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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    KANA Express, discontinued

    Score3.3 out of 10
    N/AVerint Express (formerly KANA Express) was a cloud-based multi-channel customer engagement / experience platform that was owned and supported by Verint since that company's 2014 acquisition of KANA Software. The product has since been discontinued.N/A

    Sprinklr Social

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/ASprinklr Social’s platform empowers enterprise teams of all sizes to deliver a consistent brand experience across 35+ digital and social channels to drive engagement and revenue, with capabilities across publishing, engagement, listening, analytics, employee advocacy, influencer marketing and commerce. Content planning and scheduling using an editorial calendar, with a digital asset manager and the ability to publish across channels at AI…

    $359

    per month per seat

    Pricing
    KANA Express, discontinuedSprinklr Social
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Self-Serve SMM and Customer Service Solution
    $359
    per month per seat
    Enterprise Custom Social Media Management Solution
    Contact Sales
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    KANA Express, discontinuedSprinklr Social
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—Discount available for annual pricing.
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    Community Pulse
    KANA Express, discontinuedSprinklr Social
    Considered Both Products
    Discontinued Products
    No answer on this topic
    Sprinklr
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    92%
    Would buy again
    11 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    86%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    12 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    7 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    8 Answers
    Features
    KANA Express, discontinuedSprinklr Social
    Listening/monitoring
    Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of KANA Express, discontinued and Sprinklr Social
    Feature
    KANA Express, discontinued
    -
    Ratings
    Sprinklr Social
    9.5
    52 Ratings
    21% above category average
    Boolean keyword searches00 Ratings10.045 Ratings
    Filtering out noise/spam00 Ratings8.048 Ratings
    Sentiment analysis00 Ratings10.049 Ratings
    Broad channel coverage00 Ratings10.048 Ratings
    Publishing
    Comparison of Publishing features of KANA Express, discontinued and Sprinklr Social
    Feature
    KANA Express, discontinued
    -
    Ratings
    Sprinklr Social
    10.0
    52 Ratings
    22% above category average
    Content planning and scheduling00 Ratings10.049 Ratings
    Audience targeting00 Ratings10.044 Ratings
    Content optimization00 Ratings10.042 Ratings
    Workflow management00 Ratings10.046 Ratings
    Engagement
    Comparison of Engagement features of KANA Express, discontinued and Sprinklr Social
    Feature
    KANA Express, discontinued
    -
    Ratings
    Sprinklr Social
    9.7
    51 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Automated routing and prioritization00 Ratings9.044 Ratings
    Customer interaction histories00 Ratings10.050 Ratings
    Bulk actions00 Ratings10.047 Ratings
    Marketing
    Comparison of Marketing features of KANA Express, discontinued and Sprinklr Social
    Feature
    KANA Express, discontinued
    -
    Ratings
    Sprinklr Social
    10.0
    44 Ratings
    25% above category average
    Lead generation00 Ratings10.031 Ratings
    Content marketing00 Ratings10.037 Ratings
    Paid media management00 Ratings10.032 Ratings
    Campaigns and promotions00 Ratings10.038 Ratings
    Channel coverage/integration
    Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of KANA Express, discontinued and Sprinklr Social
    Feature
    KANA Express, discontinued
    -
    Ratings
    Sprinklr Social
    10.0
    55 Ratings
    17% above category average
    Twitter00 Ratings10.053 Ratings
    Facebook00 Ratings10.053 Ratings
    LinkedIn00 Ratings10.040 Ratings
    Google+00 Ratings10.027 Ratings
    Instagram00 Ratings10.052 Ratings
    Pinterest00 Ratings10.028 Ratings
    YouTube00 Ratings10.038 Ratings
    Reporting/analytics
    Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of KANA Express, discontinued and Sprinklr Social
    Feature
    KANA Express, discontinued
    -
    Ratings
    Sprinklr Social
    10.0
    54 Ratings
    23% above category average
    Campaign success analytics00 Ratings10.050 Ratings
    Real-time tracking00 Ratings10.053 Ratings
    Competitor analysis00 Ratings10.036 Ratings
    Account management
    Comparison of Account management features of KANA Express, discontinued and Sprinklr Social
    Feature
    KANA Express, discontinued
    -
    Ratings
    Sprinklr Social
    9.5
    52 Ratings
    17% above category average
    Role-based user permissions & privileges00 Ratings10.051 Ratings
    Mobile access00 Ratings9.045 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    KANA Express, discontinuedSprinklr Social
    Small Businesses
    Sogolytics
    Score9 out of 10
    Sendible
    Score7.6 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Sogolytics
    Score9 out of 10
    Vista Social
    Score9.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Verint Voice of the Customer
    Score10 out of 10
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    Score7.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    KANA Express, discontinuedSprinklr Social
    Likelihood to Recommend
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (80 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (29 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (8 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (34 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.4
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    KANA Express, discontinuedSprinklr Social
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    If your business has more than 50 users, don't use KANA Express. User management and setup is not intuitive, and back-end email management takes a large amount of time. If your business emails more than one recipient and expects replies from more than one recipient, don't use KANA Express. The system is built for one-question-in, one-answer-out. Anything more than that requires extra customization or is impossible, according to their development team. If managing your inbound email either internally or externally is critical to your operations, don't use KANA Express. Downtime is more frequent than is acceptable, and their Netherlands advanced support team's hours make down-time in the western hemisphere a lot longer than it needs to be.
    Incentivized
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    Sprinklr
    In my perspective, I would say Sprinklr Modern Sales &
    Engagement is best suited for teams and organizations who are more involved in
    automating social media activities, getting a great analytical report on
    activity engagement, and generating lists and bolds that helps determine the
    trends and events, etc. One of the best tools that one could use for clients
    with every information they would need.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • Allows you to manage multiple email queues with different business rules.
    • User interface is somewhat intuitive, allowing users to navigate fairly easily.
    • Admin controls allow for a considerable variety of customization.
    Incentivized
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    Sprinklr
    • Customization - Through Sprinklr's rules and robust custom field creation, you really can create a lot of customization for every facet of your business.
    • Listening - Their Listening Engine and Explorer are fantastic ways to proactively find engagement-friendly conversations, in addition competitively research your brand.
    • Care - Using their case formatting, messages and customer contacts can be routed and assigned easily to available reps, and their bot builder can help to automate your contacts without sacrificing a personal touch.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
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    • KANA Express is NOT set up for business models where email is conversational and involves multiple recipients and responses. If your business model is one-question-in, one-answer-out, then KANA Express will probably work for you.
    • Since signing on with them, KANA Express' support team has been severely lacking in expertise and acceptable turnaround times, especially when the platform encounters a system-wide issue to leads to downtime. Our assigned sales contacts jumped ship with the company almost immediately after we went live, which is never a good sign.
    • Admin panel and functions are very antiquated and not user-friendly at all. Email management through the admin tool lacks crucial insight that prevents admin users from being able to easily route and manage emails. Our organization had to write our own KANA user guides that KANA Express then took and started using themselves and for other clients.
    • The KANA Express platform does not have proper spam or auto-reply management tools. Admin users must manually turn off the KANA Express auto-response emails in order to prevent email loops with other parties' auto-responses.
    • Analytics options are lacking. Admin users must run at least three separate reports in order to gather appropriate insight as to user activities and metrics.
    • Email queue/user set up is not intuitive. If adding a new queue or user, all users must be manually adjusted to include that new queue. There is no mass-edit tool for KANA Express users.
    Incentivized
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    Sprinklr
    • Overall, Sprinklr rewards users to do a lot of digging on their own to get to the more in-depth functionalities. For instance, the asset manager feature leads you to a dashboard with all the content you ever published but doesn't tell you what to do next or how to organize it
    • Sprinklr offers basic social listening features, but it is much more limited than other pure social listening players like Crimson Hexagon or Brandwatch. It is perfectly usable for a quick search but I wouldn't recommend it as your sole social listening platform
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Discontinued Products
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    Sprinklr
    I really do feel that Sprinklr is the most complete enterprise social media program. It covers everything you would need to do to run a strategic social media program. On top of that, the success managers are really the best. Our success manager goes above and beyond for us and has been so helpful to us with setting up some very specific repots and profiles. Paul (our CSM) has been great about keeping us up to date on the latest features and functionality as well as helping us set up innovative dashboards as need
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    Usability
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Sprinklr
    The user interface, training via Sprinklr university and detailed articles on almost every topic in the knowledge portal make Sprinklr a complete package. This is also GDPR compliant, helping us stay good with the info security. The layout of the navigation is easy and anyone new to the tool won't be overwhelmed
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Sprinklr
    Our account partners at Sprinklr are not only responsive to out needs, both domestically and internationally, but have consistently approached us with ideas on how to improve our communication and collaboration in a proactive manner.
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    Performance
    Discontinued Products
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    Sprinklr
    Perfornace is not aan issue. The issues/bugs with this software are few and far between. And when one pops up the 24/7 support team is helpful, quick and informative.
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    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
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    Sprinklr
    Support is amazing. We have had to reach out [to] them only a few times in the past few years. Each time, they were back in touch with us within the hour or two, no matter the time. We've always had our issues addressed quickly and promptly corrected. They are a great team to work with.
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    In-Person Training
    Discontinued Products
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    Sprinklr
    I don't recall our training in detail. I know we met in person a few times, and did some over-the-phone product walk-throughs. It may have been somewhat informal -- I don't recall having any takeaways to refer to.
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    Online Training
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Sprinklr
    Through multiple webinars, easily accessible training documents, and ad-hoc sessions with my account manager I am never left in the dark when I have a question.
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    Implementation Rating
    Discontinued Products
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    Sprinklr
    The implementation personnel at Sprinklr are top-notch. They will work with you to make sure they setup Sprinklr in a way that best aligns with your structural needs
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Sprinklr
    As much as I get frustrated with Sprinklr, Sprinklr is a much cleaner platform than others I have used and I do obtain good data from the reports due to my custom filters, allowing me to pass along education onto product teams in regards to their specific lines.
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    Scalability
    Discontinued Products
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    Sprinklr
    Always start simple with Sprinklr, e.g. one client. You can easily grow over time adding products/units/regions, etc
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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • KANA Express was originally presented as an excellent alternative to Fastraq, an email management system that was in EOL during the time we were shopping for alternatives. Unfortunately, our originally planned ROI was not achieved due to lost functionality and broken sales promises, leaving us with an email management system that's built more on workarounds than out-of-the-box solutions, requiring considerable time for admin activities that could be avoided by a better-designed system.
    Incentivized
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    Sprinklr
    • Reports can be customized and exported easily in many different formats. I especially like the PowerPoint version of reports. It quickly and professionally creates a custom slideshow to show the metrics of the platforms and time periods you choose. This is a great way to keep your company's C-level executives informed on your team's progress and investing in your efforts. This is especially true for executives that do not personally use or understand the value of social media.
    • Brand reputation management is always a great investment. The dashboard alerts you in real-time when your brand or product is mentioned across any of the platforms and offers a quick and efficient way to respond. The Sprinklr customer experience cloud can be implemented across your entire organization, including CRM and email systems.
    • If you're not growing you're dying. That alone helps me with the ROI of using Sprinklr for my client's business objectives.
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