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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Salesforce CRM Analytics

    Score7.1 out of 10
    N/ASalesforce CRM Analytics (formerly Tableau CRM) is a cloud-based business intelligence solutions and analytics software. It provides users with automated data discovery, CRM-connected analytics, top-down views of data, augmented analytics, predictive insights, and customizable data visualization tools.

    $125

    per month

    Zendesk Explore

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AZendesk offers Explore, a business intelligence and customer analytics tool which integrates with the Zendesk suite featuring ticket analytics, custom fields, dashboards, and other features. Zendesk is migrating customers of the BIME analytics product, which is approaching end of support, to Zendesk Explore in 2019.N/A
    Pricing
    Salesforce CRM AnalyticsZendesk Explore
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Salesforce CRM AnalyticsZendesk Explore
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Salesforce CRM AnalyticsZendesk Explore
    Considered Both Products
    Salesforce
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    63%
    Would buy again
    5 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    7 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    86%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    8 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    Features
    Salesforce CRM AnalyticsZendesk Explore
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Salesforce CRM Analytics and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Salesforce CRM Analytics
    8.5
    46 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Zendesk Explore
    9.0
    9 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Pixel Perfect reports8.639 Ratings7.15 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards7.646 Ratings10.09 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates9.244 Ratings9.97 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Salesforce CRM Analytics and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Salesforce CRM Analytics
    8.0
    47 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Zendesk Explore
    8.3
    9 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Drill-down analysis7.646 Ratings9.59 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities8.446 Ratings9.09 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages6.835 Ratings4.85 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration9.044 Ratings10.09 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Salesforce CRM Analytics and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Salesforce CRM Analytics
    8.5
    45 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Zendesk Explore
    8.4
    9 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Publish to Web9.335 Ratings6.96 Ratings
    Publish to PDF9.042 Ratings9.07 Ratings
    Report Versioning8.541 Ratings9.03 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling8.038 Ratings8.97 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers7.732 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Salesforce CRM Analytics and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Salesforce CRM Analytics
    8.3
    43 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Zendesk Explore
    7.1
    7 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.640 Ratings6.66 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization8.938 Ratings7.16 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics7.540 Ratings5.55 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings9.43 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Salesforce CRM Analytics and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Salesforce CRM Analytics
    8.4
    46 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Zendesk Explore
    9.1
    9 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)8.644 Ratings9.58 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model8.144 Ratings9.59 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.140 Ratings8.07 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)8.639 Ratings10.07 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings8.64 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Salesforce CRM Analytics and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Salesforce CRM Analytics
    6.6
    43 Ratings
    17% below category average
    Zendesk Explore
    7.8
    7 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access7.341 Ratings6.05 Ratings
    Mobile Application6.032 Ratings8.32 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile7.237 Ratings9.06 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Salesforce CRM Analytics and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Salesforce CRM Analytics
    7.3
    31 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Zendesk Explore
    5.9
    4 Ratings
    28% below category average
    REST API7.429 Ratings5.34 Ratings
    Javascript API7.927 Ratings5.93 Ratings
    iFrames6.923 Ratings5.53 Ratings
    Java API7.926 Ratings5.63 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)8.526 Ratings6.23 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)5.125 Ratings7.02 Ratings
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    Small Businesses
    Cyfe
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Cyfe
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Zendesk Explore
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Geckoboard
    Score6.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Jaspersoft Community Edition
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Jaspersoft Community Edition
    Score9.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Salesforce CRM AnalyticsZendesk Explore
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (47 ratings)
    9.5
    (9 ratings)
    Usability
    7.7
    (6 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.7
    (6 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    8.1
    (41 ratings)
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    Data Sources
    7.7
    (41 ratings)
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Salesforce CRM AnalyticsZendesk Explore
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Salesforce
    Salesforce CRM Analytics has amazing user interface and very responsive customer services providers.
    The product has brilliant artificial intelligence systems that enhance its usability.
    Software integration with other tools is perfect.
    Ease in setting up and availability of unlimited tutorials and demos.
    Incentivized
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    Zendesk
    Zendesk Explore is well suited for tracking ticket flow, agent performance, and customer satisfaction providing valuable insights into response and resolution time, workload and support quality. Particularly useful for monitoring ticket handling for different teams. Helps ensure accountability by tracking how long tickets remain assigned before being reassigned to another group. Drill down capability helps identify support bottlenecks. However, it is less appropriate for real time monitoring as it lacks real time data updates making it unsuitable for instant decision making.
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    Pros
    Salesforce
    • Interactive Dashboards, it [consists] of wide variety of charts
    • Data from different sources can be easily integrated with it
    • Security, it provides easy way to secure and share the information with the users
    • Support actions like opening hyperlink etc
    • Almost everything can be done from configuration
    • Data can easily be managed from dataflow.
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    Zendesk
    • Zendesk Explore is easy to use.
    • Zendesk Explore allows users to create custom metrics.
    • Zendesk Explore allows users to create custom attributes.
    • Zendesk Explore is easy to learn.
    • Compared to other analytics function of other Ticket Management System, Zendesk Explore is probably the best as of now.
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    Cons
    Salesforce
    • Implementation takes time and resources. It is a heavy lift to implement and at first, it can take a little bit of time to understand what you are looking at. But once it's implemented it's easy to get started.
    • Without any BI expertise or resources available to your organization, the implementation of this is difficult. If you aren't used to BI tools and don't have an expert in house, the terminology can be difficult to understand at first.
    • Their support is not on hand to help you if you encounter any issues, at least not on all the plans or the basic plans. Real-time support service is an add-on, so you'll need to be patient if you require help or pay extra money.
    • More functionality for the tool is needed to compete with other heavyweights in the arena like Tableau, Qlik, and Microstrategy. Still lacks the robustness, functionality, and flexibility other competing products possess.
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    Zendesk
    • Some aspects of Zendesk, in general, are not super intuitive. The same goes for Zendesk Explore. And, while you can google answers and hope you find something helpful, there isn't a great way to learn to get the full potential out of the product unless you want to pay for someone from your team to take a class (which costs several hundred dollars).
    • To piggyback off the last point, if you would prefer to get help from a Zendesk expert, you'll find that there is almost no customer support available to you. For a company that aims to help other companies help their customers, this has always struck me as odd. Again, Google is your friend and beyond that, you're mostly out of luck.
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    Usability
    Salesforce
    For someone who don't have coding background, this could be a useful tool and fairly easy to learn and use given the good support. However, if you know other open source tools, it would be much easier to use the other tools and the knowledge is more transferable in the future.
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    Zendesk
    I rate Zendesk Explore 8 out of 10 for it's overall usability because it offers powerful reporting and analytics with an easy to navigate interface and intuitive dashboards. It helps improve customer satisfaction by providing valuable insights into ticket handling, agent performance and customer satisfaction. Though the complex query builder can be challenging for non technical users.
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    Support Rating
    Salesforce
    I was not able to be in interaction much with Salesforce support team since every feature works the way it should be working. So far I have not experienced any bug or major glitches that would delay the result of my work and performance. There is also a hotline in our company for Salesforce issue but so far I have not used it.
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    Zendesk
    Support for all of Zendesk has exceeding my expectations. This company will always get a 10 out of 10 in my book. Any question you have they make sure you have the answer plus a step-by-step guide on how to do each step so you are set up for success!
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    Implementation Rating
    Salesforce
    An implementation partner would certainly result in greater output in a more efficient amount of time. However, I have found implementation partners to be extremely expensive for the output received (at least working for a non-profit company they are frequently unaffordable). Internal implementation does help with usable output though since internal knowledge would better know the data architecture and business processes
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    Zendesk
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Salesforce
    Tableau is the absolute top of the class when it comes to business intelligence, but it doesn't make sense for every business case. In our case, we needed a simple data visualization platform for our CRM platform and sales pipeline. Salesforce Analytics, while nowhere near as robust, did the job we needed it to do perfectly in a significantly more cost-effective manner.
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    Zendesk
    I selected Zendesk Explore only to provide an easy and quick access for my managers and supervisors regading metrics and volume trends. Is not the most flexible nor complete data visualization tool, but works well for day-to-day follow ups. You need to use another tool if you want to see long-term patterns (e.g. month over month volume trends) and you need another platform if you want your interaction metrics to interact with other important factors of the business
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    Return on Investment
    Salesforce
    • Sales CRM analytics enable us to conduct correlation analytics and real-time performance metrics.
    • Use of the product enabled us to drive more revenue by the help of actionable insights leading to informed decisions making.
    • The software has made it possible for us to automate administrative tasks and improve performance.
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    Zendesk
    • Money saved due to proper staffing.
    • Happier Staff- proper staffing ensures no one is overworked.
    • Ability to quickly pinpoint where issues are and why.
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