Alvaria Performance vs. Verint Workforce Management

Alvaria Performance is suited for a company that needs to provide an easy way to schedule employees, provide a general schedule to adhere to daily. Alvaria Performance is also good with creating a visual representation of scheduling data to make it easier to view in a hurry. Alvaria Performance is less suited for specific schedule adjustments, it is good for increments of 1hr or more but less useful if change requires minutes.

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Verint is extremely well-suited for all sizes of contact centers. We easily transitioned from manual scheduling with spreadsheets to real-time automation. Define and build items that can be easily dropped into agents' schedules, which is a huge win for our contact center. Build once and use as long as needed—it really helps us automate items and work smarter!

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• Verint WFM does adherence very well. We were able to customize with our internal company goals which improved our productivity,
• Strategic planner (forecasting). Although there are challenges at times given my company's unique set up, strategic planner has allowed us to paint a more accurate picture of the future.
• Verint also processes PTO requests very smoothly and in a way that makes sense.

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• It is very technical. It is not something that you can just jump into. It took me a while to train my other contact center managers on how to use it and I just actually recently got an employee who was helping me manage the workforce management variance system and it just takes a lot of time and patience in order to learn the full gamut of how shifts go together. And this goes into this and you have to do one piece right or nothing else works in the end and the activities. It is just a lot when you come from not doing anything close to that.

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Whilst Verint Workforce Management is doing much of the work we were hoping it would do, there are some limitations that cause hesitancy when deciding if it is the tool for the future. No further exploration has taken place to seek alternatives to date. It is good for the Contact element of our business but not for the rest of the business, meaning we have to use two planning tools currently.

For a smaller sized contact center who was previously using excel spreadsheets I feel we have had as of a transition into the program as one could expect. Not only did we go live with a cloud based WFM tool but we also launched a new CRM and telephony system on the same day so it was a lot for our contact center to take in but it has been done with ease

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Verint Support is exceptional. I've never had an issue where the Verint Support analyst was lacking knowledge, didn't take the issue seriously, or not tried working with us to fix our quirky setups. Realizing that each business is different, has different needs, and there isn't a cookie-cutter solution for everyone ... Verint Support always continues to shine for us and help us out when needed.

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Training was covered in full day sessions that went very fast with no way of recording the information for later review. This made it hard to capture & retain all the details of information.

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Training is more broad on specific use cases. It would be good to have training based on our current situations as we deal with so many unique setups & client needs.

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The team helping us did a great job training our WFM leaders on how to use the tool from forecasting, to schedule updates to maintenance. They allowed us to be involved in implementation but also did a lot of the initial heavy lifting allowing us to stay focussed on the tasks at hand. It was a great experience and one I would hope occurs again should we ever need to implement a new tool again.

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We went through some vending consultants back in April, along with others was kind of selected, but we came from Aspect, it was more of an on-prem solution. So we were looking to update to the cloud to get more just to work well with others and other vendors that we can use to get our data.

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• Staffing optimization - With the Verint tool, we have been able to optimize our workforce, reduce our staff and centralize our processes.
• Employee Engagement - Our employees always know where their performance stands so they can take ownership in their performance.
• We have implemented WFM in several areas of the company and have been able to improve those departments which have never had a tool to help in back office operations.

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