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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Geckoboard

    Score9 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Geckoboard enables users to create real time dashboards using data from over 80 cloud services. It integrates with other products such as: AWeber, Basecamp, Campaign Monitor and HubSpot.

    $35

    per month

    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
    GeckoboardZendesk Explore
    Editions & Modules
    Starter
    $35
    per month
    Team
    $159
    per month
    Team Plus
    $275
    per month
    Company
    $599
    per month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    GeckoboardZendesk Explore
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    GeckoboardZendesk Explore
    Considered Both Products
    Geckoboard
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    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
    7 Answers
    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
    GeckoboardZendesk Explore
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Geckoboard and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Geckoboard
    9.3
    5 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Zendesk Explore
    9.0
    10 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Pixel Perfect reports8.03 Ratings8.06 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards10.05 Ratings9.010 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates10.04 Ratings9.97 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Geckoboard and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Geckoboard
    7.7
    5 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Zendesk Explore
    6.7
    10 Ratings
    18% below category average
    Drill-down analysis8.04 Ratings10.010 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities8.03 Ratings5.110 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages7.02 Ratings4.85 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration8.05 Ratings7.110 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Geckoboard and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Geckoboard
    9.0
    5 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Zendesk Explore
    7.8
    10 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Publish to Web10.05 Ratings6.96 Ratings
    Publish to PDF9.01 Ratings6.08 Ratings
    Report Versioning9.02 Ratings9.03 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling8.03 Ratings8.97 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers9.03 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Geckoboard and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Geckoboard
    8.7
    5 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Zendesk Explore
    7.1
    7 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)10.05 Ratings6.66 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization10.05 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 Geckoboard and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Geckoboard
    7.8
    5 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Zendesk Explore
    7.3
    10 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)9.05 Ratings8.09 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model7.03 Ratings8.010 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)9.03 Ratings6.08 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)6.12 Ratings6.18 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings8.64 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Geckoboard and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Geckoboard
    9.5
    5 Ratings
    21% above category average
    Zendesk Explore
    7.8
    7 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access9.05 Ratings6.15 Ratings
    Mobile Application10.03 Ratings8.32 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile10.04 Ratings9.06 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Geckoboard and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Geckoboard
    10.0
    2 Ratings
    25% above category average
    Zendesk Explore
    4.9
    5 Ratings
    45% below category average
    REST API10.02 Ratings3.15 Ratings
    Javascript API10.02 Ratings5.04 Ratings
    iFrames10.02 Ratings6.04 Ratings
    Java API10.02 Ratings5.04 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)10.02 Ratings7.04 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)10.02 Ratings3.13 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    GeckoboardZendesk Explore
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    10.0
    (10 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    Data Sources
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    GeckoboardZendesk Explore
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Geckoboard
    Great value for the money. Excellent for smaller agencies with multiple projects and teams in a smaller space. We can quickly roll out mobile displays to help with a particular deployment push or monitoring a clients website engagement. It's also useful for showing live data without requiring analytics to run reports from a CRM, etc.
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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
    Geckoboard
    • User self-help - the video tutorials and a robust publicly accessible knowledgebase.
    • Geckoboard can aggregate data from a number of other apps into a singular dashboard.
    • Sleek, dark UI.
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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
    Geckoboard
    • A bit more flexibility in the number of columns would be nice.
    • Ability to scale to mobile device (web).
    • App capabilities are missing on Android.
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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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    Likelihood to Renew
    Geckoboard
    My company did not renew due to changes in the organization.
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    Zendesk
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Geckoboard
    With a simple interface and available templates, creating basic dashboards is easy. Obviously depending on the data you want to visualize, there may be higher learning curves. That being said, they have a huge amount of integrations and extensible frameworks. If you are using anything made in the past ten years there is an API function or integration that can get it talking to the platform. As such, it's pretty easy to hit the main data points you want and get it on a cheap display in front of your team.
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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
    Geckoboard
    The support levels vary based on the level of plan that you have but that's to be expected. Virtually everything except the Enterprise plan has basic chat/email support. While they are responsive they are not going to be much assistance in helping you figure out API calls or implementing 3rd party integrations. That is to be expected and the support community can pretty much get you in the right direction if you look.
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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
    Geckoboard
    Domo is more robust. We do use both because Geckoboard is really easy to show the rest of our team without the need for additional licenses.
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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
    Geckoboard
    • While we originally used this as an internal IS tool, we eventually have expanded it to be used by nearly every department.
    • Because pricing is monthly, we can grow or decrease our usage based on our current client needs.
    • Because it is low cost and easy to deploy, we can utilize it in place of considerable resources in analytics and reporting by delivering snapshots of data without pulling reports.
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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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    ScreenShots

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    Screenshot of Create live KPI dashboards in minutes. No coding or training required.Screenshot of Easily pull in real-time data from over 80 different tools, including spreadsheets and databases, as well as popular business tools like Salesforce, Zendesk, Google Analytics and many more.Screenshot of Anyone can build custom dashboards that make data and KPIs look professional and are easy for everyone on the team to understand at a glance.Screenshot of Get important numbers in front of the team or stakeholders, whether they're in the office or WFH.Screenshot of Every part of your organisation can surface metrics that matter to them and show progress towards their goals.