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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Kayako

    Score6.8 out of 10
    N/AKayako is a help desk and customer support platform that helps businesses automate workflows, improve agent productivity, and deliver personalized customer experiences across email, chat, and social media.

    $79

    per month

    NiCE CXone

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/ANICE CXone is a cloud-based contact center platform that manages customer interactions across multiple communication channels. It includes features such as automatic call distribution (ACD), interactive voice response (IVR), omnichannel routing, workforce optimization, feedback management, and interaction analytics.

    $110

    per month per user

    Pricing
    KayakoNiCE CXone
    Editions & Modules
    Kayako One
    $79
    per month
    Enterprise
    Contact Sales
    CXone Omnichannel Agent
    $110
    per month per user
    CXone Essential Suite
    $135
    per month per user
    Cxone Core Suite
    $169
    per month per user
    CXone Complete Suite
    $209
    per month per user
    CXone Ultimate Suite
    $249
    per month per user
    CXone Mpower Ultimate Suite
    $249
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    KayakoNiCE CXone
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    KayakoNiCE CXone
    Considered Both Products
    Kayako
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    NICE Systems
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    94%
    Would buy again
    276 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    193 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    284 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    90%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    128 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    155 Answers
    Features
    KayakoNiCE CXone
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Kayako and NiCE CXone
    Feature
    Kayako
    2.0
    11 Ratings
    122% below category average
    NiCE CXone
    -
    Ratings
    Organize and prioritize service tickets1.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Expert directory1.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications1.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation1.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission7.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ticket response1.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of Kayako and NiCE CXone
    Feature
    Kayako
    1.0
    9 Ratings
    156% below category average
    NiCE CXone
    -
    Ratings
    External knowledge base1.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base1.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Kayako and NiCE CXone
    Feature
    Kayako
    1.0
    10 Ratings
    156% below category average
    NiCE CXone
    -
    Ratings
    Customer portal1.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    IVR1.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social integration1.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email support1.010 Ratings00 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration1.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Kayako and NiCE CXone
    Feature
    Kayako
    -
    Ratings
    NiCE CXone
    9.4
    581 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Agent dashboard00 Ratings9.2559 Ratings
    Validate callers00 Ratings9.6471 Ratings
    Outbound response00 Ratings9.5490 Ratings
    Call forwarding00 Ratings9.3443 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)00 Ratings9.2403 Ratings
    Warm transfer00 Ratings9.8531 Ratings
    Predictive dialing00 Ratings9.6317 Ratings
    Interactive voice response00 Ratings9.5376 Ratings
    REST APIs00 Ratings9.3301 Ratings
    Call scripts00 Ratings9.2322 Ratings
    Call tracking00 Ratings9.5510 Ratings
    Multichannel integration00 Ratings9.3364 Ratings
    CRM software integration00 Ratings9.0365 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Kayako and NiCE CXone
    Feature
    Kayako
    -
    Ratings
    NiCE CXone
    9.4
    556 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Inbound call routing00 Ratings9.5511 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing00 Ratings9.1373 Ratings
    Recording00 Ratings9.6495 Ratings
    Quality management00 Ratings9.1480 Ratings
    Call analytics00 Ratings9.2486 Ratings
    Historical reporting00 Ratings9.4479 Ratings
    Live reporting00 Ratings9.4465 Ratings
    Customer surveys00 Ratings9.5299 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics00 Ratings9.6319 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    KayakoNiCE CXone
    Small Businesses
    Help Scout
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Zendesk Talk
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    LiveAgent
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Front
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Score8.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    KayakoNiCE CXone
    Likelihood to Recommend
    1.0
    (22 ratings)
    9.7
    (613 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.8
    (11 ratings)
    10.0
    (28 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.3
    (587 ratings)
    Availability
    7.5
    (2 ratings)
    8.1
    (9 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.7
    (9 ratings)
    Support Rating
    2.1
    (4 ratings)
    9.1
    (6 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (5 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.9
    (7 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.5
    (11 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (6 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.8
    (6 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (9 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.5
    (8 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.5
    (8 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    KayakoNiCE CXone
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Kayako
    When it works, It's without a doubt a great help desk solution. It is perfect for our usage, and have rolled it out company-wide. It's great if you have multiple departments. We have it set up so most items come through a single desk that then hands out tickets to their proper department. There may be cheaper options for smaller organizations but for one that is as service-driven as ours, we really think Kayako is a great fit.
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    NICE Systems
    NICE CXone Mpower offers a great suite of products and tools appropriate for contact centers. It is a one stop shop for all of the monitoring, scheduling, reporting, and quality tools a large or small contact center may need. It is very feature rich and has many components, some of which we haven't even grown to adopt yet but may in the near future.
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    Pros
    Kayako
    • Gives a very good report on an individual level of what is being done for a customer or corporate issue.
    • Easy to understand who has what, what the tickets are about, how long they have been opened and how many times the customer/employee have gone back and forth with each other.
    • Nice dashboard view.
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    NICE Systems
    • Organizes everyone's interactions within the platform
    • Shows interactions real time with productivity stats
    • Makes Chat/Call quality a breeze with customizable quality forms
    • Easy to share an interaction within the company for others to review
    • Keeps everyone on track with scheduled lunches/breaks/meetings so you don't have to remember yourself and never miss another event again!
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    Cons
    Kayako
    • Departments need a bit of work. Even though you can have multiple departments, the only changes that can be made are globally. If you want independent queues within the departments, you have to do a lot of work that can be very confusing.
    • Survey system is not up to speed. Kayako really needs to add Net Promoter Score into their system. Also, if a staff user removes their name from an incident ticket, it removes them from the survey so you really can't even get a good estimate of how well your staff is in the eyes of the customer.
    • Very difficult to implement when you already have a customer base. Setting them up in organizations is difficult. Also, the sign-up for new customers is quirky. If you send an email to Kayako, it will say you are not an authorized user, however, it will store your email address. If you try to send an email a second time, it will go through. This is one of many reasons why we decided to move from Kayako to Oracle Service Cloud.
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    NICE Systems
    • There can be changes in interface of the app, however it's still very good
    • I would appreciete detailed web page with all necessary information, but when I need anything, the customer support is very quick and provide all the information
    • Hardly to find any other :)
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Kayako
    • We are grandfathered in on their old Software-assurance pricing and our continued use costs us only a few hundred dollars a year (excluding hosting expenses)
    • Our team's processes are now heavily ingrained in the system
    • We have not been shown a more compelling option that is more cost-effective while still offering all the features we've come to expect
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    NICE Systems
    Nice made it possible for employees to work from anywhere with access to the internet, it made it possible to extract data from contacts in a very thorough way. In addition, the meticaes can be fully customized and the day-to-day monitoring of the operation is more visible.With nice, contacts with clients abroad became easier.
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    Usability
    Kayako
    I did not come from an IT background and I picked this program up quickly
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    NICE Systems
    The lack of written SOPs makes some features (WFM / Performance management) very difficult to use. The training provided by NICE is extensive, but it's hard to remember everything shared in the hour. We spend so much time on the platform just trying to figure out how to use the features; it would be much easier with written instructions and screenshots.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Kayako
    They are really good, but it takes a while to get back, because of the large time difference to the Eastern US. However, they are very helpful.
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    NICE Systems
    NICE inContact CXone is available when you need it. I have been using it for about a year and I have never suffered any issues that caused my not to have access to the product. If there are updates, they must be downloaded and install in the background because I do not see them
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    Performance
    Kayako
    No answers on this topic
    NICE Systems
    NICE inContact CXone performs very well even on old computers that are limited in resources. I use a older computer with limited memory and it seems to handle NICE inContact CXone very well in most cases. There will be times when it acts up for whatever reason bust over ninety percent of the time.
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    Support Rating
    Kayako
    • We didn't have to use support too much, but when we did, they were able to assist us and help us make everything work.
    • Mostly we used their Online KB and step by step instructions to get all of our issues resolved.
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    NICE Systems
    inContact only allows specific users to contact them for support. Even though I use the product daily and it accounts for a large amount of my workload, I still have to contact an authorized user to create an incident. These users are managers and their schedules are very busy. This can result in delays in incidents being opened and resolved.
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    In-Person Training
    Kayako
    No answers on this topic
    NICE Systems
    The In-person training was fine for a general overview. I think it would have been really helpful to have a review of pre-built reports and how to use them as tools.
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    Online Training
    Kayako
    No answers on this topic
    NICE Systems
    I would rate 10, since the explanations were far enough to catch all the usabilities.I would rate 10, since the explanations were far enough to catch all the usabilities.I would rate 10, since the explanations were far enough to catch all the usabilities.I would rate 10, since the explanations were far enough to catch all the usabilities.
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    Implementation Rating
    Kayako
    Three years in we are about as happy with Kayako as we could be. We've had several employee's leave and on-boarding new hires was easier than it has ever been as things are uniform and consistent across the entire application.
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    NICE Systems
    We love the use of our new tools. However, NICE staff turnover was frustrating. We lost ground each time a new team took over. Some people were good some were not as much. Some people did great training while others were not as helpful
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    Alternatives Considered
    Kayako
    We were using Spiceworks for a few years before switching to Kayako but found that it wasn't as customizable or as user friendly for our customers. The SNMP scanning and inventory features with Spiceworks was nice but we needed more of a Help Desk that would allow us to scale our services to more companies.
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    NICE Systems
    When it comes to this specific situation (cell centers) NICE definitely has an ADP beat. The analytics, scheduling, and forecasts are extremely well-tailored for this situation. ADP has a more comprehensive solution in my opinion - I feel their UI and mobile app are also more user-friendly. But in terms of performance management functionality, NICE has a more robust system and is able to create additional metrics if we need them When I used ADP there were no custom options available.
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    Scalability
    Kayako
    No answers on this topic
    NICE Systems
    I rated 10, because Nice CX one is very much functional. You can simply acess it by website Nice, in any navigator, desktop, notebook or mobile, so you can in a fast way run on every departament of the company.
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    Return on Investment
    Kayako
    • Tickets were definitely responded to faster once we implemented the audible alarm that would go off when new tickets came into the queue. This was possible because of the API.
    • Since the system was email based we could set our monitoring software up to generate tickets automatically via email for customers when it found something out of the ordinary.
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    NICE Systems
    • NICE CXone has allowed us the ability to, on specific teams, not have to back fill positions due to attrition.
    • NICE CXone has provided us insight into data metrics that we did not have before.
    • NICE CXone provides us with visibility into the productivity of our offshore agents which we did NOT have prior to our partnership.
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    ScreenShots

    NiCE CXone Screenshots

    Screenshot of CXone Copilot is a partner for every conversation — bringing knowledge, next steps, and smart suggestions before agents even have to ask.Screenshot of CXone Orchestrator is a visual yet tool that does not require programming skills, but instead empowers everyone—from business user to routing flow programmer—to build and manage routing flows for all channels.Screenshot of CXone Interaction Analytics, used to get actionable insights from every voice, digital, and self-service customer interaction.Screenshot of CXone Performance Management aligns employee performance, contact center goals, and customer expectations with continuous improvement.