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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Intercom

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AIntercom Helpdesk is the support workspace where human teammates handle customer conversations and tickets. Fin, the customer agent, and Copilot work in that same Inbox, so a case can move from an automated reply to a teammate with the conversation history attached.

    $39

    per month per seat

    SAP Service Cloud

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ASAP Service Cloud helps deliver customer value and protect the brand with intelligent customer service. It enables the user to engage with customers at their convenience, connect service with the value chain and deliver greater profitability.N/A
    Pricing
    IntercomSAP Service Cloud
    Editions & Modules
    Essential
    $39
    per month per seat
    Advanced
    $99
    per month per seat
    Expert
    $139
    per month per seat
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IntercomSAP Service Cloud
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsUp to a 26% discount for annual billing.—
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    Community Pulse
    IntercomSAP Service Cloud
    Considered Both Products
    Salesforce
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    SAP
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    85 Answers
    98%
    Would buy again
    119 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
    67 Answers
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    98 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    82 Answers
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    116 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    56 Answers
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    81 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    65 Answers
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    100 Answers
    Features
    IntercomSAP Service Cloud
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Intercom and SAP Service Cloud
    Feature
    Intercom
    8.0
    15 Ratings
    2% below category average
    SAP Service Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    Organize and prioritize service tickets8.613 Ratings00 Ratings
    Expert directory8.410 Ratings00 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications8.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation7.59 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission8.114 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ticket response7.515 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of Intercom and SAP Service Cloud
    Feature
    Intercom
    8.4
    15 Ratings
    5% above category average
    SAP Service Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    External knowledge base8.415 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base8.412 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Intercom and SAP Service Cloud
    Feature
    Intercom
    7.9
    15 Ratings
    1% below category average
    SAP Service Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    Customer portal8.013 Ratings00 Ratings
    IVR7.64 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social integration6.88 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email support8.614 Ratings00 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration8.711 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Help Scout
    Score9.3 out of 10
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    Score7.8 out of 10
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    LiveAgent
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Customer.io
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Front
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Adobe Journey Optimizer
    Score8.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    IntercomSAP Service Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (149 ratings)
    8.4
    (120 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.9
    (15 ratings)
    7.7
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    9.2
    (57 ratings)
    5.6
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.7
    (7 ratings)
    5.5
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.9
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.8
    (73 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IntercomSAP Service Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Salesforce
    Intercom is well suited to finding information that your colleague gets about one lead or User. It's less appropriate when you need some report that you can not custom, and the different categories are really not clear. Nevertheless, for the communication with your clients and feature clients, it's really perfect!
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    SAP
    SAP Service Cloud is well-suited for handling a large number of customer complaints. For example, as a financial company, we receive customer inquiries about transaction failures. Once the client reaches us, we assign the problem to the right team and people, and that is all thanks to SAP Service Cloud, which helps ensure customer problems are solved in the best possible time.
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    Pros
    Salesforce
    • Intercom is great for tracking user engagement, support, and marketing. I love that you can see what a user is doing on your site and send messages (email or chat) based on specific criteria.
    • Intercom is simple, easy to use, and great for website chats. It is very easy for customers to interact with.
    • Makes your team very accessible, also makes the support process simple for the end users. Good integrations and useful statistics provided.
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    SAP
    • First is It is highly effective when we consider Customer Relation Engagement.
    • Good User Interface by which anyone can get used to it quickly.
    • It is providing infinite opportunity of integration with other SAP solutions.
    • Affordable Solutions with effective features.
    • It has prebuilt charts which helps us to define customer journey with ease of efforts.
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    Cons
    Salesforce
    • Exporting conversations - we need to do this for things like customer disputes and chargebacks, however the export is a simple unformatted text file, which is not an acceptable capture of the threads as it can be simply edited. A clean and neat PDF export would be fantastic.
    • Better/simpler spam and abusive user blocking, maybe based on IP address or sender domain
    • A lower cost - there are many free/low cost platforms now, and I feel your costs are high
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    SAP
    • While SAP Service Cloud offers a wealth of features, its interface can sometimes feel overwhelming. For newcomers, especially those not tech-savvy, a more intuitive or simplified layout would be beneficial.
    • While it allows for some level of personalization, making deep customizations can be challenging. Given the unique requirements of our client's customer service, having more flexibility in tailoring the tool to our exact needs would be nice.
    • While SAP Service Cloud integrates well within the SAP ecosystem, it can sometimes be less smooth when linking up with non-SAP third-party tools. Enhancing these integrations would streamline our operations, especially when using other software tools alongside it.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Salesforce
    We have been and will be continuing our journey with Intercom and nothing too concerning has happened that I have experienced or heard of that has us on the edge yet. If it ever happens it will be something along the lines of "Outgrowing" the use of need of the platform.
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    SAP
    SAP Service Cloud offers sturdy competencies for case control, workflow automation, and purchaser engagement. However, since our organization continues to be within the early assessment section, we have not but experienced its complete potential. Once fully applied and custom designed to our desires, the score can also increase as we investigate usability and integration with other SAP solutions.
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    Usability
    Salesforce
    Customizability: Intercom is highly customizable, allowing users to tailor the interface to their specific needs and preferences. This can help to improve usability by ensuring that users have quick and easy access to the features and information they need most, this can be done by using Macros, generating custom events and etc.
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    SAP
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Salesforce
    Intercom is the premier customer support/engagement model and it definitely has one of the top tier customer support teams as well. I don't think I have ever waited more than 5 minutes to get the information I need or get help with an issue. They are incredible and I aim to model our customer service department after them.
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    SAP
    I have found that sometimes issues reported to the SAP takes more time also they lack system support with respect to the priority . Also we don't see RCA for the issues raised. Also turn around time for the issues is not fixed as the support is global sometimes the issues float here and there.
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    Implementation Rating
    Salesforce
    The implementation was surprisingly easy but we are having to adapt from our old process to work well with Intercom.
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    SAP
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Salesforce
    Intercom is much easier to use. Even though HubSpot's Support hub is a fairly new feature, it lacks so much. It is quite complicated to use and lacks many features that Intercom can offer just for the focus of customer service.
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    SAP
    Zoho Desk is the ultimate software for clear communication, but when we compared these two according to our needs, we found out that SAP Service Cloud is the best option for us. Since it provides everything in one location, Zoho Desk is somewhat lacking in this area. That was the reason for choosing SAP Service Cloud.
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    Return on Investment
    Salesforce
    • Increase in demo sets and deals won by engaging with prospects that hadn't requested a demo yet.
    • Increase in efficiency for our support team to receiving tickets.
    • Boosting registration for our on going training webinars as well as those for new product announcements.
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    SAP
    • can help speed up issue resolution, reducing the time customers spend waiting for solutions
    • AI insights help predict the customer profile, satisfaction, and possible options for service resolutions
    • One stop for all historical customer service requests and data and useful to calculate who are high CLTV customers
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