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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    UKG Pro

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AUKG delivers cloud-based HCM solutions including UKG Pro that help businesses simplify payroll computations, accelerate talent acquisition, manage time and attendance, and support proactive, strategic talent management on a global level.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
    UKG ProZendesk Suite
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    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
    UKG ProZendesk Suite
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—20% discount available with annual pricing.
    More Pricing Information
    Features
    UKG ProZendesk Suite
    Human Resource Management
    Comparison of Human Resource Management features of UKG Pro and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    UKG Pro
    7.8
    955 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Zendesk Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Employee demographic data8.5865 Ratings00 Ratings
    Employment history8.2890 Ratings00 Ratings
    Job profiles and administration8.0861 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.7.5842 Ratings00 Ratings
    Organizational charting7.2755 Ratings00 Ratings
    Organization and location management8.0768 Ratings00 Ratings
    Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)7.3606 Ratings00 Ratings
    Payroll Management
    Comparison of Payroll Management features of UKG Pro and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    UKG Pro
    7.9
    869 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Zendesk Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Pay calculation8.0823 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for external payroll vendors7.6414 Ratings00 Ratings
    Off-cycle/On-Demand payment8.0328 Ratings00 Ratings
    Benefit plan administration7.5739 Ratings00 Ratings
    Direct deposit files8.3809 Ratings00 Ratings
    Salary revision and increment management8.1667 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reimbursement management8.057 Ratings00 Ratings
    Leave and Attendance Management
    Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of UKG Pro and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    UKG Pro
    7.6
    677 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Zendesk Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Approval workflow7.5603 Ratings00 Ratings
    Balance details7.6633 Ratings00 Ratings
    Annual carry-forward and encashment7.6524 Ratings00 Ratings
    Employee Self Service
    Comparison of Employee Self Service features of UKG Pro and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    UKG Pro
    7.8
    922 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Zendesk Suite
    -
    Ratings
    View and generate pay and benefit information8.0889 Ratings00 Ratings
    Update personal information8.2894 Ratings00 Ratings
    View company policy documentation7.7659 Ratings00 Ratings
    Employee recognition7.1346 Ratings00 Ratings
    View job history8.0873 Ratings00 Ratings
    Asset Management
    Comparison of Asset Management features of UKG Pro and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    UKG Pro
    7.6
    233 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Zendesk Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Tracking of all physical assets7.6233 Ratings00 Ratings
    HR Reporting
    Comparison of HR Reporting features of UKG Pro and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    UKG Pro
    7.0
    857 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Zendesk Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Report builder7.2831 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-built reports7.2846 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ability to combine HR data with external data6.6590 Ratings00 Ratings
    Onboarding
    Comparison of Onboarding features of UKG Pro and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    UKG Pro
    7.8
    651 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Zendesk Suite
    -
    Ratings
    New hire portal8.1644 Ratings00 Ratings
    Manager tracking tools7.5523 Ratings00 Ratings
    Performance and Goals
    Comparison of Performance and Goals features of UKG Pro and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    UKG Pro
    7.4
    443 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Zendesk Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Corporate goal setting7.3349 Ratings00 Ratings
    Individual goal setting7.4422 Ratings00 Ratings
    Line-of sight-visibility7.5303 Ratings00 Ratings
    Performance tracking7.5391 Ratings00 Ratings
    Performance Management
    Comparison of Performance Management features of UKG Pro and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    UKG Pro
    7.4
    548 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Zendesk Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Performance plans7.5490 Ratings00 Ratings
    Performance improvement plans6.9387 Ratings00 Ratings
    Review status tracking7.6504 Ratings00 Ratings
    Review reminders7.5474 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple review frequency7.5398 Ratings00 Ratings
    Succession Planning
    Comparison of Succession Planning features of UKG Pro and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    UKG Pro
    7.1
    239 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Zendesk Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Create succession plans/pools6.8192 Ratings00 Ratings
    Candidate ranking7.3206 Ratings00 Ratings
    Candidate search7.5210 Ratings00 Ratings
    Candidate development7.0190 Ratings00 Ratings
    Recruiting / ATS
    Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of UKG Pro and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    UKG Pro
    7.4
    537 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Zendesk Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Job Requisition Management7.5505 Ratings00 Ratings
    Company Website Posting7.4496 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publish to Social Media7.1393 Ratings00 Ratings
    Job Search Site Posting7.3458 Ratings00 Ratings
    Duplicate Candidate Prevention7.1388 Ratings00 Ratings
    Applicant Tracking7.6493 Ratings00 Ratings
    Notifications and Alerts7.5458 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of UKG Pro and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    UKG Pro
    -
    Ratings
    Zendesk Suite
    8.6
    187 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings9.1186 Ratings
    Expert directory00 Ratings7.9127 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings8.4130 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings7.8131 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings9.3186 Ratings
    Ticket response00 Ratings9.0185 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of UKG Pro and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    UKG Pro
    -
    Ratings
    Zendesk Suite
    8.5
    169 Ratings
    6% above category average
    External knowledge base00 Ratings8.5163 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base00 Ratings8.5156 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of UKG Pro and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    UKG Pro
    -
    Ratings
    Zendesk Suite
    8.4
    182 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Customer portal00 Ratings9.1150 Ratings
    IVR00 Ratings8.076 Ratings
    Social integration00 Ratings7.4119 Ratings
    Email support00 Ratings9.2178 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings8.4138 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    UKG ProZendesk Suite
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (1097 ratings)
    8.7
    (225 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (197 ratings)
    10.0
    (43 ratings)
    Usability
    7.9
    (334 ratings)
    8.6
    (98 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (76 ratings)
    9.1
    (14 ratings)
    Performance
    10.0
    (333 ratings)
    9.1
    (11 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.6
    (496 ratings)
    5.5
    (31 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    10.0
    (88 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.1
    (206 ratings)
    6.4
    (10 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (87 ratings)
    9.1
    (19 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.7
    (78 ratings)
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    5.9
    (68 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (95 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.4
    (57 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    10.0
    (50 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    UKG ProZendesk Suite
    Likelihood to Recommend
    UKG
    I feel UKG Pro has been so horribly rolled out at the City of Houston. I'm amazed that, as a system administrator, it even works at all. In my opinion, the greatest expense the city has budgeted is managed by a shoe-string, janky, bug-ridden mess. I truly hope UKG is bought out for 2 cents and scattered to dust. In my opinion, terrible maintenance and support, the worst consultants money can buy, the sleaziest sales accountants. This system tries my patience as a lead system administrator and I would caution anyone considering bringing in this mess to their business. It's been a year now, and we still have workarounds and bugs daily.
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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
    UKG
    • UKG has an amazing support team to reach out to if assistance is needed
    • All add-ons of UKG Pro integrate seamlessly making it a powerful software program
    • UKG Pro is very configurable to meet the specific needs of companies
    • It is easy to use and navigate
    • The mobile app is loved by all employees and provides on-demand access
    • The Ultimate Community is amazing!! On-demand information on all products and how they are used. Connect with other companies that use UKG Pro and learn from each other.
    • The Learning Centre is also amazing!! Learning right at your fingertips anytime, anywhere.
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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
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    Cons
    UKG
    • Teachers that are hard functionality. Okay. I would say the most issues that we've had is the admins or the HR department losing their access and it throws us for a loop. It's like, what happened? What's going on? So that's the main thing. And then some of our employees struggle with the hourly employees try to struggle with timekeeping as in clocking in and clocking out. But we got that resolved. Thank you UKG Pro. And our employees are happy again. I would recommend UKG Pro.
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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?
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    Likelihood to Renew
    UKG
    We have been a customer since 2015, we have gone to market and find that UKG Pro product is both user friendly for administrators as well as the employee. The qualify of support and service of UKG team is valued and we trust the product.
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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.
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    Usability
    UKG
    It gets the job done, but not with a few deep sighs. Once you know where stuff lives, it's manageable, but the first learning curve is steep, some menus feel buried. However, it's consistent, reliable and doesn't crash on me, which counts for a lot. With a little UI glow up it could push into a 9 zone.
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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
    UKG
    For the most part UltiPro has been reliable, but it could definitely be better. There have been several notable server issues where we were unable to access the product or unable to utilize some of the features. Customer support is usually quick to respond to questions about these issues, but they do not proactively reach out to customers whose environments have been effected by outages
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    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
    UKG
    Normally UKG Pro loads quickly. We had been having major issues with reports running in a timely manner but recently they broke out our virtual server to another instance where is wasn't sharing resources and that seems to have helped reporting run more efficiently.
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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
    UKG
    The quality of UKG Support is related directly to the UKG rep. who handles the issue. In some cases you get someone who really is good at supporting the product and others may not have as much experience and it shows
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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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    In-Person Training
    UKG
    I've been to a few in-person (hands on) training sessions and it is very similar to the online classes. You have the same reference material to look back on after the training. So regardless of in person training or online you really get the same thing.
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    Zendesk
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    UKG
    Most of the online training was very generic (to be expected) but we had specific requirements for configuration that could have been better addressed with more individual sessions earlier on from our project team. However, we did finally begin booking training sessions with our implementation team which were recorded, and so provided additional information for how to correctly configure and test the system.
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    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
    UKG
    Make sure you have all of your tax account information with all the states you are registered in available and that you are knowledgeable about the filing status, frequency, etc. We had some unique challenges with our state unemployment tax set up that I was not aware of and needed to be addressed prior to going live. Working with the state unemployment office can be a challenge.
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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
    UKG
    We used ADP WFN prior to switching to UKG. We interviewed three different payroll companies to see what our options were. UKG stood out and aligned with our company values. The sales team was very helpful and asked questions about what we were currently doing and how they could assist with simplifying things. I personally had a side meeting with them to see if there were options for a process that we manually process and if UKG could actually eliminate the process. We came to the conclusion that we weren't able to get it 100%, but we could pull 80% of what we needed from UKG, and then we would only need to manipulate 20% of the information. It was also determined from that meeting that we wouldn't need to pay extra to have a special report built. The customer service is what we were sold on. The other companies that we looked at didn't give us the confidence that their customer service would be any better than what we previously had.
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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
    UKG
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    Zendesk
    WHY we will use Zendesk in HR and PD internally
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    Return on Investment
    UKG
    • My company acquired another company, and with a UKG partner, we were able to bring them online in UKG within two months of the acquisition date.
    • When COVID sent us remote, we could configure custom fields to track vaccination status.
    • The C-suite can get custom reports done in minutes, or ours, where our previous HRIS would have taken days to accomplish, as data would have had to have been exported to Excel and then manipulated inside Excel.
    • UKG has allowed to go virtual paper free as both a candidate and employee.
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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.
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    ScreenShots

    UKG Pro Screenshots

    Screenshot of included workforce analytics.Screenshot of the payroll gateway.

    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