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The Higher Logic engagement platform delivers powerful online communities and communication tools to engage your users at every stage of their journey. With Higher Logic, you get a robust platform plus over a decade of experience in building sophisticated community engagement programs. We serve over 3,000 customers across 21 countries worldwide and support over 2.7 billion community interactions annually.

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The power of Verint Customer Engagement Solutions with the flexibility and scalability of Telligent Community. Verint Community gives organizations 100% control of their online brand experience. We’re the world’s most flexible and scalable platform for powering innovative online communities and forums for engagement, support, web self-service, agent to agent collaboration and insights available Cloud or On Premises. As part of Verint’s Intelligent Self-Service portfolio, Verint Community can be deployed standalone, integrated with or embedded into other enterprise systems to make them more socially engaging to increase adoption and deliver high impact experiences.

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Jive unleashes employee productivity, harnesses corporate knowledge, and builds institutional memory with its open, secure, enterprise-scale intranet, and collaboration hub. Many of the world’s most successful organizations unite their people, knowledge, and content with Jive, bringing out the best in their employees and making work more productive, engaging, and rewarding.

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Igloo is a leading provider of digital workplace solutions, helping companies move beyond traditional intranets to inspiring digital destinations that improve communication, knowledge sharing, collaboration, and culture. Igloo is 100% cloud-based, mobile-enabled, and integrates with the leading systems and enterprise apps your business relies on. Igloo provides a single-source-of-truth, enabling a more productive and engaged workforce.

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Khoros is a global leader in customer engagement software, helping brands stay all-ways connected with their customers. Khoros Communities, one of three powerful Khoros solutions, gives brands an interactive platform that fosters peer-to-peer engagement to enhance the customer experience and improve support efficiency through self-service.

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Yammer is the social layer within Microsoft 365 that connects and engages people across the organization. Yammer uses communities and open conversation to power leadership engagement, corporate communications, and open knowledge sharing to drive organizational change.

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At Social Edge, we build beautiful online communities that empower our clients and their customers. From custom design and development to strategy, community management, and technical services, we have created 350+ communities for enterprise and SMB clients across all industry verticals.

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Vanilla provides a one-stop-shop solution that combines the power of customer community, Q&A, knowledge base, and ideation to help brands improve CX and brand loyalty while reducing costs. Since 2009, Vanilla has helped hundreds of top brands provide a great community experience to millions of people around the globe.

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