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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Desk.com (discontinued)

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/ADesk.com was a helpdesk, ticketing, and customer support product offered by Salesforce, and oriented towards the needs of small businesses. It is no longer sold and support has been discontinued. Salesforce recommends its modern Service Cloud as a replacement.N/A

    Exotel Contact Center

    Score8.3 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Exotel is a Contact Center platform for managing customer interactions across voice, video, email, SMS, WhatsApp, and social media from a unified agent desktop. The platform combines routing, agent-assistance, self-service, analytics, quality management, and deployment options for customer-service operations.

    $200

    5 months Validity

    Pricing
    Desk.com (discontinued)Exotel Contact Center
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Dabbler
    $200
    5 months Validity
    Believer
    $500
    11 months Validity
    Influencer
    $1000
    11 months Validity
    Custom
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    Pricing Offerings
    Desk.com (discontinued)Exotel Contact Center
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    Desk.com (discontinued)Exotel Contact Center
    Considered Both Products
    Discontinued Products
    No answer on this topic
    Exotel Techcom
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    78%
    Would buy again
    14 Answers
    83%
    Would buy again
    5 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    88%
    Delivers good value for the price
    14 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    83%
    Happy with the feature set
    15 Answers
    67%
    Happy with the feature set
    4 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    85%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    11 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    13 Answers
    83%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    Features
    Desk.com (discontinued)Exotel Contact Center
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Desk.com (discontinued) and Exotel Contact Center
    Feature
    Desk.com (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Exotel Contact Center
    8.7
    2 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Agent dashboard00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Validate callers00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Outbound response00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Call forwarding00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Warm transfer00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Predictive dialing00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Interactive voice response00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    REST APIs00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Call scripts00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Call tracking00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Multichannel integration00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    CRM software integration00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Desk.com (discontinued) and Exotel Contact Center
    Feature
    Desk.com (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Exotel Contact Center
    7.8
    2 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Inbound call routing00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Recording00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Quality management00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Call analytics00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Historical reporting00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Live reporting00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Customer surveys00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Desk.com (discontinued)Exotel Contact Center
    Small Businesses
    Help Scout
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Zendesk Talk
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    LiveAgent
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Front
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Score8.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Desk.com (discontinued)Exotel Contact Center
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (38 ratings)
    7.1
    (6 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.4
    (14 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.3
    (19 ratings)
    7.1
    (3 ratings)
    Availability
    1.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.2
    (21 ratings)
    6.0
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Desk.com (discontinued)Exotel Contact Center
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    Once I had to search the logs to find cases and data on a particular keyword, but I was not able to do so as there was no search tool available, nor was there a sort or filter tool. I was totally frustrated as I had to skim through the data to complete my task manually.
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    Exotel Techcom
    Exotel is well suited for: - Small and mid-sized Internet based businesses where it is necessary for them to have a very strong customer support team working round the clock and in different shifts. - Company making large number of calls and sending mass SMS's. They can do that on a single cloud based platform. Exotel might not be a good fit if: -it is not a call intensive business that you want to cater to. Though the setup cost is very low but it follows economies of scale i.e. more the number of calls, less will be per call cost.
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • Desk.com automatically tracks analytics on all cases coming in and going out.
    • Desk.com helps prevent multiple people from working on the same case. However, it does allow us to assign the case to someone else if we feel that person is more qualified to address the case.
    • Desk.com has very few bugs or server issues that we've seen. This helps prevent any delays in communicating with our customers.
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    Exotel Techcom
    • To quickly and effectively route customer inquiries to the appropriate agents our customer support team uses it's omnichannel routing feature , a member with technical knowledge may be contracted by customer who has a technical questions.
    • Its automated ticket routing features allows customer service team to distribute tickets to customer team member in accordance with their availability and skill sets. by ensuring that tickets are handled by most knowledgeable agents this can result in quicker and more precise resolutions.
    • Its AI powered knowledge base search feature helps us to quickly find the details required to respond to inquiries from customer , this time it take to respond to customer inquires is shortened as a result.
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    Cons
    Discontinued Products
    • Internal knowledge tools are clunky and annoying to access, outside the regular workflow of everyday staff
    • Arbitrary and confusing limitations in business rules and custom fields
    • Arbitrary and confusing limitations in case handling - for example, if you begin a case as a phone call you CANNOT email the customer from the case. As though no one working at Desk has ever sent a follow-up email...?
    • Not very good for B2B, mid-to-large businesses. Difficult to set business rules based on company information (for example, service level/tier) and nearly impossible to track key stakeholders and get clear insight into the relationship at a high level
    • Reporting tools are clunky, slow, and just all-around pretty useless
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    Exotel Techcom
    • Inter campaigns call transfer feature which currently is not possible
    • Interface in Agent login to monitor and keep track of their own break and login times.
    • Ameyo’s wide feature set can make onboarding challenging. Offering enhanced training materials, interactive tutorials, and a more structured onboarding process could make adoption easier for new users.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Discontinued Products
    We will be very likely to renew our contract with Desk.com. It is easy to use, and provides us with everything we need to keep our customers and employees happy. They have also been very helpful in catering the application to our specific and unique needs, including working across brands and adding specific content for our products
    Incentivized
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    Exotel Techcom
    As a company our goals have slightly surpassed the current Exotel features and would want some other software which has better capabilities
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Discontinued Products
    Desk.com and Salesforce Service Cloud's usability is seamless to get up and running, administer, and scale across the organization. It allows us to get up and running in days rather than weeks and has transformed our customer support teams globally into efficient, world-class teams. The best practices that the Salesforce and Desk.com teams provide are also very valuable, as we have the right case studies and tips to implement right away in our organization.
    Incentivized
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    Exotel Techcom
    As I said previously, Ameyo is a good tool however it has a long way to go compared to Avaya. The user interface can be improved a lot as they can use it as an app instead of completely web-based. Also, the reporting can be improved substantially and make the experience much better.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Discontinued Products
    We've never had a problem with Desk.com's availability.
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    Exotel Techcom
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Discontinued Products
    Fast, responsive, gorgeous, and fun. It's always run like a thoroughbred for me.
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    Exotel Techcom
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
    Their support leaves much to be desired. They do not respond quickly and do not follow up with feature requests. There is also a lack of on-demand or live training available for the teams to use as they learn a new tool. Because there is so much customization, a lot of questions do come up regularly.
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    Exotel Techcom
    Initially they had chat support which was available faster. But now the chat support gets routed to a virtual agent and unable to get in touch with an actual agent. They also have no support with respect to the API's and other integrations.
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    Implementation Rating
    Discontinued Products
    As I stated earlier, implementation of Desk.com went more smoothly than most. The resources in the "Support Center" are fantastic, and I never ran into anything that left me stumped, angry, or disappointed.
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    Exotel Techcom
    It was pretty straight forward
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    Overall, it performs a lot better than all three combined, with a lot fewer glitches and a lot more user-friendly and user experience efficiency. Any new link that needs to be done, takes a lot less time to execute on desk compared to the three others. Simply advanced when it comes to execution this platform is.
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    Exotel Techcom
    Exotel was selected by us because of the following reasons: -Low set-up and maintenance cost as compared to its peers. -Prompt customer service: You want to upgrade your plan or facing any issues around the platform, Exotel team is just a call away. -Call recording Quality was also better than the peers.
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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • Better customer service and employee efficiency when dealing with cases
    • It's so universal, meaning that everyone can use it and it's easy to understand.
    • The only negative impact is that our IT department who is assigned tickets has responded to customers instead of to the local reps and we have to ensure they know to change the email if it's assigned to them.
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    Exotel Techcom
    • This increased onboarding efficiency to save money on startup.
    • This saved us money by getting both services from one company.
    • Con was price was higher than we would have liked but efficiency made up for that.
    Incentivized
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    Exotel Contact Center Screenshots

    Screenshot of Login to Exotel dashboard