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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

    Higher Logic Vanilla

    Score5.5 out of 10
    N/AHigher Logic Vanilla is a customizable and themable forum software. It can be used for support communities, Q&A Communities and more. There are numerous integrations, including SSO, and connectors to popular software such as Mailchimp, WordPress, Zendesk and Salesforce.N/A
    Pricing
    NiCE CXoneHigher Logic Vanilla
    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
    Essential
    Contact sales team
    Corporate
    Contact sales team
    Enterprise
    Contact sales team
    Enterprise Plus
    Contact sales team
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    NiCE CXoneHigher Logic Vanilla
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    NiCE CXoneHigher Logic Vanilla
    Considered Both Products
    NICE Systems
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    Higher Logic
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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 CXoneHigher Logic Vanilla
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of NiCE CXone and Higher Logic Vanilla
    Feature
    NiCE CXone
    9.4
    581 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Higher Logic Vanilla
    -
    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 Higher Logic Vanilla
    Feature
    NiCE CXone
    9.4
    556 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Higher Logic Vanilla
    -
    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
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    NiCE CXoneHigher Logic Vanilla
    Small Businesses
    Zendesk Talk
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Higher Logic Thrive
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Score8 out of 10
    Khoros Communities
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Score8.4 out of 10
    Verint Community
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    NiCE CXoneHigher Logic Vanilla
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.7
    (613 ratings)
    9.0
    (10 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (28 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.3
    (587 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    8.1
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    7.7
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (6 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.2
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.9
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.5
    (11 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.2
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    6.8
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.3
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    7.5
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    7.5
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    NiCE CXoneHigher Logic Vanilla
    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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    Higher Logic
    For companies that want to customize almost anything and make the forum look like your site, Vanilla Forums is the one for you. Customization and automation of the data via the API with other systems is more than possible and they serve to be great as a hosting provider, dealing with all the upgrades, deployments and maintenance and threat management well. I would say they might be less turn key for a small application but the fact they have an open source community, the ability to find help and information can lower the barrier of entry for most.
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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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    Higher Logic
    • Gamification: The ability to incentivise community members to get involved with ranks and badges is one of the main reasons that we purchased the tool.
    • Support: The Vanilla support team are incredible, often responding to issues very late at night and proactively fixing issues as soon as they occur.
    • Customisation: Vanilla can be completely styled with css allowing us to match it to the branding of the rest of our website.
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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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    Higher Logic
    • There are some features I wish Vanilla would implement that could improve ease of use in our specific community, but some of the ideas we have are not necessarily something that would benefit all of the forums that Vanilla works with.
    • In the past, we've had issues with releases breaking some of our specific site features they built for us, but this has improved drastically recently.
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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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    Higher Logic
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Higher Logic
    It is very intuitive and simple to operate. Our customers immediately came up with the curve and began contributing content.
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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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    Higher Logic
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Higher Logic
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Higher Logic
    They did an amazing job transferring our content from GetSatisfaction. We had almost 100% success in the transfer of 8 years worth of content.
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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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    Higher Logic
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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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    Higher Logic
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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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    Higher Logic
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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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    Higher Logic
    From a footprint standpoint, Vanilla has less technical bloat than vbulletin or InVision, and it outdoes Lithium as far as features and service go. The bloat of other services and ability to use new ways of engaging communities such as through Reactions are part of the reason Vanilla was selected. However, the features are better on a couple more seasoned platforms and more equipped to deal with issues and technical problems.
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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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    Higher Logic
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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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    Higher Logic
    • Increased uptime and overall speed in the forum (compared to our previous phpbb solution)
    • Increased usage by users which resulted in a higher pages/session in a short amount of time
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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.

    Higher Logic Vanilla Screenshots

    Screenshot of Looks great on any device, including desktop, tablet or mobile device.Screenshot of We offer over 60 plugins that can add functionality to your community.Screenshot of Many different themes to choose from, which you can further customize as you like.Screenshot of You have full access to edit HTML and CSS of your theme, to make any changes you need.