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Khoros Communities
Formerly Spredfast + Lithium

Overview

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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User interaction tool

9 out of 10
December 12, 2023
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Staff having less technical knowledge can also use this to manage different portals like admin , studio section. Easy to use and good team …
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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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  • No setup fee

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  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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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.

Khoros Communities Videos

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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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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
The suite of tools provided by Khoros Communities has been a cornerstone in how we manage and enhance our community operations during our organization's growth. Utilizing the moderation response tools ensures a quick and precise handling of user-generated content, maintaining a positive and compliant community environment. I rely on the analytics tools to glean valuable insights into user behavior and content performance metrics, guiding data-driven decisions to continually refine our community strategies. As our community content volume expands, the content management tools become indispensable, allowing for systematic categorization and efficient retrieval of information. Together, these tools bolster user engagement, scalability, and our adaptive capabilities to meet the evolving needs of our growing community, ensuring a nuanced and informed user experience.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
These tools have helped to effectively manage customer and partner questions and answers and also create new spaces within the user community to support more customers with their concerns without the need to increase the number of people managing the questions. Khoros accounts and this is a very simple and feasible process from the cost reduction point of view.
Pankaj Sharma | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Because the product tells us what the customer wants, I believe it has improved our customer engagement and satisfaction KPIs. We were able to go further into several areas where response was strong since surveys and analytics were so simple to use.
December 08, 2023

From a user standpoint

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Tools such as moderation response, analytics, adn content management has enbaled us to manage and improve community operations as our company grows by quick responses and overall visability to analytics. However, it would go a little more in depth in some of its analytics and give deeper insight for some items.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
we are fully utilizing this tool in ever aspect in our business.like customer interaction, customer feedback,listing of all products details and faq about our product each and everything is available in under a single roof.
Mahathee Dandibhotla | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Tools like moderation response, analytics, and content management are integral for managing and enhancing community operations as organizations grow. Moderation tools ensure a positive environment, analytics offer insights for data-driven decisions and ROI measurement, while content management facilitates quality control and contributes to a valuable knowledge repository. These tools promote scalability, adaptability, operational efficiency, and user satisfaction, enabling organizations to navigate the challenges of community growth effectively and align with broader business objectives.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Analytics show engagement program and post results. Community problem-solving is managed by moderation. Analytics show gamification and other engagement tactics work. Although Khoros didn't provide moderation, I've been using bulk archiving from early days. Also automated settings and active customer participation on Khoros Forums help us fulfill SLA.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Tools like moderation response, analytics, and content management within Khoros Communities have played a rather important role in enhancing our community operations, especially as our audience continues to grow. If we were to focus on one point, it would be that it was rather simple to sort out the different types of responses and address them according to our needs. While we still believe Khoros Communities could be more interactive and fluid in this regard, it performed far better than other platforms.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Moderation Response: Helps to maintain a positive and safe community environment. They enable the identification and removal of inappropriate or harmful content, including spam, hate speech, and abusive behavior.Analytics: Analytics tools provide valuable insights into community behavior and engagement. to track key metrics like user activity, content popularity, and member demographics. helps to identify trends, understand community preferences, and make data-driven decisions to enhance community operations.
July 18, 2023

Khoros Communities

Swathi Shetty | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have been able to hit our SLAs and exceed expectation using preautomated configurations and communication with engaged customers on the Khoros Forums. Analytics has helped us plan strategy ahead such as number of resources needed to drive valuable content to the ongoing traffic of questions and use cases
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I mostly use Analytics to build great dashboard and get a close overview of the activity. I though moderation wasn't a service offered by Khoros so I guess I can't judge on it (but I do use bulk archiving since fee days and the 22.2 release). For the content I'm pretty happy.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Analytics helps understand the trend and how the people engage with various posts and engagement strategies. Moderation helps manage various solutions to problems as well as to provide basic direction to community. Analytics helps understand how well people are responding to a feature update like Gamification or some other engagement strategy.
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