Everbridge Community Engagement vs. Freshdesk

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Everbridge Community Engagement
Score 0.0 out of 10
N/A
Everbridge Community Engagement supports easy opt-in to improve reach and simplify sending notifications to visitors about a special event, traffic updates to residents or critical alerts to your employees as they commute to work. When seconds matter, the user can notify visitors, residents and employees over multiple communication paths, including voice, SMS, email and social media.N/A
Freshdesk
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Freshdesk is a cloud-based customer service software that helps businesses of all sizes to deliver customer support. Freshdesk converts requests coming in via email, web, phone, chat, and social into tickets, and unifies ticket resolution across channels. Additionally, Freshdesk lets the user automate workflows, provide self-service, manage SLAs, and measure metrics, to stay on top of customer support. Freshdesk also offers out-of-the-box features like an AI-powered support chatbot,…
$0
Up to 2 agents
Pricing
Everbridge Community EngagementFreshdesk
Editions & Modules
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Free
$0
Up to 2 agents
Growth
$15
per month (billed annually) per agent
Pro
$49
per month (billed annually) per agent
Enterprise
$79
per month (billed annually) per agent
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Everbridge Community EngagementFreshdesk
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Everbridge Community EngagementFreshdesk
Features
Everbridge Community EngagementFreshdesk
Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
Everbridge Community Engagement
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Ratings
Freshdesk
8.6
196 Ratings
5% above category average
Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings9.3192 Ratings
Expert directory00 Ratings8.2129 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings8.43 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings7.64 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings9.3192 Ratings
Ticket response00 Ratings9.1192 Ratings
Self Help Community
Comparison of Self Help Community features of Product A and Product B
Everbridge Community Engagement
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Ratings
Freshdesk
8.5
175 Ratings
6% above category average
External knowledge base00 Ratings8.6159 Ratings
Internal knowledge base00 Ratings8.4163 Ratings
Multi-Channel Help
Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Product A and Product B
Everbridge Community Engagement
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Ratings
Freshdesk
8.9
184 Ratings
11% above category average
Customer portal00 Ratings9.0156 Ratings
IVR00 Ratings9.158 Ratings
Social integration00 Ratings8.599 Ratings
Email support00 Ratings9.2183 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings8.6117 Ratings
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Everbridge Community EngagementFreshdesk
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User Ratings
Everbridge Community EngagementFreshdesk
Likelihood to Recommend
-
(0 ratings)
8.5
(262 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(26 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.4
(43 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
7.9
(7 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.1
(7 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(42 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.5
(4 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.3
(193 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
6.8
(8 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(6 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(7 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
7.7
(7 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
8.8
(3 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.1
(6 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.1
(6 ratings)
User Testimonials
Everbridge Community EngagementFreshdesk
Likelihood to Recommend
Everbridge
No answers on this topic
Freshworks Inc
Freshdesk is very easy to implement. This tool is very easy to understand and adapt. Omnichannel capability enables keeping a track of every complaint from different channels, including chat, call, email, and social media. Excellent, customizable self-service portal, and AI-powered deflection tools such as Freddy AI, which help advisors provide proper resolution.
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Pros
Everbridge
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Freshworks Inc
  • No prior experience with similar platforms is required to use Freshdesk. I found its interface to be quite intuitive, at least for the end user.
  • It's easy to connect with other platforms, so you can sync and manage data from other platforms because the integrations work correctly.
  • Freshdesk's technical support is quite responsive, with short and effective response times. They have easily handled my questions and issues.
  • It has tools for customizing automated chats, answering frequently asked questions before transferring to an agent. Its configuration is extensive and highly customizable.
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Cons
Everbridge
No answers on this topic
Freshworks Inc
  • Freshdesk is buggy, full stop. I don't know how many support tickets I submitted related to user login.
  • There can be a language barrier with support and sales.
  • There were a couple of hours-long outages that significantly impacted my company's customer experience.
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Likelihood to Renew
Everbridge
No answers on this topic
Freshworks Inc
We are extremely happy with Freshdesk and can foresee using it for the next year. We might only consider using a different platform if our average daily ticket volume reaches four digits and its AI isn’t enough to handle our needs by then. While we haven’t tested this yet, we have read reviews that it’s AI capabilities are lacking
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Usability
Everbridge
No answers on this topic
Freshworks Inc
I gave it a rating of 9 out of 10 because they delivered on everything we asked them to do. Easy to setup, easy to deploy to end users, easy to customize, easy to enter tickets and so much more. Our experience with their support is top notch! After opening a ticket for support they call use back within 10 minutes every time!
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Reliability and Availability
Everbridge
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Freshworks Inc
I have encountered a lot of errors in the Freshdesk, however, they tend to resolve it on priority or at least they will share the timeline by when this can be resolved. Most of the time the issue has been from the other partner's end. They take time to resolve their vendor issues and they don't have any timelines in case of developed app errors.
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Performance
Everbridge
No answers on this topic
Freshworks Inc
The reports take a lot of time to download if the time period is large. Also, the tickets take their sweet time to open and load. It is not fast as Zendesk. Only 30 tickets are visible in a single go and there isn't any option to select all. If we need to change the pages and dashboards it takes a lot of time to open.
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Support Rating
Everbridge
No answers on this topic
Freshworks Inc
The main thing about Freshdesk user service is that once a request has been made for information about a feature of the platform, the support team responds to tickets quickly, within a day of writing and submitting them, with information that is concise enough so that there is no need to ask for help on the same topic again.
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In-Person Training
Everbridge
No answers on this topic
Freshworks Inc
Support Team's knowledge and understood the company's requirement, and always shared the insight of the usage of the tool to it s full potential, moreover the team checks periodically to check if we using the tool right and if we are facing any kind of challenges. Also they would update us on new features that can make the work easy.
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Online Training
Everbridge
No answers on this topic
Freshworks Inc
Video tutorials, questions answers round before and after testing and Fresh desk team would always share best practices on the needs. Furthermore would periodically check if we are able to work smoothly. Would send alerts to known any issues, send recommendation on new features. Freshdesk team always available when we need certain advise.
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Implementation Rating
Everbridge
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Freshworks Inc
Our team easily implemented Freshdesk, and as soon as we started, we were pros with it. In a matter of days, we had integrated signatures and canned responses. The biggest problem was the Help Center part, but after some time, that was also integrated. We did not know some features when we started, but that is normal.
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Alternatives Considered
Everbridge
No answers on this topic
Freshworks Inc
Freshdesk has a more modern and intuitive user interface, while Help Scout's interface is simpler and more minimalist.In case of features, Freshdesk offers a wider range of features, includes omnichannel support, AI powered automations, and advanced analytics. Help Scout is more focused on providing a simple and efficient ticketing system.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Everbridge
No answers on this topic
Freshworks Inc
I was not very involved with the purchase/contract (my company purchased Fresjdesk before I was brought on), but I will say that pricing per agent made it difficult to grow our support team. Additionally, we were kind of disappointed after our upgrade because it didn't solve our pain points as much as we expected.
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Scalability
Everbridge
No answers on this topic
Freshworks Inc
My company had Freshdesk agents from support and success. It's generally difficult to customize permissions for different agent "roles." We were a fully distributed company, so "multiple sites" doesn't apply to us. We found Freshdesk features lacking as we grew our customer base, and adding agents wasn't easy because price steeply increases with number of agents.
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Professional Services
Everbridge
No answers on this topic
Freshworks Inc
Very professional, they would always ask for the steps followed and where we went wrong, they would politely share the video recording to review in case any other team member faces the same issue
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Return on Investment
Everbridge
No answers on this topic
Freshworks Inc
  • Increased response times - Client Success maintains at 98% SLA for resolution
  • Categorization of feedback and issues - custom ticket fields make it easier for us to review why clients contact us on a high level
  • Standardization of internal procedures via templates, canned responses and automations
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