Directly vs. Sprinklr Service

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Directly
Score 6.8 out of 10
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Directly’s crowd platform harnesses thousands of independent experts and AI technology to automate common customer questions and deliver customer service that consumers love. The vendor states companies like Airbnb, Microsoft, and Samsung partner with Directly to improve the customer experience, boosting CSAT by 20% while reducing contact center volume and saving millions per year. Directly is based in San Francisco and backed by Microsoft’s M12 Ventures, Samsung NEXT, True…N/A
Sprinklr Service
Score 8.3 out of 10
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Sprinklr Service is a cloud-native unified customer service platform powered by AI that enables customer and agent experience across 30+ digital, social and voice channels, and delivers real-time insights. Enables customers to interact with a brand on their preferred channel for consistent brand experience. Empowers agents with unified/360 customer view and recommends the most relevant responses with AI to improve agent productivity and experience.…
$249
per month per seat
Pricing
DirectlySprinklr Service
Editions & Modules
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Self-Serve Customer Service Solution
$249
per month per seat
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
DirectlySprinklr Service
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsOmnichannel Automation, AI and Insights Reporting
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
Directly
Chose Directly
Directly is more user-friendly and provides an easy interface. It's help desk software and chat support is very interactive.
Sprinklr Service
Chose Sprinklr Service
I've never used any Sprinklr Modern Care alternatives, but when it comes to communicating directly with customers, I much prefer using Sprinklr Modern Care over contact form and email interaction.
Chose Sprinklr Service
Very similar in promptness, politeness and skill. Availability on weekends is good for both.
Chose Sprinklr Service
First, we had a social studio which was good in terms of functionalities but slow. After that, we had the chance to use Talkwalker & social bakers which were good tools yet not enough compares to Sprinklr
Chose Sprinklr Service
The tool is the best compared to the competition. It has advanced features. It is more difficult to master the operation, but in the long run, it is beneficial.
Chose Sprinklr Service
Many tools are the same, but the one where I noticed the biggest difference was between brandwatch and Sprinklr when it comes to social listening. Brand watch has a good and more affordable social listening platform, but it is not as easy to use and requires the client to code …
Chose Sprinklr Service
We also use Meltwater in our BU, and the good thing about Sprinklr is that you can actually compare your data numbers with the key word searches. Meltwater is limited in that it doesn't offer a wide range of services. Although the graphs and some other analysis functions on …
Chose Sprinklr Service
These tools were good to manage social interaction when you just have one or maybe two social media managers who take care of anything. When it comes to teams, there was not a good way to manage bigger amounts of requests and to have an overview of who does what. So you waste …
Chose Sprinklr Service
Sprinklr Modern Care is a stand out platform compared to previous social tools I've used. The listening tools are fantastic and unlimited.
Chose Sprinklr Service
Easy to use/user-friendly is the first benefit that comes to mind. It's very intuitive and doesn't require any training to get up and running and to start seeing the benefits.
Chose Sprinklr Service
The social listening and benchmarking dashboards of Sprinklr Modern Research have been a huge game changer for our department. They allow us to gauge the competitive landscape and monitor any trending topics in a particular space which allows us to realign our priorities for …
Chose Sprinklr Service
I only use this solution
Chose Sprinklr Service
We previously used Sparkcentral for our social media care. While we were very happy with the team there, the product had not evolved as much as Sprinklr and we found it to be lacking in its ability to handle different languages, route certain types of conversations with higher …
Chose Sprinklr Service
Prior to Sprinklr Modern Care, we used vBulletin and a custom repository to address the community needs of our customers. Keeping the experience user friendly was a key point on our needs list and our custom solutions and vBulletin forums were only positive experiences for our …
Chose Sprinklr Service
Evaluated and considered tools like uservoice, Lithium, Jive, and SuggestionBox. Ultimately, being able to quickly provision the system and test drive things in real-world situations really influenced the decision.
Chose Sprinklr Service
Uservoice.

We really liked the way that the Sprinklr Modern Care technology worked. It was really simple, easy for customers. Ultimately the technologies are not that different. The bigger reason is that we really appreciated the team at Sprinklr Modern Care.
Chose Sprinklr Service
• We use a tool called HelpSpot for email ticketing. They have a knowledge base for FAQs but no forum / community platform. Their technology not nearly as good • We looked at a number of tools that did either FAQ or feedback or community, but none except Sprinklr Modern Care …
Chose Sprinklr Service
We briefly used Hootsuite with another client. From day one, there were issues, from logging in to trying to compile data. We very quickly switched from that to Sprinklr.
Features
DirectlySprinklr Service
Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
Directly
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Ratings
Sprinklr Service
7.1
Ratings
16% below category average
Agent dashboard00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Validate callers00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Outbound response00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Call forwarding00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Click-to-call (CTC)00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Warm transfer00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Predictive dialing00 Ratings5.00 Ratings
Interactive voice response00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
REST APIs00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Call scripts00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Call tracking00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Multichannel integration00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
CRM software integration00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Product A and Product B
Directly
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Ratings
Sprinklr Service
8.1
Ratings
1% below category average
Inbound call routing00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Recording00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Quality management00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Call analytics00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Historical reporting00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Live reporting00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Customer surveys00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
DirectlySprinklr Service
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
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9.0
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Likelihood to Renew
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7.5
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Usability
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9.0
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Availability
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9.9
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Performance
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9.9
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Support Rating
-
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9.1
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In-Person Training
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10.0
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Implementation Rating
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9.0
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User Testimonials
DirectlySprinklr Service
Likelihood to Recommend
It is well suited for customer experience service management but, it should focus more on a support system.
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Sprinklr Service has always been well-suited for all of the work we do. As it's all social media content, and most require responses or escalations, Sprinklr Service covers all of that. The only time I think we wouldn't need it is if we were working with a much smaller client who didn't need us to have eyes on so many platforms at once.
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Pros
  • customer messaging management
  • IVR
  • Branding
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  • Transparency—Sprinklr Modern Care allows us to engage with our customers openly and honestly. Even frustrated or angry customer posts offer an avenue for us to display our business integrity and turn negative experiences into positive ones.
  • Moderation—Being able to moderate and organize our community so easily by merging topics into one canonical thread or archiving out of date threads helps to keep our search results relevant and improves the chances that our visitors find the help they need easily.
  • Company Visibility—The ability to easily alert any company employee of topics that might be interesting to them helps to improve the overall visibility of our customers. It also makes it easier to spot trends and encourage quick action if many people comment on one topic with the same problem.
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Cons
  • support
  • moderation
  • termination process
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  • I find it difficult to dive into analytics for each social post. The reporting tool gives me an overview of the channels but I would love to look at a breakdown of each post performance.
  • You currently can't add closed caption subtitles to videos uploaded through Sprinklr so this results in having to revert to the native platform.
  • I would love to be able to set up a newsfeed that includes posts from a number of our partner accounts, so I can keep up to date with what they're posting.
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Likelihood to Renew
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The initial use of the product started out as a 90 day test to see if we could engage customers at a higher level using Sprinklr Modern Care. After a year the use of Sprinklr Modern Caren has now been extended to multiple products.
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Usability
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It's a very easy program to learn and use. I have trained over 50 people on it over the years, and not once has anyone had trouble using it. It's very user-friendly and covers all the bases that social media moderation requires.
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Reliability and Availability
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No issues with system availability. They manage updates in off-peak hours and I usually don't notice the changes until I log into the system the next day.
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Performance
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Performance is great and is not negatively effecting our processes. We have to make sure it doesn't effect out load times. Not currently seeing any issues with widgets affecting page load times.
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Support Rating
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I know the Sprinklr conference calls have been helpful, but sometimes submitting a ticket can be a little daunting. In the past, we've included information in screenshots that are then asked for by a member of the support staff. The turnaround time has been between 3 days, which isn't horrible.
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In-Person Training
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Training was efficient and fun. It was all webinars and YouTube videos. These were mostly lunch time sessions. 10
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Implementation Rating
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Basic setup took me less than 30 minutes. This includes initial configuration, putting in the initial content, and getting the look-and-feel customized. The domain routing took the normal lag time any other website or blogging service. The really important thing was to get the user accounts setup and begin seeding the system with content before a public launch.
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Alternatives Considered
Directly is more user-friendly and provides an easy interface. It's help desk software and chat support is very interactive
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We previously used Sparkcentral for our social media care. While we were very happy with the team there, the product had not evolved as much as Sprinklr and we found it to be lacking in its ability to handle different languages, route certain types of conversations with higher priority or to certain teams / agents. It also did not have as robust a reporting structure as Sprinklr does
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Return on Investment
  • increased branding
  • increased numbers of customer
  • increased customer loyalty
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  • Increased employee efficiency: Having a clear, one-stop "shop" where users can leave feedback, ask questions, and find bug fixes or workarounds has saved me (and other community managers at my company) loads of time that was once spent responding to numerous emails on an individual basis.
  • Better customer service: Since everyone in the company is alerted of what's being written on our forum, it's easy to spot a high-priority issue, delegate to the person in charge, resolve it, and respond as soon as possible.
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