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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    CA Service Management

    Score5.4 out of 10
    N/ACA Service Management, including CA Desk Manager, is a fully-featured ITSM platform, now from Broadcom. It competes with BMC Remedy, ServiceNow, FrontRange ITSM, Cherwell Service Management etc. It is based on technology acquired by CA in 2010 with Nimsoft, and is now supported by Broadcom since the 2018 acquisition.N/A

    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AGenesys Multicloud CX (formerly Genesys Engage, or PureEngage) is the Genesys customer engagement platform for enterprises. It is designed to be flexible for enterprises, who often have multiple and multi-national locations (including outsourcing) and large peak volumes and populations.N/A
    Pricing
    CA Service ManagementGenesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CA Service ManagementGenesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    CA Service ManagementGenesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Considered Both Products
    Broadcom
    No answer on this topic
    Discontinued Products
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    86%
    Would buy again
    30 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    89%
    Delivers good value for the price
    24 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    33 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    82%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    14 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    79%
    Implementation went as expected
    23 Answers
    Features
    CA Service ManagementGenesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of CA Service Management, with CA Service Desk Manager and Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Feature
    CA Service Management, with CA Service Desk Manager
    8.6
    6 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Organize and prioritize service tickets9.76 Ratings00 Ratings
    Expert directory8.75 Ratings00 Ratings
    Service restoration8.46 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self-service tools8.66 Ratings00 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications7.96 Ratings00 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation9.76 Ratings00 Ratings
    ITSM reports and dashboards7.55 Ratings00 Ratings
    ITSM asset management
    Comparison of ITSM asset management features of CA Service Management, with CA Service Desk Manager and Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Feature
    CA Service Management, with CA Service Desk Manager
    9.2
    6 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Configuration mangement9.76 Ratings00 Ratings
    Asset management dashboard10.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Policy and contract enforcement8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Change management
    Comparison of Change management features of CA Service Management, with CA Service Desk Manager and Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Feature
    CA Service Management, with CA Service Desk Manager
    9.1
    6 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Change requests repository9.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Change calendar8.64 Ratings00 Ratings
    Service-level management9.55 Ratings00 Ratings
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of CA Service Management, with CA Service Desk Manager and Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    9.2
    118 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Agent dashboard00 Ratings10.0109 Ratings
    Validate callers00 Ratings10.096 Ratings
    Outbound response00 Ratings9.099 Ratings
    Call forwarding00 Ratings8.089 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)00 Ratings9.083 Ratings
    Warm transfer00 Ratings10.0105 Ratings
    Predictive dialing00 Ratings9.281 Ratings
    Interactive voice response00 Ratings10.0106 Ratings
    REST APIs00 Ratings10.099 Ratings
    Call scripts00 Ratings9.075 Ratings
    Call tracking00 Ratings10.0103 Ratings
    Multichannel integration00 Ratings9.9105 Ratings
    CRM software integration00 Ratings5.199 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of CA Service Management, with CA Service Desk Manager and Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Feature
    CA Service Management, with CA Service Desk Manager
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    Ratings
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    8.5
    107 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Inbound call routing00 Ratings9.0100 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing00 Ratings10.092 Ratings
    Recording00 Ratings8.980 Ratings
    Quality management00 Ratings8.080 Ratings
    Call analytics00 Ratings8.088 Ratings
    Historical reporting00 Ratings10.0103 Ratings
    Live reporting00 Ratings9.0100 Ratings
    Customer surveys00 Ratings6.864 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics00 Ratings7.073 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    CA Service ManagementGenesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Small Businesses
    Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)
    Score9 out of 10
    Zendesk Talk
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus
    Score9.2 out of 10
    CloudTalk
    Score7.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Ivanti ITSM
    Score6.4 out of 10
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Score8.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    CA Service ManagementGenesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (12 ratings)
    8.0
    (147 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    4.1
    (6 ratings)
    7.9
    (26 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.9
    (18 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.1
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.6
    (21 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.1
    (3 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    3.8
    (11 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.5
    (3 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    1.4
    (4 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (4 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CA Service ManagementGenesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Broadcom
    It is a suitable tool for a large organization with extensive user needs. It is not for a small shop as it may be over-engineered for smaller organizations that don't have teams that can manage a solution of this size. It does have some significant hardware and configuration needs, but that should not deter customers from deploying it in-house. I've seen it deployed in the cloud as well as in-house; the downside to deploying it as a hosted solution is you're forever at the mercy of the vendor for customizations, and they cost an arm and a leg. The simplest things take a long time and cost much more money than necessary, so you can't truly get a custom solution and end up with mostly vanilla services (unless you have very deep pockets.)
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    Solution is extremely agile and flexible. The new generation of containerized solution would be a game changer since it brings the ease of deployment and ability to get the innovations to a new total different place. I believe it is really hard to find in the competition who would have something similar or even close
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    Pros
    Broadcom
    • A large community where, if help is needed, is usually very helpful and quick to respond.
    • Various sites with good information on various issues. If you have a problem, there's a good chance some else already had it and documented it.
    • Fairly easy installation of the product if recommendations are followed and prep-work is done.
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    • VHT as a stand alone model can be easily plugged into to the current call routing with minimal changes and it works like charm.
    • Platform SDKs are a powerful tool that help integrate with other third party solutions or to build custom made applications.
    • The whole routing solution is amazing . With user friendly composer, you have the option of building both VRUs and routing strategies. And, they are very easy to deploy.
    • The level of details for report customization is another strong point.
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    Cons
    Broadcom
    • The right-click feature is disabled in this application and users are unable to copy and paste with mouse or touchpad.
    • The application also freezes quite a bit and a user will have to quite often close and reopen browser to get it functioning properly.
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    • Genesys needs to pick up the pace with application upgrades. We see more and more issues with Genesys applications falling behind the operating systems versions. We need more apps to be ready for the latest server OC models. There is a lag.
    • There seems to be constant unrest with the management application platform, CME, SCI, Genesys administrator, GAX, then GAX plugins, then a move away from plugins. We would like one stable management platform that encompasses ALL aspects of management within the contact center.
    • Real-time reporting deficiencies with Genesys pulse web. this application cannot live up to CCPulse with respect to flexibility of views. Pulse web was a plugin now it's not a plugin any longer. constant movement, we finally get pulse web plugin onto production, 6 months later these something supposedly better.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Broadcom
    While the concepts of Service Desk and EITM were solid. The user interface, tool capabilities, and integrations fell behind the rest of the industry. Too often it seemed like CA bought and rebranded products without fully integrated them with their other products. It was a coat of paint, without the parts under the hood being updated. The overhead for administration was too high and the reporting capabilities were absolutely amongst the worst I've seen.
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    Genesys Engage is instrumental in us meeting our service obligations to our customers. Engage enables our organization to deliver interactions to the right staff and helps us minimize service and coverage gaps through historical and real-time reporting. Additionally, we feel that only Genesys Engage can meet and exceed our business needs and requirements.
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    Usability
    Broadcom
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    Overall, from a customer perspective and also an agent perspective, it is very easy to use Genesys Engage's platform. The Agent Desktop and Genesys WDE are good. Usability is high and I would consider it an easy to use product and easy to adopt from this perspective.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Broadcom
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    There are occasional failures, but distributed and High Availability features work well when architected, installed, and configured properly. Thoroughly reading and understanding system documentation is a must.
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    Performance
    Broadcom
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    Never being disappointed in my 11 plus years of utilizing the various aspects of the system. No matter what we throw at it, the systems continue to perform as expected.
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    Support Rating
    Broadcom
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    There's definitely room for improvement. I would have love to see the chat functionality work more frequently. The level of expertise has diminished over the years. I understand that this in part has to do with the number of new products that has been introduced, but should not be an excuse for the lack of readiness.
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    In-Person Training
    Broadcom
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    Good training, but on limited locations. You can almost only follow trainings in europ in the UK and in Germany. Uk location is relatively difficult to get to and on a exppensive location. The content of the training is good, supplied training material is okay, but sometimes a bit outdated. When you follow a training it is most likely because of a recent purchase which is uasually the latest version.
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    Online Training
    Broadcom
    No answers on this topic
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    Interesting webinars on relevant topic are being provided regularly. Th e webinars a often provided by Genesys and hosted by a very experienced product owner. In many occasions a customer is invited to share his / her experiences and best practices. Webinars can be watched at a later time for your convenience.
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    Implementation Rating
    Broadcom
    No answers on this topic
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    It was a death march. We finally learned enough about the product to know that our vendor knew nothing and had done it wrong. We hired voice engineers and took over the project. We should have fired our vendor much earlier
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    Alternatives Considered
    Broadcom
    We are too integrated with CA Service Desk Manager to disassociate anytime soon. We found the more we used the product the more we needed to customize it in order to better integrate with our business processes. There are other alternatives that have many built-in features that had we have foreseen our future requirements... would have chosen ServiceNow or Remedy as our "go-to" ticketing product.
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    For a similar contact center structure, I find Genesys products are faster to produce outcomes, and fast to respond (loading, changing screens...). However, in terms of user interface, I do prefer the way NICE did things there. Coming from an agent background, I find that the NICE agent interface is more visually appealing and offers more flexibility (parameters for agent exceptions).
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    Scalability
    Broadcom
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    The Interactive Intelligence SIP based contact center platform has broken through the barriers of "board based" technology to processor based limits on scalability. This means their CIC premise or cloud platform can be engineered to support agent counts into the thousands.
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    Return on Investment
    Broadcom
    • Having CA Service Desk Manager within the company has increased the satisfaction of customer service from 68% to 95%. Teams are getting better customer survey scores and making better efforts to meet their SLAs.
    • CA Mobile app has provided agility and collaboration among IT Users and Customers.
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    • Utilizing Genesys Contact Center Portfolio has added increased employee efficiency, providing better availability to customer demands which in turn has increased customer satisfaction.
    • Utilizing Genesys Contact Center Portfolio has added increased management efficiency, automating resource planning and scheduling and providing management more time to focus on other important tasks.
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