
Two Slovak developers couldn't find a support tool they liked, so they wrote their own. Twenty years later LiveAgent handles customer service for 40,000 companies - and Quality Unit still hasn't taken a cent of outside money.

Four companies, four very different bets on how a business should answer its customers - from Oracle's enterprise heft to a bootstrapped help desk built in Slovakia.

Intercom, ProProfs, Jitbit, LiveAgent, Giva and SysAid all promise to tame the queue. Their real differences begin with what each one believes a support team should become.