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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Excel4apps

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AExcel4apps is a business intelligence software offering from Excel4apps.N/A

    Zendesk Explore

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AZendesk offers Explore, a business intelligence and customer analytics tool which integrates with the Zendesk suite featuring ticket analytics, custom fields, dashboards, and other features. Zendesk is migrating customers of the BIME analytics product, which is approaching end of support, to Zendesk Explore in 2019.N/A
    Pricing
    Excel4appsZendesk Explore
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    Excel4appsZendesk Explore
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Excel4appsZendesk Explore
    Considered Both Products
    Excel4apps
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
    7 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    Features
    Excel4appsZendesk Explore
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Excel4apps and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Excel4apps
    6.3
    4 Ratings
    26% below category average
    Zendesk Explore
    9.0
    10 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Pixel Perfect reports5.43 Ratings8.06 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards6.13 Ratings9.010 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates7.44 Ratings9.97 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Excel4apps and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Excel4apps
    7.6
    4 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Zendesk Explore
    6.7
    10 Ratings
    18% below category average
    Drill-down analysis7.54 Ratings10.010 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities9.24 Ratings5.110 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages6.52 Ratings4.85 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration7.14 Ratings7.110 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Excel4apps and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Excel4apps
    6.4
    3 Ratings
    25% below category average
    Zendesk Explore
    7.8
    10 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Publish to Web6.73 Ratings6.96 Ratings
    Publish to PDF8.22 Ratings6.08 Ratings
    Report Versioning5.83 Ratings9.03 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling6.23 Ratings8.97 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers5.02 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Excel4apps and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Excel4apps
    6.7
    2 Ratings
    18% below category average
    Zendesk Explore
    7.1
    7 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)7.02 Ratings6.66 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.02 Ratings7.16 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics6.02 Ratings5.55 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings9.43 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Excel4apps and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Excel4apps
    8.1
    3 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Zendesk Explore
    7.3
    10 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)9.03 Ratings8.09 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model9.02 Ratings8.010 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)7.23 Ratings6.08 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)7.22 Ratings6.18 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings8.64 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Excel4apps and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Excel4apps
    7.8
    1 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Zendesk Explore
    7.8
    7 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access9.01 Ratings6.15 Ratings
    Mobile Application8.01 Ratings8.32 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile6.01 Ratings9.06 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Excel4apps and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Excel4apps
    3.4
    2 Ratings
    78% below category average
    Zendesk Explore
    4.9
    5 Ratings
    45% below category average
    REST API1.01 Ratings3.15 Ratings
    Javascript API5.72 Ratings5.04 Ratings
    iFrames1.01 Ratings6.04 Ratings
    Java API5.92 Ratings5.04 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)2.01 Ratings7.04 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)5.01 Ratings3.13 Ratings
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    Excel4appsZendesk Explore
    Small Businesses
    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Jaspersoft Community Edition
    Score7 out of 10
    Jaspersoft Community Edition
    Score7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Excel4appsZendesk Explore
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    10.0
    (10 ratings)
    Usability
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.9
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    Data Sources
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Excel4appsZendesk Explore
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Excel4apps
    We have to calculate most all Lab / Pilot / Proposals sizing and results. The automated calculations in [Excel4apps] is awesome, as once you are familiar with them, it is easy to quickly implement them when needed.
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    Zendesk
    Zendesk Explore is well suited for tracking ticket flow, agent performance, and customer satisfaction providing valuable insights into response and resolution time, workload and support quality. Particularly useful for monitoring ticket handling for different teams. Helps ensure accountability by tracking how long tickets remain assigned before being reassigned to another group. Drill down capability helps identify support bottlenecks. However, it is less appropriate for real time monitoring as it lacks real time data updates making it unsuitable for instant decision making.
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    Pros
    Excel4apps
    • Easy to install and maintain. After the initial installation, there is little involvement by the technical administrators.
    • Cloning production to a test environment does not require any additional setups unlike Oracle EBS which does.
    • Loading data and reporting on this data is handled via EXCEL spreadsheets which is the "language" of our financial users.
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    Zendesk
    • Zendesk Explore is easy to use.
    • Zendesk Explore allows users to create custom metrics.
    • Zendesk Explore allows users to create custom attributes.
    • Zendesk Explore is easy to learn.
    • Compared to other analytics function of other Ticket Management System, Zendesk Explore is probably the best as of now.
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    Cons
    Excel4apps
    • It is possible but difficult to retrieve data or set criteria from different module into a single report or retrieve. If it is more user friendly instead of having to create a complex formula to retrieve the data, this function will be utilized more often.
    • It will be nice to have visual (graphs, etc.) report template available
    • It is helpful if we can retrieve data for a range of date, instead of just YTD, PTD etc. and multi-year data all at once for comparison too.
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    Zendesk
    • Some aspects of Zendesk, in general, are not super intuitive. The same goes for Zendesk Explore. And, while you can google answers and hope you find something helpful, there isn't a great way to learn to get the full potential out of the product unless you want to pay for someone from your team to take a class (which costs several hundred dollars).
    • To piggyback off the last point, if you would prefer to get help from a Zendesk expert, you'll find that there is almost no customer support available to you. For a company that aims to help other companies help their customers, this has always struck me as odd. Again, Google is your friend and beyond that, you're mostly out of luck.
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    Usability
    Excel4apps
    I am not a power user of Excel. So I find Exel4apps a friendlier version of the things that I could do on Excel and making it easier with a magic wand.
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    Zendesk
    I rate Zendesk Explore 8 out of 10 for it's overall usability because it offers powerful reporting and analytics with an easy to navigate interface and intuitive dashboards. It helps improve customer satisfaction by providing valuable insights into ticket handling, agent performance and customer satisfaction. Though the complex query builder can be challenging for non technical users.
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    Support Rating
    Excel4apps
    I have not needed support yet
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    Zendesk
    Support for all of Zendesk has exceeding my expectations. This company will always get a 10 out of 10 in my book. Any question you have they make sure you have the answer plus a step-by-step guide on how to do each step so you are set up for success!
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    Alternatives Considered
    Excel4apps
    Excel4apps is more user friendly and can retrieve data much easier and in a nicer format than Jaspersoft. Qlik Sense is useful and have more visual reporting and dashboard. However, it is usually used for higher level of analyses and review. Yardi is used for specific purpose, which is different than Excel4apps. Excel4apps can pull all the financial data from Oracle, including billing and collections.
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    Zendesk
    I selected Zendesk Explore only to provide an easy and quick access for my managers and supervisors regading metrics and volume trends. Is not the most flexible nor complete data visualization tool, but works well for day-to-day follow ups. You need to use another tool if you want to see long-term patterns (e.g. month over month volume trends) and you need another platform if you want your interaction metrics to interact with other important factors of the business
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    Return on Investment
    Excel4apps
    • Increase team transparency
    • Increased reporting
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    Zendesk
    • Money saved due to proper staffing.
    • Happier Staff- proper staffing ensures no one is overworked.
    • Ability to quickly pinpoint where issues are and why.
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