Alvaria Quality vs. Verint Workforce Management

It all depends on the workforce team if they've settled the tool correctly for the company. In a previous experience, the tool was entirely settled with the group balance available, all the segments we need were added and up to date, and we could easily navigate the tool. On the new company though, there is a sentiment of incompletion, the UI slightly evolved over the past 2 years but only for the name and some design. Though the tool itself hasn't really changed and clarity is missing sometimes. We must be used to it to understand it well.

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I would say it is very well suited for call centers that have, it's much easier to do the phone side of it. You have a lot of different media and you have a lot of different handle times for a bunch of different things. It's harder to do, but when you have that standard of your call system's integrated into variant and you're just using that data that's coming in, that's the easiest part of it is just to when you're using it for your phone side.

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• Clarity on the daily tasks, it's easy to know what will be the tasks for the day and for how long it is planned.
• Many options available, entirely customizable for a better accuracy of the tasks.
• Very reliable and easy to use, with multiple format views available.

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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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• There is a lot of options, probably too many and more than 50% are no use to me.
• Some views can be very confusing, sticking to the time is best to avoid being confused by any overlapping segment.
• Lot of options but UI tends to be a bit slow to load and still empty sometimes.

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• Adherence Graphs & DPA - The adherence graphs that show DPA data isn't entirely accurate based on how the system calculates different idle states. The system will look at each 15 minute interval and use the state that consumed the most time in that 15 minute interval.
• Schedule creator - Sometime when you ask the system to generate multiple schedules, it doesn't always follow the rules that you set which ends up generating schedules that are not usable.
• Forecasting to the service level vs. ASA. We have found that trying to forecast to an ASA is not as accurate as forecasting to the service level.

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

• We were then able to recognize trends and patterns
• Once trends and productivity issues were addressed, we could then manage workflow and day to day activities such as training and meetings - ultimately optimizing time, forecasting, and staffing expectations.
• Meeting service level goals is now manageable in most cases, allowing improvement across the board.

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