IBM Cloud Managed Istio vs. Zendesk Sunshine

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM Cloud Managed Istio
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
The IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service provides the Managed Istio installation add on, designed to provide additonal control over clusters and the microservices they comprise via automatic updates and lifecycle management of control plane components, and integration with platform logging and monitoring tools.N/A
Zendesk Sunshine
Score 7.5 out of 10
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Sunshine is the foundation beneath Zendesk that can be used by customers to build their own customer engagement solutions. Sunshine can be configured to meet the user's business needs using its available apps, tools, and pre-built capabilities that fits the user's own systems. Sunshine uses open standards and common languages, so it’s easier to create a support platform from a modified Zendesk, that may better suit the organization's specific needs.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
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Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Features
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Platform-as-a-Service
Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
IBM Cloud Managed Istio
8.0
5 Ratings
2% below category average
Zendesk Sunshine
-
Ratings
Ease of building user interfaces6.95 Ratings00 Ratings
Scalability7.95 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform management overhead7.85 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow engine capability8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform access control8.75 Ratings00 Ratings
Services-enabled integration8.55 Ratings00 Ratings
Development environment creation8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Development environment replication8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification8.15 Ratings00 Ratings
Issue recovery8.95 Ratings00 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes7.25 Ratings00 Ratings
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Medium-sized Companies
IBM Cloud Private
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Score 9.5 out of 10
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Score 9.5 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 9.5 out of 10
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Score 9.5 out of 10
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User Ratings
IBM Cloud Managed IstioZendesk Sunshine
Likelihood to Recommend
8.7
(5 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
6.4
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
IBM Cloud Managed IstioZendesk Sunshine
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM
Clearly, the [IBM Cloud Managed Istio] tool is very useful when you have multiple services and each service is connecting with other services through APIs in different networks. To manage this type of complex network, [IBM Cloud Managed Istio] is very useful. It comes with a license that can increase the billing of your project so make sure if your application network mesh, monitoring cannot be managed on your own then you can use it. If your application is not very complex then you have many tools available like Grafana, Prometheus, Sumo Logic, which you can integrate individually with your cluster and implement. In this type of scenario, it is better to not use [IBM Cloud Managed Istio] and it will serve your purpose as well.
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Zendesk
For growing technology-based companies, Zendesk Sunshine is the best ally to provide email and chat support. It supports various integrations and can provide exceptional service that is fully customizable for both the customer and the agents using Zendesk. It is not appropriate for small companies, and for companies with a very small customer base, it is a considerable expense after a customer base of at least 10,000 customers.
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Pros
IBM
  • Layers transparently onto existing applications
  • Allows control of access and rules to be developed
  • Creates metrics for usage
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Zendesk
  • Customization and ability to create customer profiles
  • Easy integration with other tools and rich history of customer actions.
  • Provides a fully intuitive interface
  • Very good ways to analyze
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Cons
IBM
  • Some more functionalities added could improve it better.
  • Better technical user guidance.
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Zendesk
  • There are some glitches when doing upgrades on information or data, sometimes
  • It is difficult to find tickets once they are solved, we could have a tracking of the most recent or solved tickets during the day.
  • The integration or merge with other tickets from the same client is not intuitive at all, there should be an alert that throws a match.
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Usability
IBM
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Zendesk
Because it is a tool that we use on a daily basis and has provided confidence for the massive use that is given to it, it has also been the expected product, allowing customization and optimizing processes, saving us a lot of money and time. Definitely, the ability to track customers and the way to automate all customer support processes becomes totally easy and intuitive.
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Support Rating
IBM
Training and usage support available
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Zendesk
Due to the implementation and the few issues that ha In summary, there are few times that we have had to use this functionality, but the help that Zendesk has provided has been of another level, complying with our standards and SLAs so as not to interfere in the operation or processes.ve arisen, it is a platform that provides a fast, intuitive and tailor-made service for each user.
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Alternatives Considered
IBM
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Zendesk
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Return on Investment
IBM
  • It reduced the complexity of network mesh (ingress/egress services).
  • One tool with many solutions. No need to integrate monitoring tools or notification tools.
  • It reduced the number of lines of YAML code.
  • It reduced the number of labor hours.
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Zendesk
  • Agility and improved response times
  • Improved customer relationship/engagement
  • Integration and tracking capabilities for customer growth phases.
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