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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

    Varuna

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AVaruna is an industrial IoT solution that provides alerts, recommendations, and predictions to help water utility leaders to effectively manage a water system. The Varuna platform collects, analyzes, and displays relevant operational and business data. Varuna enables the utility to perform real-time water quality monitoring using advanced sensors, predict quality issues using machine learning, determine resource needs, and generate up-to-date mandated reports. Varuna was founded in…N/A
    Pricing
    Desk.com (discontinued)Varuna
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Desk.com (discontinued)Varuna
    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)Varuna
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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
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    85%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    11 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    13 Answers
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    Features
    Desk.com (discontinued)Varuna
    Internet of Things
    Comparison of Internet of Things features of Desk.com (discontinued) and Varuna
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    Ratings
    Varuna
    7.0
    1 Ratings
    13% below category average
    IoT Device Management00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Device Security00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    IoT Data Management00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    IoT Analytics00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    IoT Integration00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
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    Desk.com (discontinued)Varuna
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    Help Scout
    Score9.3 out of 10
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    Score10 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    LiveAgent
    Score8.8 out of 10
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    Enterprises
    Front
    Score9.2 out of 10
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    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Desk.com (discontinued)Varuna
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (38 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.4
    (14 ratings)
    -
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    Usability
    8.3
    (19 ratings)
    -
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    Availability
    1.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Performance
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    8.2
    (21 ratings)
    -
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    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Desk.com (discontinued)Varuna
    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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    Varuna Tech Inc
    It analyses in a great way to collect and display operational and of course relevant business data allowing users to predict a large number of issues, especially quality ones. Reports can be generated just after a few clicks. Machine learning capabilities bring some additional benefits of efficiency and help to the end-users.
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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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    Varuna Tech Inc
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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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    Varuna Tech Inc
    • Mobile functionality
    • Responsive design
    • Better stat tools
    Incentivized
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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
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    Varuna Tech Inc
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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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    Varuna Tech Inc
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    Reliability and Availability
    Discontinued Products
    We've never had a problem with Desk.com's availability.
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    Varuna Tech Inc
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    Performance
    Discontinued Products
    Fast, responsive, gorgeous, and fun. It's always run like a thoroughbred for me.
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    Varuna Tech Inc
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    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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    Varuna Tech Inc
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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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    Varuna Tech Inc
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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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    Varuna Tech Inc
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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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    Varuna Tech Inc
    • Less time spent on the tool
    • Good feedback
    • The tool has great analytics
    Incentivized
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