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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

    RingCentral Contact Center

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/ARingCentral Contact Center is an AI-first contact center offers a set of cloud-based software plans with basic features including support for inbound and outbound call centers and IVR and ACD capabilities. Advanced features include analytics, real-time call reporting, workforce optimization analytics, and omni-channel integration with SMS, email, and social media platforms.N/A

    Speech Recognizer Plugin

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    Pricing
    Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)RingCentral Contact CenterSpeech Recognizer Plugin
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
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    Free Trial
    NoNoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)RingCentral Contact CenterSpeech Recognizer Plugin
    Considered Multiple Products
    Discontinued Products
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    RingCentral
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    Red Shift
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    60%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
    94%
    Would buy again
    33 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    88%
    Delivers good value for the price
    7 Answers
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    30 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    90%
    Happy with the feature set
    9 Answers
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    33 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    4 Answers
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    20 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    57%
    Implementation went as expected
    4 Answers
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    22 Answers
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    Features
    Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)RingCentral Contact CenterSpeech Recognizer Plugin
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Genesys PureConnect (discontinued) and RingCentral Contact Center and Speech Recognizer Plugin
    Feature
    Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)
    7.9
    64 Ratings
    7% below category average
    RingCentral Contact Center
    8.6
    35 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Speech Recognizer Plugin
    -
    Ratings
    Agent dashboard6.755 Ratings9.430 Ratings00 Ratings
    Validate callers7.548 Ratings7.010 Ratings00 Ratings
    Outbound response8.541 Ratings8.631 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call forwarding7.756 Ratings8.231 Ratings00 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)8.043 Ratings9.420 Ratings00 Ratings
    Warm transfer8.357 Ratings8.010 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive dialing8.036 Ratings8.716 Ratings00 Ratings
    Interactive voice response8.045 Ratings9.121 Ratings00 Ratings
    REST APIs7.037 Ratings9.910 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call scripts8.539 Ratings7.619 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call tracking7.755 Ratings9.010 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multichannel integration9.044 Ratings8.619 Ratings00 Ratings
    CRM software integration8.038 Ratings7.719 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Genesys PureConnect (discontinued) and RingCentral Contact Center and Speech Recognizer Plugin
    Feature
    Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)
    5.5
    54 Ratings
    41% below category average
    RingCentral Contact Center
    9.0
    34 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Speech Recognizer Plugin
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    Ratings
    Inbound call routing6.551 Ratings9.430 Ratings00 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing6.539 Ratings9.020 Ratings00 Ratings
    Recording4.552 Ratings9.632 Ratings00 Ratings
    Quality management4.546 Ratings9.229 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call analytics3.043 Ratings8.931 Ratings00 Ratings
    Historical reporting5.052 Ratings9.030 Ratings00 Ratings
    Live reporting6.548 Ratings8.927 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer surveys8.035 Ratings9.613 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics5.030 Ratings7.315 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)RingCentral Contact CenterSpeech Recognizer Plugin
    Small Businesses
    Zendesk Talk
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Zendesk Talk
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Dragon Speech Recognition
    Score7.8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Score8 out of 10
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Score8 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Enterprises
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Score8.4 out of 10
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Score8.4 out of 10
    Verint Speech and Text Analytics
    Score8.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)RingCentral Contact CenterSpeech Recognizer Plugin
    Likelihood to Recommend
    5.3
    (116 ratings)
    9.3
    (35 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.6
    (12 ratings)
    9.6
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.3
    (12 ratings)
    9.7
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.8
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    4.0
    (12 ratings)
    8.9
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.3
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    6.1
    (7 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
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    Vendor post-sale
    8.8
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
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    Vendor pre-sale
    8.8
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)RingCentral Contact CenterSpeech Recognizer Plugin
    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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    RingCentral
    RingCentral Contact Center is extremely useful for tracking employee availability and working hours, particularly for remote employees. It is also helpful to be able to share certain skills between various employees so that customers dialing in have the best chance to get in touch with the correct contact immediately. RingCentral Contact Center is not ideal for lots of outbound outreach, particularly due to the phone number not coming in with the user's extension (and in our case, the number is an 800 number and looks more like spam), but for incoming calls it is very useful. The difference between a cold transfer and trying to conference someone on before you transfer is not always clear. Many people in the company often make mistakes, such as not being able to conference on the contact before transferring or accidentally hanging up on the conference, also affecting the others on the line.
    Incentivized
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    Red Shift
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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.
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    RingCentral
    • Reliability: Our previous service was prone to outages, RingCentral Contact Center has been rock solid as long as we've used it.
    • Integration: Our IT team was able to build a custom RingCentral Contact Center dashboard on our website for our salespeople to manage inbound/ outbound calling. From there we were able to send call data directly into activities in our ERP (Acumatica).
    • Ease of use: It works well whether in the office or WFH (which many employees do regularly.
    Incentivized
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    Red Shift
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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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    RingCentral
    • I have not experienced it firsthand, but I have heard that their customer service is hard to reach and to resolve issues.
    • Verification to login can be annoying with the number of steps required.
    • I do receive spam calls through the number, which i wish were filtered out.
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    Red Shift
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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.
    Incentivized
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    RingCentral
    If we haven't used the contact center for support is because the service is so good that make us not need to use it very often. However, I guess our IT team has found some useful features on it for system implementation, automation, and updates that have helped them to keep providing us with the right support as needed.
    Incentivized
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    Red Shift
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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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    RingCentral
    It's a really intuitive platform. All the buttons and sections are almost exactly where you would expect them to be. Navigating the platform is fairly easy, even for folks who have not used it before. I can usually just tell my colleagues to "go to the settings tab and you'll see the audio settings" and they are able to take it from there.
    Incentivized
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    Red Shift
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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).
    Incentivized
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    RingCentral
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    Red Shift
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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.
    Incentivized
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    RingCentral
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    Red Shift
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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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    RingCentral
    We honestly did not need much support but whatever we wanted was resolved via email and that experience was nice but took a bit of time
    Incentivized
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    Red Shift
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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.
    Incentivized
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    RingCentral
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    Red Shift
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    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.
    Incentivized
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    RingCentral
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    Red Shift
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    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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    RingCentral
    It was really straightforward to get our phone number ported over and start using the platform. The agent walked us through the steps and we were able to configure everything ourselves. Much easier to setup than some of the other platforms
    Incentivized
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    Red Shift
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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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    RingCentral
    All of them are good choices, but if you're looking for something where all of these are included, it must needs be RingCentral Contact Center, All in one communication tool, don't worry about communication outages, RingCentral Contact Center updates in out of office schedules, if you're looking for "The Experience" RingCentral is the best choice.
    Incentivized
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    Red Shift
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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.
    Incentivized
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    RingCentral
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    Red Shift
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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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    RingCentral
    • With RingCentral Contact Center we were able to connect with our customers. The feature that allows the call to be sent to the first available rep ensured that this happened.
    • Also, my favorite feature is the call recording and transcription feature. This allowed me to get the customer's emails without asking them to repeat if I missed them the first time. Hence, happier customers and more meetings.
    • RingCentral Contact Center also made it very easy to set up a mailbox for customers to leave messages and reassure them that they've connected with the right person.
    Incentivized
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    Red Shift
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