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    Highspot

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AHighspot is a sales content management software solution offered by Highspot.N/A

    Seismic Content

    Score7.6 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Seismic is a recognized leader in sales and marketing enablement. The vendor's value proposition is that their solution equips global sales teams with the knowledge, messaging, and automatically personalized content proven to be the most effective for any buyer interaction. Additionally, the vendor says powerful content intelligence and analytics enable marketers to prove and improve their impact on the bottom line, revealing what is really driving revenue and what needs to be…N/A

    Zendesk Guide

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AZendesk Guide is a smart knowledge base built to help support teams continuously improve content, keep it up to date, and serve it to customers.N/A
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    HighspotSeismic ContentZendesk Guide
    Considered Multiple Products
    Highspot
    Chose Highspot
    Highspot is a very simple tool compared to Seismic and far less capable.
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    Seismic
    Chose Seismic Content
    Highspot was used at a different organization and seems to me to be superior in user interface, tracking metrics, and efficiency. Seismic was purchased for our current organization with no solution previously in place. In my experience, Seismic lacks features for guiding and …
    Incentivized
    Chose Seismic Content
    Both Highspot and Seismic are great tools. They each provide an extensive library that can be easily customized based on the rep/team/deal cycle stage etc. Seismic has a much cleaner look and feel. As a rep, I felt it was much easier to navigate the tool and organize my content …
    Incentivized
    Chose Seismic Content
    Seismic is very similar to most content management systems and integrates less easily than the Salesforce CMS (not surprising), but it is more powerful than Salesforce CMS and Highspot. Highspot is less refined and less user-friendly than Seismic but I feel it also has more …
    Incentivized
    Chose Seismic Content
    We're only using LiveDocs in Seismic and it's way better than Highspot's 3rd party solution.
    Incentivized
    Chose Seismic Content
    Seismic is very similar to Showpad and Highspot and I'm sure they are great products too. What we were really impressed by was their ability to speak to our requirements and helped us build a strong business case for implementing this platform. We felt confident moving forward …
    Incentivized
    Chose Seismic Content
    Seismic is very similar to high spot but it a bit more user friendly and intuitive. Guru would be great for a small company who just needs to organize assets. But Seismic is the best option if you also utilize their ai capabilities which heavily impacts search in a positive way
    Incentivized
    Chose Seismic Content
    Seismic has a robust amount of features, LiveSend is fantastic, and the analytics for our sales and marketing team to make better informed decisions.
    Incentivized
    Chose Seismic Content
    I wasn't here for the vendor selection process.
    Incentivized
    Chose Seismic Content
    The LiveDoc functionality is so much better in Seismic.
    Incentivized
    Chose Seismic Content
    I was not involved in the selection process. I know we reviewed about 10 companies and the Seismic features won out amongst them all.
    Incentivized
    Chose Seismic Content
    LiveDocs. Game changer in this space. The ability to personalize w/ context from Salesforce changes the way you're asking reps to interact w/ the platform.
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    Zendesk
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Slite
    Score5.7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Paperflite
    Score8 out of 10
    Paperflite
    Score8 out of 10
    Bloomfire
    Score8.4 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Scratchpad
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Scratchpad
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Bloomfire
    Score8.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    HighspotSeismic ContentZendesk Guide
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.8
    (56 ratings)
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    (80 ratings)
    7.4
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    Likelihood to Renew
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    Usability
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    10.0
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    7.5
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    User Testimonials
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    Highspot
    Great for delivering insight on which personas are engaging with the material shared. If I've had multiple meetings with personas, but they have not engaged with my proposal, I'm now able to understand the priority of our partnership and how it ranks within their other initiatives.
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    Seismic
    It is excellent for a cloud-based workspace between you and your customers. I find the chat feature to be a cool and underutilized tool. I appreciate how you can consolidate all your information on one page, rather than having multiple attachments. Easy to clone DSRs (Digital Sales Rooms), which saves a significant amount of time. Especially when all you have to do is make minor changes between customers.
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    Zendesk
    In our company, we host our benefit articles based on country on our Zendesk Guide. However, these articles should not be seen by employees that are outside their respective article country. For example, an employee that is based in Thailand shouldn't be seeing Malaysia benefits article as employees might compared benefits. With Zendesk Guide, the system allow us to set the configuration of the article so it is only visible Thailand-based employees, and for Malaysia article, only Malaysia-based employees
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    Pros
    Highspot
    • From an admin perspective, the platform is very easy to navigate, build and launch new content and informational pages for our team.
    • The search feature within the platform is very accurate and does a great job of curating the top content based off of what our reps are looking for.
    • The ability for our reps to hit 'edit in word online' or 'edit in Excel online' is great because our reps don't have to download a doc, edit it and then re-upload into the system. Any changes they make are auto-saved and stored right in Highspot. They can then present straight from the platform.
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    Seismic
    • Seismic allows for one location to store all relevant content so that associates are not having to spend as much time searching for what they need.
    • Seismic provides the ability to fully customize content such that one template can serve many needs with the simple ability to answer questions that drive the customization in the content. This customization can range from simple to quite complex depending on your level of expertise with the tool.
    • Seismic provides a lot of flexibility when it comes to organizing your content and how to make the experience of accessing that content unique to the needs of each user in the system.
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    Zendesk
    • They give us ability to control the whole frontend of the Communities by giving us access to manipulate HTML (in HBS file), CSS and JS
    • They give handlebars templating engine in backend which helps us to show various listing rendered through server side without having need to implement client side rendering of the listing and features.
    • They provide us dynamic content fields, which can be useful for mapping categories or storing category and topic IDs so we don't need to hard code IDs in Sandbox and Production separately.
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    Cons
    Highspot
    • The mobile platform is not as user-friendly, missing some of the ease of use from a mobile device.
    • The Help section is not as comprehensive or accurate. Often a search yields answers that are not relevant to the issue trying to be resolved.
    • Content can only be sorted alphabetically or by date, it would be useful to be able to sort by author or department as well.
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    Seismic
    • Adding more integration points and use cases with Salesforce would be good to have
    • Navigating to a specific resource gets cumbersome sometimes especially with lots of content
    • Bulk user operations and taking actions on behalf of other users would be good to have as well
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    Zendesk
    • Formatting according to our brand guidelines can be tricky
    • Reporting metrics are lacking
    • The user interface can be confusing
    • Their support team takes a long time to respond
    • They have comments open on their KB articles, but almost noone responds, which is frustrating.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Highspot
    I love Highspot, it saves me a ton of time every single day. I like how my correspondence looks professional and I know what I'm sending is accurate and company approved. I'm able to add it to an email template in seconds and choose multiple brochures if it fits the information the student wants or requested. I can also customize templates to make them company specific when appropriate
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    Seismic
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    Zendesk
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    Usability
    Highspot
    It is a very intuitive website with easy navigation. I am also able to search by market name alone to get all the information that I need within that market. It is only as good as the information you place into it, but the naming conventions should be standard across the board.
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    Seismic
    Seismic is super easy to use and has so many different features and functionality to take advantage of. But being a company who utilizes Google platform a lot we have some issues with the api connections and integrations across the board. But all in all it is not a huge issue, I would just like to see them improve the integration more
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    Zendesk
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    Support Rating
    Highspot
    I have not needed any customer support until now, I guess this is because they work on a proactive maintenance of the platform. We have an internal team working with Highspot so if I need help I go to my internal team not directly to Highspot. I have never heard any complaints.
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    Seismic
    Seismic's support team has been exceptional at providing support when an issue has come up, or when we have had questions regarding the platform. They have responded quickly, and I feel as if they truly try to find a solution to the quickest of their abilities. My team and I truly feel supported when it comes to reaching out to Seismic.
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    Zendesk
    The support is good but can sometime be frustrating to get a quick answer. We end up being sent articles that don't answer the question and then we have to go back and try again
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    Alternatives Considered
    Highspot
    Dropbox was sufficient for storing content in an easy to access space but, provided us no value beyond that. SharePoint actually made us less productive due to the amount of time our sales team had to spend searching for the right piece of content. Neither solution provided us any analytics as to what content was being used/engaged with.

    Highspot provided us with intuitive content search and organization with the ability to tag keywords, search queries, and fine-tune categorization of all of our content. Highspot also provided us with direct feedback when our customer or prospective customers were viewing content which enabled us to follow-up at the perfect time and was directly attributed to several closed won opportunities. Their Outlook integration is the icing on the top as it allows our sales team to share content, access email templates, and link communication back to Salesforce without ever having to leave the email client. With these features combined Highspot has made me drastically more productive and efficient in my work.
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    Seismic
    Both Highspot and Seismic are great tools. They each provide an extensive library that can be easily customized based on the rep/team/deal cycle stage etc. Seismic has a much cleaner look and feel. As a rep, I felt it was much easier to navigate the tool and organize my content the way I wanted to. Highspot tended to feel cluttered and even overwhelming at times. Along with that, the AI and saved search feature ran smoother in Seismic. I could easily find the document or sales deck I was looking for, whereas in Highspot I felt I had to look around longer than I would have liked.
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    Zendesk
    It is an attribute of Zendesk that allows for easy over the phone communication between agents and customers. It is more personal and allows for better productivity. Phone support from anywhere with reliable internet connection which is essential to call center communication whether in the office or in the home of the agent.
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    Return on Investment
    Highspot
    • Highspot has created more efficiency within our Sales team as reps no longer have to "hunt" for up-to-date collateral
    • Highspot helps us understand what collateral gets deals in pipeline
    • Highspot aids in new employees getting ramped easier and faster with one location to review training content
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    Seismic
    • We can quickly generate product-specific proposals.
    • We've experienced repeated frustrations while trying to edit/update the LiveDoc.
    • Errors in LiveDoc coding have occasionally produced errors in the generated proposals where certain fields (Customer Name, for example) should have been automatically completed but were not.
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    Zendesk
    • We used it for multiple customer so we can say ROI of Zendesk Guide is very competitive.
    • Zendesk meet[s] most of the business objective[s], which suits [a]s best product among its competitor.
    • I highly recommend to use Zendesk for knowledge base and tickets and agents.
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    Seismic Content Screenshots

    Screenshot of Seismic's interface can be customized for every sales team.Screenshot of Content can be organized and displayed in a host of ways, such as Most Popular, Favorites, or divided by content type or opportunity stage.Screenshot of Seismic's LiveDocs Technology facilitates personalization at scale and has been shown to save clients upwards of 98 percent in time spent creating content.Screenshot of WorkSpace, Seismic's virtual forum for sales, allows sales teams to come together and perfect content for those most important meetings.Screenshot of Real-time analytics allow sales reps to see which pieces of content have been engaged with by which prospects and for how long.