Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued) vs. Zendesk Talk

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
Score 7.5 out of 10
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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 Talk
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
Zendesk Talk is call center software built on the Twilio cloud communication platform that integrates with the Zendesk Support ticketing system. This allows customer service teams to provide phone support from the same platform they use to manage all other channels.N/A
Pricing
Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)Zendesk Talk
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)Zendesk Talk
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)Zendesk Talk
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)Zendesk Talk
Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
9.1
118 Ratings
9% above category average
Zendesk Talk
8.1
15 Ratings
3% below category average
Agent dashboard9.8109 Ratings7.415 Ratings
Validate callers9.996 Ratings7.911 Ratings
Outbound response9.199 Ratings8.513 Ratings
Call forwarding8.289 Ratings7.714 Ratings
Click-to-call (CTC)9.183 Ratings8.612 Ratings
Warm transfer9.9105 Ratings7.711 Ratings
Predictive dialing9.381 Ratings7.67 Ratings
Interactive voice response9.9106 Ratings8.59 Ratings
REST APIs9.899 Ratings8.06 Ratings
Call scripts8.975 Ratings8.35 Ratings
Call tracking9.8103 Ratings7.513 Ratings
Multichannel integration9.7105 Ratings7.79 Ratings
CRM software integration5.499 Ratings9.68 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 Talk
7.5
15 Ratings
10% below category average
Inbound call routing9.0100 Ratings7.611 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing9.892 Ratings7.69 Ratings
Recording8.980 Ratings7.914 Ratings
Quality management8.280 Ratings7.812 Ratings
Call analytics8.288 Ratings7.712 Ratings
Historical reporting9.8103 Ratings7.112 Ratings
Live reporting8.9100 Ratings5.913 Ratings
Customer surveys6.864 Ratings8.07 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics7.273 Ratings8.19 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)Zendesk Talk
Small Businesses
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 9.5 out of 10
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 9.5 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Bright Pattern Contact Center
Bright Pattern Contact Center
Score 10.0 out of 10
Bright Pattern Contact Center
Bright Pattern Contact Center
Score 10.0 out of 10
Enterprises
Google Cloud Contact Center AI
Google Cloud Contact Center AI
Score 8.9 out of 10
Google Cloud Contact Center AI
Google Cloud Contact Center AI
Score 8.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)Zendesk Talk
Likelihood to Recommend
7.7
(147 ratings)
8.1
(15 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.0
(26 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
6.9
(18 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Availability
8.0
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
7.1
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.7
(21 ratings)
5.0
(3 ratings)
In-Person Training
8.1
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
7.3
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
3.8
(11 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
6.5
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
2.1
(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 Talk
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 Talk is a great partner that helps us in the customer care area by managing every type of contact with customers (both phone calls and emails). I know there is also the possibility to have integration with instant messaging apps (like messenger and WhatsApp but I have never used them in my experience). In my opinion, the best scenario for Zendesk Talk is represented by a context with a high amount of contacts/requests where a unique platform could be a help both on the external side (customers) and on the internal side (a lot of colleagues who are working in the same area and have to work in a coordinate way). For customers, they could benefit from tailor-made answers, also based on past contacts for the same topic, and avoid waiting times during phone calls, with an immediate follow-up. For internal work management, operators don't overlap in a single request, and even if the same operator is not available the one who manages the request later has complete visibility of the entire topic from the historical point of view. Last but not least, I think that Zendesk Talk helps a lot in the context in which the request's speed is a KPI to manage constantly.
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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
  • Call recording is a nice feature! It is great for training purposes and for quality assurance.
  • The metrics you get from Explore are a great insight into how the team is handling the call volumes.
  • Zendesk Talk has met most of our needs. It can be a bit unreliable at times.
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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 lag on the phone is by far the most annoying thing with Zendesk talk due to the voice over IP.
  • Using the Reporting feature in Zendesk has never been a walk in the park. We have to customize a lot of fields and when something doesn't seem to add up, it at times feels like pulling teeth to get to the final answer of what went wrong.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
In our experience, we have had to go through many support people then ultimately getting frustrated enough to go directly to our point of contact who then doesn't always seem to be able to assist. We tend to get the support we need when it is escalated up to me and I reach out to our point of a contact person to express our frustration.
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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
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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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Zendesk
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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
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Alternatives Considered
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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
Slack and Zoom phones cannot compare because they have no ticketing systems. Zendesk Talk was the only option we considered because we were already using Zendesk for our email ticketing with customer concerns. We then expanded to using Zendesk's chatbot and then the Zendesk Talk system to keep it all integrated and streamlined.
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Scalability
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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
  • We were able to reduce global headcount by 20% in our call centers.
  • Allowing customers to leave voicemails creates the personal touch needed and really increases our customer connectivity score. We saw increases in our CSAT scores after the implementation of this solution.
  • Call handling time and case reopen rates both decreased. Y/y it decreased 18% and 60%.
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ScreenShots

Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued) Screenshots

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