Help Lightning vs. Zendesk Suite
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Help Lightning | Score10 out of 10 | Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees) | Help Lightning in Birmingham aims to reimagine how businesses, customers and employees are able to give and receive help using Virtual Expertise. The vendor states their merged reality adds missing visual cues, gestures, and non-verbal communication methods to any session. While providing remote assitance, users simply simply reach into a device's field of view and a colleague will see the user's hand merged into their field of view. Users can telestrate, freeze images, use hand gestures,… | $75,000 per year |
Zendesk Suite | Score8.5 out of 10 | N/A | Zendesk 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 |
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| Additional Details | Solutions are available as an annual subscription and the pricing is based on the number of licenses. The price per license will vary based on the number of experts providing help and the number of technicians or engineers needing help. | 20% discount available with annual pricing. | ||||||||||||||
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| Considered Both Products | No answer on this topic | No answer on this topic |
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No answers on this topic | 87% Would buy again 123 Answers | |
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No answers on this topic | 85% Delivers good value for the price 108 Answers | |
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No answers on this topic | 92% Happy with the feature set 131 Answers | |
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No answers on this topic | 85% Lived up to sales and marketing promises 82 Answers | |
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No answers on this topic | 85% Implementation went as expected 94 Answers | |
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| Small Businesses | LogMeIn Rescue Score8.2 out of 10 | Help Scout Score9.3 out of 10 |
| Medium-sized Companies | BeyondTrust Remote Support Score8.6 out of 10 | LiveAgent Score8.8 out of 10 |
| Enterprises | TeamViewer Score8.6 out of 10 | Front Score9.2 out of 10 |
| All Alternatives | View all alternatives | View all alternatives |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 10.0 | 8.7 |
| Likelihood to Renew | - | 10.0 |
| Usability | - | 8.6 |
| Availability | - | 9.1 |
| Performance | - | 9.1 |
| Support Rating | - | 5.5 |
| In-Person Training | - | 10.0 |
| Online Training | - | 6.4 |
| Implementation Rating | - | 9.1 |
| Configurability | - | 9.1 |
| Contract Terms and Pricing Model | - | 9.1 |
| Ease of integration | - | 9.1 |
| Product Scalability | - | 9.1 |
| Professional Services | - | 9.1 |
| Vendor post-sale | - | 9.1 |
| Vendor pre-sale | - | 9.1 |
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