Best Community Platforms

Salesforce Community Cloud, a social platform, that connects and collaborate with customers, partners, and employees. Build a community for everyone critical to your business ecosystem, from agencies, vendors, and suppliers, to patients, job applicants, and even retail locations. Community Cloud employs Salesforce's Chatter social CRM platform for chat and screensharing, allowing users to exchange data and images in real time throughout an ongoing conversation. The platform supports customer relationship management (CRM) and provides channels for customers to find information and communicate with other customers. The console also includes a "Buy" button to enable e-commerce.

Zendesk Support is intuitive, and it's built with support agents in mind. Everything they need lives in a single, dynamic help desk interface so it's easy to be productive and manage customer interactions.

Sprinklr is an established customer experience platform (CMX) used by many well-known business giants to advertise, market, and research. Sprinklr understands the needs of customers for a unified experience and provides them with modern research, modern care, modern marketing and advertising, and social engagement and sales, helping companies improve their reach as well as their ROI.

Lithium is an integrated platform for social media management, sets for marketing and customer service, that combines Social Publishing that manages entire social strategy with a single tool and boost engagement by publishing the right content at the right time, driven by Klout data and Social Response feature that responds to inquiries on social networks in seconds and provide private and trusted customer care in real-time, regardless of channel.

Pypestream is a customer engagement solution founded to help enterprises establish a trusted direct to consumer relationship. We provide a two-way persistent connection via private messaging with AI-backed conversational experiences, or “pypes”. Pypestream digitally transforms and automates customer service, marketing & promotions, and business to employee engagements across a variety of industries.

Falcon.io provides a platform for social media marketing and customer experience management. It features tools for social media listening, engagement, publishing, measuring and customer data management. Using it marketers and companies can deliver more personalized brand experiences, across touchpoints, based on enriched customer profiles. The platform is complemented by comprehensive support and consultancy services.

Answerbase is a user-friendly knowledge management platform for online self-service customer support and e-commerce. It allows users to ask questions, receive quality answers, and browse helpful content and articles to effectively meet the information demands of your customers about your products and services. Each system comes with easy-to-use administration and moderation tools to customize, manage and grow an engaging platform that saves your business time and resources by reducing duplicate inquiries. Advanced features like moderation, user group management (giving users the appropriate content access and functional permissions), actionable content insights, collaboration notes, answer drafting and private question management give administrators the tools they need to effectively manage all of your content, users and access.Businesses have the ability to enable or disable community Q&A capabilities, giving you the ability to effectively leverage the expertise of your customers, product evangelists, and other industry experts. Allow select experts and thought leaders to answer questions, maintain a profile, vote on the quality of answers and be recognized for their contributions on leader boards with reputation points, badges and highlighted areas of expertise.Answerbase’s white-labeled platform allows you to easily customize the look and feel of your site. Simply add your logo and select a color scheme for your site for a quick setup, or use the advanced tools to add your own header, footer, CSS, and more, for full control over your platform's design and navigation. Widget builders and API’s empower you to accomplish even the most sophisticated integrations or even build your own Answerbase-powered Q&A applications.Answerbase Enterprise allows for 100% custom adaptations and developments to take whatever ideas, new functionalities or integration requirements you may have and make them a reality. Our knowledgeable team will manage setup, integration, and provide web-based education and training to make sure your team has all the tools and information they need to successfully manage and grow your site.

IBM Security App Exchange is an on-line repository for sharing software enhancements to IBM Security products developed by clients, Business Partners, systems integrators and even IBM employees. It's a next step in helping clients build more collaborative security defenses begun with the recent introduction of the IBM X-Force Exchange platform. While X-Force Exchange provides aggregated threat intelligence and a platform for peer collaboration to add human context to machine-generated intelligence, the App Exchange provides a platform to share professionally developed tools and technologies, but also encourages rapid innovation through crowdsourcing of client contributions.