Ocelot

Ocelot Review

Comments: Ocelot is committed to serving students and supporting staff at the college. I have nothing but positive things to say about Ocelot and the services they have provided to our college. I would highly recommend their products to anyone looking for solutions to support their staff and students.

Pros:

At our institution, we utilize several products from Ocelot which includes the Ocelot Chatbot/FATV & GetSAP. One of the pros of purchasing an Ocelot software is the ease of implementation. They require little to no IT support and the Client Success Managers at Ocelot help every step of the way. Their products are straight forward and easy for students to use too! Ocelot provides support to students 24/7/365 days per year--during times that work for our students and their needs. We have students using the bot and our FATV platform during times that our department is not open and have had nothing but positive feedback from our students. Their products have been a game changer for our institution!

Cons:

I don't have anything negative to say about their products. Again, they are easy to use and the Ocelot team helps every step of the way.

Ocelot Review from Pima Community College

Comments: The goal of the bot is to be utilized across the college and for other/additional offices can come "on-board" to this tool. It sets a consistent tone and uniform way of communication to our students. Having this bot able to answer these up-front or first level responses creates the space that we need to able to focus our time in processing and reporting and other important activities. We are in times in which can not grow our workforce to step in and facilitate these types of responses.

Pros:

faTV was the first product we began to use and it has helped us deliver detailed information to students that is "just enough" to help them understand and/or navigate a particular process. Since 2020, we have included the Chatbot in Financial Aid and we found great success in helping answer general questions. We have since incorporated many other offices to the Chatbot as well as using the LiveChat component to be able to respond to students more 'in-depth' or individual questions. This was especially useful in this time of the school closure (due to the pandemic), it added a personal touch and ability for students to connect with us.

Cons:

I am aware that there is development of being able to allow the Chatbot to interface or be integrated with the student information system that is used to allow for customized, specific responses to students. This would be phenomenal to be able to enhance this tool.

Good but not the greatest

Pros:

It may help to answer some questions posed by students and prospective students.

Cons:

But many of the answers offered by the service are generic and students / inquirers almost always have follow-up questions that require a live person. So the service offered by Ocelot seems to be mostly a first-step in almost always inevitably leading to a live person being contacted.

It's a great tool, with excellent customer service!

Comments: From start to implementation, the customer service was absolutely fantastic! I couldn't have asked for a better team. I extremely pleased that I was able to email my client success manager and get a quick response. Having the virtual training sessions was super helpful with getting through setup. The team continues to provide excellent customer service when I need their help.

Pros:

Their knowledgebase is phenomenal! It was helpful to already have a library of questions included in our chatbot that we could build upon.

Cons:

Getting the link to monthly reports is great, but it would be even better if the monthly reports were available for download from the admin site.

Ocelot Video Services are Excellent

Comments: We have long realized that short, impactful video is a way to reach our students, parents, and other clients in ways that straight text and pictures just doesn't. We went through the RFP process to try to locate a local videographer so that we could create a few "home grown" videos and found that the cost to create just a single video in both dollars and staff time would far exceed full year's contract cost with Ocelot. We've experienced excellent customer service during the entire process of both utilizing the library of already created videos and creating our own customized videos. Our watch rate remains high. In short, it's been a great value for the cost of the contract.

Pros:

There is a full library of up to date, effective, and engaging videos available to use. You can opt to create a portal that students may select to browse and view topics of interest, embed selected videos into areas where their content can enhance your own web content and or work with Ocelot to create your own customized videos. A service representative will work proactively with you to identify those areas of your website where an embedded approach may be most beneficial. And... Spanish translations are also available, which is extremely beneficial for our parents who may not be native English speakers.

Cons:

I honestly don't have a "least" liked item about this service. We've had excellent service and assistance whenever needed.