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    Cisco Unified Contact Center

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/ACisco Unified Contact Center is a contact center platform that can support up to 24,000 agents. It supports call routing, omnichannel integrations, and a management portal for creating customer profiles, segmentation, and resource monitoring.N/A
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    Cisco Unified Contact Center
    Considered Both Products
    Cisco
    Chose Cisco Unified Contact Center
    When choosing platform for our servicedesk we had specific requirements from their customers who contractually need a solution which gives control of how and where their data is stored and managed. No cloud solutions could fulfill these needs and we had to check on-premise …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco Unified Contact Center
    1) Cisco Unified Contact Center delivered a more reliable and dependable experience when compared to its competitors
    2) The Cisco brand has a much better appreciation in the market compared to its competitors
    3) The features on the Cisco platform were a better match to the …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco Unified Contact Center
    Cisco Unified Contact Center can integrate with all these solutions in a near-native way, with the use of a nuance speech recognition. We expand our services to autocall attendees for services that can be automated, so a user doesn't need to connect with an agent to receive the …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco Unified Contact Center
    You can't compare these two, one is the phone system and the other is for call centers.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco Unified Contact Center
    Cisco Unified Contact Center is, it's a much more robust solution and much more stable, particularly if you're looking at large industry-standard companies.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco Unified Contact Center
    Easy to use
    Good quality dashboard
    Enables collaboration
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco Unified Contact Center
    They both work independently great. Working with Webex Contact Center and Cisco Contact Center both holds up in the end.
    What I like about Cisco Contact Center, you have the ability to host locally whereas Webex Contact Center is cloud based. Both are good products I would …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco Unified Contact Center
    A cloud-based contact centre requires more technical support as the system is still under development. Technical complex factors are more, the things don't come as a package like the Cisco Unified Contact Center does.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco Unified Contact Center
    For customers that don't prefer the cloud solutions because they're afraid of data leak and instead prefer the on-premise solution to maintain their customers' sensitive data on their contact centers, i.e. banking sector, UCCE would win. This doesn't mean the cloud CCaaS won't …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco Unified Contact Center
    Cisco Unified Contact Center has no comparison with any other software or app out there, For me, it is the most viable option if you want your organization to lead since you literally have everything you need to be able to develop your company and stand out from the others …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco Unified Contact Center
    Cisco Unified Contact Center has proven to be very valuable despite its price, it can help in all areas of a company, like all software, it is not perfect, but it has great support, the support agents also give you solutions for certain problems and bugs that you may come …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco Unified Contact Center
    If you want your business to improve and grow, don't hesitate to buy this software, I'm pretty sure it will help your small and medium business to grow and be better, your co-workers and you'll be happy too, It's a beautiful software, not everything is perfect, it has some …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco Unified Contact Center
    Cisco Integrated Communication Center it's a great match for Microsoft Power BI which provides excellent integration to create high quality and specific reports, a great feature when your organization already has its own way of analyzing performance and areas for improvement. I …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco Unified Contact Center
    Both with similar purposes and features, but Cisco provides a better measurement for KPI's and target goals which are important to the client, while also helping us keep track of our employee's performance and how is that impacting our customer's satisfaction with the level of …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco Unified Contact Center
    As we are a Cisco partner/reseller, we didn't really look for other vendor solution. But if you look for a robust and reliable solution, Cisco is the vendor to go with.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco Unified Contact Center
    Similar I guess, however, I feel like Avaya was more suited for a contact center and allowed for all information to be in one place. The QA Forms were more flexible and easy to review. Predicative analysis was available to assist with scheduling and staffing. It was easier to …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco Unified Contact Center
    Both Avaya and Cisco Unified Contact Center are great solutions in their own right. It is a matter of preference at a certain point. Both interfaces are solid and the agents have good visibility on their call progress. I'd say Avaya's live chat is a little more fleshed out, but …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco Unified Contact Center
    After our experiences with Cisco Unified Contact Center, we decided that a cloud solution would provide 24/7 uptime--and, it did. We actually picked Genesys Cloud over Cisco Unified Contact Center and have not had any regrets. Not only do we not have to deal with the telephone …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco Unified Contact Center
    Freshchat is more basic since it only uses stars to be able to rate the attention, instead Cisco Unified Contact Center is more complete and this software was chosen since it gives us a more detailed report and in the areas in which we can improve. And it is much cheaper, which …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco Unified Contact Center
    I have not used other vendors solution but I am quite familiar with the Webex Contact center cloud offering. I would say they both offer the basics but the Cloud offering is clearly the future. It is still improving and has some hiccups but will be a contender for the long run. …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco Unified Contact Center
    Cisco Contact center has a very good Cisco TAC support which excel in troubleshooting for Cisco products.
    It is easy to integrate with Cisco Call Manager which manages the phones and also with other third-party apps which are used for Workflow management and call recording. …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco Unified Contact Center
    Have used Cisco Unified Contact Center for many years. Does a great job for the small to medium contact center.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco Unified Contact Center
    Since [Cisco Unified Contact Center] UCC has been around forever, there has been little to no effort to enhance UCCE/X as core platforms. Chances are good they will be sunset sooner than later. CVP has potential as an on prem solution. The future is Webex Contact Center as long …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco Unified Contact Center
    The closest comparison would be the Genesys Engage platform in terms of it being a non-SaaS CC environment and aimed at the higher end environment in terms of scale and complexity. Genesys [is] better if you want an all-in-one solution with accountability sitting in one area, …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    86%
    Would buy again
    37 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    37 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    81%
    Happy with the feature set
    35 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    24 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    32 Answers
    Features
    Cisco Unified Contact Center
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Cisco Unified Contact Center
    Feature
    Cisco Unified Contact Center
    6.4
    44 Ratings
    28% below category average
    Agent dashboard5.744 Ratings
    Validate callers6.440 Ratings
    Outbound response5.740 Ratings
    Call forwarding7.741 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)7.434 Ratings
    Warm transfer7.439 Ratings
    Predictive dialing4.129 Ratings
    Interactive voice response6.137 Ratings
    REST APIs7.734 Ratings
    Call scripts6.839 Ratings
    Call tracking4.742 Ratings
    Multichannel integration6.834 Ratings
    CRM software integration7.034 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Cisco Unified Contact Center
    Feature
    Cisco Unified Contact Center
    7.0
    45 Ratings
    17% below category average
    Inbound call routing7.842 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing6.134 Ratings
    Recording7.437 Ratings
    Quality management6.438 Ratings
    Call analytics7.140 Ratings
    Historical reporting7.743 Ratings
    Live reporting5.443 Ratings
    Customer surveys7.130 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics7.732 Ratings
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    Small Businesses
    Zendesk Talk
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Score8.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Cisco Unified Contact Center
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (53 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    7.7
    (11 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.3
    (16 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Professional Services
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cisco Unified Contact Center
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    I would recommend it to other people in my contact and business circle, but if I recommend it to someone who has certain difficulties in accessing some tools within Cisco, he may have great difficulty in getting help because of the support that is lacking in most of the times.
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    Pros
    Cisco
    • Provides you with a solid routing engine that was built to handle Service Provider level throughput - if you need stability and a work horse this is the platform for you.
    • The core features on the whole are good, but where UCCE is very good is the eco-system of Solutions Plus partner integrations that expand on the core capabilities with the market leaders in areas such as WFO, Campaign Management, Biometrics and Natural Language.
    • The investment Cisco makes in the CC space means they are always improving the platform features, scale and reliability.
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    Cons
    Cisco
    • After 25+ years, the product still requires experienced and highly skilled engineers to deploy the product properly per Cisco Best Practice guidelines.
    • Third-party integrations are also very cumbersome and require highly skilled and experienced engineers and significant time and financial investment to deploy.
    • Upgrading the product is cumbersome and requires Cisco ATP or Cisco AS which is time consuming and very expensive.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cisco
    if it is up to me I would maintain its use. I was not able to make those decisions previously.
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    Usability
    Cisco
    It's a wellrounded solution that competes in a market with little on-premise competition. The benefits of being on-premise is great depending on the customers business case of course. But even when compared to other Cloud solution it holds up very well. Given the choice most customers want to be more secure, and it's an increasingly important factor for customers. And the customer does not want to compromise ease of use when choosing platform between a streamlined cloud solution. That's why I give this product an 8 because it's entirely up to us configurers of the platform who decides how well we make the user experience for the users.
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    Support Rating
    Cisco
    Cisco Unified Contact center is a very smart & reliable solution to go for. Its active-active sight base architecture and [customizable] features really help to deliver efficient customer service, enhanced next-gen experience, and uninterrupted operations. I believe every [organization] should opt for it if required.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cisco
    Similar I guess, however, I feel like Avaya was more suited for a contact center and allowed for all information to be in one place. The QA Forms were more flexible and easy to review. Predicative analysis was available to assist with scheduling and staffing. It was easier to manipulate and implement- I didn't need to go through 3 different parties to make a simply modification.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Cisco
    Licenses are very expensive. The customer has to buy IP telephony or Unified Communication and Collaboration Licenses and for Contact Center Solution licenses separately. There must be a price tone down as the competition is really high. New customers are willing to go for cloud-based solutions [that] are cheaper and easy to deploy.
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    Professional Services
    Cisco
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    Return on Investment
    Cisco
    • A smoother route to helping end users with critical needs
    • With quick assist while on hold, less calls come into the pool while agents have the ability to assist more critical needs
    • The ability to work remotely during an extreme event assisting end users
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