Cisco AnyConnect vs. NiCE CXone

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Cisco AnyConnect
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Cisco offers an SSL VPN solution via AnyConnect.N/A
NiCE CXone
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
NICE 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
Cisco AnyConnectNiCE CXone
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
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
Cisco AnyConnectNiCE CXone
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Cisco AnyConnectNiCE CXone
Features
Cisco AnyConnectNiCE CXone
Virtual Private Network
Comparison of Virtual Private Network features of Product A and Product B
Cisco AnyConnect
9.1
27 Ratings
3% above category average
NiCE CXone
-
Ratings
AES 256-bit Encryption9.327 Ratings00 Ratings
Kill Switch9.020 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-Platform Support8.726 Ratings00 Ratings
Split Tunneling9.125 Ratings00 Ratings
IP Address Masking9.224 Ratings00 Ratings
No-Logs Policy8.920 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple Server Locations9.022 Ratings00 Ratings
Automatic Wi-Fi Protection9.422 Ratings00 Ratings
Simultaneous Connections9.322 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer Support Services8.723 Ratings00 Ratings
Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
Cisco AnyConnect
-
Ratings
NiCE CXone
9.4
581 Ratings
11% above category average
Agent dashboard00 Ratings9.3559 Ratings
Validate callers00 Ratings9.6471 Ratings
Outbound response00 Ratings9.5490 Ratings
Call forwarding00 Ratings9.4443 Ratings
Click-to-call (CTC)00 Ratings9.1403 Ratings
Warm transfer00 Ratings9.8531 Ratings
Predictive dialing00 Ratings9.6317 Ratings
Interactive voice response00 Ratings9.6376 Ratings
REST APIs00 Ratings9.3301 Ratings
Call scripts00 Ratings9.2322 Ratings
Call tracking00 Ratings9.5510 Ratings
Multichannel integration00 Ratings9.4364 Ratings
CRM software integration00 Ratings9.0365 Ratings
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Product A and Product B
Cisco AnyConnect
-
Ratings
NiCE CXone
9.4
556 Ratings
13% above category average
Inbound call routing00 Ratings9.5511 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing00 Ratings9.2373 Ratings
Recording00 Ratings9.6495 Ratings
Quality management00 Ratings9.1480 Ratings
Call analytics00 Ratings9.1486 Ratings
Historical reporting00 Ratings9.4479 Ratings
Live reporting00 Ratings9.4465 Ratings
Customer surveys00 Ratings9.6299 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics00 Ratings9.7319 Ratings
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User Ratings
Cisco AnyConnectNiCE CXone
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
(111 ratings)
9.7
(612 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.9
(12 ratings)
10.0
(28 ratings)
Usability
9.1
(91 ratings)
9.3
(587 ratings)
Availability
9.9
(9 ratings)
8.1
(9 ratings)
Performance
8.7
(3 ratings)
7.7
(9 ratings)
Support Rating
8.4
(93 ratings)
9.1
(6 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(5 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(7 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.0
(7 ratings)
7.6
(11 ratings)
Configurability
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.2
(6 ratings)
Ease of integration
10.0
(7 ratings)
6.8
(6 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.9
(3 ratings)
7.3
(9 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
10.0
(1 ratings)
7.5
(8 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
10.0
(1 ratings)
7.5
(8 ratings)
User Testimonials
Cisco AnyConnectNiCE CXone
Likelihood to Recommend
Cisco
Providing secure remote access with a robust VPN, creating an encrypted tunnel so employees can safely access internal company resources like file servers and private apps from anywhere. It also allows enforcing device compliance: depending on policies, checks whether a device has an active antivirus and the latest OS updates before allowing it to connect. When there is not much need for remote access, the cost is too high.
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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
Cisco
  • All Cisco AnyConnect data transfer processes are secure to enhance security.
  • It can connect multiple terminals across various sites directly.
  • Centralized management of the workstations connected to the network became easier than ever for managers with multiple locations in the organization's workforce.
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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
Cisco
  • Cisco AnyConnect can use the system resources as long as the program is being run.
  • Account activation may be very difficult when connecting from areas requiring captive portal login, if certain settings are not allowed.
  • By default, it is possible to request the user to authenticate again at specific intervals.
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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
Cisco
It is perhaps the second most functional tool we have, it will definitely be renewed every year. Our network is stable, which ensures that there is less for our technicians to troubleshoot, which frees them up to ensure other parts of the company are maintained. This keeps our costs low and our downtime at a minimum.
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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
Cisco
It is very useful tool for companies having hybrid work culture. It will allow their employees to work seamlessly from home, office, other branches. This tool will increase your productivity as it will facilitates your employees to access corporate applications 24x7. Overall it is easy to use, deploy and integrate.
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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
Cisco
I have been using Cisco AnyConnect for past two years and thus I can say very firmly that I have never seen the outage from the Cisco AnyConnect services either It is VPN, System Scans or the Network Connectivity. Talking about the errors likewise major errors I have faced throughout my period of use.
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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
Cisco
Absolutely no speed issues, and I see no evidence of slowdowns across any of the multiple platforms I use daily. It's operation is completely invisible most of the time, except where there is a loss of connection due to server issues or a loss of power. Everything loads quickly and accurately.
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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
Cisco
I don't know but nobody provides proper support for us as end user. They should have people to check whether end user is facing issues or not. Cisco AnyConnect having very high charges and still there is no proper support! Many requests and many tickets have opened, but the working speed is very low for the support team! They should have it to optimize.
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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
Cisco
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
Cisco
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
Cisco
Our Managed Services vendor helped us with the implementation. When we initially setup our AnyConnect using MFA for remote connectivity, the setup was easy and straight forward and worked just fine. After a year, we decided to change to an "always on" feature and use machine and user based security certificates instead of MFA. We had to open a ticket with Cisco support and have their assistance getting this feature to work. Turned out they had a small bug in the code for that version of AnyConnect and it has since been corrected. We have had no issues with the upgrades since that time. The deployment of the software to the user machines was done with SCCM and was straight forward. The user machine upgrades are easy - when the user machine connects and sees a new version available, it upgrades itself! What could be easier?
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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
Cisco
Cisco is one of our core partners besides Microsoft and SAP. And so yes, we are utilizing very many projects from Cisco. I would mention the whole networking equipment, the routing equipment, the wireless LAN, and also when it comes to infrastructure to compute infrastructure, we are utilizing Cisco servers within our converged infrastructure Flex spot. So we have been running a flex bot from Cisco, NetApp, and VMware for 12 years, and we are still very satisfied with the product. We are looking forward to upgrading to the newest blades and fabric interconnect to continue this journey.
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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
Cisco
Cisco AnyConnect has been a speedy, reliable, and efficient tool for the creation of your own VPN whatever location that you've brought your laptop. Customer support is consistently top-notch, coming up with quick fixes to whatever difficulties are thrown your way. I would not hesitate to reccommend Cisco AnyConnect to any business that needs connected employees throught the world.
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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
Cisco
  • We are able to seamlessly work on multiple clients daily, and it allows us to quickly handle more projects at the same time.
  • Cisco AnyConnect has allowed our own company's coworkers to remotely connect back to the corporate network, easily assisting work schedules and processes, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Being forced to work remotely, meant our processes still happened quickly and efficiently, by being able to leverage and use Cisco AnyConnect VPN.
  • Even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, I have worked 100% remotely for a few years now. This was always due to the reliable connectivity and ease of use with Cisco AnyConnect VPN. I live 2+ hours from our nearest corporate office, and even further from some of my client locations, and I have always been able to connect to any of my multiple Cisco AnyConnect VPN connections, within seconds.
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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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ScreenShots

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.