Altair SmartSight vs. Zendesk Explore

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Altair SmartSight
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Altair SmartSight (formerly Carriots Analytics) is a cloud data analytics platform for embedded, Big Data, and IoT applications. It provides secure and rapid free-form data visualization and exploration, scalable throughout the enterprise in real time.N/A
Zendesk Explore
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Zendesk 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
Altair SmartSightZendesk Explore
Editions & Modules
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Pricing Offerings
Altair SmartSightZendesk Explore
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
Altair SmartSightZendesk Explore
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Altair SmartSight
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Ratings
Zendesk Explore
9.0
9 Ratings
10% above category average
Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings7.15 Ratings
Customizable dashboards00 Ratings10.09 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings10.07 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Altair SmartSight
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Ratings
Zendesk Explore
8.5
9 Ratings
5% above category average
Drill-down analysis00 Ratings9.59 Ratings
Formatting capabilities00 Ratings9.09 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings5.65 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings10.09 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Altair SmartSight
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Ratings
Zendesk Explore
8.6
9 Ratings
3% above category average
Publish to Web00 Ratings7.76 Ratings
Publish to PDF00 Ratings9.07 Ratings
Report Versioning00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings9.07 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings8.54 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Altair SmartSight
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Ratings
Zendesk Explore
7.7
7 Ratings
4% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings7.46 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings7.56 Ratings
Predictive Analytics00 Ratings6.45 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings9.43 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Altair SmartSight
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Ratings
Zendesk Explore
9.2
9 Ratings
8% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings9.58 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings9.59 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings8.07 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings10.07 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Altair SmartSight
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Ratings
Zendesk Explore
8.0
7 Ratings
0% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings6.85 Ratings
Mobile Application00 Ratings8.42 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings9.06 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Altair SmartSight
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Ratings
Zendesk Explore
6.3
4 Ratings
22% below category average
REST API00 Ratings6.14 Ratings
Javascript API00 Ratings6.23 Ratings
iFrames00 Ratings6.03 Ratings
Java API00 Ratings5.93 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings6.63 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
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User Ratings
Altair SmartSightZendesk Explore
Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
(5 ratings)
9.4
(9 ratings)
Usability
8.3
(5 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
8.7
(5 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
Altair SmartSightZendesk Explore
Likelihood to Recommend
Altair Engineering, Inc.
As per my knowledge and Altair Product experience, It is really a good product that comes with multiple features like IoT, BigData, dashboards, and other things. I personally really enjoyed using the services provided by Altair. It is well suited for the organizations who don't spend much time setting up their own platform, maintenance, and much more because Altair not only provides the platform but they will care about your products with good customer support and maintenance. I only found a bit low in the case of machine learning and AI products because I have checked different products that provide these services with good accuracy.
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Zendesk
Compared to other analytics functions of other Ticket Management System, Zendesk Explore is the easiest to learn. Moreover, the learning curve is high. Once you pick up the fundamentals, you will be able to create all types of analytic reports. In addition, if you know basic coding or SQL, you can create your own metrics and attributes to capture extremely specific elements such as the tickets that contain a certain word or etc.
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Pros
Altair Engineering, Inc.
  • The global navigation bar with links to the library for easy access and management within the platform.
  • Simplified task viewer where we can find the profile, performance, help, resources and a link also to manage your account.
  • System administrators can define profiles for task execution.
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Zendesk
  • As with most "suite" products, if you already use other Zendesk features (Chat, Talk, etc), then Zendesk Explore adds an extra facet to the customer experience. The more we know about our clientele, the better we can understand/anticipate their needs.
  • I like that we can get as in-depth as we feel is necessary. For example, is just one customer having an issue? Or are many experiencing a similar problem? We can better rack this type of trend using Explore.
  • Our team can dive deep into the data based on exactly what we're looking for. If the marketing team wants a certain kind of segment, we can give them that info. If we want to sort by date or another set of parameters, we can do that as well.
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Cons
Altair Engineering, Inc.
  • Integration with other systems could be better.
  • Ability to handle large amount of data.
  • Expertise services might be better.
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Zendesk
  • Flexibility: the platform is somewhat limited for the creation of "non-standard" metrics
  • It is complicated to create dashboards with no previous Zendesk Explore knowledge
  • The reliability of Zendesk Explore has not been great: we had at least 5 situations when the dashboard was not showing data and had to approach Customer service for support
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Usability
Altair Engineering, Inc.
Very user-friendly UI and visual representation is also good for the price offered. Good tool but lacks some advanced and AI-based insights. It has an edge over other tools for the price of this tool. It has some great potential and i would consider this in my top 5 when considering tools of this domain
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Zendesk
As previously mentioned, Zendesk Explore is easy to use. There are lots of materials in Zendesk Community. In addition, the live support will also help a lot in learning Zendesk Explore, especially for beginners. Zendesk Explore might be difficult at first to learn, but anyone could learn it in just 7 days. Once the fundamentals are locked in, moving from that place to becoming an amateur at Zendesk Explore is extremely easy. Lastly, if you know basic coding and SQL, you can be a pro at it already.
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Support Rating
Altair Engineering, Inc.
I only had one problem with the software, and the support system response was very quick.
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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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Alternatives Considered
Altair Engineering, Inc.
Altair smart sight stacks up against all the products mentioned above because it comes with a wide variety of applications and services like Big Data, IoT services, Embedded systems, cloud-based service, data visualization, Machine learning, dashboarding, and much more. I have used the other products like Logi Composer, Tableau CRM, and PowerBI but they only handle the specific use cases. So Because of that Altair Smartsight really provide a good and wide range of solution.
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Zendesk
Zendesk Explore is more user friendly and the software plus maintenance cost is less. The report section is more detailed and no lag while creating report for a large data source. The report segments and formats are editable which make it more convenient to make a report according to a requirement for an individual.
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Return on Investment
Altair Engineering, Inc.
  • The workflow interface consists of the workflow canvas where we do our actual pipeline and workflow execution log, display information and each process.
  • You can use it to create a workflow and the available execution profiles in which to run them.
  • We currently have one session running for each workflow.
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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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