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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Google Workspace

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AGoogle Workspace enables teams of all sizes to connect, create and collaborate. It includes productivity and collaboration tools for work: Gmail for custom business email, Drive for cloud storage, Docs for word processing, Meet for video and voice conferencing, Chat for team messaging, Slides for presentation building, and shared Calendars.

    $6

    per month per user

    Talkdesk

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/ATalkdesk® supports CX with Customer Experience Automation (CXA), using AI agents to replace manual workflows. Powered by the Talkdesk Data Cloud, CXA delivers real-time context and fast deployment—to transform CX without a rip-and-replace.

    $85

    per month per user

    Pricing
    Google WorkspaceTalkdesk
    Editions & Modules
    Business Starter
    $6
    per user/per month
    Business Standard
    $12
    per user/per month
    Business Plus
    $18
    per user/per month
    Enterprise
    Contact sales team
    Digital Essentials
    $85
    per month per user
    Voice Essentials
    $105
    per month per user
    Elite
    $165
    per month per user
    Elite
    $165
    per month per user
    Industry Experience Clouds
    $225
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Google WorkspaceTalkdesk
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—*Talkdesk also offers per hour login consumption pricing and concurrent pricing. Prices are based on a minimum 3 year commitment to these Editions. Additional telco and usage fees not included. Due to foreign exchange rate approximation, list price is not the exact price that will be quoted.
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    Community Pulse
    Google WorkspaceTalkdesk
    Considered Both Products
    Google
    No answer on this topic
    Talkdesk
    Chose Talkdesk
    We use a combination of Nextiva and Talkdesk. We've found that Nextiva works well for general soft phone usage vs Talkdesk which is best from a support standpoint
    Incentivized
    Chose Talkdesk
    Talkdesk is easier to use.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    97%
    Would buy again
    58 Answers
    95%
    Would buy again
    345 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    54 Answers
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    275 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    57 Answers
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    347 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    43 Answers
    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    195 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    46 Answers
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    219 Answers
    Features
    Google WorkspaceTalkdesk
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Google Workspace and Talkdesk
    Feature
    Google Workspace
    -
    Ratings
    Talkdesk
    8.2
    500 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Agent dashboard00 Ratings7.3479 Ratings
    Validate callers00 Ratings8.3420 Ratings
    Outbound response00 Ratings8.4439 Ratings
    Call forwarding00 Ratings8.5431 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)00 Ratings8.2397 Ratings
    Warm transfer00 Ratings8.8454 Ratings
    Predictive dialing00 Ratings8.9231 Ratings
    Interactive voice response00 Ratings8.5321 Ratings
    REST APIs00 Ratings7.2255 Ratings
    Call scripts00 Ratings8.2229 Ratings
    Call tracking00 Ratings8.6447 Ratings
    Multichannel integration00 Ratings7.0329 Ratings
    CRM software integration00 Ratings8.5381 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Google Workspace and Talkdesk
    Feature
    Google Workspace
    -
    Ratings
    Talkdesk
    8.0
    484 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Inbound call routing00 Ratings9.0444 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing00 Ratings7.0322 Ratings
    Recording00 Ratings9.0468 Ratings
    Quality management00 Ratings8.5426 Ratings
    Call analytics00 Ratings8.5440 Ratings
    Historical reporting00 Ratings8.2448 Ratings
    Live reporting00 Ratings7.8441 Ratings
    Customer surveys00 Ratings7.3249 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics00 Ratings6.8283 Ratings
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    Google WorkspaceTalkdesk
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    Score9.4 out of 10
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    Score8.2 out of 10
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    Score9.3 out of 10
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    Score9 out of 10
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Score8.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Google WorkspaceTalkdesk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (121 ratings)
    8.3
    (514 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.5
    (40 ratings)
    Usability
    8.5
    (12 ratings)
    8.6
    (330 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.2
    (9 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.6
    (9 ratings)
    Support Rating
    2.2
    (12 ratings)
    5.6
    (132 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.6
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.6
    (7 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    7.2
    (224 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.8
    (8 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Google WorkspaceTalkdesk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Google
    Google Workspace does offer several different plans that can match well with the stage of your business. As your business grows, the higher plans can provide the better tooling or expanded features/products to scale with your needs. It would probably become very complicated to swap over to, if you are deeply embedded with another competitor. But, it could be a nice platform to consolidate several disconnected systems under one roof.
    Incentivized
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    Talkdesk
    As a growing company, we did not have customer service contacts set up like a traditional contact center, even though we were trying to operate like one. Talkdesk made the transition simple to orchestrate the new setup, allowing customers to have their contacts answered quickly. As Talkdesk has continued to roll out new products such as Copilot and AI Autopilot, we are implementing and continuing to realize the benefits.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Google
    • Google Calendar...amazing. I don't need to ask team members when they're busy anymore and play this game of bouncing times back and forth. All I need to do is enter their email address and it shows my calendar and theirs side by side and then select the day and time I find that works best for the both of us.
    • I actually prefer Google Meet over Zoom. Zoom bogs down my computer and I find their UI overcomplicated for what it actually does. Google Meet is simple and does practically everything Zoom does without needing to pay any extra money.
    • Sheets integrates with our CRM (Copper) so it's perfect for us. Being able to export information out of our CRM into sheets and then create pivot tables from that data makes our lives a million times better.
    Incentivized
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    Talkdesk
    • Talkdesk excels at reporting. It offers a wide range of reports, such as Aux, AHT, and productivity reports, which are great for monitoring performance.
    • Talkdesk has speech-to-text analytics. This is an AI transcript system. The AI detects speech and transcribes it.
    • Talkdesk is easy to integrate with other apps. Such as Calabrio and Zendesk.
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    Cons
    Google
    • Pricing is a little bit higher than other services
    • The cost of each email inbox costs the same whether you want just email or all of the features. For example, we wanted a support email address that we could setup our support desk with. The cost of that added account is the same as the account I use with all of the features.
    • They removed their free tier for small organizations like mine and restricted the free tier from adding new domain names. This was likely due to abuse, but everyone lost the privilege of the free service.
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    Talkdesk
    • From experience, customer service is terrible, we've had 5 account executives over 18 months, extremely difficult to get timely answers to pressing issues.
    • Integration with other tools, such as ServiceNow, is not truly integration (in my opinion). There was a marked difference between what the salesperson communicated during the evaluation period and what we actually got once we purchased and implemented the product.
    • We continue to have stability issues which force our agents to restart the Talkdesk client. I frequently receive vague error messages ('something went wrong') that can be frustrating as there's no actual detail to what happened. To be fair, it has improved since we implemented the tool, but if you were to ask our agents what frustrated them, Talkdesk would be at the top of their list.
    • Being a multi-channel platform was one of the things that drew us to Talkdesk; however, the chat channel lags way behind voice in customization and reporting.
    • Lack of training resources. The 'Talkdesk Academy' is often very out-of-date. Would be nice to have actual webinars or online training (even paid training) for various functions of the tool like reporting, WFM, IVR, etc.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Google
    There is no better solution for cloud storage and real time collaboration. The amount of features included in G Suite is unmatched and out of other things we’ve tried over the years, nothing comes close to being as great of a tool.
    Incentivized
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    Talkdesk
    One of the best tools our there to tackle alot of our needs or issues within the organisation's and is value for money as you find alot of the features already in bedded and the Ai features are user friendly no need for additional training and Talk desk support when any issues arise is amazing
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Google
    Google Workspace is incredibly intuitive and user friendly. It's easy to adopt through simple features, for example the prompts to enable Gemini on each call for note taking is reliable, and helps to stop you forgetting to use the feature. The main reason for a strong rating is the consistency and reliability, whilst there's definitely areas for improvement, for example additional calendar features (sharing), or deeper functionality in sheets. The level that it provides means that anyone adopting it will be able to take full use of features within a day or two. Gmail, calendar and the documentation suite contain all the basic features for a small / medium business to run at a high level day to day, with minimal downtime or learning curves.
    Incentivized
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    Talkdesk
    As a user, the Talkdesk system is pretty easy. However, as a leader or an admin, the system can be difficult to navigate. Talkdesk appeared to integrate different solutions into their environment. While the overall skin of the environment is pretty seamless, it's easy to see that some solutions are segregated off into their own area of the Talkdesk ecosystem. This is pretty evident with Identity, WFM, and System Analytics, where you have to navigate to their respective areas to pull reports and gather data. Where many other reports are available in Explore
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    Reliability and Availability
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Talkdesk
    Talkdesk is very handy but, sometimes we do face issues were the system can just kick you out and not be able to do calls or receive calls but, what I like about the system once you start refreshing or troubleshooting, everything becomes normal it is a unique system and very modern we don't usually have system issues with Talkdesk.
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    Performance
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Talkdesk
    reports are good until a report is a big one in size then the wait is longer and some call reports delay by an hour or so which is not ideal as we pull these hourly and need them from Work force management perspective and Quality reports are perfectly fine
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    Support Rating
    Google
    My experiences of getting support have been positive. Calling in is not overly difficult, but it does require getting a PIN. The knowledge of those responding to the calls has been impressive. I have managed to work with them to fix two Google bugs that I had identified. These bugs required a some technical expertise and the support staff were able to understand the issue and forward the concerns to the appropriate persons. The first bug was fixed with 24 hours. The second bug took a little longer, but it was also more complicated to reproduce.
    Incentivized
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    Talkdesk
    If Talkdesk had a dedicated phone support line I would have given this rating an overall 10. Their knowledge base is absolutely HUGE and at times very helpful. It's easy to search through and their customer support chat system works perfectly fine, but there are just some times that you need to speak to a human on the phone to ensure you are always on the same page.
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    In-Person Training
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Talkdesk
    The training that was given to us was very smooth and professional. I give my trainer 10/ 10 rate the training was so smooth and very helpful she would make sure we also watch videos of how to use the system which made it very easier for us and what was interesting it is because, the system is also easy.
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    Online Training
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Talkdesk
    Nothing is perfect!! Needing the ability to repeat the training so everyone was on board was important. Not real sure how many people had to repeat the training as they trained on their own and given 30 minutes at a time.
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    Implementation Rating
    Google
    nothing to say
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    Talkdesk
    We were very satisfied with the implementation of Talkdesk. The team was able to gather all the data and information about the system we had in place at the moment and delivered us a Talkdesk plan that suited our needs. We had a few calls after implementation where our questions were answered and gave us the confidence to continue using the system.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Google
    There are lots of competitors to various tools in Workspace, like Meet versus Zoom. However, Microsoft is the other big competitor I can think of for Google Workspace as a whole. To me, at least, the strength of Workspace is how easy it is to share and collaborate with others. For items that I only need for myself and can keep on my own computer, I typically rely on Microsoft Word, Excel, etc. For items that I need to share, I turn to Workspace a lot. Being able to collaborate in real-time and not having to send documents back and forth is so amazing, and such a time saver. And I love that Workspace is also a built-in tool with Dropbox now.
    Incentivized
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    Talkdesk
    Call recordings, quality assessments, feedback, coaching, and monitoring, the call flow is effortless and painless, changing statuses from after-call work is updated to be qued so you cannot change after aftercall work is finished, shows you the company metrics, SLA, abandonment, number of calls taken and record occupancy for you and the team. Many more features make Talkdesk an innovative software compared to its competitors.
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    Scalability
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Talkdesk
    talk desk has helped us massively with flexibility of one system giving us all the relevant information we need to be able to drive improvement and also good service from work force management to quality improvement to the reporting of the work and inputs going in and assess outputs to determine the success of our work and remaining development areas
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    Return on Investment
    Google
    • Zero to no time managing tools allows us to focus on work saving us time and money
    • Google Workspace allowed us to seamlessly transition to a fully remote workforce when the Coronavirus pandemic started - no lost time or productivity.
    • Easily able to extend our workspace and add features, e.g. Voice, saving us time implementing other services.
    Incentivized
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    Talkdesk
    • Reduced hold times with callback feature = better CX
    • Easy transfer option between teams where we can talk rep-rep first before bringing the caller in = less repeated information the customer has to provide = better CX
    • Modified call dispositions allows for better call management & organization = less work on our end!
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Talkdesk Screenshots

    Screenshot of Talkdesk Guardian™, which is an AI-driven, native cloud compliance solution that enables contact centers to gain visibility and take control of their WFH and hybrid workforce.Screenshot of Talkdesk Autopilot™, which is a tool that handles common customer queries, like orders, returns and billing, and automatically responds with conversational answers. And when complex cases are detected that need human empathy and expertise, the virtual agent will redirect customers to a human agent.Screenshot of Talkdesk AI Trainer™, which equips customers with tools to observe, simulate, and put guardrails on AI, according to their needs. This way, generative AI can be used responsibly, preventing AI mishaps, and protecting the brand from potentially poor AI experiences.