Zendesk Explore

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
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
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Zendesk Explore
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Zendesk Explore
Free Trial
No
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Zendesk Explore
Considered Both Products
Zendesk Explore
Chose Zendesk Explore
Zendesk Explore stands out against Freshchat and Freshdesk for it's deeper analytics capabilities and seamless integration with Zendesk ecosystem. While Freshdesk offers reporting, it lacks on the same level of granular insights and customization that Zendesk Explore provides. …
Chose Zendesk Explore
What's good with Zendesk Explore is that data is already provided since it's included in the package. We get the data from Zendesk Support and make a report in Zendesk Explore.

It provides suggested templates and report formats also which you don't get on the other platforms. …
Chose Zendesk Explore
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 …
Chose Zendesk Explore
N/A - the company had already implemented Zendesk Explore when I was hired.
Chose Zendesk Explore
Zendesk Explore is more user friendly and the software plus maintenance cost is less. The report section is more detailed and no lag while creating report for a large data source. The report segments and formats are editable which make it more convenient to make a report …
Chose Zendesk Explore
Zendesk Explore is better than Freshservice Analytics. In Freshservice, even though the interface is more attractive, the functions are not as good as Zendesk Explore. Reports and dashboards are hard to build, and the materials to learn are not as good as the materials on …
Chose Zendesk Explore
We tried other reporting and Zendesk Explore was by far the best as it was already implemented into our support system we were already using; Zendesk. The main selling point for us, is that all of the reports are customizable and that no coding knowledge is needed to build out …
Chose Zendesk Explore
For support data, we have only used Explore because it came with our ZenDesk membership. So I can't speak to other solutions! That said, it's awesome to have Knowledge Base and support data in one place.
Features
Zendesk Explore
BI Standard Reporting
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Zendesk Explore
9.0
10 Ratings
10% above category average
Pixel Perfect reports7.76 Ratings
Customizable dashboards9.310 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates10.07 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Zendesk Explore
7.2
10 Ratings
11% below category average
Drill-down analysis9.910 Ratings
Formatting capabilities6.110 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages5.05 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration7.810 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
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Zendesk Explore
7.9
10 Ratings
4% below category average
Publish to Web7.16 Ratings
Publish to PDF6.58 Ratings
Report Versioning9.03 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling8.97 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers8.24 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
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Zendesk Explore
7.3
7 Ratings
9% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)6.86 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.26 Ratings
Predictive Analytics5.75 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining9.43 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Zendesk Explore
7.7
10 Ratings
10% below category average
Multi-User Support (named login)8.49 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model8.410 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)6.38 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control8.74 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)6.68 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
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Zendesk Explore
7.9
7 Ratings
1% above category average
Responsive Design for Web Access6.25 Ratings
Mobile Application8.42 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile9.06 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
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Zendesk Explore
5.2
5 Ratings
39% below category average
REST API3.95 Ratings
Javascript API5.44 Ratings
iFrames5.84 Ratings
Java API5.24 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)6.74 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)4.03 Ratings
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User Ratings
Zendesk Explore
Likelihood to Recommend
9.9
(10 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
Zendesk Explore
Likelihood to Recommend
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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