Desk.com (discontinued) vs. ZoomSphere

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
ZoomSphere
Score 8.5 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
ZoomSphere is a social media management platform that helps 7000+ customers across the world manage all their social media interactions including social listening, publishing and reporting. According to the vendor, ZoomSphere has been created keeping medium and scaling teams in mind making it super collaborative to use. One of the USP's of ZoomSphere is that we do not require head counts on how many users you have or how many profiles you connect or how many likes and…N/A
Pricing
Desk.com (discontinued)ZoomSphere
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Desk.com (discontinued)ZoomSphere
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Desk.com (discontinued)ZoomSphere
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Desk.com (discontinued)ZoomSphere
Publishing
Comparison of Publishing features of Product A and Product B
Desk.com (discontinued)
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Ratings
ZoomSphere
8.0
1 Ratings
1% above category average
Content planning and scheduling00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Audience targeting00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Workflow management00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Marketing
Comparison of Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Desk.com (discontinued)
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Ratings
ZoomSphere
9.0
1 Ratings
16% above category average
Content marketing00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Channel coverage/integration
Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of Product A and Product B
Desk.com (discontinued)
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Ratings
ZoomSphere
8.4
1 Ratings
1% below category average
Twitter00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Facebook00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
LinkedIn00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Instagram00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
YouTube00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Reporting/analytics
Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of Product A and Product B
Desk.com (discontinued)
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Ratings
ZoomSphere
8.3
1 Ratings
6% above category average
Campaign success analytics00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Real-time tracking00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Competitor analysis00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Account management
Comparison of Account management features of Product A and Product B
Desk.com (discontinued)
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Ratings
ZoomSphere
8.5
1 Ratings
5% above category average
Role-based user permissions & privileges00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Mobile access00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Desk.com (discontinued)ZoomSphere
Small Businesses
Agiloft Flexible Service Desk Suite
Agiloft Flexible Service Desk Suite
Score 9.0 out of 10
Publer
Publer
Score 9.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Agiloft Flexible Service Desk Suite
Agiloft Flexible Service Desk Suite
Score 9.0 out of 10
Social Suite by Reputation.com
Social Suite by Reputation.com
Score 9.3 out of 10
Enterprises
Salesforce Service Cloud
Salesforce Service Cloud
Score 8.7 out of 10
Social Suite by Reputation.com
Social Suite by Reputation.com
Score 9.3 out of 10
All AlternativesView all alternativesView all alternatives
User Ratings
Desk.com (discontinued)ZoomSphere
Likelihood to Recommend
8.2
(38 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.4
(14 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.3
(19 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Availability
1.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.2
(21 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Desk.com (discontinued)ZoomSphere
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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ZoomSphere
ZoomSphere is suited for all companies - from small to big, for one brand or more brands within company. With ZoomSphere you can leverage your social media presence - but you need to use lot of apps ZoomSphere has. I think that ZoomSphere is not suited for company that want to use ZoomSphere for only one purpose, for example content creation and publishing. There are plenty of ways how to use ZoomSphere more complex.
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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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ZoomSphere
  • Content Creation and Publishing
  • Analytics and Reporting
  • Workflow management
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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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ZoomSphere
  • Community Management
  • Viewable backlog or product roadmap
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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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ZoomSphere
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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.
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ZoomSphere
There is always a space for improvement, but overall I see ZoomSphere as a valuable partner and tool for our business on social media. Maybe in a future rest of the apps in tool (community management, social media listening,...) will be on a same level as competitors and we will use only one tool for whole social media management. But if not, ZoomSphere is still awesome for the most of it
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Reliability and Availability
Discontinued Products
We've never had a problem with Desk.com's availability.
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ZoomSphere
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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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ZoomSphere
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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ZoomSphere
Whenever I contacted customer service, I had a great response within minutes. Sometimes was not easy to solve, but somehow we figured it out. I would like to reccommend more proactive communication with clients regarding product roadmap, for example "In 1Q we will launch XY,..." Client should know that before implementation - client can prepare for news, client can test something,...
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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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ZoomSphere
No answers on this topic
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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ZoomSphere
We see ZoomSphere as a better option than Kontentino. They are almost the same in way you can use the tool, but ZoomSphere has better UI and UX and also customer service. We also know that pricing levels are better with ZoomSphere than Kontentino. But both tools are quite awesome for social media management. Just book a demo, have a trial and you will see by yourself.
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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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ZoomSphere
  • Possitive effect into measure all awareness effects on social channels
  • Time effectiveness
  • Faster workflow management and realtime communication
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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

ZoomSphere Screenshots

Screenshot of ZoomSphere workspace interface.Screenshot of ZoomSphere publishig calendar.Screenshot of Publishing calendar in post detail with real previews of all social media posts.