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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

    Joule

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AJoule is an AI copilot that’s grounded in an organization's business data and infused with AI agents. It proactively assists employees in every cloud application they use while automating complex processes.N/A
    Pricing
    Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)Joule
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)Joule
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Joule Base Joule Base is a no-cost entitlement of SAP cloud products that enables teams to navigate SAP systems more easily, find the right information more quickly, and complete everyday tasks faster. Joule Premium Joule Premium extends Joule Base with more powerful AI, including advanced Joule skills, premium embedded AI scenarios, and Joule Agents. Joule Premium capabilities are accessed through the purchase of AI units. Visit the pricing page linked above to learn more about Joule Premium capabilities.
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    Community Pulse
    Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)Joule
    Considered Both Products
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    SAP
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    60%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
    92%
    Would buy again
    111 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    88%
    Delivers good value for the price
    7 Answers
    88%
    Delivers good value for the price
    77 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    90%
    Happy with the feature set
    9 Answers
    85%
    Happy with the feature set
    103 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    4 Answers
    74%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    55 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    57%
    Implementation went as expected
    4 Answers
    76%
    Implementation went as expected
    68 Answers
    Features
    Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)Joule
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Genesys PureConnect (discontinued) and Joule
    Feature
    Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)
    7.9
    64 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Joule
    -
    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 Joule
    Feature
    Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)
    5.5
    54 Ratings
    41% below category average
    Joule
    -
    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
    Best Alternatives
    Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)Joule
    Small Businesses
    Zendesk Talk
    Score8.2 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Score8 out of 10
    Cortana (discontinued)
    Score7.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Score8.4 out of 10
    Cortana (discontinued)
    Score7.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)Joule
    Likelihood to Recommend
    5.3
    (116 ratings)
    7.7
    (110 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.6
    (12 ratings)
    7.0
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    7.3
    (12 ratings)
    8.1
    (108 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    6.8
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    8.8
    (3 ratings)
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    4.0
    (12 ratings)
    6.3
    (4 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.3
    (3 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    6.1
    (7 ratings)
    7.4
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.1
    (2 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.8
    (3 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.8
    (3 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)Joule
    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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    SAP
    Joule explained ATC findings, including root cause, business impact, recommended APIs, and examples of fixes for S/4HANA readiness checks. Joule today is a point-in-time assistant — great for one question, one generation, one explanation at a time. It is not yet capable of owning a full development flow.
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • 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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    SAP
    • Users can prompt Joule to create business partners in MDG.
    • The change process for Business partner (Customers/Suppliers) updation is made easy, particularly for updating data such as address and communication details.
    • The workflow process has been simplified by Joule agents, such as identifying the high-priority task and sharing it with the end user.
    • Improved data quality to almost 30%~50% in the CR creation process, which is a significant milestone for us.
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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.
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    SAP
    • In SuccessFactors Joule should have more tools out of the box.
    • There should be more examples on what is possible to do with Joule or Joule Studio in Successfactors, all available examples seem to focus only on Payroll or Inventory management leaving the HR behind.
    • Document Grounding should be easier to implement, and should be possible to have some kind of permissions per couuntry / user group for specific documents. The implementation with Sharepoint makes it harder to complete because normally we need some extra team to join and help and until now, I always had issues implementing it. I believe that it would make it much easier if the documents could be stored and managed inside SuccessFactors.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Discontinued Products
    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.
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    SAP
    As we explore, we can learn more. As i believe, we can only learn to live and live to learn stuffs. So as well AI does the same and improve itself. By trying and prompting joule more, we can use it in better ways. I would definitely wait and use the new versions shared in SAP Teched on Joule with more LLM involved
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    Usability
    Discontinued Products
    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.
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    SAP
    I would rate Joule’s overall usability a 10 out of 10 because it makes interacting with SAP incredibly simple, intuitive, and fast. The conversational interface removes the complexity normally associated with navigating SAP modules, running transactions, or building reports. Even non-technical users can get meaningful insights within seconds just by asking natural language questions.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Discontinued Products
    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).
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    SAP
    as its cloud based, as of now, we see it available all the time and havent faced any issues while accessing. Not sure if this has high availability and Disaster recovery features got set up already with the default version that we are using at our organization. no issues so far.
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    Performance
    Discontinued Products
    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.
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    SAP
    SAP Joule's pages load quickly and it does display the information on what we are looking for w.r.to the knowledge base or the SAP articles.
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    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
    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.
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    SAP
    Usually support for Joule takes longer than normal, and the correct answer always takes a long time to get, or we just don't get it at all, and we fix ourselves.
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    In-Person Training
    Discontinued Products
    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.
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    SAP
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Discontinued Products
    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.
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    SAP
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Discontinued Products
    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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    SAP
    Joule implementation was easy but it has too many steps, it would be nice if part of the steps could be done automatically.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    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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    SAP
    Joule is better because it doesn't take only data available on the web, but combines that with data provided directly by the game publisher through API to us which includes every single match played = all data points from all of those matches. That means that for us Joule gives deeper insights than any online AI chat agent could do
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    Scalability
    Discontinued Products
    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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    SAP
    Yes as sap is used widely across organisation
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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • 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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    SAP
    • Allow us to have everyday operations smoother by automating repetitive tasks and reducing manual efforts, which saves time and improves efficiency.
    • Facilitate effortless information access, since it allows us to search and receive instant responses.
    • Reduces the complexity of SAP by pulling data from different modules and making it clear quickly.
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    Joule Screenshots

    Screenshot of the Joule AI agent that helps a production supervisor respond faster, avoid delays, and handle shop-floor disruptions to keep production running at maximum efficiency.Screenshot of how Joule can deliver insights grounded in business data, empowering employees to make faster, data-driven decisions.Screenshot of Joule's AI assistance that helps employees work faster by guiding them to the SAP applications and screens where they can complete their next task.Screenshot of Generative AI assisted code development with Joule that helps teams deploy custom applications and extensions faster.Screenshot of Joule Studio, where teams can build custom skills and AI agents to address any specific business needs.