Amazon Connect vs. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon Connect
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Launched in 2017 and available on AWS, Amazon Connect is a cloud-based omnichannel contact center designed to provide a seamless experience across voice and website live chat, featuring skills-based routing, task tracking, and analytic tools to track customer interactions, or evaluate agent activity. It can support office-based or virtual contact centers. The service is pay-per-usage, per feature.
$0
per profile/per month
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service is designed to create positive experiences through any channel and on any device to exceed customer expectations.
$50
per month per user
Pricing
Amazon ConnectMicrosoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service
Editions & Modules
Customer Profiles
$0.0025
per profile/per month
Chat
$0
per message
Contact Lens (5 million+ monthly minutes)
$0.0125
per minute
Contact Lens (first 5 million monthly minutes)
$0.015
per minute
Voice
$0.02
per minute
Voice ID
$0.025
per transaction
Tasks
$0.04
per task
Dynamics 365 Customer Service Professional
$50
per month per user
Add-In - Chat
$60
per month per user
Dynamics 365 Customer Service Enterprise
$105
per month per user
Dynamics 365 Customer Service Premium
$195
per month per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon ConnectMicrosoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Amazon ConnectMicrosoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service
Features
Amazon ConnectMicrosoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service
Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Connect
7.8
6 Ratings
7% below category average
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service
-
Ratings
Agent dashboard8.96 Ratings00 Ratings
Validate callers8.56 Ratings00 Ratings
Outbound response7.56 Ratings00 Ratings
Call forwarding7.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Click-to-call (CTC)7.56 Ratings00 Ratings
Warm transfer8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive dialing5.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Interactive voice response7.06 Ratings00 Ratings
REST APIs9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Call scripts7.95 Ratings00 Ratings
Call tracking8.95 Ratings00 Ratings
Multichannel integration7.06 Ratings00 Ratings
CRM software integration9.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Connect
7.6
6 Ratings
8% below category average
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service
-
Ratings
Inbound call routing8.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing8.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Recording8.95 Ratings00 Ratings
Quality management6.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Call analytics8.96 Ratings00 Ratings
Historical reporting8.95 Ratings00 Ratings
Live reporting6.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer surveys6.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics7.95 Ratings00 Ratings
Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Connect
-
Ratings
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service
8.5
2 Ratings
4% above category average
Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Expert directory00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings3.02 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Ticket response00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Self Help Community
Comparison of Self Help Community features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Connect
-
Ratings
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service
5.5
2 Ratings
38% below category average
External knowledge base00 Ratings3.02 Ratings
Internal knowledge base00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Multi-Channel Help
Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Connect
-
Ratings
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service
7.8
2 Ratings
2% below category average
Customer portal00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
IVR00 Ratings5.02 Ratings
Social integration00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Email support00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
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User Ratings
Amazon ConnectMicrosoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(6 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Usability
8.5
(2 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon ConnectMicrosoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon AWS
Our company is a startup that is just starting to get wholesale customers. When we realized our customers needed support using our products, we set up a Contact Center via Amazon Connect. It has been very useful in allowing us to scale up very quickly, and provide services to our company as if we were a large corporation.
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Microsoft
With the constant changes included in the product, we can now use it for all the customer service scenarios / channels, for e.g. earlier for voice, we had to buy 3rd party CTI based tools, but now Voice Channel being available as the part of the product, that solves that thing. Also we see constantly new AI-driven features added to the product that could save lot of time of the agents while working on the cases like case summary, automate email generation, sentiment analysis etc.
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Pros
Amazon AWS
  • It helps us connect with ServiceNow as a direct integration.
  • It allows us to document everything from the chat with ticket documentation in real time.
  • It allows us to track agent and case activities.
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Microsoft
  • Dynamic CS allows you to access a wider customer base and gain artificial intelligence-powered insights into numerous client interaction activities.
  • It assists in gaining deep insights into numerous data analyses performed on various customer interaction activities, as well as data visualization and customer satisfaction enhancement.
  • This product has been extremely beneficial to my firm since it allows us to communicate with customers via a variety of channels, including e-mail and social media.
  • Extensible, and Microsoft responds rapidly to market demand with new features. In terms of service, both Microsoft customer success and technical teams collaborate closely to ensure appropriate delivery.
  • A better way to track client interactions is SaaS-based cloud services. This software may also be linked to outlook.
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Cons
Amazon AWS
  • On reports and analytics, [I feel] Amazon Connect is slightly behind, and it should be perfected.
  • [In my experience], Amazon Connect lacks social platform integration, which is convenient and resourceful currently.
  • [I believe] Amazon Connect should include a queue management feature, for the call centers and customer help.
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Microsoft
  • It occasionally crashes or slow down, but it usually works great.
  • Costly.
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Usability
Amazon AWS
It is reliable system. It has own IVR, Database(DynamoDB) Backend(Lambda) support of multi channel(email, chat & voice) Integration with some of the biggest CRM system
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Microsoft
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service is generally very user-friendly, especially for those familiar with Microsoft products. The strength of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service is its integration with Outlook and Microsoft Office products like Word, Excel etc. and it user interface being similar to those products. This makes it easy for user to adopt to any new app.
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Alternatives Considered
Amazon AWS
Amazon Connect has lots of free training available for partners and in general. So many demos are available to practice. It's free to test and gain more confidence before deploying in real world scenarios. You can use other AWS features to be integrated with Amazon cloud. Features like lense is amazing
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Microsoft
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Return on Investment
Amazon AWS
  • Amazon Collect has allowed us to scale quickly and retain flexibility.
  • Amazon Collect has allowed us to provide omnichannel support as if we were a larger corporation.
  • Amazon Collect has allowed us to retain productivity.
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Microsoft
  • It has help us serve our customers better and get Support Contracts from them after we have designed / developed and deployed Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service based solutions for them
  • Ease of Routing it to appropriate customer support agent
  • Because of multiple channel support we now give our customers option to raise a ticket or connect with their preferred communication medium, be it email, SMS, Chat etc.
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