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Sparkcentral (discontinued)

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What is Sparkcentral (discontinued)?

Sparkcentral 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…

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Recent Reviews

Best Review Ever

8 out of 10
November 04, 2016
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We currently utilize Sparkcentral for our social media care platform. This platform allows us to engage with customers via Twitter and …
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What is Sparkcentral (discontinued)?

Sparkcentral 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…

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Product Details

What is Sparkcentral (discontinued)?

Sparkcentral 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.

Sparkcentral (discontinued) Features

  • Supported: Intelligent Routing
  • Supported: Seamless Escalation
  • Supported: In-App Messaging
  • Supported: Social Channel Customer Service
  • Supported: Text Customer Service
  • Supported: Reporting & Analytics
  • Supported: Customer Profiles
  • Supported: Customer Personalization
  • Supported: Knowledge Base
  • Supported: Macros
  • Supported: Contextual Engagement
  • Supported: Omnichannel
  • Supported: Transcripts
  • Supported: Pop-up Chat
  • Supported: Co-Browsing
  • Supported: Targeted Emails
  • Supported: Conversation Archiving
  • Supported: Team Inbox
  • Supported: Visitor Activity
  • Supported: Help Desk

Sparkcentral (discontinued) Integrations

Sparkcentral (discontinued) Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesGlobal
Supported LanguagesEnglish Interface, Software can accept any language

Frequently Asked Questions

Sparkcentral 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.

Verint Messaging, Khoros Care, and Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (retiring) are common alternatives for Sparkcentral (discontinued).

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of Sparkcentral (discontinued) are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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November 04, 2016

Best Review Ever

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pros:
1. Layout is more user-friendly than the previous platforms.
2. Real-time data on system issues where each user is able to see it and respond accordingly.
3. The previous option to see another user responding to the customer while in training.

Cons:
1. No truly unified queue.
2. The option to see another user responding was removed in a recent update.
3. Bulk resolve doesn't allow you to choose the posts that will be deleted.
October 28, 2016

Delightfully Satisfied

Tukio Machini | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
October 25, 2016

My Sparkcentral Review

Renn Johnson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I selected Sparkcentral because I am a social media engagement director, so engagement is top priority for me and Sparkcentral does exactly that. It's not focused on marketing, word clouds, etc. It's focused on the incoming social media volume of your brand.
Ellice Soliven | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Sparkcentral is very organized and robust in terms of using it for customer service/tech support. It allows you to record detailed information about your customers, and provides thorough customer support histories which are very helpful as well.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sparkcentral is in an excellent place - they are the only true stand-alone social media customer care platform. We also provide support through Oracle RightNow (Chat/email), but the social add-on for that appeared to be weak. Hootsuite works fine for small teams of low volume customer care, but for a dedicated social care platform, we could not find anything else worth considering.
Andrew (Drew) Johnston | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
A few months ago we decided it would be smart to look into back up options in case Sparkcentral ever had technical issues (it never has, but we like to have redundancies in place) and I could not find a company or product that offered all the features I love and have become used to with Sparkcentral. Similar products put statistics and analytics at the forefront of what they offer, which in turn creates a confusing interface with a lot of things our customer service agents do not need or want to deal with - this makes training on the product difficult. Sparkcentral offers these same great statistics/analytics but in an organized interface that does not interfere with our primary use of the product: engagement. This may be a cliche phrase, but I literally can't image what we would do without Sparkcentral.
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