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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

    VanillaSoft

    Score3.7 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    VanillaSoft is a lead optimization platform designed to assist fast-response sales teams in maximizing their conversion rates. By providing a structured and efficient approach to lead management, VanillaSoft aims to ensure that every potential customer receives the attention they deserve. This platform is beneficial for sales teams that operate in high-pressure environments where timely follow-ups can significantly impact sales outcomes. The primary audience for VanillaSoft…N/A
    Pricing
    NiCE CXoneVanillaSoft
    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 CXoneVanillaSoft
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—VanillaSoft offers several add-ons to use in conjunction with our base platforms including: Auto Dialing Call Recording VoIP SmartCaller ID SMS
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    NiCE CXoneVanillaSoft
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    94%
    Would buy again
    276 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    82 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    193 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    65 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    284 Answers
    99%
    Happy with the feature set
    81 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    90%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    128 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    55 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    155 Answers
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    55 Answers
    Features
    NiCE CXoneVanillaSoft
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of NiCE CXone and VanillaSoft
    Feature
    NiCE CXone
    9.4
    581 Ratings
    10% above category average
    VanillaSoft
    -
    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 VanillaSoft
    Feature
    NiCE CXone
    9.4
    556 Ratings
    12% above category average
    VanillaSoft
    -
    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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    Score8 out of 10
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    Score9.8 out of 10
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    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Score8.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    NiCE CXoneVanillaSoft
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.7
    (613 ratings)
    8.3
    (88 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (28 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    9.3
    (587 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Availability
    8.1
    (9 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    7.7
    (9 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (6 ratings)
    8.9
    (3 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.2
    (5 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.9
    (7 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.5
    (11 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.2
    (6 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    6.8
    (6 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.3
    (9 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    7.5
    (8 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    7.5
    (8 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    NiCE CXoneVanillaSoft
    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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    VanillaSoft
    VanillaSoft is well suited for any marketing operations or sales operations team looking for a tool to help them efficiently reach prospects and engage with them through a streamlined method. This can be a great way to manage that engagement, measure it, and keep track of various aspects of prospects.
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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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    VanillaSoft
    • Our employees love it - very user friendly, easy to grasp, very little down time to learn it. They feel very confident immediately.
    • Great technical support - I can get solutions to customer problems that make our company look more responsive to our clients. Our clients appreciate our solving their problems immediately.
    • Because of the real time analytics - we can address immediate issues with marketing campaigns to make our client's personnel look great to their superiors.
    • Because of all the functionality - we can provide a turnkey approach from a small company with big company capabilities.
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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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    VanillaSoft
    • It really needs an "undo" button. I can't tell you how many times I was typing notes etc and hit a wrong button and all was gone so I had to start over.
    • This may be the way we have it set up....we have term codes which are how the callers terminate a call they were on. They finish the call, then type notes in the notepad section of what happened, then they terminate the call. But there are times that I need to go onto a record and just leave a note but don't need to terminate it as anything. If there is a way to do that, it would make my life a lot easier.
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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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    VanillaSoft
    We have no reason not to renew. VanillaSoft has been the best CRM (for us) that we have ever used. The value is great, we love the system, and it's easy to get assistance from VanillaSoft team when needed. Our team is so used to the calling and admin functions there is no desire to change.
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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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    VanillaSoft
    The entire system is set up so perfectly. It makes training callers much quicker, and admin tools are so easy to navigate when you get used to using it. Also, if there is ever something I cannot figure out, I can get support from VanillaSoft very quickly to resolve and get my task accomplished.
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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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    VanillaSoft
    It is very rare that we have system issues. Maybe a handful of times over the years, we had to contact support about being unable to access. It was always a quick response from the VanillaSoft team, and they would clearly explain the issue and usually give time frame on fixing, or have it fixed immediately.
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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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    VanillaSoft
    I work on all aspects for VanillaSoft for our company. The pages overall do load very quickly. Reports are amazing, I can get quick report, customized reports, and anything I may need to present to client in very little time. It has made my job so much simpler. As far as I know, integration goes smoothly as well.
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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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    VanillaSoft
    Response time was acceptable for the relatively few problems any of our users may have encountered. Fortunately, such occasions were rare.
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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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    VanillaSoft
    It was very helpful and informative. The learning of the tool is something anyone can do, as the setup is so well thought out.
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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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    VanillaSoft
    It was very thorough. VanillaSoft team did not rush us. They explained the various functions clearly and were open to any and all questions we had as we began to learn the system. Also, once training completed, if we encountered anything we could not figure out, the support team was fantastic in helping us out.
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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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    VanillaSoft
    Our implementation was very easy.
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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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    VanillaSoft
    VanillaSoft stacks up against Microsoft Power BI very well by allowing the data visualization in a more effective way, Power BI has positioned itself as one of the more robust and intuitive tools for business intelligence and data presentation. VanillaSoft and Microsoft Power BI are a great bundle for the report and analytics team.
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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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    VanillaSoft
    VanillaSoft has been great. The flexibility of the system is wonderful. The scalable software options are impressive as well. I would strongly support VanillaSoft's capabilities in this area. You really can do just about anything to get the setup and or integrations you may desire for your company needs.
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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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    VanillaSoft
    • Ability to contact more clients each day.
    • The ability to save my correspondence and notes on each interaction allowing for the appearance to the customer that I am very engaged when we are speaking.
    • Increased sales from the calendar setting and saving my notes.
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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.

    VanillaSoft Screenshots

    Screenshot of the VanillaSoft Call Activity Dashboard, used to to monitor sales campaigns.Screenshot of where to build reports using the VanillaSoft Web Reports Wizard.Screenshot of where VanillaSoft offers the ability to arrange modules into four panels for access to almost everything in one screen.Screenshot of VanillaSoft's caller screens, which can be displayed in three panels.