Nexthink vs. Whatfix

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Nexthink
Score 7.0 out of 10
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Nexthink Workplace Experience is a cloud-native platform allowing IT teams to manage the Digital Employee Experience (DEX) by providing insights across devices, applications, users, operating systems, locations and organizational units.N/A
Whatfix
Score 8.2 out of 10
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Whatfix is advancing the "userization" of application technology, by empowering companies to maximize the ROI of digital investments across the application lifecycle. Powered by GenAI, Whatfix’s product suite includes a digital adoption platform, simulated application environments for hands-on training, and no-code application analytics. Whatfix enables organizations to drive user productivity, ensure process compliance, and improve user experience of internal and customer-facing…N/A
Pricing
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
Nexthink
Chose Nexthink
Nexthink had better integration and a better user interface. 1E did not have the engagement capability which is so critical to many of the actions we complete using Nexthink. Nexthink had better trending data capabilities. 1E did not capture and hold data the way Nexthink does …
Chose Nexthink
Also reviewed are Aeternity, Lakeside, and HP Proactive. The selection window wouldn't let me enter these, so putting them here. Nexthink was chosen mainly because of a broader set of use case potential, however, another huge point was the culture of the company. They value …
Chose Nexthink
Nexthink is on the bleeding edge of employee feedback, which allows you to focus on the highest priorities, that in turn enables delivery of the best digital experience.
Chose Nexthink
We leveraged several off the shelf performance tools prior to engaging with Nexthink (Windows Performance Toolkit, PCMark, etc.). Once we did our proof of concept with Nexthink, we knew we'd found the right tool for our organization.
Chose Nexthink
We have explored using other end-user experience management tools but Nexthink stood out to us as the best option. It is very easy to get started with Nexthink using their "Nexthink Learn" platform. From there the integration of the different product offerings was seamless. …
Chose Nexthink
Nexthink approaches the problem from the employees view. Using the perception from employee sentiment campaign to help steer the conversation within IT departments and not in an echo chamber that we’re used to. The community platform alone gives everyone that uses the platform …
Chose Nexthink
Nexthink is the market leader in terms of measuring real user experience w.r.t End-user device. Systrack sensors work great but the GUI is not very attractive. Aternity is another great solution when integrated with other riverbed solutions like Appresponse, NetIM, and …
Chose Nexthink
Nexthink is more than an APM, and can easily provide (to support) CMDB processes a la Servicenow Discovery, so we decided to go with them.
Whatfix
Chose Whatfix
WalkMe, Product Fruits and Pendo.io
Chose Whatfix
Cost. Whatfix was the cheapest of them all, but not better in functionality or usability.
Chose Whatfix
The fundamental decision for Whatfix was a management decision at the international level. The different options Whatfix offered for different systems in our company led to the decision to go with Whatfix. Basically, I am very satisfied with the decision, as the presentation of …
Chose Whatfix
Whatfix and WalkMe offered a very similar solution at the time of evaluating both platforms almost 4 years ago.

We selected Whatfix as they represented better value and the flow creation process was a lot quicker and easier, meaning getting to grips with everything and …
Chose Whatfix
Whatfix has better element mapping which Appcues was struggling to have. Cost wise also Whatfix was better suited.
Chose Whatfix
The support from Whatfix is very good. It has better features than others. It has very few bugs. Whatfix is very user friendly. It meets all the requirements. They will quickly respond to all the queries and questions of users or your clients if they face any issues. Their …
Chose Whatfix
We evaluated many on the market and there was only one other competitor that came in the same bracket as Whatfix and that was WalkMe.

We selected Whatfix due to the eagerness of the team to please and support their users, as well as the outstanding feature set they have.
Chose Whatfix
Great quality of support provided by Whatfix as I already mentioned. Looking at all the features it’s headed to the right direction. Very delightful in terms of the ease of use and setup. Meets all the requirements. Quick to respond to all the queries and questions whenever …
Chose Whatfix
I haven't used any other [Whatfix] like software, because it met all my needs.
Chose Whatfix
Up until now we have relied on tools like Application Insights and our own internal database to track feature usage and our own internal notification tools to promote new features.
Chose Whatfix
We used Userlane briefly but unfortunately, it didn't meet our technical requirements. When we moved away from Userlane we investigated AppCues, however, the range of capabilities in Whatfix was much higher so we saw more value in Whatfix.
Chose Whatfix
We did not do a comparison in this case, as Whatfix was advised to us by our SalesForce implementation partner, and demos and hands \-on moments were quite convincing, combined with a good price point.
Chose Whatfix
There is no comparison - Whatfix is the clear winner with us from the very beginning. As Whatfix continues to grow and innovate their product, engage with it's customers on a level beyond any I have every seen. They work as Partners with us, their teams from bottom to top are …
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User Ratings
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Usability
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Online Training
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
I've been managing desktops for 20+ years and Nexthink was the missing tool out of my toolbox. Just to give some perspective, if you were building and maintaining a house, Nexthink would be comparable to switching up from a hammer and nails and to full blown using a nailgun. Nexthink is a solution accelerator and a well thought out toolset to give you the customer experience at a glance. It allows for so much more visibility just with the default set of data points the Collector (agent) gathers, which is A LOT, and grants you the ability to gather even more data with remote actions. All of this evidence cuts how the "it could possibly be this" and "maybe it's that" discussions when you're troubleshooting an issue. It may not provide the exact answer all the time, but it gives you a "compass point" on where you need to start looking to resolve the issue. Also the service monitoring, activity monitoring, and critical event thresholds really empower the teams to know when a problem is happening and they can get ahead of it before the first call even reaches the Help Desk. Nexthink is a cornerstone tool in our environment for end user experience and I'm excited to see where the go next.
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Currently, we are only using Whatfix with Salesforce but are in the process of implementing on other systems. It is an excellent tool to organize and provide in-app access to training materials already created. It excels at providing guidance about tasks users don't complete often and, therefore, forget what they were trained about the process. The only sort of system it might not work well is one that provides its own robust in-app assistance. More than one type of tip icon being displayed, for instance, could be confusing.
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Pros
  • Engage with end users via pop-up comms
  • Identify root cause of a problem
  • Investigate systems that have similar traits that need to be addressed
  • Run remote actions making support easier to provide
  • Drive upgrade or EOL projects (example identifying users of IE to move them to Edge/Chrome
  • Identify application users down to the version level
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  • Understanding the unique needs of this new emerging market and unfamiliar business processes.
  • Fantastic professionalism from all the Sales team and Professional Services team, right from our first enquiry via their website.
  • Providing a structured onboarding process and strong project management offering which helps us feel confident we will achieve our goals with Whatfix, despite our ambitious delivery timeline.
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Cons
  • Sometimes it's a bit of a task when we spot an issue and need to provide machine logs for Nexthink to investigate. I believe this isn't the case when you go and use Nexthink cloud.
  • I think the documentation can be improved. It can be very hard to follow and lacks detail.
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  • Design is definitely something they can improve on. The callouts and carousels are a little bit old-school and sometimes this creates a discrepancy with your product's design language.
  • They can improve with some functionality, like full-screen carousels for the web. There are points that they cannot accommodate your design and you have to iterate on that.
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Likelihood to Renew
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Whatfix are an absolutely stellar vendor in every way. As with all technology tools and platforms, it's important to evaluate the marketplace to see what else is on offer. It would have to be something exceptional for us to seriously consider discontinuing our relationship with Whatfix
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Usability
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While they've made a lot of improvements in the last year, there are still challenges with walkthroughs and how beacons can be created. They are aware of these limitations and are actively soliciting customer feedback to help them remedy these shortcomings.
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Performance
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Sometimes there is a delay to showcase all whatfix elements
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Support Rating
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Support is very proactive and quick at solving/investigating any issue that might come up. They are very knowledgeable about their own tool and coding as well, and therefore, they quickly understand the goal you try to achieve - even doing custom code when necessary (or fixing your custom code). Even as COVID hit, Whatfix still managed to supply the same high standard of support.
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Online Training
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While helpful, the feedback from our employee was, that [they felt] the training was very high-level - sometimes confusing. It would be great to have some kind of sandbox environment for new users to train certain scenarios.
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Implementation Rating
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Although Whatfix make the process relatively straightforward (they will provide Group Policy Scripts to install a Google Chrome extension specific to your organisation) its important to ensure your network deployment teams (if you have more than one) understand their role and what they need to do to test deployment once they undertaken the work.
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Alternatives Considered
We have explored using other end-user experience management tools but Nexthink stood out to us as the best option. It is very easy to get started with Nexthink using their "Nexthink Learn" platform. From there the integration of the different product offerings was seamless. Nexthink provides a wide variety of library packs that come ready to use out the box, simply import them and start using them. The customisable dashboards have given our product and service owners more visibility than they've ever had before. The Nexthink community is one of the best I have been a part of, everyone is actively sharing ideas and promoting innovation. Nexthink regularly hosts user groups that bring their clients together to discuss use cases and the value they have generated using the tool. They are also very transparent with their roadmap and what they are working on, ensuring the focus is aligned to the needs of the customer.
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The fundamental decision for Whatfix was a management decision at the international level. The different options Whatfix offered for different systems in our company led to the decision to go with Whatfix. Basically, I am very satisfied with the decision, as the presentation of various topics, among others for our CRM system, can be mapped more individually, specifically, and directly for the different addressees. The evaluation options are also much more extensive and detailed.
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Return on Investment
  • The biggest ROI has been how Nexthink has helped us is with regards to time. Due to Nexthink, we are able to find/resolve issues much faster due to the great detail that Nexthink shows regarding a device history.
  • Nexthink allows us to be proactive in our troubleshooting. This is a huge ROI, as it provides a summary of our users issues they are facing, and we can then prioritize our time with reaching out to the end users to solve issues before they become major problems for the end user later.
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  • With 8 Systems the ROI is substantial, for every call saved, hundreds of dollars are saved.
  • Providing just in time assistance with task and eliminating the search of 15 to 20 minutes to discover how to do something not only saves time, but dollars.
  • Productivity increases, learning is adaptive and both are wins in ROI.
  • Whatfix has paid for itself - over and over again.
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Screenshot of the analytics of the Whatfix Digital Adoption Platform, that help determine what’s working (and what’s not) so  adjustments can be made to DAP content as necessaryScreenshot of Whatfix's Analytics. This produces reports on flow usage, queries served, drop-offs, and other engagement metricsScreenshot of Beacon - Used to create alerts to guide users to changes and new featuresScreenshot of Data validation - Tells users in real-time if the data they entered is accurate, based on pre-established criteriaScreenshot of In-app guidance - Step-by-step guided walkthroughs to take the user through every step of a taskScreenshot of Self-Help - Self-service support contextualized based on user role and location in the application