Gladly CX Platform vs. Parature (Discontinued)

In my case, every day working with Gladly CX Platform is better than the way we used to work with Zendesk, as we did have a big upgrade. So, working with Gladly CX Platform has improved our job daily, making the job faster and easier and that help us tomake the customer happier and to succed in our goal and happiness guarantee

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Parature earns a "7" on my rating scale because it fits the bill for a ticketing solution. While it is not the most powerful utility I have come across, it is fairly user friendly and gets the job done. There is quite a bit of room for customizing the interface, but it comes with a learning curve. A score of "7" reflects what I would tell anyone who is looking for feedback on this application; it's better than a majority of the market share, but still has room to grow!

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• Keeps record of previous interactions/customer history.
• Displays customer profile, orders and inquiries simultaneously.
• Allows for excellent employee management (as in seeing where the team is at individually and collectively during a work day).

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• Syncs all support emails into cases that can the be prioritized, monitored, and tracked.
• Provides easy canned responses to common support questions helping save time.
• Provides live chat.

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• Gladly continues to enhance the reporting capabilities of the platform making it an even stronger tool with each update.

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• Implementation- I think they have worked on improving this since we launched
• Custom requests
• Perhaps an interface with other business systems

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Gladly really has all the information needed about a customer that you would need.If gladly does have a specified space for specific information you can add notes in multiple locations to remind you self of special circumstances. Gladly meets all our expectations and continues to provide a see less transaction

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We left Parature for Salesforce Service Cloud. While Parature was functional, as our business matured we needed better support, more stability, and a lot more features. In addition, it integrated with our sales, marketing, and finance department, allowing us to all use a single solution and be able to share information across departments.

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Because I've been using the platform for almost 3 years, and it has been a game changer in our line of work, making the work easier and faster. And in peak season, when we hire new agents, the training is way better and easier. So for me, using this platform has made my job better

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It was bulky, cumbersome, and didn't allow us to handle the volume of cases we received on a daily basis. Many of our issues were highly technical in nature and we would often need to work on 2 or 3 at once. The poor design choices prevented this, which was unfortunate.

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They recently had one very extended outage. It was a data center issue - but they were not diversified enough so in the end the system was down for almost 8 hours. There are also periods of time where for no reason the system simply doesn't respond. This small outages are usually short (just a few minutes), and have in fact been occurring less often, so it appears some corrective actions have been taken.

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Gladly is always available to support its customers. That being said, we really haven’t needed support. The product is intuitive and stable. The reality is the support we receive is more collaboration on how we can help Gladly continue to revolutionize this space.

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Nothing ever seemed to get resolved

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Gladly truly delivers what other vendors promote:

• True Omnichannel support.
• Easy to use UI.
• Robust reporting.
• Full SaaS solution.
• Built-in knowledgebase.
• Simple implementation.
• Great support team.
• True business partnership.
• Full 360 views of your customer.
• Reduced ramp time for agents.

It truly is the future of Customer Support software. True game changer.

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Before choosing Parature we reviewed many of the currently available solutions before building our short list of Parature, SugarCRM, Zendesk, Salesforce, and NetSuite. In the end, the licensing models for Salesforce and Netsuite eliminated them from consideration. The SugarCRM solution was our current solution, and didn't appear to be a key area of focus for Sugar (though we continue to use SugarCRM for everything except the Ticketing feature). Zendesk lacked the Download Module feature which is a critical element of our deployment. In the end, it was Parature that addressed all of the needs we identified and did so in a single, hosted solution. It was also one of the least expensive to deploy and maintain.

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• Improved Customer Satisfaction
• Operational Efficiency and Cost Savings
• Revenue Growth Through Enhanced Customer Experience

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• Positive: everything is housed in one place, we are paperless and we are efficient.
• Negative: the bugs of this product make the above equally as frustrating. Also, some people don't use it correctly and going back and fixing their mistake is time-consuming. The reporting feature are also pretty flawed.

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