NiCE CXone Mpower vs. Salesforce Service Cloud

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
NiCE CXone Mpower
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
NICE CXone Mpower 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.
$71
per month per user
Salesforce Service Cloud
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Service Cloud is a customer service platform that helps businesses manage and resolve customer inquiries and issues. It provides tools for case management, knowledge base, omni-channel support, automation, and analytics, enabling companies to deliver exceptional customer service experiences.
$25
per month
Pricing
NiCE CXone MpowerSalesforce Service Cloud
Editions & Modules
CXone Mpower Digital Agent
$71
per month per user
CXone Mpower Voice Agent
$94
per month per user
CXone Mpower Omnichannel Agent
$110
per month per user
CXone Mpower Essential Suite
$135
per month per user
Cxone Mpower Core Suite
$169
per month per user
CXone Mpower Complete Suite
$209
per month per user
CXone Mpower Ultimate Suite
$249
per month per user
Starter Suite
$25
per month
Pro Suite
$100
per month per user
Enterprise
$165
per month per user
Unlimited
$330
per month per user
Agentforce 1
$550
per month per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
NiCE CXone MpowerSalesforce Service Cloud
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
NiCE CXone MpowerSalesforce Service Cloud
Considered Both Products
NiCE CXone Mpower
Chose NiCE CXone Mpower
inContact blows ININ away (now bought by Genesys systems). ININ requires a lot of money to upgrade, wouldn't do any customization for free, and would not be able to integrate as nice with Salesforce.
Salesforce Service Cloud
Features
NiCE CXone MpowerSalesforce Service Cloud
Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
NiCE CXone Mpower
9.4
581 Ratings
12% above category average
Salesforce Service Cloud
-
Ratings
Agent dashboard9.4559 Ratings00 Ratings
Validate callers9.6471 Ratings00 Ratings
Outbound response9.5490 Ratings00 Ratings
Call forwarding9.5443 Ratings00 Ratings
Click-to-call (CTC)8.9403 Ratings00 Ratings
Warm transfer9.8531 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive dialing9.6317 Ratings00 Ratings
Interactive voice response9.6376 Ratings00 Ratings
REST APIs9.2301 Ratings00 Ratings
Call scripts9.1322 Ratings00 Ratings
Call tracking9.4510 Ratings00 Ratings
Multichannel integration9.5364 Ratings00 Ratings
CRM software integration9.0365 Ratings00 Ratings
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Product A and Product B
NiCE CXone Mpower
9.4
556 Ratings
13% above category average
Salesforce Service Cloud
-
Ratings
Inbound call routing9.4511 Ratings00 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing9.2373 Ratings00 Ratings
Recording9.6495 Ratings00 Ratings
Quality management9.2480 Ratings00 Ratings
Call analytics8.9486 Ratings00 Ratings
Historical reporting9.4479 Ratings00 Ratings
Live reporting9.4465 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer surveys9.5299 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics9.8319 Ratings00 Ratings
Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
NiCE CXone Mpower
-
Ratings
Salesforce Service Cloud
8.5
81 Ratings
3% above category average
Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings8.879 Ratings
Expert directory00 Ratings8.157 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings8.567 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings7.862 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings9.079 Ratings
Ticket response00 Ratings8.678 Ratings
Self Help Community
Comparison of Self Help Community features of Product A and Product B
NiCE CXone Mpower
-
Ratings
Salesforce Service Cloud
8.7
76 Ratings
8% above category average
External knowledge base00 Ratings8.567 Ratings
Internal knowledge base00 Ratings8.974 Ratings
Multi-Channel Help
Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Product A and Product B
NiCE CXone Mpower
-
Ratings
Salesforce Service Cloud
8.4
81 Ratings
5% above category average
Customer portal00 Ratings8.058 Ratings
IVR00 Ratings8.337 Ratings
Social integration00 Ratings8.151 Ratings
Email support00 Ratings9.080 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings8.470 Ratings
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NiCE CXone MpowerSalesforce Service Cloud
Small Businesses
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 7.6 out of 10
Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)
Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)
Score 9.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 7.6 out of 10
Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)
Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)
Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises
Bright Pattern Contact Center
Bright Pattern Contact Center
Score 8.8 out of 10
SysAid
SysAid
Score 8.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
NiCE CXone MpowerSalesforce Service Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
9.6
(613 ratings)
8.7
(100 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(28 ratings)
6.7
(8 ratings)
Usability
9.3
(587 ratings)
8.2
(22 ratings)
Availability
8.2
(9 ratings)
8.7
(45 ratings)
Performance
7.7
(9 ratings)
8.6
(7 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(6 ratings)
7.0
(20 ratings)
In-Person Training
8.1
(5 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
8.1
(7 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.6
(11 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Configurability
8.2
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
6.8
(6 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
7.3
(9 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
7.6
(8 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
7.6
(8 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
NiCE CXone MpowerSalesforce Service Cloud
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.
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Salesforce
I think Service Cloud is best suited for medium to large operations that require both proactive and reactive service. It’s a great fit for post-sales support. However, I wouldn’t recommend it for very small companies because it can be quite costly, and many of the features may go unused. Salesforce also performs best when you have a capable team managing it, so it’s important to consider your organization’s size and readiness before starting. Once you do, I recommend exploring other parts of the Salesforce ecosystem—Service Cloud works even better when integrated with Sales Cloud, since it allows better visibility across teams.
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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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Salesforce
  • Email to case is an interesting piece of it. The threading is very strong, sometimes too strong, but it does very well at handling the incoming emails.
  • The omnichannel routing, using skill-based routing is really effective.
  • Pathing. So making the workflow and helping the team understand what it is that they're trying to do, what they have to accomplish, those step-by-step pieces. That's really helpful.
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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 :)
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Salesforce
  • We had a principle initially to try and use Omni as much as we can from the user experience perspective, but have found that fairly restrictive. It was very difficult to actually get the right customer experience and customer engagement going. So we're actually on a journey at the moment to replace all of our Omni with Lightning web components that gives us that flexibility. That's probably one area where we've had some challenges in terms of how we've used the product out of the box.
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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.
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Salesforce
Professional edition works best for a small company with lower call volumes and is very useful but as you grow exponetially I think it has limited ability to do all the things we want to - SLA management, defect, release management to name a few. Reports and dashboards being available in real time.
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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.
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Salesforce
I had Salesforce experience prior to using Service Cloud which made it a little easier to learn and navigate, but overall my team (some who had no Salesforce experience) caught on very quickly and found Service Cloud to be easy to use.
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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
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Salesforce
Working on an application that caters to customer needs requires a platform that acts as a mediator between the actual person and the client. This mediator handles the customer and resolves many of their doubts, helps them map through the entire process, and automates the processes. Such a platform is Salesforce Service Cloud. For queries that cannot be serviced by the platform, it creates a separate ServiceNow ticket for us, and it is assigned.
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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.
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Salesforce
The Salesforce Service Cloud generally has very good performance, however the overall new Lightning user experience can bring that down. For example, if you have too many tabs open, then it can take a while for the Lightning UI to load. This UI is probably not well equipped to handle loading of all of that information at once, but Users tend to leave their tabs open all day long. It can also be fickle depending on which browser you use, what extensions you have installed, and whether you've cleared your cache. This can be the downfall with any software as a service though, not just Salesforce
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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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Salesforce
Salesforce offers support, although it generally gets routed to overseas support teams first, and once they are unable to help, it gets escalated up the chain to higher tiers. Frequently, the answer back from support is that there is no native solution, and we either have to turn to the AppExchange for some solution provided by another developer, or custom build our own solution.
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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.
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Salesforce
Our in-person training was provided by our implementation partner and it was quite good. This was in part because we were already working with them and so it naturally leant itself to a good training relationship. And because they were building our customizations and configuring things, they could then provide training on those things naturally.
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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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Salesforce
Trailheads are great but it was often unclear what actually applied to our organization. This made it difficult to get a whole lot out of it. Part of it is that because the basic Salesforce features didn't quite work for us, we had to add customizations, which then nullified a lot of the training.
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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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Salesforce
I would go through an implementation very differently knowing what I know now. It was difficult coming from systems we liked in post-sales service and having to adapt to the clunky and underwhelming feature set in Salesforce. I would trim back our expectations
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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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Salesforce
We selected this product because we already had some competencies in Salesforce. We own a Salesforce partner with expertise in this area, and on top of that, Salesforce purchased it — it was originally called Velocity. When Salesforce decided to acquire it, that finalized the decision for us.
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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.
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Salesforce
The product has scaled up with our company growth just fine. No issues here other than slowness in clicking around and running reports
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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.
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Salesforce
  • We have cut our service team in half over the past 5 years due to the efficiency of the tool
  • The amount of direct inquiries to our technical team is less than 10% compared to the number support tickets that get entered in the system for them to work in a more organized manner
  • Responses are 100% more timely because tickets can be responded to by any individual in the queue or on the team, as opposed to direct emails to just one person
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ScreenShots

NiCE CXone Mpower Screenshots

Screenshot of a holistic view of omnichannel call center metrics, with insights for everyone in the contact center. The CXone Mpower Dashboard aggregates both real-time and historical cross-domain data.Screenshot of CXone Mpower Copilot for Agent, which empowers agents with smarter interactions, personalized coaching, and automation opportunities.Screenshot of the CXone Mpower AgentScreenshot of CXone Mpower Orchestrator, a 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 Mpower Interaction Analytics, used to get actionable insights from every voice, digital, and self-service customer interaction.Screenshot of CXone Mpower Performance Management, which aligns employee performance, contact center goals, and customer expectations with continuous improvement.

Salesforce Service Cloud Screenshots

Screenshot of Workflows and OrchestrationScreenshot of Service CatalogScreenshot of Contact Center