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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

    Five9

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AFive9 is cloud contact center software for inbound, outbound, blended, or multi-channel operations. This solution includes management capabilities such as campaign management, quality monitoring, real-time and historical reporting, and call recording.

    $119

    per month

    Pricing
    Cisco FinesseFive9
    Editions & Modules
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    Core
    $119
    per month
    Digital
    $119
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Cisco FinesseFive9
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Five9 offers pricing options to suit your business needs: Monthly On-Demand —Companies looking to quickly scale their operations with minimum costs Per-Minute Fees — Products such as voice message broadcasting or IVR with Speech recognition Annual Contracts — Reduced fee compared to monthly on-demand pricing
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    Community Pulse
    Cisco FinesseFive9
    Considered Both Products
    Cisco
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    Five9
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    86%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
    85%
    Would buy again
    23 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    88%
    Delivers good value for the price
    21 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    85%
    Happy with the feature set
    23 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    18 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    100%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Cisco FinesseFive9
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Cisco Finesse and Five9
    Feature
    Cisco Finesse
    7.5
    7 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Five9
    7.9
    20 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Agent dashboard8.06 Ratings6.819 Ratings
    Validate callers8.75 Ratings8.017 Ratings
    Outbound response5.07 Ratings7.717 Ratings
    Call forwarding5.06 Ratings7.715 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)8.93 Ratings8.515 Ratings
    Warm transfer5.05 Ratings8.218 Ratings
    Predictive dialing8.04 Ratings8.415 Ratings
    Interactive voice response8.03 Ratings7.715 Ratings
    REST APIs8.02 Ratings8.514 Ratings
    Call scripts8.03 Ratings7.615 Ratings
    Call tracking8.36 Ratings8.919 Ratings
    Multichannel integration8.93 Ratings7.118 Ratings
    CRM software integration8.13 Ratings7.618 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Cisco Finesse and Five9
    Feature
    Cisco Finesse
    6.1
    7 Ratings
    31% below category average
    Five9
    8.0
    28 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Inbound call routing6.07 Ratings9.017 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing7.73 Ratings8.315 Ratings
    Recording7.95 Ratings9.018 Ratings
    Quality management5.05 Ratings7.927 Ratings
    Call analytics6.06 Ratings7.417 Ratings
    Historical reporting4.06 Ratings7.719 Ratings
    Live reporting2.06 Ratings7.918 Ratings
    Customer surveys8.74 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics7.33 Ratings7.315 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Cisco FinesseFive9
    Small Businesses
    Zendesk Talk
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Zendesk Talk
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Score8 out of 10
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Score8.4 out of 10
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Score8.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Cisco FinesseFive9
    Likelihood to Recommend
    5.0
    (7 ratings)
    8.6
    (44 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.7
    (8 ratings)
    Availability
    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cisco FinesseFive9
    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.
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    Five9
    We use Five9 as a tool to make and receive calls from various departments such as Customer Service, Underwriting, Claims, and others. It's a tool that has helped us complete various tasks to contact our customers. It has also allowed us to replace Zoom Phone, as it makes it easier to assign new contact numbers to agents, while Zoom Phone only allows reusing numbers. It's a good tool with an easy-to-use interface for new users.
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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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    Five9
    • Inbound and outbound calls it process is so well.
    • The service is so good and they give very efficient support in customer need.
    • The calls we can do in Five9 include incoming, outgoing, voicemails and we can also send a note to a specific person. It's a very reliable mode of communication.
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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
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    Five9
    • Text. Texting is incredibly difficult on Five9. We've had issues with only some texts logging to Salesforce, issues with threading of text conversations, and issues with having Salesforce contact information appear on the text widget (knowing who you are texting, not just their phone number).
    • The interface to "pause" is challenging. There are not good reminders to our reps to remember to pause or log out of Five9. If you forget to log out, this can affect stats about who worked the longest hours that day - and it's hard to know who actually was active on the phones.
    • Inbound voicemails are too-easily hidden. It's challenging for a lot of our reps to remember to check their inbound voicemails because it is hard to access them in the Five9 widget.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Five9
    Robust product, great reliability and support.
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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.
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    Five9
    overall usability is very great. User friendly interface for agents within the Salesforce with the engage button. Easy to go offline and online. Very good Integrations with Salesforce helps lot of clients that implemented Salesforce. As it is cloud based, agents can access it from anywhere. While the agent experience is goof, as a technical person it is hard to manage with the Five9 VCC and also the reporting User Interface is bad and slow when there are large amount of records.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Five9
    We have had minimal downtime due to system outages since it was implemented.
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    Performance
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Five9
    The system's performance is great. Page loads quickly. Reports are generated quickly and sent to our email or FTP. The integration did not impact the performance of our other applications. We have not seen any drop in the performance of either applications since we performed the integration.
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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
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    Five9
    Five9's Customer Support team is also based in Manila Philippines, thus turnaround email response times for our reported issues are great for our requirements. Their CS agents also facilitate mobile calls to followup on outstanding issues and operate on a 24/7 schedule. We've also had experience working with the senior tech agents to investigate recurring issues to completion.
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    Online Training
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Five9
    I took the certification course for administrator and also received some tips while working with the developer during implementation. The UI was very intuitive, so I was able to figure out how things worked when I configured the users, skills, campaigns, IVR scripts. I worked with the Five9 AI team to beta test Agent Assist.
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    Implementation Rating
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Five9
    The implementation team that was assigned to us was great. The project manager was very helpful and managed the timeline very efficiently. The developer was very helpful and provided insights while helping us configure the system.
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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.
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    Five9
    Initially selected Five9 but have since switched to RingCentral which has given us what we needed. Better CRM integration, simpler and in my opinion more robust reporting capabilities and the same omnichannel solution at a fraction of the cost
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Five9
    We do annual renewals and it's concurrent licensing which is great.
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    Scalability
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Five9
    It was very easy to add additional licenses. Once we placed the order, it was activated the following day. Since it's web-based, it's very quick to deploy across multiple sites.
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    Professional Services
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Five9
    Five9 Professional Services team is very knowledgeable and efficient. I worked with them during implementation and during beta testing for Five9 Agent Assist and Ai Insights.
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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.
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    Five9
    • Cost savings: Five9 replaced a premise-based outbound dialer and a different virtual call center solution for inbound.
    • Cost savings: Five9's voice over IP is less expensive than the land lines we were using.
    • Cost savings: Five9 requires significantly less management than our previous solutions.
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