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Rating: 7.9 out of 10
Score
7.9 out of 10

Reviews

12 Reviews

Hopeful for future potential, but it's a hard pass for now

Rating: 2 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We changed phone systems for our large, remote, client services-based company in 2021. The new product, NICE, was supposed to have lessened our technical difficulties and made the client experience smoother but unfortunately, it did the opposite. We also used it for detailed scheduling such as lunch breaks, other daily breaks, time for education, and meetings. In theory, it could have been fantastic for us. It also allowed much more detailed monitoring of how we spent most of our time, and potentially needed more support.

Pros

  • Detailed scheduling capabilities
  • Easy access to many contacts
  • Facilitates tracking and monitoring

Cons

  • Connectivity: I personally ended up having to get a new laptop to support this, though my old one met all the supposed specifications.
  • Reliability of connection: our IT crew spent an inordinate amount of time trying to connect and reconnect NICE to employees.
  • Reliability of connection of calls: it went down constantly, usually in the middle of a call with a distraught client, which really hurt our customer service.
  • Feedback/customer service: We had so many reports, calls, and meetings and they were unable to solve our issues. At the time I left that position in March, they were still unresolved.
  • Inability to do a wide look/screen calls and messages: with our old system, we could always scan our inbox for urgent calls, and prioritize. At this time we are still unable to w/ NICE.

Likelihood to Recommend

Though the strengths I listed in the prior question are really hopeful, the negatives outweigh the positives so much that at this time I could not in good conscience recommend this product. I really hope those issues improve - if they do, this would be a really strong tool for a customer service-based company like ours. Particularly one with so many people working remotely. For now, I'm honestly thankful I was able to take a different position here in which I never plan to touch NICE again.

My Brand Embassy Sports

Rating: 6 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use this as part of our customer support group to help facilitate calls and deal with our customer base. We are excited for the venture to be together as we can better merge or two platforms into one.

Pros

  • Chat
  • Connection to the customer

Cons

  • More drive on how to make awareness
  • Resources on how to make my inContact better
  • Easier to use

Likelihood to Recommend

Like that it provides more ways for the customer to get a hold of us, it important that we use omnichannel to push the envelope when it comes to keeping connected to the customer. It's important to drive the success of the company.

Vetted Review
Brand Embassy (discontinued)
4 years of experience

Brand Embassy is NIIICE

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have a call center department that uses the CXone platform for softphone for our agents. We leverage the platform with Salesforce to auto generate tickets based on omni-channel interactions from customers. They are able to submit a case via the omni-channel and our agents are able to assist them and process their cases.

Pros

  • SMS - allows customers to text in to start a case with us.
  • Email - allows easy customer communication via email to our system and reaches an agent for a case.

Cons

  • Implementation took a while due to testing on our end.
  • API is there, but more work on our end was required to integrate to best fit our scenarios.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is great for firms that want to make customer communication easier and reduce time on the phone for agents. However, firms who are smaller and do not have heavy volume may be okay with just having a phone system and not utilize the additional features provided by Brand Embassy/CXone.

Vetted Review
Brand Embassy (discontinued)
1 year of experience

A partner in need - social indeed

Rating: 10 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have implemented Brand Embassy for our use in the Social Care team as part of our customer service department. It is predominantly used for responding to customer feedback, analyzing customer needs and patterns of behavior on social media. We sought Brand Embassy to help us improve our customer satisfaction levels, both across social media channels and in the customer service department overall. With social quickly taking over traditional channels for communicating with a brand, it was more than apparent that partnering up with a platform that enables us to not only view what our customers are saying but to help build strong and lasting relationships.

Pros

  • Easy to understand and use interface with detailed perks for responding, evaluating and tracking user feedback.
  • Excellent and easy to generate reports with lots of relevant data for day-to-day operations.
  • Agent performance and team management.
  • Easily measurable KPIs thanks to detailed reporting.
  • Use of tags and sentiment help make analysis of customer behavior easier.

Cons

  • Perhaps a tad easier function for starting our new conversations with users (though I understand there is already a fix planned for this particular field).
  • I would like to have more control over tag creation, maybe added keyword complexity.
  • Conversation numbering based on topic (by customer individually or by a tag) could also improve some of the reports.

Likelihood to Recommend

Brand Embassy is excellent for brands that utilize a great influx of traffic, though even smaller channels will surely see a ton of improved feedback by using the platform. Having the ability to approach each audience differently yet organize the results and responses together, with the option for comparison and having the report issued separately or together is a great deal better than to have to do the manual work yourself (not to mention it is not going to be as insightful nor precise).

Brand Embassy helped us to manage thousandfold increase of mentions

Rating: 9 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Brand Embassy is mostly used by our social care team to help our customers with any kind of issues regarding to our services and products. No one else except the social media team has access to the Brand Embassy, however we are open to provide valuable information to our colleagues from this platform. Brand Embassy helps us to communicate with our customers on any kind of social network or web page or forum and we appreciate the option to prioritize specific channels and the social CRM which we use.

Pros

  • Social CRM: we appreciate this tool, because we focus on influencers a lot these days. It is important to know the person we are communicating with so we can prioritize who are we going to answer first. Influencers can cause passionate discussion and thanks to Brand Embassy we can quickly respond to them. Therefore we mark influencers in our social CRM. We also appreciate the fact that our online care team knows what the person has been dealing with lately.
  • Analysis: our colleagues sometimes want to know how their product is doing and what people say about it on social media and how much is it discussed. Thanks to Brand Embassy we can generate a simple overview of the amount of questions and comments about specific product according to our tags.
  • Simplicity: we prefer simple, yet effective tools, which Brand Embassy surely is. Our social care team does not have to switch between channels and social networks which increases their effectiveness. We also appreciate that our team can see any discussion about O2 wherever on the web, which is very useful for us as we enter the world of sport games, football and hockey. That causes passionate discussions on sport pages and online media outlets.

Cons

  • We would appreciate the option to mark sentiment automatically and also we would love to merge our CRM with one one we have in Brand Embassy.

Likelihood to Recommend

Brand Embassy is a perfect tool for anyone who wants to communicate with customers not only on social media, but also on forums and other discussions. It is also great for those who want to get to know their customers more. Brand Embassy enables you to create conversation history and add notes to specific customers so you don't have to use any other tool to remember what you have been discussing with a single user. We would definitely suggest Brand Embassy for those who want to know what people think about their products and what discussions you can find about those products on the internet. We also find notifications on any post with high engagement very useful, because we can react right away. And that is what matters on social media. Brand Embassy is great for corporate companies with a big volume of mentions and activity on social media. But I believe that even medium businesses will find it useful.

Brand Embassy is a great tool for getting customer satisfaction on Social media and Live chat

Rating: 10 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Telenor Serbia uses Brand Embassy for social media customer care. Agents from [our customer care] department are absolutely delighted with the app, because they are able to handle multiple social media channels and live chat, from one platform.

Pros

  • All information about customers in one place.
  • Very transparent and easy to use. It helps us to track our results in a very efficient way, as well as to handle our day to day activities in the best way.
  • Amazing client services team.

Cons

  • In terms of reports that we get from Brand Embassy, it would be great to have information about the number of cases, or conversations that we have with our customers. At the moment, we have just info about number of interactions and the total workload.
  • There are options to tag every conversation, in order to track why our customers contact us. Their tag menu is a bit too small, it would be great if it was larger.

Likelihood to Recommend

Telenor Serbia has been working with Brand Embassy for two years, so we’ve seen that they are open-minded, digital oriented and social media addicted, as are we :)

Brand Embassy is taking care of Kingdom Come: Deliverance community

Rating: 10 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Brand Embassy for direct involvement with our fans and gamers across the social media channels. Thanks to Brand Embassy we save our time and are faster in responding to all questions.

Pros

  • Gathering all the comments from several channels including YouTube
  • Seamless cooperation of several team members
  • Option to approve all or selected comments by supervisor before publishing them

Cons

  • Option to rank the comments as positive/neutral/negative could be more uselful
  • Some tool to archive selected posts for future references would be useful
  • That's probably due to lack of technical skills :-], but we were not able to differentiate between fans and real customers in the app

Likelihood to Recommend

If you are in close contact with your community/customer base and deal with questions from different sources like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube etc., Brand Embassy will save your time and thus money!

If you take care of one Facebook page, you probably don't need such a robust tool.

The pillar of our social customer care

Rating: 9 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

O2 is using Brand Embassy as a social care tool - CRM, engagement and monitoring of all social channels. It's used for the main brand and all responses around it.

Pros

  • Flexibility with non-standard channels
  • Nice reporting
  • Workflow management

Cons

  • Some parts of the UX are overdue for a polish/redesign
  • Search in CRM database

Likelihood to Recommend

It's well built to support a team of professionals maintaining many channels.

Seeking something special that helps with customer care on social media? Brand Embassy can be what you´re looking for!

Rating: 10 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The Brand Embassy platform is used to manage and monitor communication with our clients and fans across social media. It´s been used by our public relations department, our dedicated team in our call centre as well as by other stakeholders and knowledge masters throughout the whole company. It provides better and faster communication with the public and, therefore, helps us to improve current customer service on social media!

Pros

  • Brand Embassy helps us to monitor every online mention about us not only on social media but on other websites.
  • We are able to add note about every customer and all users have access to the customer history. That gives us a great overview about a customer´s issues and we are able to answer/help accordingly.
  • Great monitoring of our customer service on SM including monitoring of our work, response rate, response time, solution time etc! It gives us opportunity to react swiftly to possible delay/issue on our side.

Cons

  • The process is bit too difficult when we get posts with many comments. It´s partly caused by our internal set up but we should be looking for simpler solution going forward.
  • Although Brand Embassy works on IE (9 and newer), there are some features missing (NOT A MAJOR ONES).

Likelihood to Recommend

I believe that the Brand Embassy platform is well developed to suit many companies and also they are able and willing to incorporate client requirements!

Brand Embassy

Rating: 8 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Brand Embassy for social media customer care. It is used mainly by our Customer Care department and Marketing department. It meets all our requirements: managing multiple social media channels from one platform by all our agents.

Pros

  • Social media management, listening and analytics.
  • Easy to use also for beginners. Very intuitive front end.
  • Support is very quick.

Cons

  • Some system outages. But by moving to new hosting should solve problem.
  • Not all analytics features are available.

Likelihood to Recommend

<ul><li>Reply option direct in to tool</li><li>Tracking of reply time</li><li>Notifications

</li><li>Reporting</li><li>4-eye check</li><li>Delegation of tasks</li><li>Internal notes</li><li>Post manager</li><li>Sentiment</li><li>Listening</li><li>Social CRM</li></ul>