Pendo.io is a product engagement platform with features for in-app analytics, surveys and feedback, and guidance.
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Quantum Metric
Score 8.0 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Quantum Metric is designed to help organizations build better digital products faster. Their platform for Continuous Product Design gives business and IT teams a single version of truth which the vendor describes as fast, quantified, and grounded on what customers actually experience. The solution ultimately aims to help teams agree on priorities, build products customers love, and innovate with speed and confidence.
Pendo.io does a better job with data but not as good on user onboarding and communication. Userpilot started out as an user onboarding and in app guidance that lately became also a user behavior analysis tool. It seems that Pendo.io did the inverse way, it started with the …
Pendo.io is better at tracking than Google Analytics, and Adobe Analytics takes a lot of setup to get similar coverage. Pendo.io works so well straight out of the box. Also, the historical data that can be accessed once creating a new feature is incredible.
Pendo.io has far more options for customizations needed to provide everything we need (which is specific) for our overall end goals. Pendo.io also provides two of the items I need versus one.
Pendo.io had the full suite of solutions for product management, customer success and UX. The other solutions seemed to be good solutions but Pendo solved a lot more range of proplems for our teams. Pricing was all about the same as well so it didn't really factor into the …
I have just very superficial experience with Google Analytics but I do believe that Pendo.io is a much much better tool in pretty much all aspects of it. It has a ton more features and capabilities and even for the capabilities where there is overlap, Pendo seems to come out …
At the time of evaluation, Pendo.io stood out as an exceptional digital adoption solution. We couldn't find another solution that had the mix of analytics and in-app guidance that worked for our needs. We're so glad we selected Pendo and look forward to continuing our …
Pendo.io has better brand value, brand recall, brand recognition and better trust factor compared to its competitors. Also, the leadership as well as product team has hands-on previous relevant experience using this tool which helped us make the decision. The customer support …
Pendo.io doesn't try to fit every possible product management feature inside the application, rather it focuses on the user experience and analytics part. And they do that beautifully. Because they are focused on their strength so they are best in that, also their pricing is …
The organization of Pendo.io makes it much easier to use. We can also get more granular with our request to really dig down into what the root of the issue is and why we are being asked to improve something. We also have been able to better broadcast our wins internally and …
It is night and day how simple Pendo.io is to setup and configure. You don't need to be a data scientist or engineer - the UI makes it incredibly easy. The competitors have a high barrier to entry to get started with simple tracking and reporting, which has been a massive …
ChurnZero is better at being more granular in terms of the specific product usage stats. Whereas in Pendo.io one can customize periods of time to make it much easier to drill into a specific month, quarter, year, or date range. This customization feature was one of the deciding …
WalkMe is an industry leader, but they charge an arm and a leg. Working with them you get a lot of support and CSM time, but is it really worth that price tag? Pendo.io was an easy choice for that simple reason.
I prefer Pendo because it monitors explicit interactions down to the minutiae if needed. It provided data on an individual account and user basis, as well as a holistic view across the entire customer base or segments. (which you can also define).
It is used for different functions; Quantum Metrics shows great advantages in the control and administration of data generated by a website. It allows the report and knowledge of online records, also the errors registered. Recordings of login sessions on web pages help resolve …
Quantum Metric has unmatched support and is easy to use. The simple data visualization gave us an excellent analysis on specific pages and was a game changer. In other words, other tools may offer the same, but that's all. An easy-to-understand breakdown of how customers spent …
its well suited for the environments for the workloads of huge transactions,huge I/O,avoiding delays for the workloads which need immediate attention with great workflows.For the great transformations and data mining it would be helpful,for great customer behaviorial, it would …
Impressive interface to help me with getting a detailed journey of where my user is and clearly define the challenges these users face while moving from one step to another, backed with data points.
Other tools might provide the tool in a very similar way, but that's it. Quantum Metric actually helps remove the abstraction from the data, their support is available in a very fast manner, they help us set goals and reach them, also helping us track them through the tool. …
Quantum Metric is more sophisticated than Hotjar in every way (also much more expensive). If you've been using Hotjar and are ready for the next level of service, you should investigate Quantum Metric. However, if you have been using Hotjar and the service provides everything …
Quantum Metric is a huge leap up from Mouseflow, which is very basic. Quantum offers more filters so I'm not sifting through thousands of recordings to find one or two. My organization uses Adobe for our everyday analytics and not Quantum. They do different things and I don't …
Quantum's support is unmatched, and implementing new tracking is a breeze. Quantum makes it easy to dive beneath the numbers and see the customer sessions behind them. It enables more empathy and behavioral understanding. Quantum's visualizations aren't as easy to use, and the …
In other tools we cannot see the user journey, in other tools we need to write multiple queries but here the choice of filter is very easy. We can easily filter out the required data without any complicated query. It shows the customer journey like a video and we can play it …
Quantum Metric feels a lot better when used. It is much smoother and seems much more reliable. It does not get stuck as much and finds the sessions a lot quicker.
I have used other tools like Dynatrace. Quantum Metric is better suited to look for errors and spot issues in user sessions, it has a more friendly UI.
The biggest QM advantage is that you can see customer's actions on the live preview and almost immediately. So you can catch customers up, on the session, while the customer is still using your portal. There is a lot of information provided on the session, like API calls and …
Manager, Measurement Strategy and Data Architecture
Chose Quantum Metric
We were using Clicktale at the same time as Quantum for Order Form Optimization recommendations but found that the amount of time invested and the quality of the tool from Quantum just seemed like a better fit for our organization.
Pendo.io is very well suited for organizations, who want to quickly connect with Customers without even directly talking to them. Pendo.io allows in-app guides and documentation to help organizations connect with their customers and guide them in their product. The feature tracking capability is the best to understand the page/feature usage also by segment to categorize and understand user behavior. Replays are somewhat helpful but still can have improvements. Less appropriate where the customer base is less.
If you're looking to go beyond session replay and have a tool with intelligence to show you specific issues, and prioritize those, I think this is a good tool. Retailers that have had ups and downs, and are maybe seeing an increase in their online traffic/sales, who want a better view of how to improve the customer experience. You need a fairly mature digital analytics environment for this to make sense. If you have a more basic analytics environment, or you don't have the people/skills to use all the information QM can provide, it's probably not a good fit.
Identifying user pain points and frustrations. Quantum Metrics has a data point called Rage Click which shows when a customer has clicked multiple times back to back on a particular section of the website.
Replaying a session to see everything that is loading on the front end to the customer, as well as the backed end of the website, has been critical in troubleshooting the experience.
Heatmaps are a awesome tool we have found very useful in showing engagement with different content on the page, how far user scroll & drop off and to see a split side by side view of the same page in an a/b test.
The guide builder UI could be a bit more user-friendly; it's hard to remember where the different options are at first and takes some practice.
Interpreting user paths visually can be tricky at times, especially when trying to understand where drop-offs or blockers occur.
More granular user permissions so that I don't need to grant full admin rights to a user if I want to let them edit translations on a guide, for example.
We have had an excellent experience with Pendo. When we've had questions or concerns, Pendo is very quick to respond and communicate with us. We have experienced top-notch customer support and customer engagement. We have actually modeled some of our implementation and product processes after Pendo's examples.
Quantum is a nice tool and is user friendly however I believe there always room for improvement. We have experienced minor issues with a few sessions which were solved by Quantum support reps in a timely manner and some of the dashboards are not as robust as other tools we use
It is intuitive for core tasks like tracking feature usage, building Guides, and viewing dashboards. The interface is clean and well structured, making it easy for product managers and operational teams to get value quickly without heavy technical support. However, there is a noticeable learning curve when setting up advanced custom events, reports, or integrations, which can take some time and internal knowledge-sharing to master.
For a new user, it's pretty intuitive to onboard and start doing the basic functionalities. But QM has a lot of functionalities which can be leveraged by more team members (especially when you don't have analysts dedicatedly using this) if further enhancements to usability are made.
Every time I have logged into Pendo, the service has been available for me to use. The page has never been down when I am trying to get info from there.
They've been great anytime that we have needed help with something. They also have some really great help articles. We're able to figure most things out through their articles, but when we've had to call in they've been very helpful and we haven't had any problems. I'd highly recommend working with them.
I've been very impressed with the support Quantum Metric has provided. Our amazing Customer Success team has provided excellent service and has gone above and beyond in helping us use and understand the tool. We hold weekly calls with multiple teams and QM has been proactive in bringing things to our team's attention and making suggestions. The support has been one of the most important aspects of having QM and has allowed us to make great strides in improving how we use data and user research in our work.
The training schedule was well thought out and tailored to meet our needs. Chantelle stayed with us through the whole implementation and made sure that we were good to go.
Pendo.io excels at creating guides. The editor experience is precisely what anyone working with a DAP tool desires – unobstructed and focused on a single screen. Pendo.io boasts AI features, and the customization options exceed expectations. When we became more familiar with the product, we questioned why we hadn't considered it sooner. Pendo.io has simplified analytics, making them as straightforward as bread and butter. The number of widgets available for data representation in the dashboard is astounding. Furthermore, Pendo.io offers a wealth of features, including feature tagging, webpage tagging, Pendo Listen, NPS surveys, a resource center, and more. I used WalkMe for three years and encountered challenges achieving the desired flow for customer onboarding, which sometimes proved difficult. In contrast, Pendo.io makes everything achievable thanks to its ability to incorporate custom code into guide creations.
Quantum Metric has unmatched support and is easy to use. The simple data visualization gave us an excellent analysis on specific pages and was a game changer. In other words, other tools may offer the same, but that's all. An easy-to-understand breakdown of how customers spent their time is provided. It makes it easier to empathize with others and understand their behaviors. Quantum Metric offers the whole package, unlike other tools.