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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Freshdesk

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AFreshdesk is a cloud-based customer service software that helps businesses of all sizes to deliver customer support. Freshdesk converts requests coming in via email, web, phone, chat, and social into tickets, and unifies ticket resolution across channels. Additionally, Freshdesk lets the user automate workflows, provide self-service, manage SLAs, and measure metrics, to stay on top of customer support. Freshdesk also offers out-of-the-box features like an AI-powered support chatbot,…

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    Verint CX Automation

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AVerint CX Automation is a contact center platform designed to lower an organization’s costs while simultaneously elevating its CX.N/A
    Pricing
    FreshdeskVerint CX Automation
    Editions & Modules
    Free
    $0
    Up to 2 agents
    Growth
    $15
    per month (billed annually) per agent
    Pro
    $49
    per month (billed annually) per agent
    Enterprise
    $79
    per month (billed annually) per agent
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    FreshdeskVerint CX Automation
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeRequired
    Additional Details—​​​​Verint offers a start-anywhere approach, meaning you only pay for the bots you choose to implement rather than having to purchase the whole platform. ​ Pricing structure: Verint's pricing options include named employee and volume-based models. Verint provides the ability to flex up and flex down, and swap licenses for bots as needed.
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    Community Pulse
    FreshdeskVerint CX Automation
    Considered Both Products
    Freshworks Inc
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    Verint
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    93%
    Would buy again
    189 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    10 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    185 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    190 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    10 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    135 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    93%
    Implementation went as expected
    158 Answers
    83%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    Features
    FreshdeskVerint CX Automation
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Freshdesk and Verint CX Automation
    Feature
    Freshdesk
    8.6
    174 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Verint CX Automation
    -
    Ratings
    Organize and prioritize service tickets9.2170 Ratings00 Ratings
    Expert directory8.0115 Ratings00 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications8.43 Ratings00 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation7.64 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission9.1170 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ticket response9.3170 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of Freshdesk and Verint CX Automation
    Feature
    Freshdesk
    8.0
    156 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Verint CX Automation
    -
    Ratings
    External knowledge base8.0142 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base8.0145 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Freshdesk and Verint CX Automation
    Feature
    Freshdesk
    8.3
    165 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Verint CX Automation
    -
    Ratings
    Customer portal7.4141 Ratings00 Ratings
    IVR8.251 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social integration8.587 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email support9.4164 Ratings00 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration7.7101 Ratings00 Ratings
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Freshdesk and Verint CX Automation
    Feature
    Freshdesk
    -
    Ratings
    Verint CX Automation
    7.6
    4 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Agent dashboard00 Ratings8.34 Ratings
    Validate callers00 Ratings5.92 Ratings
    Outbound response00 Ratings7.32 Ratings
    Call forwarding00 Ratings8.22 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)00 Ratings8.22 Ratings
    Warm transfer00 Ratings8.22 Ratings
    Predictive dialing00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
    Interactive voice response00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
    REST APIs00 Ratings7.72 Ratings
    Call scripts00 Ratings7.72 Ratings
    Call tracking00 Ratings7.32 Ratings
    Multichannel integration00 Ratings6.42 Ratings
    CRM software integration00 Ratings6.82 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Freshdesk and Verint CX Automation
    Feature
    Freshdesk
    -
    Ratings
    Verint CX Automation
    7.7
    5 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Inbound call routing00 Ratings6.42 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing00 Ratings6.82 Ratings
    Recording00 Ratings8.64 Ratings
    Quality management00 Ratings8.14 Ratings
    Call analytics00 Ratings8.45 Ratings
    Historical reporting00 Ratings8.25 Ratings
    Live reporting00 Ratings7.34 Ratings
    Customer surveys00 Ratings7.33 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics00 Ratings8.13 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    FreshdeskVerint CX Automation
    Small Businesses
    Help Scout
    Score7.9 out of 10
    Nextiva Contact Center
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    LiveAgent
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Front
    Score7.1 out of 10
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Score9.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    FreshdeskVerint CX Automation
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (241 ratings)
    8.3
    (5 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (21 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (41 ratings)
    7.6
    (5 ratings)
    Availability
    4.6
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    5.5
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.6
    (39 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.6
    (171 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    5.4
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    6.4
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    7.7
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    5.5
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    6.8
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    6.9
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    FreshdeskVerint CX Automation
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Freshworks Inc
    I recommend Freshdesk for people who need to handle a large volume of inquiries through tickets and follow-ups. This platform provides tools that will improve problem-solving efficiency, ensuring customers are satisfied with the speed with which their issues are resolved. Overall, it will optimize customer service support operations and the resolution of their problems.
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    Verint
    Well suited for advocate process streamlining - being able to assist advocate/agents with processes and guidelines. Also able to deliver automated work vs manual to assist with call. We need to enhance the back end data to support integration with other bots and data acknowledgment. I have found the tools we are building very helpful to agents/advocates, but to create an output based on these tool to monitor behavior has ben challenging
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    Pros
    Freshworks Inc
    • The price is great for small startups just large enough to need a support ticketing system.
    • This may seem minor, but many tools don't have this: the ability to link a contact to multiple companies/accounts.
    • Agent collision detection is great for making sure agents don't duplicate each others' work!
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    Verint
    • Their IVA product is great. No-code and best reps.
    • They document EVERYTHING! There is a ton of knowledge to get info from
    • The customization is great!
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    Cons
    Freshworks Inc
    • Data Security.
    • SLA Policies where it is not customer / contract driven but agents / groups driven.
    • Audit Trail is not available in Pro version makes the tool adoption difficult from compliance perspective.
    • Chat Bot and Fresh Chat Services has greater potential to explode, but the pricing model tagged to chat bot sessions .are illogical as it limits the ability to use the fresh chat feature
    • Agent Logon Screen use earlier version of Captcha as it is annoying for the agents to login. Very frustrating experience.
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    Verint
    • As someone who learned WFM and Verint CX Automation early this year the UI menus (how and where things are broken down) is not intuitive.
    • Verint CX Automation can be a great resource but it's difficult to navigate and bookmarked pages get moved. For example the "What's New" page and corresponding Coming Soon in WFM and behavior changes pages have been moved twice in the last few months alone.
    • The security privileges are also not very user friendly. When trying to trouble shoot what additional access needs ot be given to someone to gain access to a specific feature in the system it's not intuitive.
    • Your release notes have changed sections and are not consistently published in the same place for availability. This inhibits our organization from reviewing them in advance and preparing for any changes or bug fixes we were unaware of and to setup our lab for testing.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Freshworks Inc
    We are extremely happy with Freshdesk and can foresee using it for the next year. We might only consider using a different platform if our average daily ticket volume reaches four digits and its AI isn’t enough to handle our needs by then. While we haven’t tested this yet, we have read reviews that it’s AI capabilities are lacking
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    Verint
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    Usability
    Freshworks Inc
    I gave it a rating of 9 out of 10 because they delivered on everything we asked them to do. Easy to setup, easy to deploy to end users, easy to customize, easy to enter tickets and so much more. Our experience with their support is top notch! After opening a ticket for support they call use back within 10 minutes every time!
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    Verint
    Based on my personal experience and the experience I have seen and heard from others in the industry. While I cannot disclose specific details on my personal experience, I feel like most who have used it have benefitted from its usability
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    Reliability and Availability
    Freshworks Inc
    I have encountered a lot of errors in the Freshdesk, however, they tend to resolve it on priority or at least they will share the timeline by when this can be resolved. Most of the time the issue has been from the other partner's end. They take time to resolve their vendor issues and they don't have any timelines in case of developed app errors.
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    Verint
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    Performance
    Freshworks Inc
    The reports take a lot of time to download if the time period is large. Also, the tickets take their sweet time to open and load. It is not fast as Zendesk. Only 30 tickets are visible in a single go and there isn't any option to select all. If we need to change the pages and dashboards it takes a lot of time to open.
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    Verint
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    Support Rating
    Freshworks Inc
    The main thing about Freshdesk user service is that once a request has been made for information about a feature of the platform, the support team responds to tickets quickly, within a day of writing and submitting them, with information that is concise enough so that there is no need to ask for help on the same topic again.
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    Verint
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    In-Person Training
    Freshworks Inc
    Support Team's knowledge and understood the company's requirement, and always shared the insight of the usage of the tool to it s full potential, moreover the team checks periodically to check if we using the tool right and if we are facing any kind of challenges. Also they would update us on new features that can make the work easy.
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    Verint
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    Online Training
    Freshworks Inc
    Video tutorials, questions answers round before and after testing and Fresh desk team would always share best practices on the needs. Furthermore would periodically check if we are able to work smoothly. Would send alerts to known any issues, send recommendation on new features. Freshdesk team always available when we need certain advise.
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    Verint
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    Implementation Rating
    Freshworks Inc
    Our team easily implemented Freshdesk, and as soon as we started, we were pros with it. In a matter of days, we had integrated signatures and canned responses. The biggest problem was the Help Center part, but after some time, that was also integrated. We did not know some features when we started, but that is normal.
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    Verint
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    Alternatives Considered
    Freshworks Inc
    Freshdesk has a more modern and intuitive user interface, while Help Scout's interface is simpler and more minimalist.In case of features, Freshdesk offers a wider range of features, includes omnichannel support, AI powered automations, and advanced analytics. Help Scout is more focused on providing a simple and efficient ticketing system.
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    Verint
    We have the five9 version of Verint CX Automation which took the place of Business IC Manager. The ease of use and real time coaching capabilities have been instrumental to give immediate coaching and understanding what our customer agents are doing at any given time. The canned reporting and transcription could improve.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Freshworks Inc
    I was not very involved with the purchase/contract (my company purchased Fresjdesk before I was brought on), but I will say that pricing per agent made it difficult to grow our support team. Additionally, we were kind of disappointed after our upgrade because it didn't solve our pain points as much as we expected.
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    Verint
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    Scalability
    Freshworks Inc
    My company had Freshdesk agents from support and success. It's generally difficult to customize permissions for different agent "roles." We were a fully distributed company, so "multiple sites" doesn't apply to us. We found Freshdesk features lacking as we grew our customer base, and adding agents wasn't easy because price steeply increases with number of agents.
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    Verint
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    Professional Services
    Freshworks Inc
    Very professional, they would always ask for the steps followed and where we went wrong, they would politely share the video recording to review in case any other team member faces the same issue
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    Verint
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    Return on Investment
    Freshworks Inc
    • Increased response times - Client Success maintains at 98% SLA for resolution
    • Categorization of feedback and issues - custom ticket fields make it easier for us to review why clients contact us on a high level
    • Standardization of internal procedures via templates, canned responses and automations
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    Verint
    • Verint CX Automation lacks the Training expertise to assist clients to make the best of the software
    • If existing Verint WFO/WFM experience exists on staff, Verint CX Automation can be taken to the next level.
    • The product and company itself is rock solid, you can never go wrong with Verint as the name itself brings confidence to businesses
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