KANA Express, discontinued vs. Verint Voice of the Customer

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
KANA Express, discontinued
Score 3.3 out of 10
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Verint 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
Verint Voice of the Customer
Score 10.0 out of 10
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Verint® Experience Management™ empowers CX Leaders to optimize customer experiences in real-time. With Verint Experience Management, companies can listen everywhere, act immediately, and analyze. Verint offers prescriptive XM solutions across Web and Mobile, Enterprise-wide, and Location-Based experiences.N/A
Pricing
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Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
3.0
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10.0
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Likelihood to Renew
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9.7
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Usability
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8.8
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Support Rating
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9.1
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
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.
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Verint Voice of the Customer is very well suited for measuring how satisfied (or dissatisfied) the customer base is in close to real time. Also well suited for identifying pain points across the experience. Not sure if the platform is well suited for measuring multiple interactions for a specified journey or a specific audience experiencing a specific journey
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Pros
  • 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.
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  • Provides for a layered feedback strategy
  • Allows for seemless integration with our CX tools to pair words with behavior
  • Measures satisfaction
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Cons
  • 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.
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  • Integrating with Google Analytics did take several sessions with their support team, so that could use improving
  • Needed additional assistance from their technical team because of the configuration
  • Limited customization for standard deployment survey templates. Some reports are a bit outdated
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Likelihood to Renew
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The cost versus product is a good value, so it all depends on the customer's needs/wants, and of course, budget
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Usability
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First and foremost It’s easy to use. The Visual dashboard is great and simple to navigate!! The amount of info is thorough and collected timely if not in real time . I have even used it to contact a customer about an experience they had. I was able to ask why they chose the ratings they did on the survey
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Support Rating
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Every support contact I have had, be it by email, live chat or phone, I have had my issue resolved very quickly, efficiently and professionally by a knowledgeable and well trained support team member. Having worked in technical support many years ago myself, I can appreciate the level of service and quality of support offered by Verint. I would, without hesitation, say that Verint offers one of the best support experiences out there.
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Alternatives Considered
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OpinionLab is more popular than ForeSee with small companies and startups (1-50 employees), while Foresee is more suited for medium-sized companies (51-1000 employees) as well as with large to enterprise companies (1000+ employees). OpinionLab integrates with IBM Tealeaf and Digital Analytics, Salesforce Sales Cloud and FullStory, while Foresee integrates with Nebula CX and UserVoice. Depending on the size of your company and other platforms you need to integrate with it, let those help you decide which of these multi-channel customer experience analytics platform are best for your company.
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Return on Investment
  • 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.
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  • Collect data around our login experience where eventually we were able to release a GPE directing customers to utilize our virtual assistant
  • Verbatim around the claims experience allowed us to update our Claims Status page to provide more detailed, transparent information to the customer around the status of their claim.
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