Khoros Communities: Building Engaging Online Spaces for Connection and Collaboration
Khoros Communities offers a platform for building and managing online communities, where we, as an organization, can create a space for …
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What is Khoros Communities?
Lithium Community is a fully-featured community platform and is focused on the needs of marketers. Lithium most often competes with Jive Team Collaboration and Get Satisfaction.
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What is Khoros Communities?
Lithium Community is a fully-featured community platform and is focused on the needs of marketers. Lithium most often competes with Jive Team Collaboration and Get Satisfaction.
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What is Khoros Communities?
Khoros Communities enable organizations to host a space where people find answers, develop expertise, share experiences, and build a brand.
The vendor states that Khoros powers over 400 of the world’s most recognized brands, and boasts 20+ years of experience, the most robust feature set, enterprise scale and security, and a dedicated services teams who aim to ensure a brand's community will reduce support costs, delight customers, and grow business.
They state Khoros Communities key benefits are to:
Attract more visitors & build trust
- Be easier to find & provide peer validation by hosting authentic conversations on your digital property. The average Khoros community gets 74% of traffic from public search and converts visitors at a higher rate than static websites.
Accelerate resolution to delight customers while reducing costs
- Create a hub for your customers to connect with experts, learn, and get answers to their questions at any time, in any region. The vendor says users can deflect at least 10% of calls that would otherwise go to the customer service call center.
Innovate faster with constant customer feedback
- Iterate rapidly and uncover new ideas from a dedicated pool of domain experts who are invested in your success.
Deliver expert community management
- Nurture large, engaging communities with the most advanced moderation tools, content management, analytics, and expertise that provide quantifiable business value through customer acquisition, retention, and growth.
Khoros Communities Features
- Supported: Forums
- Supported: Ability to verify solutions
- Supported: Ideas
- Supported: Question and Answer
- Supported: Contests
- Supported: Blogs
- Supported: Knowledge Bases
- Supported: Enhanced Moderation Tools
- Supported: Fully Customizable
- Supported: Sophisticated Ranking and Incentivization
- Supported: Native Mobile Support (Responsive UI)
- Supported: Multiple user permission levels
- Supported: Easy to use REST API
- Supported: Spam prevention
- Supported: SSO integration
- Supported: Groups
- Supported: Content Syndication
- Supported: Support for multiple languages
- Supported: Support for multiple instances
- Supported: Rich media support
- Supported: Promoted search results
- Supported: Federated search
- Supported: Historical and Real Time Analytics and Shareable dashboards
- Supported: Notifications and personalization
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Khoros Communities Integrations
- SAP CRM discontinued
- Adobe Analytics
- Salesforce Sales Cloud
- Salesforce Marketing Cloud
- Adobe Marketo
- Salesforce Customer 360
- Microsoft Dynamics
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Khoros Communities Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android, Mobile Web |
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Lithium Community is a fully-featured community platform and is focused on the needs of marketers. Lithium most often competes with Jive Team Collaboration and Get Satisfaction.
Higher Logic Thrive, Gainsight Digital Hub, and Higher Logic Vanilla are common alternatives for Khoros Communities.
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The most common users of Khoros Communities are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
Khoros Communities Customer Size Distribution
| Consumers | 0% |
|---|---|
| Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 0% |
| Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 10% |
| Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 90% |
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Khoros is an enterprise-grade social community platform, which is most commonly used to allow for interactions between B2B and B2C customers, prospects, and partnering in either a Support (call deflection), Marketing, or Collaboration environment or context. Communities deployed by its customers are predominantly external-facing. The product is modular, so it can be expanded with additional functionality over time. Khoros offers connectors to popular enterprise backend systems, such as Salesforce. Additional connections or functionality can be programmed via APIs. Most customers use professional service organizations to launch Khoros for them.
- Community - it has the robust functionality and all the bells and whistles that customers typically look for
- Out-of-the-box widgets - there are a number of out of the box widgets, such as "Most recent threads" or "Unanswered questions" that can be easily deployed throughout the community. Depending on where you deploy them, e.g., homepage vs. a specific board, these widgets "narrow down" their content based on the context you are in.
- Programmability - well-documented APIs that allow you to custom-program functionality
- Not a knock on the product per se - but each product in this space follows a certain philosophy. If customers don't want to learn that philosophy and thus force-feed Khoros to do something it's not designed, it becomes hard to implement and maintenance heavy. Same is true with Jive and Salesforce Communities
- Design adaptation sometimes requires a lot of custom-programming. This is often caused by designers not fully understanding how communities work. On the other hand, esp. on homepages, in order to draw people in, a mix of content is often the best approach. And that requires at least some custom-programming for Khoros's integrators
- In a support environment, call deflection has been measurable for many customers. In fact, more and more customers utilize Khoros to deflect a vast majority of the L1 inquiries to the community.
- In a Sales/Marketing area, conversions and upselling are key. Here, Khoros's community can be very instrumental, since experts in the community often can answer questions that the company cannot or is not trusted enough by its customers, e.g., how good are LTE speeds in a certain neighborhood in San Francisco, or, when comparing Phone1 against Phone2 and battery life matters in real-life environments, which phone is better.
- While mileage might vary, we've heard from our customers that a number of them achieved a 20+% call deflection, or a 30+% conversion increase
Khoros is much more established and feature-rich than Salesforce's Community offering. E.g., gamification is implemented well in Khoros (except for Missions and Journeys) whereas Salesforce's offering is rudimentary.
Jive is mainly used for internal communities, whereas Khoros mainly for external communities. Both can do both internal and external, but their roots are different.
Jive is mainly used for internal communities, whereas Khoros mainly for external communities. Both can do both internal and external, but their roots are different.
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As mentioned, they dig into custom code, when certain API calls seem to not work. Are a good stakeholder in resolving my issues. Have helped us in analyses on performance in communities.