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Khoros Communities Overview

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 has 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 Details
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Our next gen community management software enables companies to build and scale communities faster, with far fewer resources. With 25 years of experience, world-class services, and 100s of thriving communities, we help you create a community that lasts.


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Khoros
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Year Founded
2019
HQ Location
Austin, Texas
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1,200 employees on LinkedIn®
Description

Khoros is a customer engagement platform that helps brands connect with their customers through social media management, community engagement, and digital customer service solutions. The platform offers tools for social listening, analytics, and content management, enabling organizations to enhance their online presence and foster meaningful interactions. Khoros serves a variety of industries, focusing on improving customer experiences and driving brand loyalty. For more information, visit their website at https://khoros.com/.


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Akshay Y.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"The best monitoring tool for social media management."
I was doing freelancing for one my friends, he has his own business and he was creative director over there. After a research to manage their socia...
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Abhishek I.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Best online platform for User interaction"
The Best of the Khoros will help self-education of the users without the requirements of the support and increase user feedback on the activities
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4.0 out of 5
"Everything has gone really well so far with Khoros."
1. Various stakeholders within the company can be involved through Khoros, its really very helpful platform. 2. Allows you to customise the featur...
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Yulia T.
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Community Engineer
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Khoros Communities?

Khoros is an excellent platform for running a community. It has all essential features, and it also has an option for customization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Khoros Communities?

For customization: sometimes it is tricky to retrieve the data. There should be a chain of API calls for getting everything needed, but I agree to pay this "price" for the complete platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Khoros Communities solving and how is that benefiting you?

First of all, Khoros helps to save money on some engineering jobs. This platform is ready to use out of the box. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Eric S.
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Community Manager
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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Khoros Communities?

Khoros Communities has a lot of features, more than what you might find though another vendor.

The platform's Stage/Studio section for content development and asset management is good. It could use some improvement, but it is heads above a lot of other systems that I have experience with.

Their customer care teams are excellent at handling escalations and making you feel like you are being heard. If you have a problem, they will do their best to help you resolve it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Khoros Communities?

Khoros support has always been a pain point for us. From delayed response times to the types of replies received while troubleshooting. Without our TAM the support experience would be even more frustrating.

Engaging with Services is also a little cumbersome. Their process is opaque, and during meetings I get the sense that they are more interested in getting their revenue (telling you what you want to hear) instead of giving you the best solution to your problem.

There are not really any negatives about the platform itself other than the time to value. Going into implementation, you will need a full grasp on your limitations OOTB, so you know which way to pursue development to get the most value. If you make mistakes there, you will spend a long time trying to resolve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Khoros Communities:

If your team is looking at implementing communities, you are going to need some expert knowledge of website and content management. Fully understand the requirements that you are setting forth, and how fulfilling them falls into existing workflows. If you put in the work, Khoros will meet you more than half-way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Khoros Communities solving and how is that benefiting you?

Khoros Communities gives us case deflection through peer to peer support and community sourced knowledge. We are also building out forums for customer advocacy and engagement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
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What do you like best about Khoros Communities?

Khoros is (as far as I understand) the industry standard in the Community space. There are cheaper options out there, but to leverage them, you'll have to be willing to give up on potential features, flexibility, and integrations that Khoros is ready to provide near-out-of-the box. I would describe the below as the platforms strengths:

1. The flexibility they offer for assigning roles to different types of users is parallel to none. You can give any user almost any permission, that only covers any area of the Community.

2. The ideastations/ideaboards, or forums designed specifically for customers to be able to submit their ideas for the future of a given product and also for product teams to interact directly with customers,

3. They seem to have some of the better localization options out there.

4. They also seem to have some of the strongest analytics capabilities available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Khoros Communities?

1. Khoros is, as far as I understand, on the pricier side of the options available, which is why it is the enterprise platform and not leveraged as often by smaller communities.

2. There is definitely a steep learning curve to understanding how to use the platform. Khoros offers a lot of resources to help you get off the ground, but you'll still need to create a lot of lift yourself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Khoros Communities solving and how is that benefiting you?

At the end of the day, Khoros is a solid platform to build a Community of expert users that answer questions about your products and generate valuable knowledge that prevents the needs for customers to create cases. It has the capability to scale to meet enterprise business needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Scott D.
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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Khoros Communities?

Good enterprise level community platform capable of supporting large scale communities. Customer Success team has been excellent and responsive as we migrated and have gotten up to speed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Khoros Communities?

As with any mature platform there is a lot of complexity, particularly in the back end. We appreciate that Khoros has an active roadmap and is continuing to invest in modernizing and developing the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Khoros Communities:

Consider both the community member experience but also the ability of your community managers to efficiently manage the forums, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Khoros Communities solving and how is that benefiting you?

As a cloud software company, we support a customer to customer support focused community. Benefits for us have probably included increased sales, adoption and retention. They have quantitatively included cost deflection and greater user success. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ankush s.
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Khoros Communities?

In khoros community, we have different interaction styles like blogs, tkb, ideas,forums and much more...

Having a great user experience, integrated search and some other features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Khoros Communities?

It is way too costly and not economical for small brands and small businesses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Khoros Communities solving and how is that benefiting you?

Users do not need to move to service center for any product issue. User can go to brand community and search the issue within forums. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

asmita g.
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Khoros Communities?

Different board types

Secure platform

Can create custom features and integrate it with different platforms.

APIs are well documented Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Khoros Communities?

Khoros platform is a little expensive compared to the other platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Khoros Communities:

Good community platform with lot of possibilities and cool features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Khoros Communities solving and how is that benefiting you?

Good Idea Exchange section

New Events board for meetups

New Product Releases every month Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
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What do you like best about Khoros Communities?

Knowledge on communities, customer centric Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Khoros Communities?

I would like to see a more mature approach on live events management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Khoros Communities solving and how is that benefiting you?

Improve customer satisfaction by self service, deflect customer support tickets, gather customers feedback on product roadmaps contribution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
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What do you like best about Khoros Communities?

The user interface is very customer friendly. It's also really easy to adjust your search parameters and play with keywords on the fly. One of my favorite elements is the ability to run searches within a profile. The exportable reports make it easy to share information across the organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Khoros Communities?

The limited ability to go back in time. It makes it difficult to do year over year comparisons. It would be nice if the 9 month window could be expanded. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Khoros Communities solving and how is that benefiting you?

N/A Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kate F.
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Online Community Manager
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Khoros Communities?

The ongoing innovation and scalability of the platform, as well as the way all the customers work together to help each other where they can - it's a truly unique way of working. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Khoros Communities?

Sometimes it can be difficult to figure out how to do something, but the good thing is there is an immense customer support community as well as excellent case management support by Lithium for all their customers, big or small. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Khoros Communities:

Contact Lithium, ask for a demo and discuss all your needs with them. Be upfront, they don't bite and they may have solutions for your community that you may not even have considered prior. Community is what they do. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Khoros Communities solving and how is that benefiting you?

Provides a safe platform for our members to connect and support each other. It complements existing information and support services outside of business hours, connecting people with each other in real time, regardless of when they seek support or information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.