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    IBM SPSS Statistics

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ASPSS Statistics is a software package used for statistical analysis. It is now officially named "IBM SPSS Statistics". Companion products in the same family are used for survey authoring and deployment (IBM SPSS Data Collection), data mining (IBM SPSS Modeler), text analytics, and collaboration and deployment (batch and automated scoring services).

    $105

    per month per user

    Zendesk Suite

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AZendesk 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

    Pricing
    IBM SPSS StatisticsZendesk Suite
    Editions & Modules
    Base
    USD 3,830
    one-time fee per user
    Standard
    USD 8,440
    one-time fee per user
    Professional
    USD 16,900
    one-time fee per user
    Premium
    USD 25,200
    one-time fee per user
    Monthly subscription
    USD 105
    per month per user
    Annual subscription
    USD 1,188.00
    per year per user
    Suite Team
    $69
    per month per agent
    Suite Growth
    $115
    per month per agent
    Suite Professional
    $149
    per month per agent
    Suite Enterprise
    Contact Sales
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IBM SPSS StatisticsZendesk Suite
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—20% discount available with annual pricing.
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    Community Pulse
    IBM SPSS StatisticsZendesk Suite
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    IBM
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    94%
    Would buy again
    49 Answers
    87%
    Would buy again
    123 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
    42 Answers
    85%
    Delivers good value for the price
    108 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    51 Answers
    92%
    Happy with the feature set
    131 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    34 Answers
    85%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    82 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    35 Answers
    85%
    Implementation went as expected
    94 Answers
    Features
    IBM SPSS StatisticsZendesk Suite
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of IBM SPSS Statistics and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    IBM SPSS Statistics
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    Ratings
    Zendesk Suite
    8.6
    187 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings9.1186 Ratings
    Expert directory00 Ratings7.9127 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings8.4130 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings7.8131 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings9.3186 Ratings
    Ticket response00 Ratings9.0185 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of IBM SPSS Statistics and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    IBM SPSS Statistics
    -
    Ratings
    Zendesk Suite
    8.5
    169 Ratings
    6% above category average
    External knowledge base00 Ratings8.5163 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base00 Ratings8.5156 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of IBM SPSS Statistics and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    IBM SPSS Statistics
    -
    Ratings
    Zendesk Suite
    8.4
    182 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Customer portal00 Ratings9.1150 Ratings
    IVR00 Ratings8.076 Ratings
    Social integration00 Ratings7.4119 Ratings
    Email support00 Ratings9.2178 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings8.4138 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    IBM SPSS StatisticsZendesk Suite
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (116 ratings)
    8.7
    (225 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.5
    (23 ratings)
    10.0
    (43 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (15 ratings)
    8.6
    (98 ratings)
    Availability
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (14 ratings)
    Performance
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (11 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.4
    (12 ratings)
    5.5
    (31 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.4
    (10 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.7
    (7 ratings)
    9.1
    (19 ratings)
    Configurability
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IBM SPSS StatisticsZendesk Suite
    Likelihood to Recommend
    IBM
    IBM SPSS Statistics is well suited for pretty much any data analytic scenario. It can handle extremely complex and large-scale datasets with ease. It especially shines if you have to do any kind of analyses that involve significance testing. Being able to do any number of significance tests (i.e., t-tests, chi-square, ANOVAs, etc.) right inside the tool is very valuable. The only scenario I would say it is less appropriate is if you need to work on a very small dataset and answer very simple questions, like frequencies or averages. In those cases, something like Excel could probably do the job just as easily.
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    Zendesk
    Zendesk is good for small teams where work is not passed along to internal teams or situations where escalations lead to further customer interactions and no further oversight is needed. It is weak as a product for larger and medium-sized companies, where processes are in place that are not aligned with its workflow, as it is a very rigid tool.
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    Pros
    IBM
    • SPSS has been around for quite a while and has amassed a large suite of functionality. One of its longest-running features is the ability to automate SPSS via scripting, AKA "syntax." There is a very large community of practice on the internet who can help newbies to quickly scale up their automation abilities with SPSS. And SPSS allows users to save syntax scripting directly from GUI wizards and configuration windows, which can be a real life-saver if one is not an experienced coder.
    • Many statistics package users are doing scientific research with an eye to publish reproducible results. SPSS allows you to save datasets and syntax scripting in a common format, facilitating attempts by peer reviewers and other researchers to quickly and easily attempt to reproduce your results. It's very portable!
    • SPSS has both legacy and modern visualization suites baked into the base software, giving users an easily mountable learning curve when it comes to outputting charts and graphs. It's very easy to start with a canned look and feel of an exported chart, and then you can tweak a saved copy to change just about everything, from colors, legends, and axis scaling, to orientation, labels, and grid lines. And when you've got a chart or graph set up the way you like, you can export it as an image file, or create a template syntax to apply to new visualizations going forward.
    • SPSS makes it easy for even beginner-level users to create statistical coding fields to support multidimensional analysis, ensuring that you never need to destructively modify your dataset.
    • In closing, SPSS's long and successful tenure ensures that just about any question a new user may have about it can be answered with a modicum of Google-fu. There are even several fully-fledged tutorial websites out there for newbie perusal.
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    Zendesk
    • Merging of the tickets with similar issues, it is easy to avoid confusion
    • Al global team somehow gets connected with different ways like Slack, with the Zendesk Suite which is so easier to highlight & the issue quickly
    • The best thing is that this tool gives you to send the message via chat-, email, call through the one single platform
    • Now AI has been added so it works good
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    Cons
    IBM
    • Cost is becoming prohibitive.
    • Availability of procedures in the base package seems to be dwindling.
    • The copy-and-paste function from output to Excel is not as easy as it once was (now I have to do a "paste special").
    • Text and date handling are terrible.
    • Need to include AI-based NLP for survey verbatims and other text-based fields. This is becoming increasingly important in the CX world, yet SPSS seems to be ignoring it.
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    Zendesk
    • Is there a way for AEs and CSMs to be informed in a weekly summary of all their accounts and any tickets? Example: Disney submitted a ticket on XYZ. Google has an urgent issue on X still unresolved.
    • Is there a way for CSMs or AEs to have a Dashboard that's specific to their accounts instead of seeing all the tickets in the queue that are not relevant to them?
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    Likelihood to Renew
    IBM
    Both
    money and time are essential for success in terms of return on investment for any kind of research based project work. Using a Likert-scale questionnaire is very easy for data entry and analysis
    using IBM SPSS. With the help of IBM SPSS, I found very fast and reliable data
    entry and data analysis for my research. Output from SPSS is very easy to
    interpret for data analysis and findings
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    Zendesk
    Zendesk is an amazing tool for communicating with your customers easily. The communication tickets from sellers to us or from us to sellers are stored, and there are statuses used to make communication easy. We have internal conversations between departments, linked with useful software such as Zingtree, Talkdesk, and Webs.
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    Usability
    IBM
    Probably because I have been using it for so long that I have used all of the modules, or at least almost all of the modules, and the way SPSS works is second nature to me, like fish to swimming.
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    Zendesk
    Pros: The agent interface is sleek, contemporary, and relatively easy to learn compared to many other enterprise tools. For common tasks, admins are given point-and-click options- adding fields, modifying workflows, constructing macros. The knowledge base (Guide) editor is easy to use for non-developers. Drawbacks: Once you move past the initial things - complex automations, reporting/analytics in Explore, and/or customizations integrating the API, it requires much more advanced training to use successfully. Navigating between the different modules (Support, Explore, Chat, Guide) can feel very disconnected; often you are reminded that it really is a "suite" of products brought together -not really one unified platform. If you're using multiple brands managing simultaneous support tickets, or heavily customizing workflows to meet your brand, you may run into a bit of struggle with usability. So: it's a lot more user friendly than the palaces (Salesforce Service Cloud, ServiceNow), but is not used as quickly or with as much streamlined flow as a product made for a small shop. So if you are looking for a great balance, this is a good option if you are a net new organization or an organization on their way to scaling from 15 - 50 employee. Expect some elbow grease from the admin team once learning, adapting, and working efficiently once you move past the basics with your support tickets and initial customizations.
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    Reliability and Availability
    IBM
    SPSS can tend to crash when I am trying to do a lot of data. This can slow me down when I need to do a lot of data
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    Zendesk
    In the past year, I'd say I have only noticed maybe two hours total of downtime in my own usage. Very minimal.
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    Performance
    IBM
    SPSS does the job, but it can be slow. I do have to plan a lot of time to get through a huge amount of data.
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    Zendesk
    There has been minor performance degradation on a very few days out of the two years I have been using the product.
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    Support Rating
    IBM
    I have not contacted IBM SPSS for support myself. However, our IT staff has for trying to get SPSS Text Analytics Module to work. The issue was never resolved, but I'm not sure if it was on the IT's end or on SPSS's end
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    Zendesk
    We rarely need to contact their support team, but when we do they are responsive. However there have been notable times when communication between myself and the support rep was challenging despite me providing clear explanation of the issue, screenshots, and a thorough explanation of the goal we hope to achieve. It took several back and forth attempt, on a few occasions, to get resolution on an otherwise simple request
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    Online Training
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Zendesk
    Zendesk has tons of available material for training - videos, webinars, articles, etc. The only reason this is not a 10 is because it can be hard to figure out how to navigate to these things and find what you are looking for.
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    Implementation Rating
    IBM
    Have a plan for managing the yearly upgrade cycle. Most users work in the desktop version, so there needs to be a mechanism for either pushing out new versions of the software or a key manager to deal with updated licensing keys. If you have a lot of users this needs to be planned for in advance.
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    Zendesk
    I was very satisfied. They have a free trial for 30 days and I recommend you do that and use it. It is very easy to get started with the basics and the build on over time.

    The only thing technically complex was single sign-on and integration to Salesforce.com required some tweaks – otherwise setting up system was very easy
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    Alternatives Considered
    IBM
    If you have made it this far, you should have a very good idea of how SPSS stacks up the competition (data processing and analytics tools). Even the free ones, such as r Studio or Stata, are leaps and bounds ahead of SPSS. IBM is resting on a reputation developed nearly 30 years ago and has shown no desire to improve.
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    Zendesk
    At the time of evaluation, Dynamics had extremely limited knowledge and support capabilities. The UI is clunky, and reporting requires a deep understanding of the underlying data structure. Ongoing maintenance was costly and didn't provide a positive ROI in any sense of the term.
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    Scalability
    IBM
    I am neutral because I have not had to look into scalability since I am using as a student.
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    Zendesk
    WHY we will use Zendesk in HR and PD internally
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    Return on Investment
    IBM
    • I found SPSS easier to use than SAS as it's more intuitive to me.
    • The learning curve to use SPSS is less compared to SAS.
    • I used SAS, to a much lesser extent than SPSS. However, it seems that SAS may be more suitable for users who understand programming. With SPSS, users can perform many statistical tests without the need to know programming.
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    Zendesk
    • More than anything, provided a boost to our perceived professionalism. The portal is a massive improvement on email only support.
    • Workflow optimization via macros and automations has enhanced response times and raise our 'first call resolution' metric.
    • Speaking of metrics; having them at all! Before Zendesk Suite we were email only so had no insight into agent and vendor performance.
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    ScreenShots

    IBM SPSS Statistics Screenshots

    Screenshot of SPSS Statistics Forecasting. This enables users to build time-series forecasts regardless of their skill level.Screenshot of SPSS Statistics Regression. These predict categorical outcomes and apply nonlinear regression procedures.Screenshot of IBM SPSS Statistics Neural Networks. These can discover complex relationships and improve predictive models.Screenshot of IBM SPSS Statistics Curated Help. These can interpret correlation output.Screenshot of IBM SPSS Statistics AI Output Assistant interprets statistical output in easy to consume language

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