Joule vs. Talkdesk

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Joule
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Joule 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
Talkdesk
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
Talkdesk® 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
JouleTalkdesk
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
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
JouleTalkdesk
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsJoule 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.*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
JouleTalkdesk
Features
JouleTalkdesk
Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
Joule
-
Ratings
Talkdesk
7.8
488 Ratings
7% below category average
Agent dashboard00 Ratings7.3467 Ratings
Validate callers00 Ratings7.9410 Ratings
Outbound response00 Ratings8.0428 Ratings
Call forwarding00 Ratings8.0420 Ratings
Click-to-call (CTC)00 Ratings8.3388 Ratings
Warm transfer00 Ratings8.6442 Ratings
Predictive dialing00 Ratings8.9226 Ratings
Interactive voice response00 Ratings8.5312 Ratings
REST APIs00 Ratings6.6247 Ratings
Call scripts00 Ratings7.5222 Ratings
Call tracking00 Ratings8.3436 Ratings
Multichannel integration00 Ratings6.3320 Ratings
CRM software integration00 Ratings7.8374 Ratings
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Product A and Product B
Joule
-
Ratings
Talkdesk
8.0
472 Ratings
4% below category average
Inbound call routing00 Ratings8.7432 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing00 Ratings7.3314 Ratings
Recording00 Ratings8.9456 Ratings
Quality management00 Ratings8.3414 Ratings
Call analytics00 Ratings8.2429 Ratings
Historical reporting00 Ratings8.0436 Ratings
Live reporting00 Ratings7.6429 Ratings
Customer surveys00 Ratings7.5240 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics00 Ratings7.1275 Ratings
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Score 10.0 out of 10
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Score 7.5 out of 10
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Score 10.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
JouleTalkdesk
Likelihood to Recommend
7.9
(33 ratings)
8.4
(498 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.5
(39 ratings)
Usability
8.2
(33 ratings)
8.6
(313 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.8
(8 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(8 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
6.9
(131 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(3 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(5 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.4
(222 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(7 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(7 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(3 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(3 ratings)
User Testimonials
JouleTalkdesk
Likelihood to Recommend
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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Talkdesk
If I was building a contact center from scratch with the intent of integrating AI features into my operations, Talkdesk would be a top choice. If you do not plan on integrating AI, you might find a lot of Talkdesk's offerings extraneous. Talkdesk's Copilot (real-time agent assistant, summarization, etc.) is very accurate for shorter calls. We have an ATT that is much higher than their customer base average, and the summary can start to become less succinct the longer the call goes on. We've noticed the same for automated QA scoring. This is more of a limitation of AI in general, rather than for Talkdesk itself.
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Pros
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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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
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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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
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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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
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Usability
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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Talkdesk
Talkdesk is helpful because we use it to receive calls in our BPO. Not only do we track live ques and statuses from agents, but we also receive feedback from our assessors through the talk desk as well as coaching, and it also stores customer contact data; I can track all my calls, and It records all the calls so we can come back to review them. You can also listen live and track your daily productivity. You can change your aux statuses very quickly, and there was an update talk desk that allows you to queue another status while you are on a call or after-call work, which is a great feature.
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Reliability and Availability
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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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
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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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
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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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
SAP
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
SAP
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
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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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
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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Talkdesk
Talkdesk is used to take inbound and outbound calls, which helps improve customer experience. It also provides evaluations through quality management. Talk desk scores are sometimes behind, but they still work well regarding taking and receiving calls. Some agents blame the Talk Desk because they lack knowledge of how to use it.
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Scalability
SAP
Yes as sap is used widely across organisation
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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
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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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!
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ScreenShots

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.

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.