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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

    Fuze

    Score8.2 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Fuze is a cloud-based unified communications platform that includes IP PBX voice service, video conferencing, and collaboration tools such as content sharing and instant messaging capabilities. It also integrates with a wide range of popular CTI, CRM, and click-to-call solutions.

    $15

    per month

    Pricing
    Cisco FinesseFuze
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    US Outbound
    $0.02
    Per Minute
    Fuze Meetings
    $15
    Per User/Per Month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Cisco FinesseFuze
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeRequired
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    Community Pulse
    Cisco FinesseFuze
    Considered Both Products
    Cisco
    No answer on this topic
    Fuze
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    86%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
    77%
    Would buy again
    20 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    77%
    Delivers good value for the price
    17 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    23 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    79%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    11 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    67%
    Implementation went as expected
    12 Answers
    Features
    Cisco FinesseFuze
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Cisco Finesse and Fuze
    Feature
    Cisco Finesse
    7.5
    7 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Fuze
    -
    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 Fuze
    Feature
    Cisco Finesse
    6.1
    7 Ratings
    31% below category average
    Fuze
    -
    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
    Cloud PBX
    Comparison of Cloud PBX features of Cisco Finesse and Fuze
    Feature
    Cisco Finesse
    -
    Ratings
    Fuze
    5.5
    111 Ratings
    36% below category average
    Hosted PBX00 Ratings5.178 Ratings
    Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)00 Ratings6.073 Ratings
    User templates00 Ratings5.060 Ratings
    Call reports00 Ratings6.192 Ratings
    Directory of employee names00 Ratings5.1107 Ratings
    Call Management
    Comparison of Call Management features of Cisco Finesse and Fuze
    Feature
    Cisco Finesse
    -
    Ratings
    Fuze
    6.5
    107 Ratings
    23% below category average
    Answering rules00 Ratings7.099 Ratings
    Call recording00 Ratings6.089 Ratings
    Call park00 Ratings7.073 Ratings
    Message alerts00 Ratings6.193 Ratings
    VoIP system collaboration
    Comparison of VoIP system collaboration features of Cisco Finesse and Fuze
    Feature
    Cisco Finesse
    -
    Ratings
    Fuze
    7.1
    91 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Video conferencing00 Ratings7.077 Ratings
    Audio conferencing00 Ratings7.190 Ratings
    Mobile apps
    Comparison of Mobile apps features of Cisco Finesse and Fuze
    Feature
    Cisco Finesse
    -
    Ratings
    Fuze
    8.0
    103 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Mobile app for iOS00 Ratings8.094 Ratings
    Mobile app for Android00 Ratings8.077 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Cisco FinesseFuze
    Small Businesses
    Zendesk Talk
    Score8.5 out of 10
    CallFire
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Score8 out of 10
    Nextiva
    Score8.4 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Score8.4 out of 10
    Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Call Manager)
    Score8.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Cisco FinesseFuze
    Likelihood to Recommend
    5.0
    (7 ratings)
    8.0
    (116 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.7
    (20 ratings)
    Usability
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.1
    (12 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.9
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.4
    (88 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (111 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.7
    (3 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.8
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.6
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cisco FinesseFuze
    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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    Fuze
    Fuze has way more capability than we need for our small office so it might be best suited for large installations, call centers, and complex environments. Our office is small and our needs [are] minimal, so when we need support we are challenged to understand the support person due to our lack of technical sophistication. We sometimes feel like we should switch to a solution more geared for consumers or SOHO. Nevertheless, Fuze provides reliable service at [a] reasonable cost that meets our needs, and because support is rarely needed we are happy with them most of the time, i.e. when support isn't needed.
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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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    Fuze
    • Support Team - the best I have ever worked with. They help 24/7 on any issue I could come across. Usually it is an item I could fix myself and they fix it and show me how to fix the same issue if I have it in the future.
    • Contact Center - We do Commercial Collections involving Sales and Collections. We have 50 people on the phone at one time. Contact Center lets a Manager listen live and gives help if the rep needs help selling or collecting.
    • Pandemic 2020 - without Fuze we would have been unable to work for 3 months. They saved our "rears" since we already had all their services up and running for years.
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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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    Fuze
    • Desktop application stability and compatibility with certain hardware.
    • Better installation - Per-user and per-computer installs sometimes compete with one another and/or upgrades fail to install.
    • [The] desktop app is not best for touchscreen-enabled devices due to lack of ability to scroll through messages using a finger or stylus.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Fuze
    Fuze is a solid application that is a great asset to the business for our sales staff to make daily calls to clients and candidates. Managers can monitor call data and times to keep up to date with team performance, as well as monitor calls for users on their team. The Fuze/MS Teams integration is an exciting prospect that would be very beneficial to us as a business, for seamless integration between the 2 platforms.
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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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    Fuze
    Fuze was built with the end-user in mind. It was built to have a common interface on mobile and desktop. Fuze Web is new, and it also has the exact same interface as the desktop and mobile, and they are still working on the ability to make phone calls from the browser itself, currently it can do meetings just fine. Everything about Fuze was built with the end-user in mind.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Fuze
    We've had a few outages over the past year. More than other vendors I've used. They usually have outages fixed within an hour. The downside is they do not provide root cause of outages. If they do at takes them at least a month to get it to you
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    Performance
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Fuze
    Since Fuze runs across multiple devices and platforms they really strived to make a lightweight interface that is optimized for phone calls, chat, and collaboration. The web client loads fast, the chat is always up-to-date, phone calls arrive on-time. The desktop client is the most feature rich and basically it just adds desktop sharing functionality as well as VoIP for calling, and the mobile client doesn't consume a lot of battery, and it stays running to get phone calls, chats, and can do meetings over Wifi, Cellular Data, or Cellular voice.
    Incentivized
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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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    Fuze
    Our experience with Fuze support has been overall very positive. Their technicians seem to be well trained and able to handle a variety of requests and issues without unnecessary delays or extensive troubleshooting. Fuze allows enough customer access to avoid the need to call support for every little issue but is ready to assist when issues are beyond our capabilities to resolve.
    Incentivized
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    In-Person Training
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Fuze
    At many of our sites with more than 50 users, Fuze sent someone onsite to train. This worked surprisingly well, as the trainer allowed the users to set the pace and answered TONS of questions. Fuze has a very streamlined training process, their staff is very professional, very knowledgeable and very engaging.
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    Online Training
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Fuze
    Fuze has vast amounts of training videos and guides on how to use its products and services. There are literally endless-hours of training and I often point end-users to a particular video which addresses the specific needs of the user, for example: how to check voicemail. Or, how to share your desktop, etc.
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    Implementation Rating
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Fuze
    Personally, I didn't have any trouble getting started with Fuze. It was installed on my computer on my first day and I was good to go! Little to no hiccups. I was not with the company when they first adapted Fuze so I can not speak to the implementation as a whole.
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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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    Fuze
    Fuze was far more expensive and more complicated to set up. Our current platform took a few days to set up with SSO. Our contact center took a bit longer but works amazingly.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Fuze
    Fuze does have scalability limits but most of that is how many end-points they can put on a virtual PBX, or VCX as they call them, I THINK its limit is somewhere between 2,000 and 5,000, but we've not had issues with that because we have put users into various VCXs some by location, some by department or function. Either way, we have 7,000 currently deployed, and are going to end up with over 15,000 when we are done, Fuze is VERY scalable.
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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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    Fuze
    • We receive constant negative feedback from mangers about the system not functioning correctly. (This is mainly due to lack of support from Fuze)
    • This has had a positive impact in that the system is cheaper and we are missing less calls due to the functionality of the system.
    Incentivized
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