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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Yellowfin

    Score8.6 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Yellowfin is a cloud-based business intelligence and dashboarding platform.

    $250

    per month

    Zendesk Explore

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AZendesk 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
    YellowfinZendesk Explore
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    YellowfinZendesk Explore
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    YellowfinZendesk Explore
    Considered Both Products
    Idera, Inc.
    No answer on this topic
    Zendesk
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    67%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    7 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    63%
    Delivers good value for the price
    5 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    67%
    Happy with the feature set
    6 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    67%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    4 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    71%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    Features
    YellowfinZendesk Explore
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Yellowfin and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Yellowfin
    7.6
    15 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Zendesk Explore
    9.0
    10 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Pixel Perfect reports6.78 Ratings8.06 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards8.415 Ratings9.010 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates7.613 Ratings9.97 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Yellowfin and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Yellowfin
    8.2
    15 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Zendesk Explore
    6.7
    10 Ratings
    18% below category average
    Drill-down analysis8.614 Ratings10.010 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities8.715 Ratings5.110 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration8.614 Ratings7.110 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings4.85 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Yellowfin and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Yellowfin
    7.1
    15 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Zendesk Explore
    7.1
    7 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)7.115 Ratings6.66 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization6.715 Ratings7.16 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics7.413 Ratings5.55 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings9.43 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Yellowfin and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Yellowfin
    7.6
    14 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Zendesk Explore
    7.3
    10 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)7.314 Ratings8.09 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model7.012 Ratings8.010 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)7.013 Ratings6.08 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)8.96 Ratings6.18 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings8.64 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Yellowfin and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Yellowfin
    6.4
    8 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Zendesk Explore
    4.9
    5 Ratings
    45% below category average
    REST API6.48 Ratings3.15 Ratings
    Javascript API6.18 Ratings5.04 Ratings
    iFrames7.37 Ratings6.04 Ratings
    Java API6.88 Ratings5.04 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)6.06 Ratings3.13 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings7.04 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Yellowfin and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Yellowfin
    -
    Ratings
    Zendesk Explore
    7.8
    10 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Publish to Web00 Ratings6.96 Ratings
    Publish to PDF00 Ratings6.08 Ratings
    Report Versioning00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.97 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Yellowfin and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Yellowfin
    -
    Ratings
    Zendesk Explore
    7.8
    7 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings6.15 Ratings
    Mobile Application00 Ratings8.32 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings9.06 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    YellowfinZendesk Explore
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (15 ratings)
    10.0
    (10 ratings)
    Usability
    8.4
    (10 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.6
    (7 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    8.1
    (6 ratings)
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    Data Sources
    8.1
    (6 ratings)
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    YellowfinZendesk Explore
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Idera, Inc.
    We can recommend this software without hesitation, as it has the ability to generate reports and data analysis, as well as process the data automatically, which saves time. It is ideal for small and medium-sized companies that wish to improve their services in the business world
    Incentivized
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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
    Idera, Inc.
    • Yellowfin’s Storyboard, Timeline and Collaborative tools make it easy to share data and insights across an organisation.
    • Strong Operational and Executive Dashboards that reflect the business KPIs and can send out prompts to people within the business based on rules.
    • Yellowfin makes it incredibly easy to create dynamic reports and dashboards which incorporate maps through locational intelligence functionality.
    • Yellowfin is a single license and all access is via a web browser making it perfect for both on-premise and cloud deployment. Mobile apps are also available.
    • User roles and source filtering allows Admin/IT to offer different functions/views by user group/role.
    • Mobile BI applications to support any device ..
    • API connectors ( YF 7.2 on the way in Mar16 ) for a range of third-party Web-based applications, data sources, Enterprises CRM/ERP apps & open data platform apps, including Salesforce, Google Analytics, Twitter, Youtube , Zoho CRM, XE.com & more coming to make endusers to integrate their applications for better benefits
    • Yellowfin Integration with Predictive analytical and Big Data processing tools like R, UDF, Spark to build rich applications for end users
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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
    Idera, Inc.
    • The ability to predefine a colour for a specific graph as a selection option dynamically.
    • The ability to customise the label of a chart, especially with respect to performance related reporting graphs we need an increase in dynamic charting options to meet our more specialised requirements.
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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
    Idera, Inc.
    As mentioned previously, if a newer company is looking for a strong, polished BI tool, Yellowfin would be a great software vendor to consider. Unfortunately, the high cost might be a barrier to these newer companies who dont have any legacy software/agreements such as an EA agreement with Microsoft.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    Idera, Inc.
    99.9% availability
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    Zendesk
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Idera, Inc.
    They have good support in what they provide. But what they provide is not what is promised. I would stay with them if I can. Be very careful before signing up with them. They are not what they seem in the sales pitches. Be very careful and make sure you test and test before you sign up.
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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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    In-Person Training
    Idera, Inc.
    Yellowfin provides 3 levels of training to support consumers, business analytics, developers and Administrations :
    1. Yellowfin BI Training - Level 1 (Exploration)
    2. Yellowfin BI Training - Level 2 (Advanced)
    3. Yellowfin BI Training - Level 3(Expert)
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    Zendesk
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Idera, Inc.
    Web-based training for large audiences for Level 1 and Level 2 I would suggest
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    Zendesk
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Idera, Inc.
    Design the data model and views for each dashboard is very important and it is the success factor Configuration of cluster for large implementation
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    Zendesk
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Idera, Inc.
    Yellow Fin platform is browser agnostic and is accessible from desktops as well as mobile devices. It is very simple and fast, it is integrated with Big Data, clients do not require a great training. It just works. But it’s easier to have things on the cloud, especially if you need to use different computers. Yellow Fin lacks the cloud feature.
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    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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    Scalability
    Idera, Inc.
    - Tested 500 con-current users in Linux platform with 4 cores systems - Tested with cloud based VM - Tested with 1000 reads per minutes
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    Zendesk
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Idera, Inc.
    • made our org more data centric
    • Decisions are made based on data vs opinion
    • has created a single source of truth for the bulk of the organization
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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