TrustRadius: an HG Insights company

Save this comparison

Save this comparison

Add Product

Recommended Comparisons

    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Sparkcentral (discontinued)

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ASparkcentral was a social customer care solution and cloud-based customer engagement platform that catered specifically to customer care teams within large enterprises, enabling them to deliver real-time social customer service. Sparkcentral was acquired by Hootsuite in January 2021. The product has since been discontinued.N/A
    Pricing
    Sparkcentral (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Sparkcentral (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    No
    Free/Freemium Version
    No
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    No
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    Sparkcentral (discontinued)
    Considered Both Products
    Discontinued Products
    Chose Sparkcentral (discontinued)
    Comparing Sparkcentral with other platforms might be a bit unfair! the platform stands out in so many areas, to be honest.
    Incentivized
    Chose Sparkcentral (discontinued)
    I like how more focused Sparkcentral is around customer care specifically, whereas Spredfast does a lot of things well but no one thing greatly.
    Incentivized
    Chose Sparkcentral (discontinued)
    Pros:
    1. Layout is more user-friendly than the previous platforms.
    2. Real-time data on system issues where each user is able to see it and respond accordingly.
    Incentivized
    Chose Sparkcentral (discontinued)
    Sparkcentral does what it has offered to do, where other software made empty promises, Sparkcentral delivers. They also inform us, anytime they are undergoing maintenance or when Twitter or Facebook has an API change, where in previous cases we would have to discover this …
    Incentivized
    Chose Sparkcentral (discontinued)
    I have used Lithium and Spredfast platforms in the past for social care.
    Incentivized
    Chose Sparkcentral (discontinued)
    I selected Sparkcentral because I am a social media engagement director, so engagement is top priority for me and Sparkcentral does exactly that. It's not focused on marketing, word clouds, etc. It's focused on the incoming social media volume of your brand.
    Incentivized
    Chose Sparkcentral (discontinued)
    Sparkcentral is an innovative tool and it just works. It works better than other tools we've attempted to use. It's simple and intuitive.
    Incentivized
    Chose Sparkcentral (discontinued)
    Sparkcentral is very organized and robust in terms of using it for customer service/tech support. It allows you to record detailed information about your customers, and provides thorough customer support histories which are very helpful as well.
    Incentivized
    Chose Sparkcentral (discontinued)
    Sparkcentral is in an excellent place - they are the only true stand-alone social media customer care platform. We also provide support through Oracle RightNow (Chat/email), but the social add-on for that appeared to be weak. Hootsuite works fine for small teams of low volume …
    Chose Sparkcentral (discontinued)
    While it was more expensive, Sparkcentral blows other competitors away with their comprehensive tools and ease of use.
    Chose Sparkcentral (discontinued)
    A few months ago we decided it would be smart to look into back up options in case Sparkcentral ever had technical issues (it never has, but we like to have redundancies in place) and I could not find a company or product that offered all the features I love and have become …
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    User Ratings
    Sparkcentral (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (16 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.7
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (3 ratings)