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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cisco Webex Experience Management (discontinued)

    Score8.6 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Cisco Webex Experience Management (CloudCherry, before being acquired by Cisco) was a real-time, omni-channel Customer Experience Analytics and Sentiment Mapping product that helps customer-facing brands track, measure and improve customer delight. The product has been discontinued and is no longer available.N/A

    Gusto

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AGusto offers payroll, benefits and compliance capabilities. Gusto is scaled for small to mid-sized businesses, and emphasizes an easy to use interface.

    $49

    per month

    Pricing
    Cisco Webex Experience Management (discontinued)Gusto
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Simple: A streamlined set of automatic payroll features and benefits integrations
    $49/month + $6/mo per person
    per month
    Plus: Comprehensive payroll, benefits, and HR tools for employers building a great place to work
    $80/month + $12/mo per person
    per month
    Premium: Scalable payroll and benefits, expert HR, and dedicated support for the complex needs of growing teams
    $180/month + $22/mo per person
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Cisco Webex Experience Management (discontinued)Gusto
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Gusto offers three pricing plans for payroll, benefits, and HR.
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    Community Pulse
    Cisco Webex Experience Management (discontinued)Gusto
    Considered Both Products
    Discontinued Products
    No answer on this topic
    Gusto
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    90%
    Would buy again
    9 Answers
    92%
    Would buy again
    563 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    89%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    464 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    10 Answers
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    576 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    4 Answers
    91%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    316 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    376 Answers
    Features
    Cisco Webex Experience Management (discontinued)Gusto
    Payroll Management
    Comparison of Payroll Management features of Cisco Webex Experience Management (discontinued) and Gusto
    Feature
    Cisco Webex Experience Management (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Gusto
    9.1
    611 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Pay calculation00 Ratings9.5587 Ratings
    Support for external payroll vendors00 Ratings8.58 Ratings
    Benefit plan administration00 Ratings8.7417 Ratings
    Direct deposit files00 Ratings9.7592 Ratings
    Salary revision and increment management00 Ratings9.0462 Ratings
    Reimbursement management00 Ratings9.0196 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Cisco Webex Experience Management (discontinued)Gusto
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (12 ratings)
    9.1
    (633 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (14 ratings)
    Usability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    9.4
    (457 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    4.3
    (27 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cisco Webex Experience Management (discontinued)Gusto
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    Cisco Webex Experience Management is well suited in handling live customer query. It helps in monitoring customer feedback and queries.It is very useful application for comparison of year on year data, month data and weekly data. It help in understanding customer life cycle. It can be used as an interaction tool with the customers by directly posing them questions about the services. It helps in Segmenting, targeting and positioning of your product or service in the long run. Cisco Webex Experience Management scenarios where it can be less appropriate are few. As it gives a lot on insights about customer feedback,customer tracing etc, it would not be useful in short term or for smaller business who are not focussing on the larger goals of the business
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    Gusto
    I think Gusto is well-suited for any business, big or small, to use for accounting purposes. It makes it easy to keep track of many things, such as pay stubs, benefits, paid time off, and much more. Where I could see it being less useful is maybe for enterprise businesses with way more employees.
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • Audio and video quality is amazing.
    • Screen sharing is easy.
    • Very secure connection.
    • Collaboration is made easy.
    • Easy access thanks to different versions available.
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    Gusto
    • New employee/contractor onboarding - all the documents are stored and easily accessible (the same goes for off-boarding).
    • A one-click option for syncing hours worked with payroll.
    • The option to run payroll on auto-pilot.
    • Ensuring I'm tax compliant with the states we have employees in.
    • Always having digital records of payroll runs.
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    Cons
    Discontinued Products
    • Not always intuitive or user friendly
    • Getting the most out of the software requires dedicated personnel/time
    • Not that useful unless you'll do something with the data
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    Gusto
    • Digital compliance tools for remote teams
    • Gusto upsold us labor law posters, but I later found them available for free online. Since we’re a fully remote team, I had to manually download and distribute them digitally. It would be much more efficient if Gusto offered free, auto-distributed digital posters tailored to remote compliance.
    • Benefits setup is unintuitive for startups
    • While our rep was helpful, navigating the benefits system felt complex and not tailored to early-stage companies. More guided flows or simplified options for small, remote startups would be a big help.
    • Limited dashboard customization for remote workflows
    • As a fully online company, we’d benefit from dashboard options that highlight relevant tools for remote operations—like compliance tracking, digital communications, or onboarding checklists.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Discontinued Products
    We are happy with Cisco webex services. Webex is great platform to conduct our all kind of online meets.
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    Gusto
    Unless they break it, I'm never leaving. It's just too easy. Gusto is also really affordable, and for what I pay, it's worth having the historical record within the system. I like that I can go back and pull up W2's for year's past. This sort of easy access reporting, has been helpful especially when getting reports for PPP loans.
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    Usability
    Discontinued Products
    No code / Low Code Easily pluggable to any digital solution Comprehensive dashboard builder Predict Revenue based on CSAT and NPS scores Monitor Customer Journey end to end Visual Journey Maps
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    Gusto
    Gusto is pretty user-friendly, and the website is easy to navigate overall. They also offer good, responsive customer support and have helpful articles available when needed. So far, I have not had any major issues with the platform and am overall very happy with it.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
    Cisco Webex Experience Management team are very supportive from training to implementation to support and is a definite plus whenever you take a new product that challenges existing paradigm.
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    Gusto
    Gusto's customer service has really deteriorated lately and they seem to have really changed their focus. It used to be when you called you were routed to an individual who knew about payroll, benefits, reporting, etc. but now you get someone who seems to have not received the correct training. My last call about a dismissal payroll took me over an hour of my time and the person still could not help me and finally transferred me to someone else.
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    Implementation Rating
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Gusto
    Reach out to support immediately if you are having trouble setting up Gusto. Rather than being confused and trying to figure it out yourself, it's much better to talk to someone who knows what they are doing. Save yourself time and frustration and reach out to support
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    As I remember in 2011-12 Cisco was [the] only goto collaboration tool and it made [the] life of [the] entire team [fun-filled] and productive. The ease of connecting [teams] across the world and making communication effective[.]
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    Gusto
    While I never actually got to the point of trying out ADP, I had several conversations with an ADP representative, and it seemed that they would be able to provide the same (if not less) level of service for a significantly higher price
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • We have been able to show that an improved Member Satisfaction score often leads to cost savings and deeper share of wallet.
    • We have been able to survey our members throughout the lifetime of their relationship with us and gage their overall satisfaction.
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    Gusto
    • Time tracking + payroll calculations me 30-60 minutes every time I run payroll.
    • Integrated workers' comp, so I didn't have to find an outside carrier and get quotes—it's all taken care of in the same platform.
    • Improved employee experience with onboarding.
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    ScreenShots

    Gusto Screenshots

    Screenshot of Gusto's automated payrollScreenshot of the time-off tracking interfaceScreenshot of the source of truth for HR data