NICE CXone Mpower vs. Zendesk Talk

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
NICE CXone Mpower
Score 8.4 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
Zendesk Talk
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
Zendesk Talk is call center software built on the Twilio cloud communication platform that integrates with the Zendesk Support ticketing system. This allows customer service teams to provide phone support from the same platform they use to manage all other channels.N/A
Pricing
NICE CXone MpowerZendesk Talk
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
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
NICE CXone MpowerZendesk Talk
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
NICE CXone MpowerZendesk Talk
Considered Both Products
NICE CXone Mpower

No answer on this topic

Zendesk Talk
Chose Zendesk Talk
Zendesk Talk has many of the features as the other phone systems I have used. My only reservation is their lack of focus on a feature that will allow their clients to remain PCI compliant.
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
NICE CXone MpowerZendesk Talk
Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
NICE CXone Mpower
9.2
581 Ratings
10% above category average
Zendesk Talk
7.6
16 Ratings
9% below category average
Agent dashboard9.5559 Ratings8.916 Ratings
Validate callers9.3471 Ratings6.112 Ratings
Outbound response9.6490 Ratings9.914 Ratings
Call forwarding9.2443 Ratings8.315 Ratings
Click-to-call (CTC)8.9403 Ratings9.913 Ratings
Warm transfer9.6531 Ratings9.212 Ratings
Predictive dialing9.1317 Ratings5.18 Ratings
Interactive voice response9.7376 Ratings9.910 Ratings
REST APIs8.3301 Ratings5.17 Ratings
Call scripts8.3322 Ratings7.06 Ratings
Call tracking9.2510 Ratings8.914 Ratings
Multichannel integration9.3364 Ratings5.810 Ratings
CRM software integration9.1365 Ratings5.29 Ratings
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Product A and Product B
NICE CXone Mpower
8.9
556 Ratings
8% above category average
Zendesk Talk
7.3
16 Ratings
12% below category average
Inbound call routing8.9511 Ratings8.912 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing8.6373 Ratings5.810 Ratings
Recording9.4495 Ratings8.915 Ratings
Quality management8.8480 Ratings8.913 Ratings
Call analytics8.5486 Ratings8.313 Ratings
Historical reporting9.2479 Ratings7.613 Ratings
Live reporting9.1465 Ratings4.114 Ratings
Customer surveys8.4299 Ratings5.18 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics9.4319 Ratings8.19 Ratings
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Small Businesses
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Score 8.4 out of 10
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Score 8.4 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 8.4 out of 10
CloudTalk
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Score 8.4 out of 10
Enterprises
Bright Pattern Contact Center
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Score 9.6 out of 10
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Score 9.6 out of 10
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User Ratings
NICE CXone MpowerZendesk Talk
Likelihood to Recommend
9.4
(613 ratings)
8.9
(16 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(28 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(587 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Availability
8.0
(9 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
7.8
(9 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.5
(6 ratings)
5.0
(3 ratings)
In-Person Training
7.0
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
8.0
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.6
(11 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
8.0
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
6.8
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
7.3
(9 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
7.6
(8 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
7.6
(8 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
NICE CXone MpowerZendesk Talk
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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Zendesk
Zendesk Talk is a great partner that helps us in the customer care area by managing every type of contact with customers (both phone calls and emails). I know there is also the possibility to have integration with instant messaging apps (like messenger and WhatsApp but I have never used them in my experience). In my opinion, the best scenario for Zendesk Talk is represented by a context with a high amount of contacts/requests where a unique platform could be a help both on the external side (customers) and on the internal side (a lot of colleagues who are working in the same area and have to work in a coordinate way). For customers, they could benefit from tailor-made answers, also based on past contacts for the same topic, and avoid waiting times during phone calls, with an immediate follow-up. For internal work management, operators don't overlap in a single request, and even if the same operator is not available the one who manages the request later has complete visibility of the entire topic from the historical point of view. Last but not least, I think that Zendesk Talk helps a lot in the context in which the request's speed is a KPI to manage constantly.
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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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Zendesk
  • Call recording is a nice feature! It is great for training purposes and for quality assurance.
  • The metrics you get from Explore are a great insight into how the team is handling the call volumes.
  • Zendesk Talk has met most of our needs. It can be a bit unreliable at times.
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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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Zendesk
  • The lag on the phone is by far the most annoying thing with Zendesk talk due to the voice over IP.
  • Using the Reporting feature in Zendesk has never been a walk in the park. We have to customize a lot of fields and when something doesn't seem to add up, it at times feels like pulling teeth to get to the final answer of what went wrong.
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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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Zendesk
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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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Zendesk
Everything about it works, as I have previously detailed. Coming from different companies and using other tools like Twilio or Aircall, those are VOIP tools that are built to be plugged into other tools, Zendesk Talk is natively built into Zendesk and feels correct in the user experience of Zendesk
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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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Zendesk
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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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Zendesk
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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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Zendesk
In our experience, we have had to go through many support people then ultimately getting frustrated enough to go directly to our point of contact who then doesn't always seem to be able to assist. We tend to get the support we need when it is escalated up to me and I reach out to our point of a contact person to express our frustration.
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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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Zendesk
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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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Zendesk
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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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Zendesk
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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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Zendesk
Slack and Zoom phones cannot compare because they have no ticketing systems. Zendesk Talk was the only option we considered because we were already using Zendesk for our email ticketing with customer concerns. We then expanded to using Zendesk's chatbot and then the Zendesk Talk system to keep it all integrated and streamlined.
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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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Zendesk
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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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Zendesk
  • We were able to reduce global headcount by 20% in our call centers.
  • Allowing customers to leave voicemails creates the personal touch needed and really increases our customer connectivity score. We saw increases in our CSAT scores after the implementation of this solution.
  • Call handling time and case reopen rates both decreased. Y/y it decreased 18% and 60%.
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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, which empowers agents with smarter interactions, personalized coaching, and automation opportunities.Screenshot of CXone Mpower Workforce Management, used to anticipate business demands and optimize workforces, is an omnichannel forecasting and scheduling engine.Screenshot of CXone Mpower Studio, 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.