NiCE CXone vs. Zendesk Talk

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
NiCE CXone
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
NICE 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
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 CXoneZendesk Talk
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 CXoneZendesk Talk
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
NiCE CXoneZendesk Talk
Considered Both Products
NiCE CXone
Chose NiCE CXone
Pros of NICE when compared to Verint:
1. Better options to manage leaves, schedules and update employee settings, line of businesses etc
2. The managers and supervisors have more powers in terms of scheduling, updating leaves, adherence etc
Chose NiCE CXone
Both were great but desktop only supported limited interactions. Nice enlighten AI is more up to date and supports many different channels which is great when your business or company is more robust and utilizes many methods.
Chose NiCE CXone
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 …
Chose NiCE CXone
We have not had a chance or a need as of yet to review or try any other products like NICE Uptivity.
Chose NiCE CXone
I could say that it is compared in a more personal way, since it is not a very well-known tool, many of its functions are for more private teams and for specific organizations.
Chose NiCE CXone
NICE inContact is for our soft phone or virtual phone. They have their own functions in our organization. They are both useful and easy to use. Two different functionality but same NICE. Very friendly tools and recommend this two in their platform. NICE software are really …
Chose NiCE CXone
While custom reports update a much faster rate than inContact, the scope of pre-built reports is much larger in PureConnect and it is much easier to schedule reports and deliver them via email attachment. PureConnect has issues with scheduled reports, sometimes they run later …
Chose NiCE CXone
It had the best features for the pricepoint.
Chose NiCE CXone
Superior to Verint in its agent self-service options and the ability to get more detailed schedule activity. Strongly compares with Aspect. Specific features that work for a given business will separate the best choice.
Chose NiCE CXone
Interactive Intelligence
Cisco Express and Enterprise.
Chose NiCE CXone
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.
Chose NiCE CXone
Cosmo had zero support and growth flexibility
Chose NiCE CXone

Uptivity by far works better than NICE. I have many issue when trying to pull up calls, locate calls, and evaluate calls within the NICE platform however with the simple logic of Uptivity I never have issues.


Chose NiCE CXone
I have used numerous amounts of text analytics, including: Clarabridge, Polyvista, SPSS, and other tools in the past. Attensity was by far the best of the lot. It was a bit pricier than some of the other solutions out there, but if you need a positive return on understanding …
Chose NiCE CXone
We looked at several tools for turning text into data.
The easy to understand tools had limited functionality, the analytical tools required a PHD to attend the sales pitch.
Attensity had taken the approach of including reporting and alerting with their text engine.
Zendesk Talk
Chose Zendesk Talk
It's natively built into the user experience, the others rely on outside apps to integrate into their platform. You can set up a Zendesk Talk account within minutes and have a phone number ready for customers to contact you.
Chose Zendesk Talk
Both have pros and cons. We chose Zendesk Talk for stability as Talkdesk almost always encounter user issues on a daily basis.
Chose Zendesk Talk
Maintenance costs for ServiceNow are higher, so Zendesk Talk is a good option even if I think it could be improved in terms of integration with other apps/flows/systems.
Chose Zendesk Talk
Exotel has a fair advantage when it comes to telephony as it offers a wide range of products at a fraction of the price of Zendesk. But when it comes to premium content and ease of access. Zendesk takes away the trophy. We have been using this for a while now and clearly, it …
Chose Zendesk Talk
We were made aware of Zendesk Talk through good reviews from reputable sites. Zendesk Talk's ACD was very outstanding and this is what attracted us as this was what we needed. The other products mentioned they glitched a lot and caused multiple dropped calls.
Chose Zendesk Talk
Explanations behind switching to Zendesk: It comes up short on cutting-edge customization choices and this doesn't simply turn out for us. The given ticket that executive's arrangement presented by Zendesk is incredible, and it upholds the omnichannel commitment to clients. The …
Chose Zendesk Talk
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 …
Chose Zendesk Talk
Prior to using Zendesk Talk, we used standard hand held phones in the office. Zendesk Talk has made us 75% more productive and efficient and allowed us to reach a lot more customers to serve.
Chose Zendesk Talk
We switched to Kustomer, as it is omnichannel and Zendesk is not.
Chose Zendesk Talk
Zendesk Talk has been far more reliable and robust than Ring Central. We had a lot of unreliable instances with our old provider. We didn't have call recording before either.
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.
Features
NiCE CXoneZendesk Talk
Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
NiCE CXone
9.4
Ratings
11% above category average
Zendesk Talk
7.8
Ratings
8% below category average
Agent dashboard9.20 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Validate callers9.60 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Outbound response9.50 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Call forwarding9.30 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Click-to-call (CTC)9.20 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Warm transfer9.80 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Predictive dialing9.60 Ratings5.00 Ratings
Interactive voice response9.50 Ratings10.00 Ratings
REST APIs9.30 Ratings5.00 Ratings
Call scripts9.20 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Call tracking9.50 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Multichannel integration9.30 Ratings5.10 Ratings
CRM software integration9.00 Ratings5.00 Ratings
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Product A and Product B
NiCE CXone
9.4
Ratings
12% above category average
Zendesk Talk
7.8
Ratings
6% below category average
Inbound call routing9.50 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing9.20 Ratings5.10 Ratings
Recording9.60 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Quality management9.10 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Call analytics9.20 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Historical reporting9.40 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Live reporting9.40 Ratings4.90 Ratings
Customer surveys9.60 Ratings5.00 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics9.70 Ratings8.10 Ratings
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NiCE CXoneZendesk Talk
Small Businesses
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Score 7.4 out of 10
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Score 7.4 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 7.4 out of 10
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 7.4 out of 10
Enterprises
Bright Pattern Contact Center
Bright Pattern Contact Center
Score 8.4 out of 10
Bright Pattern Contact Center
Bright Pattern Contact Center
Score 8.4 out of 10
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User Ratings
NiCE CXoneZendesk Talk
Likelihood to Recommend
9.7
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9.9
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Likelihood to Renew
10.0
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-
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Usability
9.3
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10.0
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Availability
8.1
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-
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Performance
7.7
(0 ratings)
-
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Support Rating
9.1
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5.0
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In-Person Training
8.2
(0 ratings)
-
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Online Training
7.9
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.5
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
8.2
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
6.8
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
7.3
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
7.5
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Vendor pre-sale
7.5
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User Testimonials
NiCE CXoneZendesk Talk
Likelihood to Recommend
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 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
  • Workforce management is very easy to use
  • Quality management allows evaluations to be objective
  • Real time adherence allows me to know what everyone on the team is doing at a glance
  • Reports allow us to evaluate the performance and helps us improve
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  • 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
  • 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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  • 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 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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Usability
NICE CXone offers a very intuitive interface that is easy for our customers to understand in a short period of time and easy for us to administrate. All tools like Admin, ACD, Reporting, and Analytics are very user-friendly, and with little training, customers can reap the benefits of the tools.
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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 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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Performance
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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Support Rating
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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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
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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Online Training
The training was very brief, teaching how to use the features for my role. Over time, I discovered many other features that were not explained. I believe that if it were done more completely, it would know the features earlier. An example of this is the productivity page, where I needed to measure together with my colleagues, to know the real information that the screen brought and, to my surprise, it was very useful.
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Implementation Rating
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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Alternatives Considered
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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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
The scalability is awesome because of the multiple uses it is able at performing for users. A large organization with several user can use this product in the same fashion that a smaller organization could. I believe the larger organization would see more benefits because of the users ability between communication coworkers
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Return on Investment
  • WFM and net staffing bar have allowed us to see hour by hour if we are over or under-staffed. This keeps us on track with our SLAs.
  • The ability to evaluate calls and have the reps review the evaluations has been a crucial part of keeping our KPI where it needs to be.
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  • 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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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.