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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Wrike

    Score8.5 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Wrike is a project management and collaboration software. This solution connects tasks, discussions, and emails to the user’s project plan. Wrike is optimized for agile workflows and aims to help resolve data silos, poor visibility into work status, and missed deadlines and project failures.

    $240

    per year 2 users (minimum)

    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
    WrikeZendesk Suite
    Editions & Modules
    Wrike Free
    $0
    per month per user
    Wrike Team
    $10
    per month (billed annually) per user (2-15 users)
    Wrike Business
    $25
    per month (billed annually) per user (5-200 users)
    Apex
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    per month per user
    Pinnacle
    Request a quote
    per month per user
    Suite Team
    $69
    per month per agent
    Suite Growth
    $115
    per month per agent
    Suite Professional
    $149
    per month per agent
    Suite Enterprise
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    WrikeZendesk Suite
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional DetailsEvery premium plan begins with a 14-day trial period.20% discount available with annual pricing.
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    Community Pulse
    WrikeZendesk Suite
    Considered Both Products
    Wrike
    Chose Wrike
    Compared to other project management software we have used, Wrike is easy to implement and garner user acceptance. Other applications we have used and complex to configure and maintain, whereas Wrike is intuitive and simple to understand out of the gate. The communication …
    Incentivized
    Chose Wrike
    Multi level tiers and subtask was virtually non-existent in ZenDesk, Their bulleting system was horrible and task just welded together in long paragraphs that went on forever. It was too confusing and the only way to keep track was to print and highlight different parts of task …
    Incentivized
    Chose Wrike
    We use all of them. And find some more suited for different tasks. Copper (clients management, and sales oportunities and prospects) Freshdesk (Support tickets platform) Zendesk (we are leaving that tool to Fresh) We tried to reduce tools, but in the case of Projects, non of …
    Incentivized
    Chose Wrike
    Wrike is specifically designed for project management, so it is a much easier flow and better user interfaces for this expressed purpose. My project managers really like the automated Gantt charts, whereas they are less useful to me, but it is still much easier to visualize …
    Incentivized
    Chose Wrike
    We used Asana for years and we switched because our new project manager felt like Wrike was a better fit for our company. I think they are both good products and would honestly recommend either one of them. We do have more people working inside Wrike than we did with Asana …
    Incentivized
    Chose Wrike
    Trello is a simpler, more visual project management tool. More situated for smaller, less technically savvy teams.
    Vs. Asana, Wrike it similar but has more customization options.
    Vs. Teamwork.com, they are comparable although it's easier to see the big picture using Wrike - the …
    Incentivized
    Chose Wrike
    We evaluated Wrike through a 3+ vendor RFP process. We ultimately chose Wrike based on our previous experience with the platform and its ability to build through project layers, track approvals, review, mark-up, and version control, as well as provide a coherent to-do list for …
    Incentivized
    Zendesk
    Chose Zendesk Suite
    I prefer Zendesk, though I find engineers are often in Jira. Zendesk is, in my opinion, far easier to navigate, but that might just be my personal preference and comfort with the application. Both maintain a history/record of who and what, but I think Zendesk is more intuitive, …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    92%
    Would buy again
    820 Answers
    87%
    Would buy again
    123 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    568 Answers
    85%
    Delivers good value for the price
    108 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    838 Answers
    92%
    Happy with the feature set
    131 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    391 Answers
    85%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    82 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    451 Answers
    85%
    Implementation went as expected
    94 Answers
    Features
    WrikeZendesk Suite
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Wrike and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    Wrike
    7.8
    972 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Zendesk Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Task Management9.1966 Ratings00 Ratings
    Resource Management7.6835 Ratings00 Ratings
    Gantt Charts7.3684 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scheduling8.3847 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow Automation8.0839 Ratings00 Ratings
    Team Collaboration8.8965 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for Agile Methodology7.9546 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for Waterfall Methodology8.0494 Ratings00 Ratings
    Document Management7.5817 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email integration7.8731 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Access7.4709 Ratings00 Ratings
    Timesheet Tracking7.5459 Ratings00 Ratings
    Change request and Case Management7.723 Ratings00 Ratings
    Budget and Expense Management6.7354 Ratings00 Ratings
    Professional Services Automation
    Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Wrike and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    Wrike
    7.3
    363 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Zendesk Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Quotes/estimates8.21 Ratings00 Ratings
    Invoicing6.628 Ratings00 Ratings
    Project & financial reporting7.5358 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with accounting software6.9220 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Wrike and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    Wrike
    -
    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 Wrike and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    Wrike
    -
    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 Wrike and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    Wrike
    -
    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
    WrikeZendesk Suite
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.4
    (1007 ratings)
    8.7
    (225 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.5
    (109 ratings)
    10.0
    (43 ratings)
    Usability
    8.4
    (343 ratings)
    8.6
    (98 ratings)
    Availability
    8.3
    (24 ratings)
    9.1
    (14 ratings)
    Performance
    6.6
    (21 ratings)
    9.1
    (11 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.5
    (93 ratings)
    5.5
    (31 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.2
    (5 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.3
    (13 ratings)
    6.4
    (10 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.9
    (37 ratings)
    9.1
    (19 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.0
    (16 ratings)
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.4
    (5 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    7.0
    (7 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.2
    (15 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (8 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    7.7
    (9 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    WrikeZendesk Suite
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Wrike
    Wrike helped us stitch PMO-related activities under one umbrella. The easy collaboration with multiple access types, combined with security access definitions, helped users across the organization contribute according to their roles. This helped provide the organization with multiple items to be reviewed in a single tool. This saved time in weekly review meetings by avoiding switching between multiple tools & files.
    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
    Wrike
    • Excellent dashboards that are easy to use and give amazing insights.
    • User friendly interface that is also easy to interact with.
    • Lot of integrations.
    • Robust project and task management features.
    • Facilitate seamless team collaboration and communication.
    • Highly customizable and multiple project views.
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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
    Wrike
    • Email alerts sometimes send too slowly.
    • If you put a project on hold, it can be hard to find it once you are ready to return to it.
    • Sometimes there are too many steps/tasks and the main page can get cluttered.
    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
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Wrike
    I wish that Wrike had more drag and drop functionality that would be connected to assignee and also I wish that the finish date of a task would update to the date where you checked completed. It does not do that. Also finishing a task doesn't move the start date of the next task it "protects your time in that way", but our management team wants us to quickly see what we have down the pipeline rather than having to scroll down the list of upcoming tasks.
    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
    Wrike
    We have project templates set up based on what job type is selected in our work request form. This helps save time by having specific tasks already on each job as it is opened. Then it's just a matter of scheduling the tasks based on the job request and current workload. As long as a due date is flexible, it's easy to shift specific due dates as needed.
    Incentivized
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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
    Wrike
    Over two years of (almost) daily usage without outages. Don't remember any errors. I give it 9 only because some Wrike plugins (for online document edit) are based on NPAPI architecture. These types of plugins are being phased out in new browsers, and NPAPI plugins are disabled by default in recent versions of Chrome so you have to do some browser adjustments when you switch browsers or move to another computer.
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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
    Wrike
    Wrike tasks loads fine, but I hate clicking files and wait for a bit of time since it is powerpoint or word, Wrike assumes I want to open those on Wrike. My suggestion is to link it to office 365 so we do not need Wrike based decoder for PPTX and DOCX
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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
    Wrike
    During my learning phase with Wrike, I initially struggled with setting up automation rules and request forms. However, Wrike support was always my go-to, resolving issues within seconds or minutes. Their assistance made the learning process much easier. My best experience was receiving step-by-step screenshots to follow, with the support team on standby until I was completely satisfied.
    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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    In-Person Training
    Wrike
    We had staff in person provide some training
    Incentivized
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    Zendesk
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Wrike
    I love the Wrike training options. Wrike Discover has tons of courses, learning plans, certifications, etc. This is an area where Wrike definitely shines! I wish these resources were more in your face for new people, because it seems like a lot of coworkers didn't know all of this training was available to them.
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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
    Wrike
    There are a lot of bells and whistles in Wrike, and not all of it is easy or intuitive to understand once it's plopped in your lap. It's easier when there are a few choice people who understand Wrike as a platform and articulate it in such a way where it makes it easy to pass it along to others in the group
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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
    Wrike
    Jira did not at all help us get our work done as content creators. I think that was because Jira wasn't quite right for our uses. Wrike fits our needs so much better. I can't tell you enough the relief I felt when we adopted Wrike and I never had to use Jira again.
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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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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Wrike
    company purchase
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    Zendesk
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    Wrike
    The sky is the limit for what can be done in Wrike. We started with 1 use case and within 5 months we migrated several key business practices over to Wrike because they were easier to manage. Use cases so far: process improvement, management review, corrective actions, maintenance requests, month-end financial closing, and document management. As we grow, it's easy to imagine putting even more into Wrike where it becomes a cornerstone for how we do business
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    Zendesk
    WHY we will use Zendesk in HR and PD internally
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    Professional Services
    Wrike
    I do not use professional services.
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    Zendesk
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Wrike
    • Different teams (e.g., contracting, compliance, provider relations) can view updates in real time, comment directly on tasks, and escalate items when needed.
    • Wrike allows us to template the contracting process (from intake to signature) to ensure consistency across payers and reduce administrative overhead.
    • Leadership can see the status of negotiations at a glance, identify bottlenecks, and prioritize resources accordingly.
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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

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    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