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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Google Compute Engine

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AGoogle Compute Engine is an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) product from Google Cloud. It provides virtual machines with carbon-neutral infrastructure which run on the same data centers that Google itself uses.

    $0

    per month GB

    Webex Contact Center

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/ACisco Webex Contact Center is a cloud-based omni-channel (e.g. voice, email, and chat) contact center solution providing customer / agent matching, customer service self-service agent, and built-in chat and voice for collaboration between agents.N/A
    Pricing
    Google Compute EngineWebex Contact Center
    Editions & Modules
    Preemptible Price - Predefined Memory
    0.000892 / GB
    Hour
    Three-year commitment price - Predefined Memory
    $0.001907 / GB
    Hour
    One-year commitment price - Predefined Memory
    $0.002669 / GB
    Hour
    On-demand price - Predefined Memory
    $0.004237 / GB
    Hour
    Preemptible Price - Predefined vCPUs
    0.006655 / vCPU
    Hour
    Three-year commitment price - Predefined vCPUS
    $0.014225 / CPU
    Hour
    One-year commitment price - Predefined vCPUS
    $0.019915 / vCPU
    Hour
    On-demand price - Predefined vCPUS
    $0.031611 / vCPU
    Hour
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Google Compute EngineWebex Contact Center
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsPrices vary according to region (i.e US central, east, & west time zones). Google Compute Engine also offers a discounted rate for a 1 & 3 year commitment.—
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    Google Compute EngineWebex Contact Center
    Considered Both Products
    Google
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    Cisco
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    45 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    50 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    44 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    47 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    44 Answers
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    49 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    91%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    31 Answers
    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    36 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    93%
    Implementation went as expected
    41 Answers
    93%
    Implementation went as expected
    41 Answers
    Features
    Google Compute EngineWebex Contact Center
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Google Compute Engine and Webex Contact Center
    Feature
    Google Compute Engine
    8.0
    65 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Webex Contact Center
    -
    Ratings
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime8.125 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling7.860 Ratings00 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing9.353 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates9.562 Ratings00 Ratings
    Monitoring tools3.026 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images9.464 Ratings00 Ratings
    Operating system support8.365 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security controls9.163 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automation7.92 Ratings00 Ratings
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Google Compute Engine and Webex Contact Center
    Feature
    Google Compute Engine
    -
    Ratings
    Webex Contact Center
    8.5
    50 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Agent dashboard00 Ratings8.848 Ratings
    Validate callers00 Ratings9.244 Ratings
    Outbound response00 Ratings8.439 Ratings
    Call forwarding00 Ratings9.346 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)00 Ratings7.441 Ratings
    Warm transfer00 Ratings9.046 Ratings
    Predictive dialing00 Ratings6.530 Ratings
    Interactive voice response00 Ratings8.842 Ratings
    REST APIs00 Ratings8.641 Ratings
    Call scripts00 Ratings8.942 Ratings
    Call tracking00 Ratings8.846 Ratings
    Multichannel integration00 Ratings8.543 Ratings
    CRM software integration00 Ratings8.142 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Google Compute Engine and Webex Contact Center
    Feature
    Google Compute Engine
    -
    Ratings
    Webex Contact Center
    8.1
    45 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Inbound call routing00 Ratings8.441 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing00 Ratings7.939 Ratings
    Recording00 Ratings8.441 Ratings
    Quality management00 Ratings8.537 Ratings
    Call analytics00 Ratings8.539 Ratings
    Historical reporting00 Ratings8.442 Ratings
    Live reporting00 Ratings8.042 Ratings
    Customer surveys00 Ratings7.538 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics00 Ratings7.434 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Google Compute EngineWebex Contact Center
    Small Businesses
    IBM Cloud Object Storage
    Score9 out of 10
    Zendesk Talk
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SAP on IBM Cloud
    Score9 out of 10
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Score8.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Google Compute EngineWebex Contact Center
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (65 ratings)
    9.2
    (54 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    6.9
    (3 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (9 ratings)
    8.5
    (30 ratings)
    Availability
    9.6
    (28 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (28 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Google Compute EngineWebex Contact Center
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Google
    You can use Google Cloud Compute Engine as an option to configure your Gitlab, GitHub, and Azure DevOps self-hosted runners. This allows full control and management of your runners rather than using the default runners, which you cannot manage. Additionally, they can be used as a workspace, which you can provide to the employees, where they can test their workloads or use them as a local host and then deploy to the actual production-grade instance.
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    Cisco
    The flexibility of the open APIs makes it easy to adapt the solution to one's needs and requirements. We could create our own solution tailored to our personal needs and create >3.000 highly customized call flows with minimal configuration effort. Including the possibility to implement additional features with a few clicks across all call flows.
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    Pros
    Google
    • Scaling - whether it's traffic spikes or just steady growth, Google Compute Engine's auto-scaling makes sure we've got the compute power we need without any manual juggling acts
    • Load balancing - Keeping things smooth with that load balancing across multiple VMs, so our users don't have to deal with slow load times or downtime even when things get crazy busy
    • Customizability - Mix and match configs for CPU, RAM, storage and whatnot to suit our specific app needs
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    Cisco
    • The digital channels is one of those. I definitely think the digital channels stands out as a unique product. From a contact center agent standpoint, that when you've got customers, maybe retail customers or that stuff, it's a great fit for that. For anybody who really trying to deal with customers.
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    Cons
    Google
    • Built-in monitoring via Stackdriver is quite expensive for what it provides.
    • Initially provided quotas (ie. max compute units one can use) are very low and it took several requests to get an appropriate amount.
    • Support on GCE is limited to their knowledge base and forums. For more hands-on support provided by Google, you must pay for their Premium services.
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    Cisco
    • Webex Contact Center fits well when the group of users or agents is larger, but sometimes there are use cases where we might need to use Webex Calling, while still having the features of the Webex Contact Center. Currently, I've been seeing a little shift of features that have been getting rolled out from contact centers to calling. The bridges are becoming closer and closer every day, but it would be great to see the same feature sets in Webex Contact Center and Calling.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Google
    Its pretty good, easy and good performance. Also, interface is very good for starters compared to competitors. Infra as Code (IaC) using Terraform even added easiness for creation, management and deletion of compute Virtual Machines (VM). Overall, very good and very easy cloud based compute platform which simplified infrastructure, very much recommend.
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    Cisco
    We are happy with the product, with Cisco as a partner and the roadmap looks mightily impressive. Webex Contact Center is one of our growth areas so we're keen to get more agents on the platform, we want to get more customers on it and we want to make use of all the features and functionalities it offers, so that we can help our customers do what they do best.
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    Usability
    Google
    Having interacted with several cloud services, GCE stands out to me as more usable than most. The naming and locating of features is a little more intuitive than most I've interacted with, and hinting is also quite helpful. Getting staff up to speed has proven to be overall less painful than others.
    Incentivized
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    Cisco
    It is great to use Webex Contact Center as it delivers the call routing and workflow for agent and call routing. In addition to this the noise reduction helps to focus attention on the call and with the client. The notes feature and the ability for the transcription really helps with translation and language barriers.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Google
    Google Compute Engine works well for cloud project with lesser geographical audience. It sometimes gives error while everything is set up perfectly. We also keep on check any updates available because that's one reason of site getting down. Google Compute Engine is ultimately a top solution to build an app and publish it online within a few minutes
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    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Google
    It works great all the time except for occasional issues, but overall, I am very happy with the performance. It delivers on the promise it makes and as per the SLAs provided. Networking is great with a premium network, and AZs are also widespread across geographies. Overall, it is a great infra item to have, which you can scale as you want.
    Incentivized
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    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Google
    • The documentation needs to be better for intermediate users - There are first steps that one can easily follow, but after that, the documentation is often spotty or not in a form where one can follow the steps and accomplish the task. Also, the documentation and the product often go out of sync, where the commands from the documentation do not work with the current version of the product.
    • Google support was great and their presence on site was very helpful in dealing with various issues.
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    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Google
    Google Compute Engine provides a one stop solution for all the complex features and the UI is better than Amazon's EC2 and Azure Machine Learning for ease of usability. It's always good to have an eco-system of products from Google as it's one of the most used search engine and IoT services provider, which helps with ease of integration and updates in the future.
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    Cisco
    Webex Contact Center works great in conjunction with the above product to produce a better system from businesses and more options to reach the maximum number of clients to make the business thrive. It makes it easier to reach all generations and remove any limitation or obstetrical and makes the business have a better chance of success.
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    Scalability
    Google
    It works really well with other Google Cloud services, making it easy to build scalable solutions across different teams and locations.
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    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Google
    • With Google Compute we don't have the overhead of managing our own data centers reducing costs and reducing the staff needed to manage systems.
    • As I said earlier, Google's costs are ~1/2 of AWS, so we are able to see a ROI much faster.
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    Cisco
    • No Capex required for this solution (which makes our CFO very happy)
    • Digital channels are builtin and therefore very easy to deploy
    • The built in CRM integration was missing features so we had to install a thirdparty connector which we had to pay for (and wasn't in our budget) in order to get the features which our business demanded
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Google Compute Engine Screenshots

    Screenshot of How to choose the right VM
With thousands of applications, each with different requirements, which VM is right for you?Screenshot of documentation, guides, and reference architectures
Migration Center is Google Cloud's unified migration platform with features like cloud spend estimation, asset discovery, and a variety of tooling for different migration scenarios.

    Webex Contact Center Screenshots

    Screenshot of Agent desktop viewScreenshot of View of Analyzer - Dark ModeScreenshot of Contact Center in Control Hub viewScreenshot of Supervisor desktop view