation of the data via the API with other systems is more than possible and they serve to be great as a hosting provider, dealing with all the upgrades, deployments and maintenance and threat management well. I would say they might be less turn key for a small application but the fact they have an open source community, the ability to find help and information can lower the barrier of entry for most.
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Verint
If you need a community platform that's very versatile and has a relatively low entry-cost to get started, Verint is a good pick. If you need a solution that is guaranteed to work seamlessly and have no hiccups or issues overall, it is not well suited. Although it is a SAAS solution, some of the aspects of the platform do not make it seem so.
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Pros
Higher Logic
  • Gamification: The ability to incentivise community members to get involved with ranks and badges is one of the main reasons that we purchased the tool.
  • Support: The Vanilla support team are incredible, often responding to issues very late at night and proactively fixing issues as soon as they occur.
  • Customisation: Vanilla can be completely styled with css allowing us to match it to the branding of the rest of our website.
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Verint
  • Forums - organizing forum questions and identifying answered
  • Various layouts of blogs, divided by groups to enable different or similar layouts throughout the site. Ability to enable all to view the same or have particular groups of blogs to stand out and have it's own look and feel
  • ability to customize widgets to the needs of your use case
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Cons
Higher Logic
  • There are some features I wish Vanilla would implement that could improve ease of use in our specific community, but some of the ideas we have are not necessarily something that would benefit all of the forums that Vanilla works with.
  • In the past, we've had issues with releases breaking some of our specific site features they built for us, but this has improved drastically recently.
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Verint
  • The terminology of some reports, and how the reports work, is not always clear at first. More could be done to educate on getting the most from reporting.
  • If there is a bug in your version, you are advised to apply a service pack which is not always possible to do. Not easy to get fixes for bugs.
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Likelihood to Renew
Higher Logic
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Verint
I am not part of this decision making process, but I did provide positive feedback to the decision making board.
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Usability
Higher Logic
It is very intuitive and simple to operate. Our customers immediately came up with the curve and began contributing content.
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Verint
If you are an experienced online community professional, Verint offers the flexibility you need. You do need to have a lot of expertise if you want to build a solid user experience because there isn't a template out-of-the-box that is just ready to go for various use cases. It will take awhile to fully understand the capabilities of Verint Community.
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Support Rating
Higher Logic
They did an amazing job transferring our content from GetSatisfaction. We had almost 100% success in the transfer of 8 years worth of content.
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Verint
While the support portal (cases) is helpful, I've been even more impressed by their own support community. I always get quick, thoughtful, and interesting answers to my questions from support personnel, in-house developers, other users, and even the VP/GM himself! They have a really wonderful thing going there.
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Implementation Rating
Higher Logic
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Verint
all customizations should be under warranty so that you get the right level of support from the 3rd party
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Alternatives Considered
Higher Logic
From a footprint standpoint, Vanilla has less technical bloat than vbulletin or InVision, and it outdoes Lithium as far as features and service go. The bloat of other services and ability to use new ways of engaging communities such as through Reactions are part of the reason Vanilla was selected. However, the features are better on a couple more seasoned platforms and more equipped to deal with issues and technical problems.
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Verint
Both Higher Logic and Khoros came in with very few benefits compared to Verint with a much higher price point, and potential for additional expenses. With Verint, we added some initial implementation services but were able to plainly see and understand any future financial impact, whereas other vendors were much more ambiguous about how much we might pay for services we might need in the future. Both other vendors seemed to have plenty of integration options, but very specific ones (e.g. We have a CRM integration... if you use Salesforce. We have an LMS integration... if you use [this vendor]). Knowing that their out-of-the-box integrations were not in our existing tech stack made for a very unclear path forward
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Scalability
Higher Logic
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Verint
Highly scalable system with the ability to expand to an increasing number of users and communities
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Return on Investment
Higher Logic
  • Increased uptime and overall speed in the forum (compared to our previous phpbb solution)
  • Increased usage by users which resulted in a higher pages/session in a short amount of time
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Verint
  • Verint Community has helped to gain more than one lakh users which shows that the platform is extremely stable and engaging. This helped for more brand awareness and e-commerce conversion rates
  • We have had huge problems with non English countries where this platform's limitations has caused huge number of loss and less user count. Hopefully this is fixed soon.
  • Our major plan was to expand our segments and verticals such as gaming, education and business which was done very well by using this platform and our team was able to customize it based on our brand's identity. We looking to expand to much more countries and hopefully target all our worldwide businesses.
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ScreenShots

Higher Logic Vanilla Screenshots

Screenshot of Looks great on any device, including desktop, tablet or mobile device.Screenshot of We offer over 60 plugins that can add functionality to your community.Screenshot of Many different themes to choose from, which you can further customize as you like.Screenshot of You have full access to edit HTML and CSS of your theme, to make any changes you need.

Verint Community Screenshots

Screenshot of Sophos Community offers forums, blogs, events, and membership perks for its usersScreenshot of VisionAires is a community powered by Verint featuring working groups, event, and a content hubScreenshot of An Avnet community with courses, competitions, and networking opportunitiesScreenshot of The ADI Engineer Zone is a community hub with built-in learning modules, webcasts, blogs, and supportScreenshot of MicroFocus is a community to ask questions, join conversations, or share ideasScreenshot of The England Football Community is a place to connect with people and join the conversation about all things football.