Astrato Analytics vs. Zendesk Explore

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Astrato Analytics
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
A self-service BI solution, Astrato puts analytics in the hands of every user, enabling them to build their own reports and answer data questions without IT help. Astrato accelerates adoption, speeds up decision-making, and unifies analytics, embedded analytics, data input, and data apps in one platform. With Astrato, Self-Service business users can see and understand data that resides in the Data Cloud (Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift, Dremio,…N/A
Zendesk Explore
Score 8.7 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
Pricing
Astrato AnalyticsZendesk Explore
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Pricing Offerings
Astrato AnalyticsZendesk Explore
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Astrato AnalyticsZendesk Explore
Considered Both Products
Astrato Analytics
Chose Astrato Analytics
At the time, Astrato was the only one that provided the ability to embed dashboards into our application and not require a paid license seat for each user. Astrato is the only BI tool that lets you download data into pre-formatted Excel sheets with conditional formatting and …
Chose Astrato Analytics
Astrato offered us a very attractive annual plan that, together with its functions, allowed us to opt for it, beating big names like Google, Monday and Odoo. It is constantly evolving and new technologies, which the agency directors found very relevant. It provides dynamic …
Chose Astrato Analytics
It is simpler to use than all of them. Easier to connect to Google spreadsheets and Snowflake than all of them.
It is free for up to five users and one workspace. Instantly beats all the competition.
No download required: Beats Power BI and Tableau.
Chose Astrato Analytics
To scale PowerBi, we would have needed a staff of technical folks and a substantial budget, and we still probably could not have created the robust SaaS application we did with Astrato Analytics. Astrato Analytics allowed for a staff of two to create and rollout a SaaS …
Chose Astrato Analytics
Astrato is a cloud-native tool with the ability to manage an effortless live connection to modern cloud data warehouses for real time updates. This sets them apart from legacy platforms which are desktop-centric. Astrato is also capable of a level of dashboard graphics quality …
Zendesk Explore
Chose Zendesk Explore
Zendesk Explore stands out against Freshchat and Freshdesk for it's deeper analytics capabilities and seamless integration with Zendesk ecosystem. While Freshdesk offers reporting, it lacks on the same level of granular insights and customization that Zendesk Explore provides. …
Chose Zendesk Explore
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 …
Chose Zendesk Explore
N/A - the company had already implemented Zendesk Explore when I was hired.
Chose Zendesk Explore
What's good with Zendesk Explore is that data is already provided since it's included in the package. We get the data from Zendesk Support and make a report in Zendesk Explore.

It provides suggested templates and report formats also which you don't get on the other platforms. …
Chose Zendesk Explore
Zendesk Explore is more user friendly and the software plus maintenance cost is less. The report section is more detailed and no lag while creating report for a large data source. The report segments and formats are editable which make it more convenient to make a report …
Chose Zendesk Explore
We tried other reporting and Zendesk Explore was by far the best as it was already implemented into our support system we were already using; Zendesk. The main selling point for us, is that all of the reports are customizable and that no coding knowledge is needed to build out …
Chose Zendesk Explore
Zendesk Explore is better than Freshservice Analytics. In Freshservice, even though the interface is more attractive, the functions are not as good as Zendesk Explore. Reports and dashboards are hard to build, and the materials to learn are not as good as the materials on …
Chose Zendesk Explore
For support data, we have only used Explore because it came with our ZenDesk membership. So I can't speak to other solutions! That said, it's awesome to have Knowledge Base and support data in one place.
Features
Astrato AnalyticsZendesk Explore
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Astrato Analytics
7.3
Ratings
11% below category average
Zendesk Explore
9.0
Ratings
10% above category average
Pixel Perfect reports7.00 Ratings7.10 Ratings
Customizable dashboards8.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates7.00 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Astrato Analytics
7.0
Ratings
14% below category average
Zendesk Explore
8.3
Ratings
3% above category average
Drill-down analysis7.00 Ratings9.50 Ratings
Formatting capabilities7.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages7.00 Ratings4.80 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration7.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Astrato Analytics
6.5
Ratings
24% below category average
Zendesk Explore
8.4
Ratings
1% above category average
Publish to Web7.00 Ratings6.90 Ratings
Report Versioning6.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Publish to PDF00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Astrato Analytics
6.0
Ratings
28% below category average
Zendesk Explore
7.2
Ratings
10% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)7.00 Ratings6.60 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization6.00 Ratings7.10 Ratings
Predictive Analytics5.00 Ratings5.50 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings9.40 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Astrato Analytics
7.0
Ratings
19% below category average
Zendesk Explore
9.1
Ratings
7% above category average
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)7.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)7.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings9.50 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings9.50 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Astrato Analytics
7.0
Ratings
11% below category average
Zendesk Explore
7.8
Ratings
1% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access7.00 Ratings6.10 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile7.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Mobile Application00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Astrato Analytics
-
Ratings
Zendesk Explore
5.9
Ratings
28% below category average
REST API00 Ratings5.40 Ratings
Javascript API00 Ratings5.90 Ratings
iFrames00 Ratings5.50 Ratings
Java API00 Ratings5.60 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings6.20 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
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9.5
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Usability
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Support Rating
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User Testimonials
Astrato AnalyticsZendesk Explore
Likelihood to Recommend
Astrato is a fantastic tool for dashboard development and consumption. Additionally, advanced features like notifications and writeback allow sophisticated workflows like financial approval processes to be run through Astrato as well as typical BI functions
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Compared to other analytics functions of other Ticket Management System, Zendesk Explore is the easiest to learn. Moreover, the learning curve is high. Once you pick up the fundamentals, you will be able to create all types of analytic reports. In addition, if you know basic coding or SQL, you can create your own metrics and attributes to capture extremely specific elements such as the tickets that contain a certain word or etc.
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Pros
  • Streamlined data compilation in the cloud
  • Expansion in the dynamic spectrum of business processes with our focus on digital marketing
  • Very complete storage capacity
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  • As with most "suite" products, if you already use other Zendesk features (Chat, Talk, etc), then Zendesk Explore adds an extra facet to the customer experience. The more we know about our clientele, the better we can understand/anticipate their needs.
  • I like that we can get as in-depth as we feel is necessary. For example, is just one customer having an issue? Or are many experiencing a similar problem? We can better rack this type of trend using Explore.
  • Our team can dive deep into the data based on exactly what we're looking for. If the marketing team wants a certain kind of segment, we can give them that info. If we want to sort by date or another set of parameters, we can do that as well.
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Cons
  • Handling massive amounts of data. Simplicity ends there.
  • Template objects need to be explained better in the documentation.
  • Ability to connect to more data sources.
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  • More detailed pieces of training on where to find datasets/queries.
  • Have demo reports to do live trainings; instead of watching videos.
  • Have a key as to what all of the datasets mean.
  • Have a pop-up that analyzes the data "looks like your csat dropped this week!" etc...
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Usability
Astrato Analytics is very easy to use especially for the non-technical user. Their "no-code" application and rich library of options creates a very streamlined approach for developing dashboards and reports.
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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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Support Rating
Very friendly, with online help, blog and community. The template documentation could be more complete, however.
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Zendesk Community is extremely useful for Zendesk Explore beginners. The live support provided by Zendesk will also help a lot. If you don't know anything you can ask live support right away. However, one drawback of Zendesk Community and Support is the creation of complex reports on Zendesk Explore. Zendesk Community and Support cannot really help you much if you are trying to build a complex report as they are not a complete expert on it as well.
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Alternatives Considered
To scale PowerBi, we would have needed a staff of technical folks and a substantial budget, and we still probably could not have created the robust SaaS application we did with Astrato Analytics. Astrato Analytics allowed for a staff of two to create and rollout a SaaS Application in under 60 days and provided hands on support to us as needed. There really is no comparison.
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Zendesk Explore stands out against Freshchat and Freshdesk for it's deeper analytics capabilities and seamless integration with Zendesk ecosystem. While Freshdesk offers reporting, it lacks on the same level of granular insights and customization that Zendesk Explore provides. Compared to Freshchat which focuses more on live chat and conversational analytics Zendesk Explore excels in historical trend analysis and comprehensive dashboarding. We choose Zendesk Explore for it's robust reporting and drill down capabilities.
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Return on Investment
  • Allowed us to provide clients direct access to their reports without having to increase license costs
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  • Positive impact of around 5 hours/week in Dashboard building and visualization
  • 10 hours from Product to review dashboards and find potential patterns
  • Enabler to find opportunities based on agents´ occupancy rates
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ScreenShots

Astrato Analytics Screenshots

Screenshot of from the Gallery Dashboard: Maventech CRM Sales PerformanceScreenshot of from the Gallery Dashboard: Healthcare Analytics
The comprehensive Healthcare System Dashboard was designed for Bedford Health System, a tool leveraging Astrato’s data visualization capabilities. This dashboard provides a holistic view of various critical healthcare metrics, enabling informed decision-making and strategic planning.Screenshot of how to add custom data into the semantic layer