DeskAlerts

RATING:

4.5

(10)
Overview

About DeskAlerts

DeskAlerts is a cloud-based and on-premise solution designed to help small to large enterprises send critical notifications to employees and clients across all corporate devices. It assists users with delivering predefined messages through pop-up notifications and by color-coding based on the level of emergency. Features of DeskAlerts include customizable templates, multi-channel delivery, one-click alerts, messaging, virtual mapping and more. It comes with a questionnaire builder, which lets users share custom surveys or polls among staff members and receive immediate feedback to improve employee engagement. Additionally, it helps users utilize scrolling the ticker tool to display high-priority messages as headlines on computer screens. DeskAlerts comes with ...

DeskAlerts Pricing

DeskAlerts is available in a range of different pricing packages. Contact DeskAlerts for more information and to get a pricing quote.

Starting price: 

$1,400.00 per year

Free trial: 

Available

Free version: 

Not Available

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DeskAlerts Reviews

Overall Rating

4.5

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4.5

Customer Support

5

Value for money

4.5

Functionality

4.5

Most Helpful Reviews for DeskAlerts

10 Reviews

User Profile

Sergio

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services, 2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed March 2022

Intensivelly communicated

we have become completely agile

PROS

different channels to use and easy to react to market changes

CONS

I really did not find any cons because this is very comprehensive solution

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Siti Saleha

Verified reviewer

Telecommunications, 10,000+ employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed March 2022

DeskAlerts review

PROS

I've used DeskAlerts to deliver IT warnings regarding planned downtime's and technical challenges. While our email platform has been having troubles, DeskAlerts allows individuals to view the notifications even if they are undergoing other technological issues.

CONS

It might be challenging to determine whether users have seen published messages. Some issues, such as the inability to stop the display are fixed swiftly by the support staff in no time, which i should give more credits to the support and developer team.

Jason

Hospital & Health Care, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed March 2022

Good for internal communications

We have a lot of users that don't use email much, so DeskAlerts provides us a means to communicate when we have various system outages or planned downtimes without relying on email.

PROS

Easy to use to send alerts internally to users' desktops.

CONS

In the past there have been a lot of quality issues with the system (bugs), but lately the system has been working much better for us and the issues impacting us have been addressed.

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Olivier

Verified reviewer

Health, Wellness and Fitness, 5,001-10,000 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed March 2021

Good tool for instant notification

We were looking for an easy-to-use and nice looking "popup" tool with delegation capabilities and straight-forward notification push (we need a fast annoucement system). Deskalert do the job, with limited resources. You may use it avery basically or even use one of the numerous features that help you to meet your specific needs.

PROS

Easy to use to reach users to inform them about important information. Good layout and capabilities. Delegation is possible to allw users to use the tool for their own purposes.

CONS

Deployement of agent was had but they enhanced the auto-deploy feature (not yet used) and self branding customisation remains limited even if the message content is fully customisable.

Reasons for switching to DeskAlerts

Layout and reporting capabilities.

Vendor Response

Dear Olivier, we are proud to get such great feedback! Thank you very much for taking the time to describe your experience with DeskAlerts. We are happy that the software meets your requirements. We count ourselves lucky for customers like you! We appreciate you mentioning the auto-deploy feature. It took some time to develop it, but in the end, we got a lot of positive feedback from our customers. Thank you again for your opinion!

Replied September 2021

Bruno

Hospital & Health Care, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed June 2019

DeskAlert for our hospital

Less calls to the help-desk - less stress for the users in case of some failure - capacity to inform people in emergency situations.

PROS

The capacity to publish rapidly to all users or specific ones important messages about use of critical product like EMR Electronic Medical Record - or important general informations

CONS

Sometimes difficulties to check who have seen or not the published messages. Some bugs like unable to stop the display - but the support team correct the bugs relatively quickly.

Vendor Response

Hello Bruno! Thank you for your kind words! We are very proud that you chose DeskAlerts. Our team strives to meet expectations like yours, and we're happy to hear we hit the mark for you. We appreciate your estimation of our support team's work. They do everything possible to keep our customers satisfied. DeskAlerts is improving with every update, and we are certain that for the time passed after you left your feedback, many of the technical issues you mentioned are long gone. Thanks again for the wonderful review!

Replied September 2021

Anonymous

201-500 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed April 2019

Great for company-wide alerts

DeskAlerts has been useful for me in sending IT messages about scheduled shutdowns or technical difficulties. This has been better than using email since our email software has been experiencing bugs, so DeskAlerts makes it so that people can see the alerts even with other technical problems.

PROS

I liked that I did not have to rely on an email system and the variety of different options for who to send messages to.

CONS

Only thing is that the company has had trouble moving to outside alerts for those outside the company but that hasn't been within my scope.

Vendor Response

Hello! Thank you for your kind words regarding DeskAlerts performance! It is great that DeskAlerts serves you as a reliable alternative for email, as this was one of the main challenges for our customers. We are proud that the software met your expectations! In the matter of sending messages to people outside the company, you probably meant those who do not have DeskAlerts installed on their devices. In that case, tools such as SMS notifications, MS Teams integration, and Digital Signage can be the best solution. All these tools are available in DeskAlerts and can be used simultaneously with tools like pop-up notifications and scrolling tickers.

Replied September 2021

Nick

Higher Education, 5,001-10,000 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed June 2021

Excellent piece of software

DeskAlerts allows us to quickly and easily communicate with our users and, critically, allows us to report on who has (and hasn't) received the alerts. The alerts are very configurable and allow us to send fully branded messages at the click of a button (or two)

PROS

Easy and intuitive to send out mass (or targeted) communications to our users. Gives simple, but clear, reports on how many users (and who) have seen them. DeskAlerts themselves (the company) are friendly and very responsive to support requests and feature development. DeskAlerts is being actively developed and improved with new features and tweaks to existing ones.

CONS

Older versions of the software could be a bit clunky and buggy, but the latest versions have been much better.

Vendor Response

Thanks for the awesome review, Nick! We're so happy you love your experience with DeskAlerts. It is great to know you appreciate software features like acknowledgment and targeting, and you like how we develop the product. That is inspiring! We can't wait to have a chance to show you the new features we are currently working on.

Replied September 2021

User Profile

Luc

Verified reviewer

Government Administration, 501-1,000 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed October 2018

Works great.

PROS

Very easy to install and configure. Easy to use to send alerts. API works great to automate with scripts or security systems.

CONS

A few bugs here and there but they update often so you usually won't be dealing with them for long.

Vendor Response

Hello Luc! Thank you for using DeskAlerts and for this review. It means a lot for our team to know you find the software easy to use. We appreciate your feedback regarding the software update.

Replied March 2021

Wissam

Logistics and Supply Chain, 10,000+ employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed June 2021

Feedback

PROS

Easy to train and use. Simple application .

CONS

We had some feedback which were given directly to your colleagues.

Vendor Response

Hello Wissam! Thank you for your feedback. We are happy to know that you find it easy to use DeskAlerts. We worked hard to make the software user-friendly and are pleased to know we achieved this goal. Again, thank you for the valuable information you shared with us. It will help us become better.

Replied September 2021

Christian

Architecture & Planning, 201-500 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed June 2019

DeskAlerts In Action

DeskAlerts solve issues we had around notifying our staff of important issues and events. Previously we relied upon email which was often ignored or missed.

PROS

The software is easy to use and fairly intuitive to navigate around

CONS

The interface looks a little dated compared to how most GUI's are built nowadays.

Vendor Response

Hello Christian! Thank you so much for this review. We are happy to know that you find DeskAlerts handy and easy to use and that it helped your company solve communications issues. This means a lot to our team! In regards to GUI, we have improved it a lot. Moreover, this spring, we will release the brand new version of GUI. If you want to test it, please contact your account manager.

Replied March 2021

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