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    Pricing
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    Editions & Modules
    Starter Suite
    $25
    per month
    Pro Suite
    $100
    per month per user
    Enterprise
    $165
    per month per user
    Unlimited
    $330
    per month per user
    Agentforce 1
    $550
    per month per user
    Digital Essentials
    $85
    per month per user
    Voice Essentials
    $105
    per month per user
    Elite
    $165
    per month per user
    Elite
    $165
    per month per user
    Industry Experience Clouds
    $225
    per month per user
    Programmable Video
    $0.0015
    per min per participant
    WhatsApp Business API
    $0.0042
    Per WhatsApp Template message sent
    WhatsApp Business API
    $0.005
    Per WhatsApp session message
    Elastic SIP Trunking
    $0.007
    Per min for termination
    Programmable Messaging
    $0.0075
    per message sent or received
    Programmable Voice
    $0.0085
    per minute to receive a call
    Programmable Voice
    $0.013
    per min to make a call
    Elastic SIP Trunking
    $0.045
    Per min for origination
    Twilio Conversations
    $0.05
    per active user per month
    Twilio Authy
    $0.09
    per authentication
    Programmable Wireless
    $0.1
    per MB
    Twilio Flex (Contact Center)
    $1
    per active user hour (5000 hours free)
    Programmable Wireless
    $2.00
    per SIM card
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
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    Free Trial
    YesYesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptionalOptional
    Additional Details—*Talkdesk also offers per hour login consumption pricing and concurrent pricing. Prices are based on a minimum 3 year commitment to these Editions. Additional telco and usage fees not included. Due to foreign exchange rate approximation, list price is not the exact price that will be quoted.1. Pay-as-you-go pricing: Simple usage-based pricing without contracts. 2. Volume discounts: Discounts trigger as usage grows. 3. Free trial credit that includes full API access.
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    Chose Salesforce Agentforce Service
    Salesforce provides infinitely more features than Freshdesk, particularly regarding reporting. We previously felt we had squeezed as much as we could out of Freshdesk, however the possible functionalities and customisation of Salesforce seems endless! That said, I think if you …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Agentforce Service
    A CRM should be simple to set up and stable enough to develop with your business. Since they aren't designed to fit across all areas of your business or address more nuanced business needs, some CRM solutions that claim to be easy can actually trigger problems as you scale. …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Agentforce Service
    They were similar, but I liked the setup of Salesforce Service Cloud. I also used Infusionsoft for a small business and used Salesforce at a large tech startup, so it’s hard to compare.
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Agentforce Service
    Salesforce Service Cloud has a solid reputation and brand recognition. The interface is user friendly enough to be utilized across an entire company with varying employee tech exposure. Service Cloud was selected due to the integration options with other software companies and …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Agentforce Service
    We moved from Help Scout to Service Cloud for robust reporting and more automation. Previously we were having to manually fill in multiple custom fields in Help Scout in order to report on certain things such as tickets submitted by particular accounts.
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Agentforce Service
    We chose Salesforce Service Cloud because we were already using Sales Cloud.
    Incentivized
    Talkdesk
    Chose Talkdesk
    The Service UpTime exceeding acceptable Industry Standards
    The cost for the services provided is accurate
    The speed of resolution of outages and degradation issues
    Incentivized
    Chose Talkdesk
    Talkdesk product is still one of the best. BUt their service is horrible.
    Incentivized
    Chose Talkdesk
    We switched to Talkdesk because Dialpad could not handle the scale of our company. We were most impressed with Talkdesk compared to other companies because of how modern their product line was, how quickly they iterate on products, and because they had the best API on the market.
    Incentivized
    Chose Talkdesk
    Talkdesk is far superior when it comes to the interface for every day users and managers. Better analytics and integration with other software we use. ShoreTel was unreliable for call recordings. Talkdesk reporting is easy to understand and set up for managers and admins. …
    Incentivized
    Chose Talkdesk
    Talkdesk was a lot cheaper than all of the alternatives and the level of features that they provided combined with the time it would take to go live made it an easy choice to choose Talkdesk over the heavier competitors.
    Incentivized
    Chose Talkdesk
    Talkdesk had better specifications and professional sales reps. Talkdesk furnished us the best RFQ of all competitors. They answered with a lot of detail quickly and efficiently. They also have the best Salesforce integration on the market, which was very important for our …
    Incentivized
    Chose Talkdesk
    Customer Support and Quality! the providers mentioned above always had issues when customers networks were flawless, their support would often blame the ISP provider when we would have fiber networks connected to the company and verified network uptime would surpass any VoIP …
    Incentivized
    Chose Talkdesk
    We selected Talkdesk because of the reliability and support offered by the team.
    Incentivized
    Chose Talkdesk
    All of our current products assist in the support experience alongside Talkdesk. Our prior vendor, Natterbox, was not fit for our growing needs. It did not have the reporting and analytics needed to sustain growing inbound calls and support team.
    Incentivized
    Chose Talkdesk
    We evaluated Ring Central at the same time we evaluated Talkdesk. The Ring Central product looks like a good product but ultimately we chose to go with Talkdesk because of the attention we got from Talkdesk during the sales cycle. Talkdesk was very responsive to our questions. …
    Incentivized
    Chose Talkdesk
    TalkDesk is the only software in this category that I have used.
    Incentivized
    Chose Talkdesk
    Talkdesk is more customizable and all around better than Zendesk voice. For me Zendesk voice is an early choice great for small call centers, but then they need to quickly consider a more robust solution.

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    Twilio
    Chose Twilio
    We have looked at some of Twilio competitors, like Infobip, Sich and Bandwith. Prices on all of them for voice minutes and SMS are way cheaper than Twilio. But none of them seem to offer as many features and ease of use as Twilio. Specially from an API point of view
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    91%
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    95%
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    90%
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    Delivers good value for the price
    88%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    280 Answers
    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
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    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    352 Answers
    95%
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    69 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    88%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    36 Answers
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    200 Answers
    87%
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    45 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    39 Answers
    94%
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    224 Answers
    88%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
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    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Salesforce Agentforce Service and Talkdesk and Twilio
    Feature
    Salesforce Agentforce Service
    7.9
    81 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Talkdesk
    -
    Ratings
    Twilio
    -
    Ratings
    Organize and prioritize service tickets8.179 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Expert directory7.857 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications8.267 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation6.962 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission8.779 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ticket response7.878 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of Salesforce Agentforce Service and Talkdesk and Twilio
    Feature
    Salesforce Agentforce Service
    8.7
    76 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Talkdesk
    -
    Ratings
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    External knowledge base8.567 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base8.874 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Salesforce Agentforce Service and Talkdesk and Twilio
    Feature
    Salesforce Agentforce Service
    7.9
    81 Ratings
    1% below category average
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    Customer portal7.758 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    IVR7.937 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social integration7.351 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email support8.880 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration7.870 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Salesforce Agentforce Service and Talkdesk and Twilio
    Feature
    Salesforce Agentforce Service
    -
    Ratings
    Talkdesk
    8.2
    503 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Twilio
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    Ratings
    Agent dashboard00 Ratings7.3482 Ratings00 Ratings
    Validate callers00 Ratings8.3422 Ratings00 Ratings
    Outbound response00 Ratings8.4442 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call forwarding00 Ratings8.5434 Ratings00 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)00 Ratings8.2400 Ratings00 Ratings
    Warm transfer00 Ratings8.8457 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive dialing00 Ratings8.9231 Ratings00 Ratings
    Interactive voice response00 Ratings8.5324 Ratings00 Ratings
    REST APIs00 Ratings7.2256 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call scripts00 Ratings8.2231 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call tracking00 Ratings8.6450 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multichannel integration00 Ratings7.0331 Ratings00 Ratings
    CRM software integration00 Ratings8.6383 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Salesforce Agentforce Service and Talkdesk and Twilio
    Feature
    Salesforce Agentforce Service
    -
    Ratings
    Talkdesk
    8.0
    487 Ratings
    4% below category average
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    Inbound call routing00 Ratings9.0447 Ratings00 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing00 Ratings7.0325 Ratings00 Ratings
    Recording00 Ratings9.0471 Ratings00 Ratings
    Quality management00 Ratings8.5429 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call analytics00 Ratings8.5443 Ratings00 Ratings
    Historical reporting00 Ratings8.2451 Ratings00 Ratings
    Live reporting00 Ratings7.8444 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer surveys00 Ratings7.3249 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics00 Ratings6.8284 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
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    8.3
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    8.1
    (94 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    6.1
    (8 ratings)
    8.5
    (40 ratings)
    7.5
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    8.2
    (22 ratings)
    8.6
    (333 ratings)
    9.5
    (10 ratings)
    Availability
    8.4
    (45 ratings)
    9.1
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.6
    (7 ratings)
    9.5
    (9 ratings)
    8.0
    (38 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.0
    (20 ratings)
    5.5
    (132 ratings)
    5.7
    (16 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.6
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.6
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.2
    (224 ratings)
    9.5
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.8
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    Salesforce
    I think Service Cloud is best suited for medium to large operations that require both proactive and reactive service. It’s a great fit for post-sales support. However, I wouldn’t recommend it for very small companies because it can be quite costly, and many of the features may go unused. Salesforce also performs best when you have a capable team managing it, so it’s important to consider your organization’s size and readiness before starting. Once you do, I recommend exploring other parts of the Salesforce ecosystem—Service Cloud works even better when integrated with Sales Cloud, since it allows better visibility across teams.
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    Talkdesk
    As a growing company, we did not have customer service contacts set up like a traditional contact center, even though we were trying to operate like one. Talkdesk made the transition simple to orchestrate the new setup, allowing customers to have their contacts answered quickly. As Talkdesk has continued to roll out new products such as Copilot and AI Autopilot, we are implementing and continuing to realize the benefits.
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    Twilio
    I have tried other competitors. But I always end up going back to Twilio because I feel like it is dependable, easy to use, and, has competitive pricing. The only time I wouldn't recommend Twilio to someone as if they are completely inexperienced about using webhooks or APIs. Because you can't really just sign up and start using Twilio without connecting it to another platform first.
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    Pros
    Salesforce
    • Email to case is an interesting piece of it. The threading is very strong, sometimes too strong, but it does very well at handling the incoming emails.
    • The omnichannel routing, using skill-based routing is really effective.
    • Pathing. So making the workflow and helping the team understand what it is that they're trying to do, what they have to accomplish, those step-by-step pieces. That's really helpful.
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    Talkdesk
    • Talkdesk excels at reporting. It offers a wide range of reports, such as Aux, AHT, and productivity reports, which are great for monitoring performance.
    • Talkdesk has speech-to-text analytics. This is an AI transcript system. The AI detects speech and transcribes it.
    • Talkdesk is easy to integrate with other apps. Such as Calabrio and Zendesk.
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    Twilio
    • Easy to see my team in one place, when they log in and out and what call status they are in.
    • Twilio is a simple, user friendly way to log in and out of work activities.
    • Excellent services and support.
    • The omnichannel feature which allows agents to get request from all channels.
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    Cons
    Salesforce
    • We had a principle initially to try and use Omni as much as we can from the user experience perspective, but have found that fairly restrictive. It was very difficult to actually get the right customer experience and customer engagement going. So we're actually on a journey at the moment to replace all of our Omni with Lightning web components that gives us that flexibility. That's probably one area where we've had some challenges in terms of how we've used the product out of the box.
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    Talkdesk
    • From experience, customer service is terrible, we've had 5 account executives over 18 months, extremely difficult to get timely answers to pressing issues.
    • Integration with other tools, such as ServiceNow, is not truly integration (in my opinion). There was a marked difference between what the salesperson communicated during the evaluation period and what we actually got once we purchased and implemented the product.
    • We continue to have stability issues which force our agents to restart the Talkdesk client. I frequently receive vague error messages ('something went wrong') that can be frustrating as there's no actual detail to what happened. To be fair, it has improved since we implemented the tool, but if you were to ask our agents what frustrated them, Talkdesk would be at the top of their list.
    • Being a multi-channel platform was one of the things that drew us to Talkdesk; however, the chat channel lags way behind voice in customization and reporting.
    • Lack of training resources. The 'Talkdesk Academy' is often very out-of-date. Would be nice to have actual webinars or online training (even paid training) for various functions of the tool like reporting, WFM, IVR, etc.
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    Twilio
    • Control panel. Often, navigating through lists is challenging. I want endless scrolling, not pagination.
    • Conversational intelligence service require a Language. I would like it to detect it.
    • We would like to have some credit on clients that chose to use their own Twilio account.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Salesforce
    Professional edition works best for a small company with lower call volumes and is very useful but as you grow exponetially I think it has limited ability to do all the things we want to - SLA management, defect, release management to name a few. Reports and dashboards being available in real time.
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    Talkdesk
    One of the best tools our there to tackle alot of our needs or issues within the organisation's and is value for money as you find alot of the features already in bedded and the Ai features are user friendly no need for additional training and Talk desk support when any issues arise is amazing
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    Twilio
    Unless we can get this handled quickly -- less than 1 week -- we will likely switch to another provider who, in my opinion, we'll have to spend close to $3,000 in development time to build a new integration for texting. Our clients need texting and I feel Twilio has failed us miserably.
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    Usability
    Salesforce
    I had Salesforce experience prior to using Service Cloud which made it a little easier to learn and navigate, but overall my team (some who had no Salesforce experience) caught on very quickly and found Service Cloud to be easy to use.
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    Talkdesk
    As a user, the Talkdesk system is pretty easy. However, as a leader or an admin, the system can be difficult to navigate. Talkdesk appeared to integrate different solutions into their environment. While the overall skin of the environment is pretty seamless, it's easy to see that some solutions are segregated off into their own area of the Talkdesk ecosystem. This is pretty evident with Identity, WFM, and System Analytics, where you have to navigate to their respective areas to pull reports and gather data. Where many other reports are available in Explore
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    Twilio
    Twilio has well documented APIs and examples. There are several tutorials, videos and Q&As regarding their services. So, usability is very good. I must say that advanced knowledge of telephony, API/Programming and error-handling is essential to make good use of Twilio. It's not just plug-and-play unless you are integrated with a system that has all of the programming built for it.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Salesforce
    Working on an application that caters to customer needs requires a platform that acts as a mediator between the actual person and the client. This mediator handles the customer and resolves many of their doubts, helps them map through the entire process, and automates the processes. Such a platform is Salesforce Service Cloud. For queries that cannot be serviced by the platform, it creates a separate ServiceNow ticket for us, and it is assigned.
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    Talkdesk
    Talkdesk is very handy but, sometimes we do face issues were the system can just kick you out and not be able to do calls or receive calls but, what I like about the system once you start refreshing or troubleshooting, everything becomes normal it is a unique system and very modern we don't usually have system issues with Talkdesk.
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    Twilio
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Salesforce
    The Salesforce Service Cloud generally has very good performance, however the overall new Lightning user experience can bring that down. For example, if you have too many tabs open, then it can take a while for the Lightning UI to load. This UI is probably not well equipped to handle loading of all of that information at once, but Users tend to leave their tabs open all day long. It can also be fickle depending on which browser you use, what extensions you have installed, and whether you've cleared your cache. This can be the downfall with any software as a service though, not just Salesforce
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    Talkdesk
    reports are good until a report is a big one in size then the wait is longer and some call reports delay by an hour or so which is not ideal as we pull these hourly and need them from Work force management perspective and Quality reports are perfectly fine
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    Twilio
    Twilio executes what it is designed to do: send SMS messages at scale while providing very good deliverability. I believe that Twilio is very good at what we use for adding SMS messages to our comms strategy. We can see those messages get opened and replied to, which is exactly what we are looking to achieve.
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    Support Rating
    Salesforce
    Salesforce offers support, although it generally gets routed to overseas support teams first, and once they are unable to help, it gets escalated up the chain to higher tiers. Frequently, the answer back from support is that there is no native solution, and we either have to turn to the AppExchange for some solution provided by another developer, or custom build our own solution.
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    Talkdesk
    If Talkdesk had a dedicated phone support line I would have given this rating an overall 10. Their knowledge base is absolutely HUGE and at times very helpful. It's easy to search through and their customer support chat system works perfectly fine, but there are just some times that you need to speak to a human on the phone to ensure you are always on the same page.
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    Twilio
    I have not had to communicate with Twilio support in the last 3 years but my past experience with them has been very positive. They replied to my previous requests promptly and kept me well informed to resolve my inquiries. With their documentation that's available, I hardly imagine why anyone would need to contact support since it's all there in a concise and easy to understand format. It would probably take you longer to type out a support ticket than to just open their doc websites.
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    In-Person Training
    Salesforce
    Our in-person training was provided by our implementation partner and it was quite good. This was in part because we were already working with them and so it naturally leant itself to a good training relationship. And because they were building our customizations and configuring things, they could then provide training on those things naturally.
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    Talkdesk
    The training that was given to us was very smooth and professional. I give my trainer 10/ 10 rate the training was so smooth and very helpful she would make sure we also watch videos of how to use the system which made it very easier for us and what was interesting it is because, the system is also easy.
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    Twilio
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Salesforce
    Trailheads are great but it was often unclear what actually applied to our organization. This made it difficult to get a whole lot out of it. Part of it is that because the basic Salesforce features didn't quite work for us, we had to add customizations, which then nullified a lot of the training.
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    Talkdesk
    Nothing is perfect!! Needing the ability to repeat the training so everyone was on board was important. Not real sure how many people had to repeat the training as they trained on their own and given 30 minutes at a time.
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    Twilio
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Salesforce
    I would go through an implementation very differently knowing what I know now. It was difficult coming from systems we liked in post-sales service and having to adapt to the clunky and underwhelming feature set in Salesforce. I would trim back our expectations
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    Talkdesk
    We were very satisfied with the implementation of Talkdesk. The team was able to gather all the data and information about the system we had in place at the moment and delivered us a Talkdesk plan that suited our needs. We had a few calls after implementation where our questions were answered and gave us the confidence to continue using the system.
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    Twilio
    The developer APIs and SDKs are super easy to follow.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Salesforce
    We selected this product because we already had some competencies in Salesforce. We own a Salesforce partner with expertise in this area, and on top of that, Salesforce purchased it — it was originally called Velocity. When Salesforce decided to acquire it, that finalized the decision for us.
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    Talkdesk
    Call recordings, quality assessments, feedback, coaching, and monitoring, the call flow is effortless and painless, changing statuses from after-call work is updated to be qued so you cannot change after aftercall work is finished, shows you the company metrics, SLA, abandonment, number of calls taken and record occupancy for you and the team. Many more features make Talkdesk an innovative software compared to its competitors.
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    Twilio
    We evaluated many fundraising-based text-to-give programs and found the subscriptions prohibitively expensive for our small scale and uncertain first few years of development. While we may be willing to invest that kind of money after discovering how things work, we're happy with Twilio now and have no desire to start over.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Salesforce
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    Talkdesk
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    Twilio
    Being in South Africa, direct local currency support would be nice
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    Scalability
    Salesforce
    The product has scaled up with our company growth just fine. No issues here other than slowness in clicking around and running reports
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    Talkdesk
    talk desk has helped us massively with flexibility of one system giving us all the relevant information we need to be able to drive improvement and also good service from work force management to quality improvement to the reporting of the work and inputs going in and assess outputs to determine the success of our work and remaining development areas
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    Twilio
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    Return on Investment
    Salesforce
    • We have cut our service team in half over the past 5 years due to the efficiency of the tool
    • The amount of direct inquiries to our technical team is less than 10% compared to the number support tickets that get entered in the system for them to work in a more organized manner
    • Responses are 100% more timely because tickets can be responded to by any individual in the queue or on the team, as opposed to direct emails to just one person
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    Talkdesk
    • Reduced hold times with callback feature = better CX
    • Easy transfer option between teams where we can talk rep-rep first before bringing the caller in = less repeated information the customer has to provide = better CX
    • Modified call dispositions allows for better call management & organization = less work on our end!
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    Twilio
    • We found that associates who had the opportunity to respond to a survey about their assigned job were 37% more likely to return to a job site
    • We were able to reduce the number of resources required to manually respond to associates using Twilio Studio, so those resources could have more time to complete other tasks
    • We were able to scale the number of associates who received survey messages at least by a factor of 8 without increasing our resource demand
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    ScreenShots

    Salesforce Agentforce Service Screenshots

    Screenshot of Workflows and OrchestrationScreenshot of Service CatalogScreenshot of Contact Center

    Talkdesk Screenshots

    Screenshot of Talkdesk Guardian™, which is a native cloud compliance solution that enables contact centers to gain visibility and take control of their WFH and hybrid workforce.Screenshot of Talkdesk Autopilot™, which is a tool that handles common customer queries, like orders, returns and billing, and automatically responds with conversational answers. And when complex cases are detected that need human empathy and expertise, the virtual agent will redirect customers to a human agent.Screenshot of Talkdesk AI Trainer™, which equips customers with tools to observe, simulate, and put guardrails on AI, according to their needs. This way, generative AI can be used responsibly, preventing AI mishaps, and protecting the brand from potentially poor AI experiences.

    Twilio Screenshots

    Screenshot of the “Explore Products” section, which is where to build products.Screenshot of the optional drag-and-drop visual editor and code editor.Screenshot of Flex, which is a programmable Contact Center that puts you in control.