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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Salesforce Service Cloud

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AService Cloud is a customer service platform that helps businesses manage and resolve customer inquiries and issues. It provides tools for case management, knowledge base, omni-channel support, automation, and analytics, enabling companies to deliver exceptional customer service experiences.

    $25

    per month

    Zoom Contact Center

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AZoom Contact Center helps businesses deliver prompt, accurate, and highly personalized customer experiences that drive loyalty. It includes intelligent self-service and routing, a unified communications and contact center, and video optimized high-touch engagements.

    $69

    per month per user

    Pricing
    Salesforce Service CloudZoom Contact Center
    Editions & Modules
    Starter Suite
    $25
    per month
    Pro Suite
    $100
    per month per user
    Enterprise
    $165
    per month per user
    Unlimited
    $330
    per month per user
    Agentforce 1
    $550
    per month per user
    Essentials
    $69
    per month per user
    Premium
    $99
    per month per user
    Elite
    $149
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Salesforce Service CloudZoom Contact Center
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Salesforce Service CloudZoom Contact Center
    Considered Both Products
    Salesforce
    No answer on this topic
    Zoom
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    88%
    Would buy again
    36 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    24 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    82%
    Delivers good value for the price
    28 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    22 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    90%
    Happy with the feature set
    37 Answers
    92%
    Happy with the feature set
    22 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    81%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    21 Answers
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    19 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    83%
    Implementation went as expected
    24 Answers
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    21 Answers
    Features
    Salesforce Service CloudZoom Contact Center
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Salesforce Service Cloud and Zoom Contact Center
    Feature
    Salesforce Service Cloud
    8.8
    77 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Zoom Contact Center
    -
    Ratings
    Organize and prioritize service tickets9.475 Ratings00 Ratings
    Expert directory8.553 Ratings00 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications8.663 Ratings00 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation8.260 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission9.375 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ticket response9.174 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of Salesforce Service Cloud and Zoom Contact Center
    Feature
    Salesforce Service Cloud
    8.7
    72 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Zoom Contact Center
    -
    Ratings
    External knowledge base8.463 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base8.970 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Salesforce Service Cloud and Zoom Contact Center
    Feature
    Salesforce Service Cloud
    8.7
    77 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Zoom Contact Center
    -
    Ratings
    Customer portal7.954 Ratings00 Ratings
    IVR8.834 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social integration8.947 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email support9.276 Ratings00 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration8.866 Ratings00 Ratings
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Salesforce Service Cloud and Zoom Contact Center
    Feature
    Salesforce Service Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    Zoom Contact Center
    7.5
    11 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Agent dashboard00 Ratings7.711 Ratings
    Validate callers00 Ratings7.18 Ratings
    Outbound response00 Ratings7.88 Ratings
    Call forwarding00 Ratings7.07 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)00 Ratings7.96 Ratings
    Warm transfer00 Ratings8.411 Ratings
    Predictive dialing00 Ratings7.46 Ratings
    Interactive voice response00 Ratings8.39 Ratings
    REST APIs00 Ratings6.97 Ratings
    Call scripts00 Ratings7.28 Ratings
    Call tracking00 Ratings7.311 Ratings
    Multichannel integration00 Ratings8.210 Ratings
    CRM software integration00 Ratings6.86 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Salesforce Service Cloud and Zoom Contact Center
    Feature
    Salesforce Service Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    Zoom Contact Center
    7.8
    10 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Inbound call routing00 Ratings8.510 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing00 Ratings7.98 Ratings
    Recording00 Ratings8.69 Ratings
    Quality management00 Ratings8.09 Ratings
    Call analytics00 Ratings7.510 Ratings
    Historical reporting00 Ratings7.310 Ratings
    Live reporting00 Ratings7.310 Ratings
    Customer surveys00 Ratings8.26 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics00 Ratings7.07 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Salesforce Service CloudZoom Contact Center
    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
    Salesforce Service CloudZoom Contact Center
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (83 ratings)
    7.9
    (19 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    6.1
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (12 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    9.5
    (28 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.6
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.0
    (20 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Salesforce Service CloudZoom Contact Center
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Salesforce
    It is a helpful tool, but it can be a bit cumbersome to manage. It is also a bit expensive, but we already use CRM for Salesforce and it is convenient to be able to immediately tag contacts and accounts when the tickets come into the system and tie them directly to the account. I do know an integration with Jira is possible (we use Jira internally for our engineering team to escalate issues) but it is not configured right now so managing the connection between support tickets and Jira tickets is manual and hard to keep up with
    Incentivized
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    Zoom
    The Contact Centre is fantastic for our festival environment; these systems are rarely accessible to an arts organisation without a significant premium. However, that's not the case with Zoom Contact Centre. It may be tricky initially if you don't have an IT Company to help you with the integration, but they have a great Professional Services Team (PSO) to guide you through the process. Be prepared for the transition to take a few months; I wouldn't recommend it if you need something set up today. Moving phone numbers from other Telcos takes time, and the PSO can provide a custom solution that takes time to develop.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Salesforce
    • Allows us to make changes quickly and with relative ease
    • Can be flexible enough to use among several teams who do very different work
    • Salesforce in general provides SO much training that anyone on the team can skill up and help maintain the system
    Incentivized
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    Zoom
    • Easy to change behavior of a call queue
    • Easy to modify call flow (normally this is very difficult and cumbersome in other contact centers)
    • Language that is not esoteric to phone technicians (e.g., no "Hunt Group" or other inside baseball terms)
    • Easy to see the overview of what is currently going on in the phone system and what people are doing right now
    • Easy to add licenese, change changes, add phone numbers, change p#s, etc.
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    Cons
    Salesforce
    • There is a slight scope for error, but sometimes it has a heavy impact. So this can be improved.
    • Costing is high.
    • Maintenance is more.
    • Expertise is required for implementation.
    • The number of communication messages have some limit per organisation account.
    Incentivized
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    Zoom
    • Go deeper into a true separation of parameters, reporting, management, etc. so you could have multiple business units with very different needs, independently work. Some sort of "Multi-Tenant-Like" capabilities like the one seen in Zoom Phone Locations. In situations like these where you need "location/team isolation" is challenging, if not impossible to implement with Zoom Contact Center.
    • More pre-canned integrations and ready-to-go examples to implement thins like the "InApp-Chat" channel for the Zoom Client Itself. This could be a great addition, especially when you use the ZCC to service your own company.
    • ZCC is meant to be an independent solution that could interact with Zoom and non-Zoom products, but the capability to allow a tight-integration with Zoom Phone is really missing: Having the capability to make/receive calls between ZP and ZCC using just extension numbers should have been a given from the get-go; it really limits the use cases of Zoom Contact Center with its other star product Zoom Phone. I heard something is coming to address this, for lack of a better word I call "shortcoming", so I am really looking forward to see what is "being cooked" on this regard.
    • Licensing Tiers: ZCC is really missing an Admin-Only Role from the licensing perspective; you have to "waste" a license to add Administrators, which is particularly bad when you have a fairly large organization with multiple admins.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Salesforce
    Professional edition works best for a small company with lower call volumes and is very useful but as you grow exponetially I think it has limited ability to do all the things we want to - SLA management, defect, release management to name a few. Reports and dashboards being available in real time.
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    Zoom
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Salesforce
    I had Salesforce experience prior to using Service Cloud which made it a little easier to learn and navigate, but overall my team (some who had no Salesforce experience) caught on very quickly and found Service Cloud to be easy to use.
    Incentivized
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    Zoom
    First and foremost for our results, the omnichannel approach and ease of use on the internal side (agents, supervisors and administrators) have made adoption very simple, we have managed to reduce response times (SLA) and internal communication has become very fluid. We get good feedback from our clients for having implemented ZCC in the company to serve them.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    Salesforce
    Salesforce's Trust Center clearly communicates occasional issues to anyone who subscribes, down to an organization's cloud instance. Bundled sandboxes ease updates, and seasonal upgrades are seamless, scheduled well in advance with plenty of information about what's coming. Support agents have noticed intermittent Omni-Channel disconnects due to internet connections, and these are clearly notified.
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    Zoom
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Salesforce
    The Salesforce Service Cloud generally has very good performance, however the overall new Lightning user experience can bring that down. For example, if you have too many tabs open, then it can take a while for the Lightning UI to load. This UI is probably not well equipped to handle loading of all of that information at once, but Users tend to leave their tabs open all day long. It can also be fickle depending on which browser you use, what extensions you have installed, and whether you've cleared your cache. This can be the downfall with any software as a service though, not just Salesforce
    Incentivized
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    Zoom
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Salesforce
    Salesforce offers support, although it generally gets routed to overseas support teams first, and once they are unable to help, it gets escalated up the chain to higher tiers. Frequently, the answer back from support is that there is no native solution, and we either have to turn to the AppExchange for some solution provided by another developer, or custom build our own solution.
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    Zoom
    No answers on this topic
    In-Person Training
    Salesforce
    Our in-person training was provided by our implementation partner and it was quite good. This was in part because we were already working with them and so it naturally leant itself to a good training relationship. And because they were building our customizations and configuring things, they could then provide training on those things naturally.
    Incentivized
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    Zoom
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Salesforce
    Trailheads are great but it was often unclear what actually applied to our organization. This made it difficult to get a whole lot out of it. Part of it is that because the basic Salesforce features didn't quite work for us, we had to add customizations, which then nullified a lot of the training.
    Incentivized
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    Zoom
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Salesforce
    I would go through an implementation very differently knowing what I know now. It was difficult coming from systems we liked in post-sales service and having to adapt to the clunky and underwhelming feature set in Salesforce. I would trim back our expectations
    Incentivized
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    Zoom
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Salesforce
    Salesforce service cloud is more configurable than Zendesk and Freshdesk. It has its own inbuilt AI chatbot also which further improves service agent efficiency. Salesforce is more integration agnostic and has pre-built connectors with multiple 3rd party systems. However, in terms of pricing it is priced at a premium compared to the other solutions
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    Zoom
    There are options and ways to get to specific feature sets that are similar to what Zoom can offer. Many of the Zoom included features are add-ons for the RingCentral offering. So cost goes up and can also be an add-on difficulties/deployment costs as well. When we reviewed the features needed and the cost comparison, Zoom was less than half the cost with many of the features baked in as opposed to add-ons
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    Scalability
    Salesforce
    The product has scaled up with our company growth just fine. No issues here other than slowness in clicking around and running reports
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    Zoom
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Salesforce
    • Because this is a cloud service, the security, implementation framework and feature list is very mature and you don't have to develop these during implementation.
    • The larger the implementation programme the better the licensing arrangements
    • Free developer toolkit for proof of concepts or showcasing features
    • Limited to annual subscription model
    Incentivized
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    Zoom
    • We migrated away from a telephony system that was antiquated and almost unusable for what we wanted to do, so Zoom has been a huge improvement for us!
    • We're continuing to roll out new channels of contact for customers -- Calls, chat, video, email, etc.
    • We're still getting our sea legs from a reporting perspective, and that could always be better, but so far the biggest improvement was for our staff actually using the software. They really enjoy the simplicity and robustness of the software.
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    ScreenShots

    Salesforce Service Cloud Screenshots

    Screenshot of Workflows and OrchestrationScreenshot of Service CatalogScreenshot of Contact Center

    Zoom Contact Center Screenshots

    Screenshot of the video-optimized CCaaSScreenshot of the Zoom Workspace video room experienceScreenshot of the analytics used to optimize contact center performance