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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Dialpad Connect

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/ADialpad Connect is a cloud communications UCaaS platform that provides users with integrated voice, video, and messaging capabilities from one unified interface.

    $27

    per month

    Salesforce Agentforce Service

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AService Cloud is a customer service platform that helps businesses manage and resolve customer inquiries and issues. It provides tools for case management, knowledge base, omni-channel support, automation, and analytics, enabling companies to deliver exceptional customer service experiences.

    $25

    per month

    Pricing
    Dialpad ConnectSalesforce Agentforce Service
    Editions & Modules
    Standard
    $27
    per month per user
    Pro
    $35
    per month per user
    Enterprise
    Contact sales team
    per user/per month
    Starter Suite
    $25
    per month
    Pro Suite
    $100
    per month per user
    Enterprise
    $165
    per month per user
    Unlimited
    $330
    per month per user
    Agentforce 1
    $550
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Dialpad ConnectSalesforce Agentforce Service
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Dialpad ConnectSalesforce Agentforce Service
    Considered Both Products
    Dialpad
    Chose Dialpad Connect
    Dialpad Talk's mobile app and user interface are what sets it apart from competitors. The interface is beautiful, clean and simple both in the mobile and desktop apps. Many of it's competitors either 1) don't have a mobile app or 2) have a mobile app with poor / no SMS support …
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    Salesforce
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    94%
    Would buy again
    309 Answers
    91%
    Would buy again
    52 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    265 Answers
    88%
    Delivers good value for the price
    43 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    321 Answers
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    53 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    94%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    216 Answers
    88%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    36 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    241 Answers
    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    39 Answers
    Features
    Dialpad ConnectSalesforce Agentforce Service
    Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software
    Comparison of Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software features of Dialpad Connect and Salesforce Agentforce Service
    Feature
    Dialpad Connect
    8.0
    107 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Service
    -
    Ratings
    High quality audio8.8106 Ratings00 Ratings
    High quality video8.771 Ratings00 Ratings
    Screen Sharing
    Comparison of Screen Sharing features of Dialpad Connect and Salesforce Agentforce Service
    Feature
    Dialpad Connect
    8.4
    63 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Service
    -
    Ratings
    Desktop sharing9.363 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Meetings / Events
    Comparison of Online Meetings / Events features of Dialpad Connect and Salesforce Agentforce Service
    Feature
    Dialpad Connect
    8.5
    75 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Service
    -
    Ratings
    Calendar integration8.663 Ratings00 Ratings
    Meeting initiation8.961 Ratings00 Ratings
    Record meetings / events8.663 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Events Collaboration
    Comparison of Online Events Collaboration features of Dialpad Connect and Salesforce Agentforce Service
    Feature
    Dialpad Connect
    8.1
    47 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Service
    -
    Ratings
    Live chat9.646 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Events Security
    Comparison of Online Events Security features of Dialpad Connect and Salesforce Agentforce Service
    Feature
    Dialpad Connect
    8.5
    66 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Service
    -
    Ratings
    User authentication8.457 Ratings00 Ratings
    Participant roles & permissions9.062 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cloud PBX
    Comparison of Cloud PBX features of Dialpad Connect and Salesforce Agentforce Service
    Feature
    Dialpad Connect
    8.0
    75 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Service
    -
    Ratings
    Hosted PBX8.234 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)7.347 Ratings00 Ratings
    Directory of employee names8.770 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call Management
    Comparison of Call Management features of Dialpad Connect and Salesforce Agentforce Service
    Feature
    Dialpad Connect
    8.5
    89 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Service
    -
    Ratings
    Answering rules8.475 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call recording9.381 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call park8.861 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call screening8.868 Ratings00 Ratings
    Message alerts9.283 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business SMS/External Messaging7.369 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Fax7.519 Ratings00 Ratings
    Voicemail Transcription9.081 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile apps
    Comparison of Mobile apps features of Dialpad Connect and Salesforce Agentforce Service
    Feature
    Dialpad Connect
    7.3
    74 Ratings
    19% below category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Service
    -
    Ratings
    Mobile app for iOS7.251 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile app for Android7.547 Ratings00 Ratings
    Unified Communications Platform and Collaboration
    Comparison of Unified Communications Platform and Collaboration features of Dialpad Connect and Salesforce Agentforce Service
    Feature
    Dialpad Connect
    8.5
    66 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Service
    -
    Ratings
    Centralized communications management9.051 Ratings00 Ratings
    Team messaging8.747 Ratings00 Ratings
    Team document sharing8.429 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call and meeting analytics8.152 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Dialpad Connect and Salesforce Agentforce Service
    Feature
    Dialpad Connect
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Agentforce Service
    8.0
    81 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings8.279 Ratings
    Expert directory00 Ratings7.857 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings8.267 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings6.962 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings8.779 Ratings
    Ticket response00 Ratings7.978 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of Dialpad Connect and Salesforce Agentforce Service
    Feature
    Dialpad Connect
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Agentforce Service
    8.7
    76 Ratings
    8% above category average
    External knowledge base00 Ratings8.567 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base00 Ratings8.874 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Dialpad Connect and Salesforce Agentforce Service
    Feature
    Dialpad Connect
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Agentforce Service
    7.9
    81 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Customer portal00 Ratings7.858 Ratings
    IVR00 Ratings8.037 Ratings
    Social integration00 Ratings7.451 Ratings
    Email support00 Ratings8.880 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings7.870 Ratings
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    Score9.1 out of 10
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    Score9.3 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Webex Calling
    Score8.8 out of 10
    LiveAgent
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Webex Calling
    Score8.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Dialpad ConnectSalesforce Agentforce Service
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (341 ratings)
    8.7
    (100 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.9
    (12 ratings)
    6.2
    (8 ratings)
    Usability
    8.9
    (75 ratings)
    8.2
    (22 ratings)
    Availability
    8.3
    (4 ratings)
    8.4
    (45 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    8.6
    (7 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (57 ratings)
    7.0
    (20 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.4
    (6 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    5.7
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.9
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Dialpad ConnectSalesforce Agentforce Service
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Dialpad
    I like that it allows for a seamless transition of calls between our 2 offices. I don't have to forward or un-forward phones at the beginning and end of my day. Our offices are on a specific schedule which opens the phone lines at a certain time, transfers them to another office at another time, and then sends them to an after hours number when we close. I also like how easy it is to change settings within our different departments and contact centers. It's a very well-rounded program that is easy to use on your computer or phone.
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    Salesforce
    I think Service Cloud is best suited for medium to large operations that require both proactive and reactive service. It’s a great fit for post-sales support. However, I wouldn’t recommend it for very small companies because it can be quite costly, and many of the features may go unused. Salesforce also performs best when you have a capable team managing it, so it’s important to consider your organization’s size and readiness before starting. Once you do, I recommend exploring other parts of the Salesforce ecosystem—Service Cloud works even better when integrated with Sales Cloud, since it allows better visibility across teams.
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    Pros
    Dialpad
    • Ease of signing on and calling in
    • Clear audio/sound, no static or poor connections
    • Can choose to be on video or not
    • The organizer and participants can see all who are on the call
    • Meetings can be auto-recorded and sent to organizer at end of call
    • Hold music can be played for initial caller
    • Meeting is auto-transcribed
    • Action items are automatically listed for the organizer
    • Summary list shows all who were in attendance
    • Summary shows duration of callers on the meeting
    • Can load images of attendees when setting of the meeting
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    Salesforce
    • Email to case is an interesting piece of it. The threading is very strong, sometimes too strong, but it does very well at handling the incoming emails.
    • The omnichannel routing, using skill-based routing is really effective.
    • Pathing. So making the workflow and helping the team understand what it is that they're trying to do, what they have to accomplish, those step-by-step pieces. That's really helpful.
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    Cons
    Dialpad
    • The only example I can list for improvement is that occasionally the message has some mistranslation(s). But I can usually figure out the missing words. The 'southern USA' dialect may be partly to blame....
    • The functionality is really great. It is the best app I have used for messages in all of my customer service jobs.
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    Salesforce
    • We had a principle initially to try and use Omni as much as we can from the user experience perspective, but have found that fairly restrictive. It was very difficult to actually get the right customer experience and customer engagement going. So we're actually on a journey at the moment to replace all of our Omni with Lightning web components that gives us that flexibility. That's probably one area where we've had some challenges in terms of how we've used the product out of the box.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Dialpad
    Dialpad Talk is easy to use and no one has had a problem using it. Even when we have had questions/problems we have been able to fix it ourselves without having to go to Dialpad to ask for help, which saves everyone time. We don't have any reason to cancel our use of this product and we are very happy with how it performs for our team.
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    Salesforce
    Professional edition works best for a small company with lower call volumes and is very useful but as you grow exponetially I think it has limited ability to do all the things we want to - SLA management, defect, release management to name a few. Reports and dashboards being available in real time.
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    Usability
    Dialpad
    Overall, it is quite user-friendly and quick to set up, even for beginner levels. It is also easy to onboard new hires and get them to take calls quickly. The main complaint is that the analytics are difficult to find, gather, and interpret.
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    Salesforce
    I had Salesforce experience prior to using Service Cloud which made it a little easier to learn and navigate, but overall my team (some who had no Salesforce experience) caught on very quickly and found Service Cloud to be easy to use.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Dialpad
    There have not been any outages that I am aware of and we have had consistently good coverage since the start. There can be a slight lag from the office to the mobile app, but it is not terribly noticeable and it has not resulted in any calls being prematurely hung up
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    Salesforce
    Working on an application that caters to customer needs requires a platform that acts as a mediator between the actual person and the client. This mediator handles the customer and resolves many of their doubts, helps them map through the entire process, and automates the processes. Such a platform is Salesforce Service Cloud. For queries that cannot be serviced by the platform, it creates a separate ServiceNow ticket for us, and it is assigned.
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    Performance
    Dialpad
    The emails of voice transcription come very quickly after a call has been completed and except for a few fairly difficult names are pretty accurate. The ability to quickly listen to the voicemail from email without having to open the app is also a bonus. I have not noticed or heard of any slowdowns
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    Salesforce
    The Salesforce Service Cloud generally has very good performance, however the overall new Lightning user experience can bring that down. For example, if you have too many tabs open, then it can take a while for the Lightning UI to load. This UI is probably not well equipped to handle loading of all of that information at once, but Users tend to leave their tabs open all day long. It can also be fickle depending on which browser you use, what extensions you have installed, and whether you've cleared your cache. This can be the downfall with any software as a service though, not just Salesforce
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    Support Rating
    Dialpad
    The original date for roll-out, was unable to happen because there was an issue finding our existing phone lines to port them... The only reason I gave a 9 is [that] the original person we have been working with, Rolled out phones. Pro without telling anyone and then went on vacation, I only say this to explain that there is a gentleman that took over to help us named Brett and he was FANTASTIC! He allowed a ton of calls and answered all of them, walked us [through] settings, profile set up, and even emailed screen shares so we could help other members of our team! Thanks so much, Brett you ROCK~
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    Salesforce
    Salesforce offers support, although it generally gets routed to overseas support teams first, and once they are unable to help, it gets escalated up the chain to higher tiers. Frequently, the answer back from support is that there is no native solution, and we either have to turn to the AppExchange for some solution provided by another developer, or custom build our own solution.
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    In-Person Training
    Dialpad
    Welcoming and easy to follow the instruction
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    Salesforce
    Our in-person training was provided by our implementation partner and it was quite good. This was in part because we were already working with them and so it naturally leant itself to a good training relationship. And because they were building our customizations and configuring things, they could then provide training on those things naturally.
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    Online Training
    Dialpad
    Simple and easy to follow, we had our branches around the country to be trained and the feedback was great. Only take if there was a desk phone training that would be great. The team provided us with video for the desk phone training
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    Salesforce
    Trailheads are great but it was often unclear what actually applied to our organization. This made it difficult to get a whole lot out of it. Part of it is that because the basic Salesforce features didn't quite work for us, we had to add customizations, which then nullified a lot of the training.
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    Implementation Rating
    Dialpad
    I didn't participate in the implementation. But obviously it went flawlessly, as all users are set up in-house, and on the app.
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    Salesforce
    I would go through an implementation very differently knowing what I know now. It was difficult coming from systems we liked in post-sales service and having to adapt to the clunky and underwhelming feature set in Salesforce. I would trim back our expectations
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    Alternatives Considered
    Dialpad
    Panterra is dependable and has good support. Dialpad Connect has more features and an easier interface. AT&T has a lot of features, but Dialpad Connect's interface is easier. AT&T does not do call transcription that I know of. Comcast BVE and 8x8 services are lower quality and service is not great.
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    Salesforce
    We selected this product because we already had some competencies in Salesforce. We own a Salesforce partner with expertise in this area, and on top of that, Salesforce purchased it — it was originally called Velocity. When Salesforce decided to acquire it, that finalized the decision for us.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Dialpad
    Overall program is of average cost. SInce I use it simply for its phone/text capabilities. I would hazard that company that needed more options, might see it differently
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    Salesforce
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    Scalability
    Dialpad
    So far, Dialpad has been a great improvement for our organization. It allows everyone to be on the same service and the integration with the mobile app means everyone is still using the "office" numbers even when on the go which makes it easier not having to balance multiple phone numbers from people
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    Salesforce
    The product has scaled up with our company growth just fine. No issues here other than slowness in clicking around and running reports
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    Return on Investment
    Dialpad
    • Saves me time with a downloadable transcript for call documentation.
    • All calls are automatically recorded, which provides proof of what was said.
    • Translation availability using IVR and AI language allows us to communicate with all families without needing to find a translator.
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    Salesforce
    • We have cut our service team in half over the past 5 years due to the efficiency of the tool
    • The amount of direct inquiries to our technical team is less than 10% compared to the number support tickets that get entered in the system for them to work in a more organized manner
    • Responses are 100% more timely because tickets can be responded to by any individual in the queue or on the team, as opposed to direct emails to just one person
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