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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Highspot

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

    Verint Knowledge Management

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/AVerint Knowledge Management aim to help agents find and share the information needed to answer both customer inquiries and questions they may have themselves. The solution helps ensure the answers agents access are consistent, up to date, and easily accessible.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
    Pricing
    HighspotVerint Knowledge ManagementZendesk Guide
    Editions & Modules
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    KM Professional
    Contact Sales
    per year Per Interaction
    KM Enterprise
    Contact Sales
    KM Enterprise
    Contact Sales
    per year Per Interaction
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    HighspotVerint Knowledge ManagementZendesk Guide
    Free Trial
    YesNoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptionalNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    HighspotVerint Knowledge ManagementZendesk Guide
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.8
    (56 ratings)
    8.4
    (26 ratings)
    7.4
    (8 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.8
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.2
    (11 ratings)
    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (13 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    HighspotVerint Knowledge ManagementZendesk Guide
    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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    Verint
    Verint KMS is great for organizing content by categories for different teams and by different topics. It is easy to search and the Related Content makes moving from one piece of content to the next relevant piece quite easy. On the authoring side, the ability to schedule publishing or expiration is very handy. It is also really easy to make edits and have content ready and published for readers quickly. Verint's KMS isn't well suited if your users wish to be able to organize their favourited content or if you need a wide-range of options on the authoring end of things.
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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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    Verint
    • The tools to submit and manage user feedback are very effective - they help us respond quickly and interconnect the feedback to the applicable content.
    • The end user experience is clean and feels familiar, making it optimal to support a group of people who generally have never experienced a KM application before.
    • Our audience responds well to our ability to insert images, GIFs, videos, PDFs, and more into our content.
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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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    Verint
    • The authoring side could be improved with additional options for fonts and easier formatting for table content. I have issues with trying to add colour to one portion of a table and not the other, so I have to resort to creating in Word first and then copying over to Verint. There is also no option to create steps in one row and the next step in the next row. I end up just adding 1., 2., etc. manually.
    • Many users would like to be able to organize their bookmarks into folders and the system doesn't allow this. Many have taken to creating bookmark folders in Microsoft Edge instead.
    • There were a few bugs that went on for a few months that made the initial launch of the KMS more difficult for the users and on the authoring side. The issues were with how the search results came up and what displayed for related content. It wasn't the best first impression for our agents using the system while on calls and made it more difficult. The issues were fixed after a few months of use.
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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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    Verint
    Knowledge is an exceptional tool that has solved a gap to reduce the training time of new associates and promote knowledge retention
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    Zendesk
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Verint
    Verint KM has many features that - when used the 'right way' can expedite search, content usage, and maintenance. Unfortunately, not all end users want to be bothered with 'the right way' and are looking for simplistic and predictive options (which any KM solution would be hard-pressed to deliver).
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    Zendesk
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Verint
    The support and development teams for Knowledge are exceptional. They are attentive and truly care about the experience of their customers and their goals
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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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    Implementation Rating
    Highspot
    No answers on this topic
    Verint
    This was the simplest integration of software I've ever experienced.
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    Zendesk
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Verint
    All of these tools were very useful and practical. For our decision, it came down to understanding our core audience - we determined our average associate was largely unfamiliar with call center and office work in their prior work experience, and as such they would not have previously worked in a KM application before. To help adoption, we sought the solution with the simplest and most familiar interface, and based on internal focus group feedback, that was Verint KM Pro.
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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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    Verint
    • Content is easier to keep up to date and publish on an urgent basis.
    • Some users love the system, while others still find it difficult to find the information they need and miss the former guides we used. I think this is a result of the system issues that persisted for a few months after launch and will hopefully improve with time.
    • Users love being able to submit feedback and it makes it easier for errors, missing information and out of date information to be caught and fixed.
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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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    ScreenShots

    Highspot Screenshots

    Screenshot of Content usage analytics

    Verint Knowledge Management Screenshots

    Screenshot of Knowledge Management Professional: Segments content and searches by when the user selects a region.Screenshot of Knowledge Management Professional: Provides quick feedback for each article.Screenshot of Knowledge Management Professional: The editor can review feedback and open the article for editing.Screenshot of Knowledge Management Professional: Decision-tree creation is a visual exercise.Screenshot of Knowledge Management Professional: The dashboard is designed to help agents navigate quickly.Screenshot of Knowledge Management Professional: Editing and previewing an article.