We performed a comparison between Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service and Zendesk based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two CRM solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Offers integration with hosted solutions."
"It is a stable product."
"I liked the solution's web version and user interface."
"Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service's most valuable features are the ability to create meetups for customers and support daily business functions."
"Integration is seamless. I have integrated Microsoft Dynamics customer service with other systems."
"It has easy-to-use customization features."
"The insights are quite helpful."
"There was a situation where we needed to integrate our system with other platforms quickly. Typically, this process would require using middleware or additional testing tools. However, integration was easy because we were using Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service, which is a Microsoft product. It has built-in connectors that integrate with Microsoft systems, making the process much easier."
"It's a very stable tool, very powerful."
"One of the most valuable features is the ease of use. If you take the standalone product, it is so easy to use, but if you want a tailor-made Zendesk Guide, you can't do it yourself. However, you can use a template that already exists—they have a lot, and they're very cheap, around 300-400 euros—and use it on all your brands. It's a very easy product to use."
"We rarely had issues with Zendesk."
"What is cool about Zendesk Guide is how it works together with others Zendesk products. Especially with support and with the analytics. Put those together for a small or medium-sized company and it's a really powerful tool."
"The stability has been very good."
"Zendesk Support has a lot of good APIs."
"Its agility and simplicity are the most valuable features. This tool is very user-friendly."
"It's very convenient to use."
"I didn't like the solution very much because its functionality is a bit typical and old-fashioned, and the entire system needs upgrading."
"The initial setup was not very straightforward because assigning the new processes with 365 was a bit complex."
"They could improve the components to be more user-friendly. It needs to be more interactive for new users to operate."
"The product could be serverless."
"The product is expensive. It keeps improving. Once you've invested a lot in it, switching to a different system is hard."
"The product doesn’t meet standard functionality. There should be enough features included in it."
"The solution could better integrate with other enterprise solutions."
"There are some occasional performance issues."
"There is always a network issue with Zendesk. But we don’t know whether it is managed. The network issue is that when I call, it does not let us."
"Zendesk Guide could be improved by allowing us to put our assets in one location. What happens now for each article, for example, is we have to upload the images for that article to that location, so the image reuse is still not something that they have perfected. If they could allow us to update all the images in one location, and then pull the image from there, it would be easier when working on Multibrand projects. There are no Multibrand updates available—we have to update each brand manually. For my company, I have come up with an API tool which allows me to push the content to multiple brands together, but if you don't have something like that, you have to manually do it."
"They have something called Zendesk Explore, which isn't as good as what they had in place previously."
"Sometimes if there was a way to just flag the actual issue out of those email chains - that would be really helpful."
"The dashboard could be better."
"The data you get when logged in to Zendesk Support differs from the data you get when you programmatically query Zendesk Support through its API because of a sync time delay."
"The solution itself wasn't easy to set up."
"If I write an article, and I have a team of 30 people, and they all have a Zendesk account, when I write an article, I send them an email. "Hey guys, I just wrote this article. It's one of the most popular topics this month on which we are not covered. Please check it and make sure that you include it in your resolutions". The issue is, once I send it to those 30 people, and they open it, the next morning, that article is the most popular article."
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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service is ranked 18th in CRM with 14 reviews while Zendesk is ranked 17th in CRM with 57 reviews. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service is rated 8.0, while Zendesk is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service writes "A stable solution that can be used for regular office communication, collaboration, and office documentation". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zendesk writes "Straightforward, very transparent, and very well organized". Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service is most compared with , whereas Zendesk is most compared with ServiceNow, JIRA Service Management, Atlassian Confluence, Freshservice and Microsoft Dynamics CRM. See our Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service vs. Zendesk report.
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