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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Lua

    Score1 out of 10
    N/ALua is a mobile-first enterprise communication solution. It powers messaging that is built for business: instant, secure, and keeps everyone accountable. Some key features include: Real-time Secure Messaging, Two-touch Conference Calling, and an Analytics Dashboard.N/A

    Verint Community

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AVerint Community (Telligent) is a community and collaboration software platform developed by Telligent Systems and was first released in 2004. Telligent's focus was on offering a platform that can be integrated and extended, but this requires technical expertise. Verint acquired Telligent in 2015.N/A

    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
    LuaVerint CommunityZendesk Suite
    Editions & Modules
    Lua
    $0
    Per User per Month
    Verint Community SaaS
    -
    per year per pageviews/API calls
    Verint Community AnyCloud
    -
    per domain and server
    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
    LuaVerint CommunityZendesk Suite
    Free Trial
    YesYesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYesYes
    Entry-level Setup Fee$2,500OptionalOptional
    Additional Details——20% discount available with annual pricing.
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    Community Pulse
    LuaVerint CommunityZendesk Suite
    Considered Multiple Products
    Lua
    No answer on this topic
    Verint
    No answer on this topic
    Zendesk
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    80%
    Would buy again
    24 Answers
    87%
    Would buy again
    123 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    92%
    Delivers good value for the price
    24 Answers
    85%
    Delivers good value for the price
    108 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    90%
    Happy with the feature set
    27 Answers
    92%
    Happy with the feature set
    131 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    76%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    16 Answers
    85%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    82 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    20 Answers
    85%
    Implementation went as expected
    94 Answers
    Features
    LuaVerint CommunityZendesk Suite
    Communication
    Comparison of Communication features of Lua and Verint Community and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    Lua
    7.0
    1 Ratings
    13% below category average
    Verint Community
    -
    Ratings
    Zendesk Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Chat7.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Notifications7.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Lua and Verint Community and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    Lua
    -
    Ratings
    Verint Community
    -
    Ratings
    Zendesk Suite
    8.6
    187 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings00 Ratings9.1186 Ratings
    Expert directory00 Ratings00 Ratings7.9127 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings00 Ratings8.4130 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings00 Ratings7.8131 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings00 Ratings9.3186 Ratings
    Ticket response00 Ratings00 Ratings9.0185 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of Lua and Verint Community and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    Lua
    -
    Ratings
    Verint Community
    -
    Ratings
    Zendesk Suite
    8.5
    169 Ratings
    6% above category average
    External knowledge base00 Ratings00 Ratings8.5163 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base00 Ratings00 Ratings8.4156 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Lua and Verint Community and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    Lua
    -
    Ratings
    Verint Community
    -
    Ratings
    Zendesk Suite
    8.4
    182 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Customer portal00 Ratings00 Ratings9.1150 Ratings
    IVR00 Ratings00 Ratings8.076 Ratings
    Social integration00 Ratings00 Ratings7.4119 Ratings
    Email support00 Ratings00 Ratings9.2178 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings00 Ratings8.4138 Ratings
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    Score9.3 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Troop Messenger
    Score9.8 out of 10
    Higher Logic Vanilla
    Score5.5 out of 10
    LiveAgent
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Cisco Business Edition 7000 (discontinued)
    Score9 out of 10
    Khoros Communities
    Score8.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    LuaVerint CommunityZendesk Suite
    Likelihood to Recommend
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (31 ratings)
    8.7
    (225 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (43 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.5
    (8 ratings)
    8.6
    (98 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (14 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (11 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    5.5
    (31 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.4
    (10 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (19 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    LuaVerint CommunityZendesk Suite
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Lua
    I wouldn't recommend Lua because they were recently acquired by another company and will be shutting down. It was unfortunate that we were only given 2 months notice right after signing up for another 1-year term.
    Incentivized
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    Verint
    If you need a community platform that's very versatile and has a relatively low entry-cost to get started, Verint is a good pick. If you need a solution that is guaranteed to work seamlessly and have no hiccups or issues overall, it is not well suited. Although it is a SAAS solution, some of the aspects of the platform do not make it seem so.
    Incentivized
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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
    Lua
    • It is easy to communicate in real-time.
    • Easy to set up different groups.
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    Verint
    • Forums - organizing forum questions and identifying answered
    • Various layouts of blogs, divided by groups to enable different or similar layouts throughout the site. Ability to enable all to view the same or have particular groups of blogs to stand out and have it's own look and feel
    • ability to customize widgets to the needs of your use case
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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
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Lua
    • The application for iPad is not optimized.
    Incentivized
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    Verint
    • I would like to see engagement in the Elevate platform increase in discussions. We get so busy in our day, it is hard at times to get enough activity in a topic I know many struggle with in the contact center. The more sharing the better.
    • It would be nice if it were easier to connect as friends. That piece in Elevate seems difficult to build a network group and communicate with them all at one time on a topic or encourage them to join a discussion board when you know they have contributions that would benefit.
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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?
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Lua
    No answers on this topic
    Verint
    I am not part of this decision making process, but I did provide positive feedback to the decision making board.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Lua
    No answers on this topic
    Verint
    If you are an experienced online community professional, Verint offers the flexibility you need. You do need to have a lot of expertise if you want to build a solid user experience because there isn't a template out-of-the-box that is just ready to go for various use cases. It will take awhile to fully understand the capabilities of Verint Community.
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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
    Lua
    No answers on this topic
    Verint
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Lua
    No answers on this topic
    Verint
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Lua
    They are closing operations, so there's no support to rate
    Incentivized
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    Verint
    While the support portal (cases) is helpful, I've been even more impressed by their own support community. I always get quick, thoughtful, and interesting answers to my questions from support personnel, in-house developers, other users, and even the VP/GM himself! They have a really wonderful thing going there.
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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
    Lua
    No answers on this topic
    Verint
    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
    Lua
    No answers on this topic
    Verint
    all customizations should be under warranty so that you get the right level of support from the 3rd party
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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
    Lua
    We chose Lua because of their price point and feature set compared to other tools.
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    Verint
    I believe Verint Community stacks up very against previous solutions I have worked with. For an externally facing community, I think Jive-X was the best in class for many years, and Verint matches up very well from a features and configuration perspective. The other key point for me, is that Verint Community is also similar to Jive in that it has an extremely strong customer community of experienced community professionals. Verint does a great job of engaging with us about future plans, roadmaps, events, etc. I think this is a very under-rated benefit of a community platform, and Verint's is exceptional.
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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
    Lua
    No answers on this topic
    Verint
    Highly scalable system with the ability to expand to an increasing number of users and communities
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    Zendesk
    WHY we will use Zendesk in HR and PD internally
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    Return on Investment
    Lua
    • It has been great for communication and broadcasts, its a shame that they are closing down.
    Incentivized
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    Verint
    • Verint Community has helped to gain more than one lakh users which shows that the platform is extremely stable and engaging. This helped for more brand awareness and e-commerce conversion rates
    • We have had huge problems with non English countries where this platform's limitations has caused huge number of loss and less user count. Hopefully this is fixed soon.
    • Our major plan was to expand our segments and verticals such as gaming, education and business which was done very well by using this platform and our team was able to customize it based on our brand's identity. We looking to expand to much more countries and hopefully target all our worldwide businesses.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Lua Screenshots

    Screenshot of A Group Conversation With Files and Photos (iPhone)Screenshot of A Dedicated Tab for All Your Ongoing Conversations Broadcasts (Android)Screenshot of An Interactive Directory Organized by Departments, Roles, and Custom Groups (iPhone)Screenshot of Two-touch Conference Calling, No Dial-ins, No Passcodes (iPhone)Screenshot of A Dedicated Repository for All Attachments (Android)Screenshot of Communication Analytics Dashboard (Web)

    Verint Community Screenshots

    Screenshot of the Sophos Community, built on Verint Community, that offers forums, blogs, events, and membership perks for its usersScreenshot of VisionAires, a community powered by Verint, that features working groups, event, and a content hubScreenshot of an Avnet community with courses, competitions, and networking opportunitiesScreenshot of the ADI Engineer Zone, which is a community hub with built-in learning modules, webcasts, blogs, and supportScreenshot of MicroFocus' community to ask questions, join conversations, or share ideasScreenshot of the England Football Community, a place to connect with people and join the conversation about all things football.

    Zendesk Suite Screenshots

    Screenshot of the Zendesk Agent WorkspaceScreenshot of Omnichannel MessagingScreenshot of Zendesk TicketingScreenshot of Bots powered by Zendesk AIScreenshot of Tone shift with Zendesk AIScreenshot of Zendesk ticketing side conversations