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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Plone

    Score10 out of 10
    N/APlone is a free and open source content management system built on top of the Zope application server. Plone can be used for any kind of website, including blogs, internet sites, webshops, and internal websites.N/A
    Pricing
    NiCE CXonePlone
    Editions & Modules
    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
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    NiCE CXonePlone
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    NiCE CXonePlone
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    NICE Systems
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    Plone
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    94%
    Would buy again
    276 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    193 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    284 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    90%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    128 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    155 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    NiCE CXonePlone
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of NiCE CXone and Plone
    Feature
    NiCE CXone
    9.4
    581 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Plone
    -
    Ratings
    Agent dashboard9.2559 Ratings00 Ratings
    Validate callers9.6471 Ratings00 Ratings
    Outbound response9.5490 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call forwarding9.3443 Ratings00 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)9.2403 Ratings00 Ratings
    Warm transfer9.8531 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive dialing9.6317 Ratings00 Ratings
    Interactive voice response9.5376 Ratings00 Ratings
    REST APIs9.3301 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call scripts9.2322 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call tracking9.5510 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multichannel integration9.3364 Ratings00 Ratings
    CRM software integration9.0365 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of NiCE CXone and Plone
    Feature
    NiCE CXone
    9.4
    556 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Plone
    -
    Ratings
    Inbound call routing9.5511 Ratings00 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing9.1373 Ratings00 Ratings
    Recording9.6495 Ratings00 Ratings
    Quality management9.1480 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call analytics9.2486 Ratings00 Ratings
    Historical reporting9.4479 Ratings00 Ratings
    Live reporting9.4465 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer surveys9.5299 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics9.6319 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of NiCE CXone and Plone
    Feature
    NiCE CXone
    -
    Ratings
    Plone
    10.0
    5 Ratings
    19% above category average
    Role-based user permissions00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of NiCE CXone and Plone
    Feature
    NiCE CXone
    -
    Ratings
    Plone
    10.0
    5 Ratings
    25% above category average
    API00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of NiCE CXone and Plone
    Feature
    NiCE CXone
    -
    Ratings
    Plone
    9.4
    6 Ratings
    18% above category average
    WYSIWYG editor00 Ratings10.06 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Admin section00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Page templates00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Library of website themes00 Ratings5.05 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Publishing workflow00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Form generator00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of NiCE CXone and Plone
    Feature
    NiCE CXone
    -
    Ratings
    Plone
    9.4
    5 Ratings
    22% above category average
    Content taxonomy00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    SEO support00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Bulk management00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
    Community / comment management00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    NiCE CXonePlone
    Small Businesses
    Zendesk Talk
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Umbraco CMS
    Score7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Score8 out of 10
    Square Online
    Score7.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Score8.4 out of 10
    RWS Tridion Sites
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    NiCE CXonePlone
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.7
    (613 ratings)
    10.0
    (13 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (28 ratings)
    10.0
    (11 ratings)
    Usability
    9.3
    (587 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    8.1
    (9 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    7.7
    (9 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (6 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.2
    (5 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.9
    (7 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.5
    (11 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.2
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    6.8
    (6 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.3
    (9 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    7.5
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    7.5
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    NiCE CXonePlone
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Plone
    The larger your organization, the more appropriate Plone will be. This is not to say that Plone is a worse choice for small websites, only that the minimum investment for a Plone site is certainly higher than for other platforms. If you already use Plone for your site and are looking for a redesign or an overhaul, I would only advise switching to a different platform such as WordPress or Drupal if your organization is downsizing. For any other situation, Plone is the natural choice for your growth.
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    Pros
    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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    Plone
    • Plone is a folder-based system, organising content in a similar way desktop-users are doing for the last two decades. No need to teach non-tech customers some relational-database like paradigm for content management.
    • Plone is secure. It is the most secure CMS you can get your hands on.
    • Plone is flexible, and makes fast development easy.
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    Cons
    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 :)
    Incentivized
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    Plone
    • Not everything is configurable or editable by Plone, and when you need to adjust or add custom pieces in, you need to deal with Zope. Zope has an ugly, confusing and difficult UI and structure as a backend.
    • Using 3rd party products is difficult to do - there are a few different ways to get them installed, all of which take a bit of luck to get right.
    • Building custom products for Plone is not fun. You've got to deal with an archaic framework to tie in that is not well documented (there is documentation about many things, but not great documentation and there are a lot of holes in the documentation).
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Plone
    We have critical systems running on Plone so will need it in the future.
    Free to use since its Open source, so we don't have to worry about licence costs.
    We know how to use and develop Plone and it has no limits.
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    Usability
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Plone
    Compared to the amount of Plone sites, users and customizations we have in our organization, the amount of support requests and training needed is really small.
    The new user interface in Plone 6 is even better, it is super fast, has lots of different blocks for enhancing the page, has flexible layout system and is easy to extend with more features.
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    Reliability and Availability
    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
    Incentivized
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    Plone
    Our Plone sites are very robust. We have critical systems on Plone and we have been running sites on Plone for over 20 years with very little unexpected downtime.
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    Performance
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Plone
    Plone is very intensive in its operations, and if not configured well it can be slow. However it is designed and built with speed in mind and with proper use of coding, templates and caching can perform extremely well under high loads. It is capable of scaling to very high load availability environments with no specific coding requirements.
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    Support Rating
    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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    Plone
    There are not too many Plone companies in the world. But the ones who are, are high level professionals
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    In-Person Training
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Plone
    I have been participating Plone training and the trainers have always been professional. Materials were good and the instructions clear
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    Online Training
    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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    Plone
    Well organized, professional training with good materials and instructions
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    Implementation Rating
    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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    Plone
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Plone
    Drupal: Plone is cheaper, so with Drupal is more complex to reach the required ROI. However, Drupal has a lower learning curve WordPress: For our necessities it has a more expensive learning curve than plone. Joomla, is easier to use. However, it have some issues on security and web content where Plone is much better
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Plone
    Plone has no limits. We have massive sites and can run them just fine
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    Return on Investment
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Plone
    • The impact Plone has had at the University of Oshkosh is as follows: this software allows student workers to learn about IT departments and CMS's in a user-friendly way. It gives many students great jobs that look great on their resumes.
    • Since there are great training manuals for Plone, there is increased employee efficient in the workplace. Training doesn't take long, and if there's ever a question, the Plone manual is a great tool to refer to.
    • If an employee using Plone quits, its easy to find someone to replace them with quick training and great resources.
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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.