Microsoft Teams combines video conferencing software with team collaboration tools. The communications platform allows MS Office users to conduct conference calls and share files via SharePoint, and join or initiate a group chat.
$4.80
per month per user
Webex Contact Center
Score 8.7 out of 10
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Cisco Webex Contact Center is a cloud-based omni-channel (e.g. voice, email, and chat) contact center solution providing customer / agent matching, customer service self-service agent, and built-in chat and voice for collaboration between agents.
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Microsoft Teams
Webex Contact Center
Editions & Modules
Microsoft Teams Essentials
$4.80
per month per user
Microsoft Teams Enterprise
$5.25
per month (paid yearly) per user
Microsoft Teams Enterprise
$5.25
per month per user
Microsoft 365 Business Basic
$7.20
per month per user
Microsoft 365 Business Standard
$15
per month per user
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We selected Microsoft Teams because it flawlessly integrated with our backend systems and provided the most secure connection without compromising our InfoSec standards. It filled an enormous gap that we had in sharing files, live chat, and organizing projects. While not …
I think in general, they're all great products, I can't really say one is better than the other. I think building flows is somewhat easier in Webex Contact Center compared to the other two. Webex Contact Center was lacking some advanced features mainly in the AI and agent …
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It's an application where you can perform calls and chat as well. Additionally, support availability and admin control for the support staff.
They all have the niche, but I feel Webex is the most well rounded complete suite. It provides exactly what a business would need, from an onboarding, training, security, updates, road mapping all the way to great user experience and beyond.
Cisco manage a complete solution and doesn't have to care or rely on other vendors. They manage their own calling solution (Webex Calling), their own Contact Center (Webex Contact Center), their own devices (webex devices, IP Cisco phones, Webex app softphone), their own PSTN …
It's amazing as a daily driver for team communication, and document search/store. Also, if you're doing a lot of LONG meetings and have trouble remembering details, the AI summarization is amazing and convenient. It just works. I'm not saying I always do this, of course, but if I need to 'skim' instead of really digging into every detail from a meeting, the AI-generated summary is generally good enough that I can get away with it.
I would say I'm probably between a seven and an eight. It depends on what the customer wants for. If the reporting is a big issue to them that they can't just report on any calls that are made from the phone, that might not be a solution fix for them. But for the most customers, especially if they're traditional based contact centers, it is a good fit for them. With the digital channels that come in that they can now start taking chat messages or SMS texts or emails or whatever like that, there's some advantages to having those channels. For that scenario, as long as the customer understands well, we have a couple of these, what I don't call one-offs or caveats, until we get those figured out, I am good with taking customers through that product and I think they'll have a good experience customer. The big customer I just brought, they love it. They absolutely love the product. They have the integration with, they use Google text to speech, so they can type out their prompts, they can change their prompts, menu options on the fly. They can type out what they want to say and the Google text to speech reads that message to the callers so they don't have to record the prompts and that stuff. That's something they absolutely love and I think it's been a good fit for them. Retail is one because of the digital channels, I think I've already mentioned well suited for, and I think we definitely got customers that fit that really well. I think it will fit customers that have distributed stores or distributed branch offices. I think that's a real good fit for them from a cloud-based system or people that work from home in a hybrid and work environments, contact centers, working from home, all good fits. Where I don't think it fits real well right now is when you've got customers that depend on that phone system being up. We lose our internet connectivity now I can't get to my cloud-based WebEx, cloud-based contact center. I have to switch to some other way to get out to the internet or customers that the business model says I cannot buy company policy, put my stuff in the cloud and there's limitations and I've got a customer like that that needs it on-prem and WebEx Contact center is not going to be a fit for them or WebEx calling or any of those. Cloud-based systems are not going to be a fit for them. And we need on-prem solutions for that.
The webinars feature has some missing functionally such as the ability for all users to use the Q&A feature (only those with a Microsoft Teams account can use it now), the ability to upload documents for attendees to easily access and download, and the ability for presenters and organizers to easily chat amongst themselves throughout the webinar.
The "Channels" organization hierarchy could be more clear. If you have several channels set up, it can get clunky and hard to find the specific channel you are looking for.
The MS Planner tool lacks functionality and organization. You cannot assign more than one person to a task and it's confusing when you try to share tasks with people - it would be nice if they were automatically added to someone's calendar.
Better highlighting of the call flows so you can better follow when troubleshooting.
Unless already available, it would be great to have a test number to call into and have the call flow light up to indicate your current position in the flow.
Microsoft Teams is included with our Office 365 subscription and we have no intention of migrating off of Office 365 and Microsoft products. Since Microsoft Teams is included for free with our Office 365 subscription, and since we enjoy all the features, benefits, and functionality, there is no question that our team will continue to use the product
We are happy with the product, with Cisco as a partner and the roadmap looks mightily impressive. Webex Contact Center is one of our growth areas so we're keen to get more agents on the platform, we want to get more customers on it and we want to make use of all the features and functionalities it offers, so that we can help our customers do what they do best.
If you have the full Microsoft Office suite, it works really well because it's integrated well within its ecosystem, but if not, it can be annoying because it tries to open a shared file in the web versions of the file equivalents. The web version is also a bit slow, and the login is very difficult to handle if you have multiple Microsoft or Outlook accounts.
It is great to use Webex Contact Center as it delivers the call routing and workflow for agent and call routing. In addition to this the noise reduction helps to focus attention on the call and with the client. The notes feature and the ability for the transcription really helps with translation and language barriers.
The overall support provided by Microsoft for Microsoft Teams has been quite good but there is still some room for improvements. Microsoft needs to proactively work on fixing the open bugs in order to provide a seamless experience to the users. But over the service and experience provided by the Microsoft team have been quite satisfactory.
Microsoft Teams offers a much more integrated experience between their chat and video call function compared to Google Chat and Slack. Both other tools are much better for internal communications are they have simpler UI without other features. Whereas Microsoft Teams can be used for more critical conversations, particularly between external companies, and has been very useful in sales conversations which is what we chose it for when speaking to companies that work exclusively through Microsoft.
Webex Contact Center feels the most modern of the solutions we evaluated. It is an all in one package which required no capital expenditure up front. Webex Contact Center was able to integrate with the AI packages which our IT team investigating for future use. Webex Contact Center was also able to integrate with the CRM packages which we use internally (without the use of a 3rd party connector).
Honestly, this tool is worth every penny. Yes, it's not free and you pay for the quality of services and the license. But the ROI and the benefits are all there. Also, the renewal, negotiation, and contract terms are all very well explained by our Microsoft account manager, and she's a charm.
I used Skype for Business to take calls, hold conferences, and provide remote assistance to users. Microsoft Teams, on the other hand, is superior to Skype for Business in my opinion. My job entails a lot of screen sharing.
Personally, I would say that by using Microsoft Teams, it upped my collaboration with my colleagues by around 50% or around more than half of what I usually did prior to using it.
I had 100% show rate and attendance on all of my meetings in the past 6 months.
If I may add, I also have been chattier & collaborative towards my colleagues in past 3 months particularly the month of December when we had huge traffic at work. I would estimate this behavior to have been increased by around 60% than what I usually incur during normal operating days.
Increasing the number of channels agent can reach out to customers, especially text has shaved off a lot of hours from calling , leaving voicemail and waiting for customers to call back.
Less Downtime. No Upgrades or certificate Renewal, so fewer overtime hours.
Adoption of new features is now so quick, I don't have to worry about upgrading the Software or even hardware to get new features deployed.
