AgentTime Scheduler vs. Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AgentTime Scheduler
Score 9.3 out of 10
N/A
AgentTime Scheduler is a call center workforce modeling and scheduling option, from Portage Communications.N/A
Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)
Score 6.1 out of 10
N/A
Genesys PureConnect was an omnichannel contact center platform that offered cloud-based or on-premise deployments. It featured a SIP-based architecture with VoIP capabilities, allowing companies to connect legacy voice systems and use existing phones. A legacy product, new users are encouraged to investigate Genesys Cloud.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
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Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
AgentTime Scheduler
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Ratings
Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)
7.9
64 Ratings
6% below category average
Agent dashboard00 Ratings6.755 Ratings
Validate callers00 Ratings7.548 Ratings
Outbound response00 Ratings8.541 Ratings
Call forwarding00 Ratings7.756 Ratings
Click-to-call (CTC)00 Ratings8.043 Ratings
Warm transfer00 Ratings8.357 Ratings
Predictive dialing00 Ratings7.936 Ratings
Interactive voice response00 Ratings8.045 Ratings
REST APIs00 Ratings7.037 Ratings
Call scripts00 Ratings8.539 Ratings
Call tracking00 Ratings7.755 Ratings
Multichannel integration00 Ratings9.044 Ratings
CRM software integration00 Ratings8.038 Ratings
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Product A and Product B
AgentTime Scheduler
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Ratings
Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)
5.5
54 Ratings
40% below category average
Inbound call routing00 Ratings6.551 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing00 Ratings6.539 Ratings
Recording00 Ratings4.552 Ratings
Quality management00 Ratings4.546 Ratings
Call analytics00 Ratings3.043 Ratings
Historical reporting00 Ratings5.052 Ratings
Live reporting00 Ratings6.548 Ratings
Customer surveys00 Ratings7.935 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics00 Ratings5.130 Ratings
Best Alternatives
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Small Businesses
8x8 Contact Center
8x8 Contact Center
Score 7.7 out of 10
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 9.5 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Eleveo
Eleveo
Score 9.1 out of 10
Bright Pattern Contact Center
Bright Pattern Contact Center
Score 10.0 out of 10
Enterprises
Calabrio Teleopti WFM
Calabrio Teleopti WFM
Score 7.9 out of 10
Google Cloud Contact Center AI
Google Cloud Contact Center AI
Score 8.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(2 ratings)
5.3
(116 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.6
(12 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(12 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(3 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.8
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
4.0
(12 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(4 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.3
(3 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
6.1
(7 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
8.1
(2 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(3 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.8
(3 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.8
(3 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Portage Communications
Easy for employees to adjust everything on time and it has smart scheduling features as compared to other software. AgentTime Scheduler is always one step ahead of others. However, the problem encountered by customers is that they cannot manage to sign in to the system to print schedules prepared for them and we keep getting negative feedback.
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CIC is best suited for business models that rely on heavily leverage Data Integration especially one like ours that require real-time and high-speed data access for billing and customer integration. CIC is not well suited for small organizations < 50 where they are only answering phones in the course of doing business VS. the business is the phone.
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Pros
Portage Communications
  • Customers can log in the system 7/24 without facing any problems.
  • AgentTime has the best features and safe connections for the staff.
  • Workers can send messages on time when the school has some class cancelations to all students.
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  • Purely Software Based System: On Microsoft OS. It is an all software-based system making it easy to manage, integrate and interface with other systems
  • One Vendor: All modules, IVR, ACD, Dialer, WFM are from one vendor. So, no compatibility and latency issues at all.
  • Superb Notifier Service: You don't have to restart any process or service for a change to take effect.
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Cons
Portage Communications
  • Price of it might be expensive for small business but the product can still be used by any type of business.
  • Logging into the system is taking some time. It should be checked to see what is going on inside the system.
  • The scheduled time which is sent via e-mail is not received on time. It may have some bug problems.
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  • Licensing can be challenging and very expensive.
  • Client templates are hard to administer and are built very different than the rest of the functionality.
  • Web desktop has been slow to come along and include all the features.
  • Optimizer is very sub-par product.
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Likelihood to Renew
Portage Communications
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We are so embedded on Pure Connect that we like to progress with it. For instance, we are looking into ways to provide different solutions to our customers, help our business to succeed, and work in a better CX.
One of the biggest advantages is that all is in one platform.
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Usability
Portage Communications
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The interface is only semi user-friendly on almost every front. Agent experience is lacking and we have found many limitations within the system. Workforce forecasting is not as robust as expected. Quality continues to be a struggle. Interaction searches are not robust.
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Reliability and Availability
Portage Communications
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The application itself uses a hub and spoke model that can help isolate errors in one section of the application from the rest, creating a much more stable overall program. Of all of the outages that we've had with our contact center platform, I can count on one hand how often it was truly a Genesys issue rather than a network issue, server issue or issue with a platform relied upon for an integration (web services, db calls).
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Performance
Portage Communications
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Some of the client applications take a bit of time on initial load, but with the move towards web based applications that issue is alleviated. You can tell that effort really isn't putting into the desktop apps any longer and that the client development effort is being put into bringing Interaction Connect closer to feature parity with the desktop (and bringing wholly new features to Connect). As far as IVR operations, web service calls, database operations: they all operate reasonably.
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Support Rating
Portage Communications
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Some cases are resolved quickly others are taking longer and the reseller sometimes has to chase support several times and explain the issue seen several times. While being a direct customer before, I recognise this and it seems that when a case moves to another engineer they don’t read the previous case notes or don’t understand what has been done. This, from a customers perspective, slows down resolution times.
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In-Person Training
Portage Communications
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I liked the setup of the whole class. The instructor knew the topic well enough to answer questions from entry level to a more advanced one.
Instructor encouraged participation of the whole class and was able to engage every one. Also provided "real live" examples so everyone can relate to it.
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Online Training
Portage Communications
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The online training itself is good. You are provided resources and can self study to a certain point, but the pacing always felt off. Either snails pace or like trying to drink from a fire hose. I think this easily could have had to do with course material and my personal preparations, though. I would say my main gripe is that since the acquisition the team responsible for actually booking training is very unresponsive and often not knowledgeable about the courses they offer. Booking my last training was a real chore.
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Implementation Rating
Portage Communications
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Don't try to go the perfect solution as a first target. Work on answer the more needs with a simple solution. Then analyse and try again to answer the most needs with adding a bit if complexity only if require. No needs to customise straight from the beginning or deployment takes too long.
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Alternatives Considered
Portage Communications
I think AgentTime Scheduler truly does exactly what is needed from me on a day to day. It is the only scheduler I have used since being with the company
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Call Manager, you had to buy all the components that are out of the box for PureConnect. The licensing model is more expensive on the Cisco side vs the Genesys PureConnect side. Lastly was on the Cisco side since you have to connect/integrate all the components on the cisco side you have to have so many vendors to install those parts. This drives the cost up even more so it was not worth going that route for our organization.
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Scalability
Portage Communications
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Genesys PureConnect's core and adjunct model allows for fairly easy growth in satellite locations via off site session managers, remote located media servers, remote content servers, etc to allow you to spread the infrastructure out while not pushing as much network traffic to your core data centers.
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Return on Investment
Portage Communications
  • Customers experiencing sign-in problems.
  • Taking responses from our staff on time satisfies our customers.
  • The software is truly confidential and safe. This is first thing what we users are looking for and AgentTime has this.
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  • We're improving our CX by optimizing our call centers, using additional attributes and keys to identify the best rep for the job.
  • We are also streamlining the journey of each individual customer by using PureConnect as the central interface for omnichannel interactions, allowing us to pick up the conversation where we left off.
  • Using additional attributes that start with the contact center interaction, we're able to track a student journey and proactively step in - increasing our individualized support to focus on the student outcome.
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