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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Microsoft Dynamics 365

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Dynamics 365 is a CRM providing sales, marketing, and service functionality. It is offered as SaaS and on-premise. Dynamics 365 is part of the larger Dynamics suite of business intelligence and ERP products.

    $44

    per month

    Zoho Desk

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AZoho Support is a Saas help desk / ticketing system aimed at SMBs. I competes most often with Zendesk, and Desk.com.

    $9

    per month per user

    Pricing
    Microsoft Dynamics 365Zoho Desk
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Free
    $0
    Express
    $9
    per month per user
    Standard
    $20
    per month per user
    Professional
    $35
    per month per user
    Enterprise
    $50
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Microsoft Dynamics 365Zoho Desk
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeRequired
    Additional Details—A discount is offered for yearly billing.
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    Microsoft Dynamics 365Zoho Desk
    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    88%
    Would buy again
    23 Answers
    93%
    Would buy again
    14 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    87%
    Delivers good value for the price
    20 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    14 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    23 Answers
    87%
    Happy with the feature set
    13 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    86%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    12 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    82%
    Implementation went as expected
    18 Answers
    85%
    Implementation went as expected
    11 Answers
    Features
    Microsoft Dynamics 365Zoho Desk
    Sales Force Automation
    Comparison of Sales Force Automation features of Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Zoho Desk
    Feature
    Microsoft Dynamics 365
    7.7
    84 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Zoho Desk
    -
    Ratings
    Customer data management / contact management7.981 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow management7.980 Ratings00 Ratings
    Territory management7.160 Ratings00 Ratings
    Opportunity management7.672 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)7.879 Ratings00 Ratings
    Contract management7.961 Ratings00 Ratings
    Quote & order management7.258 Ratings00 Ratings
    Interaction tracking8.171 Ratings00 Ratings
    Channel / partner relationship management7.362 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer Service & Support
    Comparison of Customer Service & Support features of Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Zoho Desk
    Feature
    Microsoft Dynamics 365
    8.0
    68 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Zoho Desk
    -
    Ratings
    Case management7.863 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call center management7.950 Ratings00 Ratings
    Help desk management8.557 Ratings00 Ratings
    Marketing Automation
    Comparison of Marketing Automation features of Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Zoho Desk
    Feature
    Microsoft Dynamics 365
    7.9
    78 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Zoho Desk
    -
    Ratings
    Lead management7.672 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email marketing8.171 Ratings00 Ratings
    CRM Project Management
    Comparison of CRM Project Management features of Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Zoho Desk
    Feature
    Microsoft Dynamics 365
    8.0
    76 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Zoho Desk
    -
    Ratings
    Task management8.171 Ratings00 Ratings
    Billing and invoicing management8.054 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting8.065 Ratings00 Ratings
    CRM Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of CRM Reporting & Analytics features of Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Zoho Desk
    Feature
    Microsoft Dynamics 365
    7.6
    77 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Zoho Desk
    -
    Ratings
    Forecasting7.667 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pipeline visualization7.873 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable reports7.476 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customization
    Comparison of Customization features of Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Zoho Desk
    Feature
    Microsoft Dynamics 365
    7.7
    80 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Zoho Desk
    -
    Ratings
    Custom fields7.678 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom objects7.572 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scripting environment7.956 Ratings00 Ratings
    API for custom integration7.861 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Zoho Desk
    Feature
    Microsoft Dynamics 365
    8.8
    75 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Zoho Desk
    -
    Ratings
    Single sign-on capability8.869 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-based user permissions8.770 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social CRM
    Comparison of Social CRM features of Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Zoho Desk
    Feature
    Microsoft Dynamics 365
    7.7
    44 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Zoho Desk
    -
    Ratings
    Social data7.843 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social engagement7.643 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrations with 3rd-party Software
    Comparison of Integrations with 3rd-party Software features of Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Zoho Desk
    Feature
    Microsoft Dynamics 365
    7.2
    65 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Zoho Desk
    -
    Ratings
    Marketing automation7.665 Ratings00 Ratings
    Compensation management6.834 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform
    Comparison of Platform features of Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Zoho Desk
    Feature
    Microsoft Dynamics 365
    6.8
    56 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Zoho Desk
    -
    Ratings
    Mobile access6.856 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Zoho Desk
    Feature
    Microsoft Dynamics 365
    -
    Ratings
    Zoho Desk
    8.5
    5 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
    Expert directory00 Ratings7.14 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings7.14 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings8.95 Ratings
    Ticket response00 Ratings8.95 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Zoho Desk
    Feature
    Microsoft Dynamics 365
    -
    Ratings
    Zoho Desk
    9.8
    5 Ratings
    20% above category average
    External knowledge base00 Ratings9.85 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base00 Ratings9.85 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Zoho Desk
    Feature
    Microsoft Dynamics 365
    -
    Ratings
    Zoho Desk
    6.6
    5 Ratings
    19% below category average
    Customer portal00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Social integration00 Ratings6.83 Ratings
    Email support00 Ratings6.15 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings5.44 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Microsoft Dynamics 365Zoho Desk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.9
    (104 ratings)
    8.8
    (23 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (20 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.8
    (34 ratings)
    8.0
    (12 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (11 ratings)
    8.8
    (11 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.5
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.2
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    3.8
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Microsoft Dynamics 365Zoho Desk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    Provides our company access to manage and customize the folds tailored to our needs. We needed to have certain paragraphs on certain paperwork per customer. MD 365 has those options to customize where needed and remove when not. The system is easy to navigate, and training can be done in a matter of days, even without prior knowledge of the system or similar systems.
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    Zoho
    Zoho Desk is a great customer service tool. It is very easy to track the ability to receive tickets and send responses in Zoho Desk. There are lots of options for customization. The knowledge base feature is very extensive and powerful. It makes creating internal and external FAQs easy.
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • Best to use for AP - like in our organization, there are plenty of AP bills, so with Dynamics, we can quickly enter the same into the Excel utility, which means CSV-based upload, and then we can easily upload the same to the software. It's a time saver.
    • Best for Bank reconciliation - MS Dynamics makes Bank reconciliation easy. Banks can easily sync with software and easily get reconciled.
    • Generating invoices to customers and directly sending them to their inbox is easy with this software.
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    Zoho
    • It provides a simple widget code with a few clicks once you decide to integrate it with your website or application.
    • There is a very user friendly dedicated mobile application for Zoho Desk for Android and IOS devices.
    • You can easily track all of your tickets and agents from the dashboard interface.
    • You can insert tags with each ticket to group them into specific categories for analysis and troubleshooting.
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • Small learning curve, obviously. You won't figure this out in a day, a week, or even a month. But given time, you can learn to be an expert. Or you can always get a consultant or hire in somebody. But learning the tool isn't out of the questions by any means.
    • Licensing can be confusing at times and isn't cheap, but it is cheaper than Salesforce. Plus no additional fees for data calls to better integrate your D365 CE data with other systems.
    • The Classic user interface left a bit to be desired, but now with the much-improved Unified Interface, the web client and the mobile client look the same, much more modern, and have more flexibility and power behind them for customizers as well.
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    Zoho
    • The biggest drawback that I am facing while using the platform is that their ticketing system is not that great [in my opinion]. It does not give us the option to add sales tax and other charges in the invoices which leads to a big problem for us.
    • [I feel] its customer support needs improvement.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Microsoft
    CRM has allowed us to keep all of our data in one place that is easy for all users within the company to view. I came into the company after they had been using CRM for about 4 years. They have all said that since we have used this it has helped us control work processes better, it has allowed us to be able to track things so much better, and has been something that has helped unite many processes that used to be all over the place. We are currently using CRM 4.0 and are planning on upgrading in the next 18 months to the 2011 version. Support for 4.0 is almost all but dried up. Understandably so. Some of the customization we have done, and a plugins we use, are now contained within the 2011 version so we are looking forward to that upgrade. We use an email marketing company as well, and they primarily support the 2011 version, but their product connects and is integrated within CRM. This is a great benefit as well so that all of our marketing information can be contained in one location.
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    Zoho
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Microsoft
    The usability is easily adopted for users familiar with other Microsoft products. Dynamics 365 has several interfaces that cross over browsers and tablets. These multiple interfaces will be phased out and updated to a single unified interface eventually to provide the same usability across all devices. The backend configurations is slowly improving with the introduction of PowerApps compared to pre-D365 Online versions
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    Zoho
    I give [Zoho Desk] [an] overall usability score of 9. This is partly due to the search functionality needs improvement. There are several times where I am left unable to find a ticket and have to generate a new one. I am hoping in the future that they will make some changes!
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    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    Our partner, Ledgeview Partners has been FANTASTIC to work with. They are always timely in their response and have taken time to understand our business and our specific needs. We've made a lot of advanced customizations and they have been a great help in making those updates.
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    Zoho
    As Zoho Support is based in a different timezone to ours it can be an issue that we cannot get an immediate response to an issue. But I will say that once their Support is in the office they are fairly good to respond. they have resolved almost all issues I have told them about, but Zoho have also made system changes and not communicated these beforehand which means we are faced with something new and cannot get support on this until their support team is in the office
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    Implementation Rating
    Microsoft
    We used a data warehouse to house our data, and our IT team and implementation vendor worked diligently ahead of time to construct idea implementation plans. Out of millions of records- we had less than a dozen errors, which is remarkable. My major insight is simply having a group of completely devoted individuals working towards your goal who fully understand the desired outcome. Focused resources for implementation season are critical to success.
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    Zoho
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    Microsoft Dynamics was part of a system overhaul for a local school, and we looked at many products. If we had used it for a company with low turnover, then it might have been more feasible. They needed something a new person could learn quickly, someone who might also be learning marketing terms at the same time - especially if there is nobody to train the individual now expected to know the system. Similar issues occurred with all of these programs (we called it being too big for their britches), and one of the bigger things we liked was that it is more compatible with MS Office products in both technical and visual appeal. If you have a steady employees who use a CRM consistently, low turnover, and those who are very familiar with Office products, Dynamics would be the smartest option for you. Unfortunately, this was just not true for the school environment
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    Zoho
    We selected Zoho Desk as we needed a platform that was going to allow the business to grow through both usage and staffing numbers. We wanted something cost-effective but still offered standard features in an effective cloud-delivered solution but would still allow customization by our internal dev team, to derive better value from the service where it natively didn't do what we needed it to. FreeAgent was okay for a while, but Zoho Desk has allowed a vast improvement in our service offering to end customers.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Microsoft
    On our purchase, I'd been interrogated about our usage. Our needs are met by Microsoft Dynamics 365, which is simple to use. With so much data and information available, we must ensure that it is presented correctly to managers. Due to a lack of use, we don't have to spend as much money on Salesforce.
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    Zoho
    No answers on this topic
    Professional Services
    Microsoft
    My company's preferred program right now is Microsoft Dynamics 365. We use it to keep track of customers and important sales metrics in a streamlined manner. Anyone familiar with CRMs will find the tool extremely useful. Considering that we have a good turnover, this product will be used for its basic segments. As a result, there are few chances of error with Microsoft dynamics because it is so easy to use. Many options for recording data on these leads are available. It meets our needs and pays off.
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    Zoho
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • For those without a centralized, all in one solution for major HR, Finance and other departments, Microsoft Dynamics 365 has vastly improved employee time utilization and profit.
    • Migrating clients from on-premise to the cloud has reaped benefits including better security, no unscheduled downtime and frequent updates to functionality.
    • Those transferring from cheaper solutions have lost money in the aim to be better integrated with other Microsoft products and AI they don't really utilize.
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    Zoho
    • Zoho Desk has created an organised sytem of support which alows me to help my customers more efficiently.
    • By saving resolutions as articles, Zoho Desk has provided a training resource for current customers and support staff as part of solving problems.
    • All new customers become part of a database of customers who continue to receive support and education from forums created by the articles and customer questions.
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    Screenshot of Log and monitor phone conversations, convert them into new tickets, or attach them to existing ones. Convert social media interactions and live chat into tickets at the click of a button.Screenshot of Bring a Help Center directly into a website to strengthen self-service. Chat with Zia, an AI-powered conversation assistant. Customers can chat with Zia right from a mobile app or website. Zia processes their questions and suggests appropriate solutions from the Knowledge Base.Screenshot of With advanced process automation, internal processes can be setup within the help desk, implement them automatically, and make sure that all processes are followed precisely.Screenshot of Instant responses for instant happiness. Respond to customers the minute they reach out with Zoho Desk's embeddable chat widget. Customers can get in touch with agents instantly, right from the Help Center, so agents can respond and help them find answers faster.Screenshot of Monitor a team's performance, customize and schedule reports. Custom dashboards can be created.Screenshot of Zia brings together predictions across anomalies, sentiment, trending ticket tags, and more into a common dashboard for decision-makers to consume. They can drill down further into the details from the same dashboard to investigate further.