Avaya Infinity™ vs. Talkdesk

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Avaya Infinity™
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Avaya Infinity™ injects modern technology including AI and intelligent orchestration into existing enterprise environments, connecting the channels, insights, technologies and workflows that together create customer and employee relationships. Avaya Infinity™ is designed so that organizations can become almost infinitely adaptable to evolving customer and market demands. The Avaya Infinity™ platform aims to enable large enterprises and public sector organizations to strengthen…N/A
Talkdesk
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
Talkdesk® supports CX with Customer Experience Automation (CXA), using AI agents to replace manual workflows. Powered by the Talkdesk Data Cloud, CXA delivers real-time context and fast deployment—to transform CX without a rip-and-replace.
$85
per month per user
Pricing
Avaya Infinity™Talkdesk
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Digital Essentials
$85
per month per user
Voice Essentials
$105
per month per user
Elite
$165
per month per user
Elite
$165
per month per user
Industry Experience Clouds
$225
per month per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Avaya Infinity™Talkdesk
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredOptional
Additional Details*Talkdesk also offers per hour login consumption pricing and concurrent pricing. Prices are based on a minimum 3 year commitment to these Editions. Additional telco and usage fees not included. Due to foreign exchange rate approximation, list price is not the exact price that will be quoted.
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Community Pulse
Avaya Infinity™Talkdesk
Considered Both Products
Avaya Infinity™
Chose Avaya Infinity™
Talkdesk to me feels a little basic and can use a better interface. Also, the live chat is much more developed with Avaya Infinity™. With the options that Avaya Infinity™ has, I think that Avaya Infinity™ is the better solution, but both products do what they say they are going …
Talkdesk
Chose Talkdesk
At the time we felt that Talkdesk offered some more user-friendly solutions. Looking at CCaaS solutions was a new experience for us, so we really didn't know what we didn't know. If I had to repeat the selection process today, I'd have better questions and honestly am not …
Chose Talkdesk
We had a lot of missing calls, misdirected ones, and usually a poor service perceived by our customers because of that
Chose Talkdesk
Blows most of them out of the water, Five9 would be Talkdesk's best competition out there in the space at the moment.
Features
Avaya Infinity™Talkdesk
Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
Avaya Infinity™
8.1
38 Ratings
4% below category average
Talkdesk
7.8
489 Ratings
7% below category average
Agent dashboard8.136 Ratings7.3468 Ratings
Validate callers8.533 Ratings7.9411 Ratings
Outbound response5.932 Ratings8.0428 Ratings
Call forwarding9.136 Ratings8.1421 Ratings
Click-to-call (CTC)8.829 Ratings8.3388 Ratings
Warm transfer8.936 Ratings8.6443 Ratings
Predictive dialing5.728 Ratings8.9226 Ratings
Interactive voice response9.432 Ratings8.5313 Ratings
REST APIs7.927 Ratings6.5248 Ratings
Call scripts6.630 Ratings7.5222 Ratings
Call tracking8.835 Ratings8.3436 Ratings
Multichannel integration9.533 Ratings6.3321 Ratings
CRM software integration8.132 Ratings7.9374 Ratings
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Product A and Product B
Avaya Infinity™
8.0
38 Ratings
4% below category average
Talkdesk
7.9
473 Ratings
5% below category average
Inbound call routing8.737 Ratings8.8433 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing8.733 Ratings7.2315 Ratings
Recording8.136 Ratings8.8457 Ratings
Quality management8.034 Ratings8.3415 Ratings
Call analytics8.134 Ratings8.2430 Ratings
Historical reporting8.235 Ratings8.0437 Ratings
Live reporting6.834 Ratings7.6430 Ratings
Customer surveys8.131 Ratings7.5240 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics7.730 Ratings7.1276 Ratings
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Avaya Infinity™Talkdesk
Small Businesses
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Score 7.5 out of 10
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Score 7.5 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
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Score 7.5 out of 10
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Score 7.5 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 5.4 out of 10
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Score 5.4 out of 10
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User Ratings
Avaya Infinity™Talkdesk
Likelihood to Recommend
8.6
(54 ratings)
8.4
(498 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.3
(11 ratings)
8.5
(39 ratings)
Usability
7.4
(8 ratings)
8.6
(313 ratings)
Availability
7.0
(1 ratings)
9.8
(8 ratings)
Performance
10.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(8 ratings)
Support Rating
9.1
(4 ratings)
7.0
(131 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(3 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(5 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.2
(2 ratings)
7.4
(222 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(7 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(7 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(3 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(3 ratings)
User Testimonials
Avaya Infinity™Talkdesk
Likelihood to Recommend
Avaya
I would say well-suited for the everyday user, with the ability to use the products. I think it's really user-friendly in that way. The lack of education for the end users, maybe through some of our companies, makes it difficult. And the turnover.
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Talkdesk
Talkdesk is a very innovative company. They truly want to be at the forefront of emerging technologies. That was shown when they developed the current platform. But, its also being shown with the rapid growth and change brought on by AI today. Talkdesk wants to be an innovative solution that not only leverages emerging technologies but also wants to develop their own to be a leader in this space. While Talkdesk has a lot of resources available to their clients, if you do not have IT resources available to admin the system and continue to leverage the technologies Talkdesk offers, then this solution may not be for you. We have not identified a managed services service offered by Talkdesk. So, you have to manage the solution yourself or outsource to a vendor to help ensure your system is optimal and continues to be developed.
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Pros
Avaya
  • The app and the ability to use the "office" phone while on the road.
  • There's an easy implementation and training process to get everyone on board quickly.
  • Flexibility of transferring calls to different mediums - I can switch a phone call to a conference or patch in other parties with ease.
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Talkdesk
  • Talkdesk excels at reporting. It offers a wide range of reports, such as Aux, AHT, and productivity reports, which are great for monitoring performance.
  • Talkdesk has speech-to-text analytics. This is an AI transcript system. The AI detects speech and transcribes it.
  • Talkdesk is easy to integrate with other apps. Such as Calabrio and Zendesk.
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Cons
Avaya
  • Calls are automatically terminated at an agent and do not allow for the agent to "manually" answer the incoming call. This is very problematic as agents are not able to prepare properly for incoming calls. In addition, agents have stepped away from their desks and forgotten to put themselves in an away status, and calls have been directed to them, and they just sit there with no agent present. This is a very undesirable feature of the system.
  • Password resets are extremely problematic and continuously cause problems for users. Agents are prompted to change their password upon expiry, and when they follow the instructions as outlined, it rarely works and ends up needing a full reset. The challenge questions are useless and do not work at all.
  • Support can be a bit challenging as there are definite language barriers that have made both explaining the problem and understanding the recommended solution difficult.
  • The system is sometimes unreliable and will randomly log agents out with no explanation. Agents are then advised by support to log out, clear cache, and log back in. This is not feasible in a busy call center.
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Talkdesk
  • From experience, customer service is terrible, we've had 5 account executives over 18 months, extremely difficult to get timely answers to pressing issues.
  • Integration with other tools, such as ServiceNow, is not truly integration (in my opinion). There was a marked difference between what the salesperson communicated during the evaluation period and what we actually got once we purchased and implemented the product.
  • We continue to have stability issues which force our agents to restart the Talkdesk client. I frequently receive vague error messages ('something went wrong') that can be frustrating as there's no actual detail to what happened. To be fair, it has improved since we implemented the tool, but if you were to ask our agents what frustrated them, Talkdesk would be at the top of their list.
  • Being a multi-channel platform was one of the things that drew us to Talkdesk; however, the chat channel lags way behind voice in customization and reporting.
  • Lack of training resources. The 'Talkdesk Academy' is often very out-of-date. Would be nice to have actual webinars or online training (even paid training) for various functions of the tool like reporting, WFM, IVR, etc.
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Likelihood to Renew
Avaya
I am really not the decision maker on this subject but given the cost of the investment in Avaya, I do not see the company not renewing the use of Avaya. The new licensing model no longer requires expensive upgrades to stay current with new features added to the system and really helps with the cost of investment.
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Talkdesk
One of the best tools our there to tackle alot of our needs or issues within the organisation's and is value for money as you find alot of the features already in bedded and the Ai features are user friendly no need for additional training and Talk desk support when any issues arise is amazing
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Usability
Avaya
Avaya has versatility in calling, receiving, and configuring. Being able to have notion of location, exchange of messages. we could see supplier information and configure it to our liking. as it is practicality for configuration and manual handling. Interactive and easy to learn screen. Being able to generate call reports for analysis of service in others
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Talkdesk
Talkdesk is helpful because we use it to receive calls in our BPO. Not only do we track live ques and statuses from agents, but we also receive feedback from our assessors through the talk desk as well as coaching, and it also stores customer contact data; I can track all my calls, and It records all the calls so we can come back to review them. You can also listen live and track your daily productivity. You can change your aux statuses very quickly, and there was an update talk desk that allows you to queue another status while you are on a call or after-call work, which is a great feature.
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Reliability and Availability
Avaya
No answers on this topic
Talkdesk
Talkdesk is very handy but, sometimes we do face issues were the system can just kick you out and not be able to do calls or receive calls but, what I like about the system once you start refreshing or troubleshooting, everything becomes normal it is a unique system and very modern we don't usually have system issues with Talkdesk.
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Performance
Avaya
No answers on this topic
Talkdesk
reports are good until a report is a big one in size then the wait is longer and some call reports delay by an hour or so which is not ideal as we pull these hourly and need them from Work force management perspective and Quality reports are perfectly fine
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Support Rating
Avaya
I give it this rating because the support services of Avaya have proven to be reliable when needed. Great feedback for our queries has always been received from the support agents. 24/7 availability of support, which is very essential as our Call Center department also functions this way, therefore, the knowledge and technical support we require is always available to us.
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Talkdesk
If Talkdesk had a dedicated phone support line I would have given this rating an overall 10. Their knowledge base is absolutely HUGE and at times very helpful. It's easy to search through and their customer support chat system works perfectly fine, but there are just some times that you need to speak to a human on the phone to ensure you are always on the same page.
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In-Person Training
Avaya
No answers on this topic
Talkdesk
The training that was given to us was very smooth and professional. I give my trainer 10/ 10 rate the training was so smooth and very helpful she would make sure we also watch videos of how to use the system which made it very easier for us and what was interesting it is because, the system is also easy.
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Online Training
Avaya
No answers on this topic
Talkdesk
Nothing is perfect!! Needing the ability to repeat the training so everyone was on board was important. Not real sure how many people had to repeat the training as they trained on their own and given 30 minutes at a time.
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Implementation Rating
Avaya
No, everything was implemented by Avaya Support
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Talkdesk
We were very satisfied with the implementation of Talkdesk. The team was able to gather all the data and information about the system we had in place at the moment and delivered us a Talkdesk plan that suited our needs. We had a few calls after implementation where our questions were answered and gave us the confidence to continue using the system.
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Alternatives Considered
Avaya
Switched from Polycom to Avaya, although polycom worked well there were too many reoccuring connectivity issues and the turn around time for solving them was also too long. Avaya has fewer connectivity problems and their support is much better too. Pricing wise they were similar so we didn't have much to lose.
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Talkdesk
Talkdesk is used to take inbound and outbound calls, which helps improve customer experience. It also provides evaluations through quality management. Talk desk scores are sometimes behind, but they still work well regarding taking and receiving calls. Some agents blame the Talk Desk because they lack knowledge of how to use it.
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Scalability
Avaya
No answers on this topic
Talkdesk
talk desk has helped us massively with flexibility of one system giving us all the relevant information we need to be able to drive improvement and also good service from work force management to quality improvement to the reporting of the work and inputs going in and assess outputs to determine the success of our work and remaining development areas
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Return on Investment
Avaya
  • Overall from a business objective standpoint, Avaya has to have had a positive impact on our Return on Investment. Its use in day-to-day operations has been beneficial to not only the company, but the business as well.
  • Using the Avaya soft phones supplies a business or company a way to limit expenditures on the hard phones by allowing the use of Avaya soft phones. The equipment is no longer needed, save for headsets to be used with the application itself.
  • Business objectives have to be just that, objectives. Economics begs for ways for a company to limit expenditures that may see little or no return. Avaya has tackled this issue and won!
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Talkdesk
  • Reduced hold times with callback feature = better CX
  • Easy transfer option between teams where we can talk rep-rep first before bringing the caller in = less repeated information the customer has to provide = better CX
  • Modified call dispositions allows for better call management & organization = less work on our end!
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ScreenShots

Talkdesk Screenshots

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