Desk.com (discontinued) vs. Freshdesk Omni

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Desk.com (discontinued)
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Desk.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
Freshdesk Omni
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
Freshdesk Omni is an AI-powered, comprehensive solution for offering customers seamless experiences today and in the future.
$35
per month per agent
Pricing
Desk.com (discontinued)Freshdesk Omni
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Growth
$29
per month (billed annually) per agent
Pro
$69
per month (billed annually) per agent
Enterprise
$109
per month (billed annually) per agent
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Desk.com (discontinued)Freshdesk Omni
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Desk.com (discontinued)Freshdesk Omni
Features
Desk.com (discontinued)Freshdesk Omni
Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
Desk.com (discontinued)
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Ratings
Freshdesk Omni
9.0
13 Ratings
9% above category average
Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings8.913 Ratings
Expert directory00 Ratings8.613 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings8.711 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings9.410 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings9.313 Ratings
Ticket response00 Ratings9.113 Ratings
Self Help Community
Comparison of Self Help Community features of Product A and Product B
Desk.com (discontinued)
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Ratings
Freshdesk Omni
8.5
13 Ratings
6% above category average
External knowledge base00 Ratings8.313 Ratings
Internal knowledge base00 Ratings8.713 Ratings
Multi-Channel Help
Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Product A and Product B
Desk.com (discontinued)
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Ratings
Freshdesk Omni
8.6
13 Ratings
7% above category average
Customer portal00 Ratings8.713 Ratings
IVR00 Ratings8.510 Ratings
Social integration00 Ratings7.912 Ratings
Email support00 Ratings9.213 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings8.813 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Desk.com (discontinued)Freshdesk Omni
Small Businesses
Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)
Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)
Score 9.0 out of 10
Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)
Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)
Score 9.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)
Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)
Score 9.0 out of 10
Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)
Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)
Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises
SysAid
SysAid
Score 8.9 out of 10
SysAid
SysAid
Score 8.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
Desk.com (discontinued)Freshdesk Omni
Likelihood to Recommend
8.2
(38 ratings)
9.1
(13 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.4
(14 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.3
(19 ratings)
9.1
(13 ratings)
Availability
1.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.2
(21 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Desk.com (discontinued)Freshdesk Omni
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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Freshworks Inc
For a typical technical support help desk use case Freshdesk Omni is great! It has the advanced features of automating responses and canned answers where appropriate. The AI functionality seems good but not something we are leveraging at this point given the volume of tickets.
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Pros
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  • 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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  • When an agent receives a call via Dialpad or Amazon Connect, Freshdesk Omni automatically displays relevant customer details, previous interactions, and ticket history in a single view.
  • Every call (answered, missed, or voicemail) is automatically logged into Freshdesk as a ticket, including details like call duration, customer number, and agent notes.
  • Agents can initiate outbound calls directly from Freshdesk using click-to-call functionality, reducing manual dialing errors and saving time.
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Cons
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  • 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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Freshworks Inc
  • It is a very user-friendly tool. We haven't found any drwback in any of the modules provided. It works excellently at my organization.
  • Its powerful workflow automation reduces manual effort for job assigning and makes our process more efficient and saves valuable time.
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Likelihood to Renew
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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
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Freshworks Inc
No answers on this topic
Usability
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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.
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Freshworks Inc
Utilizing a unified platform has successfully reduced the resolution time for customer-facing issues. This streamlined approach enhances efficiency and generates valuable insights that can be leveraged to improve our services and better understand customer needs, ultimately leading to a more satisfying experience for our clients.
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Reliability and Availability
Discontinued Products
We've never had a problem with Desk.com's availability.
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Freshworks Inc
No answers on this topic
Performance
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Fast, responsive, gorgeous, and fun. It's always run like a thoroughbred for me.
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Freshworks Inc
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
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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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Freshworks Inc
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
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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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Freshworks Inc
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
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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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Freshworks Inc
1) Price is also a point to decide, other Service Providers were providing similar features but the prices were slightly on a higher side. 2) Coming to feature comparison, JIRA offers whole lot of other features but currently we did not require them and Zoho had few less features comparing to Freshworks
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Return on Investment
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  • 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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Freshworks Inc
  • Our customers often give feedback to closed tickets to track satisfaction scores
  • Customers appreciate the value of viewing their tickets in the customer portal
  • We save time by having a single source system to interact with our customers and track issue history.
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ScreenShots

Desk.com (discontinued) Screenshots

Screenshot of Desk.com ConsoleScreenshot of Desk.com Issue ScreenScreenshot of Desk.com Reporting and Analytics

Freshdesk Omni Screenshots

Screenshot of Advanced AnalyticsScreenshot of Team InboxScreenshot of Customer Communication ManagementScreenshot of Conversational AI