Silk Overview

Silk's Cloud DB Virtualization Platform enhances cloud performance by 10x and reduces costs by 50%. Organizations can optimize existing cloud data efficiently using Silk.

This is a summary of the comprehensive capabilities and benefits of Silk based on over 187 insights from peer reviews, customer testimonials, and expert opinions. We included citations from these sources so you can read the full content at the original source if you wish.

Silk, belong to a category of solutions that help Data Management Platform. Each of them excels in different abilities. Therefore, determining the best platform for your business will depend on your specific needs and requirements.

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Silk supports business activities such as:

  • Measuring Customer Satisfaction
  • Engagement Management
  • Customise Loyalty Program
  • Customer Case Management
  • Helpdesk Management

Silk can help you with many business goals, such as Enhance Customer Relationships. As a solution, Silk's capabilities include Personalization, and Recording.

Silk was founded in 2008.

Reviews

"...Silk enables organizations to exceed their online business objectives and create a more engaging user experience that nurtures higher conversion and customer loyalty...." Peer review

Silk Reviews

11 buyers and buying teams have used Cuspera to assess how well Silk solved their Data Management Platform needs. Cuspera uses 187 insights from these buyers along with peer reviews, customer case studies, testimonials, expert blogs and vendor provided installation data to help you assess the fit for your specific Data Management Platform needs.

Business Priorities

Enhance Customer Relationships is the most popular business priority peers achieved using Silk.

Use Cases

Peers recommend Measuring Customer Satisfaction , Engagement Management , Customise Loyalty Program , as the business use cases that they have been most satisfied while using Silk.

Read Peer Reviews and Expert Experience for Business Use Cases

BUSINESS USE CASES RATINGS CUSTOMER AND EXPERT EXPERIENCES
Measuring Customer Satisfaction

4.37/5 ★

Read Reviews (6)

"...In our business, it is customer satisfaction that matters...." Public Cloud
Engagement Management

3.88/5 ★

Read Reviews (2)

"...Silk enables organizations to exceed their online business objectives and create a more engaging user experience that nurtures higher conversion and customer loyalty...."
engaging and following up

3.42/5 ★

Read Reviews (1)

"...Silk enables organizations to exceed their online business objectives and create a more engaging user experience that nurtures higher conversion and customer loyalty...."
Customise Loyalty Program

3.42/5 ★

Read Reviews (1)

"...Silk enables organizations to exceed their online business objectives and create a more engaging user experience that nurtures higher conversion and customer loyalty...."
PEER EXPERIENCES
Measuring Customer Satisfaction

4.37/5 ★

Read Reviews (6)

"...In our business, it is customer satisfaction that matters...." Public Cloud
Engagement Management

3.88/5 ★

Read Reviews (2)

"...Silk enables organizations to exceed their online business objectives and create a more engaging user experience that nurtures higher conversion and customer loyalty...." Peer review
engaging and following up

3.88/5 ★

Read Reviews (1)

Customise Loyalty Program

3.42/5 ★

Read Reviews (1)

"...Silk enables organizations to exceed their online business objectives and create a more engaging user experience that nurtures higher conversion and customer loyalty...." Peer review

3+ more Business Use Cases

Our AI advisor, Wyz, harnessed 187 insights from peers and experts to help you assess how these Silk use cases fit your Data Management Platform needs.

Case Studies

COMPANY CASE STUDIES
Silk case study
CASE STUDY A furniture and home goods ecommerce company

Silk Cloud DB Virtualization Platform helped a furniture and home goods ecommerce company move Microsoft SQL Server workloads from on-premises to Google Cloud. The company needed to meet a strict deadline to exit on-prem datacenters while keeping fast database performance. Silk delivered 0.2ms fast...er speeds than their previous on-prem solution and 3.2GB/s throughput per SQL host. The company also achieved 3:1 data reduction, making cloud resources more cost efficient. They plan to migrate more workloads to Silk on Google Cloud.

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Silk case study
CASE STUDY Sentara Healthcare

Silk Cloud Platform helped Sentara Healthcare move complex EHR workloads to Microsoft Azure. Sentara needed faster performance and less downtime for their SQL reporting engine. Silk enabled a lift and shift migration and provided ultra-fast performance. Snapshot features let users access reporting ...data during ETL. Sentara saw 3x faster performance, 20% lower costs from 2:1 data compression, and ETL downtime dropped from 7-10 hours to 15 minutes.

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Based on peer insights

Cuspera recommends Silk for

Use Cases Measuring Customer Satisfaction , Engagement Management , Customise Loyalty Program
Features Personalization, Recording
Business Priority Enhance Customer Relationships
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Peers used Silk to Enhance customer relationships

Peer and Expert Opinion on Features

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FEATURES RATINGS AND REVIEWS
Personalization

3.81/5 ★

Read Reviews (10)
Recording

3.57/5 ★

Read Reviews (5)
FEATURES RATINGS AND REVIEWS
Personalization

3.81/5 ★

Read Reviews (10)
Recording

3.57/5 ★

Read Reviews (5)

IT and Other Capabilities

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CAPABILITIES (DATA) RATINGS AND REVIEWS
Data Import

4.05/5 ★

Read Reviews (30)
Data Export

3.95/5 ★

Read Reviews (17)
CAPABILITIES (DATA) RATINGS AND REVIEWS
Data Import

4.05/5 ★

Read Reviews (30)
Data Export

3.95/5 ★

Read Reviews (17)
CAPABILITIES (SUPPORT) RATINGS AND REVIEWS
24/7 Support

3.73/5 ★

Read Reviews (7)
Email Support

2.97/5 ★

Read Reviews (1)
Chat Support

2.97/5 ★

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Phone Support

2.97/5 ★

Read Reviews (1)
CAPABILITIES (SUPPORT) RATINGS AND REVIEWS
24/7 Support

3.73/5 ★

Read Reviews (7)
Email Support

2.97/5 ★

Read Reviews (1)
Chat Support

2.97/5 ★

Read Reviews (1)
Phone Support

2.97/5 ★

Read Reviews (1)
CAPABILITIES (OTHER) RATINGS AND REVIEWS
AI Powered

3.64/5 ★

Read Reviews (6)
Custom Reports

4.08/5 ★

Read Reviews (33)
Analytics

3.68/5 ★

Read Reviews (7)
CAPABILITIES (OTHER) RATINGS AND REVIEWS
AI Powered

3.64/5 ★

Read Reviews (6)
Custom Reports

4.08/5 ★

Read Reviews (33)
Analytics

3.68/5 ★

Read Reviews (7)

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Vendor Profile Details

Company Name

Silk Technologies, Inc.

Company Website

https://silk.us/

Year Founded

2008

HQ Location

75 Second Avenue, 6th Floor, Suite 620, Needham, MA 02494

Employees

101-250

Social

Financials

PRIVATE