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Answerbase

Score10 out of 10

2 Reviews and Ratings

What is Answerbase?

Answerbase is a knowledge management platform for customer support and e-commerce, allowing users to ask questions, receive quality answers, and browse content and articles to meet their demand for information about your products and services. Each system comes with administration and moderation tools that are designed to help companies customize, manage and grow an engaging platform. According to the vendor, advanced features like moderation, user group management, actionable content insights, collaboration notes, answer drafting and private question management give administrators the tools they need to effectively manage all of their content, users and access.

Categories & Use Cases

Media

Each customer has access to an Admin Site where they can access the tools they need to effectively manage all of your content, users and access.
The public interface comes with a standard template. Customers are encouraged to customize the look and feel, so that it is accomplishes their goals and accurately reflects their brand.
Each admin and moderator has access to a “My Work” area where they can see their content assignments.
Admins and moderators have advanced tools for moderation to control each piece of content from one area.
Admins can have full control over customization to accomplish any look and feel they want.
Widget builders and API’s empower you to accomplish even the most sophisticated integrations or even build your own Answerbase-powered Q&A applications.
Adjust the system settings for full control over your users, content, and access.
User group management: Give your users the appropriate content access and functional permissions.
Customer example: Angie’s List
Customer example: General Mills
Customer Example: ABB

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Amazing product that has strong features and more importantly has great support with it. A must for any company

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Answerbase answers any questions that members of the team may have. Once a question has been answered it allows others to view and thus saving time within the workplace.

It has excellent tools to moderate and collect results.

It is a really effective piece of software that saves time and resources within a busy company.

Pros

  • Increases your team to collaborate with each other as you are available to post questions that more people can answer to express and opinion or idea
  • Browse existing community pages to see if your question has been answered
  • Allows you to share relevant documents with specific staff
  • Excellent customer service support team that are always on hand to help

Cons

  • Onboarding checklist would be a great addition as setting up can be complicated

Most Important Features

  • Community Q&A board is vital now to our organisation
  • Transparent pricing structure
  • Excellent customer service support team

Return on Investment

  • Increased collaboration in the workplace
  • Saved time on staff asking the same questions
  • Provides customers a 'live' community to liaise with

Alternatives Considered

SAP Customer Data Solutions (formerly Gigya)

Other Software Used

SAP Customer Data Solutions (formerly Gigya), Zendesk Chat (formerly Zopim)