Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued) vs. Zendesk Support Suite

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
Score 8.1 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 Support Suite
Score 7.8 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…
$19
per agent/month billed annually
Pricing
Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)Zendesk Support Suite
Editions & Modules
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Support Team (Foundational Support Only)
$19.00
per agent/month billed annually
Suite Team
$49.00
per agent/month billed annually
Suite Growth
$79.00
per agent/month billed annually
Suite Professional
$99.00
per agent/month billed annually
Suite Enterprise
$150.00
per agent/month billed annually
Additional Enterprise-Ready Plans, starting at...
$215.00
per agent/month billed annually
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)Zendesk Support 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
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Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
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Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
9.0
118 Ratings
6% above category average
Zendesk Support Suite
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Ratings
Agent dashboard9.2109 Ratings00 Ratings
Validate callers9.596 Ratings00 Ratings
Outbound response9.399 Ratings00 Ratings
Call forwarding9.289 Ratings00 Ratings
Click-to-call (CTC)9.583 Ratings00 Ratings
Warm transfer9.5105 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive dialing9.381 Ratings00 Ratings
Interactive voice response9.5106 Ratings00 Ratings
REST APIs9.299 Ratings00 Ratings
Call scripts8.675 Ratings00 Ratings
Call tracking9.1103 Ratings00 Ratings
Multichannel integration8.4105 Ratings00 Ratings
CRM software integration6.699 Ratings00 Ratings
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Product A and Product B
Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
8.7
107 Ratings
2% above category average
Zendesk Support Suite
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Ratings
Inbound call routing9.0100 Ratings00 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing9.392 Ratings00 Ratings
Recording9.080 Ratings00 Ratings
Quality management9.280 Ratings00 Ratings
Call analytics8.888 Ratings00 Ratings
Historical reporting9.3103 Ratings00 Ratings
Live reporting8.4100 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer surveys6.964 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics8.273 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 Support Suite
5.5
89 Ratings
38% below category average
Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings6.188 Ratings
Expert directory00 Ratings4.154 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings4.362 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings4.758 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings6.989 Ratings
Ticket response00 Ratings6.788 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 Support Suite
5.2
79 Ratings
42% below category average
External knowledge base00 Ratings5.475 Ratings
Internal knowledge base00 Ratings5.070 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 Support Suite
4.8
87 Ratings
50% below category average
Customer portal00 Ratings4.470 Ratings
IVR00 Ratings2.928 Ratings
Social integration00 Ratings5.653 Ratings
Email support00 Ratings5.585 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings5.764 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)Zendesk Support Suite
Small Businesses
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 9.3 out of 10
Agiloft Flexible Service Desk Suite
Agiloft Flexible Service Desk Suite
Score 9.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 9.3 out of 10
Agiloft Flexible Service Desk Suite
Agiloft Flexible Service Desk Suite
Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises
Webex Contact Center
Webex Contact Center
Score 9.1 out of 10
SAP Service Cloud
SAP Service Cloud
Score 9.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)Zendesk Support Suite
Likelihood to Recommend
8.7
(147 ratings)
5.8
(127 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.0
(26 ratings)
10.0
(39 ratings)
Usability
7.0
(18 ratings)
10.0
(19 ratings)
Availability
8.0
(8 ratings)
8.6
(26 ratings)
Performance
7.1
(8 ratings)
8.0
(20 ratings)
Support Rating
8.9
(33 ratings)
8.8
(49 ratings)
In-Person Training
8.1
(3 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
7.3
(2 ratings)
7.9
(9 ratings)
Implementation Rating
5.0
(27 ratings)
9.0
(35 ratings)
Configurability
6.5
(6 ratings)
9.3
(3 ratings)
Ease of integration
2.6
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
7.3
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
7.3
(4 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
7.3
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)Zendesk Support 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 Support Suite implementation means an industry-class help desk with a dynamic interface that brings together all customer interactions from almost any channel allowing agents to respond faster to customer queries and with the right context. It is more than just a help desk since it also acts as a CRM by allowing us to organize workflows, processes and track customer engagement.
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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
  • Zendesk makes it easy to see if a question/ticket has already been answered/updated (and to see who answered it).
  • Zendesk makes it easy for users to indicate if they are available to respond or not.
  • Zendesk also makes it easy to respond as you can respond within the software/system. A one-stop process!
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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
  • Allow each user to customize the look of their Dash, rather than being hemmed in by company selections
  • Provide a way for Suspended tickets (created by emails from non-users) to be better managed
  • Set a timer for tickets to reopen on a more individual ticket basis.
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Likelihood to Renew
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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
There has not been a reason to consider anything else as the core functions work perfectly for ticketing. Also Zendesk continues to focus on new functionality, growth of the API and Apps framework and add more partner application to the list. Not only will be renew but it is likely we will add seats as we grow and expand our customer focused teams.
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Usability
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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
As an agent it's very simple to use. As an admin it's also easy to use, but sometimes lacks some functionality that would be nice to have such as expanded native 2 way sync functionality for many major apps that are commonly used today like HubSpot and Salesforce. The ability to add followers to tickets to they get updates and are in the know without the customer seeing this agent cc'd is a nice touch. This ensures additional visibility and easily following the communication without having to appear as a CC to the customer, who could accidentally remove that person in a response, thus breaking the visibility
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Reliability and Availability
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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
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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
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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
Every time I contacted them they were not only very responsive and knowledgable, but always seemed to have a positive upbeat attitude. It probably helps that we did not have significant service outages or sev 1 level issues, but even my lower severity issues were quickly answered. And the positive and upbeat attitude really made things feel comfortable.
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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
I have not used any other support software, but also evaluated FreshDesk. For our needs at the time, Zendesk was more polished and had the ability to support multiple websites in a single instance, while allowing customization for each brand separately. That was crucial to us, and is why we went with Enterprise.
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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
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  • 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
  • The main part of the IT department is able to quickly prioritize and delegate tickets as they come in.
  • Tickets can be linked to each other and support articles, creating opportunities for more efficient responses.
  • Central location for users to ask for tech help when they don't need to know which staff member is the appropriate person to ask.
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