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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Five9

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AFive9 is cloud contact center software for inbound, outbound, blended, or multi-channel operations. This solution includes management capabilities such as campaign management, quality monitoring, real-time and historical reporting, and call recording.

    $119

    per month

    Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Office 2016 is the familiar suite of Office products including applications such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for use on a single PC or Mac. The 2016 is no longer available for sale from Microsoft, and support is at an end since 2020.N/A
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    Five9Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
    Core
    $119
    per month
    Digital
    $119
    per month
    Premium
    Contact sales team
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Five9Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsFive9 offers pricing options to suit your business needs: Monthly On-Demand —Companies looking to quickly scale their operations with minimum costs Per-Minute Fees — Products such as voice message broadcasting or IVR with Speech recognition Annual Contracts — Reduced fee compared to monthly on-demand pricing—
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    Five9Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)
    Considered Both Products
    Five9
    Chose Five9
    When we chose Five9, it was largely due to the research of features and functionality, plus hearing good things about it from other contact centers in our area.
    One huge edge that Five9 has compared with other dialers...is that you don't pay per minute of talk time (unless it's …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    85%
    Would buy again
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    93%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    88%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    85%
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    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    52 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    95%
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    98%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
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    98%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Five9Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Five9 and Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)
    Feature
    Five9
    7.9
    20 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Agent dashboard6.819 Ratings00 Ratings
    Validate callers8.017 Ratings00 Ratings
    Outbound response7.717 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call forwarding7.715 Ratings00 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)8.515 Ratings00 Ratings
    Warm transfer8.218 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive dialing8.415 Ratings00 Ratings
    Interactive voice response7.715 Ratings00 Ratings
    REST APIs8.514 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call scripts7.615 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call tracking8.919 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multichannel integration7.118 Ratings00 Ratings
    CRM software integration7.618 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Five9 and Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)
    Feature
    Five9
    8.0
    28 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Inbound call routing9.017 Ratings00 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing8.315 Ratings00 Ratings
    Recording9.018 Ratings00 Ratings
    Quality management7.927 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call analytics7.417 Ratings00 Ratings
    Historical reporting7.719 Ratings00 Ratings
    Live reporting7.918 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics7.315 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Five9Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)
    Small Businesses
    Zendesk Talk
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Google Workspace
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Score8 out of 10
    Google Workspace
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Score8.4 out of 10
    Microsoft 365 Business Premium
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Five9Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (44 ratings)
    7.5
    (64 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    5.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    7.7
    (8 ratings)
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    8.0
    (45 ratings)
    Online Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Vendor pre-sale
    8.0
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    User Testimonials
    Five9Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Five9
    We use Five9 as a tool to make and receive calls from various departments such as Customer Service, Underwriting, Claims, and others. It's a tool that has helped us complete various tasks to contact our customers. It has also allowed us to replace Zoom Phone, as it makes it easier to assign new contact numbers to agents, while Zoom Phone only allows reusing numbers. It's a good tool with an easy-to-use interface for new users.
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    I'd recommend [Microsoft] Office2016 for any business that has more than a couple of users, as the software is very scalable from just a small business to a large enterprise corporation. I don't know of any case where it might not be appropriate, as even home users and students use the software suite as well.
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    Pros
    Five9
    • Inbound and outbound calls it process is so well.
    • The service is so good and they give very efficient support in customer need.
    • The calls we can do in Five9 include incoming, outgoing, voicemails and we can also send a note to a specific person. It's a very reliable mode of communication.
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    • Data manipulation. Excel takes the raw data we receive and allows us to digest it in ways that are useful to our business processes.
    • Communication. Outlook serves as our primary means of communication and setting up appointments.
    • Documentation. Word is the default standard when it comes to using a word processor and we are no different in this regard. Nearly every user has to use the application on a regular basis in order to accomplish their work.
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    Cons
    Five9
    • Text. Texting is incredibly difficult on Five9. We've had issues with only some texts logging to Salesforce, issues with threading of text conversations, and issues with having Salesforce contact information appear on the text widget (knowing who you are texting, not just their phone number).
    • The interface to "pause" is challenging. There are not good reminders to our reps to remember to pause or log out of Five9. If you forget to log out, this can affect stats about who worked the longest hours that day - and it's hard to know who actually was active on the phones.
    • Inbound voicemails are too-easily hidden. It's challenging for a lot of our reps to remember to check their inbound voicemails because it is hard to access them in the Five9 widget.
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    • Office 2016 professional edition can be priced for a single user license, it would be nice to see a drop in the pricing.
    • Office 2016 home edition is a better price but does not include outlook 2016, so it is not a good fit for the workplace environments.
    • Office 2016 can run slowly on older systems, so you need to make sure you have a machine that is 4 years old or less for it to run smoothly.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Five9
    Robust product, great reliability and support.
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    We believe that office 2016 offers the best value when it comes to features included out of the box. The software is used in its entirety by our organization and is easily supported by our staff of IT technicians. Users find this software to be easy to learn and easy to use with minimal learning curve.
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    Usability
    Five9
    overall usability is very great. User friendly interface for agents within the Salesforce with the engage button. Easy to go offline and online. Very good Integrations with Salesforce helps lot of clients that implemented Salesforce. As it is cloud based, agents can access it from anywhere. While the agent experience is goof, as a technical person it is hard to manage with the Five9 VCC and also the reporting User Interface is bad and slow when there are large amount of records.
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    It's fairly easy to use, but the automatic formatting or capturing of formatting when pasting is wonky - especially when there are outlines or other bullets/numbered lists. Fixing and sizing up tables can be annoying, and there are sometimes formatting issues that we just absolutely cannot fix for some reason
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    Reliability and Availability
    Five9
    We have had minimal downtime due to system outages since it was implemented.
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    Performance
    Five9
    The system's performance is great. Page loads quickly. Reports are generated quickly and sent to our email or FTP. The integration did not impact the performance of our other applications. We have not seen any drop in the performance of either applications since we performed the integration.
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    Support Rating
    Five9
    Five9's Customer Support team is also based in Manila Philippines, thus turnaround email response times for our reported issues are great for our requirements. Their CS agents also facilitate mobile calls to followup on outstanding issues and operate on a 24/7 schedule. We've also had experience working with the senior tech agents to investigate recurring issues to completion.
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    I am an MS feedback hub participant and they certainly don't pay enough attention to several bugs several people raise it in the portal. For the enterprise, it seems to me based on my prior experience that yes, they have a dedicated team to support operations. For mid to small companies or single users, it has been a struggle. So, you are pretty much with MS Blogs and others.
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    Online Training
    Five9
    I took the certification course for administrator and also received some tips while working with the developer during implementation. The UI was very intuitive, so I was able to figure out how things worked when I configured the users, skills, campaigns, IVR scripts. I worked with the Five9 AI team to beta test Agent Assist.
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    Implementation Rating
    Five9
    The implementation team that was assigned to us was great. The project manager was very helpful and managed the timeline very efficiently. The developer was very helpful and provided insights while helping us configure the system.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Five9
    Initially selected Five9 but have since switched to RingCentral which has given us what we needed. Better CRM integration, simpler and in my opinion more robust reporting capabilities and the same omnichannel solution at a fraction of the cost
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    We use Microsoft Office 2016 because at the time it was the best tool for us, but now with full attention to cloud products, we may be thinking of migrating our solution to a cloud service.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Five9
    We do annual renewals and it's concurrent licensing which is great.
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    Scalability
    Five9
    It was very easy to add additional licenses. Once we placed the order, it was activated the following day. Since it's web-based, it's very quick to deploy across multiple sites.
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    Professional Services
    Five9
    Five9 Professional Services team is very knowledgeable and efficient. I worked with them during implementation and during beta testing for Five9 Agent Assist and Ai Insights.
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    Return on Investment
    Five9
    • Cost savings: Five9 replaced a premise-based outbound dialer and a different virtual call center solution for inbound.
    • Cost savings: Five9's voice over IP is less expensive than the land lines we were using.
    • Cost savings: Five9 requires significantly less management than our previous solutions.
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    • Microsoft Office 2016 saves me a lot of time daily. I have functions and macros set up that calculate and show me a lot of things just from a couple of my inputs. This would take full days sometimes if not for that.
    • Apart from time, it saves me money, I manage data in Excel, I don't have to buy software specifically for that.
    • Sooner or later my company will have to switch to new edition, which will hurt revenues because of a subscription model.
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