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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
Incentivized
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
Khoros is like a powerful tool made for big companies, and the cool thing is it can grow with us. Being an "enterprise-level" solution means it's all set to handle the big and complex stuff that comes with our company getting larger. The best part is its scalability, so as we grow, Khoros can smoothly expand to handle more users, engage our community better, and adapt to whatever new things we're up to. It's like having a solid and flexible support system that's ready for whatever our growing business throws at it.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The scalability of Khoros Communities is proportional to the growth of our company, it is very easy to work with Khoros according to the increase in our user community and this is very positive for our aspirations in our logistics system and also for the increase in sales, it is also considers the suggestions of our clients and partners and we do this with Khoros to reduce administrative expenses in technical support, marketing is also essential to improve the scalability of the company thanks to the fact that advertising is done by our clients and they recommend our services directly on the platform. of Khoros.
Pankaj Sharma | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I would be given 7 out 10 as the Khoros Communities has Strengths of Efficient customer service through community self-service and Strong community engagement features however Complex interface for some users, and is sometime Lack of certain features you consider essential Limited integration with existing systems.
December 08, 2023

From a user standpoint

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I think I would give Khoros an overall 7, while there were things we really liked about it. I also saw things that just did not work well for us. We like using iG but it was not the friendliest in using it on that platform. Sometimes the software would glitch or lag which is not helpful during high critical moments.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Its scalable database and API calls enable scaling to any number of users easy. I don't think it has scaling issues because it can manage mega-corporations with millions of users. Since we started utilizing Khoros with thousands of consumers, expansion is easy.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our team has hardly encountered any limitation when it came to the scaling our community initiatives on the platform, time factors aside. While our team has been on the small side and remained as such, Khoros Communities has proven to a great solution for our game development needs. We were rather impressed with how Khoros Communities has helped us handle the increase in user engagement. This aligned really well with our different needs, be it for feedback, troubleshooting, suggestions or beta testing.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Has the ability to scale with growth in company traffic and products. It gives us the ability to create new boards with ease to help host ideas or groups of targeted audiences without a long build-up or cost of doing so.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Having started using the platform with a customer base of multiple thousands, there is no issue with growth within Khorus, we have intergrated more social sources with zero issues faced and look forward to growing with the company alongside the help of Khorus.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It has its own scalable database and API calls which when done well can scale to any number of users with little or no effort. I have seen it handle communities of some very big companies with users in millions with ease, so I don't think it has any major issue with scalability.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Implementation involves a lot of thought and consideration as you are making business decisions that impact how every incoming conversation is handled. It does take some time and effort, but our Khoros team was incredibly helpful as they walked us through all the possible scenarios and why we may prefer one setup time over another. The involvement from any other teams on our side (for example, IT) was minimal.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The ability to scale to have multiple forums is great. The support we receive is the part that doesn't seem to scale with such slow turnaround times for many of our cases. Overall I like working with the platform and look forward to scaling even more when we use less code which means we could handle more customizations ourselves.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I've been working on Khoros Communities platform since 2012... so I can judge the scalability. The community structure has known very poor evolution. If I judge functionality: poor evolution so poor scalability. If I judge the capacity of the platform to grow with more traffic and more members: it is ok! I can give 9/10.
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