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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

    Kustomer

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AKustomer is a customer service CRM platform built for managing high support volume by optimizing experiences throughout the customer service journey. Kustomer was acquired by Facebook in late 2020, but spun out in 2023 and re-launched as an independent entity, Kustomer, LLC.

    $8,544

    per year for 8 users (minimum)

    Pricing
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)Kustomer
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Enterprise
    $89
    per month (billed annually) per user
    Ultimate
    $139
    per month (billed annually) per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)Kustomer
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—All plans require an annual subscription and 8 users minimum.
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    Community Pulse
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)Kustomer
    Considered Both Products
    Discontinued Products
    No answer on this topic
    Kustomer, LLC
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    86%
    Would buy again
    30 Answers
    88%
    Would buy again
    7 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    89%
    Delivers good value for the price
    24 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    5 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    33 Answers
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    82%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    14 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    79%
    Implementation went as expected
    23 Answers
    80%
    Implementation went as expected
    4 Answers
    Features
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)Kustomer
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued) and Kustomer
    Feature
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    9.2
    118 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Kustomer
    -
    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 Kustomer
    Feature
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    8.5
    107 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Kustomer
    -
    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
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued) and Kustomer
    Feature
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Kustomer
    8.1
    15 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings8.014 Ratings
    Expert directory00 Ratings8.212 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings8.611 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings8.011 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings8.015 Ratings
    Ticket response00 Ratings8.015 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued) and Kustomer
    Feature
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Kustomer
    8.5
    13 Ratings
    6% above category average
    External knowledge base00 Ratings8.013 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base00 Ratings9.013 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued) and Kustomer
    Feature
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Kustomer
    8.1
    15 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Customer portal00 Ratings8.710 Ratings
    IVR00 Ratings8.69 Ratings
    Social integration00 Ratings7.313 Ratings
    Email support00 Ratings10.015 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings6.011 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)Kustomer
    Small Businesses
    Zendesk Talk
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Help Scout
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    CloudTalk
    Score7.6 out of 10
    LiveAgent
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Score8.4 out of 10
    Front
    Score9.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)Kustomer
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (147 ratings)
    9.0
    (36 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.9
    (26 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    6.9
    (18 ratings)
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    Availability
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    7.1
    (4 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.6
    (21 ratings)
    9.4
    (7 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.1
    (3 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    3.8
    (11 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    6.5
    (3 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    1.4
    (4 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.3
    (4 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)Kustomer
    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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    Kustomer, LLC
    I would say the greatest strength of Kustomer is its flexibility. In the hands of a skilled admin, it can be adapted to tons and tons of different use cases. I've been able to make custom displays for different groups of agents, produce complex cross sections of users, draw interesting data relationships combining marketing contacts and customer-initiated contacts. For example, there's really no other data source in our company which could tell you which users received a specific promo code and checked out with it, received their delivery within 14 days and then can related that to the number of times they contacted us about using our product. At the intersection of communication, marketing, data, and relationship-management, Kustomer shines at the center. I would say it falls short when you are trying to coordinate multiple "side conversations" with multiple sources to resolve an issue. This is a tough task for any type of platform, but if you're maintaining 3 different email chains with a 3PL partner, the customer, and a separate internal conversation, it would be confusing anyway!
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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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    Kustomer, LLC
    • All customer data (past orders, communication with customer service, rewards account data) is in one place. This helps agents avoid confusion and reduces the number of tabs they need to open.
    • The Knowledge Base (or K Base) is very helpful. Any time we roll out a new policy or have a limited-time promotion, we can add all the relevant information and worksheets there for the convenience of the agents. That way they can stay in a chat while looking up the answer to a question.
    • We can seamlessly move from chat into email if the customer leaves or the queue times are too long. All the interactions will stay on the customer profile page, so they are kept up to date.
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    Cons
    Discontinued Products
    • 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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    Kustomer, LLC
    • For our team, the feature that defaults all notes to begin in "done" status is difficult. Throughout each day we need to have notes open and assigned back and forth to different teams, and we have to remember to manually "open" each note. There is too much room for human error with this setting, and it is easy for important notes to be missed if a user forgets to open the note.
    • Similarly, it can be hard to remember to assign emails/notes to a particular team in addition to a user. We almost exclusively work out of team inboxes, and if someone on Care writes an email to a customer, the email will automatically be "done" when it is created, and it will be assigned to the user who wrote it, but not also to the user's team. There are instances where an email needs to be snoozed for several days/hours with further action needed, and unless the user remembers to assign the email to their team it may "awake" from the snooze and not be visible to anyone except the user who created it. Similarly to my first comment, this leaves a lot of room for human error and is not very intuitive.
    • Personally, I do not love that all tickets/emails/notes are jumbled together in the same inbox. While this gives visibility to everything on the "to do" list at the same time, it can be visually overwhelming. We have created unique folders for certain types of projects or categories of work, but have experienced tech glitches or just the awkwardness of another step to manually read the note, determine what type of category it is, and then manually assign it to another folder. Would love to have things auto-sort and take out this manual lift.
    • I love the idea of the autopilot setting, but we have not been able to use this for our work because it sorts items based on time, and not based on priority. In our line of work, we may have an urgent situation arise that needs attention before an email that was sent in 60 minutes ago. The autopilot feature would push the email to my associates sooner than it would the urgent situation from 5 minutes ago. Due to this, we manually monitor inboxes and assign work to ourselves and others.
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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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    Kustomer, LLC
    Because there's no other tool like Kustomer
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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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    Kustomer, LLC
    There is a learning curve, but it is more than worth it, especially to have a dedicated resource pointed at Kustomer and any other software it interacts with. The basic implementation is useful, and powerful - certainly a MASSIVE upgrade over taking care of your customers in an email inbox or shuffling between multiple windows and applications! It is also set up really well to grow and reconfigure with your business. I'm a big fan.
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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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    Kustomer, LLC
    Because Kustomer is available when you need it
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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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    Kustomer, LLC
    Because ages load quickly, reports complete in a reasonable time frame, given their complexity
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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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    Kustomer, LLC
    I did not reach out to Kustomer support when we had an issue. Still, whenever we provide feedback to our manager regarding what can improve based on our experience using Kustomer, our manager always comments that Kustomer support always replies with some positive feedback based on our suggestions.
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    In-Person Training
    Discontinued Products
    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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    Kustomer, LLC
    Because they are very hands-on in training us and very approachable
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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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    Kustomer, LLC
    It was very easy to understand.
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    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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    Kustomer, LLC
    Nothing really because it is easy to use. After an hour of using it, we're already getting the hang of it.
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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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    Kustomer, LLC
    Apps like Intercom, Zendesk, and Gorgios all treat customer inquiries as tickets, just tracking that one issue or interaction with a customer. Kustomer treats each customer as an individual, which allows us to provide top-notch customer service. Customers love that we're able to be more conversational and informal, while still solving their issues quickly. It also helps us build relationships with customers and increases repeat orders.
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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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    Kustomer, LLC
    Because customer is flexible and scalable
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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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    Kustomer, LLC
    • We’re getting so much positive feedback — which is not something you traditionally associate with a customer care team — because we’re making it effortless for customers to deliver both positive and negative feedback, and we can now resolve the bad feedback really really quickly.
    • Primarily from our increased efficiency with Kustomer, we’ve seen a significant reduction of $3 to $4 for every cost per contact.
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