Directly vs. Verint Channel Automation

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
Verint Channel Automation
Score 8.0 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Verint Channel Automation is a social customer service software that enables companies to engage in large volumes of social media conversations with their customers. The cloud-based software combines intelligent prioritization with team management workflows.N/A
Pricing
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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 feeOptional
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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.
Verint Channel Automation
Chose Verint Channel Automation
Conversocial gives structure to social media management and keeps conversations running smoothly with interaction history for each customer and follower. The collaboration workflows allows quick sharing of information and creation of tasks for others.
Chose Verint Channel Automation
Early on we did comparisons with Hootsuite and later with Adobe. While they have similarities, the difference at the time and likely currently, was the personal interest and general accessibility of Conversocial's platform and people. The combination of an effective CRM …
Chose Verint Channel Automation
I have also used Radian6 and Hootsuite. I did not like that you we're unable to archive in Hootsuite and could not see previous conversations. Hootsuite also had way too many columns that you could create and it was very disorganized in my opinion. Radian6 is a great tool but …
Chose Verint Channel Automation
I have experience with Hootsuite, Sprout Social, Simplify 360, Conversocial, Radian6, Cision, and Wildfire. Each of the platforms has a different strength. Conversocial excels at customer service management while Sprout Social is ideal for social media monitoring/engagement, …
Chose Verint Channel Automation
Functionality, searchability, ease of use and customer support
Chose Verint Channel Automation
I have used HootSuite and Salesforce Radian6 and so far, Conversocial is my favorite. Where Radian6 excels for categorization of posts, Conversocial has a much easier learning curve. I did not use HootSuite for more than a month before the company switched us to Conversocial so …
Chose Verint Channel Automation
We performed a full evaluation of HootSuite, SocialEngage, and Oracle RightNow. Conversocial was selected for several reasons, including the intuitive interface (very important for CS agents, who are already working in a multitude of complex systems), capacity to support our …
Chose Verint Channel Automation
ZenDesk, Hootsuite. Conversocial allowed us to work 7-10X faster than we had previously while still maintaining the "socialness" of the platform, rather than converting the experience into a traditional customer service interaction.
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User Ratings
DirectlyVerint Channel Automation
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
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Likelihood to Renew
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Usability
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8.2
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Availability
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8.7
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Performance
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8.5
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Support Rating
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8.2
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In-Person Training
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9.1
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Online Training
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9.1
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Implementation Rating
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9.1
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User Testimonials
DirectlyVerint Channel Automation
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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It is well suited for larger organizations that see a lot of content. If you're a very small business with little engagement, Conversocial may not be the most appropriate tool for you. I would ask yourself how much content you see each day/week, is that number going to increase for any reason, and based on that Conversocial may be the perfect fit.
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Pros
  • customer messaging management
  • IVR
  • Branding
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  • Businesses can analyze how long it takes different agents to respond to customer inquiries on social media. This helps them understand staffing, response time, and how to become more efficient with customer care.
  • By utilizing the tagging and sentiment features across all conversations, businesses can better understand what their customers are talking most frequently about on social media and whether it's positive or negative. This can help identify frequent product issues that may lead to future design improvements.
  • Through the dashboard, customer representatives can also easily assign conversations to the appropriate team member. This makes it more efficient for different managers to handle different conversations related to their product expertise.
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Cons
  • support
  • moderation
  • termination process
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  • Determining the sentiment of a social message is something that every predictive modeled Social CRM tool can improve on.
  • Mechanism for posting to a native site might be more robust. Although our business did not choose to post through the tool. We did not use any other mechanism to automate our posts.
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Likelihood to Renew
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The only two reasons we would not continue using Conversocial are it's lack of comprehensive analytics and its lack of Radian6's categorization tools. Tags make up for the categorization pretty well, however, and we're considering switching everything over to this now that we've tested tags for a couple months within Conversocial. (I previously wrote that Conversocial lacks support for some social channels like Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube, but they have now added Instagram and YouTube.)
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Usability
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Because of the number of features it offers and the manner in which they're presented. I've explored a number of other tools that just don't do it as well. When sorting through and responding to hundreds of social media messages each day, the number of clicks it takes to do something really matters. Conversocial does a great job of minimizing clicks and presenting the data we need without having to click to find it
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Reliability and Availability
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Downtime is very rare, and the occasional occurrences are typically a problem with Twitter or FB API.
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Performance
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Extremely fast, practically in real time.
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Support Rating
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Our account rep at Conversocial has set up a call with me every two weeks to check in, talk about new features, or answer questions. I know I can email or call her for help anytime. Their support team also responds quickly.
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In-Person Training
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Comprehensive training in all aspects of the software and general usages (including social media) for both agents and managers. Simulation workshops really made the live deployment process very smooth.
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Online Training
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Outstanding & comprehensive training both on-line and instructor-led. Another crucial differentiator from competitors in our eyes.
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Implementation Rating
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Without any tech requirement on our end, this was an extraordinarily easy implementation to run, compared to other platforms like live chat or email.
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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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Early on we did comparisons with Hootsuite and later with Adobe. While they have similarities, the difference at the time and likely currently, was the personal interest and general accessibility of Conversocial's platform and people. The combination of an effective CRM solution and a team that was readily available to help proved to be the winning formula for our business.
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Return on Investment
  • increased branding
  • increased numbers of customer
  • increased customer loyalty
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  • One of the biggest benefits we are seeing is that we have reduced the number of post-holiday complaints coming into head office. Since we are responding to issues and concerns as they arise, we can impact overall customer satisfaction.
  • The efficiencies gained from using a centralized platform for managing the response process has enabled us to reduce our team by 50%.
  • We can track that we are responding to a fan's first message within 30 minutes.
  • We can track the number of messages each user engages with.
  • We can see the most effective times of day to post and reply.
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ScreenShots

Verint Channel Automation Screenshots

Screenshot of the same consistent experiences across different messaging platforms, in multiple languages, through a seamless blend of bots and human agentsScreenshot of Verint Messaging's real-time and historical analytics necessary for the most demanding modern contact centers, with insights and reporting of the performance of humans and botsScreenshot of an illustration of how agents can move across interaction types as “Conversations” without losing context, such as during bot-to-human agent handoversScreenshot of the engagement dashboard. In addition to topical insights like emergent phrases mentioned and tags being assigned to conversations, the engagement dashboard provides high-level views of how the business is performing overallScreenshot of an overview of the business value of Verint MessagingScreenshot of the Verint Messaging dashboard, which includes an overall and per channel view of real-time messaging volume, and other KPIs