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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Bright Pattern Contact Center

    Score8.4 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Bright Pattern provides an AI-powered omnichannel contact center software. With the purpose of making customer service, sales, and marketing brighter and faster, Bright Pattern offers an advanced omnichannel cloud platform with embedded AI. Bright Pattern’s platform can be…N/A

    Manhattan Active Customer Engagement

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AA solution focusing on providing call center and service agents information about when and why customers buy a brand's products, and that also lets customers use digital self-service to lighten the workload of agents. Agents are given access to complete customer histories, with a variety of tools united in a single agent dashboard.N/A

    NiCE CXone

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/ANICE CXone is a cloud-based contact center platform that manages customer interactions across multiple communication channels. It includes features such as automatic call distribution (ACD), interactive voice response (IVR), omnichannel routing, workforce optimization, feedback management, and interaction analytics.

    $110

    per month per user

    Pricing
    Bright Pattern Contact CenterManhattan Active Customer EngagementNiCE CXone
    Editions & Modules
    Omnichannel CX
    -
    per month per seat
    Call Center Standard
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    per month per seat
    Digital CX
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    per month per seat
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    CXone Omnichannel Agent
    $110
    per month per user
    CXone Essential Suite
    $135
    per month per user
    Cxone Core Suite
    $169
    per month per user
    CXone Complete Suite
    $209
    per month per user
    CXone Ultimate Suite
    $249
    per month per user
    CXone Mpower Ultimate Suite
    $249
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Bright Pattern Contact CenterManhattan Active Customer EngagementNiCE CXone
    Free Trial
    YesNoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsOne-time set-up fee includes 45 hours of services for workflow implementation and training: Discovery and Design Workshop; Configuration and Customization to customer requirements; Testing and Evaluation; Agent and Supervisor Training; Administration Mentoring & Knowledge Transfer——
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    Bright Pattern Contact CenterManhattan Active Customer EngagementNiCE CXone
    Considered Multiple Products
    Bright Pattern, Inc.
    Chose Bright Pattern Contact Center
    More versatile than all of the above and a better implementation team.
    Incentivized
    Chose Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Bright Pattern had the highest percentage of what we were looking for out of the box, and we also felt our voice would be heard best regarding new enhancements.
    Incentivized
    Chose Bright Pattern Contact Center
    I appreciate the ease of the BP setup against the others, for example you have Studio with CXOne and unless you have had official training they dont want you to change the IVR they want to charge you or at least charge you several thousand to become trained in studio, Avaya was …
    Incentivized
    Chose Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Bright Pattern offers many more options for scalability and the pricing is always best. The agent desktop and quick support is supirior in many ways but more importantly for us the price is best all while offering the same features and in some cases even more than its …
    Incentivized
    Chose Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Bright Pattern Contact Center checked the majority of our boxes for current needs, and we really liked the level of control we had to build various flows or automation ourselves. We were also happy with the process for new product enhancement requests, and felt that our voices …
    Incentivized
    Chose Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Bright Pattern prides itself on providing out-of-the-box functionality. Unlike many of the other platforms listed, there is no need to subscribe to additional options for increased feature functionality nor is there a need to implement additional plugins to get to a desired …
    Incentivized
    Manhattan Associates
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    NICE Systems
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    32 Answers
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    94%
    Would buy again
    276 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    193 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    284 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    30 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    90%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    128 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    30 Answers
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    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    155 Answers
    Features
    Bright Pattern Contact CenterManhattan Active Customer EngagementNiCE CXone
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Bright Pattern Contact Center and Manhattan Active Customer Engagement and NiCE CXone
    Feature
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    8.0
    32 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Manhattan Active Customer Engagement
    -
    Ratings
    NiCE CXone
    9.4
    581 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Agent dashboard8.831 Ratings00 Ratings9.2559 Ratings
    Validate callers8.128 Ratings00 Ratings9.6471 Ratings
    Outbound response8.128 Ratings00 Ratings9.5490 Ratings
    Call forwarding8.127 Ratings00 Ratings9.3443 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)8.024 Ratings00 Ratings9.3403 Ratings
    Warm transfer4.831 Ratings00 Ratings9.8531 Ratings
    Predictive dialing9.025 Ratings00 Ratings9.5317 Ratings
    Interactive voice response8.328 Ratings00 Ratings9.5376 Ratings
    REST APIs8.728 Ratings00 Ratings9.3301 Ratings
    Call scripts8.224 Ratings00 Ratings9.2322 Ratings
    Call tracking8.126 Ratings00 Ratings9.5510 Ratings
    Multichannel integration7.827 Ratings00 Ratings9.3364 Ratings
    CRM software integration7.728 Ratings00 Ratings9.0365 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Bright Pattern Contact Center and Manhattan Active Customer Engagement and NiCE CXone
    Feature
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    7.9
    29 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Manhattan Active Customer Engagement
    -
    Ratings
    NiCE CXone
    9.4
    556 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Inbound call routing8.328 Ratings00 Ratings9.5511 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing8.127 Ratings00 Ratings9.1373 Ratings
    Recording8.929 Ratings00 Ratings9.6495 Ratings
    Quality management7.227 Ratings00 Ratings9.0480 Ratings
    Call analytics8.124 Ratings00 Ratings9.3486 Ratings
    Historical reporting8.129 Ratings00 Ratings9.4479 Ratings
    Live reporting7.227 Ratings00 Ratings9.4465 Ratings
    Customer surveys8.126 Ratings00 Ratings9.5299 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics7.121 Ratings00 Ratings9.6319 Ratings
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    Score8.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Bright Pattern Contact CenterManhattan Active Customer EngagementNiCE CXone
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (32 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.7
    (613 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (28 ratings)
    Usability
    8.1
    (32 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.3
    (587 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.1
    (9 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.7
    (9 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (32 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (6 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (5 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.9
    (7 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.3
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.5
    (11 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (6 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.8
    (6 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (9 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.5
    (8 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.5
    (8 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Bright Pattern Contact CenterManhattan Active Customer EngagementNiCE CXone
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Bright Pattern, Inc.
    Bright Pattern has been fantastic in allowing us to automate voice and chat contacts, and we're currently building out scenarios that will allow us to automate even more. It's super simple to collect data from customers, and using some API calls provides the answers they're looking for without a human needing to get involved. There is less functionality currently for emails. Emails can be routed to queues based on keywords, and auto-replies can be sent, but it's pretty basic functionality. We'd love to see some of the enhanced capabilities offered in voice and chat scenarios for email.
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    Manhattan Associates
    The cloud-native technological architecture on which Manhattan Active WM is built is designed for scalability, flexibility, and easy upgradeability. A responsive user interface, which is available on a tablet or fixed station and supports several of these operations, provides the unified control capabilities of the system. Real-time data is shown in a variety of ways, including a global map of facilities, individual facility data, labor utilization, and tasks broken down by job function.
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    NICE Systems
    NICE CXone Mpower offers a great suite of products and tools appropriate for contact centers. It is a one stop shop for all of the monitoring, scheduling, reporting, and quality tools a large or small contact center may need. It is very feature rich and has many components, some of which we haven't even grown to adopt yet but may in the near future.
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    Pros
    Bright Pattern, Inc.
    • AI platform integration - IBM Watson, Google Dialogflow, for example
    • Quality Management - out of the box sentiment anlysis
    • Unified agent desktop - ability to see all channels in one pane of glass
    • Robust analytic widgets that can also drive wall boards
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    Manhattan Associates
    • Permanently Adaptive.
    • Seamlessly Integrated.
    • Greater Visibility.
    Incentivized
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    NICE Systems
    • Organizes everyone's interactions within the platform
    • Shows interactions real time with productivity stats
    • Makes Chat/Call quality a breeze with customizable quality forms
    • Easy to share an interaction within the company for others to review
    • Keeps everyone on track with scheduled lunches/breaks/meetings so you don't have to remember yourself and never miss another event again!
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    Cons
    Bright Pattern, Inc.
    • That they had a text and voice analysis module Que tuvieran un modulo de analisis de texto y voz
    • Customized agent interface with company logos. Interfaz de agente personalizada con logos de la empresa
    • The softphone, when entering multiple interactions, causes the advisors to become confused when they have several. It should be less complex and more adaptable.
    • El softphone al momento de ingresar varias interacciones, los asesores se pierden cuando tienen varios. que sea menos complejo y mas adaptable
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    Manhattan Associates
    • User Interface.
    • Data Security.
    • API's
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    NICE Systems
    • There can be changes in interface of the app, however it's still very good
    • I would appreciete detailed web page with all necessary information, but when I need anything, the customer support is very quick and provide all the information
    • Hardly to find any other :)
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Bright Pattern, Inc.
    Es una plataforma confiable, en la que ya tengo bastante tiempo utilizando y conociendola. Entonces me siento confiada en volver a utilizarla dentro de la empresa e igual que al ofrecer a mis clientes internos y externos, además con el roadmap que nos brindan estoy segura que seguirá innovando cada vez
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    Manhattan Associates
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    NICE Systems
    Nice made it possible for employees to work from anywhere with access to the internet, it made it possible to extract data from contacts in a very thorough way. In addition, the meticaes can be fully customized and the day-to-day monitoring of the operation is more visible.With nice, contacts with clients abroad became easier.
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    Usability
    Bright Pattern, Inc.
    It's pretty simple for agents to pick up quickly, it takes a bit longer for supervisors to get familiar with. QA tools are pretty barebones but functional enough. It can be as simple or complex as you need it to be, if you spend some time configuring the settings or working with Bright Pattern's support team to build out what you need.
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    Manhattan Associates
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    NICE Systems
    The lack of written SOPs makes some features (WFM / Performance management) very difficult to use. The training provided by NICE is extensive, but it's hard to remember everything shared in the hour. We spend so much time on the platform just trying to figure out how to use the features; it would be much easier with written instructions and screenshots.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Bright Pattern, Inc.
    It is always on. The only outage to date that I have experienced was with an upstream telco provider a few years ago. The inbound leg telco was hit by a DDOS attack which led to delays in routing calls to the platform. This was not the fault of the Bright Pattern platform but the telco provider. We have had a few minor carrier issues with call quality, or a handful of brief drops, but Bright Pattern is quick to identify these and change carriers when it starts to happen.
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    Manhattan Associates
    No answers on this topic
    NICE Systems
    NICE inContact CXone is available when you need it. I have been using it for about a year and I have never suffered any issues that caused my not to have access to the product. If there are updates, they must be downloaded and install in the background because I do not see them
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    Performance
    Bright Pattern, Inc.
    All pages load when expected, and reports render either in the web browser or as a download. I never really have issues with accessing the admin or agent desktop sites. It just works.
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    Manhattan Associates
    No answers on this topic
    NICE Systems
    NICE inContact CXone performs very well even on old computers that are limited in resources. I use a older computer with limited memory and it seems to handle NICE inContact CXone very well in most cases. There will be times when it acts up for whatever reason bust over ninety percent of the time.
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    Support Rating
    Bright Pattern, Inc.
    Although we have only had 1 very short outage in our 4 years of service. Bright Pattern support was easy to contact and solved our sisue very quickly as well as provided more than adequate information on an RCA (Root Cause Analysis) for our clients
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    Manhattan Associates
    No answers on this topic
    NICE Systems
    inContact only allows specific users to contact them for support. Even though I use the product daily and it accounts for a large amount of my workload, I still have to contact an authorized user to create an incident. These users are managers and their schedules are very busy. This can result in delays in incidents being opened and resolved.
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    In-Person Training
    Bright Pattern, Inc.
    In-person and virtual training was great, but Bright Pattern could use some online training videos similar to other platforms. I would welcome online training videos to keep the steady flow of new agents up to date. Admin training is one of the largest areas that need video. The static documentation is great. It is pretty easy to follow and configure your contact center as you progress through each step. The documentation is available online on an easy to use knowledgebase or wiki style site. You do not need a user account to access the help docs, meaning that users at any level can freely access the materials to learn about the platform.
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    Manhattan Associates
    No answers on this topic
    NICE Systems
    The In-person training was fine for a general overview. I think it would have been really helpful to have a review of pre-built reports and how to use them as tools.
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    Online Training
    Bright Pattern, Inc.
    Online training is documentation based only. It is thorough and step by step, but no videos. It would also be helpful to have more information within the help docs on custom reporting. I find that many of the Bright Pattern specific configurations for the Jasper Reporting Server have to be "stumbled" across through existing report templates and they are not clearly listed out somewhere. In person training will not generally go into great depth on report customizations.
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    Manhattan Associates
    No answers on this topic
    NICE Systems
    I would rate 10, since the explanations were far enough to catch all the usabilities.I would rate 10, since the explanations were far enough to catch all the usabilities.I would rate 10, since the explanations were far enough to catch all the usabilities.I would rate 10, since the explanations were far enough to catch all the usabilities.
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    Implementation Rating
    Bright Pattern, Inc.
    As an implementor, I have found the Bright Pattern Contact Center very easy to work with. The platform operates in the manner which I think. Therefore, everything I do seems logical and works exactly as expected. Many solutions are much more difficult to work with and make implementations difficult
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    Manhattan Associates
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    NICE Systems
    We love the use of our new tools. However, NICE staff turnover was frustrating. We lost ground each time a new team took over. Some people were good some were not as much. Some people did great training while others were not as helpful
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    Alternatives Considered
    Bright Pattern, Inc.
    As a contact centre technology vendor we have experience of many different contact centre platforms. We chose Bright Pattern Contact Center because its the best omni-channel contact centre we've ever seen, it's incredibly reliable, its hosted in-country, it has the Microsoft integrations many of our customers want, we can integrate with virtually any CRM or ITSM system and the platform offers a vast feature set.
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    Manhattan Associates
    Manhattan enables seamless business configuration and interoperability. Manhattan Associates' architectural principles will drive the creation of cloud-native apps. These principles were developed to ensure that Manhattan Associates' solutions could achieve the engineering velocity that its end clients demanded while also striving to reduce the cost of innovation. As a consequence, you are not obliged to wait for technology to catch up to your decision-making before introducing new goods and services to your customers.
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    NICE Systems
    When it comes to this specific situation (cell centers) NICE definitely has an ADP beat. The analytics, scheduling, and forecasts are extremely well-tailored for this situation. ADP has a more comprehensive solution in my opinion - I feel their UI and mobile app are also more user-friendly. But in terms of performance management functionality, NICE has a more robust system and is able to create additional metrics if we need them When I used ADP there were no custom options available.
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    Scalability
    Bright Pattern, Inc.
    Very flexible and will scale without any intervention from my team. Scaling at the carrier/telco layer is handled by Bright Pattern, if you use their offered telecom
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    Manhattan Associates
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    NICE Systems
    I rated 10, because Nice CX one is very much functional. You can simply acess it by website Nice, in any navigator, desktop, notebook or mobile, so you can in a fast way run on every departament of the company.
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    Return on Investment
    Bright Pattern, Inc.
    • We saved customers between 30% - 40% of the cost of their current omnichannel contact center solutions when we implemented Bright Pattern Contact Center
    • Very quick to implement so we are able to service more customers with same number of staff
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    Manhattan Associates
    • Implementation of the whole supply chain and fulfilment.
    • Better Data Management.
    • Effective use of configurations.
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    NICE Systems
    • NICE CXone has allowed us the ability to, on specific teams, not have to back fill positions due to attrition.
    • NICE CXone has provided us insight into data metrics that we did not have before.
    • NICE CXone provides us with visibility into the productivity of our offshore agents which we did NOT have prior to our partnership.
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    NiCE CXone Screenshots

    Screenshot of CXone Copilot is a partner for every conversation — bringing knowledge, next steps, and smart suggestions before agents even have to ask.Screenshot of CXone Orchestrator is a visual yet tool that does not require programming skills, but instead empowers everyone—from business user to routing flow programmer—to build and manage routing flows for all channels.Screenshot of CXone Interaction Analytics, used to get actionable insights from every voice, digital, and self-service customer interaction.Screenshot of CXone Performance Management aligns employee performance, contact center goals, and customer expectations with continuous improvement.