Watershed LRS vs. Zendesk Explore

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Watershed LRS
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Watershed LRS is a learning management software solution built to help employers identify skills and competencies.
$0
Zendesk Explore
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
Zendesk offers Explore, a business intelligence and customer analytics tool which integrates with the Zendesk suite featuring ticket analytics, custom fields, dashboards, and other features. Zendesk is migrating customers of the BIME analytics product, which is approaching end of support, to Zendesk Explore in 2019.N/A
Pricing
Watershed LRSZendesk Explore
Editions & Modules
Essentials
$0
Watershed
Custom Pricing
Watershed Enterprise
Custom Pricing
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Watershed LRSZendesk Explore
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Watershed LRSZendesk Explore
Features
Watershed LRSZendesk Explore
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Watershed LRS
9.3
1 Ratings
13% above category average
Zendesk Explore
9.0
10 Ratings
10% above category average
Pixel Perfect reports10.01 Ratings7.76 Ratings
Customizable dashboards8.01 Ratings9.210 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates10.01 Ratings10.07 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Watershed LRS
9.3
1 Ratings
15% above category average
Zendesk Explore
7.1
10 Ratings
12% below category average
Drill-down analysis10.01 Ratings9.910 Ratings
Formatting capabilities10.01 Ratings5.810 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages8.01 Ratings4.95 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration9.01 Ratings7.610 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Watershed LRS
8.8
1 Ratings
7% above category average
Zendesk Explore
7.9
10 Ratings
4% below category average
Publish to Web9.01 Ratings7.06 Ratings
Publish to PDF9.01 Ratings6.38 Ratings
Report Versioning8.01 Ratings9.03 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling9.01 Ratings8.97 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers9.01 Ratings8.14 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Watershed LRS
9.3
1 Ratings
16% above category average
Zendesk Explore
7.2
7 Ratings
10% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)10.01 Ratings6.76 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization8.01 Ratings7.26 Ratings
Predictive Analytics10.01 Ratings5.65 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings9.43 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Watershed LRS
8.3
1 Ratings
2% below category average
Zendesk Explore
7.6
10 Ratings
11% below category average
Multi-User Support (named login)9.01 Ratings8.39 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model8.01 Ratings8.310 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)6.01 Ratings6.28 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)10.01 Ratings6.48 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings8.64 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Watershed LRS
9.0
1 Ratings
15% above category average
Zendesk Explore
7.8
7 Ratings
0% above category average
Responsive Design for Web Access10.01 Ratings6.25 Ratings
Mobile Application8.01 Ratings8.32 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile9.01 Ratings9.06 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Watershed LRS
9.0
1 Ratings
16% above category average
Zendesk Explore
5.1
5 Ratings
41% below category average
REST API8.01 Ratings3.75 Ratings
Javascript API10.01 Ratings5.34 Ratings
iFrames10.01 Ratings5.94 Ratings
Java API10.01 Ratings5.24 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)8.01 Ratings6.84 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)8.01 Ratings3.73 Ratings
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User Ratings
Watershed LRSZendesk Explore
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(1 ratings)
9.9
(10 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
Watershed LRSZendesk Explore
Likelihood to Recommend
Watershed Systems, Inc
Watershed is a great platform that helps you to understand the overall impact of learning programs on your business and where the improvements are needed.
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Zendesk
Zendesk Explore is well suited for tracking ticket flow, agent performance, and customer satisfaction providing valuable insights into response and resolution time, workload and support quality. Particularly useful for monitoring ticket handling for different teams. Helps ensure accountability by tracking how long tickets remain assigned before being reassigned to another group. Drill down capability helps identify support bottlenecks. However, it is less appropriate for real time monitoring as it lacks real time data updates making it unsuitable for instant decision making.
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Pros
Watershed Systems, Inc
  • Amazing Data Quality Control.
  • Master Data Management is very helpful.
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Zendesk
  • Zendesk Explore is easy to use.
  • Zendesk Explore allows users to create custom metrics.
  • Zendesk Explore allows users to create custom attributes.
  • Zendesk Explore is easy to learn.
  • Compared to other analytics function of other Ticket Management System, Zendesk Explore is probably the best as of now.
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Cons
Watershed Systems, Inc
  • Scheduling performance can be improved.
  • Price is little bit high.
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Zendesk
  • Some aspects of Zendesk, in general, are not super intuitive. The same goes for Zendesk Explore. And, while you can google answers and hope you find something helpful, there isn't a great way to learn to get the full potential out of the product unless you want to pay for someone from your team to take a class (which costs several hundred dollars).
  • To piggyback off the last point, if you would prefer to get help from a Zendesk expert, you'll find that there is almost no customer support available to you. For a company that aims to help other companies help their customers, this has always struck me as odd. Again, Google is your friend and beyond that, you're mostly out of luck.
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Usability
Watershed Systems, Inc
It has all the features that we were trying to get from any other software for our business problems.
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Zendesk
I rate Zendesk Explore 8 out of 10 for it's overall usability because it offers powerful reporting and analytics with an easy to navigate interface and intuitive dashboards. It helps improve customer satisfaction by providing valuable insights into ticket handling, agent performance and customer satisfaction. Though the complex query builder can be challenging for non technical users.
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Support Rating
Watershed Systems, Inc
Every time we got the proper support from Watershed.
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Zendesk
Support for all of Zendesk has exceeding my expectations. This company will always get a 10 out of 10 in my book. Any question you have they make sure you have the answer plus a step-by-step guide on how to do each step so you are set up for success!
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Alternatives Considered
Watershed Systems, Inc
No answers on this topic
Zendesk
I selected Zendesk Explore only to provide an easy and quick access for my managers and supervisors regading metrics and volume trends. Is not the most flexible nor complete data visualization tool, but works well for day-to-day follow ups. You need to use another tool if you want to see long-term patterns (e.g. month over month volume trends) and you need another platform if you want your interaction metrics to interact with other important factors of the business
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Return on Investment
Watershed Systems, Inc
  • Nice Reporting & Statistics.
  • KPI Monitoring and Visual analytics.
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Zendesk
  • Money saved due to proper staffing.
  • Happier Staff- proper staffing ensures no one is overworked.
  • Ability to quickly pinpoint where issues are and why.
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ScreenShots

Watershed LRS Screenshots

Screenshot of Identify & Eliminate Scrap Learning: Stop wasting time and money on learning that isn’t used or applied on the job.Screenshot of Demonstrate Improvements: Show knowledge acquisition and performance improvements to ensure training effectiveness.Screenshot of Compare Groups & Cohorts: Break out results across your organizational hierarchy to identify patterns in learning performance.Screenshot of Correlate Training with Performance Outcomes: Find out if increased and/or improved training is indeed correlated with higher performance.Screenshot of Find Common Search Terms & Popular Topics: Find the topics people want to learn about to ensure you’re providing the most relevant and comprehensive resources.