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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AGenesys PureConnect was an omnichannel contact center platform that offered cloud-based or on-premise deployments. It featured a SIP-based architecture with VoIP capabilities, allowing companies to connect legacy voice systems and use existing phones. A legacy product, new users are encouraged to investigate Genesys Cloud.N/A

    HipChat (discontinued)

    Score9.7 out of 10
    N/AHipchat was discontinued by Atlassian. Users are being migrated to Slack.N/A
    Pricing
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    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
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    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
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    Considered Both Products
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    60%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    88%
    Delivers good value for the price
    7 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    90%
    Happy with the feature set
    9 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    4 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    57%
    Implementation went as expected
    4 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
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    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Genesys PureConnect (discontinued) and HipChat (discontinued)
    Feature
    Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)
    7.9
    64 Ratings
    7% below category average
    HipChat (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Agent dashboard6.755 Ratings00 Ratings
    Validate callers7.548 Ratings00 Ratings
    Outbound response8.541 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call forwarding7.756 Ratings00 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)8.043 Ratings00 Ratings
    Warm transfer8.357 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive dialing8.036 Ratings00 Ratings
    Interactive voice response8.045 Ratings00 Ratings
    REST APIs7.037 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call scripts8.539 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call tracking7.755 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multichannel integration9.044 Ratings00 Ratings
    CRM software integration8.038 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Genesys PureConnect (discontinued) and HipChat (discontinued)
    Feature
    Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)
    5.5
    54 Ratings
    41% below category average
    HipChat (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Inbound call routing6.551 Ratings00 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing6.539 Ratings00 Ratings
    Recording4.552 Ratings00 Ratings
    Quality management4.546 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call analytics3.043 Ratings00 Ratings
    Historical reporting5.052 Ratings00 Ratings
    Live reporting6.548 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer surveys8.035 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics5.030 Ratings00 Ratings
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Genesys PureConnect (discontinued) and HipChat (discontinued)
    Feature
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    -
    Ratings
    HipChat (discontinued)
    7.3
    106 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Mobile Access00 Ratings7.397 Ratings
    Search00 Ratings7.2103 Ratings
    Communication
    Comparison of Communication features of Genesys PureConnect (discontinued) and HipChat (discontinued)
    Feature
    Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    HipChat (discontinued)
    7.3
    132 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Chat00 Ratings7.7132 Ratings
    Notifications00 Ratings7.7130 Ratings
    Discussions00 Ratings6.5110 Ratings
    Surveys00 Ratings7.834 Ratings
    Internal knowledgebase00 Ratings7.043 Ratings
    Integrates with GoToMeeting00 Ratings7.023 Ratings
    File Sharing & Management
    Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Genesys PureConnect (discontinued) and HipChat (discontinued)
    Feature
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    -
    Ratings
    HipChat (discontinued)
    6.3
    95 Ratings
    24% below category average
    Video files00 Ratings6.585 Ratings
    Audio files00 Ratings6.873 Ratings
    Access control00 Ratings6.660 Ratings
    Advanced security features00 Ratings5.949 Ratings
    Integrates with Google Drive00 Ratings6.027 Ratings
    Device sync00 Ratings6.055 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
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    Small Businesses
    Zendesk Talk
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Flock
    Score9.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Score8 out of 10
    Troop Messenger
    Score9.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Score8.4 out of 10
    Cisco Business Edition 7000 (discontinued)
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    5.3
    (116 ratings)
    6.8
    (133 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.6
    (12 ratings)
    9.8
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    7.3
    (12 ratings)
    7.2
    (8 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.8
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    4.0
    (12 ratings)
    7.1
    (7 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.3
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    6.1
    (7 ratings)
    8.4
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.1
    (2 ratings)
    7.6
    (8 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    7.2
    (10 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.8
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.8
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    CIC is best suited for business models that rely on heavily leverage Data Integration especially one like ours that require real-time and high-speed data access for billing and customer integration. CIC is not well suited for small organizations < 50 where they are only answering phones in the course of doing business VS. the business is the phone.
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    Well suited for
    Cross-teams communication.
    Webhooks support. Easy integrations with Atlassian products and other systems as well. File sharing directly or in a group. Video/Audio calls.
    Not suited for:
    Lacks apps integration like Slack.
    Lacks quality with video calls.
    Slow file transfer for large files.
    Frequent downtime due to app instability.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
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    • Purely Software Based System: On Microsoft OS. It is an all software-based system making it easy to manage, integrate and interface with other systems
    • One Vendor: All modules, IVR, ACD, Dialer, WFM are from one vendor. So, no compatibility and latency issues at all.
    • Superb Notifier Service: You don't have to restart any process or service for a change to take effect.
    Incentivized
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    • HipChat is very stable and reliable. I have never had issues with not being able to connect or being able to communicate with others on HipChat.
    • HipChat integrates quite well with other applications, such as Jira and Stash. This is a main selling point for my team. It provides a convenient feed of actions on a JIRA story or Stash pull request.
    • HipCat does a good job of allowing 1-1 and group chats. It is simple to start a new conversation and it is easy to hold a group conversation and keep track of who is in the room.
    • I like how HipChat has away/here/on mobile statuses. This makes it easy to see if a person is available to be contacted.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
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    • Licensing can be challenging and very expensive.
    • Client templates are hard to administer and are built very different than the rest of the functionality.
    • Web desktop has been slow to come along and include all the features.
    • Optimizer is very sub-par product.
    Incentivized
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    • Mobile app is not very responsive on iOS. Sometimes connection to Hipchat servers is taking too long even on good networks.
    • Both mobile and desktop versions have no alphabetical or recent sorting for groups and chat rooms.
    • Video and audio calls are pretty useless, they're slow and not always work.
    • The whole user interface is simple but very outdated - apparently Atlassian didn't focus too much on Hipchat even though they tried in the last 2 years.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
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    We are so embedded on Pure Connect that we like to progress with it. For instance, we are looking into ways to provide different solutions to our customers, help our business to succeed, and work in a better CX.
    One of the biggest advantages is that all is in one platform.
    Incentivized
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    If they fix the bugs the last update gave that are causing hipchat to crash more often.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
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    The interface is only semi user-friendly on almost every front. Agent experience is lacking and we have found many limitations within the system. Workforce forecasting is not as robust as expected. Quality continues to be a struggle. Interaction searches are not robust.
    Incentivized
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    The app itself had a pleasant if not generic interface. As a user experience expert and engineer I can say the interface is fairly intuitive if not bland. It does what you expect it to do and it's available on iOS and Android devices. If I recall it was generally pretty light weight in terms of installation size.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
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    The application itself uses a hub and spoke model that can help isolate errors in one section of the application from the rest, creating a much more stable overall program. Of all of the outages that we've had with our contact center platform, I can count on one hand how often it was truly a Genesys issue rather than a network issue, server issue or issue with a platform relied upon for an integration (web services, db calls).
    Incentivized
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    Performance
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    Some of the client applications take a bit of time on initial load, but with the move towards web based applications that issue is alleviated. You can tell that effort really isn't putting into the desktop apps any longer and that the client development effort is being put into bringing Interaction Connect closer to feature parity with the desktop (and bringing wholly new features to Connect). As far as IVR operations, web service calls, database operations: they all operate reasonably.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
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    Some cases are resolved quickly others are taking longer and the reseller sometimes has to chase support several times and explain the issue seen several times. While being a direct customer before, I recognise this and it seems that when a case moves to another engineer they don’t read the previous case notes or don’t understand what has been done. This, from a customers perspective, slows down resolution times.
    Incentivized
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    HipChat support is good . Responds in timely manner when ever we have raised the request via email , phone and gives us continue update on the request .Though most of the questions are answered by HipChat FAQs , but they can still improve it and add more to the knowledge base .
    Incentivized
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    In-Person Training
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    I liked the setup of the whole class. The instructor knew the topic well enough to answer questions from entry level to a more advanced one.
    Instructor encouraged participation of the whole class and was able to engage every one. Also provided "real live" examples so everyone can relate to it.
    Incentivized
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    Online Training
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    The online training itself is good. You are provided resources and can self study to a certain point, but the pacing always felt off. Either snails pace or like trying to drink from a fire hose. I think this easily could have had to do with course material and my personal preparations, though. I would say my main gripe is that since the acquisition the team responsible for actually booking training is very unresponsive and often not knowledgeable about the courses they offer. Booking my last training was a real chore.
    Incentivized
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    Implementation Rating
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    Don't try to go the perfect solution as a first target. Work on answer the more needs with a simple solution. Then analyse and try again to answer the most needs with adding a bit if complexity only if require. No needs to customise straight from the beginning or deployment takes too long.
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    I don't have insights as I was not a part of the implementation. However, I love the end product
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
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    Call Manager, you had to buy all the components that are out of the box for PureConnect. The licensing model is more expensive on the Cisco side vs the Genesys PureConnect side. Lastly was on the Cisco side since you have to connect/integrate all the components on the cisco side you have to have so many vendors to install those parts. This drives the cost up even more so it was not worth going that route for our organization.
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    We tried a lot of chat clients before choosing HipChat. The Skype for Business UI on the Mac side was 5 years old and terrible. Mac users hated the app including our CTO. Cisco Jabber was expensive to license and maintain; Skype was open to the public which took time away due to users dealing with spam and could allow viruses and malware. HipChat being a closed product, centrally managed and available to try without an upfront investment was perfect for our environment. All our Agile teams have their own room, chat and can communicate with others quickly and easily.
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    Scalability
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    Genesys PureConnect's core and adjunct model allows for fairly easy growth in satellite locations via off site session managers, remote located media servers, remote content servers, etc to allow you to spread the infrastructure out while not pushing as much network traffic to your core data centers.
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    Actually I never shared of HipChat using with more than 25 persons in team simultaneously, but I believe it can be scaled for much largest collaboration teams. At least it works flawlessly for us, with transparent integration with Jira, and I am not see any reasons for some troubles for work at big scale.
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    Return on Investment
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    • We're improving our CX by optimizing our call centers, using additional attributes and keys to identify the best rep for the job.
    • We are also streamlining the journey of each individual customer by using PureConnect as the central interface for omnichannel interactions, allowing us to pick up the conversation where we left off.
    • Using additional attributes that start with the contact center interaction, we're able to track a student journey and proactively step in - increasing our individualized support to focus on the student outcome.
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    • HipChat has increased the effiency with which I am able to communicate with my coworkers, particularly those who work out of other offices. Having a light, portable messaging solution has been beneficial for checking in on small things without the need to send emails or schedule phone calls.
    Incentivized
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