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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Salesforce Agentforce Service

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AService Cloud is a customer service platform that helps businesses manage and resolve customer inquiries and issues. It provides tools for case management, knowledge base, omni-channel support, automation, and analytics, enabling companies to deliver exceptional customer service experiences.

    $25

    per month

    Webex Contact Center

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/ACisco Webex Contact Center is a cloud-based omni-channel (e.g. voice, email, and chat) contact center solution providing customer / agent matching, customer service self-service agent, and built-in chat and voice for collaboration between agents.N/A
    Pricing
    Salesforce Agentforce ServiceWebex Contact Center
    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
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Salesforce Agentforce ServiceWebex Contact Center
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Salesforce Agentforce ServiceWebex Contact Center
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    Salesforce
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    91%
    Would buy again
    52 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    50 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    88%
    Delivers good value for the price
    43 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    47 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    53 Answers
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    49 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    88%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    36 Answers
    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    36 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    39 Answers
    93%
    Implementation went as expected
    41 Answers
    Features
    Salesforce Agentforce ServiceWebex Contact Center
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Salesforce Agentforce Service and Webex Contact Center
    Feature
    Salesforce Agentforce Service
    8.0
    81 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Webex Contact Center
    -
    Ratings
    Organize and prioritize service tickets8.279 Ratings00 Ratings
    Expert directory7.857 Ratings00 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications8.267 Ratings00 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation6.962 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission8.779 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ticket response7.978 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of Salesforce Agentforce Service and Webex Contact Center
    Feature
    Salesforce Agentforce Service
    8.7
    76 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Webex Contact Center
    -
    Ratings
    External knowledge base8.567 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base8.874 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Salesforce Agentforce Service and Webex Contact Center
    Feature
    Salesforce Agentforce Service
    7.9
    81 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Webex Contact Center
    -
    Ratings
    Customer portal7.858 Ratings00 Ratings
    IVR8.037 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social integration7.451 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email support8.880 Ratings00 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration7.870 Ratings00 Ratings
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Salesforce Agentforce Service and Webex Contact Center
    Feature
    Salesforce Agentforce Service
    -
    Ratings
    Webex Contact Center
    8.5
    50 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Agent dashboard00 Ratings8.948 Ratings
    Validate callers00 Ratings9.244 Ratings
    Outbound response00 Ratings8.439 Ratings
    Call forwarding00 Ratings9.346 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)00 Ratings7.441 Ratings
    Warm transfer00 Ratings9.046 Ratings
    Predictive dialing00 Ratings6.530 Ratings
    Interactive voice response00 Ratings8.842 Ratings
    REST APIs00 Ratings8.641 Ratings
    Call scripts00 Ratings8.942 Ratings
    Call tracking00 Ratings8.846 Ratings
    Multichannel integration00 Ratings8.543 Ratings
    CRM software integration00 Ratings8.142 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Salesforce Agentforce Service and Webex Contact Center
    Feature
    Salesforce Agentforce Service
    -
    Ratings
    Webex Contact Center
    8.1
    45 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Inbound call routing00 Ratings8.441 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing00 Ratings7.939 Ratings
    Recording00 Ratings8.441 Ratings
    Quality management00 Ratings8.537 Ratings
    Call analytics00 Ratings8.439 Ratings
    Historical reporting00 Ratings8.442 Ratings
    Live reporting00 Ratings8.042 Ratings
    Customer surveys00 Ratings7.538 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics00 Ratings7.434 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Salesforce Agentforce ServiceWebex Contact Center
    Small Businesses
    Help Scout
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Zendesk Talk
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    LiveAgent
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Front
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Score8.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Salesforce Agentforce ServiceWebex Contact Center
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (100 ratings)
    9.2
    (54 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    6.2
    (8 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    8.2
    (22 ratings)
    8.4
    (30 ratings)
    Availability
    8.4
    (45 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.6
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.0
    (20 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Salesforce Agentforce ServiceWebex Contact Center
    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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    Cisco
    The flexibility of the open APIs makes it easy to adapt the solution to one's needs and requirements. We could create our own solution tailored to our personal needs and create >3.000 highly customized call flows with minimal configuration effort. Including the possibility to implement additional features with a few clicks across all call flows.
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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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    Cisco
    • The digital channels is one of those. I definitely think the digital channels stands out as a unique product. From a contact center agent standpoint, that when you've got customers, maybe retail customers or that stuff, it's a great fit for that. For anybody who really trying to deal with customers.
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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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    Cisco
    • Webex Contact Center fits well when the group of users or agents is larger, but sometimes there are use cases where we might need to use Webex Calling, while still having the features of the Webex Contact Center. Currently, I've been seeing a little shift of features that have been getting rolled out from contact centers to calling. The bridges are becoming closer and closer every day, but it would be great to see the same feature sets in Webex Contact Center and Calling.
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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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    Cisco
    We are happy with the product, with Cisco as a partner and the roadmap looks mightily impressive. Webex Contact Center is one of our growth areas so we're keen to get more agents on the platform, we want to get more customers on it and we want to make use of all the features and functionalities it offers, so that we can help our customers do what they do best.
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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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    Cisco
    It is great to use Webex Contact Center as it delivers the call routing and workflow for agent and call routing. In addition to this the noise reduction helps to focus attention on the call and with the client. The notes feature and the ability for the transcription really helps with translation and language barriers.
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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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    Cisco
    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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    Cisco
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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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    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Cisco
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    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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    Cisco
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    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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    Cisco
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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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    Cisco
    Webex Contact Center works great in conjunction with the above product to produce a better system from businesses and more options to reach the maximum number of clients to make the business thrive. It makes it easier to reach all generations and remove any limitation or obstetrical and makes the business have a better chance of success.
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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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    Cisco
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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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    Cisco
    • No Capex required for this solution (which makes our CFO very happy)
    • Digital channels are builtin and therefore very easy to deploy
    • The built in CRM integration was missing features so we had to install a thirdparty connector which we had to pay for (and wasn't in our budget) in order to get the features which our business demanded
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    ScreenShots

    Salesforce Agentforce Service Screenshots

    Screenshot of Workflows and OrchestrationScreenshot of Service CatalogScreenshot of Contact Center

    Webex Contact Center Screenshots

    Screenshot of Agent desktop viewScreenshot of View of Analyzer - Dark ModeScreenshot of Contact Center in Control Hub viewScreenshot of Supervisor desktop view