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OpenText Legal Knowledge Management vs Zendesk comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 8, 2026

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Categories and Ranking

OpenText Legal Knowledge Ma...
Ranking in Knowledge Management Software
11th
Average Rating
10.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Indexing and Search (13th)
Zendesk
Ranking in Knowledge Management Software
3rd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
70
Ranking in other categories
CRM Customer Engagement Centers (3rd), CRM (7th), Help Desk Software (3rd), IT Service Management (ITSM) (5th), Reporting (8th), AI Customer Support (10th), AI IT Support (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Knowledge Management Software category, the mindshare of OpenText Legal Knowledge Management is 1.8%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zendesk is 10.1%, down from 11.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Knowledge Management Software Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Zendesk10.1%
OpenText Legal Knowledge Management1.8%
Other88.1%
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Featured Reviews

reviewer1719999 - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Frequent updates, highly stable, and robust
We have had thousands of users, the solution is highly scalable. We have had a large installation of OpenText Decisiv and there were approximately 6,000 users. The user's roles vary, such as records managers. Additionally, depending on the organization, a lot of our clients are in the federal government which they have different types of roles, but most of them are end-users. They're searching for documents or the records that are in their repository, there are document producers, but most people are searching.
AmandaSanchez - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant and Startup Founder at AimHi Enterprises
Macros and automation have streamlined workflows and reduced manual effort across support teams
The ability to communicate on the Zendesk ticket through the actual user software, so TOPs, would have been helpful. Somehow seeing a user's ticket history within our app would have been beneficial. That is the only thing that I do not think existed at the time that might have been helpful. Some people struggled with Zendesk, but it was always easy enough to show them how to use it and what they were missing. The only times we really had people report concerns about it was when they did not understand that it could do that or how to use it in that way.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The most valuable feature of OpenText Decisiv is they are always improving."
"If I was going to rank all the ECM solutions, OpenText Decisiv is the best because I have used the other ones and even though it's not the easiest to use at times, it is the most powerful, robust software out there."
"We receive less questions from customers, so this is a big win for our support."
"It's a very stable tool, very powerful."
"The stability and performance have been perfect."
"Our CS team has been able to quickly and effectively run through customer inquiries using the Zendesk platform."
"In a nutshell, it's a great tool that allows you to manage all your customer service issues in one location."
"The ability to easily create macros, quickly see past correspondence from a recent sender, and view analytics are incredibly helpful features that are invaluable business tools."
"The stability has been very good."
"Of the several different help desk ticket systems I have used Zendesk was the easiest to learn and use during a call."
 

Cons

"OpenText Decisiv is difficult to do customization. They need to improve this."
"My one negative critique would be the user interface. It's pretty busy and isn't the most user friendly; at times it is hard to navigate through or understand where you're at."
"When we used this solution for sales it turned out to be very poor."
"It could use better analytics for trend tracking as well as the ability to tie the customer support and sales items together."
"The solution could integrate better with QR codes from some websites such as Facebook."
"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."
"I really wish they had a chat feature - like Olark for example."
"Zendesk could actually support HTML on the tickets so we could format our text better than the current options such as size, bold, italic, or underscored, because the text processing is too simple."
"Support is not great. Their support is that specific support you get from a big American tech company."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of the solution can vary drastically because it depends on the modules that a client using. There is an additional cost of approximately 25% for maintenance."
"The price is very competitive."
"You have to pay extra for better support. So it's not only the license that you pay for, but you have to pay extra for the support as well."
"Zendesk's licensing is not cheap. For Enterprise, we are paying $200 per agent. It's a per-month cost, so it's pretty steep. There are some services you need to pay extra for. For example, with Zendesk Guide, we had to buy the most expensive offering in order to get Multibrand and everything. We also had to pay a lot of money for themes."
"From what I hear, Zendesk's pricing is a little expensive."
"There are different plans that are offered. We are using the entry-level plan. The overall price of the solution should be reduced. The price is too high."
"We pay for the solution on a yearly basis and my understanding is that the cost is about $30,000. That's the cost for 24 to 25 agents."
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Financial Services Firm
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Manufacturing Company
9%
 

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Midsize Enterprise22
Large Enterprise12
 

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My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Zendesk shows that pricing is really affordable compared to other customer management software. The setup is pretty simple as well, but if ...
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Regarding my main use case for Zendesk, it is really easy to use, but one of the cons I have with it is that it takes some time to load information. Most of the time, if a particular candidate has ...
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On a day-to-day basis, I use Zendesk to track, manage, and work on my cases. I also use it to upload information securely, and this is not only limited to documents but also to images and reports. ...
 

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Zendesk Support, Zendesk Guide, Zendesk Sell
 

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