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Khoros Service
Formerly Spredfast + Lithium

Overview

What is Khoros Service?

Khoros Service offers omnichannel engagement on publicly available channels like social, digital, chat, and voice, as well as owned online communities like Khoros Communities. The solution offers 1-to-1 and 1-to-many engagement with customers and consumers, bringing together automation through bots…

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Recent Reviews

Why we love Khoros

10 out of 10
March 05, 2024
My team is able to create better replies by analyzing the user's path from a negative to a good state with the aid of social sentiment …
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Khoros for communities

8 out of 10
December 05, 2023
Incentivized
We used it as a community management tool. We had a large community of former students who interact with current students for networking …
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Khoros - Chat and SMS

7 out of 10
December 04, 2023
Incentivized
We currently use it for our chat feature via our company website to get Tech Support on products we sell with support 7 days a week. As …
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What is Khoros Service?

Khoros Service offers omnichannel engagement on publicly available channels like social, digital, chat, and voice, as well as owned online communities like Khoros Communities. The solution offers 1-to-1 and 1-to-many engagement with customers and consumers, bringing together automation through…

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  • Setup fee optional

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Product Demos

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Product Details

What is Khoros Service?

Khoros Service offers omnichannel engagement on publicly available channels like social, digital, chat, and voice, as well as owned online communities like Khoros Communities. The solution offers 1-to-1 and 1-to-many engagement with customers and consumers, bringing together automation through bots and human agents.


Customer inquiries and support-related conversations can be routed and prioritized based on a variety of parameters, and the robust agent desktop solution allows agents to efficiently manage conversations, both in real-time and asynchronously. The Agent Assist feature offers in-the-moment content and responses to help agents respond faster and with better results. The bot and automation builder tool allows conversations to be automated using AI and automated workflows. Users can build customized dashboards with built-in analytics, surfacing KPIs that are most meaningful to them.


Key benefits include:


Improves customer experiences while driving agent efficiency

Engages customers in their channel of choice–SMS, messaging, social, chat, in-app, email, voice–providing complete omnichannel coverage. Khoros simplifies agent workflow with a single desktop, unified customer profiles, and AI-powered support, while automated analysis of sentiment and customizable dashboards help optimize team performance and customer satisfaction.


Increases efficiencies through automation

Centralizes automated experiences across systems, applications, and channels in one platform to streamline customer interactions. By harnessing Natural Language Processing (NLP), it can reduce call volume with conversational bots across multiple channels, while IVR redirection and AI orchestration ensure efficient customer service.


Accelerates resolution to delight customers

Creates a hub for customers to connect with experts, learn, and get answers to their questions at any time, in any region. Users can deflect up to 80% of calls and customer inquiries, potentially saving brands millions in annual support costs.


Khoros Service Features

  • Supported: Seamlessly transitions from public to private messaging channels
  • Supported: Configurable proactive web chat rules for welcome messages and chat visibility
  • Supported: Machine learning to automatically filter for sentiment, actionability, and consumer intent
  • Supported: Keeps agents focused with a single, prioritized chat queue with AI-powered responses, knowledge, and step-by-step guides
  • Supported: Equips agents with holistic customer profiles, conversation history, & CRM data

Khoros Service Screenshots

Screenshot of a customer conversation in Agent view. Access past customer conversations and interactions in a single pane of glass.Screenshot of the analytic dashboard. Monitor key metrics across your service organization, such as available agents, time to first response, and agent handle time.Screenshot of Khoros Agent Assist. This feature provides agents with real-time recommendations, reducing the time needed to handle customer inquiries, deliver accurate resolutions, and train new agents.Screenshot of Work Queues under Rules and Routing. This allows admins to build rules around tagging to ensure timely and effective follow-up from agents.

Khoros Service Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, Mobile Web
Supported CountriesGlobal
Supported LanguagesDetection and ingestion for engagements in over 100 languages, and native UI display for users in 31 languages.
Security

Frequently Asked Questions

Verint Messaging, LivePerson Conversation Cloud (LiveEngage), and Sprinklr Service are common alternatives for Khoros Service.

Reviewers rate Social Engagement highest, with a score of 9.1.

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

Khoros Service 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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Ben Larkins | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We rely on Khoros Care to aggregate and respond to negative consumer contacts received through our social channels. By using Khoros Care we're able to find and respond to these reviews all within a singular platform, and respond to our consumers in a timely fashion. We are able to easily manage users and permissions readily from the dashboard which is very user friendly.
  • Clean user interface
  • Very supportive and responsive support
  • Reliable and dependable software and reporting
  • Honestly there's nothing negative that I can think of, our company loves the platform.
Khoros Care has been a fantastic product for our company and continues to perform reliably. The support from the team that we get is amazing with constant communication about updates and a proactive approach to helping our company use this product successfully. We have over 80 brands with various pages so having everything under one roof has been a big benefit to our process.
  • Efficiency
  • Quick responses
We're very happy with this product and the support we've received
Having over 80 brands this seems very scalable.
The implementation team was proactive and ensured everything was conveyed well.
While we don't use other products from Khoroscare, the support we've received has been fantasitc
  • None
We rely on Astute Agent which (I don't believe) integrates with Khoros
  • Astute
Not to my knowledge
  • File import/export
N/A haven't integrated any
N/A, haven't integrated any but if we did I know the support would be fantastic
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use it for day to day
  • No bloat, just the info I need
  • Could be a little faster
It works and is easy
  • Made life much easier and gave our team an opportunity to steam line
  • Retention if users through targeted surveys
Useful in many ways with an emphasis on ease of use that allows our team to hit targets and retain time for other projects and daily tasks. Would recommend to those looking for something to make life a little easier for this kind of product
Does what it sets out to with a couple of bells and whistles that allow scaling without too much hasslse
Easy to use once you understand how it works but took some time to familiarize ourselves with it
50
A wide variety, community, support,
5
Analytical problem solvers
  • Stats
  • Backend
  • Reporting
  • Automation of unexpected functions
  • Migrating information
  • Ease of Use
It was the easiest and best at what is on offer
Would save time and just go with this
Not Sure
Very good and efficient
No need for it
No
It's intuitive and easy to follow but can be a little difficult to know where to go initially
  • Info gathering
  • Filtering
  • Parsing data
  • Vanilla
Was easy enough to get done as team implementing were skilled
  • Amazon clpud
Not sure
  • File import/export
  • Single Signon
No
Was fine
Don't be afraid to contact the support
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Filtering is better than anything I have ever seen
  • Artificial intelligence. I don’t have to wonder who I am talking about
  • Natural workflow for escalation, prioritization. The workflow is intuitive to a support professional – it's pretty standard stuff.
  • Salesforce.com integration is coming and I am excited about it. It will be bidirectional. Right now we are bringing social originated tickets manually into Salesforce through cut and paste.
  • I don’t have a way to integrate with my chat tool (ATG – Oracle). As chat grows and grows, I need a hook. In support, it’s a quick transition to chat, especially if someone is coming in on a handheld device, which represents the vast majority of social media interactions. In general just 0.5% of my support tickets originate from mobile devices. For social, 80%+ is coming in from a mobile device. Social Dynamx tells me whether someone is using a mobile device but doesn’t distinguish between phones and tablets yet.
  • Integration with other tools the team may use, e.g. ScreenShare
There isn’t really a good comparison. Tools like Khoros are marketing orienting i.e. for dashboard, re-tweeting and not truly designed to serve the support function. It’s clearly the future – people want to feel the power of their tweets. Additionally, mobile devices are not going away and people want to do more on them. Anyone running a support org needs to take it seriously. If you are not looking at it now, you are going to get left behind. 12-18 months from now and lot of people are going to be left behind. It’s going to be a big differentiator. When you look at the age of people now working in organizations, they use mobile devices, they live the online social lifestyle– it is their choice and it will only be.
  • We are in pilot mode today with a limited roll-out but it has already saved us 2 FTEs. We used to have 3 FTEs monitoring social media activity and we’ve been able to reduce to 1. Right now we are only processing c. 100 social media interactions on a monthly basis, but without filtering we would have 100+/day to review.
  • A better customer experience. Customers are so astounded/ pleased/ surprised – our street cred goes up. In our market, customers venting in the support channel are not necessarily expecting a response yet, however when you do reach them, they like it. They are a little surprised that you can find out who they are, but most like to be found. Many have blogs. Every once in a while, they go dark but no one has complained about breaking privacy.
We just renewed, and I will renew again, with another bigger presence. There’s nothing but upside.
It's excellent.
It’s intuitive, and generally everything for me is counter-intuitive. I can understand it with very limited explanation. I don’t give anything a 10, I give my iPhone a 9.
I was very satisfied. It was very smooth as they know what they are asking for. The requirements gathering was smooth. It was a short cycle. Deployment just took a couple of weeks. After doing a deployment and a release, my recommendations would have been to mine more of our tags, words that I’m looking for, i.e. to pull in a bigger vocabulary from our historical cases of searchable words and phrases. When we eventually did this, it made the system run so much better. We just sucked it out of old cases and run a report which dumps into spreadsheet.
5
We are piloting with 5 customer support people across two locations and considering expansion. We are adding key words for additional products. I would like to see 30 people (of our total 400 in support) using next year.Our marketing team is watching and hearing updates, but does not use the tool. Product management is interesting in a roll-up of data.
0
Really nothing – no sys admin required. We are not re-tweaking workflows. They are very standard.
  • Customer support: the Artificial Intelligence built into Social Dynamx filters tweets, Facebook posts etc, down to a manageable number of the most important to address. This a big time saver for us. It’s huge. Moreover, I have to put my most senior, most expensive folks on this type of support activity and it’s costly to have them sitting, waiting on things, or wading through tweets.
  • Not only does it filter, but it also ranks which interactions we need to respond to. It will rate and rank the individual – the system remembers them and learns. It gives us a priority e.g. is it someone involved in a big client, or used to work at a big client etc. The ranking of response is of key value to us. The ranking has been accurate so far. It mines our CRM and also uses 3rd party demographic databases.
  • It also can respond intelligently to some interactions.
  • It checks tone and context to prepare an agent to be more effective. It can tell if someone is frustrated, but not flaming. This is really helpful for an agent to know. So far it has been very accurate.
A combination of Khoros, Twitter feeds/dashboards, and another point solution.
  • In-person training
It’s very good, very thorough. We had training initially, for deployment and then with each release
No
It's always up.
  • Salesforce.com
  • Our chat application
They are working on integration with Salesforce.com
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