Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued) vs. Zendesk Suite

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
Score 7.7 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
Zendesk Suite
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
The Zendesk Support suite is a cloud-based customer support software built for better customer relationships. Designed to improve customer satisfaction and to support customers on any channel: text SMS, web, mobile app, phone, email, social media. The vendor states more than 200,000 companies such as Uber, Groupon, Box, Airbnb, and Slack are using Zendesk to lower their support costs, raise productivity, and increase customer satisfaction. Zendesk offers a full suite of products to meet customer…
$55
per month agent
Pricing
Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)Zendesk Suite
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Support Team (Foundational Support Only)
$19
per month agent
Suite Team
$55
per month agent
Support Professional
$55
per month agent
Suite Growth
$89
per month agent
Suite Professional
$115
per month agent
Support Enterprise
$115
per month agent
Suite Enterprise
$169
per month agent
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)Zendesk Suite
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)Zendesk Suite
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)Zendesk Suite
Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
9.2
118 Ratings
10% above category average
Zendesk Suite
-
Ratings
Agent dashboard9.9109 Ratings00 Ratings
Validate callers9.996 Ratings00 Ratings
Outbound response9.099 Ratings00 Ratings
Call forwarding8.189 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 APIs9.999 Ratings00 Ratings
Call scripts9.075 Ratings00 Ratings
Call tracking9.9103 Ratings00 Ratings
Multichannel integration9.9105 Ratings00 Ratings
CRM software integration5.199 Ratings00 Ratings
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Product A and Product B
Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
8.5
107 Ratings
3% above category average
Zendesk Suite
-
Ratings
Inbound call routing9.0100 Ratings00 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing9.992 Ratings00 Ratings
Recording8.980 Ratings00 Ratings
Quality management8.180 Ratings00 Ratings
Call analytics8.188 Ratings00 Ratings
Historical reporting9.9103 Ratings00 Ratings
Live reporting9.0100 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer surveys6.864 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics7.173 Ratings00 Ratings
Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
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Ratings
Zendesk Suite
8.7
149 Ratings
11% above category average
Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings9.0148 Ratings
Expert directory00 Ratings8.098 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings8.3104 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings8.3100 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings9.3148 Ratings
Ticket response00 Ratings9.2147 Ratings
Self Help Community
Comparison of Self Help Community features of Product A and Product B
Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
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Ratings
Zendesk Suite
8.3
134 Ratings
9% above category average
External knowledge base00 Ratings8.3128 Ratings
Internal knowledge base00 Ratings8.4122 Ratings
Multi-Channel Help
Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Product A and Product B
Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
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Ratings
Zendesk Suite
8.5
145 Ratings
12% above category average
Customer portal00 Ratings8.6117 Ratings
IVR00 Ratings8.356 Ratings
Social integration00 Ratings7.993 Ratings
Email support00 Ratings9.0142 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings8.8107 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)Zendesk Suite
Small Businesses
Bright Pattern Contact Center
Bright Pattern Contact Center
Score 9.8 out of 10
Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)
Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)
Score 9.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Bright Pattern Contact Center
Bright Pattern Contact Center
Score 9.8 out of 10
Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)
Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)
Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises
Google Cloud Contact Center AI
Google Cloud Contact Center AI
Score 8.2 out of 10
Front
Front
Score 8.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)Zendesk Suite
Likelihood to Recommend
7.7
(147 ratings)
8.7
(187 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.9
(26 ratings)
10.0
(43 ratings)
Usability
6.9
(18 ratings)
8.7
(60 ratings)
Availability
8.0
(4 ratings)
8.6
(13 ratings)
Performance
7.1
(4 ratings)
8.0
(10 ratings)
Support Rating
8.6
(21 ratings)
6.6
(31 ratings)
In-Person Training
8.1
(3 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
7.3
(2 ratings)
7.9
(9 ratings)
Implementation Rating
3.8
(11 ratings)
9.0
(18 ratings)
Configurability
6.5
(3 ratings)
9.3
(3 ratings)
Ease of integration
1.7
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
7.3
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
7.3
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
7.3
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)Zendesk Suite
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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Zendesk
Zendesk is well suited when dealing with a customer who does not know English. This way, they can copy the email sent and translate it into their home language for better understanding. Zendesk is less appropriate when a customer sends their personal details, such as their bank details. Sometimes, a seller may want us to return their documents, which is also inappropriate.
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Pros
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  • 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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Zendesk
  • UI/UX; mature macros and automations, slick and well thought out UI.
  • Reporting, reporting, reporting. With user, org, and ticket level tags, we can track every aspect of our ticket flow.
  • Extensibility; the app marketplace is a great resource for expanding functionality from the baseline offering.
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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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Zendesk
  • The development of messaging out of the earlier Chat module is clunky and still has limitations for multi language flows.
  • When creating queries in Explore, you can't search for 'or' conditions, only 'And', meaning you have to build multiple queries and manually add them.
  • You can't download the charts in the reports, they come down as tables and then you have to make your own charts.
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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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Zendesk
Zendesk is an amazing tool for communicating with your customers easily. The communication tickets from sellers to us or from us to sellers are stored, and there are statuses used to make communication easy. We have internal conversations between departments, linked with useful software such as Zingtree, Talkdesk, and Webs.
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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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Zendesk
I used to work without a ticketing service, and everything was handled on an email provider, this made it very difficult to track, no integrations to the software complicating the use of internal tools or other software like Guru, Zendesk Suite wasn't hard to learn, in fact it was very easy, very straightforward, and I was an admin learning to use several tools at the same time.
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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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Zendesk
In the past year, I'd say I have only noticed maybe two hours total of downtime in my own usage. Very minimal.
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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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Zendesk
There has been minor performance degradation on a very few days out of the two years I have been using the product.
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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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Zendesk
We rarely need to contact their support team, but when we do they are responsive. However there have been notable times when communication between myself and the support rep was challenging despite me providing clear explanation of the issue, screenshots, and a thorough explanation of the goal we hope to achieve. It took several back and forth attempt, on a few occasions, to get resolution on an otherwise simple request
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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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Zendesk
No answers on this topic
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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Zendesk
Zendesk has tons of available material for training - videos, webinars, articles, etc. The only reason this is not a 10 is because it can be hard to figure out how to navigate to these things and find what you are looking for.
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Implementation Rating
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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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Zendesk
I was very satisfied. They have a free trial for 30 days and I recommend you do that and use it. It is very easy to get started with the basics and the build on over time.

The only thing technically complex was single sign-on and integration to Salesforce.com required some tweaks – otherwise setting up system was very easy
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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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Zendesk
Zendesk Suite is exceptionally user friendly and highly customisable. Free training for all levels and roles of users which is easy to follow and engaging for users is particularly helpful along with the added support behind the scenes from Zendesk support and the Zendesk community is second to none.
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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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Zendesk
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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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Zendesk
  • Integrating other AI solutions for an organization with high volumes can cost about USD5000 monthly. With Zendesk AI and by building onto the same with AI powered apps built for Zendesk Suite we save a projected USD4000 monthly.
  • Robust Zendesk APIs have enabled us to integrate our internal system with a customized app saving us hundreds of hours every quarter spent loading customer profiles that are not loaded instantly from the app.
  • Plug and play apps like Round robin save us weeks of sprint delay timelines as they do not require additional coding or developer support to install and start using.
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ScreenShots

Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued) Screenshots

Screenshot of Altocloud in Workspace

Zendesk Suite Screenshots

Screenshot of Zendesk Agent WorkspaceScreenshot of Omnichannel MessagingScreenshot of Zendesk TicketingScreenshot of Bots powered by Zendesk AIScreenshot of Tone shift with Zendesk AIScreenshot of Zendesk ticketing side conversations