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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Exotel Contact Center

    Score8.3 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Exotel is a Contact Center platform for managing customer interactions across voice, video, email, SMS, WhatsApp, and social media from a unified agent desktop. The platform combines routing, agent-assistance, self-service, analytics, quality management, and deployment options for customer-service operations.

    $200

    5 months Validity

    Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AGenesys PureConnect was an omnichannel contact center platform that offered cloud-based or on-premise deployments. It featured a SIP-based architecture with VoIP capabilities, allowing companies to connect legacy voice systems and use existing phones. A legacy product, new users are encouraged to investigate Genesys Cloud.N/A
    Pricing
    Exotel Contact CenterGenesys PureConnect (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
    Dabbler
    $200
    5 months Validity
    Believer
    $500
    11 months Validity
    Influencer
    $1000
    11 months Validity
    Custom
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Exotel Contact CenterGenesys PureConnect (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Exotel Contact CenterGenesys PureConnect (discontinued)
    Considered Both Products
    Exotel Techcom
    No answer on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    83%
    Would buy again
    5 Answers
    60%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    88%
    Delivers good value for the price
    7 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    67%
    Happy with the feature set
    4 Answers
    90%
    Happy with the feature set
    9 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    4 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    83%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    57%
    Implementation went as expected
    4 Answers
    Features
    Exotel Contact CenterGenesys PureConnect (discontinued)
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Exotel Contact Center and Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)
    Feature
    Exotel Contact Center
    8.7
    2 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)
    7.9
    64 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Agent dashboard9.02 Ratings6.755 Ratings
    Validate callers9.02 Ratings7.548 Ratings
    Outbound response9.02 Ratings8.541 Ratings
    Call forwarding9.02 Ratings7.756 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)9.02 Ratings8.043 Ratings
    Warm transfer9.02 Ratings8.357 Ratings
    Predictive dialing9.02 Ratings8.036 Ratings
    Interactive voice response9.02 Ratings8.045 Ratings
    REST APIs8.02 Ratings7.037 Ratings
    Call scripts8.02 Ratings8.539 Ratings
    Call tracking8.02 Ratings7.755 Ratings
    Multichannel integration8.02 Ratings9.044 Ratings
    CRM software integration9.02 Ratings8.038 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Exotel Contact Center and Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)
    Feature
    Exotel Contact Center
    7.8
    2 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)
    5.5
    54 Ratings
    41% below category average
    Inbound call routing7.02 Ratings6.551 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing7.02 Ratings6.539 Ratings
    Recording8.02 Ratings4.552 Ratings
    Quality management8.02 Ratings4.546 Ratings
    Call analytics8.02 Ratings3.043 Ratings
    Historical reporting7.02 Ratings5.052 Ratings
    Live reporting8.02 Ratings6.548 Ratings
    Customer surveys8.02 Ratings8.035 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics9.02 Ratings5.030 Ratings
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    Score8.2 out of 10
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    Score8.2 out of 10
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    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Score8 out of 10
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Score8.4 out of 10
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Score8.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Exotel Contact CenterGenesys PureConnect (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.1
    (6 ratings)
    5.3
    (116 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.6
    (12 ratings)
    Usability
    7.1
    (3 ratings)
    7.3
    (12 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.8
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.0
    (2 ratings)
    4.0
    (12 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.3
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.1
    (7 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.1
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.8
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.8
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Exotel Contact CenterGenesys PureConnect (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Exotel Techcom
    Exotel is well suited for: - Small and mid-sized Internet based businesses where it is necessary for them to have a very strong customer support team working round the clock and in different shifts. - Company making large number of calls and sending mass SMS's. They can do that on a single cloud based platform. Exotel might not be a good fit if: -it is not a call intensive business that you want to cater to. Though the setup cost is very low but it follows economies of scale i.e. more the number of calls, less will be per call cost.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    CIC is best suited for business models that rely on heavily leverage Data Integration especially one like ours that require real-time and high-speed data access for billing and customer integration. CIC is not well suited for small organizations < 50 where they are only answering phones in the course of doing business VS. the business is the phone.
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    Pros
    Exotel Techcom
    • To quickly and effectively route customer inquiries to the appropriate agents our customer support team uses it's omnichannel routing feature , a member with technical knowledge may be contracted by customer who has a technical questions.
    • Its automated ticket routing features allows customer service team to distribute tickets to customer team member in accordance with their availability and skill sets. by ensuring that tickets are handled by most knowledgeable agents this can result in quicker and more precise resolutions.
    • Its AI powered knowledge base search feature helps us to quickly find the details required to respond to inquiries from customer , this time it take to respond to customer inquires is shortened as a result.
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    Discontinued Products
    • Purely Software Based System: On Microsoft OS. It is an all software-based system making it easy to manage, integrate and interface with other systems
    • One Vendor: All modules, IVR, ACD, Dialer, WFM are from one vendor. So, no compatibility and latency issues at all.
    • Superb Notifier Service: You don't have to restart any process or service for a change to take effect.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Exotel Techcom
    • Inter campaigns call transfer feature which currently is not possible
    • Interface in Agent login to monitor and keep track of their own break and login times.
    • Ameyo’s wide feature set can make onboarding challenging. Offering enhanced training materials, interactive tutorials, and a more structured onboarding process could make adoption easier for new users.
    Incentivized
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    • Licensing can be challenging and very expensive.
    • Client templates are hard to administer and are built very different than the rest of the functionality.
    • Web desktop has been slow to come along and include all the features.
    • Optimizer is very sub-par product.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Exotel Techcom
    As a company our goals have slightly surpassed the current Exotel features and would want some other software which has better capabilities
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    We are so embedded on Pure Connect that we like to progress with it. For instance, we are looking into ways to provide different solutions to our customers, help our business to succeed, and work in a better CX.
    One of the biggest advantages is that all is in one platform.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Exotel Techcom
    As I said previously, Ameyo is a good tool however it has a long way to go compared to Avaya. The user interface can be improved a lot as they can use it as an app instead of completely web-based. Also, the reporting can be improved substantially and make the experience much better.
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    Discontinued Products
    The interface is only semi user-friendly on almost every front. Agent experience is lacking and we have found many limitations within the system. Workforce forecasting is not as robust as expected. Quality continues to be a struggle. Interaction searches are not robust.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Exotel Techcom
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    The application itself uses a hub and spoke model that can help isolate errors in one section of the application from the rest, creating a much more stable overall program. Of all of the outages that we've had with our contact center platform, I can count on one hand how often it was truly a Genesys issue rather than a network issue, server issue or issue with a platform relied upon for an integration (web services, db calls).
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    Performance
    Exotel Techcom
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    Some of the client applications take a bit of time on initial load, but with the move towards web based applications that issue is alleviated. You can tell that effort really isn't putting into the desktop apps any longer and that the client development effort is being put into bringing Interaction Connect closer to feature parity with the desktop (and bringing wholly new features to Connect). As far as IVR operations, web service calls, database operations: they all operate reasonably.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Exotel Techcom
    Initially they had chat support which was available faster. But now the chat support gets routed to a virtual agent and unable to get in touch with an actual agent. They also have no support with respect to the API's and other integrations.
    Incentivized
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    Some cases are resolved quickly others are taking longer and the reseller sometimes has to chase support several times and explain the issue seen several times. While being a direct customer before, I recognise this and it seems that when a case moves to another engineer they don’t read the previous case notes or don’t understand what has been done. This, from a customers perspective, slows down resolution times.
    Incentivized
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    In-Person Training
    Exotel Techcom
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    I liked the setup of the whole class. The instructor knew the topic well enough to answer questions from entry level to a more advanced one.
    Instructor encouraged participation of the whole class and was able to engage every one. Also provided "real live" examples so everyone can relate to it.
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    Online Training
    Exotel Techcom
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    The online training itself is good. You are provided resources and can self study to a certain point, but the pacing always felt off. Either snails pace or like trying to drink from a fire hose. I think this easily could have had to do with course material and my personal preparations, though. I would say my main gripe is that since the acquisition the team responsible for actually booking training is very unresponsive and often not knowledgeable about the courses they offer. Booking my last training was a real chore.
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    Implementation Rating
    Exotel Techcom
    It was pretty straight forward
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    Discontinued Products
    Don't try to go the perfect solution as a first target. Work on answer the more needs with a simple solution. Then analyse and try again to answer the most needs with adding a bit if complexity only if require. No needs to customise straight from the beginning or deployment takes too long.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Exotel Techcom
    Exotel was selected by us because of the following reasons: -Low set-up and maintenance cost as compared to its peers. -Prompt customer service: You want to upgrade your plan or facing any issues around the platform, Exotel team is just a call away. -Call recording Quality was also better than the peers.
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    Discontinued Products
    Call Manager, you had to buy all the components that are out of the box for PureConnect. The licensing model is more expensive on the Cisco side vs the Genesys PureConnect side. Lastly was on the Cisco side since you have to connect/integrate all the components on the cisco side you have to have so many vendors to install those parts. This drives the cost up even more so it was not worth going that route for our organization.
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    Scalability
    Exotel Techcom
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    Genesys PureConnect's core and adjunct model allows for fairly easy growth in satellite locations via off site session managers, remote located media servers, remote content servers, etc to allow you to spread the infrastructure out while not pushing as much network traffic to your core data centers.
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    Return on Investment
    Exotel Techcom
    • This increased onboarding efficiency to save money on startup.
    • This saved us money by getting both services from one company.
    • Con was price was higher than we would have liked but efficiency made up for that.
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    • We're improving our CX by optimizing our call centers, using additional attributes and keys to identify the best rep for the job.
    • We are also streamlining the journey of each individual customer by using PureConnect as the central interface for omnichannel interactions, allowing us to pick up the conversation where we left off.
    • Using additional attributes that start with the contact center interaction, we're able to track a student journey and proactively step in - increasing our individualized support to focus on the student outcome.
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