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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Manhattan Active Customer Engagement

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AA solution focusing on providing call center and service agents information about when and why customers buy a brand's products, and that also lets customers use digital self-service to lighten the workload of agents. Agents are given access to complete customer histories, with a variety of tools united in a single agent dashboard.N/A

    Pylon

    Score8 out of 10
    N/APylon is a support platform built for B2B. Presented as an alternative to Zendesk, Pylon can be used to track customer issues across any channel, automate with AI, and design a support engine.

    $70

    per month per seat

    Pricing
    Manhattan Active Customer EngagementPylon
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Starter
    $70
    per month per seat
    Professional
    $118
    per month per seat
    Enterprise
    $167
    per month per seat
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Manhattan Active Customer EngagementPylon
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Up to a 33% discount available for annual pricing.
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    Features
    Manhattan Active Customer EngagementPylon
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Manhattan Active Customer Engagement and Pylon
    Feature
    Manhattan Active Customer Engagement
    -
    Ratings
    Pylon
    9.2
    1 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Expert directory00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Ticket response00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of Manhattan Active Customer Engagement and Pylon
    Feature
    Manhattan Active Customer Engagement
    -
    Ratings
    Pylon
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    22% above category average
    External knowledge base00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Manhattan Active Customer Engagement and Pylon
    Feature
    Manhattan Active Customer Engagement
    -
    Ratings
    Pylon
    9.5
    1 Ratings
    17% above category average
    Customer portal00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Social integration00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Email support00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Manhattan Active Customer EngagementPylon
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Manhattan Active Customer EngagementPylon
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Manhattan Associates
    The cloud-native technological architecture on which Manhattan Active WM is built is designed for scalability, flexibility, and easy upgradeability. A responsive user interface, which is available on a tablet or fixed station and supports several of these operations, provides the unified control capabilities of the system. Real-time data is shown in a variety of ways, including a global map of facilities, individual facility data, labor utilization, and tasks broken down by job function.
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    Pylon
    I think Pylon is great for startups who are figuring out where they want to interact and how they want to interact with their customers. Pylon is also great for beginner account management in terms of keeping track of comms, usage, tickets, and a bit more. Overall, I think Pylon will scale nicely it just takes a bit of time to configure all (lots) of settings.I don't think Pylon is well-suited for teams who don't know much about support operations. The tool has so many great features an they ship super fast, but the product itself isn't very opinionated and the amount of options sometimes can be overwhelming
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    Pros
    Manhattan Associates
    • Permanently Adaptive.
    • Seamlessly Integrated.
    • Greater Visibility.
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    Pylon
    • Agent view customizations
    • Account mangagement tools
    • Feature / Tool feedback
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    Cons
    Manhattan Associates
    • User Interface.
    • Data Security.
    • API's
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    Pylon
    • AI intentionality
    • Linear integration
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    Usability
    Manhattan Associates
    No answers on this topic
    Pylon
    Overall, the UI is awesome and super intuitive. The features makes sense and everything is customizable to your liking. You don't need to create copies of filters, because the changing of filters on one saved few is THAT easy, which is something we love. Additionally, whenever we go to look for a capability or day dream about something... Pylon usually has it or its in the works. Only reason its not a 10 is that it can be overwhelming that it has everything, but a food problem to have
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    Alternatives Considered
    Manhattan Associates
    Manhattan enables seamless business configuration and interoperability. Manhattan Associates' architectural principles will drive the creation of cloud-native apps. These principles were developed to ensure that Manhattan Associates' solutions could achieve the engineering velocity that its end clients demanded while also striving to reduce the cost of innovation. As a consequence, you are not obliged to wait for technology to catch up to your decision-making before introducing new goods and services to your customers.
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    Pylon
    After evaluating both platforms, we chose Pylon for its superior user experience and deeper integration capabilities. Unlike Zendesk's frustrating UI and limited customization options, Pylon offered seamless integration with our existing tools like Salesforce, Linear, and PagerDuty, while allowing our team to stay within familiar Slack interfaces. The multi-channel notification system and AI-powered features like article generation provided the modern support infrastructure we needed, eliminating the complex rules and automations that made Zendesk cumbersome. Pylon's robust analytics and broadcast features also gave us valuable insights into customer engagement, making it the clear choice for streamlining our support workflows while enhancing both team efficiency and customer satisfaction.
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    Return on Investment
    Manhattan Associates
    • Implementation of the whole supply chain and fulfilment.
    • Better Data Management.
    • Effective use of configurations.
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    Pylon
    • Team productivity
    • Easier cross-functional collaboration
    • better insights into customer issue tracking
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