Amazon Chime vs. Genesys Cloud CX

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon Chime
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
Amazon Chime is a communications service from Amazon Web Services with a built-in VoIP solution. Amazon Chime can be used for online meetings, video conferencing, and business calling, and features pay-as-you-go pricing.
$0
per minute
Genesys Cloud CX
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Genesys Cloud CX (formerly PureCloud, Genesys Cloud) is a contact center application optimized for automatic call distribution, interactive voice response, email, social media, chat, and text/SMS. It is also a VoIP interconnect service provider.
$75
per month
Pricing
Amazon ChimeGenesys Cloud CX
Editions & Modules
Business Calling - Inbound
$0.002216
per minute
Business Calling - Phone Numbers
$1
per number per month, US Only
Meetings - Pro
$3
*per user per day
Meetings - Basic
Free
Business Calling - Outbound
Country Dependent
per minute
Business Calling - Receive Text
Free
US Only
Business Calling - Send Text
Country Dependent
Genesys Cloud CX 1 - Voice
$75
per month (billed annually) per user
Genesys Cloud CX 2 - Digital
$95
per month (billed annually) per user
Genesys Cloud CX 2 - Digital + Voice
$115
per month (billed annually) per user
Genesys Cloud CX 3 - Digital + WEM
$135
per month (billed annually) per user
Genesys Cloud CX 3 Digital + WEM + Voice
$155
per month (billed annually) per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon ChimeGenesys Cloud CX
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details*up to $15.00 per user per monthPricing plans can also be billed hourly.
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Community Pulse
Amazon ChimeGenesys Cloud CX
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Amazon ChimeGenesys Cloud CX
Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software
Comparison of Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Chime
10.0
26 Ratings
22% above category average
Genesys Cloud CX
-
Ratings
High quality audio10.026 Ratings00 Ratings
High quality video10.026 Ratings00 Ratings
Low bandwidth requirements10.021 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile support10.021 Ratings00 Ratings
Screen Sharing
Comparison of Screen Sharing features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Chime
9.2
25 Ratings
15% above category average
Genesys Cloud CX
-
Ratings
Desktop sharing10.025 Ratings00 Ratings
Whiteboards8.311 Ratings00 Ratings
Online Meetings / Events
Comparison of Online Meetings / Events features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Chime
9.6
25 Ratings
16% above category average
Genesys Cloud CX
-
Ratings
Calendar integration10.022 Ratings00 Ratings
Meeting initiation10.024 Ratings00 Ratings
Integrates with social media8.39 Ratings00 Ratings
Record meetings / events10.023 Ratings00 Ratings
Slideshows10.021 Ratings00 Ratings
Online Events Collaboration
Comparison of Online Events Collaboration features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Chime
10.0
22 Ratings
18% above category average
Genesys Cloud CX
-
Ratings
Live chat10.022 Ratings00 Ratings
Audience polling10.010 Ratings00 Ratings
Q&A10.012 Ratings00 Ratings
Online Events Security
Comparison of Online Events Security features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Chime
10.0
22 Ratings
18% above category average
Genesys Cloud CX
-
Ratings
User authentication10.018 Ratings00 Ratings
Participant roles & permissions10.021 Ratings00 Ratings
Confidential attendee list10.016 Ratings00 Ratings
VoIP system collaboration
Comparison of VoIP system collaboration features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Chime
10.0
1 Ratings
11% above category average
Genesys Cloud CX
-
Ratings
Video conferencing10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Audio conferencing10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Video screen sharing10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Instant messaging10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Chime
-
Ratings
Genesys Cloud CX
8.2
403 Ratings
2% below category average
Agent dashboard00 Ratings7.9385 Ratings
Validate callers00 Ratings8.0337 Ratings
Outbound response00 Ratings7.8300 Ratings
Call forwarding00 Ratings8.2325 Ratings
Click-to-call (CTC)00 Ratings8.4263 Ratings
Warm transfer00 Ratings8.5372 Ratings
Predictive dialing00 Ratings7.9221 Ratings
Interactive voice response00 Ratings8.4318 Ratings
REST APIs00 Ratings8.1267 Ratings
Call scripts00 Ratings8.3296 Ratings
Call tracking00 Ratings8.4362 Ratings
Multichannel integration00 Ratings8.3292 Ratings
CRM software integration00 Ratings7.8283 Ratings
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Chime
-
Ratings
Genesys Cloud CX
7.9
382 Ratings
4% below category average
Inbound call routing00 Ratings8.4357 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing00 Ratings8.2274 Ratings
Recording00 Ratings8.5362 Ratings
Quality management00 Ratings8.0332 Ratings
Call analytics00 Ratings8.0342 Ratings
Historical reporting00 Ratings7.6356 Ratings
Live reporting00 Ratings7.9351 Ratings
Customer surveys00 Ratings6.7214 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics00 Ratings7.8257 Ratings
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Amazon ChimeGenesys Cloud CX
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Score 9.2 out of 10
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ClickMeeting
ClickMeeting
Score 9.5 out of 10
Bright Pattern Contact Center
Bright Pattern Contact Center
Score 10.0 out of 10
Enterprises
Webex Meetings
Webex Meetings
Score 8.4 out of 10
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Google Cloud Contact Center AI
Score 8.4 out of 10
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User Ratings
Amazon ChimeGenesys Cloud CX
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(27 ratings)
8.6
(427 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(37 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(69 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
8.3
(6 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.1
(6 ratings)
Support Rating
8.8
(9 ratings)
7.0
(99 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.4
(5 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
7.9
(11 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.9
(20 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
8.8
(6 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
8.9
(14 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
6.5
(8 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
8.8
(7 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
8.1
(11 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.3
(7 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.3
(7 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon ChimeGenesys Cloud CX
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon AWS
Amazon Chime is well suited for online video and audio meetings, IMs, and conducting training sessions using a whiteboard. It can be integrated well with Google Calendar and Microsoft outlook. With Amazon Chime mobile app you can attend meetings on the go as well. Meetings can be locked so that only legitimate participants can join the meeting. Amazon Chime is less suited in case you want meeting transcripts as well for your meetings. Given that Amazon Chime is not used by a larger audience so your client or customer may face some difficulties in join the meeting or accessing some of the features of the Chime.
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Genesys
As mentioned above, Small & Mid level contact center make use of Genesys Cloud CX features well. The predictive routing is one useful feature for them. However Large Scale businesses require segregation & multiple routing & queueing options in Genesys Cloud CX. Some customers has budget constraints as the platform's most comprehensive features come at an extra cost.
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Pros
Amazon AWS
  • Chat tools, video calls, on spot meeting invite[s] easy to create and use.
  • Ability to record any meeting and automatically downloads the meeting recording after ending the meeting.
  • UI is clean and easy to navigate around Amazon Chime.
  • Ability to invite outside guests easily using Amazon Chime without any issues.
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Genesys
  • We have a project, for example, in a solar energy company, where we do all the customer support services of the solar energy platform from contracting, new products, SAC, and so on. With Genesys Cloud CX, we are able to put the service platform into operation on the contractor's website, where the customer enters the site and he already starts the interaction, he can finish a contract and everything, all on the same platform. For example, if he enters by chat and he comes back by email, it doesn't matter, he can follow and continue with his interactions in the same way.
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Cons
Amazon AWS
  • More simplified dial-in numbers. The PIN for our conference line is long and easy to mistype.
  • You do not have to download the Chime app in order to join a conference, but if you want to do anything beyond join (schedule a conference, participate in a group chat, control participants), you have to have the app downloaded and installed. The app that you have to download in order to launch a conference is a memory hog, and slows down a computer's boot up time.
  • The add-in for Microsoft Outlook is particularly clunky. It helps you add scheduled conference calls/video conferences to your Outlook calendar, but it can cause Outlook to crash, and creates a really slow open time for Outlook. If you can avoid downloading the Outlook Add-In, I would.
  • No built-in screen sharing capabilities.
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Genesys
  • We can see the bot and the digital side is growing at the moment, but there are still a couple of gaps that we think about. So as I say, every customer comes through our bot, but we don't have an easy way of exporting what they're actually telling us. We can see a snippet throughout the day and we can retrieve, I believe, 250 of the most recent things, but we get about 3,000 calls a day. It's a snapshot of what we're actually getting. It's the analytics piece that we'd like to see enhanced a bit.
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Likelihood to Renew
Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
Genesys
The upcoming upgrades working with Genesys Cloud and Salesforce are very exciting. Even though we don't use Genesys Cloud to the fullest extent it can be used (we just migrated a year ago), when these upgrades roll out, I am very excited to see what it can do to for our agents. I think they are going to be very impressed
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Usability
Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
Genesys
Everything is very good. It is very useful, friendly to users and it makes our work easier than what we expected. I think that I don't need any help from someone on how to use Genesys coz basically they will directly feed it to you without any hassle on using it.
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Reliability and Availability
Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
Genesys
We had a couple of times where there were application issues or unplanned outages, but they were resolved very quickly. We were never in the position where it was a total outage, which is very important.
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Performance
Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
Genesys
The pages are loading quickly but not every time. There is a delay sometimes. About the integrations, everything is working as expected, there is no slow down.
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Support Rating
Amazon AWS
They were very supportive in answering all of our questions when we had problems. Their in-person calls but their support site also had a full set of information that can answer a good portion of your questions before you have to pick up the phone. But when you, you will get good service.
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Genesys
Support does indeed resolve the issue but they seem to be really slow and I have to stay on them to get my ticket handled. Everyone I have interacted with is very professional and pleasant. Other than being slow its been a good experience
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In-Person Training
Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
Genesys
Genesys team that provide trainings are friendly and professional. They helped us to understand well the product and the functionalities. The training was detailed with use cases. At the end, we got a task to develop that ended with success and we got some Genesys rewards. It was amazing experience
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Online Training
Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
Genesys
I have taken the preparatory course for Genesys Cloud Certification. I must say that it is a good training for administrators and analysts. The bibliography is very clear and is easy to identify the topics, which are conveniently separated. It is, in my opinion, mandatory for those who want to exercise the position of Genesys Cloud platform administrators.
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Implementation Rating
Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
Genesys
The support engineer that I partnered with during the implementation was exceptional. Every element of the process was done together and the end result of the efforts to grow the knowledge to be able to hand over at the end enabled a pretty smooth transition.
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Alternatives Considered
Amazon AWS
Better than Skype for Business in terms of loading the application onto your device. Skype had crashing issues always and those are comparatively low when using Amazon Chime. Amazon chime is fast and easy to work with while collaborating and setting up meetings. The audio and video quality are better than Skype for Business.
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Genesys
So we came from Avaya where we were using their Oceania PR platform, which was similar to this but nowhere near as good. It was actually very poorly run when we started looking at moving away. We had to narrow down between Genesys and NICE. So I like both platforms but Genesys, as an overall platform, just made more sense for us.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
Genesys
Genesys provides Licensing in 3 tier subscription types of licenses on top based on any business requirements then any sort of feature/functionality inclusion (or removal) is discussed openly. There are 2 types of billing models available which are "Named" and "Concurrent" based on the type of roles users will perform in Genesys Cloud CX environment (eg. Agent, Supervisor, Administrator, and Business Users) Also, the billing period/frequency starts on the actual day the platform is delivered.
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Scalability
Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
Genesys
Genesys Cloud CX is designed to provide organizations with flexible and scalable software which can be deployed across multiple departments and sites as needed. Great approach
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Professional Services
Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
Genesys
Professional services are definitely much more experienced than the support teams, and the price for their services is very fair. I wish that the support team could help answer simple questions about work that the PSS team does, however, so that we do not have to use our SOW for simple Q&A emails.
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Return on Investment
Amazon AWS
  • The positive ROI is Amazon Chime helps make our sales reps more professional in their calls leading to an increase in closed/won deals.
  • Amazon Chime has increased overall morale across our sales team because it has greatly improved our call processes when compared to other tools we've used in the past.
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Genesys
  • Cost savings-wise, I think our abandonment rate has actually gone down drastically with moving to Genesys Cloud CX.
  • First-call resolution has gone up quite a bit by using Genesys Cloud CX. Even the number of tickets, to be honest, has come down. We have to handle on a day-to-day basis, which is cost savings by itself, which which leads to agent productivity. So all of those are beneficial.
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ScreenShots

Genesys Cloud CX Screenshots

Screenshot of Genesys Cloud directories, used to find the right person in an organizationScreenshot of a dashboard where agents can see the activities in their queueScreenshot of a dashboard where contact center managers are shown key metricsScreenshot of the built-in Call Center Co-browsing capability