Zendesk vs Jira Service Management vs Salesforce Service Cloud
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 help desk to th...e 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
Salesforce Service Cloud
There is a wide range of different help desk systems and picking one that would address all your needs can be a hurdle. Each tool offers something that others don’t and only few ca...n actually deliver on these promises. Which brings us to the next key question, what is Salesforce Service Cloud and should you use it as your daily driver? Find out this and more in our in-depth analysis.
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
- Zendesk Team $19
- Zendesk Professional $49
- Zendesk Enterprise $99
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- Free trial not available
Jira Service Management
- Jira Service Management Free $0
- Jira Service Management Standard $22
- Jira Service Management Premium $49
—
- Free trial not available
Salesforce Service Cloud
- Salesforce Service Cloud Essentials $25
- Salesforce Service Cloud Enterprise $165
- Salesforce Service Cloud Professional $80
- Salesforce Service Cloud Unlimited $330
- Free trial not available
Feature comparison
Zendesk
7.5/10
- 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
- Canned forms
- Email signatures
- Personal canned responses
3.3/10
- Collaboration
- Linked tickets
- Parent-child ticketing
9.3/10
- 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
- Customer 360
8.9/10
- 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
- Round robin ticket assignment
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
5/10
- Approval Workflows
- Form templates
- Multiple SLA Policies
- Customize Incident Lifecycle
- Task Management
- Auto-suggest Solutions
5/10
- Problem Management
- Change Management
5.7/10
- Complete portal customization
- CSS customization
- Custom domain mapping
- Public portal customization
- Branding removal (email)
- Branding removal (Help Center)
- FreshThemes gallery
7/10
- Community forums
- Help Center insights
- Internal Help Center
- Knowledge base
- Related articles
- Rich text Help Center articles
- SEO
- Unlimited data
- 301 Redirection
- Article Versioning
9.4/10
- 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
- Endpoints
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
8.9/10
- 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
- Custom SSL certificates (default free)
9.2/10
- Calling
- Chat Support (in English)
- Email Support
- Facebook
- Guidance Program
- Live chat
- Multibrand Support
- Phone Support (in English)
- Professional Services
- SDK
- Twitter
- Web Widget
- Support Bot
7.5/10
- 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
- Outbound email
6.2/10
- Automatic sitemap generation
- Backup
- Community forums
- Date comparisons
- Facebook in-sync app
- Notifications
- Printer-friendly
- Unlimited End Users
- Agent Limit
- Announcements
- Project Management
- Multiple currencies
- Voicemail integration
0/10
- ITSM Process Integration
0/10
- Asset Lifecycle Management
- Risk Management
- Contract Management
- IT Inventory Management
- Managed Assets
- Purchase Order (PO) Management
- Warranty Information
0/10
- Goals
- Data Storage Per User
- Documents
- File storage per User
- Omni-Channel Supervisor
- Sequence queues
Jira Service Management
5/10
- 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
- Canned forms
- Email signatures
- Personal canned responses
10/10
- Collaboration
- Linked tickets
- Parent-child ticketing
4/10
- 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
- Customer 360
7.8/10
- 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
- Round robin ticket assignment
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
6.7/10
- Approval Workflows
- Form templates
- Multiple SLA Policies
- Customize Incident Lifecycle
- Task Management
- Auto-suggest Solutions
10/10
- Problem Management
- Change Management
5.7/10
- Complete portal customization
- CSS customization
- Custom domain mapping
- Public portal customization
- Branding removal (email)
- Branding removal (Help Center)
- FreshThemes gallery
4/10
- Community forums
- Help Center insights
- Internal Help Center
- Knowledge base
- Related articles
- Rich text Help Center articles
- SEO
- Unlimited data
- 301 Redirection
- Article Versioning
8.1/10
- 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
- Endpoints
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
6.4/10
- 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
- Custom SSL certificates (default free)
3.8/10
- Calling
- Chat Support (in English)
- Email Support
- Facebook
- Guidance Program
- Live chat
- Multibrand Support
- Phone Support (in English)
- Professional Services
- SDK
- Twitter
- Web Widget
- Support Bot
5/10
- 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
- Outbound email
6.9/10
- Automatic sitemap generation
- Backup
- Community forums
- Date comparisons
- Facebook in-sync app
- Notifications
- Printer-friendly
- Unlimited End Users
- Agent Limit
- Announcements
- Project Management
- Multiple currencies
- Voicemail integration
10/10
- ITSM Process Integration
2.9/10
- Asset Lifecycle Management
- Risk Management
- Contract Management
- IT Inventory Management
- Managed Assets
- Purchase Order (PO) Management
- Warranty Information
1.7/10
- Goals
- Data Storage Per User
- Documents
- File storage per User
- Omni-Channel Supervisor
- Sequence queues
Salesforce Service Cloud
6.1/10
- 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
- Canned forms
- Email signatures
- Personal canned responses
10/10
- Collaboration
- Linked tickets
- Parent-child ticketing
6.7/10
- 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
- Customer 360
8.9/10
- 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
- Round robin ticket assignment
8.3/10
- 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
6.7/10
- Approval Workflows
- Form templates
- Multiple SLA Policies
- Customize Incident Lifecycle
- Task Management
- Auto-suggest Solutions
0/10
- Problem Management
- Change Management
10/10
- Complete portal customization
- CSS customization
- Custom domain mapping
- Public portal customization
- Branding removal (email)
- Branding removal (Help Center)
- FreshThemes gallery
9/10
- Community forums
- Help Center insights
- Internal Help Center
- Knowledge base
- Related articles
- Rich text Help Center articles
- SEO
- Unlimited data
- 301 Redirection
- Article Versioning
7.5/10
- 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
- Endpoints
5.2/10
- 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
7.5/10
- 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
- Custom SSL certificates (default free)
7.7/10
- Calling
- Chat Support (in English)
- Email Support
- Facebook
- Guidance Program
- Live chat
- Multibrand Support
- Phone Support (in English)
- Professional Services
- SDK
- Twitter
- Web Widget
- Support Bot
6.3/10
- 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
- Outbound email
5.4/10
- Automatic sitemap generation
- Backup
- Community forums
- Date comparisons
- Facebook in-sync app
- Notifications
- Printer-friendly
- Unlimited End Users
- Agent Limit
- Announcements
- Project Management
- Multiple currencies
- Voicemail integration
0/10
- ITSM Process Integration
8.6/10
- Asset Lifecycle Management
- Risk Management
- Contract Management
- IT Inventory Management
- Managed Assets
- Purchase Order (PO) Management
- Warranty Information
8.3/10
- Goals
- Data Storage Per User
- Documents
- File storage per User
- Omni-Channel Supervisor
- Sequence queues
Reviews
Zendesk
5 of 5 April 29, 2019
The key goals to deliver fast and quality responses to ticket and communicate on multiple channels are smoothly fulfilled with Zendesk....
4 of 5 April 24, 2019
Zendesk proved to be efficient in a quick issue resolution on multiple channels on time. The collaboration features enhanced and improv...
5 of 5 April 16, 2019
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 March 22, 2020
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 October 23, 2018
JSD is pretty intuitive and does not require a lot of documentation to get started. The starter pack is pretty attractive but expect to...
4 of 5 March 12, 2018
Generally speaking, this is a very complete application. It’s very useful for both small and large teams, although more effort went int...
Salesforce Service Cloud
4 of 5 December 10, 2020
PROS: Salesforce commerce platform offers great analytics and reporting functions, an excellent tool to expand our pro...
5 of 5 March 2, 2019
The tool helped us solve a wide range of issues but the most critical one that we managed to eliminate with this tool is the fact that ...
5 of 5 October 15, 2018
We use Salesforce Service Cloud mainly for case management throughout our wide range of services. This functionality is built within th...