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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Answergen

    N/AN/AN/A

    $300

    per month

    Jaspersoft

    Score6 out of 10
    N/AJaspersoft commercial edition is an embedded business intelligence suite designed to be built-into SaaS products as an integrated reporting engine. It provides reports and dashboards for customer-facing applications without requiring app developers to build their own reporting engine.N/A

    Zendesk Explore

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AZendesk 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
    AnswergenJaspersoftZendesk Explore
    Editions & Modules
    Basic
    $300
    per month
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    Pricing Offerings
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    Free Trial
    NoYesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsJaspersoft offers flexible pricing for ISVs and SaaS per customer or by CPU core.
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    Key User Insights
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    71%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
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    83%
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    Features
    AnswergenJaspersoftZendesk Explore
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Answergen and Jaspersoft and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Answergen
    -
    Ratings
    Jaspersoft
    7.6
    100 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Zendesk Explore
    9.0
    10 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings7.687 Ratings8.06 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards00 Ratings7.588 Ratings9.010 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings7.886 Ratings9.97 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Answergen and Jaspersoft and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Answergen
    -
    Ratings
    Jaspersoft
    7.4
    98 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Zendesk Explore
    6.7
    10 Ratings
    18% below category average
    Drill-down analysis00 Ratings7.289 Ratings10.010 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities00 Ratings7.397 Ratings5.110 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings7.781 Ratings7.110 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings00 Ratings4.85 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Answergen and Jaspersoft and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Answergen
    -
    Ratings
    Jaspersoft
    7.7
    101 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Zendesk Explore
    7.8
    10 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Publish to Web00 Ratings7.176 Ratings6.96 Ratings
    Publish to PDF00 Ratings8.799 Ratings6.08 Ratings
    Report Versioning00 Ratings7.759 Ratings9.03 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings7.582 Ratings8.97 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings7.562 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Answergen and Jaspersoft and Zendesk Explore
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    Answergen
    -
    Ratings
    Jaspersoft
    7.7
    72 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Zendesk Explore
    7.1
    7 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings8.472 Ratings6.66 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings7.153 Ratings7.16 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics00 Ratings00 Ratings5.55 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings00 Ratings9.43 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Answergen and Jaspersoft and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Answergen
    -
    Ratings
    Jaspersoft
    8.1
    98 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Zendesk Explore
    7.3
    10 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings8.194 Ratings8.09 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings8.192 Ratings8.010 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings8.588 Ratings6.08 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings7.773 Ratings6.18 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings00 Ratings8.64 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Answergen and Jaspersoft and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Answergen
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    Ratings
    Jaspersoft
    6.6
    64 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Zendesk Explore
    7.8
    7 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings7.959 Ratings6.15 Ratings
    Mobile Application00 Ratings5.528 Ratings8.32 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings8.141 Ratings9.06 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Answergen and Jaspersoft and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Answergen
    -
    Ratings
    Jaspersoft
    7.6
    90 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Zendesk Explore
    4.9
    5 Ratings
    45% below category average
    REST API00 Ratings7.981 Ratings3.15 Ratings
    Javascript API00 Ratings8.062 Ratings5.04 Ratings
    iFrames00 Ratings7.754 Ratings6.04 Ratings
    Java API00 Ratings8.155 Ratings5.04 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings6.558 Ratings7.04 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings7.760 Ratings3.13 Ratings
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    Small Businesses
    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Jaspersoft Community Edition
    Score7 out of 10
    Jaspersoft Community Edition
    Score7 out of 10
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    Score7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    AnswergenJaspersoftZendesk Explore
    Likelihood to Recommend
    -
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    7.3
    (119 ratings)
    10.0
    (10 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (23 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    7.9
    (16 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Availability
    -
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    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
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    Performance
    -
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    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    -
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    7.0
    (26 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
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    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
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    6.5
    (7 ratings)
    -
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    Implementation Rating
    -
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    7.8
    (15 ratings)
    -
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    Configurability
    -
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    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    Data Sources
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Product Scalability
    -
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    8.0
    (3 ratings)
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    Vendor post-sale
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    8.0
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    8.0
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    User Testimonials
    AnswergenJaspersoftZendesk Explore
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Answergen
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    Cloud Software Group
    It is well suited for the fact of scalability itself and the breadth of features this application has in order to make the migration from legacy systems to the newer different versions more seamless and effective. Data integrity and security are the main aspects of this tool which does not lose their value when doing day-to-day operations for data mapping.
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    Zendesk
    Zendesk Explore is well suited for tracking ticket flow, agent performance, and customer satisfaction providing valuable insights into response and resolution time, workload and support quality. Particularly useful for monitoring ticket handling for different teams. Helps ensure accountability by tracking how long tickets remain assigned before being reassigned to another group. Drill down capability helps identify support bottlenecks. However, it is less appropriate for real time monitoring as it lacks real time data updates making it unsuitable for instant decision making.
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    Pros
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    Cloud Software Group
    • TIBCO Jaspersoft allows you to embed reports into your own application, which gives users the feeling they are using a single product.
    • TIBCO Jaspersoft Studio allows for more advanced report development, such as adding subreports, drilldown to detail reports, images, page headers, page footers, maps, and more.
    • TIBCO's Jaspersoft Domain Designer is very easy to use and navigate.
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    Zendesk
    • Zendesk Explore is easy to use.
    • Zendesk Explore allows users to create custom metrics.
    • Zendesk Explore allows users to create custom attributes.
    • Zendesk Explore is easy to learn.
    • Compared to other analytics function of other Ticket Management System, Zendesk Explore is probably the best as of now.
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    Cons
    Answergen
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    Cloud Software Group
    • One of the issues we found during our implementation was that the reporting software would work faster for certain data sources and not the others. Extracting CSVs and XML was slower in comparison to JSON in our experience.
    • Jaspersoft Studio was the main IDE we used for development. Built atop the Eclipse IDE, we found that the tool was really resource intensive and generally take long time to initialize.
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    Zendesk
    • Some aspects of Zendesk, in general, are not super intuitive. The same goes for Zendesk Explore. And, while you can google answers and hope you find something helpful, there isn't a great way to learn to get the full potential out of the product unless you want to pay for someone from your team to take a class (which costs several hundred dollars).
    • To piggyback off the last point, if you would prefer to get help from a Zendesk expert, you'll find that there is almost no customer support available to you. For a company that aims to help other companies help their customers, this has always struck me as odd. Again, Google is your friend and beyond that, you're mostly out of luck.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Answergen
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    Cloud Software Group
    JasperSoft has been amazing. It is well documented, fast, and transparent in how it functions. We have been very confident in JasperSoft in every aspect of our business and offerings where we've used it. On top of that, their improvements to the product have been fantastic. I am really looking forward to seeing where they take their product and how we can leverage that to please our clients
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    Zendesk
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    Usability
    Answergen
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    Cloud Software Group
    I think it's a tool well suited for a software developer. Others with less coding skills could struggle somewhat with the tool. I find java a little unforgiving as a language for expressions and not very user friendly for the technically dis-inclined. Sometimes the numeric conversions cause issues (who knew that 0 and 0.0 would cause different things to happen). Previous experience with a reporting tool that used visual basic for its' expressions that I found much simpler to use. On the other hand, java is so widespread, you can easily google the syntax to accomplish what you need to do.
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    Zendesk
    I rate Zendesk Explore 8 out of 10 for it's overall usability because it offers powerful reporting and analytics with an easy to navigate interface and intuitive dashboards. It helps improve customer satisfaction by providing valuable insights into ticket handling, agent performance and customer satisfaction. Though the complex query builder can be challenging for non technical users.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Answergen
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    Cloud Software Group
    We've never had an outage of the software itself. If it was unavailable, it was due to a network outage, not a problem with Jasper.
    Incentivized
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    Zendesk
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Answergen
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    Cloud Software Group
    Complex reports on heavy data load may take considerable amount of time. We have experinced some latencies/misfires regarding to this.
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    Zendesk
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Answergen
    No answers on this topic
    Cloud Software Group
    They have a great customer support ticketing system in which they always respond same-day. They offer conference calls with srcreensharing as well in order to better understand your issues.
    I wish that the lower level support access came with more than just 12 cases per year though as this makes us less likely to reach out for questions on things that we then instead try to solve ourselves which results in loss of time in trying to acquire new features and or solve a problem.
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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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    In-Person Training
    Answergen
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    Cloud Software Group
    It did the job of getting us to our deadline we set for ourselves for initial launch. The customer we launched the product for was also there to learn about it at the same in order to better understand the capabilities. This helped greatly so that the customer was on the same page on what was possible when using jaspersoft. I think most people would not want their customers aware the product they are using is third-party but in this case it was a new experience for us both and so as we learned more about jaspersoft, we both had better communication on what the future road map was for their business needs in BI.
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    Zendesk
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
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    Cloud Software Group
    Resources available in the TIBCO Knowledge Base are covering almost everything. They are well organized, and covering almost every possibility. There is always the change to get back to the TIBCO support or to the dedicated Customer Success Manager whenever something very specific or bound to a customization is not covered.
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    Zendesk
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    Implementation Rating
    Answergen
    No answers on this topic
    Cloud Software Group
    Having just completed an upgrade to the latest version of Jaspersoft, I am happy to say their support was very good. There were a couple of small challenges which were not easily resolved, but they were primarily related to the fact that we had skipped updates for a couple of versions. The current update procedures assumed we were upgrading from the prior latest version (6.4) to to the new version (7.1).
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    Zendesk
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    Alternatives Considered
    Answergen
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    Cloud Software Group
    When looking at the different features of these reporting engines, and what we were going to be using it for, the answer seemed clear. Jasper offered exactly what we were looking for, and did so for a price that we were happy with. For a scalable, feature-rich reporting engine that doesn't break the bank, Jaspersoft is the way to go.
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    Zendesk
    I selected Zendesk Explore only to provide an easy and quick access for my managers and supervisors regading metrics and volume trends. Is not the most flexible nor complete data visualization tool, but works well for day-to-day follow ups. You need to use another tool if you want to see long-term patterns (e.g. month over month volume trends) and you need another platform if you want your interaction metrics to interact with other important factors of the business
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    Scalability
    Answergen
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    Cloud Software Group
    We haven't really started to explore the scalability of the product as yet, but in terms of existing deployments it has done what we need it to do.
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    Zendesk
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    Return on Investment
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    Cloud Software Group
    • When we demo our Jaspersoft environment to potential clients, their eyes light up and they sit up in their chairs a bit more. A lot of our meetings have ended with with the client very interested in our product due to Jaspersoft.
    • Our existing clients have been very satisfied with the adhoc features of Jaspersoft. We've been able to provide them better access to their data on their terms instead of ours. Of course this turns into a huge win for us.
    • We've always used SQL Server Reporting Services to deliver our reports to our clients. Converting to Jaspersoft has allowed us to generate the reporting layer that our clients demand. They no longer feel like they are settling for what we offer.
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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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