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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

    NiCE CXone

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/ANICE 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 FinesseNiCE 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 FinesseNiCE CXone
    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 FinesseNiCE CXone
    Considered Both Products
    Cisco
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    NICE Systems
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    86%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
    94%
    Would buy again
    276 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    193 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    284 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    90%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    128 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    155 Answers
    Features
    Cisco FinesseNiCE CXone
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Cisco Finesse and NiCE CXone
    Feature
    Cisco Finesse
    7.5
    7 Ratings
    12% below category average
    NiCE CXone
    9.4
    581 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Agent dashboard8.06 Ratings9.2559 Ratings
    Validate callers8.75 Ratings9.6471 Ratings
    Outbound response5.07 Ratings9.5490 Ratings
    Call forwarding5.06 Ratings9.3443 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)8.93 Ratings9.2403 Ratings
    Warm transfer5.05 Ratings9.8531 Ratings
    Predictive dialing8.04 Ratings9.6317 Ratings
    Interactive voice response8.03 Ratings9.5376 Ratings
    REST APIs8.02 Ratings9.3301 Ratings
    Call scripts8.03 Ratings9.2322 Ratings
    Call tracking8.36 Ratings9.5510 Ratings
    Multichannel integration8.93 Ratings9.3364 Ratings
    CRM software integration8.13 Ratings9.0365 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Cisco Finesse and NiCE CXone
    Feature
    Cisco Finesse
    6.1
    7 Ratings
    31% below category average
    NiCE CXone
    9.4
    556 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Inbound call routing6.07 Ratings9.5511 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing7.73 Ratings9.1373 Ratings
    Recording7.95 Ratings9.6495 Ratings
    Quality management5.05 Ratings9.0480 Ratings
    Call analytics6.06 Ratings9.3486 Ratings
    Historical reporting4.06 Ratings9.4479 Ratings
    Live reporting2.06 Ratings9.4465 Ratings
    Customer surveys8.74 Ratings9.5299 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics7.33 Ratings9.6319 Ratings
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    Cisco FinesseNiCE CXone
    Small Businesses
    Zendesk Talk
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Zendesk Talk
    Score8.5 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 FinesseNiCE CXone
    Likelihood to Recommend
    5.0
    (7 ratings)
    9.7
    (613 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (28 ratings)
    Usability
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.3
    (587 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.1
    (9 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.7
    (9 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (6 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (5 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.9
    (7 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.5
    (11 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (6 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.8
    (6 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (9 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.5
    (8 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.5
    (8 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cisco FinesseNiCE CXone
    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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    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
    • 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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    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
    • 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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    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
    No answers on this topic
    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 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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    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
    No answers on this topic
    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
    No answers on this topic
    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
    We have hardly had any problems, but the attention provided when we need support has been very fast and effective
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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
    No answers on this topic
    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
    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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    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
    No answers on this topic
    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
    • 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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    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.