We performed a comparison between IBM Maximo and Zendesk based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, IFS, Infor and others in Enterprise Asset Management (EAM)."The most valuable feature is the ability to correct maintenance."
"The most powerful features are the database and integration with CMDB."
"Reliable, very configurable, and it's all integrated in the same database."
"The large range of configurability of the product is great, since everyone has a different way of doing things."
"They have a real strength of tracking the asset itself along with the condition of the asset, the maintenance of the asset and who has access to the asset, etc."
"It can be particularly useful for power line operations, enabling linemen in the field to gather information and send it across the country as well as different parts of the world."
"Provides great flexibility."
"Preventive maintenance management."
"It is very easy to connect back and forth between the requester and the person fulfilling the ticket."
"The feature to move over my customer experience team tickets for different specialists is very valuable for my team."
"It's very convenient to use."
"One of the most valuable features is the ease of use. If you take the standalone product, it is so easy to use, but if you want a tailor-made Zendesk Guide, you can't do it yourself. However, you can use a template that already exists—they have a lot, and they're very cheap, around 300-400 euros—and use it on all your brands. It's a very easy product to use."
"The product offers very good management. It has a great ability to assign tickets based on content."
"It is a scalable solution."
"I found the user experience with vendors on Zendesk to be straightforward, especially when it comes to understanding and searching for specific tickets. The search and navigation tools are easy to use, and I haven't encountered any issues with delays or communication gaps in ticket resolutions."
"It has good management, the ability to sign tickets based on content, the multi-channel support, the self service portal, the integration with Salesforce, the setup process, and the product features as we are currently using them."
"I feel that the interface is a little too complicated with a large number of fields to enter."
"Areas for improvement include: an enhanced Service Catalog on Mobile; Agent intelligence; better dashboards for KPIs."
"The standard reports that shipped with the package need to be enriched with more advanced reports, especially for the Inventory Management sections."
"Maximo is a big system, so the initial setup is complex."
"Revision management of file attachments."
"Vendor management needs enhancement."
"IBM is a big company and they have a lot of products. Level One, the first level of tech support, is the one that is used to stop the tsunami. For everyone, it's always work to get past that."
"Although you can create notifications with Maximo, the configuration and options could be improved."
"Sometimes if there was a way to just flag the actual issue out of those email chains - that would be really helpful."
"It wasn't easy to set up so we're only using a third of all of the features,"
"As per me, there arent much significant issues or areas for improvement with Zendesk, as my usage of it is limited. I appreciate its ability to organize tickets effectively based on tags, allowing me to easily gather and analyze customer feedback and requests."
"There is always a network issue with Zendesk. But we don’t know whether it is managed. The network issue is that when I call, it does not let us."
"The solution could integrate better with QR codes from some websites such as Facebook."
"The data you get when logged in to Zendesk Support differs from the data you get when you programmatically query Zendesk Support through its API because of a sync time delay."
"Zendesk Guide could be improved by allowing us to put our assets in one location. What happens now for each article, for example, is we have to upload the images for that article to that location, so the image reuse is still not something that they have perfected. If they could allow us to update all the images in one location, and then pull the image from there, it would be easier when working on Multibrand projects. There are no Multibrand updates available—we have to update each brand manually. For my company, I have come up with an API tool which allows me to push the content to multiple brands together, but if you don't have something like that, you have to manually do it."
"If I write an article, and I have a team of 30 people, and they all have a Zendesk account, when I write an article, I send them an email. "Hey guys, I just wrote this article. It's one of the most popular topics this month on which we are not covered. Please check it and make sure that you include it in your resolutions". The issue is, once I send it to those 30 people, and they open it, the next morning, that article is the most popular article."
IBM Maximo is ranked 1st in Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) with 23 reviews while Zendesk is ranked 4th in CRM Customer Engagement Centers with 57 reviews. IBM Maximo is rated 8.0, while Zendesk is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of IBM Maximo writes "Work order management and scalability enables the businesses' needs to be met". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zendesk writes "Stable tool, making it reliable for handling tasks but difficult initial setup". IBM Maximo is most compared with ServiceNow, JIRA Service Management, ABB Ability Asset Suite EAM, IFS Cloud Platform and NetSuite ERP, whereas Zendesk is most compared with ServiceNow, JIRA Service Management, Atlassian Confluence, Freshservice and Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
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