DashboardFox vs. Zendesk Explore

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
DashboardFox
Score 0.0 out of 10
N/A
DashboardFox is cloud-based business intelligence and dashboard software from 5000fish, built for teams that create and deliver dashboards and reports to clients, departments, or business units. It is priced by monthly active users (MAU) rather than per seat, so organizations pay for a tier instead of for every login, and accounts that do not sign in are not counted. Row-level security, white-label branding, and custom domains are included in every plan, which…
$99
per month Monthly Active User (MAU)
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
DashboardFoxZendesk Explore
Editions & Modules
Starter
$99
per month Monthly Active Users (MAU)
Growth
$249
per month Monthly Active Users (MAU)
Scale
$499
per month Monthly Active Users (MAU)
Starter
$4,995
one-time fee per user
Growth
$9,995
one-time fee per user
Business
$14,995
one-time fee per user
Premium
$19,995
one-time fee per user
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
DashboardFoxZendesk Explore
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsA primary pricing consideration is the licensing model: DashboardFox is priced by monthly active users (MAU), not per seat. You pay for a tier, and only users who actually log in count toward it — recipients who view shared or scheduled reports without logging in are excluded. For teams with many occasional or read-only users, this is often more cost-effective than per-seat BI tools. Feature inclusion is also notable: row-level security, white-label branding, custom domains, and unlimited reports and dashboards are standard on every plan, including the $99/month Starter tier. Higher tiers scale capacity (more MAU, concurrent load, larger datasets, FastCache, Server Sync) and support levels rather than unlocking core features. Connecting data sources incurs no cost — there are no per-connector fees and no ETL requirement. Additional factors for buyers: annual billing provides a 20% discount; every plan includes a 7-day trial with no credit card required; discounts are available for nonprofits, education, government, and agencies/resellers; and for teams preferring to avoid subscriptions, a self-hosted perpetual license is available from $4,995, with the first year of upgrades and priority support included.
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Community Pulse
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Features
DashboardFoxZendesk Explore
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
DashboardFox
-
Ratings
Zendesk Explore
9.0
10 Ratings
10% above category average
Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings7.96 Ratings
Customizable dashboards00 Ratings9.010 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings9.97 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
DashboardFox
-
Ratings
Zendesk Explore
6.8
10 Ratings
16% below category average
Drill-down analysis00 Ratings10.010 Ratings
Formatting capabilities00 Ratings5.210 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings4.85 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings7.110 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
DashboardFox
-
Ratings
Zendesk Explore
7.8
10 Ratings
5% below category average
Publish to Web00 Ratings6.96 Ratings
Publish to PDF00 Ratings6.18 Ratings
Report Versioning00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.97 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
DashboardFox
-
Ratings
Zendesk Explore
7.2
7 Ratings
10% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings6.66 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings7.16 Ratings
Predictive Analytics00 Ratings5.55 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
DashboardFox
-
Ratings
Zendesk Explore
7.4
10 Ratings
14% below category average
Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings8.19 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings8.110 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings6.08 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings8.64 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings6.18 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
DashboardFox
-
Ratings
Zendesk Explore
7.8
7 Ratings
1% above category average
Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings6.15 Ratings
Mobile Application00 Ratings8.32 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
DashboardFox
-
Ratings
Zendesk Explore
4.9
5 Ratings
45% below category average
REST API00 Ratings3.25 Ratings
Javascript API00 Ratings5.14 Ratings
iFrames00 Ratings6.04 Ratings
Java API00 Ratings5.04 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings6.94 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings3.23 Ratings
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User Ratings
DashboardFoxZendesk Explore
Likelihood to Recommend
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(10 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
DashboardFoxZendesk Explore
Likelihood to Recommend
5000fish
No answers on this topic
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
5000fish
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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
5000fish
No answers on this topic
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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Usability
5000fish
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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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Support Rating
5000fish
No answers on this topic
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
5000fish
No answers on this topic
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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Return on Investment
5000fish
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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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ScreenShots

DashboardFox Screenshots

Screenshot of an interactive DashboardFox sales pipeline dashboard with KPI tiles, a revenue-by-rep chart, and a rep leaderboard. Business users filter by region, industry, or fiscal year and save their own views — self-service analytics with no SQL required.Screenshot of the Documents library in DashboardFox, where teams organize dashboards and reports into Team, Private, and Favorite folders. Share them with colleagues or clients, control guest access per item, and find any report fast with search and tags.Screenshot of DashboardFox's report Composer: pick fields, apply formulas and sorting, and preview the result live as a chart. Build dashboards and reports across 20+ visualizations without writing code, then save and share them with your team or clients.Screenshot of the App Builder in DashboardFox, where admins connect a data source and choose the exact tables and fields users can report on. Set up governed self-service reporting once, so business users only ever see the data they're allowed to.Screenshot of DashboardFox admin settings: manage data-source integrations, ODBC drivers, API access, scheduling, branding, and security in one place. Connect SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and more with no ETL, and white-label the experience for your clients.Screenshot of a single DashboardFox report shown as a color-coded calendar heatmap, flagging good, watch, and bad days at a glance. Open any report from the library, refresh or schedule it, and deliver it branded to your team or clients.