The NICE Engage Platform is a call recording and compliance platform, providing holistic real-time monitoring, and long time storage for recorded conversations.
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Verint Workforce Management
Score 8.2 out of 10
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Verint Workforce Management is a solution that
forecasts customer demand, analyzes and predicts the number of employees
needed, and optimizes employee schedules to align with demand across contact
center and back-office operations, to help organizations to meet CX and efficiency
goals.
Verint WFM is part of Verint Open Platform,
which helps organizations' customer service operations to lower costs and elevate EX and CX
with AI-powered bots that automate CX workflows. The…
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WFM Enterprise
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per month per user
WFM Enterprise SaaS
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per month per user
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Verint Workforce Management
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup Fee
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Verint offers a named user pricing model with SaaS and on-premise delivery methods.
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Chose Verint Workforce Management
While I have more experience using Verint Workforce Management relative to aspect and NICE, I feel that the learning curve for a new users is less for Verint Workforce Management.
I believe Verint Workforce Management's biggest opportunity is to create enhanced canned reporting …
If you need a customer communication tool that has almost all the functionality out of the box this program is for you. However now that other services have more AI capability we are changing to a new service that will reduce the workload on our agents and allow us to automate many customer interactions. The pricing of another service is also more varied based on usage and our current inflow is lower than before so our cost should drop with that decreased communication
I think Verint Workforce Managementi s well suited for all scenarios. No system is perfect, but understanding the gaps allow you to be effective considering those gaps. The one scenario I can think of is if you don't need to forecast. We have some departments where volume is controlled (example Outbound). Because of the business model we have staffing on a given day or hour isn't important. Only agents are working 40 hours a week.
Ever since we have had NICE Engage Platform we have had issues with the program auto refusing calls and texts for our agents which luckily just routes to the next agent but this is hurting their call metrics.
The cost is more expensive that some comparable options
Texting functionality is somewhat limited and seeing the text history is also lacking.
Usability from the end user. Our leaders in particular struggle with navigation and getting the information they need
Forecasting solutions outside of the basic call center. We do forecasting for back office groups and need to use different models than what is offered today, This requires us to do forecasting outside of Verint Workforce Management.
Improved Schedule Change request. Our business has a more flexible model for SCR. While we use the shift bid for other purposes, we need more flexible way to allow reps to submit for SCR
Whilst Verint Workforce Management is doing much of the work we were hoping it would do, there are some limitations that cause hesitancy when deciding if it is the tool for the future. No further exploration has taken place to seek alternatives to date. It is good for the Contact element of our business but not for the rest of the business, meaning we have to use two planning tools currently.
The tools for managers are very straightforward but the useability for the agents could be simplified or put into more common terms. Some of the setting phrases could use some explanations or reorganization. There is also little troubleshooting ability we can do when and agents has an issue besides force logging them out and having them log back in
As someone who was new to the WFM world just over 2 years ago but very tech savvy I found it very not user friendly. The interface is not intuitive from a rep perspective or an administrator perspective. While Verint Workforce Management could benefit many organizations at our company the user interface is holding back other organizations from wanting to implement it.
The team always work diligently to provide answers to my questions and fixes to my issues. The support team has remained consistent and is familiar with our business needs and that is something that is very beneficial as we grow and change
Training was covered in full day sessions that went very fast with no way of recording the information for later review. This made it hard to capture & retain all the details of information.
Training is more broad on specific use cases. It would be good to have training based on our current situations as we deal with so many unique setups & client needs.
The team helping us did a great job training our WFM leaders on how to use the tool from forecasting, to schedule updates to maintenance. They allowed us to be involved in implementation but also did a lot of the initial heavy lifting allowing us to stay focussed on the tasks at hand. It was a great experience and one I would hope occurs again should we ever need to implement a new tool again.
NICE Engage Platform has way more functionality than Simpletext and it allowed us to have calls and texts handled by one system rather than having to use two separate tools. NICE Engage Platform also allowed us to launch web chat functionality for those visiting our website. There was also no way with Simpletext to see what agent was responding to each text. It was a freeforall in the inbox. No integration into our CRM either.
I find that Verint wants to give you a lot of customisation options, but this can potentially lead to a lot of work, but is also offers us something that we didn't have before, the opportunity to give benefits back to our employees with tools like request leave, shift swap, shift bidding, timeflex, etc. This is why we chose Verint Workforce Management.
Staffing optimization - With the Verint tool, we have been able to optimize our workforce, reduce our staff and centralize our processes.
Employee Engagement - Our employees always know where their performance stands so they can take ownership in their performance.
We have implemented WFM in several areas of the company and have been able to improve those departments which have never had a tool to help in back office operations.
