We performed a comparison between Pega CRM and Zendesk based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two CRM Customer Engagement Centers solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is the ability to pull information about the customer on-the-fly so they feel the interaction is more personal."
"It also reduces the duration per call, and it ensures a first time resolution of the issue."
"One of the most valuable features of Pega CRM for our team's productivity is its ease of setup, thanks to its configuration-driven approach."
"We can effortlessly manage the data within it, and it offers ease of use and high flexibility to present the data across various vendors."
"The case management feature is really valuable."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"Great flexibility and its locking mechanism enable multiple users to work on the same case seamlessly."
"Pega offers a clear parent-child case relationship that's easily created and maintained. Dependencies can be configured, where reaching a specific stage in a parent case automatically triggers a child task in a child case, while the parent case remains on hold until a certain condition is met before moving forward. This configuration allows multiple users to work on cases in parallel. Many of these settings are readily available within Pega case settings. Overall, Pega's case management is unparalleled compared to other options."
"I found the user experience with vendors on Zendesk to be straightforward, especially when it comes to understanding and searching for specific tickets. The search and navigation tools are easy to use, and I haven't encountered any issues with delays or communication gaps in ticket resolutions."
"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."
"It's very convenient to use."
"It has good management, the ability to sign tickets based on content, the multi-channel support, the self service portal, the integration with Salesforce, the setup process, and the product features as we are currently using them."
"It's a very stable tool, very powerful."
"We rarely had issues with Zendesk."
"The most valuable features of Zendesk Support are collaboration, reports, and a self-service portal. The customer and team can see all the information needed from the portal."
"Zendesk Support has a lot of good APIs."
"It would be beneficial to enhance the pricing and support implementation options as they are currently quite expensive."
"There has been a common acknowledgment among customers that this solution is an expensive tool and they often opt for cheaper tools like Comodo"
"They should enable the data-driven streaming feature inside it."
"The solution has room for improvement around decisional and real-time data analysis."
"The disadvantage of the tool stems from the fact that it does not allow users to make database-level modifications."
"The UI should be improved."
"The UI is lagging and needs to be improved."
"For many of the clients, they have a separate system or separate layer of UI and a separate layer of the business rules engine, which Pega has taken care of in the recent releases."
"Sometimes if there was a way to just flag the actual issue out of those email chains - that would be really helpful."
"You couldn't give administrative access to new hires."
"It wasn't easy to set up so we're only using a third of all of the features,"
"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."
"The dashboard could be better."
"The support team is time-consuming, and they don't find the answer to our problem."
"The solution itself wasn't easy to set up."
"It needs to improve in terms of its flexibility, price, and installation."
Pega CRM is ranked 7th in CRM Customer Engagement Centers with 10 reviews while Zendesk is ranked 5th in CRM Customer Engagement Centers with 57 reviews. Pega CRM is rated 8.0, while Zendesk is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Pega CRM writes "Case management feature is valuable but the pricing is expensive". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zendesk writes "Straightforward, very transparent, and very well organized". Pega CRM is most compared with Pega Robotic Process Automation, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Siebel CRM, Genesys Cloud CX and HubSpot CRM, whereas Zendesk is most compared with ServiceNow, JIRA Service Management, Atlassian Confluence, Freshservice and Microsoft Dynamics CRM. See our Pega CRM vs. Zendesk report.
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