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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cisco Finesse

    Score6.4 out of 10
    N/ACisco Finesse is a product designed to improve customer support delivered via contact centers. Described by Cisco as a next-generation agent and supervisor desktop, Cisco Finesse provides a collaborative experience for communities that interact with your customer service organization. Finesse's user-centric design is stated to enhance satisfaction for your customer-care representatives.N/A

    Desk.com (discontinued)

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/ADesk.com was a helpdesk, ticketing, and customer support product offered by Salesforce, and oriented towards the needs of small businesses. It is no longer sold and support has been discontinued. Salesforce recommends its modern Service Cloud as a replacement.N/A
    Pricing
    Cisco FinesseDesk.com (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Cisco FinesseDesk.com (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Cisco FinesseDesk.com (discontinued)
    Considered Both Products
    Cisco
    No answer on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    86%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
    78%
    Would buy again
    14 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    88%
    Delivers good value for the price
    14 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    83%
    Happy with the feature set
    15 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    85%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    11 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    13 Answers
    Features
    Cisco FinesseDesk.com (discontinued)
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Cisco Finesse and Desk.com (discontinued)
    Feature
    Cisco Finesse
    7.5
    7 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Desk.com (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Agent dashboard8.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Validate callers8.75 Ratings00 Ratings
    Outbound response5.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call forwarding5.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)8.93 Ratings00 Ratings
    Warm transfer5.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive dialing8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Interactive voice response8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    REST APIs8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call scripts8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call tracking8.36 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multichannel integration8.93 Ratings00 Ratings
    CRM software integration8.13 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Cisco Finesse and Desk.com (discontinued)
    Feature
    Cisco Finesse
    6.1
    7 Ratings
    31% below category average
    Desk.com (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Inbound call routing6.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing7.73 Ratings00 Ratings
    Recording7.95 Ratings00 Ratings
    Quality management5.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call analytics6.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Historical reporting4.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Live reporting2.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer surveys8.74 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics7.33 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Cisco FinesseDesk.com (discontinued)
    Small Businesses
    Zendesk Talk
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Help Scout
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Score8 out of 10
    LiveAgent
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Score8.4 out of 10
    Front
    Score9.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Cisco FinesseDesk.com (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    5.0
    (7 ratings)
    8.2
    (38 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.4
    (14 ratings)
    Usability
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.3
    (19 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    1.0
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (21 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cisco FinesseDesk.com (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    I didn't personally hate working with Finesse as an end-user, but the frequent bugs and crashes were troublesome. While the frequency wasn't daily or weekly, it was enough to be memorable and difficult to work through. At times the software would crash across the board and take 15 minutes to recover, which pending call volumes, could be highly problematic. When it was working I had few issues or complaints.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    Once I had to search the logs to find cases and data on a particular keyword, but I was not able to do so as there was no search tool available, nor was there a sort or filter tool. I was totally frustrated as I had to skim through the data to complete my task manually.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Cisco
    • Keep detail record of the agent and supervisor activity.
    • Help to create agent and give them access to different teams and different skill groups.
    • Allows the supervisor to keep a track record of the agent different states like ready, not ready, in call, [etc...]
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    Discontinued Products
    • Desk.com automatically tracks analytics on all cases coming in and going out.
    • Desk.com helps prevent multiple people from working on the same case. However, it does allow us to assign the case to someone else if we feel that person is more qualified to address the case.
    • Desk.com has very few bugs or server issues that we've seen. This helps prevent any delays in communicating with our customers.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Cisco
    • There were too many outages
    • There were a number of times I would get kicked out of the system without reason
    • Reports were difficult to read
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • Internal knowledge tools are clunky and annoying to access, outside the regular workflow of everyday staff
    • Arbitrary and confusing limitations in business rules and custom fields
    • Arbitrary and confusing limitations in case handling - for example, if you begin a case as a phone call you CANNOT email the customer from the case. As though no one working at Desk has ever sent a follow-up email...?
    • Not very good for B2B, mid-to-large businesses. Difficult to set business rules based on company information (for example, service level/tier) and nearly impossible to track key stakeholders and get clear insight into the relationship at a high level
    • Reporting tools are clunky, slow, and just all-around pretty useless
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    We will be very likely to renew our contract with Desk.com. It is easy to use, and provides us with everything we need to keep our customers and employees happy. They have also been very helpful in catering the application to our specific and unique needs, including working across brands and adding specific content for our products
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Cisco
    It is easy to use, but there are outages that affect the overall customer satisfaction. There were many times when we were unable to enter the call queues or even our direct lines because the system was not functioning properly. It was extremely easy to transfer people and that was a great function of the program.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    Desk.com and Salesforce Service Cloud's usability is seamless to get up and running, administer, and scale across the organization. It allows us to get up and running in days rather than weeks and has transformed our customer support teams globally into efficient, world-class teams. The best practices that the Salesforce and Desk.com teams provide are also very valuable, as we have the right case studies and tips to implement right away in our organization.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    We've never had a problem with Desk.com's availability.
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    Performance
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    Fast, responsive, gorgeous, and fun. It's always run like a thoroughbred for me.
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    Support Rating
    Cisco
    We have hardly had any problems, but the attention provided when we need support has been very fast and effective
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    Their support leaves much to be desired. They do not respond quickly and do not follow up with feature requests. There is also a lack of on-demand or live training available for the teams to use as they learn a new tool. Because there is so much customization, a lot of questions do come up regularly.
    Incentivized
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    Implementation Rating
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    As I stated earlier, implementation of Desk.com went more smoothly than most. The resources in the "Support Center" are fantastic, and I never ran into anything that left me stumped, angry, or disappointed.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cisco
    We used to use Dialpad and it was a great tool. Since switching to Cisco Finesse, we have had no issues with call forwarding, call transfers, or holding. We no longer experience any issues with our callers in the queue or any issues with call playback for quality assurance. Cisco Finesse has made things much easier around the office.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    Overall, it performs a lot better than all three combined, with a lot fewer glitches and a lot more user-friendly and user experience efficiency. Any new link that needs to be done, takes a lot less time to execute on desk compared to the three others. Simply advanced when it comes to execution this platform is.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Cisco
    • Cisco Finesse is a pivotal piece of HubSpot's world renowned Customer Support team, seamlessly integrating with our product to deliver our customers the highest level of support.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • Better customer service and employee efficiency when dealing with cases
    • It's so universal, meaning that everyone can use it and it's easy to understand.
    • The only negative impact is that our IT department who is assigned tickets has responded to customers instead of to the local reps and we have to ensure they know to change the email if it's assigned to them.
    Incentivized
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