Alvaria Compliant Outreach vs. Cisco Unified Contact Center

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Alvaria Compliant Outreach
Score 7.2 out of 10
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Maintaining contact center compliance with industry regulations and protecting sensitive customer data are mission critical to outbound call center operations. Alvaria's Compliant Outreach suite of solutions, part of the larger Alvaria CX Suite, can help. The solution is based on software from the former Noble Systems, which merged with Aspect Software in 2021 to become Alvaria. Noble Systems' technology forms the basis of the Alvaria compliant outbound call center solution.N/A
Cisco Unified Contact Center
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Cisco Unified Contact Center is a contact center platform that can support up to 24,000 agents. It supports call routing, omnichannel integrations, and a management portal for creating customer profiles, segmentation, and resource monitoring.N/A
Pricing
Alvaria Compliant OutreachCisco Unified Contact Center
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Alvaria Compliant OutreachCisco Unified Contact Center
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Alvaria Compliant OutreachCisco Unified Contact Center
Top Pros
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Features
Alvaria Compliant OutreachCisco Unified Contact Center
Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
Alvaria Compliant Outreach
8.7
4 Ratings
4% above category average
Cisco Unified Contact Center
9.5
40 Ratings
13% above category average
Agent dashboard7.04 Ratings9.540 Ratings
Validate callers9.11 Ratings9.536 Ratings
Outbound response8.21 Ratings9.436 Ratings
Call forwarding9.11 Ratings9.537 Ratings
Click-to-call (CTC)9.11 Ratings9.630 Ratings
Warm transfer9.11 Ratings9.735 Ratings
Predictive dialing9.11 Ratings9.727 Ratings
Interactive voice response9.11 Ratings9.634 Ratings
REST APIs9.11 Ratings9.630 Ratings
Call scripts9.11 Ratings9.535 Ratings
Call tracking9.11 Ratings9.438 Ratings
Multichannel integration9.11 Ratings9.630 Ratings
CRM software integration7.02 Ratings9.430 Ratings
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Product A and Product B
Alvaria Compliant Outreach
8.7
2 Ratings
5% above category average
Cisco Unified Contact Center
9.3
41 Ratings
12% above category average
Inbound call routing9.11 Ratings9.738 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing9.11 Ratings9.630 Ratings
Recording9.11 Ratings8.835 Ratings
Quality management6.02 Ratings9.636 Ratings
Call analytics9.11 Ratings9.737 Ratings
Historical reporting9.11 Ratings9.539 Ratings
Live reporting9.11 Ratings9.639 Ratings
Customer surveys9.11 Ratings8.828 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics9.11 Ratings8.930 Ratings
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Score 10.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
Alvaria Compliant OutreachCisco Unified Contact Center
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
(5 ratings)
9.4
(49 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(5 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.3
(7 ratings)
Support Rating
9.1
(1 ratings)
7.5
(15 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(2 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Alvaria Compliant OutreachCisco Unified Contact Center
Likelihood to Recommend
Alvaria, Inc (Aspect Software + Noble Systems)
Alvaria is well suited for implementing and tracking schedules for employees where strict schedules and timely staffing is important (Call center, retail, etc). Positions that are directly customer-facing are benefitted from an accurate and consistent schedule tracking as there is an hourly workflow to handle. It is less likely to help for positions that have flexible schedules - such as creator work.
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Cisco
I would recommend it to other people in my contact and business circle, but if I recommend it to someone who has certain difficulties in accessing some tools within Cisco, he may have great difficulty in getting help because of the support that is lacking in most of the times.
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Pros
Alvaria, Inc (Aspect Software + Noble Systems)
  • Noble uses the same code for either Premise or Cloud, making the decision for us to go 100% Cloud simple. Our industry, like so many others, is looking to migrate to Cloud wherever possible. Deployments in a Cloud environment are much faster, from adding Agent Licenses to implementing additional products in the Noble suite. Noble monitors all servers, and adjusts as necessary, automatically, with courtesy communication to end-user as to what action was taken to prevent any production impacting event.
  • Noble's Enterprise Support is WORLD CLASS, providing 24/7 support. First call resolution is superb, with a "No Hassle" escalation process, all the way to CEO, if necessary. Dedicated Account Management with a tenured group of Level II technicians, assures quick resolution. Enterprise Support comes weekly/bi-weekly meetings to discuss open tickets and opportunities to upgrade to new versions of the product.
  • Customer inspired Road Maps to ensure needs and requirements are met, in a timely manner. Enhancements and product adds are often as a result of customer requests. Noble will tackle one-off requirements for a fee, too.
  • Noble Product Suite is extremely robust, resulting in minimal-to-zero additional vendor requirements, stacking on top of the product. Our IT requirement has been review and consolidates vendors where possible, and bringing Noble into the organization did just that. From Quality Assurance and Compliance to Multi-Session opportunity, Noble reduced the need to engage multiple vendors.
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Cisco
  • Provides you with a solid routing engine that was built to handle Service Provider level throughput - if you need stability and a work horse this is the platform for you.
  • The core features on the whole are good, but where UCCE is very good is the eco-system of Solutions Plus partner integrations that expand on the core capabilities with the market leaders in areas such as WFO, Campaign Management, Biometrics and Natural Language.
  • The investment Cisco makes in the CC space means they are always improving the platform features, scale and reliability.
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Cons
Alvaria, Inc (Aspect Software + Noble Systems)
  • The system is a little confusing to use because of the segments and packages.
  • The system seems a little outdated compared to workday and is less easy to use.
  • The system doesn't tell you what went wrong in a way that is easy to translate when time off is rejected.
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Cisco
  • After 25+ years, the product still requires experienced and highly skilled engineers to deploy the product properly per Cisco Best Practice guidelines.
  • Third-party integrations are also very cumbersome and require highly skilled and experienced engineers and significant time and financial investment to deploy.
  • Upgrading the product is cumbersome and requires Cisco ATP or Cisco AS which is time consuming and very expensive.
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Likelihood to Renew
Alvaria, Inc (Aspect Software + Noble Systems)
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Cisco
if it is up to me I would maintain its use. I was not able to make those decisions previously.
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Usability
Alvaria, Inc (Aspect Software + Noble Systems)
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Cisco
To be honest, there are tools better than Cisco Unified Contact Center
because it largely depends on third party integrations with better
alternatives available now a days. However, Cisco Unified Contact Center has its own standards in terms of user experience and client satisfactions which serves every customers with a flawless experience.
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Support Rating
Alvaria, Inc (Aspect Software + Noble Systems)
We utilize Noble's Enterprise Support, offering us 24/7 access. Additionally, with Enterprise Support we engage with Level II Support Technicians and no-hassle escalation. With Enterprise Support, we also have a dedicated Account Manager who conducts weekly/bi-weekly support calls to discuss open tickets and upgrade opportunities. With Enterprise Support, we have the ability to select our window for upgrades, to include weekends.
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Cisco
Cisco Unified Contact center is a very smart & reliable solution to go for. Its active-active sight base architecture and [customizable] features really help to deliver efficient customer service, enhanced next-gen experience, and uninterrupted operations. I believe every [organization] should opt for it if required.
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Alternatives Considered
Alvaria, Inc (Aspect Software + Noble Systems)
Noble offered a lot of functions for the lowest price. The QA component alone was a big selling point, along with the PCI compliance of their remote server locations. CCX was premise-based and was bulletproof. It never went down, its UI never had problems, and we never dropped calls because of it. Verint is a better QA program and has many more bells and whistles, but is very expensive compared to Noble.
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Cisco
Similar I guess, however, I feel like Avaya was more suited for a contact center and allowed for all information to be in one place. The QA Forms were more flexible and easy to review. Predicative analysis was available to assist with scheduling and staffing. It was easier to manipulate and implement- I didn't need to go through 3 different parties to make a simply modification.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Alvaria, Inc (Aspect Software + Noble Systems)
No answers on this topic
Cisco
Licenses are very expensive. The customer has to buy IP telephony or Unified Communication and Collaboration Licenses and for Contact Center Solution licenses separately. There must be a price tone down as the competition is really high. New customers are willing to go for cloud-based solutions [that] are cheaper and easy to deploy.
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Professional Services
Alvaria, Inc (Aspect Software + Noble Systems)
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Cisco
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Return on Investment
Alvaria, Inc (Aspect Software + Noble Systems)
  • Creates a trackable performance for employees to receive direct feedback on ways to improve.
  • Increases time spent by coordinators by creating an additional system along with the payroll scheduling system.
  • Provides easy dispositioning for employees to switch tasks.
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Cisco
  • A smoother route to helping end users with critical needs
  • With quick assist while on hold, less calls come into the pool while agents have the ability to assist more critical needs
  • The ability to work remotely during an extreme event assisting end users
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