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    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

    RWS Tridion Sites

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ARWS Tridion Sites provides web content management capabilities, connecting people, processes, and information across teams, brands, and markets, to deliver impactful online experiences globally. RWS Tridion Sites' DPX platform enables the use of either traditional or headless publishing. It includes advanced features such as automated personalization, multilingual capabilities and Semantic AI. The BluePrinting® technology at the core of RWS Tridion Sites simplifies reuse and…N/A
    Pricing
    Desk.com (discontinued)RWS Tridion Sites
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Desk.com (discontinued)RWS Tridion Sites
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Desk.com (discontinued)RWS Tridion Sites
    Considered Both Products
    Discontinued Products
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    RWS Group
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    78%
    Would buy again
    14 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    88%
    Delivers good value for the price
    14 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    83%
    Happy with the feature set
    15 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    85%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    11 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    13 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Desk.com (discontinued)RWS Tridion Sites
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Desk.com (discontinued) and RWS Tridion Sites
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    Ratings
    RWS Tridion Sites
    9.0
    9 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Role-based user permissions00 Ratings9.09 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Desk.com (discontinued) and RWS Tridion Sites
    Feature
    Desk.com (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    RWS Tridion Sites
    9.1
    8 Ratings
    15% above category average
    API00 Ratings8.36 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language00 Ratings10.07 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Desk.com (discontinued) and RWS Tridion Sites
    Feature
    Desk.com (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    RWS Tridion Sites
    8.5
    8 Ratings
    8% above category average
    WYSIWYG editor00 Ratings8.08 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness00 Ratings8.07 Ratings
    Admin section00 Ratings9.08 Ratings
    Page templates00 Ratings9.08 Ratings
    Library of website themes00 Ratings8.24 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design00 Ratings9.07 Ratings
    Publishing workflow00 Ratings9.08 Ratings
    Form generator00 Ratings8.33 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Desk.com (discontinued) and RWS Tridion Sites
    Feature
    Desk.com (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    RWS Tridion Sites
    7.6
    8 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Content taxonomy00 Ratings9.07 Ratings
    SEO support00 Ratings9.06 Ratings
    Bulk management00 Ratings9.08 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions00 Ratings8.35 Ratings
    Community / comment management00 Ratings3.03 Ratings
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    Desk.com (discontinued)RWS Tridion Sites
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    Score9.3 out of 10
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    Score8.8 out of 10
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    Score7.7 out of 10
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    Score9.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Desk.com (discontinued)RWS Tridion Sites
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (38 ratings)
    9.9
    (22 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.4
    (14 ratings)
    6.3
    (15 ratings)
    Usability
    8.3
    (19 ratings)
    8.5
    (2 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)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    Desk.com (discontinued)RWS Tridion Sites
    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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    RWS Group
    Love the product and I really like how we use it for public sites. The only negative aspect is that it is just hard to find Tridion devs that understand the tool, grasp .net, react, and understand the blueprint, etc.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    RWS Group
    • Makes it easy to spin up a new site quickly
    • Allows for numerous users to work on the same site without conflicting with each other's changes
    • Allows you to unpublish changes or revert to old versions if you make a mistake
    • Allows you to time publishing actions (for example, you can set it to happen overnight)
    Incentivized
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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
    Incentivized
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    RWS Group
    • Tridion is complicated in enough ways that it makes it difficult to train new users. Therefore, we have to limit the number of people with access to the system since we have not yet implemented Workflow.
    • When something goes wrong (items fail to publish, or there is unexpected behavior with components), there is little explanation provided that would point us in the right direction to troubleshoot. As a result, content Authors and Editors have to frequently ask for IT assistance.
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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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    RWS Group
    I am giving this a semi-high rating because we have already got Tridion up and running and we are still in the process of moving the sites over to Tridion. It is unlikely we will be moving things to a new CMS AGAIN in the near future as the cost to get Tridion was high.
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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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    RWS Group
    The editor user interface is very user friendly and in-site editing makes simple updates fast and easy. The extensibility of Tridion is a big plus and the ability to add our own options into the default Tridion interface helps us integrate with external systems. Finally, the user permissions and security system helps us deploy it within our large organization.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Discontinued Products
    We've never had a problem with Desk.com's availability.
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    RWS Group
    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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    RWS Group
    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.
    Incentivized
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    RWS Group
    No answers on this topic
    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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    RWS Group
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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.
    Incentivized
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    RWS Group
    It is a nuclear missile compared to the other handguns and knives on the market today. But it also requires nuclear technicians and expertise that a handgun doesn't require. Do you need to decimate your competition and you have the investment capabilities necessary to put a nuclear missile into the sky? Then definitely do it. Especially if you need a very good multi-lingual blueprint provider like Tridion.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    RWS Group
    • SDL is a very complex system. Creating custom components by external vendors turned out to be expensive.
    • The learning curve is very slow, so training takes a lot of time and cost.
    • The revamped corporate site looks clean, modern, and is mobile-friendly.
    Incentivized
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