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    Stack Overflow for Teams

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AStack Overflow for Teams is a team knowledge management and Q & A platform for development billed per teammate, featuring roles and permissions, and integrations with popularly used collaboration tools.

    $7

    per month per teammate (up to 250 teammates)

    Zendesk Guide

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AZendesk Guide is a smart knowledge base built to help support teams continuously improve content, keep it up to date, and serve it to customers.N/A
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    Stack Overflow for TeamsZendesk Guide
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    Basic
    $7
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    Business
    $14
    per month per teammate (unlimited)
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Stack Overflow for TeamsZendesk Guide
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (10 ratings)
    7.4
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    Support Rating
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    Stack Overflow for TeamsZendesk Guide
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Stack Overflow
    In my opinion, Stack Overflow for Teams is well suited for an organization that is on a hiring spree for the engineering teams. The reason for it is because instead of catering to doubts of new joinees individually, they can be asked to refer to the Stack Overflow and hence will save a lot of time for both new joiners as well as the existing employees.
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    Zendesk
    In our company, we host our benefit articles based on country on our Zendesk Guide. However, these articles should not be seen by employees that are outside their respective article country. For example, an employee that is based in Thailand shouldn't be seeing Malaysia benefits article as employees might compared benefits. With Zendesk Guide, the system allow us to set the configuration of the article so it is only visible Thailand-based employees, and for Malaysia article, only Malaysia-based employees
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    Pros
    Stack Overflow
    • Sharing technical solutions to problems we encounter in our internal development environment.
    • Sharing best practices we find in external resources.
    • Discussions on design patterns and conventions we can use in our projects.
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    Zendesk
    • They give us ability to control the whole frontend of the Communities by giving us access to manipulate HTML (in HBS file), CSS and JS
    • They give handlebars templating engine in backend which helps us to show various listing rendered through server side without having need to implement client side rendering of the listing and features.
    • They provide us dynamic content fields, which can be useful for mapping categories or storing category and topic IDs so we don't need to hard code IDs in Sandbox and Production separately.
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    Cons
    Stack Overflow
    • I would recommend an increased engineering focus on the Microsoft Teams integration.
    • It would be nice to make more medals.
    • Easier ways to earn points.
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    Zendesk
    • Formatting according to our brand guidelines can be tricky
    • Reporting metrics are lacking
    • The user interface can be confusing
    • Their support team takes a long time to respond
    • They have comments open on their KB articles, but almost noone responds, which is frustrating.
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    Support Rating
    Stack Overflow
    No answers on this topic
    Zendesk
    The support is good but can sometime be frustrating to get a quick answer. We end up being sent articles that don't answer the question and then we have to go back and try again
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    Alternatives Considered
    Stack Overflow
    It's easier to use Stack Overflow for Teams Q&A to maintain our knowledge base over time, over the Confluence wikis that we also maintain. You don't need to bother about folders, filenames, templates - just ask a question and answer it or get it answered. It feels less formal, so developers feel more free to add content.
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    Zendesk
    It is an attribute of Zendesk that allows for easy over the phone communication between agents and customers. It is more personal and allows for better productivity. Phone support from anywhere with reliable internet connection which is essential to call center communication whether in the office or in the home of the agent.
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    Return on Investment
    Stack Overflow
    • It makes the search for answers more efficient, so devs can focus in more important things.
    • Knowledge is not lost, even if people leave the company.
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    Zendesk
    • We used it for multiple customer so we can say ROI of Zendesk Guide is very competitive.
    • Zendesk meet[s] most of the business objective[s], which suits [a]s best product among its competitor.
    • I highly recommend to use Zendesk for knowledge base and tickets and agents.
    Incentivized
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