Avaya Experience Platform vs. Calabrio Teleopti WFM

The Avaya Experience Platform is well suited to allow remote working for call center agents. Staff can log in and work from anywhere using Chrome and their user credentials. The technical issues and lack of some features have caused some frustration for our staff and made it difficult to get buy-in for this product across all call center groups. This is difficult because a solution like this is intended to make their work more efficient as opposed to causing frustration.

Calabrio Teleopti WFM is widely used in our organization, and once we've gotten the hang of it, it's very simple to use. We can manage the entries to each employee's task lists, plan the turns that each teleworker will cover, and swap turns as needed. We can also automate the completion of scheduled management tasks and calculate how much time each employee spends at the company. This application, in general, ensures increased productivity on the call center platform.

• Strengths of Avaya include the ability to answer incoming calls in a convenient format for employees.
• The use of Avaya proves the user-friendly design and a way for employees to adjust settings in a clear and concise manner to adjust for his or her preferences.
• Avaya also allows the employee to transfer and conference calls in an easy drag-and-drop method and is very user-friendly.
• The functionality of Avaya allows for the virtual employee to log in, choose various auxiliaries chosen by your company to ensure schedule adherence and maintain corroboration with other applications and software programs.

• It has an excellent schedule, schedules are easily accessible and can be easily created.
• Calabrio Teleopti WFM makes it possible to effectively request time off for employees in an organized way.
• There are educational opportunities and this is positive for the company and our employees since the customer service area is great.

• Avaya could use some improvement in moving calls off the system when they have arrived at a far destination. This is a technical point and will not be often encountered by users or most technicians and really is no fault of Avaya but crossing over into local telephone systems around the world would be a great advantage.
• The methods for interacting with some of the menus are rather involved. The system is highly complex but at this time it is mature enough to start bringing all the control features under one roof rather than through three separate interfaces.

• Compliance monitoring through our Zeacom phone system has been a difficulty. For the years we've had it, we've still had challenges in getting that functionality to work as intended.
• User interface is somewhat intuitive, but could use an update for more intuitive placement and features.
• The companion app has some updates issues that could use addressing.

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.

I find Avaya easy to use but I am not a beginner. I think it is much more difficult for beginners unless the administrator has some basic programming skills. The system is getting more difficult to use but I enjoy learning and haven't found myself stumped yet.

It serves my needs perfectly, but it sometimes glitches where you press a link and it downloads the page instead of opens it.

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.

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.

We selected Teleopti because we knew shift bids would be one of our top priorities and it came highly recommended in that space. We also were hoping for more advanced PTO management features but that is not a deal breaker for us thankfully. We had demos from all the major WFM software companies and Teleopti impressed us with its ability to seamlessly combine all features of WFM management into an easy to use package. The other companies had many of the same features or better, but their overall presentation just didn't impress.

• Seamless implementation. If your access to the PSTN is through one of the major carriers, integrating the IP Office is quick, and easy. If you are in a market similar to ours where there are smaller carriers to work with, relying on your local Avaya business partner will allow for that same seamless integration.
• Users will find the menus on their new phones easy to navigate. It never hurts to have a cheat sheet provided by you installer. The system is very intuitive, even for system administrators.
• A new system paired with a new circuit contract has the potential for a cost savings that can pay for the new phone system in a 3 year time frame. We have customers that can attest to that!

• Teleopti has increased the efficiency of our department and made scheduling more consistent for employees.
• Our team has been able to adjust staffing levels to address business levels instead of hiring more staff and just being overstaffed unnecessarily.