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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Aktana

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AAktana offers intelligent customer engagement for the global life sciences industry. By ensuring that every customer experience is tailored to individual preferences and needs, Aktana helps life science companies strengthen their relationships with healthcare providers to inspire better patient care. Aktana services now include technology from Tact.ai, a virtual personal assistant that provides intelligence on a day's meetings and interactions, with scheduling functionality and CRM task…N/A

    Five9

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AFive9 is cloud contact center software for inbound, outbound, blended, or multi-channel operations. This solution includes management capabilities such as campaign management, quality monitoring, real-time and historical reporting, and call recording.

    $119

    per month

    Verint Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA)

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AThe Verint Intelligent Virtual Assistant (formerly Verint Self-Service solutions) is a customer-oriented knowledge management solution including technology acquired by Verint from Next IT in 2017. The platform includes voice self-service IVR, a virtual AI-guided assistant (Next IT), and Verint's own knowledge management system for self-service.N/A
    Pricing
    AktanaFive9Verint Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA)
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Core
    $119
    per month
    Digital
    $119
    per month
    Premium
    Contact sales team
    Contact sales team
    Optimum
    Contact sales team
    Contact sales team
    Ultimate
    Contact sales team
    Contact sales team
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AktanaFive9Verint Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA)
    Free Trial
    NoNoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Five9 offers pricing options to suit your business needs: Monthly On-Demand —Companies looking to quickly scale their operations with minimum costs Per-Minute Fees — Products such as voice message broadcasting or IVR with Speech recognition Annual Contracts — Reduced fee compared to monthly on-demand pricing—
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    Community Pulse
    AktanaFive9Verint Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA)
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    Aktana
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    Five9
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    88%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    83%
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    Implementation went as expected
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    100%
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    Features
    AktanaFive9Verint Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA)
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Aktana and Five9 and Verint Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA)
    Feature
    Aktana
    -
    Ratings
    Five9
    7.9
    20 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Verint Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA)
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    Agent dashboard00 Ratings6.819 Ratings00 Ratings
    Validate callers00 Ratings8.017 Ratings00 Ratings
    Outbound response00 Ratings7.717 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call forwarding00 Ratings7.715 Ratings00 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)00 Ratings8.515 Ratings00 Ratings
    Warm transfer00 Ratings8.218 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive dialing00 Ratings8.515 Ratings00 Ratings
    Interactive voice response00 Ratings7.715 Ratings00 Ratings
    REST APIs00 Ratings8.514 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call scripts00 Ratings7.615 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call tracking00 Ratings8.919 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multichannel integration00 Ratings7.118 Ratings00 Ratings
    CRM software integration00 Ratings7.618 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Aktana and Five9 and Verint Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA)
    Feature
    Aktana
    -
    Ratings
    Five9
    8.0
    28 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Verint Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA)
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    Inbound call routing00 Ratings9.017 Ratings00 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing00 Ratings8.215 Ratings00 Ratings
    Recording00 Ratings9.018 Ratings00 Ratings
    Quality management00 Ratings7.927 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call analytics00 Ratings7.417 Ratings00 Ratings
    Historical reporting00 Ratings7.719 Ratings00 Ratings
    Live reporting00 Ratings7.918 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics00 Ratings7.215 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    AktanaFive9Verint Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.4
    (3 ratings)
    8.6
    (44 ratings)
    8.5
    (6 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.7
    (8 ratings)
    7.4
    (5 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Performance
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Implementation Rating
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Configurability
    -
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    9.0
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    -
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Ease of integration
    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Product Scalability
    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Professional Services
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Vendor post-sale
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Vendor pre-sale
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    AktanaFive9Verint Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Aktana
    If you have an organization that requires salespeople to go into the field and your organization is mid-sized, then I recommend Tact.ai for your salespeople. It is not possible to carry laptops when they are out in the field but it is possible to carry an iPad or phone. This makes their tasks easy and reduces considerable time wasted on administrative activities and increases productivity at the same time.
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    Five9
    We use Five9 as a tool to make and receive calls from various departments such as Customer Service, Underwriting, Claims, and others. It's a tool that has helped us complete various tasks to contact our customers. It has also allowed us to replace Zoom Phone, as it makes it easier to assign new contact numbers to agents, while Zoom Phone only allows reusing numbers. It's a good tool with an easy-to-use interface for new users.
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    Verint
    The IVA is very well suited to handle routine questions and basic actions that would typically require customer support. It may be a little more challenged handling edge cases but in those instances we have found it provides an easy transfer to a live agent
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    Pros
    Aktana
    • Scan Business Cards into SalesForce
    • Have the SalesForce Data Offline
    • Able to log notes from meetings
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    Five9
    • Inbound and outbound calls it process is so well.
    • The service is so good and they give very efficient support in customer need.
    • The calls we can do in Five9 include incoming, outgoing, voicemails and we can also send a note to a specific person. It's a very reliable mode of communication.
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    Verint
    • Use of Acknowledgment base and AI engines.
    • F&Q.
    • Automate process such as consults, modifications and cancel reservations.
    • Execute triggers for notify customer reservations.
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    Cons
    Aktana
    • Adding calendar is cumbersome. Integration between Outlook and Tact.ai is required
    • Time required to log in is very high. It wastes so much time every time.
    • Schedule view is limited to 2 weeks ahead only
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    Five9
    • Text. Texting is incredibly difficult on Five9. We've had issues with only some texts logging to Salesforce, issues with threading of text conversations, and issues with having Salesforce contact information appear on the text widget (knowing who you are texting, not just their phone number).
    • The interface to "pause" is challenging. There are not good reminders to our reps to remember to pause or log out of Five9. If you forget to log out, this can affect stats about who worked the longest hours that day - and it's hard to know who actually was active on the phones.
    • Inbound voicemails are too-easily hidden. It's challenging for a lot of our reps to remember to check their inbound voicemails because it is hard to access them in the Five9 widget.
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    Verint
    • There is minimal documentation around what we can and can't do for IVA
    • IVA seems to be a newer product so this is difficult when trying to implement new things
    • IVA has a lot of non-Verint friendly terms (Think Prompt, vs. answer or Intent/Alternate vs. context).
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Aktana
    No answers on this topic
    Five9
    Robust product, great reliability and support.
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    Verint
    While I enjoy the IVA product, there is still some fine-tuning of the platform that can be done. There are some nuances to the Verint platform, which can make it difficult to start quickly. We thought business users would be able to easily manage the work needed within the IVA platform for our business; however, with how complex we want to make the experience, that was not possible. We quickly realized we needed more support than just our business users, who were not familiar with how to add API information into a conversation flow. This is why we expanded to others within our business to support the tool.
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    Usability
    Aktana
    No answers on this topic
    Five9
    overall usability is very great. User friendly interface for agents within the Salesforce with the engage button. Easy to go offline and online. Very good Integrations with Salesforce helps lot of clients that implemented Salesforce. As it is cloud based, agents can access it from anywhere. While the agent experience is goof, as a technical person it is hard to manage with the Five9 VCC and also the reporting User Interface is bad and slow when there are large amount of records.
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    Verint
    Based on my experience. Once the client is familiarize with the AI and of course the AI company solution has been implemented correctly. We able to offer the customer a best service.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Aktana
    No answers on this topic
    Five9
    We have had minimal downtime due to system outages since it was implemented.
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    Verint
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Aktana
    No answers on this topic
    Five9
    The system's performance is great. Page loads quickly. Reports are generated quickly and sent to our email or FTP. The integration did not impact the performance of our other applications. We have not seen any drop in the performance of either applications since we performed the integration.
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    Verint
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Aktana
    No answers on this topic
    Five9
    Five9's Customer Support team is also based in Manila Philippines, thus turnaround email response times for our reported issues are great for our requirements. Their CS agents also facilitate mobile calls to followup on outstanding issues and operate on a 24/7 schedule. We've also had experience working with the senior tech agents to investigate recurring issues to completion.
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    Verint
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Aktana
    No answers on this topic
    Five9
    I took the certification course for administrator and also received some tips while working with the developer during implementation. The UI was very intuitive, so I was able to figure out how things worked when I configured the users, skills, campaigns, IVR scripts. I worked with the Five9 AI team to beta test Agent Assist.
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    Verint
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Aktana
    No answers on this topic
    Five9
    The implementation team that was assigned to us was great. The project manager was very helpful and managed the timeline very efficiently. The developer was very helpful and provided insights while helping us configure the system.
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    Verint
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    Alternatives Considered
    Aktana
    The Salesforce app sucks and so it's not useful to do the searches that we need.
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    Five9
    Initially selected Five9 but have since switched to RingCentral which has given us what we needed. Better CRM integration, simpler and in my opinion more robust reporting capabilities and the same omnichannel solution at a fraction of the cost
    Incentivized
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    Verint
    Verint Intelligent Virtual Assistant had more features and functionality than the Genesys product as well as customization and further options for internal system integration to our existing on-prem systems. In addition, we also had a rapport with other Verint products and were more familiar with their AI capabilities, making them the obvious choice.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Aktana
    No answers on this topic
    Five9
    We do annual renewals and it's concurrent licensing which is great.
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    Verint
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    Aktana
    No answers on this topic
    Five9
    It was very easy to add additional licenses. Once we placed the order, it was activated the following day. Since it's web-based, it's very quick to deploy across multiple sites.
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    Verint
    No answers on this topic
    Professional Services
    Aktana
    No answers on this topic
    Five9
    Five9 Professional Services team is very knowledgeable and efficient. I worked with them during implementation and during beta testing for Five9 Agent Assist and Ai Insights.
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    Verint
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Aktana
    • We have been able to experience better performance in our sales, as we spend more time dedicated to our customers than doing administrative tasks, thanks to Tact.ai.
    • Our team is more organized with clients, with meetings up to date, no delays in responding to clients, which has increased productivity and performance considerably.
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    Five9
    • Cost savings: Five9 replaced a premise-based outbound dialer and a different virtual call center solution for inbound.
    • Cost savings: Five9's voice over IP is less expensive than the land lines we were using.
    • Cost savings: Five9 requires significantly less management than our previous solutions.
    Incentivized
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    Verint
    • Positive - Containment
    • Negative - Customers animosity to bots
    • Positive - Reduction of Calls
    • Negative - Mishandled calls receive greater scrutiny than agents
    Incentivized
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    Verint Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA) Screenshots

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