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Khoros Communities
Formerly Spredfast + Lithium

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What is Khoros Communities?

Khoros Communities is a fully-featured community platform, built for self-service support, education and collaboration. Organizations can host a vibrant space where customers can find answers, develop expertise, share experiences, and connect with their brand.

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What is Khoros Communities?

Khoros Communities is a fully-featured community platform, built for self-service support, education and collaboration. Organizations can host a vibrant space where customers can find answers, develop expertise, share experiences, and connect with their brand.

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Product Details

What is Khoros Communities?

Khoros Communities is software to build an enterprise-class online community and scale engagement. Organizations can host a vibrant space where customers can find answers, develop expertise, share experiences, and connect with their brand.


Khoros states they have built and launched over 1,500 brand communities for some of the world’s most recognized brands. With 25+ years of experience, they boast a robust set of customer interaction styles, tools to empower employees to interact and moderate at scale, a platform built for enterprise integration and security, and a dedicated services organization.


Key benefits include:


Expert community management

Nurture large, engaging communities with advanced moderation tools, content management, analytics, and expertise that provide quantifiable business value through customer acquisition, retention, and growth.


Reduced costs by deflecting support calls

Communities deflect expensive calls and boost self-service by creating a central place for customers to ask questions, access knowledge, and get tips from peers and the brand. This one-to many approach can uncover and resolve issues faster.


Boosts loyalty and retention by enhancing the post-sales experience

Customers stay loyal to brands that listen, engage, and care. Communities can be used to foster customer dialogue, and monitor for trends, insights, and problems to fix. Collecting ideas or feedback through the community closes the loop on solutions. Unify knowledge bases, peer tips, training, and other resources that drive adoption, usage, and value.


Drives organic growth

Peer opinion can greatly influence a target audience. A community that connects peers also fuels user-generated content and produces on-demand insights for new products, services, and market ideas. Users can also find, engage, and reward champions who spread positive word-of-mouth. Peer validation can support upsell and cross-sell motions.


Khoros Communities Screenshots

Screenshot of page design templates. These allow for on-the-fly customization and updates without a development team.Screenshot of page overview under the Designer tab. Easily organize content and make changes to page layout to improve the experience for community members.Screenshot of a conversation in the community. Engagement features allow users to collaborate, trouble-shoot and self-serve.Screenshot of Agent Assist in Khoros. This feature allows community moderators to reply to conversations faster and with better responses.Screenshot of the Analytics dashboard. Monitor key metrics to determine how members are interacting in the community.

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Khoros Communities Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Mobile Web
Supported CountriesGlobal
Security

Frequently Asked Questions

Khoros Communities is a fully-featured community platform, built for self-service support, education and collaboration. Organizations can host a vibrant space where customers can find answers, develop expertise, share experiences, and connect with their brand.

Higher Logic Thrive, Gainsight Customer Communities, and Higher Logic Vanilla are common alternatives for Khoros Communities.

Reviewers rate Product Scalability highest, with a score of 8.5.

The most common users of Khoros Communities are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).

Khoros Communities Customer Size Distribution

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)0%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)10%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)90%
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Reviews and Ratings

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Khoros Communities: Building Engaging Online Spaces for Connection and Collaboration

Rating: 9 out of 10
January 02, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Khoros Communities
8 years of experience
In the context of Indian users, Khoros Communities' gamification features emerge as pivotal in enhancing customer engagement and satisfaction. With the introduction of badges, points, and leaderboards, users are incentivized to actively participate, share valuable insights, and attain recognition within the community. This sense of accomplishment contributes to an enriched customer experience, fostering positivity. The gamification elements also prove instrumental in driving a strong Super User program, allowing for the acknowledgment and rewarding of proactive community members. Additionally, the competitive spirit introduced through leaderboards resonates well with the Indian audience, encouraging friendly interactions and contributing to the vibrant community culture. In essence, Khoros Communities' gamification features not only motivate desired behaviors but also stimulate knowledge-sharing, loyalty, and community growth in the Indian context.

Tools that help grow and increase sales.

Rating: 10 out of 10
December 17, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Khoros Communities
4 years of experience
As I mentioned previously, the impact on their tools has been that they have managed to get our company to establish new parameters that allow exponential growth according to the number of sales and growth in the community, if it has allowed the creation of superusers without major inconvenience and this is very pleasant for our future changes for mutual benefit and nourishes client and company.

Khoros Communities Platform That Actually Works!!

Rating: 7 out of 10
December 12, 2023
PS
Vetted Review
Verified User
Khoros Communities
2 years of experience
Ways in which gamification components of Khoros communities impact super user efforts and customer fulfillment and engagement. The quality of the user base and the way these features are put into practice can impact their usefulness.

From a user standpoint

Rating: 7 out of 10
December 08, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Khoros Communities
1 year of experience
The impact Khoros Communities’s gamification features had on customer engagement and satisfaction is that the application of typical elements of "game playing" has encouraged engagement with certain polls/activities we implement. It has helped more engagement from our customers and in return given us a stronger user program to utilize.

Best for Business Connectivity and Scalability

Rating: 8 out of 10
December 07, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Khoros Communities
1 year of experience
The game-like features in Khoros Communities have really amped up how engaged and satisfied our customers are. It's like a boost for our Super User program, inspiring users to actively join in and contribute more within our community.

Navigating Community Excellence: A Comprehensive Review of Khoros Communities"

Rating: 10 out of 10
December 06, 2023
Khoros Communities' gamification features have significantly enhanced customer engagement and satisfaction by incentivizing active participation, recognizing and motivating Super Users, fostering collaboration, and creating a positive and enjoyable community experience. This has led to a dynamic and vibrant community environment, increased Super User contributions, and overall growth and success of the community.

A fantastic tool for expanding communities.

Rating: 9 out of 10
December 05, 2023
MK
Vetted Review
Verified User
Khoros Communities
3 years of experience
Community activity involvement has increased. Players become more engaged when they may climb the ranks and earn points for their participation. The super user application is working great. While rising in the leaderboard ranks validates our top users, we haven't altered it to match our needs. Thus, customer service can be more flexible and ongoing.

Khoros Communities Helped Us Level Up Our Stagnant Community

Rating: 10 out of 10
December 05, 2023
DV
Vetted Review
Verified User
Khoros Communities
2 years of experience
Its no secret that the introduction of gamification elements has always incentivized active participation within a community. While there was room for improvement, we believe Khoros Communities has built a rather optimal model, where users earn points for contributing, answering questions, and engaging in discussions. What was surprising was that it also drove our team to be more active and passionate with their interactions. This really reflected the spirit of our game, where every action is rewarded.

A complete look at a customer's journey.

Rating: 10 out of 10
July 18, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Khoros Communities
1 year of experience
I'm not involved in this aspect. However, based on some things I've seen in the forums, there are specific users that are rising to the top of the user base, and at the very least, it provides a positive feeling knowing we are garnering a community that is looking out for each other.

A great customer hub connecting all socials in one place

Rating: 10 out of 10
July 18, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Khoros Communities
2 years of experience
Khorus allows us to connect with people faster, while tracking communication via various social methods and linking them to the same customer, allowing more flexible and continuous customer service, this reduces customer frustration and leads to higher customer satisfaction and less customer turn around.

Khoros Communities

Rating: 8 out of 10
July 18, 2023
SS
Vetted Review
Verified User
Khoros Communities
1 year of experience
There seems to be potential. Our super users get easy validation of moving up the ranks on the leaderboard but we have not customized it to Saviynt specifications yet.

Great product for growing communities

Rating: 9 out of 10
July 17, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Khoros Communities
1 year of experience
Our super user program is currently working really well. Their commitment is excellent. They alone represent 40% of the messages generated and there are not even 10 of them. To give you an idea, we have over 200,000 messages each year.

Khoros Communities Know-how

Rating: 8 out of 10
July 14, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Khoros Communities
1 year of experience
It certainly increases the overall engagement in community. People engage more as they get more points for more engagement and get increasing ranks and even turn up top on leaderboards.

The heartbeat of Qlik

Rating: 9 out of 10
July 12, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Khoros Communities
3 years of experience
We haven't really had a chance to focus as we would like on gamification but hope to be able to do more in 2022.
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