Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued) vs. GoTo Connect

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Genesys Multicloud CX (formerly Genesys Engage, or PureEngage) is the Genesys customer engagement platform for enterprises. It is designed to be flexible for enterprises, who often have multiple and multi-national locations (including outsourcing) and large peak volumes and populations.N/A
GoTo Connect
Score 7.5 out of 10
N/A
GoToConnect, from GoTo, is a cloud-based business phone system with built-in web-based video conferencing solutions. It includes features such as call analytics, call recording, softphone, fax to email, voicemail to email, and desktop integration.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Phone System
Contact Sales
per month per seat
Customer Experience (CX)
Contact Sales
per month per seat
CX Complete
Contact Sales
per month per seat
Contact Center
Contact Sales
per month per seat
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)GoTo Connect
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)GoTo Connect
Considered Both Products
Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
Chose Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
Slack and SAP Access Control
Chose Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
It has less functionality and is not cloud-based, so I feel like there is reduced capacity. Genesys Multicloud CX has limited functionality as it can't seem to expand compared to Genesys Cloud CX. Today's technology and other ones that I haven't used but have seen demos seem to …
Chose Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
From a contact center point of view, I'm just using Genesys products, and Genesys Multicloud CX is the next level.
Chose Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
1) Omnichannel capabilities 2) Easier to integrate 3) User-friendly 4) Stable Organization with good product offers 5) Good customer end-to-end support
Chose Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
Genesys Multicloud CX is intuitively designed with ease of building customer focused applications / solutions
Chose Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
Genesys Multicloud CX has the Enterprise, Bulk solution and ability to be customized to an extent that no other product has. I would say that any of the Genesys products has a leading edge on the competition, and suits brackets of their own on the market, and for us, the …
Chose Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
We POC Avaya but did not like some of the features or lack of features compare to Genesys Multicloud CX.
Chose Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
more functionnalities
Chose Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
Agility of the solution (more into SW) and
better adoption for omnichannel
Chose Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
We chose it for a better customer experience, and I think the most practical way to achieve this is Genesys Power Routing. You can watch all Routing operations live. All audio and digital industries enable us to combine business elements and inbound and outbound interactions. …
Chose Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
For a similar contact center structure, I find Genesys products are faster to produce outcomes, and fast to respond (loading, changing screens...).

However, in terms of user interface, I do prefer the way NICE did things there. Coming from an agent background, I find that the …
Chose Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
Genesys Multicloud CX (formerly Genesys Engage) is a lot more complex than Genesys PureConnect. In addition, it seems like Genesys never makes Genesys Multicloud CX (formerly Genesys Engage) easier to manage--features are added, UIs and are created, but it doesn't seem like the …
Chose Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
I haven't used any.

Call center can be built on open source software like Asterisk and Tomcat services. But it would be harder to support and may not include some important functions.
Chose Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
The above mentioned technologies also provide the same solutions as Genesys Engage does. However, Genesys Engage leads this market as this solution package contains all the functionalities provided by different software mentioned above as distinct functionality is provided by …
Chose Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
Engage was born first, Engage is more suitable if you [want] to have all services running on your server.
Chose Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
Reliability is the key difference between our last product and Genesys Engage. We are also now able to make small changes on the fly, where previously we would need to log a job with a vendor to have things like business hours amended. This platform puts the control back in …
Chose Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
Genesys Engage products can be more justified to customer needs. Integrations to other systems are easier to implement.
Chose Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
Genesys is a very powerful platform leading in contact center technology. Very up to date in the technologies used in the platform. Easy to integrate with.
Chose Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
Greater form of flexibility when it comes to integrating it with our backend systems. We were not limited by the connection specifications of the previous solution.
Chose Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
Avaya: As a brand, they are trying to get rid of their hardware-vendor image, but this fails. Omni channel routing is separate in 2 systems. And the reporting solution is torn apart into CMS and Avaya analytic. Customers can't see a clear roadmap.

Aspect: Weak local team with no …
Chose Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
Genesys Cloud - it's more simple, for customers who don't want highly complex architecture, without great integrations and complex reports. Cloud doesn't have many logs to analyse the environment, in some cases, we need help from Factory Support.
GoTo Connect
Chose GoTo Connect
Honestly, tools like Zoom or Google Meet are fine if you just need basic video, but they completely ignore the actual phone side of things. I chose GoTo Connect because it handles everything at once. We finally ditched our clunky old phone provider and stopped paying for …
Chose GoTo Connect
Go to is the only VoIP system we have ever tested. Teams is just more widely used and preferred in the business world for meetings and screen sharing, and several of our customers and contacts send us meetings in Teams, so for that reason alone, it is our preferred product. For …
Chose GoTo Connect
We love the way it works with our sometimes work-from-home situations and the ease of setting up everything in the admin portal.
Chose GoTo Connect
N/A. GoTo is our first VOIP and we have not felt the need to look for alternative systems.
Chose GoTo Connect
Older telephony technology can be extremely difficult to understand and Admin. I can't say enough about the UI with GoTo as one does not need any IT experience to Administrate this tool.
Chose GoTo Connect
Some providers are very eager to catch a sale and not help you once you are locked in. I found with GoTo Connect the merchant support team to be very helpful and easy to get a hold of.
Chose GoTo Connect
Goto Connect is way better than ooma, mainly in customer service. Ooma, however, integrates with my CRM, and I miss that. I need for GTC to integrate with Vertafore's Agency Zoom platform
Chose GoTo Connect
It is very similar, but with even easier administration which allows administration with a smaller IT Team. One of the main reason we selected GoTo Connect was for its cost and feature packed admin panel.
Chose GoTo Connect
The customer service and interface are no Comparison. In my opinion, GoTo Connect is far better at cloud voice than Verizon
Chose GoTo Connect
Amazon Connect is way harder to configure and get working than GoTo Connect is to setup.
Chose GoTo Connect
Almost non comparable. Microsoft nickel and dimes you for licensing that is not overly clear. Any change to the teams phone system can take upwards of 48 hours sometimes leaving clients without a phone system for that time. No dialing through phone trees when on a conference …
Chose GoTo Connect
The admin interface in GoTo Connect feels much simpler and faster to configure. It offers right balance of reliability, clean UI, and flexibility.
Chose GoTo Connect
Much more affordable and has everything that we need.
Chose GoTo Connect
Go-To was the more cost-effective option between these. They also had the closest alignment to our goals and what we needed for our company without going overboard. We are happy with our decision and will continue to recommend Go-To.
Chose GoTo Connect
Goto seemed to be the best UI and easiest to manage users on the admin side. Easy to customize everything to meet individual needs.
Chose GoTo Connect
It work better and able to implement it faster.
Chose GoTo Connect
GoTo Connect struck the right balance between functionality, simplicity, and cost.
Chose GoTo Connect
GoTo Connect is a higher-quality product. It is easy to use and easy to integrate with our other systems. We have been looking into different programs (there are so many) and GoTo Connect has a more professional interface.
Chose GoTo Connect
You could evaluate Zoom phone or right by eight or RingCentral or Microsoft Teams with full capabilities those are all suitable alternatives. Make sure you understand the monthly service fees, and the cost for the telephones are needed for the service as they do very …
Chose GoTo Connect
Much more reasonable and equally reliable
Chose GoTo Connect
I just find it simpler easier to visualize the screen and nobody has any problem connecting. Unlike Teams which is tricky on mobile devices and many people are accessing the meetings from mobile devices.
Features
Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)GoTo Connect
Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
9.2
Ratings
9% above category average
GoTo Connect
-
Ratings
Agent dashboard10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Validate callers10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Outbound response9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Call forwarding8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Click-to-call (CTC)9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Warm transfer10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive dialing9.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Interactive voice response10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
REST APIs10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Call scripts9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Call tracking10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Multichannel integration9.90 Ratings00 Ratings
CRM software integration5.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Product A and Product B
Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
8.5
Ratings
2% above category average
GoTo Connect
-
Ratings
Inbound call routing9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Recording8.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Quality management8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Call analytics8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Historical reporting10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Live reporting9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer surveys6.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)GoTo Connect
Small Businesses
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 7.5 out of 10
Front
Front
Score 9.2 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 7.5 out of 10
Quadient Inspire
Quadient Inspire
Score 9.5 out of 10
Enterprises
Bright Pattern Contact Center
Bright Pattern Contact Center
Score 8.4 out of 10
Quadient Inspire
Quadient Inspire
Score 9.5 out of 10
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(0 ratings)
7.3
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.9
(0 ratings)
8.7
(0 ratings)
Usability
6.9
(0 ratings)
8.2
(0 ratings)
Availability
8.0
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
Performance
7.1
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.6
(0 ratings)
9.9
(0 ratings)
In-Person Training
8.1
(0 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Online Training
7.3
(0 ratings)
6.0
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
3.8
(0 ratings)
7.9
(0 ratings)
Configurability
6.5
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
1.4
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
7.3
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
7.3
(0 ratings)
9.1
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Vendor pre-sale
7.3
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9.1
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User Testimonials
Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)GoTo Connect
Likelihood to Recommend
Solution is extremely agile and flexible. The new generation of containerized solution would be a game changer since it brings the ease of deployment and ability to get the innovations to a new total different place. I believe it is really hard to find in the competition who would have something similar or even close
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Go To is a great phone system that has made the transition from our old landline phone system to a VoIP product easy. Our users can customize their speed dial buttons; the dial plans are robust, so we can fully customize anything we need to; and, besides provisioning, setting up a new device is quick and easy.
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Pros
  • VHT as a stand alone model can be easily plugged into to the current call routing with minimal changes and it works like charm.
  • Platform SDKs are a powerful tool that help integrate with other third party solutions or to build custom made applications.
  • The whole routing solution is amazing . With user friendly composer, you have the option of building both VRUs and routing strategies. And, they are very easy to deploy.
  • The level of details for report customization is another strong point.
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  • Call reports: You can see and review calls received from the first receptor until the last who attend this call, also you can review all calls make and received by your teams
  • Voicemail options: Availability to create some voicemail with multiple receptors
  • Devices option: with several options to change on your devices
  • Audio library: Multiple option to create your own audio library with or without ambien music
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Cons
  • Genesys needs to pick up the pace with application upgrades. We see more and more issues with Genesys applications falling behind the operating systems versions. We need more apps to be ready for the latest server OC models. There is a lag.
  • There seems to be constant unrest with the management application platform, CME, SCI, Genesys administrator, GAX, then GAX plugins, then a move away from plugins. We would like one stable management platform that encompasses ALL aspects of management within the contact center.
  • Real-time reporting deficiencies with Genesys pulse web. this application cannot live up to CCPulse with respect to flexibility of views. Pulse web was a plugin now it's not a plugin any longer. constant movement, we finally get pulse web plugin onto production, 6 months later these something supposedly better.
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  • Making a dedicated button for "mute all" (other than yourself) for when someone "walks off before they mute"/has to quickly leave their computer....and FORGOT to Mute. Particularly when dogs are barking when someone working from home has a visitor at the door
  • I'd like to see some of the functionality from GoTo Webinar enabled for GoTo Connect: see who's "actively watching" vs has their computer screen on another application
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Likelihood to Renew
Genesys Contact Center Portfolio is an expensive product to purchase and maintain. Once committed to, it is also an expensive product to replace. That said, our company is constantly evaluating Genesys and other contact center technology vendors to determine which will provide us with the best ROI.
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They are knocking it out of the park on all fronts. I love the service and support I am receiving and have no complaints. If they raised their prices substantially I would reconsider but I don't think that will happen anytime soon. They would have to mess up something consistently moving forward to make me want to move
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Usability
Overall, from a customer perspective and also an agent perspective, it is very easy to use Genesys Engage's platform. The Agent Desktop and Genesys WDE are good. Usability is high and I would consider it an easy to use product and easy to adopt from this perspective.
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Overall, it's a decent product for the price. It has the basic features our company needed when it was brand new and was not overly difficult to set up. As we've grown, it's become increasingly difficult to build out the features we want to implement within the PBX, and customer support can be less than helpful. Many of the more advanced features (dial plans, queues, etc.) take a lot of research to understand how to implement. Some of the features we paid for weren't even available when we were attempting to set them up.
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Reliability and Availability
There are occasional failures, but distributed and High Availability features work well when architected, installed, and configured properly. Thoroughly reading and understanding system documentation is a must.
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I have never experienced or heard of unplanned outages when it comes to GoTo Connect. Most of the time the unplanned outage is always local power at a site or internet service provider having an unplanned outage. GoTo's service has never failed any of our orgs yet that I know of.
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Performance
Never being disappointed in my 11 plus years of utilizing the various aspects of the system. No matter what we throw at it, the systems continue to perform as expected.
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There is no lag in phone calls. There is no background noise or static/fuzz. Calls are crystal clear. With other dialers and phone systems, I have experienced delays between dialogue or delays with the caller picking up the phone and then being able to hear you. We do not experience this with Go To Connect.
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Support Rating
Giving this rate especially for eServices support team which help us immediately and pin point the issue directly. Most of the time, we raised issue to genesys support regarding to social media, they're replied a solution or a way to get rid of the problem after sending initial response which means they cared about the case.
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Support used to be great when it was Jive support out of Utah. Now that they've offshored support it can be difficult to get a response. Our most common issues are least cost routing, and we run into support pushing back in stead of just figuring out which upstream carrier is having an issue like they used to. We often have to get our account manager involved, who is pretty strong.
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In-Person Training
Good training, but on limited locations. You can almost only follow trainings in europ in the UK and in Germany. Uk location is relatively difficult to get to and on a exppensive location. The content of the training is good, supplied training material is okay, but sometimes a bit outdated. When you follow a training it is most likely because of a recent purchase which is uasually the latest version.
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Online Training
Interesting webinars on relevant topic are being provided regularly. Th e webinars a often provided by Genesys and hosted by a very experienced product owner. In many occasions a customer is invited to share his / her experiences and best practices. Webinars can be watched at a later time for your convenience.
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The training videos could be more in-depth. This would help our user base so that they can feel impowered to look up information that they need without having to ask our admins every time they have a question about the system. Online training videos are also inferior to an actual person explaining systems.
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Implementation Rating
It was a death march. We finally learned enough about the product to know that our vendor knew nothing and had done it wrong. We hired voice engineers and took over the project. We should have fired our vendor much earlier
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The implementation was incredibly easy and straightforward. I came into the project never having migrated and changed phone systems before, and the team at Go-To made it super easy to port all of our numbers and phone lines over to the new system. It was not intimidating, and all of my questions were answered promptly.
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Alternatives Considered
For a similar contact center structure, I find Genesys products are faster to produce outcomes, and fast to respond (loading, changing screens...). However, in terms of user interface, I do prefer the way NICE did things there. Coming from an agent background, I find that the NICE agent interface is more visually appealing and offers more flexibility (parameters for agent exceptions).
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Honestly, tools like Zoom or Google Meet are fine if you just need basic video, but they completely ignore the actual phone side of things. I chose GoTo Connect because it handles everything at once. We finally ditched our clunky old phone provider and stopped paying for separate chat apps. Now my team manages client calls, texts, and meetings from one single screen. It just makes life so much easier.
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Scalability
The Interactive Intelligence SIP based contact center platform has broken through the barriers of "board based" technology to processor based limits on scalability. This means their CIC premise or cloud platform can be engineered to support agent counts into the thousands.
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Its not readily apparent to me, other than cost, where you would run into any issues with larger scale deployments. When we went live on the product, the Jive team was always willing to do mass updates for us on our extensions, users, etc. in the system, so we didn't have to do too much manual one-by-one updates.
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Return on Investment
  • Custom Kiosk application using generic interaction for walk in customers improved the efficiency of the lobby staff by almost 200%
  • QA tools allow for automation of many aspects and the efficient management of scoring and recording .
  • Manages all types of interactions and improves agent productivity for emails, voicemails, calls, chats and walk in interactions
  • Manages reporting on of interactions and improves agent productivity for emails, voicemails, calls, chats and walk in interactions
  • Centralized support tools allow for small staff to support and administer all parts of the system
  • Integration of all modules allows for active, real time passing of data to provide real time speech analytics, qa, reporting, workforce management and general interaction management
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  • Cost Savings have been realized from reducing hardware .
  • We are all able to collaborate remotely and it has been seamless and easy to setup.
  • I'm able to pull reports, i wish there was improvement on the data analysis side. It has gotten better since LogMeIn, but something is a miss and can be improved.
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ScreenShots

Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued) Screenshots

Screenshot of Altocloud in Workspace

GoTo Connect Screenshots

Screenshot of GoTo App - contact center general settingsScreenshot of GoTo App - meeting chat (in-session)Screenshot of simple setupScreenshot of mobile app - ongoing callScreenshot of session controlsScreenshot of call menu