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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    HipChat (discontinued)

    Score9.7 out of 10
    N/AHipchat was discontinued by Atlassian. Users are being migrated to Slack.N/A

    Zendesk Talk

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AZendesk Talk is call center software built on the Twilio cloud communication platform that integrates with the Zendesk Support ticketing system. This allows customer service teams to provide phone support from the same platform they use to manage all other channels.N/A
    Pricing
    HipChat (discontinued)Zendesk Talk
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    HipChat (discontinued)Zendesk Talk
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    HipChat (discontinued)Zendesk Talk
    Considered Both Products
    Discontinued Products
    No answer on this topic
    Zendesk
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Would buy again
    14 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    12 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    14 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    90%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    9 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    14 Answers
    Features
    HipChat (discontinued)Zendesk Talk
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of HipChat (discontinued) and Zendesk Talk
    Feature
    HipChat (discontinued)
    7.3
    106 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Zendesk Talk
    -
    Ratings
    Mobile Access7.397 Ratings00 Ratings
    Search7.2103 Ratings00 Ratings
    Communication
    Comparison of Communication features of HipChat (discontinued) and Zendesk Talk
    Feature
    HipChat (discontinued)
    7.3
    132 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Zendesk Talk
    -
    Ratings
    Chat7.7132 Ratings00 Ratings
    Notifications7.7130 Ratings00 Ratings
    Discussions6.5110 Ratings00 Ratings
    Surveys7.834 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internal knowledgebase7.043 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrates with GoToMeeting7.023 Ratings00 Ratings
    File Sharing & Management
    Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of HipChat (discontinued) and Zendesk Talk
    Feature
    HipChat (discontinued)
    6.3
    95 Ratings
    24% below category average
    Zendesk Talk
    -
    Ratings
    Video files6.585 Ratings00 Ratings
    Audio files6.873 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access control6.660 Ratings00 Ratings
    Advanced security features5.949 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrates with Google Drive6.027 Ratings00 Ratings
    Device sync6.055 Ratings00 Ratings
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of HipChat (discontinued) and Zendesk Talk
    Feature
    HipChat (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Zendesk Talk
    7.8
    16 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Agent dashboard00 Ratings9.916 Ratings
    Validate callers00 Ratings6.012 Ratings
    Outbound response00 Ratings10.014 Ratings
    Call forwarding00 Ratings8.915 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)00 Ratings10.013 Ratings
    Warm transfer00 Ratings9.912 Ratings
    Predictive dialing00 Ratings5.08 Ratings
    Interactive voice response00 Ratings10.010 Ratings
    REST APIs00 Ratings5.07 Ratings
    Call scripts00 Ratings7.06 Ratings
    Call tracking00 Ratings9.914 Ratings
    Multichannel integration00 Ratings5.110 Ratings
    CRM software integration00 Ratings5.09 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of HipChat (discontinued) and Zendesk Talk
    Feature
    HipChat (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Zendesk Talk
    7.8
    16 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Inbound call routing00 Ratings9.912 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing00 Ratings5.110 Ratings
    Recording00 Ratings9.915 Ratings
    Quality management00 Ratings9.913 Ratings
    Call analytics00 Ratings8.913 Ratings
    Historical reporting00 Ratings8.913 Ratings
    Live reporting00 Ratings4.914 Ratings
    Customer surveys00 Ratings5.08 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics00 Ratings8.19 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    HipChat (discontinued)Zendesk Talk
    Small Businesses
    Flock
    Score9.5 out of 10
    CloudTalk
    Score7.6 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Troop Messenger
    Score9.8 out of 10
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Cisco Business Edition 7000 (discontinued)
    Score9 out of 10
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Score8.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    HipChat (discontinued)Zendesk Talk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.8
    (133 ratings)
    9.9
    (16 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.8
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.2
    (8 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.1
    (7 ratings)
    5.0
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.4
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    7.6
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.2
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    HipChat (discontinued)Zendesk Talk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    Well suited for
    Cross-teams communication.
    Webhooks support. Easy integrations with Atlassian products and other systems as well. File sharing directly or in a group. Video/Audio calls.
    Not suited for:
    Lacks apps integration like Slack.
    Lacks quality with video calls.
    Slow file transfer for large files.
    Frequent downtime due to app instability.
    Incentivized
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    Zendesk
    Zendesk Talk is a great partner that helps us in the customer care area by managing every type of contact with customers (both phone calls and emails). I know there is also the possibility to have integration with instant messaging apps (like messenger and WhatsApp but I have never used them in my experience). In my opinion, the best scenario for Zendesk Talk is represented by a context with a high amount of contacts/requests where a unique platform could be a help both on the external side (customers) and on the internal side (a lot of colleagues who are working in the same area and have to work in a coordinate way). For customers, they could benefit from tailor-made answers, also based on past contacts for the same topic, and avoid waiting times during phone calls, with an immediate follow-up. For internal work management, operators don't overlap in a single request, and even if the same operator is not available the one who manages the request later has complete visibility of the entire topic from the historical point of view. Last but not least, I think that Zendesk Talk helps a lot in the context in which the request's speed is a KPI to manage constantly.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • HipChat is very stable and reliable. I have never had issues with not being able to connect or being able to communicate with others on HipChat.
    • HipChat integrates quite well with other applications, such as Jira and Stash. This is a main selling point for my team. It provides a convenient feed of actions on a JIRA story or Stash pull request.
    • HipCat does a good job of allowing 1-1 and group chats. It is simple to start a new conversation and it is easy to hold a group conversation and keep track of who is in the room.
    • I like how HipChat has away/here/on mobile statuses. This makes it easy to see if a person is available to be contacted.
    Incentivized
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    Zendesk
    • Call recording is a nice feature! It is great for training purposes and for quality assurance.
    • The metrics you get from Explore are a great insight into how the team is handling the call volumes.
    • Zendesk Talk has met most of our needs. It can be a bit unreliable at times.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Discontinued Products
    • Mobile app is not very responsive on iOS. Sometimes connection to Hipchat servers is taking too long even on good networks.
    • Both mobile and desktop versions have no alphabetical or recent sorting for groups and chat rooms.
    • Video and audio calls are pretty useless, they're slow and not always work.
    • The whole user interface is simple but very outdated - apparently Atlassian didn't focus too much on Hipchat even though they tried in the last 2 years.
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    Zendesk
    • The lag on the phone is by far the most annoying thing with Zendesk talk due to the voice over IP.
    • Using the Reporting feature in Zendesk has never been a walk in the park. We have to customize a lot of fields and when something doesn't seem to add up, it at times feels like pulling teeth to get to the final answer of what went wrong.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Discontinued Products
    If they fix the bugs the last update gave that are causing hipchat to crash more often.
    Incentivized
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    Zendesk
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Discontinued Products
    The app itself had a pleasant if not generic interface. As a user experience expert and engineer I can say the interface is fairly intuitive if not bland. It does what you expect it to do and it's available on iOS and Android devices. If I recall it was generally pretty light weight in terms of installation size.
    Incentivized
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    Zendesk
    Everything about it works, as I have previously detailed. Coming from different companies and using other tools like Twilio or Aircall, those are VOIP tools that are built to be plugged into other tools, Zendesk Talk is natively built into Zendesk and feels correct in the user experience of Zendesk
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    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
    HipChat support is good . Responds in timely manner when ever we have raised the request via email , phone and gives us continue update on the request .Though most of the questions are answered by HipChat FAQs , but they can still improve it and add more to the knowledge base .
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    Zendesk
    In our experience, we have had to go through many support people then ultimately getting frustrated enough to go directly to our point of contact who then doesn't always seem to be able to assist. We tend to get the support we need when it is escalated up to me and I reach out to our point of a contact person to express our frustration.
    Incentivized
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    Implementation Rating
    Discontinued Products
    I don't have insights as I was not a part of the implementation. However, I love the end product
    Incentivized
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    Zendesk
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    We tried a lot of chat clients before choosing HipChat. The Skype for Business UI on the Mac side was 5 years old and terrible. Mac users hated the app including our CTO. Cisco Jabber was expensive to license and maintain; Skype was open to the public which took time away due to users dealing with spam and could allow viruses and malware. HipChat being a closed product, centrally managed and available to try without an upfront investment was perfect for our environment. All our Agile teams have their own room, chat and can communicate with others quickly and easily.
    Incentivized
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    Zendesk
    Slack and Zoom phones cannot compare because they have no ticketing systems. Zendesk Talk was the only option we considered because we were already using Zendesk for our email ticketing with customer concerns. We then expanded to using Zendesk's chatbot and then the Zendesk Talk system to keep it all integrated and streamlined.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Discontinued Products
    Actually I never shared of HipChat using with more than 25 persons in team simultaneously, but I believe it can be scaled for much largest collaboration teams. At least it works flawlessly for us, with transparent integration with Jira, and I am not see any reasons for some troubles for work at big scale.
    Incentivized
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    Zendesk
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • HipChat has increased the effiency with which I am able to communicate with my coworkers, particularly those who work out of other offices. Having a light, portable messaging solution has been beneficial for checking in on small things without the need to send emails or schedule phone calls.
    Incentivized
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    Zendesk
    • We were able to reduce global headcount by 20% in our call centers.
    • Allowing customers to leave voicemails creates the personal touch needed and really increases our customer connectivity score. We saw increases in our CSAT scores after the implementation of this solution.
    • Call handling time and case reopen rates both decreased. Y/y it decreased 18% and 60%.
    Incentivized
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