Zendesk Explore vs. Zoho Analytics

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
Zoho Analytics
Score 8.4 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Zoho Analytics (formerly Zoho Reports) is a self-service BI and analytics platform that allows users to analyze their business data and create reports and dashboards. It is designed to help users create and share reports quickly, without IT assistance.
$30
per month 2 users
Pricing
Zendesk ExploreZoho Analytics
Editions & Modules
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Basic
$30
0.5M rows, 2 users
Professional
$30
per user per month billed annually
Standard
$60
1M rows, 5 users
Premium
$145
5M rows, 15 users
Enterprise
$575
50M rows, 50 users
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Zendesk ExploreZoho Analytics
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsThere is a 20% discount for all plans if subscribed yearly. Customers can buy add-on rows and users, in addition to the plans listed above.
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Community Pulse
Zendesk ExploreZoho Analytics
Features
Zendesk ExploreZoho Analytics
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Zendesk Explore
9.0
10 Ratings
9% above category average
Zoho Analytics
8.8
135 Ratings
7% above category average
Pixel Perfect reports7.86 Ratings8.9106 Ratings
Customizable dashboards9.210 Ratings8.6135 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates10.07 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Zendesk Explore
7.0
10 Ratings
14% below category average
Zoho Analytics
8.2
137 Ratings
2% above category average
Drill-down analysis9.910 Ratings8.2131 Ratings
Formatting capabilities5.610 Ratings7.7136 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages4.95 Ratings00 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration7.510 Ratings8.8137 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Zendesk Explore
7.9
10 Ratings
4% below category average
Zoho Analytics
8.6
129 Ratings
4% above category average
Publish to Web7.06 Ratings8.5108 Ratings
Publish to PDF6.28 Ratings8.6127 Ratings
Report Versioning9.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling8.97 Ratings8.6112 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers8.14 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Zendesk Explore
7.2
7 Ratings
11% below category average
Zoho Analytics
8.1
84 Ratings
1% above category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)6.76 Ratings8.380 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.26 Ratings8.772 Ratings
Predictive Analytics5.65 Ratings7.466 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining9.43 Ratings00 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Zendesk Explore
7.5
10 Ratings
13% below category average
Zoho Analytics
8.6
129 Ratings
1% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)8.29 Ratings8.8127 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model8.210 Ratings8.972 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)6.28 Ratings8.7122 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control8.64 Ratings7.830 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)6.38 Ratings8.674 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Zendesk Explore
7.8
7 Ratings
1% above category average
Zoho Analytics
7.0
97 Ratings
10% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access6.15 Ratings7.771 Ratings
Mobile Application8.32 Ratings5.573 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile9.06 Ratings6.786 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Zendesk Explore
5.0
5 Ratings
43% below category average
Zoho Analytics
8.4
65 Ratings
8% above category average
REST API3.55 Ratings8.161 Ratings
Javascript API5.24 Ratings00 Ratings
iFrames5.94 Ratings8.653 Ratings
Java API5.14 Ratings00 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)6.84 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)3.63 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Zendesk ExploreZoho Analytics
Likelihood to Recommend
9.9
(10 ratings)
7.8
(139 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.9
(9 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(3 ratings)
8.1
(83 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(2 ratings)
5.3
(18 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
5.5
(3 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
7.6
(71 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Zendesk ExploreZoho Analytics
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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Zoho
Zoho Analytics is the best way to consume data created by Zoho products . It's robust and quick build formula libraries and auto generated reports. A data source can be integrated and be ready for consumption within minutes. This gives a well developed baseline for organizing to develop advance analytics. It's mobile dashboards are very intuitive and useful for leaders who are on the move.
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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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Zoho
  • Zoho Analytics’ predictive analytics capabilities can help forecast future trends, allowing for proactive planning and risk management.
  • Performance Monitoring: We can track key performance indicators (KPIs) across departments, such as sales, marketing, finance, and HR. This aids in identifying bottlenecks and areas for improvement.
  • Decision making regarding resource allocation.
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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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Zoho
  • I'm guessing it's out there somewhere but I really could have used a 'quick start guide' or guided start.
  • Once I figured it out, it makes sense how to make sure the right data is provided in order to make dashboards quite flexible--- but without examples, I found it quite a challenge
  • The initial organization of Analytics is NOT intuitive. Once in context, the organizational features make sense, but (at least initially) it would have been most useful if the organization of Analytics reports in Zoho Analytics had saved me a lot of time.
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Likelihood to Renew
Zendesk
No answers on this topic
Zoho
I'd give this an 11 if I could! As our business moves forward we hope to use Zoho Analytics more then we do now. Creating better reports and dashboards for our management team to evaluate the health of our business and to provide more insightful reports for our customers. The possibilities are endless with this tool
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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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Zoho
For an end user, Zoho Analytics is pretty easy to use and very easy to access the dashboard. Linking data from multiple sources is very convenient. Multiple people can work on preparing and publishing the dashboards simultaneously, which helps delegate tasks.
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Reliability and Availability
Zendesk
No answers on this topic
Zoho
ZOHO is a very reliable company/product. We never had any issues with downtime or inaccessibility to our data. Any type of maintenance that they had to perform was clearly communicated and never an issue. We use a lot of external hooks and we've never had any issues with getting ZOHO to communicate with any of those hooks.
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Performance
Zendesk
No answers on this topic
Zoho
ZOHO has obviously invested a lot of time effort and money in to creating a reliable infrastructure with high availability. We've never had any issues with performance and all of our data crunching small to large has always been well within reason. We have come to appreciate the performance of ZOHO and will continue to use it for all of our data needs.
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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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Zoho
The support team is honestly not that great. At times, it seems as if members of our own team know more about the product than the support team. They must not have a lot of training or the turnaround is quick
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Implementation Rating
Zendesk
No answers on this topic
Zoho
If your external data sources are previously organized and correlated (e.g.: in your datawarehouse or database) your implementation will be easier. Of cource some not previously predicted correlation would be necessary to be done during the implementation, but if your organization let it to be all done into Zoho Analytics, it will take more time from your team.
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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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Zoho
Zoho Analytics has the best UI and user friendly to create reports and dashboard along with features like Zia Assistance that guide in creating reports and dashboard and also help in the forecasting of the data based on the past records.
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Scalability
Zendesk
No answers on this topic
Zoho
As far as I know, Zoho Analytics has been able to fulfill every need we've had for it. Our reports have gotten better and more detailed with pretty much every new issue of our magazine. It just keeps getting better, and we keep feeding it more data to digest and present to us.
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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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Zoho
  • Analytics has been the foundation of my role. I manage 2000 accounts myself, so I need analytics to help me know whom to serve first.
  • Analytics provides a lot of visualization options that I need to serve my customers.
  • Analytics has excellent options for accountability with our training team to know where each account is in their customer journey.
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ScreenShots

Zoho Analytics Screenshots

Screenshot of Zia Insights, which provides contextual intelligence with detailed diagnostics.Screenshot of where OpenAI's large language models (LLMs) are leveraged within Ask Zia to build complex queries, construct metrics and formulas, and discover public datasets.Screenshot of key metrics with KPI charts.Screenshot of streaming data, which is available for real-time insights. Users can process streams from Google Pub/Sub, Kafka, PubNub and APIs.Screenshot of reports accessed from iPad and Android tablets.Screenshot of custom machine learning models, available with a no-code assistant.