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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Kayako

    Score6.8 out of 10
    N/AKayako is a help desk and customer support platform that helps businesses automate workflows, improve agent productivity, and deliver personalized customer experiences across email, chat, and social media.

    $79

    per month

    TechTarget Priority Engine

    Score10 out of 10
    N/APriority Engine is TechTarget's primary intent data offering. The vendor aims to enable marketing and sales teams by providing behavior insights for high priority accounts and leads.N/A
    Pricing
    KayakoTechTarget Priority Engine
    Editions & Modules
    Kayako One
    $79
    per month
    Enterprise
    Contact Sales
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    KayakoTechTarget Priority Engine
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    KayakoTechTarget Priority Engine
    Considered Both Products
    Kayako
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    88%
    Would buy again
    14 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    14 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    6 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    Features
    KayakoTechTarget Priority Engine
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Kayako and TechTarget Priority Engine
    Feature
    Kayako
    2.0
    11 Ratings
    122% below category average
    TechTarget Priority Engine
    -
    Ratings
    Organize and prioritize service tickets1.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Expert directory1.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications1.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation1.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission7.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ticket response1.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of Kayako and TechTarget Priority Engine
    Feature
    Kayako
    1.0
    9 Ratings
    156% below category average
    TechTarget Priority Engine
    -
    Ratings
    External knowledge base1.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base1.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Kayako and TechTarget Priority Engine
    Feature
    Kayako
    1.0
    10 Ratings
    156% below category average
    TechTarget Priority Engine
    -
    Ratings
    Customer portal1.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    IVR1.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social integration1.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email support1.010 Ratings00 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration1.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sales Intelligence Data Standards
    Comparison of Sales Intelligence Data Standards features of Kayako and TechTarget Priority Engine
    Feature
    Kayako
    -
    Ratings
    TechTarget Priority Engine
    10.0
    9 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Contact information00 Ratings10.09 Ratings
    Company information00 Ratings10.09 Ratings
    Industry information00 Ratings10.09 Ratings
    Intent Data
    Comparison of Intent Data features of Kayako and TechTarget Priority Engine
    Feature
    Kayako
    -
    Ratings
    TechTarget Priority Engine
    7.5
    8 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Web Personalization00 Ratings7.06 Ratings
    3rd party intent signals00 Ratings10.08 Ratings
    Downstream intent signals00 Ratings5.74 Ratings
    Account identification00 Ratings10.08 Ratings
    Buyer journey tracking00 Ratings10.08 Ratings
    Revenue forecasts00 Ratings4.03 Ratings
    Audience segmentation00 Ratings5.55 Ratings
    Conversion optimization00 Ratings5.36 Ratings
    Content Syndication00 Ratings10.06 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    KayakoTechTarget Priority Engine
    Small Businesses
    Help Scout
    Score9.3 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    LiveAgent
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Bombora
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Front
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Bombora
    Score8.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    KayakoTechTarget Priority Engine
    Likelihood to Recommend
    1.0
    (22 ratings)
    10.0
    (16 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.8
    (11 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    7.5
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    2.1
    (4 ratings)
    7.7
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    KayakoTechTarget Priority Engine
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Kayako
    When it works, It's without a doubt a great help desk solution. It is perfect for our usage, and have rolled it out company-wide. It's great if you have multiple departments. We have it set up so most items come through a single desk that then hands out tickets to their proper department. There may be cheaper options for smaller organizations but for one that is as service-driven as ours, we really think Kayako is a great fit.
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    TechTarget
    TechTarget would notify us when prospects looked us up by name or specifically researched areas where our product would prove beneficial. It did a great job gauging legitimate interest from the prospect and gave an idea of a timeline as well so that we could understand their urgency.
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    Pros
    Kayako
    • Gives a very good report on an individual level of what is being done for a customer or corporate issue.
    • Easy to understand who has what, what the tickets are about, how long they have been opened and how many times the customer/employee have gone back and forth with each other.
    • Nice dashboard view.
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    TechTarget
    • Contact Info is pretty good. I've occasionally found better data than I can get from our chosen lead solution.
    • I don't know of another alternative source, but TechTarget provides data on content that people are researching.
    • TechTarget provides current tech stack for companies that I'm researching.
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    Cons
    Kayako
    • Departments need a bit of work. Even though you can have multiple departments, the only changes that can be made are globally. If you want independent queues within the departments, you have to do a lot of work that can be very confusing.
    • Survey system is not up to speed. Kayako really needs to add Net Promoter Score into their system. Also, if a staff user removes their name from an incident ticket, it removes them from the survey so you really can't even get a good estimate of how well your staff is in the eyes of the customer.
    • Very difficult to implement when you already have a customer base. Setting them up in organizations is difficult. Also, the sign-up for new customers is quirky. If you send an email to Kayako, it will say you are not an authorized user, however, it will store your email address. If you try to send an email a second time, it will go through. This is one of many reasons why we decided to move from Kayako to Oracle Service Cloud.
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    TechTarget
    • It is not particularly intuitive
    • Too many steps to get where I need to go
    • Needs to provide more depth to help determine urgency and intent to buy
    • Response rate from contacting leads based on search behaviors was almost nil. This may be partially due to messaging on our end.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Kayako
    • We are grandfathered in on their old Software-assurance pricing and our continued use costs us only a few hundred dollars a year (excluding hosting expenses)
    • Our team's processes are now heavily ingrained in the system
    • We have not been shown a more compelling option that is more cost-effective while still offering all the features we've come to expect
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    TechTarget
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Kayako
    I did not come from an IT background and I picked this program up quickly
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    TechTarget
    Usability is great, we would love to see how strong the intent is for every keywords
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    Reliability and Availability
    Kayako
    They are really good, but it takes a while to get back, because of the large time difference to the Eastern US. However, they are very helpful.
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    TechTarget
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Kayako
    • We didn't have to use support too much, but when we did, they were able to assist us and help us make everything work.
    • Mostly we used their Online KB and step by step instructions to get all of our issues resolved.
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    TechTarget
    I'm just a business user of TechTarget so I really haven't had the chance to gauge what the support is from a customer standpoint. Given that we recently rolled it out and everyone is utilizing it daily I would assume that their support is strong enough for us to continues to use it.
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    Implementation Rating
    Kayako
    Three years in we are about as happy with Kayako as we could be. We've had several employee's leave and on-boarding new hires was easier than it has ever been as things are uniform and consistent across the entire application.
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    TechTarget
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Kayako
    We were using Spiceworks for a few years before switching to Kayako but found that it wasn't as customizable or as user friendly for our customers. The SNMP scanning and inventory features with Spiceworks was nice but we needed more of a Help Desk that would allow us to scale our services to more companies.
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    TechTarget
    TechTargets Priority Engine's interface and customizable features were easier to use and better organized than ZoomInfo's. I like the custom alerts that TechTarget provided, and I'm not sure ZoomInfo had the same feature. I would get email alerts any time a target customer read a white paper or downloaded a brochure, which made my timing for prospecting much easier. I do believe ZoomInfo's company directories are more robust and wide-spread
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    Return on Investment
    Kayako
    • Tickets were definitely responded to faster once we implemented the audible alarm that would go off when new tickets came into the queue. This was possible because of the API.
    • Since the system was email based we could set our monitoring software up to generate tickets automatically via email for customers when it found something out of the ordinary.
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    TechTarget
    • It is best when used in conjunction with all of our other tooling and not used alone
    • It has enabled my team to have a better feel for what is happening at a prospect's company
    • It sometimes consumes too many hours in the day waiting on data to load, and time is wasted toggling between pages
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