Cisco Unified Contact Center vs. Nextiva Contact Center

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Cisco Unified Contact Center
Score 7.7 out of 10
N/A
Cisco 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
Nextiva Contact Center
Score 9.5 out of 10
N/A
Nextiva’s cloud contact center solution features voice, digital, AI-driven journey orchestration, customer engagement, workforce management, and analytics. The solution helps boost customer loyalty, enhance employee productivity, and reduce costs.
$129
per month per user
Pricing
Cisco Unified Contact CenterNextiva Contact Center
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Essential
$129
per month per seat
Professional
$159
per month per seat
Premium
$199
per month per seat
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Cisco Unified Contact CenterNextiva Contact Center
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Cisco Unified Contact CenterNextiva Contact Center
Considered Both Products
Cisco Unified Contact Center
Chose Cisco Unified Contact Center
The Enterprise Contact Center application features and flexibility is on par with these other providers and is tightly integrated with Cisco UCM.
Nextiva Contact Center

No answer on this topic

Features
Cisco Unified Contact CenterNextiva Contact Center
Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
Cisco Unified Contact Center
4.6
41 Ratings
58% below category average
Nextiva Contact Center
9.3
43 Ratings
11% above category average
Agent dashboard5.141 Ratings9.243 Ratings
Validate callers5.137 Ratings9.441 Ratings
Outbound response5.137 Ratings9.541 Ratings
Call forwarding5.138 Ratings9.542 Ratings
Click-to-call (CTC)4.131 Ratings9.035 Ratings
Warm transfer4.136 Ratings9.440 Ratings
Predictive dialing4.128 Ratings8.927 Ratings
Interactive voice response4.135 Ratings8.932 Ratings
REST APIs5.131 Ratings9.225 Ratings
Call scripts4.136 Ratings9.524 Ratings
Call tracking4.139 Ratings9.838 Ratings
Multichannel integration4.131 Ratings9.328 Ratings
CRM software integration5.131 Ratings9.330 Ratings
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Product A and Product B
Cisco Unified Contact Center
4.7
42 Ratings
55% below category average
Nextiva Contact Center
9.4
43 Ratings
13% above category average
Inbound call routing5.139 Ratings9.641 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing4.131 Ratings9.335 Ratings
Recording4.035 Ratings9.539 Ratings
Quality management5.136 Ratings9.437 Ratings
Call analytics5.137 Ratings9.438 Ratings
Historical reporting5.140 Ratings9.341 Ratings
Live reporting4.140 Ratings8.936 Ratings
Customer surveys5.028 Ratings9.722 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics5.030 Ratings9.328 Ratings
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Cisco Unified Contact CenterNextiva Contact Center
Small Businesses
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Score 7.2 out of 10
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CloudTalk
Score 7.2 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 7.2 out of 10
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 7.2 out of 10
Enterprises
Bright Pattern Contact Center
Bright Pattern Contact Center
Score 8.8 out of 10
Bright Pattern Contact Center
Bright Pattern Contact Center
Score 8.8 out of 10
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User Ratings
Cisco Unified Contact CenterNextiva Contact Center
Likelihood to Recommend
7.1
(50 ratings)
9.5
(44 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(5 ratings)
9.7
(3 ratings)
Usability
7.0
(8 ratings)
8.2
(9 ratings)
Support Rating
7.3
(16 ratings)
8.0
(7 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
8.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Professional Services
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Cisco Unified Contact CenterNextiva 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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Nextiva
We have over 50 locations and an in-house call center, so having a united platform to perform customer service duties is absolutely critical. Nextiva Contact Center is a very effective solution for large teams and multi-location businesses. If you need to regularly report on call volume and agent performance, it is extremely helpful. A very small team may not benefit from it as much as a medium to large scale one.
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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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Nextiva
  • Nextiva allows you to set up the Contact Center to fit your exact needs.
  • The Contact Center has a consistency of quality. Dropped calls or interrupted calls are very rare. The voice quality is always great on both ends.
  • The Contact Center allows us to have a Call Center with 50+ numbers to assist our customers and attendees. At the same time, it allows us to have a main line for our Customer Support, Sales, etc...
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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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Nextiva
  • I'd like to be able block numbers globally through the web portal rather than having it done through tech support.
  • Mobile app sometimes continues to ring even though the call has been picked up via the desktop app or physical phone.
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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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Nextiva
Outside of emails, Nextiva is the only way to contact our customers and their attendees, and the only way that they can contact us. We are a smaller company, but with Nextiva we can operate and manage our contact center easily no matter how much our company grows in the future. Nextiva is a versatile tool that can fit any need
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Usability
Cisco
Cisco Unified Contact Center is a scalable product . Can be used in amy organizational units not only the contact center . Can be used for many IT Helpdesk setups and any internal or external CC . We can use it to automate the outbound dialing as well for marketting and invoices and other use cases
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Nextiva
We take advantage of all the options we have with Nextiva to make our customer's experience better and faster than what it used to be; by using the multiple lines, we can talk to more patients and make their time valuable.
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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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Nextiva
Every single experience with the Nextiva Contact Center has been beyond amazing! The support team is always caring and kind, and they get the problem solved as soon as possible if needed. They always follow up to make sure the issue has been resolved. That's one of the reasons why I have been a customer for so long.
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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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Nextiva
It isn't just about clear calls- which they have in spades. The features on this platform are like little productivity cheerleaders. We can track calls, analyze performance, and even set up call routing so the right seller gets the right lead
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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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Nextiva
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Professional Services
Cisco
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Nextiva
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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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Nextiva
  • With a lot of our employees doing remote work, Nextiva Contact Center phone system supports remote access which has reduced our need for physical office space and associated costs.
  • It has reduced our maintenance and repair costs associated with outdated equipment.
  • The exceptional quality of sound has led to a higher satisfaction during meetings.
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