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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Pobuca

    Score8.7 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Pobuca Connect is a cloud app that turns multiple, overlapping and non-connected business contact lists into one unified company address book that’s easy to access from everywhere and ready to share with co-workers or business associates. It also includes the built-in Pobuca Bot, a virtual assistant to help keep business contacts up to date.

    $0

    Salesforce Experience Cloud

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/ASalesforce Marketing Cloud Engagement (formerly Salesforce Experience Cloud or Salesforce Community Cloud) is an online forum powered by Salesforce that enables businesses to connect with their employees, customers, partner organizations, and prospects. Designed to help facilitate communication and information sharing, customers can ask questions and request help, administrators can integrate data from third-party apps, and employees can collaborate across projects and…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
    PobucaSalesforce Experience CloudZendesk Suite
    Editions & Modules
    Free
    $0.00
    Pro
    $3.00
    per user/per month
    Enterprise
    $5.00
    per user/per month
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    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
    PobucaSalesforce Experience CloudZendesk Suite
    Free Trial
    YesNoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details——20% discount available with annual pricing.
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    Community Pulse
    PobucaSalesforce Experience CloudZendesk Suite
    Considered Multiple Products
    Pobuca Ltd
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    Salesforce
    Chose Salesforce Experience Cloud
    Overall, Salesforce is the most effective solution since it is part of an integrated stack to house and activate CRM audiences within an email, but also expand upon it via the DMP. This can allow for cross channel reach and exposure frequency measurement. If we were to partner …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Experience Cloud
    As our client already used Salesforce CRM, it is a simple integration tasks to link Community to CRM. As such this was a quick deployment with the base data already being present and easily linked to.
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Experience Cloud
    I’m sure Salesforce does this as well but we were able to create many macros for Zendesk, that helped our agents interact with customers on a very consistent basis. We haven’t quite got that far in our organization, but I do think it would be useful to our agents.
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Experience Cloud
    Zendesk was far better at case management.

    Atlassian Confluence for knowledge base was not perfect but it was better than Community Cloud for search and appearance for the FAQ.
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Experience Cloud
    We were already using Salesforce for other reasons so this was a natural choice. We didn't see any huge advantages in the other products so it just wasn't any reason to consider other products seriously. The pricing is reasonable too. Salesforce is really good about keeping …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Experience Cloud
    [We chose Salesforce Communities because of] Seamless integration with our CRM.
    Incentivized
    Zendesk
    Chose Zendesk Suite
    Zendesk Suite has been a much better fit for us than Salesforce Experience Cloud and Salesforce Knowledge. With Salesforce, many basic knowledge base needs require custom development or AppExchange add-ons, from UI tweaks to more advanced analytics. Authoring and formatting …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    96%
    Would buy again
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    87%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    37 Answers
    85%
    Delivers good value for the price
    108 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    45 Answers
    92%
    Happy with the feature set
    131 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    28 Answers
    85%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    82 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    30 Answers
    85%
    Implementation went as expected
    94 Answers
    Features
    PobucaSalesforce Experience CloudZendesk Suite
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Pobuca and Salesforce Experience Cloud and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    Pobuca
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Experience Cloud
    -
    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 Pobuca and Salesforce Experience Cloud and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    Pobuca
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Experience Cloud
    -
    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 Pobuca and Salesforce Experience Cloud and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    Pobuca
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Experience Cloud
    -
    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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    User Ratings
    PobucaSalesforce Experience CloudZendesk Suite
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (3 ratings)
    8.9
    (71 ratings)
    8.7
    (225 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (43 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.1
    (15 ratings)
    8.6
    (98 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
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    9.1
    (14 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    9.1
    (11 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (18 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)
    -
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    9.1
    (19 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
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    -
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    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.4
    (4 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
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    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
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    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
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    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
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    -
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    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    PobucaSalesforce Experience CloudZendesk Suite
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Pobuca Ltd
    It is a great tool for everyone who has a lot of contacts to manage and is not good at keeping contacts. It has the capacity to hold a massive number of contacts and it arranges them so one can effortlessly find any of their contacts without wasting time.
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    Salesforce
    For well-suited, this product is great for your external clientele groups that you would not necessarily want to have a high user fee rate for. So basically general public or a group that will be authorized to come in and just do a few things here and there, but you don't necessarily want them access to all of your systems and your data points for groups that it would not be a great use for. I'd say probably your high level internal staff, they're going to be using a lot of the backend functionality automations, evaluating data, managing data, and doing custom inputs. That's just not what's intended for.
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Pobuca Ltd
    • Contacts are entered easily.
    • It has many options for different types of information you can input.
    • The ability to take pictures of business cards and it stores it makes it easier to find at a later date.
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    • Easy to use, just like Salesforce's other products. Many users can sit down and figure it out in no time, and with a little training become power users.
    • Fast and secure - Salesforce is a leader in the cloud world so you get consistently fast results and security that is top notch in the industry.
    • Accessible from anywhere - if you use cloud CMS already this is a no-brainer, but for those that do in-house CMS still, this is a major difference. Mobile access from anywhere on the planet without a VPN is something you just can't do without the cloud.
    Incentivized
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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
    Pobuca Ltd
    • Alphabetical display
    • Merging contacts (fix screen so only contacts move, not the whole display of action buttons)
    • Improve scan quality
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Salesforce
    • Unlike other CMS platforms like Wordpress and Adobe Experience Manager, Salesforce does not provide a fully featured editor with a drag-and-drop design tool.
    • Our content creators and marketing team often struggle with permissions and how to distribute content across different experience cloud sites.
    • Also, there is no side-to-side comparison view for content editors to update the content easily.
    Incentivized
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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
    Read full review
    Likelihood to Renew
    Pobuca Ltd
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    Renewal exercise is already underway. Platform is to ubiquitous to not leverage, especially at a Fortune 50 firm
    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
    Pobuca Ltd
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    Strengths: - Intuitive for Salesforce Users – If you’re already working within the Salesforce ecosystem, the Salesforce CMS is easy to navigate, with a clean UI, drag-and-drop content management, and reusable assets for quick updates. - Seamless Integration – Since it connects natively with Experience Cloud, Marketing Cloud, and CRM, it allows for efficient multi-channel content distribution without needing extra third-party tools. - AI-Powered Personalization – The ability to deliver dynamic content based on user profiles and engagement data is a huge plus, making content delivery more relevant and impactful. Challenges: - Learning Curve for New Users – If you're not already familiar with Salesforce, the interface can feel overwhelming, requiring training to fully leverage all features. - Limited Customization & Workflow Automation – While it works well for structured content, advanced approval workflows and deep editorial customization are limited compared to enterprise CMS platforms like Adobe Experience Manager. - Media & Design Limitations – Salesforce CMS is not as robust for managing rich media-heavy content, which can be frustrating for teams needing more flexibility in multimedia presentation.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    Pobuca Ltd
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    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
    Pobuca Ltd
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    Again, since we provide and recommend solutions, I can't speak to every client's individual experience, but can offer general reflections as to keep their collaborations private, that they are satisfied with the experience. We hear a lot about how this system helps to encourage collaborations between their own business partners, customers, and internal members, and enables quality integrations with other products that help drive revenue.
    Incentivized
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    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
    Pobuca Ltd
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    Although support from Salesforce itself can be quite unresponsive sometimes, the community hub is incredibly helpful. The large user base of Salesforce products contribute to troubleshooting and the forums are a powerful tool for finding solutions and possible bugs and response times can be quite fast compared to your regular support channels.
    Incentivized
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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
    Pobuca Ltd
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    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
    Pobuca Ltd
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Pobuca Ltd
    BizConnect’s customer service was not good and was a bit slow in searching contacts. But Pobuca is the best choice in this regard--from customer service to the ease with which we can add contact into it is amazing. Its flexibility is another major factor in choosing Pobuca. Finding any contact through this software is very simple, but its scanning feature is a bit slow and takes time.
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    Salesforce
    Salesforce Experience Cloud was selected due to its tight integration with our existing Salesforce CRM platform. Customization of the portal was much, much simpler compared to Sharepoint - especially with role-based security parameters that are ultimately inherited based on attributes within the Salesforce CRM platform. Salesforce Experience Cloud was a natural fit for this customer-facing purpose.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Pobuca Ltd
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Zendesk
    WHY we will use Zendesk in HR and PD internally
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Pobuca Ltd
    • Shortened time looking for leads
    • Practicality in dialing direct from the app
    • Our custom fields help us a lot job-wise
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    • Time savings for our customer success team - no need to continually follow up on tickets as customers have access to see status themselves
    • In the future, it will also allow us to create more impactful knowledge articles that will increase self-service over ticket creation
    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

    Pobuca Screenshots

    Screenshot of Pobuca-where teams share contactsScreenshot of Import business contacts in one placeScreenshot of Link contacts to related organizationsScreenshot of Smart search finds  the user is looking forScreenshot of Capture email signaturesScreenshot of Access contacts everywhere with Pobuca mobile app

    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