We performed a comparison between Freshdesk and Jive based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Atlassian, Zendesk, Freshworks and others in Knowledge Management Software."Its simplicity is most valuable. It is easy and simple, and it requires negligible training effort. I don't spend all my time goofing around trying to find stuff in the ticketing system."
"The UI is easy to use."
"It's free of charge for us. For our scale of business, it's very important. We don't have a lot of tickets."
"Technical support is outstanding."
"It is very easy to make reports."
"Freshdesk has allowed us to measure and track the response and resolution time of tickets which has been reduced from seven to eight hours down to 30 minutes to one hour."
"The ticketing system is smooth, but since we use a free version, we do not have many facilities available."
"I like that it's very user-friendly. The way they designed this application, any layperson can just do some drag and drop actions and use it. It's not that difficult. It's also easy to implement. The most important thing is, you don't need to go to this application to create a ticket. You just send out an email, and the ticket is created automatically. I have never seen a feature like this before."
"We are able to handle more than one hundred POs at any given time with their shipping docs and info, with only one person in charge."
"If Freshdesk had forms in it so that I could go to the portal and fill out a service request, that would improve it immensely and make it more valuable for enterprise customers, but that's not a current functionality. You can't have a certain catalog of any type. You can't be like, "Hey, I want to just go submit a ticket," and then type in. You can't prompt them to ask anything. It is just a blank form."
"It should enhance its service and its reporting capabilities."
"While it's good for a small number of tickets, definitely in the future, we will require something more powerful."
"Technical support is not the best. It could be much, much better and offer better support to users."
"Asset management and branding are two areas in the solution that have scope for improvement."
"We have many cases where a ticket comes in, and it ends up having multiple team members working on it. It would be really nice to be able to assign a single ticket to multiple people, rather than having to create the parent-child hierarchy that they have set up. It generates a proliferation of tickets that I really don't want to have. Having to jump from a parent to one child and then to another child makes it harder for me to be able to see the entire case from end to end. A simple example is our new hire process or our termination process. We have people who leave. We also have people who come on board. We have got multiple people participating and doing things related to the leaving or onboarding process. Currently, I have to go to different tickets to be able to see whether all tasks are really done or not. If I could assign lots of people to one ticket, it would be really nice."
"There are a few things we have asked for, like a forward button. When a ticket comes in, we forward it, but it doesn't sync up with the forward. That is the one they have to rework. The other is when we forward the ticket, it doesn't go all, or certain things don't go with it. We have told them about it, and they are working on it. It would be better if they gave us a more standard reporting template. Although they already have some, many aren't usable. It would be easier if we had more templates to work with."
"I would like to see improvements in the account management aspect, having a customer portal for better visibility into my subscription, invoices, and trouble tickets."
"The search engine could be improved and also provide some kind of indexing."
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Freshdesk is ranked 3rd in Knowledge Management Software with 27 reviews while Jive is ranked 8th in Knowledge Management Software. Freshdesk is rated 8.4, while Jive is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Freshdesk writes "Incredibly user-friendly, flexible, and affordable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Jive writes "Used by our agile teams instead of email to track impediments". Freshdesk is most compared with JIRA Service Management, ServiceNow, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Spiceworks and BMC Helix ITSM, whereas Jive is most compared with Yammer and Atlassian Confluence.
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