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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Genesys Cloud CX

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AGenesys Cloud CX is a contact center application optimized for automatic call distribution, interactive voice response, email, social media, chat, and text/SMS. It is also a VoIP interconnect service provider.N/A

    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

    telerion

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    $19

    per month

    Pricing
    Genesys Cloud CXSalesforce Agentforce Servicetelerion
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Basic
    $19
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Genesys Cloud CXSalesforce Agentforce Servicetelerion
    Free Trial
    YesYesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsPricing plans can also be billed hourly.
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    Community Pulse
    Genesys Cloud CXSalesforce Agentforce Servicetelerion
    Considered Multiple Products
    Genesys
    Chose Genesys Cloud CX
    Genesys Cloud was more Contact Center Process focused and was a better fit as we did not need a CRM solution. We needed to route, manage and report on customer transactions across many channels and brands. The Genesys Cloud interface is much easier than Salesforce which was a …
    Incentivized
    Chose Genesys Cloud CX
    They work well together.
    Incentivized
    Chose Genesys Cloud CX
    Genesys Cloud CX stacks up reasonably well against Talkdesk as it integrates with Salesforce Service Cloud. We chose it because of a pre-existing vendor relationship with our parent company.
    Incentivized
    Chose Genesys Cloud CX
    Genesys is leading the customer experience market by providing an omnichannel platform to achieve all your complex business goals within it. Sometimes tasks might be duplicated in other solutions but in Genesys Cloud (formerly PureCloud), tasks are done once and it can be …
    Incentivized
    Chose Genesys Cloud CX
    We were after an enterprise solution that was easy to migrate from Genesys Connect.
    Moving to Genesys Cloud (formerly PureCloud) was the most cost effective for us. Additionally we investigated transactional-based solutions, and Genesys Cloud (formerly PureCloud) gave us an …
    Incentivized
    Salesforce
    Chose Salesforce Agentforce Service
    We were after a robust and very scalable solution, which could be rapidly implemented. Salesforce Service Cloud not only fitted the bill, but it was much easier to source skills and find on-line learning to help achieve our goals. Although the other technologies could have …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Agentforce Service
    A CRM should be simple to set up and stable enough to develop with your business. Since they aren't designed to fit across all areas of your business or address more nuanced business needs, some CRM solutions that claim to be easy can actually trigger problems as you scale. …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Agentforce Service
    This product integrates other products to work alongside and inside it. We choose to go with Salesforce Service Cloud to work with our adapter of choice. This worked out so well, that when we eventually used a different adapter we already had Salesforce Service Cloud to …
    Incentivized
    telerion.com
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    97%
    Would buy again
    409 Answers
    91%
    Would buy again
    52 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    341 Answers
    88%
    Delivers good value for the price
    43 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    408 Answers
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    53 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    252 Answers
    88%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    36 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    313 Answers
    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    39 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Genesys Cloud CXSalesforce Agentforce Servicetelerion
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Genesys Cloud CX and Salesforce Agentforce Service and telerion
    Feature
    Genesys Cloud CX
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Agentforce Service
    8.0
    81 Ratings
    2% below category average
    telerion
    -
    Ratings
    Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings8.279 Ratings00 Ratings
    Expert directory00 Ratings7.857 Ratings00 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings8.267 Ratings00 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings6.962 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings8.779 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ticket response00 Ratings7.978 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of Genesys Cloud CX and Salesforce Agentforce Service and telerion
    Feature
    Genesys Cloud CX
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Agentforce Service
    8.7
    76 Ratings
    8% above category average
    telerion
    -
    Ratings
    External knowledge base00 Ratings8.567 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base00 Ratings8.874 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Genesys Cloud CX and Salesforce Agentforce Service and telerion
    Feature
    Genesys Cloud CX
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Agentforce Service
    7.9
    81 Ratings
    1% below category average
    telerion
    -
    Ratings
    Customer portal00 Ratings7.858 Ratings00 Ratings
    IVR00 Ratings8.037 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social integration00 Ratings7.451 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email support00 Ratings8.880 Ratings00 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings7.870 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Score8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Genesys Cloud CXSalesforce Agentforce Servicetelerion
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (512 ratings)
    8.7
    (100 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.6
    (44 ratings)
    6.2
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (74 ratings)
    8.2
    (22 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    8.3
    (11 ratings)
    8.4
    (45 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.3
    (10 ratings)
    8.6
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.3
    (108 ratings)
    7.0
    (20 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.2
    (8 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.0
    (15 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.6
    (24 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.2
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    6.8
    (17 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.2
    (9 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.5
    (12 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    6.5
    (14 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    7.6
    (11 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    7.8
    (12 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Genesys Cloud CXSalesforce Agentforce Servicetelerion
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Genesys
    Genesys Cloud CX is particularly well suited for organizations looking to consolidate customer interactions across multiple channels into a single platform. In our experience, it works very well for omnichannel customer service, especially when voice, digital channels, routing, reporting, and customer experience need to be managed together. The flexibility of its routing capabilities and the ability to integrate with other business systems are especially valuable for more complex customer journeys.
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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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    telerion.com
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    Pros
    Genesys
    • From an administrator point of view Genesys Cloud CX provides a drag & drop omni channel flow building option using Genesys Architect tool. The interface is very intuitive and provides flexible options to design call flows
    • Genesys Cloud CX has deep integration with Salesforce & ServiceNow
    • Genesys Cloud CX provides native Workforce Engagement Management. This reduces the dependency to unnecessarily procure products from other vendors for quality assurance auditing, screen recording or agent scheduling
    • We can also deploy BYOC (Brin Your Own Carrier) for telecom SIP trunk deployment. This is a big bonus when we want to reuse our existing DID's with our SIP trunk providers
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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
    Genesys
    • Reporting - the removal of the basic reporting tab, which was available earlier. We can bring something like that back to Genesys CloudCX. Just have a standard out of box reports.
    • Log analysis: Difficulties sometimes arise when an issue cannot be resolved with the basic information available. We can enable a log analysis tool that collects data from multiple components over time and can be reviewed in case of issues or failures. Similar to logs available in Genesys Engage.
    • Last Routed Agent - We can bring back the LRA to Genesys cloud cx for voice as an option or a function that can be enabled at the Architect or Queue level. Which will help many customers as they have used it previously.
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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
    Genesys
    The upcoming upgrades working with Genesys Cloud and Salesforce are very exciting. Even though we don't use Genesys Cloud to the fullest extent it can be used (we just migrated a year ago), when these upgrades roll out, I am very excited to see what it can do to for our agents. I think they are going to be very impressed
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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
    Genesys
    Everything is very good. It is very useful, friendly to users and it makes our work easier than what we expected. I think that I don't need any help from someone on how to use Genesys coz basically they will directly feed it to you without any hassle on using it.
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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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    telerion.com
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    Reliability and Availability
    Genesys
    The platform is highly reliable, with minimal downtime or outages, and is generally available when needed. Over the course of using it, unplanned outages or application errors have been rare, and any issues that did arise were quickly resolved. Genesys provides robust support and maintenance, ensuring the system remains operational during critical business hours. However, like any cloud-based platform, there have been occasional disruptions, though these were infrequent and quickly addressed. Overall, its availability has been excellent, supporting smooth daily operations.
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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
    Genesys
    Overall, the platform performs well, with pages loading quickly and reports typically completing in a reasonable time, even with complex data. The interface is responsive, and most day-to-day tasks are executed efficiently. However, in some instances, especially during peak usage times or when running very detailed, large-scale reports, there can be slight delays. While these are rare, they occasionally affect workflow. Additionally, the platform generally integrates smoothly with other systems, though some integrations can slow down slightly, particularly when pulling large datasets or interacting with older, legacy systems. Nonetheless, the performance is strong and reliable for most use cases.
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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
    Genesys
    Support does indeed resolve the issue but they seem to be really slow and I have to stay on them to get my ticket handled. Everyone I have interacted with is very professional and pleasant. Other than being slow its been a good experience
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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
    Genesys
    Genesys team that provide trainings are friendly and professional. They helped us to understand well the product and the functionalities. The training was detailed with use cases. At the end, we got a task to develop that ended with success and we got some Genesys rewards. It was amazing experience
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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
    Genesys
    In general, it gives a description and can help to understand what to do and how. but: Sometimes, it does not keep up with changes in the system (for example, in the GUI changes, additional features and so on). Sometimes, much easier and helpful to read the documentation (https://help.mypurecloud.com/) that gives the "better" explanations and takes less time.
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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
    Genesys
    My Team was involved in the discussion before implementing the application. We had a whole walkthrough of this product and during the demo itself we were very impressed with type of service we were getting. The integration of the product into our system was very quick and seamless.
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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
    Genesys
    Genesys Cloud CX is much easier to manage than PureConnect - all from one system rather than needing separate components to install and validate. The ease of use when utilising all of the functionality really brings us to present day technology. Where it falls down is in its Outbound systems, currently we are still using pureconnect as an outbound platform and shortfalls in the Cloud CX system has meant we must look elsewhere for our future operations.
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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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    telerion.com
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Genesys
    Genesys provides Licensing in 3 tier subscription types of licenses on top based on any business requirements then any sort of feature/functionality inclusion (or removal) is discussed openly. There are 2 types of billing models available which are "Named" and "Concurrent" based on the type of roles users will perform in Genesys Cloud CX environment (eg. Agent, Supervisor, Administrator, and Business Users) Also, the billing period/frequency starts on the actual day the platform is delivered.
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    Salesforce
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    Scalability
    Genesys
    I give Genesys a rating of 10 for scalability because of its ability to adapt seamlessly to growing business needs, whether expanding across multiple departments, locations, or regions. Its cloud-based infrastructure allows for easy scaling without the need for costly hardware upgrades or lengthy implementation times. As our organisation grew, we were able to add new agents, channels, and features without disrupting operations, which significantly enhanced our flexibility. The platform's design supports both small-scale and enterprise-level operations, making it ideal for evolving businesses. Additionally, its capacity to handle increased interaction volumes without compromising performance ensures that customer service quality remains high, even during peak times. This flexibility and ease of scaling, combined with real-time analytics and automation capabilities, make it highly effective for growing organisations.
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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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    telerion.com
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    Professional Services
    Genesys
    Professional services are definitely much more experienced than the support teams, and the price for their services is very fair. I wish that the support team could help answer simple questions about work that the PSS team does, however, so that we do not have to use our SOW for simple Q&A emails.
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    Salesforce
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    telerion.com
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    Return on Investment
    Genesys
    • For a product-based company like ours, we have existing Genesys customers who can use our product, as we have already integrated our product & solution into Genesys.
    • By viewing Genesys as a contact center, we generate numerous ideas about what features need to be implemented.
    • Genesys is the best choice for big, enterprise-level businesses as it can handle multiple calls simultaneously seamlessly.
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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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    ScreenShots

    Genesys Cloud CX Screenshots

    Screenshot of analytics to track performance and balance workloads in real time.Screenshot of the dashboard to manage workflows, settings and operations.Screenshot of AI tools that help to resolve customer issues.

    Salesforce Agentforce Service Screenshots

    Screenshot of Workflows and OrchestrationScreenshot of Service CatalogScreenshot of Contact Center