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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Microsoft 365

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft 365 (formerly Office 365) is a Microsoft Cloud subscription service that includes Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher, and Access). The software can be installed across multiple devices and ensures that users always have the most up-to-date version of the included Office applications.

    $5

    Per User Per Month

    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
    Microsoft 365Talkdesk
    Editions & Modules
    Business Basic
    $5.00
    Per User Per Month
    Individual
    $5.84
    *Per Month
    Business - Apps
    $8.25
    Per User Per Month
    Enterprise - F3
    $10.00
    Per User Per Month
    Business Standard
    $12.50
    Per User Per Month
    Business Premium
    $20.00
    Per User Per Month
    Enterprise - E3
    $32.00
    Per User Per Month
    Enterprise - E5
    $57.00
    Per User Per Month
    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
    Microsoft 365Talkdesk
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details*When billed annually.*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
    Microsoft 365Talkdesk
    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
    No answer on this topic
    Talkdesk
    Chose Talkdesk
    The applications are different in terms of how they work but talk desk outshine most with their powerful AI features or tools being utilized I without you noticing in some cases it's AI and how user friendly talk desk is with multiple streams of reporting coming from the …
    Incentivized
    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
    Verint has WAY better visual representation of real-time and historical activity. Managing real-time queue adjustments is also much simpler in Verint I really liked being able to see my agents' phone activity in real-time and also historically. This really helps when attempting …
    Incentivized
    Chose Talkdesk
    Talkdesk works well and is the current platform used at my place of work.
    Incentivized
    Chose Talkdesk
    These programs were similar but different from Talkdesk. At first, I did not think I would like Talkdesk. Talkdesk took a while to get used to, however, once you get used to it, it can be very helpful. I originally thought I liked Google products more, however, Talkdesk is now …
    Incentivized
    Chose Talkdesk
    There are a lot of limitations and bugs using Cisco Finesse. It is inefficient to use and we found some inaccuracies with the reports. However, on the other hand, Talkdesk functions way better and provides us with more accurate data that we need in our business analysis. This …
    Incentivized
    Chose Talkdesk
    The new features that Talkdesk has made it easier for us as a company to make the change, the software is easy for agents/supervisors and managers to work with. They are always trying to improve the features as well as Support is awesome to work with.
    Incentivized
    Chose Talkdesk
    Cloud talk and talk desk are pretty equivalent in terms of usuals. Talk desk has been more scalable which has allowed for our company to seamlessly grow and is utilized by a large amount of employees and the cal quality seems to be better than that of cloud talk.
    Incentivized
    Chose Talkdesk
    Blows most of them out of the water, Five9 would be Talkdesk's best competition out there in the space at the moment.
    Incentivized
    Chose Talkdesk
    8x8 doesn't come close and InContact was out of our price range.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    96%
    Would buy again
    195 Answers
    95%
    Would buy again
    345 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    179 Answers
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    275 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    198 Answers
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    347 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    94%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    134 Answers
    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    195 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    142 Answers
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    219 Answers
    Features
    Microsoft 365Talkdesk
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Microsoft 365 and Talkdesk
    Feature
    Microsoft 365
    -
    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 Microsoft 365 and Talkdesk
    Feature
    Microsoft 365
    -
    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 Workspace
    Score9.1 out of 10
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    Score8.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    Score9.1 out of 10
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    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    Score9 out of 10
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    Score8.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Microsoft 365Talkdesk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.4
    (262 ratings)
    8.3
    (514 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.5
    (6 ratings)
    8.5
    (40 ratings)
    Usability
    8.7
    (30 ratings)
    8.6
    (330 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.2
    (9 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.6
    (9 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.9
    (54 ratings)
    5.6
    (132 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.6
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.6
    (7 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (2 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
    Microsoft 365Talkdesk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    Microsoft 365 would be well suited for medium to large enterprises. This is where there are several hundreds or thousands of people. Since most everyone has used one of the applications the learning curve would be reduced. Another reason would be the ability to implement security measures to prevent access to sensitive data. This could justify the cost of an Enterprise license.
    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
    Microsoft
    • Chat with teams and the integrations with the other apps, and many more smaller ones, like to-dos, news, and the recent Outlook integration.
    • Easy embedding on SharePoint to broadcast all the content created in the different tools.
    • The office package is still robust with the good things from the past and new additions.
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • Slack is 1000x better than teams. Why put a 250 limit on a chat? Our company hasn't moved fully to channels and it's making us lose transparency. Plus, the teams channels we do have nobody is going to. 90% loss in visibility and engagement.
    • Teams for web meetings. I think the UI/UX should match Zoom which is the standard for all our customers. They don't like it when we use Teams.
    • Chats and Channels need to somehow be on one screen automatically without having to choose that view because majority of our company hasn't opened Teams Channels and only stays in chats.
    Incentivized
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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
    Microsoft
    There are many features of Office that we cannot replicate in any other tool. Plus people know it already. It's not going away anytime soon.
    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
    Microsoft
    Microsoft 365 is the gold standard for performing project tasks in a professional environment, enabling the quick transfer and exchange of files and ideas for team members who work locally and remotely. Its suite of tools is familiar and has evolved to being cloud based, allowing for files to be updated in real time from near and far.
    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
    Microsoft
    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
    Microsoft
    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
    Microsoft
    Over the past 8 years of using Microsoft 365, I have noticed that they change vendors often. This always leads to a poor experience in the beginning, then levels out after some time for the company to get things worked out. As a customer, it is really frustrating because I don't have time when something isn't working to have them "look into my issue" and get back with me. They have even closed a ticket I specifically told them to keep open. Your applications are only as good as the support.
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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
    Microsoft
    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
    Microsoft
    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
    Microsoft
    Everything works and I use it all the time.
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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
    Microsoft
    Its very user-friendly, collaborative and efficient that boosts productivity using cloud tools. their security is strong and it provides data protection. There are regular updates that shields us from attackers too. It offers a wealth of learning resources, including tutorials, help articles and video guide to help users make the most of the application and personally upgrade their skills.
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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
    Microsoft
    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
    Microsoft
    • We have a lot of nonprofit users, so they have a good ROI.
    • I like the constant updates without having to purchase the software repeatedly.
    • I used to purchase each Office (insert year here) often, so the software was up to date and had the newest options and connectors. I think my return on investment would have been much better if Microsoft had updated those versions to keep them current; after all, we did pay for them.
    • Microsoft 365's offering a monthly fee or a discount for a year helps, and you can look at it as a free backup if you have everything set to back up to One Drive. (Cloud-based document filing you can access anywhere ( with an internet connection)—you Can't beat that!)
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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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    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.