Joule vs. Verint Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Joule
Score 8.4 out of 10
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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
Verint Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA)
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
The Verint Intelligent Virtual Assistant (formerly Verint Self-Service solutions) is a customer-oriented knowledge management solution including technology acquired by Verint from Next IT in 2017. The platform includes voice self-service IVR, a virtual AI-guided assistant (Next IT), and Verint's own knowledge management system for self-service.N/A
Pricing
JouleVerint Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA)
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
JouleVerint Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA)
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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.
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User Ratings
JouleVerint Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA)
Likelihood to Recommend
7.9
(36 ratings)
8.0
(5 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
6.4
(1 ratings)
Usability
8.2
(33 ratings)
7.0
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
JouleVerint Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA)
Likelihood to Recommend
SAP
Joule in SuccessFactors is well suited in case you just want to have a quicker way to execute quick actions for a couple of users, or if you extend Joule with some Joule skills. Apart from this at this point in Time I don't see a lot of default scenarios that Joule brings to the table in SuccessFactors.
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Verint
The IVA is very well suited to handle routine questions and basic actions that would typically require customer support. It may be a little more challenged handling edge cases but in those instances we have found it provides an easy transfer to a live agent
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Pros
SAP
  • Instructing the right way of doing functionalities for e.g. creation of PR
  • pinpoints the exact PR and provide insightful information about it, which allows procurement processors to do the next step
  • provides thing to watch for in your tasks, for e.g. quickly address PO floating issues by navigating and showing the other partial items that are not GRed.
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Verint
  • Use of Acknowledgment base and AI engines.
  • F&Q.
  • Automate process such as consults, modifications and cancel reservations.
  • Execute triggers for notify customer reservations.
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Cons
SAP
  • More visual chart is always useful to show visibility in areas like Kanban and JIT.
  • Data extracted from third party systems also instead of just fetching from SAP.
  • A detailed downloadable report which can be mapped locally used generative AI tools.
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Verint
  • There is minimal documentation around what we can and can't do for IVA
  • IVA seems to be a newer product so this is difficult when trying to implement new things
  • IVA has a lot of non-Verint friendly terms (Think Prompt, vs. answer or Intent/Alternate vs. context).
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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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Verint
While I enjoy the IVA product, there is still some fine-tuning of the platform that can be done. There are some nuances to the Verint platform, which can make it difficult to start quickly. We thought business users would be able to easily manage the work needed within the IVA platform for our business; however, with how complex we want to make the experience, that was not possible. We quickly realized we needed more support than just our business users, who were not familiar with how to add API information into a conversation flow. This is why we expanded to others within our business to support the tool.
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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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Verint
It is well suited for employees with technical experience
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Reliability and Availability
SAP
It must be embedded in lower and on prim version
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Verint
No answers on this topic
Performance
SAP
It is indeed high performance tool to optimize your performance
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Verint
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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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Verint
No answers on this topic
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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Verint
No answers on this topic
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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Verint
Verint Intelligent Virtual Assistant had more features and functionality than the Genesys product as well as customization and further options for internal system integration to our existing on-prem systems. In addition, we also had a rapport with other Verint products and were more familiar with their AI capabilities, making them the obvious choice.
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Scalability
SAP
Yes as sap is used widely across organisation
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Verint
No answers on this topic
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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Verint
  • Human agent hours operations
  • More interactions will be attended by AI agents
  • Reducing human agent licensing costs
  • Attending more interaction in less time
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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.

Verint Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA) Screenshots

Screenshot of the IVA analytics dashboardScreenshot of an IVA conversation flowScreenshot of out-of-the-box IVA NLP AI modelsScreenshot of the connectors integration