Zendesk vs Jira Service Management
Overview
Zendesk
Zendesk is the industry-leading customer service solution that equips you to deliver quality customer service. It covers nearly every business aspect: from managing a help desk to ...the IT service with ITSM best practices. Its varied functionality comes in a product line: Zendesk for sales, Zendesk for service, and Sunshine Platform.
Platforms supported
- macOS
- Linux
- iOS app
- Android app
Support Options
- FAQs/Forum
- Knowledge Base
- 24/7 (Live rep)
- Phone Support
- Email/Help Desk
- Chat
Training Options
- Live Online
- Documentation
- In Person
- Videos
- Webinars
Screenshots
Jira Service Management
Built with IT Service Management in mind, Jira Service Management is a help desk system created for developers and by developers. Right from the get-go, the tool aims to enhance th...e customer experience through a set of specific features that help agents push more sales, better service, and most importantly, establish your business as a brand.
Platforms supported
- macOS
- Linux
- iOS app
- Android app
Support Options
- FAQs/Forum
- Knowledge Base
- 24/7 (Live rep)
- Phone Support
- Email/Help Desk
- Chat
Training Options
- Live Online
- Documentation
- In Person
- Videos
- Webinars
Screenshots
Pricing
Zendesk
- Support Team $19
- Support Professional $55
- Support Enterprise $115
- Free trial
Jira Service Management
- Jira Service Management Free $0
- Jira Service Management Standard $24
- Jira Service Management Premium $53
- Free trial
Feature comparison
Zendesk
8.4/10
- Agent collision prevention
- Bulk actions
- Contextual Workspaces
- Custom & Group Views
- Dynamic content
- Email scheduling
- Essentials Card
- Filtered Search
- Group your agents
- Guided Mode
- Interaction History (Ticket activities)
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Light Agents
- Macros
- Mobile app
- Multilingual (Multiple) content
- Private Comments within tickets
- Restricted conversation views
- Shared canned responses
- Skills-based routing
- Tags
- Auto Bcc
- Edit/hide threads
- Occasional agents
- Responsive, mobile-friendly Help Center
3.3/10
- Collaboration
- Linked tickets
- Parent-child ticketing
10/10
- Contact Form
- Contacts & Accounts Management
- Contacts & ticket history
- Custom user and organization fields
- Customer journey
- Customer Lists
- Customer profiles
- Customer satisfaction ratings (CSAT)
- Device data log
- Group contacts by organization
- Identify contacts using external ID
- Net Promoter Score® Surveys (Feedback)
- Organization profiles
- Satisfaction Prediction
10/10
- Auto reply
- Automatic ticket assignment using Dispatch'r
- Custom business rules (triggers & automations)
- Event-triggered workflow automations
- Multi-task workflows with one-touch Scenarios
- Time-based Rules
- Time-triggered automations
- Workflow automations
9.2/10
- Business Hours
- Custom ticket fields
- Dynamic ticket forms
- Multiple Ticket Forms
- Premium Sandbox
- Sandbox test environment
- Service Level Agreement (SLA) management
- Set your Time Zone
- SLA reporting
- Ticket file attachment size
- Ticket sharing
- Custom status
6/10
- Approval Workflows
- Form templates
- Multiple SLA Policies
- Customize Incident Lifecycle
- Task Management
5/10
- Problem Management
- Change Management
8/10
- Complete portal customization
- CSS customization
- Custom domain mapping
- Public portal customization
- Branding removal (email)
8.8/10
- Community forums
- Help Center insights
- Internal Help Center
- Knowledge base
- Related articles
- Rich text Help Center articles
- SEO
- Unlimited data
10/10
- API rate limit
- Cloud telephony integration app
- Custom objects
- Email integration with Outlook
- Gamification
- Google Apps (G Suite)
- HubSpot Integration
- Integration with Atlassian Jira
- Integrations
- Private custom apps
- Public apps (Marketplace)
- Salesforce integration
- Slack integration
- Webhooks
- Zapier integration
9.5/10
- Advanced Insights
- Agent Dashboard (Agent Scorecard)
- Analytics
- Custom Reports
- Export reports
- Google Analytics for Help Center
- Helpdesk in-depth report
- Manager Dashboard (The Headquarters)
- Overview dashboard
- Performance distribution
- Save reports
- Schedule Data Export
- Schedule Reports
- Support Performance dashboards
- Team Dashboards
- Ticket drill down in reports
- Ticket lifecycle report
- Ticket volume trends
- User-specific reporting
- Zendesk Benchmark
- Tickets closed reports
9.3/10
- Ability to configure for HIPAA
- Advanced password policy for agents and customers
- Agent device management
- Audit logs
- Automatic redaction
- Business rules analysis
- Content Delivery Network
- Custom roles and permissions
- Data center location
- Digitally signed emails (DKIM/DMARC)
- Disaster recovery
- Domain Whitelisting
- Email compliance archive
- Encryption: data at rest and in motion
- GDPR compliance
- Guaranteed availability SLA (1 Hour Support SLA)
- Log in with Google
- Network access restriction (IP Whitelisting)
- PCI compliance (Level 1)
- Privacy Shield and Safe Harbor compliant
- Single sign on with SAML
- Single sign-on (SSO) for web and mobile
- SPF(Sender Policy Framework)
- SSL encryption
- Two-Factor Authentication
- Field-Level Access Control
- User provisioning
10/10
- Calling
- Chat Support (in English)
- Email Support
- Facebook
- Guidance Program
- Live chat
- Multibrand Support
- Phone Support (in English)
- Professional Services
- SDK
- Twitter
- Web Widget
8/10
- Assume identity
- Custom Email Templates
- Email forwarding
- Email tickets
- Mailboxes (inboxes)
- Merge tickets
- Public and private notes in tickets
- Satisfaction surveys - Customizable
- Spam filtering
- Support workflow
- Ticket export
- Ticket templates
- Outgoing SMTP settings
- Time tracking
- Watch tickets
7.3/10
- Automatic sitemap generation
- Backup
- Community forums
- Date comparisons
- Facebook in-sync app
- Notifications
- Printer-friendly
- Unlimited End Users
- Agent Limit
- Announcements
- Project Management
0/10
- ITSM Process Integration
0/10
- Asset Lifecycle Management
- Risk Management
0/10
- Goals
Jira Service Management
5.6/10
- Agent collision prevention
- Bulk actions
- Contextual Workspaces
- Custom & Group Views
- Dynamic content
- Email scheduling
- Essentials Card
- Filtered Search
- Group your agents
- Guided Mode
- Interaction History (Ticket activities)
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Light Agents
- Macros
- Mobile app
- Multilingual (Multiple) content
- Private Comments within tickets
- Restricted conversation views
- Shared canned responses
- Skills-based routing
- Tags
- Auto Bcc
- Edit/hide threads
- Occasional agents
- Responsive, mobile-friendly Help Center
10/10
- Collaboration
- Linked tickets
- Parent-child ticketing
4.3/10
- Contact Form
- Contacts & Accounts Management
- Contacts & ticket history
- Custom user and organization fields
- Customer journey
- Customer Lists
- Customer profiles
- Customer satisfaction ratings (CSAT)
- Device data log
- Group contacts by organization
- Identify contacts using external ID
- Net Promoter Score® Surveys (Feedback)
- Organization profiles
- Satisfaction Prediction
8.8/10
- Auto reply
- Automatic ticket assignment using Dispatch'r
- Custom business rules (triggers & automations)
- Event-triggered workflow automations
- Multi-task workflows with one-touch Scenarios
- Time-based Rules
- Time-triggered automations
- Workflow automations
7.5/10
- Business Hours
- Custom ticket fields
- Dynamic ticket forms
- Multiple Ticket Forms
- Premium Sandbox
- Sandbox test environment
- Service Level Agreement (SLA) management
- Set your Time Zone
- SLA reporting
- Ticket file attachment size
- Ticket sharing
- Custom status
8/10
- Approval Workflows
- Form templates
- Multiple SLA Policies
- Customize Incident Lifecycle
- Task Management
10/10
- Problem Management
- Change Management
8/10
- Complete portal customization
- CSS customization
- Custom domain mapping
- Public portal customization
- Branding removal (email)
5/10
- Community forums
- Help Center insights
- Internal Help Center
- Knowledge base
- Related articles
- Rich text Help Center articles
- SEO
- Unlimited data
8.7/10
- API rate limit
- Cloud telephony integration app
- Custom objects
- Email integration with Outlook
- Gamification
- Google Apps (G Suite)
- HubSpot Integration
- Integration with Atlassian Jira
- Integrations
- Private custom apps
- Public apps (Marketplace)
- Salesforce integration
- Slack integration
- Webhooks
- Zapier integration
6.7/10
- Advanced Insights
- Agent Dashboard (Agent Scorecard)
- Analytics
- Custom Reports
- Export reports
- Google Analytics for Help Center
- Helpdesk in-depth report
- Manager Dashboard (The Headquarters)
- Overview dashboard
- Performance distribution
- Save reports
- Schedule Data Export
- Schedule Reports
- Support Performance dashboards
- Team Dashboards
- Ticket drill down in reports
- Ticket lifecycle report
- Ticket volume trends
- User-specific reporting
- Zendesk Benchmark
- Tickets closed reports
6.7/10
- Ability to configure for HIPAA
- Advanced password policy for agents and customers
- Agent device management
- Audit logs
- Automatic redaction
- Business rules analysis
- Content Delivery Network
- Custom roles and permissions
- Data center location
- Digitally signed emails (DKIM/DMARC)
- Disaster recovery
- Domain Whitelisting
- Email compliance archive
- Encryption: data at rest and in motion
- GDPR compliance
- Guaranteed availability SLA (1 Hour Support SLA)
- Log in with Google
- Network access restriction (IP Whitelisting)
- PCI compliance (Level 1)
- Privacy Shield and Safe Harbor compliant
- Single sign on with SAML
- Single sign-on (SSO) for web and mobile
- SPF(Sender Policy Framework)
- SSL encryption
- Two-Factor Authentication
- Field-Level Access Control
- User provisioning
4.2/10
- Calling
- Chat Support (in English)
- Email Support
- Facebook
- Guidance Program
- Live chat
- Multibrand Support
- Phone Support (in English)
- Professional Services
- SDK
- Twitter
- Web Widget
5.3/10
- Assume identity
- Custom Email Templates
- Email forwarding
- Email tickets
- Mailboxes (inboxes)
- Merge tickets
- Public and private notes in tickets
- Satisfaction surveys - Customizable
- Spam filtering
- Support workflow
- Ticket export
- Ticket templates
- Outgoing SMTP settings
- Time tracking
- Watch tickets
8.2/10
- Automatic sitemap generation
- Backup
- Community forums
- Date comparisons
- Facebook in-sync app
- Notifications
- Printer-friendly
- Unlimited End Users
- Agent Limit
- Announcements
- Project Management
10/10
- ITSM Process Integration
10/10
- Asset Lifecycle Management
- Risk Management
10/10
- Goals
Reviews
Zendesk
5 of 5
The key goals to deliver fast and quality responses to ticket and communicate on multiple channels are smoothly fulfilled with Zendesk....
4 of 5
Zendesk proved to be efficient in a quick issue resolution on multiple channels on time. The collaboration features enhanced and improv...
5 of 5
Zendesk provides a comprehensible UI and a lot of useful capabilities. It is worth to mention the outstanding features of customer sati...
Jira Service Management
4 of 5
The good part about JIRA is that teams can configure their own service offerings and customer portals without the need for special acce...
4 of 5
PROS: The Jira Service Management has a clean and sophisticated UI that is a cut above what others offer. Our team is ...
4 of 5
JSD is pretty intuitive and does not require a lot of documentation to get started. The starter pack is pretty attractive but expect to...