Freshdesk Contact Center vs. NiCE CXone Mpower

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Freshdesk Contact Center
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Freshdesk Contact Center ( Formerly Freshcaller) is a call center software for startups and small teams. Fresh Contact Center aims to enable businesses / teams set-up and run a call center without spending a lot of time and money. It is suited for phone teams of size 1- 30. Users can create custom greeting texts based on specific call scenarios. The nested Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system allows the user to provide a detailed set of options to callers. The call queues…
$0
per agent/per month
NiCE CXone Mpower
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
NICE CXone Mpower is a cloud-based contact center platform that manages customer interactions across multiple communication channels. It includes features such as automatic call distribution (ACD), interactive voice response (IVR), omnichannel routing, workforce optimization, feedback management, and interaction analytics.
$71
per month per user
Pricing
Freshdesk Contact CenterNiCE CXone Mpower
Editions & Modules
FREE
$0
per agent/per month
Growth
$15
per agent/per ,billed annually
Pro
$39
per agent/per month, billed annually
Enterprise
$69
per agent/per month, billed annually
CXone Mpower Digital Agent
$71
per month per user
CXone Mpower Voice Agent
$94
per month per user
CXone Mpower Omnichannel Agent
$110
per month per user
CXone Mpower Essential Suite
$135
per month per user
Cxone Mpower Core Suite
$169
per month per user
CXone Mpower Complete Suite
$209
per month per user
CXone Mpower Ultimate Suite
$249
per month per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Freshdesk Contact CenterNiCE CXone Mpower
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Freshdesk Contact CenterNiCE CXone Mpower
Features
Freshdesk Contact CenterNiCE CXone Mpower
Cloud PBX
Comparison of Cloud PBX features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk Contact Center
8.9
8 Ratings
10% above category average
NiCE CXone Mpower
-
Ratings
Hosted PBX9.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)8.28 Ratings00 Ratings
Call reports9.48 Ratings00 Ratings
Directory of employee names9.27 Ratings00 Ratings
Call Management
Comparison of Call Management features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk Contact Center
8.9
8 Ratings
6% above category average
NiCE CXone Mpower
-
Ratings
Answering rules8.58 Ratings00 Ratings
Call recording9.08 Ratings00 Ratings
Call park9.07 Ratings00 Ratings
Call screening8.58 Ratings00 Ratings
Message alerts9.47 Ratings00 Ratings
VoIP system collaboration
Comparison of VoIP system collaboration features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk Contact Center
9.6
6 Ratings
18% above category average
NiCE CXone Mpower
-
Ratings
Audio conferencing9.66 Ratings00 Ratings
Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk Contact Center
-
Ratings
NiCE CXone Mpower
9.3
581 Ratings
11% above category average
Agent dashboard00 Ratings9.5559 Ratings
Validate callers00 Ratings9.4471 Ratings
Outbound response00 Ratings9.6490 Ratings
Call forwarding00 Ratings9.4443 Ratings
Click-to-call (CTC)00 Ratings8.9403 Ratings
Warm transfer00 Ratings9.7531 Ratings
Predictive dialing00 Ratings9.3317 Ratings
Interactive voice response00 Ratings9.7376 Ratings
REST APIs00 Ratings8.7301 Ratings
Call scripts00 Ratings8.6322 Ratings
Call tracking00 Ratings9.3510 Ratings
Multichannel integration00 Ratings9.4364 Ratings
CRM software integration00 Ratings9.1365 Ratings
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk Contact Center
-
Ratings
NiCE CXone Mpower
9.1
556 Ratings
11% above category average
Inbound call routing00 Ratings9.1511 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing00 Ratings8.9373 Ratings
Recording00 Ratings9.5495 Ratings
Quality management00 Ratings9.1480 Ratings
Call analytics00 Ratings8.6486 Ratings
Historical reporting00 Ratings9.3479 Ratings
Live reporting00 Ratings9.3465 Ratings
Customer surveys00 Ratings8.9299 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics00 Ratings9.6319 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Freshdesk Contact CenterNiCE CXone Mpower
Small Businesses
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 8.4 out of 10
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 8.4 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 8.4 out of 10
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 8.4 out of 10
Enterprises
Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Call Manager)
Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Call Manager)
Score 9.1 out of 10
Bright Pattern Contact Center
Bright Pattern Contact Center
Score 9.1 out of 10
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User Ratings
Freshdesk Contact CenterNiCE CXone Mpower
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
(9 ratings)
9.5
(613 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(28 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(1 ratings)
9.1
(587 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
8.1
(9 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
7.7
(9 ratings)
Support Rating
8.1
(3 ratings)
8.8
(6 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
7.6
(5 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.1
(7 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.6
(11 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
8.1
(6 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
6.8
(6 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(9 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
7.6
(8 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
7.6
(8 ratings)
User Testimonials
Freshdesk Contact CenterNiCE CXone Mpower
Likelihood to Recommend
Freshworks Inc
One scenario where Freshdesk Contact Center is well suited is when we have a lot of parents calling in with requests about student transcripts, and or grades, we can better interact with each caller and not have a lot of people on hold waiting for a long time. One scenario where Freshdesk might not be well suited is when callers get the chatbot more often than talking to an actual person.
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NICE Systems
NICE CXone Mpower offers a great suite of products and tools appropriate for contact centers. It is a one stop shop for all of the monitoring, scheduling, reporting, and quality tools a large or small contact center may need. It is very feature rich and has many components, some of which we haven't even grown to adopt yet but may in the near future.
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Pros
Freshworks Inc
  • From this centralized help desk, we are able to allocate tickets and communicate with staff and clients via email.
  • The ability to phone a lead or customer directly from Freshdesk is fantastic.
  • Handling of waiting lines.
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NICE Systems
  • Organizes everyone's interactions within the platform
  • Shows interactions real time with productivity stats
  • Makes Chat/Call quality a breeze with customizable quality forms
  • Easy to share an interaction within the company for others to review
  • Keeps everyone on track with scheduled lunches/breaks/meetings so you don't have to remember yourself and never miss another event again!
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Cons
Freshworks Inc
  • Cost - the system was felt to be way overpriced for the feature-set it provided. For the cost of 10 support agents, I could engage with a full-blown VoIP UCaaS provider to support 20-30 users.
  • The system was dependent on the Amazon Web Services system, which was prone to outages, and as it was outsourced by Freshworks to Amazon, resolution time did not have clear SLAs.
  • Non-US support - any issues encountered with the system would go through international channels which decreased resolution time depending on when the development team was available.
  • Call reliability was questionable - sometimes agents would have ringing devices that would have no one on the other end - other times calls would be dropped without explanation.
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NICE Systems
  • There can be changes in interface of the app, however it's still very good
  • I would appreciete detailed web page with all necessary information, but when I need anything, the customer support is very quick and provide all the information
  • Hardly to find any other :)
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Likelihood to Renew
Freshworks Inc
No answers on this topic
NICE Systems
Nice made it possible for employees to work from anywhere with access to the internet, it made it possible to extract data from contacts in a very thorough way. In addition, the meticaes can be fully customized and the day-to-day monitoring of the operation is more visible.With nice, contacts with clients abroad became easier.
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Usability
Freshworks Inc
It's a really simple and affordable software solution if you're looking to upgrade your system or processes to a softphone. The service has been fantastic for both our outbound sales team and our inbound customer service team. As a manager, I'm really grateful I found FreshCaller early on in the process of evaluating companies to go to for a softphone.
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NICE Systems
The lack of written SOPs makes some features (WFM / Performance management) very difficult to use. The training provided by NICE is extensive, but it's hard to remember everything shared in the hour. We spend so much time on the platform just trying to figure out how to use the features; it would be much easier with written instructions and screenshots.
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Reliability and Availability
Freshworks Inc
No answers on this topic
NICE Systems
NICE inContact CXone is available when you need it. I have been using it for about a year and I have never suffered any issues that caused my not to have access to the product. If there are updates, they must be downloaded and install in the background because I do not see them
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Performance
Freshworks Inc
No answers on this topic
NICE Systems
NICE inContact CXone performs very well even on old computers that are limited in resources. I use a older computer with limited memory and it seems to handle NICE inContact CXone very well in most cases. There will be times when it acts up for whatever reason bust over ninety percent of the time.
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Support Rating
Freshworks Inc
Freshcaller support is great. They will respond very quickly once I submit a ticket. On occasion, they are unable to answer a question and require a deep dive on some research for random questions but that's completely understandable. Overall, great service, great quality, and very accommodating. This is one of the better support groups, in my opinion.
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NICE Systems
inContact only allows specific users to contact them for support. Even though I use the product daily and it accounts for a large amount of my workload, I still have to contact an authorized user to create an incident. These users are managers and their schedules are very busy. This can result in delays in incidents being opened and resolved.
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In-Person Training
Freshworks Inc
No answers on this topic
NICE Systems
The In-person training was fine for a general overview. I think it would have been really helpful to have a review of pre-built reports and how to use them as tools.
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Online Training
Freshworks Inc
No answers on this topic
NICE Systems
I would rate 10, since the explanations were far enough to catch all the usabilities.I would rate 10, since the explanations were far enough to catch all the usabilities.I would rate 10, since the explanations were far enough to catch all the usabilities.I would rate 10, since the explanations were far enough to catch all the usabilities.
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Implementation Rating
Freshworks Inc
No answers on this topic
NICE Systems
We love the use of our new tools. However, NICE staff turnover was frustrating. We lost ground each time a new team took over. Some people were good some were not as much. Some people did great training while others were not as helpful
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Alternatives Considered
Freshworks Inc
After multiple checks and constant research we found Freshdesk is one of the leading product service providers and the best at it too. We used to have PSTIN hard phones which caused a lot of drops and customer discontent. After Freshdesk, it has been a cakewalk. Really happy with it.
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NICE Systems
When it comes to this specific situation (cell centers) NICE definitely has an ADP beat. The analytics, scheduling, and forecasts are extremely well-tailored for this situation. ADP has a more comprehensive solution in my opinion - I feel their UI and mobile app are also more user-friendly. But in terms of performance management functionality, NICE has a more robust system and is able to create additional metrics if we need them When I used ADP there were no custom options available.
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Scalability
Freshworks Inc
No answers on this topic
NICE Systems
I rated 10, because Nice CX one is very much functional. You can simply acess it by website Nice, in any navigator, desktop, notebook or mobile, so you can in a fast way run on every departament of the company.
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Return on Investment
Freshworks Inc
  • Call logs helps analyse the interactions which each lead - helps space out if need be.
  • Follow ups are simplified due to viewing of past activity.
  • Easy integration helps in saving costs of phone calls.
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NICE Systems
  • NICE CXone has allowed us the ability to, on specific teams, not have to back fill positions due to attrition.
  • NICE CXone has provided us insight into data metrics that we did not have before.
  • NICE CXone provides us with visibility into the productivity of our offshore agents which we did NOT have prior to our partnership.
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ScreenShots

NiCE CXone Mpower Screenshots

Screenshot of a holistic view of omnichannel call center metrics, with insights for everyone in the contact center. The CXone Mpower Dashboard aggregates both real-time and historical cross-domain data.Screenshot of CXone Mpower Copilot, which empowers agents with smarter interactions, personalized coaching, and automation opportunities.Screenshot of CXone Mpower Workforce Management, used to anticipate business demands and optimize workforces, is an omnichannel forecasting and scheduling engine.Screenshot of CXone Mpower Studio, a tool that does not require programming skills, but instead empowers everyone—from business user to routing flow programmer—to build and manage routing flows for all channels.Screenshot of CXone Mpower Interaction Analytics, used to get actionable insights from every voice, digital, and self-service customer interaction.Screenshot of CXone Mpower Performance Management, which aligns employee performance, contact center goals, and customer expectations with continuous improvement.