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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AGenesys 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

    Khoros Service

    Score8.5 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Khoros Service offers omnichannel engagement on publicly available channels like social, digital, chat, and voice, as well as owned online communities like Khoros Communities. The solution offers 1-to-1 and 1-to-many engagement with customers and consumers, bringing together automation through bots and human agents. Customer inquiries and support-related conversations can be routed and prioritized based on a variety of parameters, and the robust agent desktop solution…N/A
    Pricing
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)Khoros Service
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
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    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—Pricing is variable based on the needs of the customer.
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    Community Pulse
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)Khoros Service
    Considered Both Products
    Discontinued Products
    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.
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    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    Chose Khoros Service
    It would be too long to list every pro and con. However, Khoros Care is built for asynchronous digital engagement and it shows throughout most of its features. It performs better, the agent workflow is better, and the reporting and analytics are better. On top of that, it …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    86%
    Would buy again
    30 Answers
    89%
    Would buy again
    71 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    89%
    Delivers good value for the price
    24 Answers
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    50 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    33 Answers
    91%
    Happy with the feature set
    73 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    82%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    14 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    39 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    79%
    Implementation went as expected
    23 Answers
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    44 Answers
    Features
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)Khoros Service
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued) and Khoros Service
    Feature
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    9.2
    118 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Khoros Service
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    Ratings
    Agent dashboard10.0109 Ratings00 Ratings
    Validate callers10.096 Ratings00 Ratings
    Outbound response9.099 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call forwarding8.089 Ratings00 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)9.083 Ratings00 Ratings
    Warm transfer10.0105 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive dialing9.281 Ratings00 Ratings
    Interactive voice response10.0106 Ratings00 Ratings
    REST APIs10.099 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call scripts9.075 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call tracking10.0103 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multichannel integration9.9105 Ratings00 Ratings
    CRM software integration5.199 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued) and Khoros Service
    Feature
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    8.5
    107 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Khoros Service
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    Ratings
    Inbound call routing9.0100 Ratings00 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing10.092 Ratings00 Ratings
    Recording8.980 Ratings00 Ratings
    Quality management8.080 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call analytics8.088 Ratings00 Ratings
    Historical reporting10.0103 Ratings00 Ratings
    Live reporting9.0100 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer surveys6.864 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics7.073 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)Khoros Service
    Small Businesses
    Zendesk Talk
    Score8.2 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
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    Score7.6 out of 10
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    Enterprises
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Score8.4 out of 10
    Brand Embassy (discontinued)
    Score7.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)Khoros Service
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (147 ratings)
    8.5
    (113 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.9
    (26 ratings)
    8.2
    (79 ratings)
    Usability
    6.9
    (18 ratings)
    7.3
    (7 ratings)
    Availability
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    7.1
    (4 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.6
    (21 ratings)
    8.1
    (9 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.1
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    3.8
    (11 ratings)
    7.4
    (71 ratings)
    Configurability
    6.5
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    1.4
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.3
    (4 ratings)
    8.2
    (78 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)Khoros Service
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    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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    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    Less Appropriate Scenarios- A fintech company has highly specialized or industry-specific workflows that are not easily accommodated within the standard capabilities of Khoros Care. In such cases, the platform may be less appropriate for businesses with extremely unique processes that require a high degree of customization. Well suited- financial institutions face a high volume of customer inquiries related to account management, transactions, and security concerns. Khoros Care's security features, automation capabilities, and integration with banking systems make it suitable for managing customer interactions in the financial services sector.
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • 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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    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    • Tagging system - it's possible to add a wide variety of labels and categories
    • Search feature - being able to find users by conversation number, username, or keywords makes it easier to navigate old conversations
    • Easy system for assigning conversations to other users
    • When you claim a conversation, it gets removed from the queue. This is much more visually explicit than Khoros Marketing's queue, for example, where all content remains visible in the queue and a bookmark gets moved around to distinguish the point where other users left off
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    Cons
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    • 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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    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    • I would like to be able to see deleted comments/tweets so we can look into the issues.
    • I would like to be able to better customize dashboards for our exact metrics. Some things previously available in Spredfast are no longer available in Care.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Discontinued Products
    Genesys Engage is instrumental in us meeting our service obligations to our customers. Engage enables our organization to deliver interactions to the right staff and helps us minimize service and coverage gaps through historical and real-time reporting. Additionally, we feel that only Genesys Engage can meet and exceed our business needs and requirements.
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    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    Simply, there isn't anything on the market that is quite as personable as Khoros Care. After using a few different client messaging systems, this program gave the closest feel to in-person interaction that we could get during the COVID-19 epidemic and is an important part of our agency still to this day in 2023.
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    Usability
    Discontinued Products
    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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    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    The ability to auto tag, manually tag, make notes, and "snooze" posts is extremely helpful. The efficiency of the work flow for agents is also a huge plus. It keeps agents moving quickly and prioritizing responses for the cases that need it most.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Discontinued Products
    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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    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    No issues.
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    Performance
    Discontinued Products
    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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    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    No issues.
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    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
    There's definitely room for improvement. I would have love to see the chat functionality work more frequently. The level of expertise has diminished over the years. I understand that this in part has to do with the number of new products that has been introduced, but should not be an excuse for the lack of readiness.
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    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    Khoros Support has always very responsive and helpful when it comes to getting my issue/inquiry addressed. Their ticket portal is great for tracking any open tickets and they can be updated via the portal or by responding to the email thread. Support reps are always extremely knowledgeable and care about getting you taken care of
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    In-Person Training
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    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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    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    The team received training (from the same executive team member who has been supporting us) over the web and this was of very high quality.
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    Online Training
    Discontinued Products
    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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    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Discontinued Products
    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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    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    Implementing the platform was not a big hassle for our client, it was seamless and easy we just had to follow a few steps and it was done. Just scaling was a bit of an issue but it got resolved with time and a bit of effort at both ends
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    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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    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    Khoros is more than just a platform for social publishing. No other competitor provides the in-depth moderation and social listening services that they do. If you're looking for a one-stop-shop of a platform for all things social, this is the tool to be using. Others are better in usability and innovative functionality.
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    Scalability
    Discontinued Products
    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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    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    Of course as the company grows owing to its growing customer base, they need to think of out-of-the-box solutions to offer its clients and customer satisfaction is one of them. Retention is very much needed in competitive environment like today and hence it becomes imperative for companies to find different ways to reach their client basis and fix their issues
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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • Utilizing Genesys Contact Center Portfolio has added increased employee efficiency, providing better availability to customer demands which in turn has increased customer satisfaction.
    • Utilizing Genesys Contact Center Portfolio has added increased management efficiency, automating resource planning and scheduling and providing management more time to focus on other important tasks.
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    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    • We have seen a positive shift of customers from reaching out to the Call Centre to the Social Care Team.
    • Monthly and Annual Reporting to keep track of performance and stats related to the team has been much easier to highlight areas for improvement (month2month and anually)
    • CSAT/NPS Survey results have increased via Khoros Care in comparison to the Call Centre.
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    ScreenShots

    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued) Screenshots

    Screenshot of Altocloud in Workspace

    Khoros Service Screenshots

    Screenshot of a customer conversation in Agent view. Access past customer conversations and interactions in a single pane of glass.Screenshot of the analytic dashboard used to monitor key metrics across a service organization, such as available agents, time to first response, and agent handle time.Screenshot of Khoros Agent Assist. This feature provides agents with real-time recommendations, reducing the time needed to handle customer inquiries, deliver accurate resolutions, and train new agents.Screenshot of Work Queues under Rules and Routing. This allows admins to build rules around tagging to ensure timely and effective follow-up from agents.