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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    D&B Hoovers

    Score7.8 out of 10
    N/AD&B Hoovers delivers sales intelligence data for millions of companies globally.N/A

    Zendesk Suite

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AZendesk is a customer support solution with built-in ticketing, conversational messaging, and live chat, designed to help businesses of all sizes and industries deliver personalized service at scale. Zendesk's AI agents are trained in CX to help Service teams resolve customer issues faster and more accurately while still providing a human-centered experience. Zendesk ultimately aims to help businesses improve time to value, reduce effort per ticket, and keep costs low.

    $69

    per month per agent

    Pricing
    D&B HooversZendesk Suite
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Suite Team
    $69
    per month per agent
    Suite Growth
    $115
    per month per agent
    Suite Professional
    $149
    per month per agent
    Suite Enterprise
    Contact Sales
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    D&B HooversZendesk Suite
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—20% discount available with annual pricing.
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    Community Pulse
    D&B HooversZendesk Suite
    Considered Both Products
    Dun Bradstreet
    No answer on this topic
    Zendesk
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    91%
    Would buy again
    99 Answers
    87%
    Would buy again
    123 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    89 Answers
    85%
    Delivers good value for the price
    108 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    103 Answers
    92%
    Happy with the feature set
    131 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    94%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    62 Answers
    85%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    82 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    92%
    Implementation went as expected
    70 Answers
    85%
    Implementation went as expected
    94 Answers
    Features
    D&B HooversZendesk Suite
    Prospecting
    Comparison of Prospecting features of D&B Hoovers and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    D&B Hoovers
    7.5
    121 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Zendesk Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Advanced search6.7115 Ratings00 Ratings
    Identification of new leads7.8107 Ratings00 Ratings
    List quality6.5116 Ratings00 Ratings
    List upload/download7.2109 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ideal customer targeting7.5104 Ratings00 Ratings
    Load time/data access9.3115 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sales Intelligence Data Standards
    Comparison of Sales Intelligence Data Standards features of D&B Hoovers and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    D&B Hoovers
    8.8
    119 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Zendesk Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Contact information8.5109 Ratings00 Ratings
    Company information9.2119 Ratings00 Ratings
    Industry information8.7116 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification
    Comparison of Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification features of D&B Hoovers and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    D&B Hoovers
    8.0
    114 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Zendesk Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Lead qualification process7.677 Ratings00 Ratings
    Smart lists and recommendations7.987 Ratings00 Ratings
    Salesforce integration7.862 Ratings00 Ratings
    Company/business profiles7.8109 Ratings00 Ratings
    Alerts and reminders7.878 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data hygiene8.594 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automatic data refresh8.985 Ratings00 Ratings
    Tags7.970 Ratings00 Ratings
    Filters and segmentation7.992 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sales Intelligence Email Features
    Comparison of Sales Intelligence Email Features features of D&B Hoovers and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    D&B Hoovers
    9.7
    55 Ratings
    26% above category average
    Zendesk Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Sales email templates10.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Append emails to records9.555 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of D&B Hoovers and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    D&B Hoovers
    -
    Ratings
    Zendesk Suite
    8.6
    187 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings9.1186 Ratings
    Expert directory00 Ratings7.9127 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings8.4130 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings7.8131 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings9.3186 Ratings
    Ticket response00 Ratings9.0185 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of D&B Hoovers and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    D&B Hoovers
    -
    Ratings
    Zendesk Suite
    8.5
    169 Ratings
    6% above category average
    External knowledge base00 Ratings8.5163 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base00 Ratings8.5156 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of D&B Hoovers and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    D&B Hoovers
    -
    Ratings
    Zendesk Suite
    8.4
    182 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Customer portal00 Ratings9.1150 Ratings
    IVR00 Ratings8.076 Ratings
    Social integration00 Ratings7.4119 Ratings
    Email support00 Ratings9.2178 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings8.4138 Ratings
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    Score9.7 out of 10
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    Score9.3 out of 10
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    Score9.3 out of 10
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    Score8.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    D&B HooversZendesk Suite
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (126 ratings)
    8.7
    (225 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.8
    (13 ratings)
    10.0
    (43 ratings)
    Usability
    7.6
    (8 ratings)
    8.6
    (98 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    9.1
    (14 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    9.1
    (11 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.4
    (10 ratings)
    5.5
    (31 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.2
    (2 ratings)
    6.4
    (10 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.8
    (8 ratings)
    9.1
    (19 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.7
    (3 ratings)
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.6
    (3 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    D&B HooversZendesk Suite
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Dun Bradstreet
    Prospecting corporate accounts near a hotel location. Our sales manager wants to generate a list of companies within a 5 mile radius that may need regular lodging for employees or contractors. D&B Hoovers will allow her to filer by geography, industry, company size and employee count. Then she can view detailed company profiles and contact decision-makers.
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    Zendesk
    Zendesk is good for small teams where work is not passed along to internal teams or situations where escalations lead to further customer interactions and no further oversight is needed. It is weak as a product for larger and medium-sized companies, where processes are in place that are not aligned with its workflow, as it is a very rigid tool.
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    Pros
    Dun Bradstreet
    • The D&B Hoovers platform enables our team to customize, giving us the ability to fine-tune our searches
    • D&B Hoovers integrates very well Salesforce, our CRM system, streamlining the workflows of sales teams and ensuring the verified transfer of data between platforms
    • D&B Hoovers provides highly accurate and reliable business data
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    Zendesk
    • Merging of the tickets with similar issues, it is easy to avoid confusion
    • Al global team somehow gets connected with different ways like Slack, with the Zendesk Suite which is so easier to highlight & the issue quickly
    • The best thing is that this tool gives you to send the message via chat-, email, call through the one single platform
    • Now AI has been added so it works good
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    Cons
    Dun Bradstreet
    • I think maybe if they vetted the contacts that they're providing for those companies, it would be beneficial because I do use other avenues to vet the contacts because a lot of times I found that it is outdated information in D&B Hoovers, so that would be beneficial to us.
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    Zendesk
    • Is there a way for AEs and CSMs to be informed in a weekly summary of all their accounts and any tickets? Example: Disney submitted a ticket on XYZ. Google has an urgent issue on X still unresolved.
    • Is there a way for CSMs or AEs to have a Dashboard that's specific to their accounts instead of seeing all the tickets in the queue that are not relevant to them?
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Dun Bradstreet
    I use D&B Hoovers very frequently and could not do my job as efficiently without it. I think there is room for improvement, but it is effective enough that I feel as though I will continue renewing by subscription. I highly recommend D&B Hoovers and find it very accurate and easy to use.
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    Zendesk
    Zendesk is an amazing tool for communicating with your customers easily. The communication tickets from sellers to us or from us to sellers are stored, and there are statuses used to make communication easy. We have internal conversations between departments, linked with useful software such as Zingtree, Talkdesk, and Webs.
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    Usability
    Dun Bradstreet
    Whenever I had to use D&B hoovers, I never had a hard time with getting what I need. Additionally, when I show the tool to others, they tend to understand the platform quite quickly. The tool itself is very good and straightforward when I use it to help me put analyses together.
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    Zendesk
    Pros: The agent interface is sleek, contemporary, and relatively easy to learn compared to many other enterprise tools. For common tasks, admins are given point-and-click options- adding fields, modifying workflows, constructing macros. The knowledge base (Guide) editor is easy to use for non-developers. Drawbacks: Once you move past the initial things - complex automations, reporting/analytics in Explore, and/or customizations integrating the API, it requires much more advanced training to use successfully. Navigating between the different modules (Support, Explore, Chat, Guide) can feel very disconnected; often you are reminded that it really is a "suite" of products brought together -not really one unified platform. If you're using multiple brands managing simultaneous support tickets, or heavily customizing workflows to meet your brand, you may run into a bit of struggle with usability. So: it's a lot more user friendly than the palaces (Salesforce Service Cloud, ServiceNow), but is not used as quickly or with as much streamlined flow as a product made for a small shop. So if you are looking for a great balance, this is a good option if you are a net new organization or an organization on their way to scaling from 15 - 50 employee. Expect some elbow grease from the admin team once learning, adapting, and working efficiently once you move past the basics with your support tickets and initial customizations.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Dun Bradstreet
    The platform is generally reliable and accessible when needed, with minimal application errors or unplanned outages. There may be occasional maintenance or minor disruptions, but these are usually communicated in advance and handled efficiently. Overall, it offers a high level of availability, ensuring that you can count on it for your daily operations.
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    Zendesk
    In the past year, I'd say I have only noticed maybe two hours total of downtime in my own usage. Very minimal.
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    Performance
    Dun Bradstreet
    While the platform generally functions well, with pages loading in a reasonable time and reports completing within a satisfactory timeframe, there is room for improvement. Performance can sometimes lag with more complex queries or during peak usage times. Additionally, when integrated with other software or systems, there can be occasional slowdowns. Overall, while it performs adequately, optimizing speed and integration efficiency could enhance the user experience.
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    Zendesk
    There has been minor performance degradation on a very few days out of the two years I have been using the product.
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    Support Rating
    Dun Bradstreet
    I think it could be better, easier and faster. Whenever I chat with someone it takes so long to get to an actual agent, and then when I finally get to one, they oftentimes don't have the answers for me or do not understand what I am asking, which is very frustrating.
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    Zendesk
    We rarely need to contact their support team, but when we do they are responsive. However there have been notable times when communication between myself and the support rep was challenging despite me providing clear explanation of the issue, screenshots, and a thorough explanation of the goal we hope to achieve. It took several back and forth attempt, on a few occasions, to get resolution on an otherwise simple request
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    Online Training
    Dun Bradstreet
    The training sessions were well-structured and covered the key functionalities of the platform, making it easy to get up to speed. The trainers were knowledgeable and responsive to questions, which added value to the learning experience. However, a bit more in-depth coverage of advanced features and use cases would have made the training even more beneficial.
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    Zendesk
    Zendesk has tons of available material for training - videos, webinars, articles, etc. The only reason this is not a 10 is because it can be hard to figure out how to navigate to these things and find what you are looking for.
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    Implementation Rating
    Dun Bradstreet
    for our use case, the implementation was minimal and we did not need a lot of help. The D&B Hoovers platform is pretty intuitive and our account manager was ready for any questions that came up when we use the D&B Hoovers platform
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    Zendesk
    I was very satisfied. They have a free trial for 30 days and I recommend you do that and use it. It is very easy to get started with the basics and the build on over time.

    The only thing technically complex was single sign-on and integration to Salesforce.com required some tweaks – otherwise setting up system was very easy
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    Alternatives Considered
    Dun Bradstreet
    Finance Analytics provides a more thorough company credit report and is more in-depth than Hoovers. However, I use Hoovers for instances where I do not need that information because it allows unlimited queries, whereas you pay for a limited number of reports from Finance Analytics. Hoovers provides a better link between corporate family trees and finance analytics.
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    Zendesk
    At the time of evaluation, Dynamics had extremely limited knowledge and support capabilities. The UI is clunky, and reporting requires a deep understanding of the underlying data structure. Ongoing maintenance was costly and didn't provide a positive ROI in any sense of the term.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Dun Bradstreet
    The pricing model is generally clear and competitive, but there could be more flexibility in terms of unit pricing or billing frequency to better accommodate varying needs. While the contract terms are straightforward, exploring more options or customizable plans might enhance the overall value.
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    Zendesk
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    Dun Bradstreet
    D&B Hoovers is quite effective at adapting to the needs of different departments and locations, allowing for flexible deployment and integration across various parts of an organization. While it scales well and supports a broad range of users and functions, there might be some limitations depending on the size and complexity of the organization’s requirements. Overall, it provides a robust solution that can grow with your needs.4o mini
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    Zendesk
    WHY we will use Zendesk in HR and PD internally
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    Professional Services
    Dun Bradstreet
    very professional
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    Zendesk
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    Return on Investment
    Dun Bradstreet
    • D&B Hoovers allows me to make the most of my time when searching for companies within specific industries. Once I find a company and examine their profile, I can then generate a list of employees in the purchasing and engineering departments. The profiles for each listed employee contain cell phone, Email address and LinkedIn profile. This information helps me to bypass the companies front desk and get directly to the people I need to speak with.
    • By knowing the specific job title for the people that I am contacting and then being able to click on their LinkedIn link to learn a little about them before I make the call, I come across as a sales professional instead of an impersonal cold-caller.
    • In cases where I do need to go through a front desk receptionist whose primary mission is to screen out sales people, I find that three out of four times the receptionist will connect me to the specific employee because I know their name, department, and job title. The Intel provided by D&B Hoovers makes it possible for me to get to the people I need to speak with.
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    Zendesk
    • More than anything, provided a boost to our perceived professionalism. The portal is a massive improvement on email only support.
    • Workflow optimization via macros and automations has enhanced response times and raise our 'first call resolution' metric.
    • Speaking of metrics; having them at all! Before Zendesk Suite we were email only so had no insight into agent and vendor performance.
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    ScreenShots

    D&B Hoovers Screenshots

    Screenshot of the D&B Hoovers dashboardScreenshot of a D&B Hoovers company profileScreenshot of D&B Hoovers contact resultsScreenshot of D&B Hoovers Visitor Intelligence

    Zendesk Suite Screenshots

    Screenshot of the Zendesk Agent WorkspaceScreenshot of Omnichannel MessagingScreenshot of Zendesk TicketingScreenshot of Bots powered by Zendesk AIScreenshot of Tone shift with Zendesk AIScreenshot of Zendesk ticketing side conversations