Cloze vs. KronoDesk

It's ok for personal use but for business use, it is begging to become a terrible system. We used it for 5 years and after that, we have decided to move to a different system, upon export of the information we started looking at and our database of contacts was so messed up with contacts merged together that don't belong together. So as our database was so corrupted we had to start over with new contact lists and rebuild everything again. I would not recommend this software unless you have your own IT department that can fix things themselves.

I advise my customers to use it for all issue tracking, in business development as well as in business operations. An interface to operational systems is therefor very helpful and enlarges the value of the KronoDesk knowledge base, provided that this information is "open" to all users of all departments.

• Contact management
• Contact enrichment
• Email management

Incentivized

• As a system architect I have a clear overview of open issues through clear issue description and assignment to developers.
• The overview and tracking are most important to me.

• Not good as a comprehensive project management tool.

Incentivized

• The possibility to create a system/subsystem/component/interface tree of the system landscape, to be used to more detailed issue associations and subsequent detailed planning and monitoring of issues.
• A quick issue entry with the most important information would be helpful.
• A "live" report that can contains my current "hot" issues would be helpful.

The ONLY issue that I have is there is ZERO phone customer service or training. Everything is done online or via email, which sucks in my opinion, but they always do get back to you.

Incentivized

They don't, they say they are a personal contact manager but I believe they are wanting large companies that have their own IT Departments as they don't really offer that good of support in my opinion and they do not have phone support. I wouldn't recommend this software to anyone for personal or business.

Several freeware/shareware tools like Bugzilla are missing integration with other systems. HP, IBM and CA like systems are too cumbersome and complicated for "normal" users, for me too much "hassle" to monitor issues and related information and links to other issues.

• Easy to enrich the information related to a specific contact in an automated way
• Knowing when recipients receive and read their emails
• Save time building the CRM

Incentivized

• The ROI is reached faster and exponentially higher, depending on the number of users and cooperating business units.