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Community Platforms Are Evolving Faster Than Ever.

Don’t be left behind on outdated, legacy platforms that undermine your customer engagement efforts.

FeverBee offers independent guidance to select, build, and optimise your technology stack.

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Your Community Platform Is One Part Of A Bigger Stack

It has to work with the tools you control, like your knowledge base, support desk, CRM and AI, and with the channels you can only listen to and measure, like Reddit, Discord and social media.

We help you choose, connect and get the most from all of them.

Tools you control Channels you listen to and measure

Knowledge baseSocial listeningSupport deskRedditCRM & customer dataDiscord & SlackEvents & webinarsLinkedIn & XEmail & automationYouTube & review sitesAI & searchAnalytics & surveysCommunity platform

Research And Results

Independent platform research, and what clients gained from getting the technology right.

13enterprise community platforms independently comparedFeverBee research
9capability areas each platform is assessed againstFeverBee research
+41%weekly visitors in six monthsVorwerk
160%increase in participationExperience redesign

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Independent Reviews Of The Top Community Platforms

We put each of the leading enterprise community platforms through the same review, scored them on the same capabilities, and published every episode. Watch the series before you shortlist.

Gradual

Higher Logic Thrive

Gainsight CC

Discourse

Khoros

Higher Logic Vanilla

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The Platform You Choose Shapes Everything That Follows

There are countless platforms that can connect your customers, and they are all competing for your budget. Each varies enormously in its capabilities, complexity, flexibility and cost.

Some excel at discussions and peer-to-peer support. Others are great at integrations, advanced permissions or customer data management. Others excel in AI capabilities and enterprise governance, and are aligned with the needs of the future.

Selecting the wrong platform can hobble your engagement efforts for years.

Yet These Differences Are Often Difficult To Evaluate

Vendor demonstrations highlight strengths while obscuring limitationsA demonstration shows the best case, not how a platform copes with your requirements.

Feature comparisons rarely capture how capabilities perform in practiceTwo platforms can tick the same box and deliver very different results.

Internal stakeholders have competing requirementsSupport, marketing, IT and security each want something different from the platform.

Changing platforms introduces significant financial and operational risksContent, search rankings, integrations and member habits are all at stake in a move.

We Help Clients Build The Right Technology Stack

We combine independent platform research, technical evaluation and community expertise to help organisations make better technology decisions and manage complex transformations.

Start here

Platform Selection

Choose the technology that best meets your requirements.

We help organisations define what matters, assess competing solutions and understand the trade-offs between functionality, cost, complexity and future flexibility.

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Then

Platform Migration and Transformation

Move to a new platform with greater confidence and less disruption.

We help organisations plan and oversee migrations, coordinate stakeholders, establish requirements and manage the risks associated with changing technology.

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After that

Platform Optimisation

Get more value from the technology you already own.

We assess how existing technology supports customer experiences and business objectives, identify opportunities for improvement and help organisations prioritise changes that make the greatest difference.

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Ongoing

Technology Strategy and Governance

Build a community technology ecosystem that can evolve with your business.

We help organisations establish technology roadmaps, integration priorities, governance processes and decision-making frameworks that support long-term flexibility and performance.

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What Clients Say

Manuel OliveiraPipedrive- Community Manager

FeverBee really went into the data, identifying trends, researching what our members responded to, helping us move to a new platform. FeverBee also helped us a lot with actually looking into what we were doing, providing insights, and creating a detailed plan for us

Rebecca HoughtonMicrosoft- Community Support Strategy Lead

FeverBee was really able to get data, benchmark the experiences and platform we had and really focus on the areas which were able to give us the best impact. This was incredibly helpful to drive return on investment, impact, and improving the customer experience we’re trying to offer.

Jessica CollinsElectronic Arts- Sr. Product Manager, Community

Rather than handing us a generic strategy, they took the time to understand our players, internal teams, platform ecosystem, and business and regulatory constraints, and helped us translate that complexity into a focused set of strategic choices and recommendations that got immediate buy-in from our Exec Leadership Team.

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