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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Lifesize CxEngage

    Score7.8 out of 10
    N/ACxEngage is a cloud contact center solution designed to meet users' needs and work in their environment. Unlike monolithic architectures and on-premises solutions, CxEngage is a ‘born-in-the-cloud’ platform to deliver unified visibility across voice, video, and digital channels. CxEngage is designed to just work anywhere, and to be implemented in a few days or weeks.

    $85

    per month per user

    Zendesk Talk

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AZendesk Talk is call center software built on the Twilio cloud communication platform that integrates with the Zendesk Support ticketing system. This allows customer service teams to provide phone support from the same platform they use to manage all other channels.N/A
    Pricing
    Lifesize CxEngageZendesk Talk
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    Lifesize CxEngageZendesk Talk
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Lifesize CxEngageZendesk Talk
    Considered Both Products
    Lifesize
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    12 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    14 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    90%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    14 Answers
    Features
    Lifesize CxEngageZendesk Talk
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Lifesize CxEngage and Zendesk Talk
    Feature
    Lifesize CxEngage
    6.9
    2 Ratings
    20% below category average
    Zendesk Talk
    7.8
    16 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Agent dashboard7.31 Ratings9.916 Ratings
    Outbound response7.31 Ratings10.014 Ratings
    Call forwarding6.41 Ratings8.915 Ratings
    Interactive voice response7.31 Ratings10.010 Ratings
    REST APIs6.41 Ratings5.07 Ratings
    Call tracking7.72 Ratings9.914 Ratings
    Multichannel integration6.32 Ratings5.110 Ratings
    CRM software integration6.41 Ratings5.09 Ratings
    Validate callers00 Ratings6.012 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)00 Ratings10.013 Ratings
    Warm transfer00 Ratings9.912 Ratings
    Predictive dialing00 Ratings5.08 Ratings
    Call scripts00 Ratings7.06 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Lifesize CxEngage and Zendesk Talk
    Feature
    Lifesize CxEngage
    7.0
    2 Ratings
    17% below category average
    Zendesk Talk
    7.8
    16 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Inbound call routing7.32 Ratings9.912 Ratings
    Recording8.62 Ratings9.915 Ratings
    Call analytics6.82 Ratings8.913 Ratings
    Historical reporting5.92 Ratings8.913 Ratings
    Live reporting6.42 Ratings4.914 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics7.31 Ratings8.19 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing00 Ratings5.110 Ratings
    Quality management00 Ratings9.913 Ratings
    Customer surveys00 Ratings5.08 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Lifesize CxEngageZendesk Talk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.7
    (2 ratings)
    9.9
    (16 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
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    5.0
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    Lifesize CxEngageZendesk Talk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Lifesize
    CxEngage can handle some more complex flow options that other vendors don't seem to be able to do. The integration for voice calls with Salesforce is a huge plus. The integration of email support with Salesforce is a BIG miss. After fighting with it for a year, we finally just turned it off and use Salesforce Omnichannel for email support. Chat using Salesforce Live Agent worked fine enough.
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    Zendesk
    Zendesk Talk is a great partner that helps us in the customer care area by managing every type of contact with customers (both phone calls and emails). I know there is also the possibility to have integration with instant messaging apps (like messenger and WhatsApp but I have never used them in my experience). In my opinion, the best scenario for Zendesk Talk is represented by a context with a high amount of contacts/requests where a unique platform could be a help both on the external side (customers) and on the internal side (a lot of colleagues who are working in the same area and have to work in a coordinate way). For customers, they could benefit from tailor-made answers, also based on past contacts for the same topic, and avoid waiting times during phone calls, with an immediate follow-up. For internal work management, operators don't overlap in a single request, and even if the same operator is not available the one who manages the request later has complete visibility of the entire topic from the historical point of view. Last but not least, I think that Zendesk Talk helps a lot in the context in which the request's speed is a KPI to manage constantly.
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    Pros
    Lifesize
    • Great flexibility working with flow creation and editing
    • Great support staff
    • Good overall package for workforce management and quality monitoring
    • Integrates well with our tools.
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    Zendesk
    • Call recording is a nice feature! It is great for training purposes and for quality assurance.
    • The metrics you get from Explore are a great insight into how the team is handling the call volumes.
    • Zendesk Talk has met most of our needs. It can be a bit unreliable at times.
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    Cons
    Lifesize
    • Stronger support and more reliable system for users not on a commercial network
    • Consumer friendly and intuitive reporting and dashboard tools. build canned reports
    • Reporting: Ability to get a combined SVL for all queues included on a report (now we manually calculate after exporting the report into excel). Same for all major data points (ASA, AHT, etc.)
    • Ability to include abandoned calls and an abandonment percentage which excludes short abandons on the Queue summary report. Now the report just shows total abandons and abandonment percentage so if we want to exclude short abandons we have to pull a separate report to find out how many calls abandoned in less than 10 seconds then calculate the "true abandoned number" (calls abandoned minus short abandons)
    • Ability to change what is considered a "short abandon" and then report on it. Right now the only option is the built in tracking of calls that abandoned in equal to or less than 10 seconds.
    • Ability to "save" an agents "default" skill profile so that any changes we make can be returned to "BAU" with a click of a button
    • quicker data/historical report retrieval
    • way to separate what we have listed as a queue name for reporting vs. what is used for the queue name in the "whisper" (the issue we had with WT queue naming conventions because we had to have the whisper be super precise)
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    Zendesk
    • The lag on the phone is by far the most annoying thing with Zendesk talk due to the voice over IP.
    • Using the Reporting feature in Zendesk has never been a walk in the park. We have to customize a lot of fields and when something doesn't seem to add up, it at times feels like pulling teeth to get to the final answer of what went wrong.
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    Usability
    Lifesize
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    Zendesk
    Everything about it works, as I have previously detailed. Coming from different companies and using other tools like Twilio or Aircall, those are VOIP tools that are built to be plugged into other tools, Zendesk Talk is natively built into Zendesk and feels correct in the user experience of Zendesk
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    Support Rating
    Lifesize
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    Zendesk
    In our experience, we have had to go through many support people then ultimately getting frustrated enough to go directly to our point of contact who then doesn't always seem to be able to assist. We tend to get the support we need when it is escalated up to me and I reach out to our point of a contact person to express our frustration.
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    Implementation Rating
    Lifesize
    We implemented in 2018 and were only given 8 weeks to do it...as per the direction of our parent company at the time. Serenova at the time responded well and we were able to go Live within 8-weeks...albeit the product overall was a big change and had gaps in features over our previous contact management solution.
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    Zendesk
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    Alternatives Considered
    Lifesize
    It's been too many years...I don't remember. Except in 2021 we looked briefly at Amazon and Salesforce call center offerings. Both were too basic at the time that even if we got a great deal on licensing (we are a Salesforce house for other things), we couldn't easily (or at all) do things like Callbacks and some of the more robust flow buildouts that we have in place today with Lifesize.
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    Zendesk
    Slack and Zoom phones cannot compare because they have no ticketing systems. Zendesk Talk was the only option we considered because we were already using Zendesk for our email ticketing with customer concerns. We then expanded to using Zendesk's chatbot and then the Zendesk Talk system to keep it all integrated and streamlined.
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    Return on Investment
    Lifesize
    • lower operational costs
    • improved agent productivity
    • improved flexibility in design and admin work
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    Zendesk
    • We were able to reduce global headcount by 20% in our call centers.
    • Allowing customers to leave voicemails creates the personal touch needed and really increases our customer connectivity score. We saw increases in our CSAT scores after the implementation of this solution.
    • Call handling time and case reopen rates both decreased. Y/y it decreased 18% and 60%.
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    Screenshot of Agent Interface - SFDC Integrated AgentScreenshot of Agent Interface - Skylight Desktop Chat InteractionScreenshot of Agent Interface - Skylight Mockup 1Screenshot of Agent Interface - Skylight Mockup 2Screenshot of Chat - Mockup 1Screenshot of Chat - Mockup 2