SAP Conversational AI (discontinued) vs. Talkdesk

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
SAP Conversational AI (discontinued)
Score 6.8 out of 10
N/A
SAP Conversational AI was a platform used to build chatbots and digital assistants in SAP integration. Starting January 2023, SAP Conversational AI, SAP’s chatbot building platform has been set to maintenance mode. Existing customers can continue to use the enterprise edition of the product until the end of their contract.N/A
Talkdesk
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
Talkdesk® supports CX with Customer Experience Automation (CXA), using AI agents to replace manual workflows. Powered by the Talkdesk Data Cloud, CXA delivers real-time context and fast deployment—to transform CX without a rip-and-replace.
$85
per month per user
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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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
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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.
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Community Pulse
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Features
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Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
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Ratings
Talkdesk
7.8
489 Ratings
7% below category average
Agent dashboard00 Ratings7.3468 Ratings
Validate callers00 Ratings7.9411 Ratings
Outbound response00 Ratings8.0428 Ratings
Call forwarding00 Ratings8.1421 Ratings
Click-to-call (CTC)00 Ratings8.3388 Ratings
Warm transfer00 Ratings8.6443 Ratings
Predictive dialing00 Ratings8.9226 Ratings
Interactive voice response00 Ratings8.5313 Ratings
REST APIs00 Ratings6.5248 Ratings
Call scripts00 Ratings7.5222 Ratings
Call tracking00 Ratings8.3436 Ratings
Multichannel integration00 Ratings6.3321 Ratings
CRM software integration00 Ratings7.9374 Ratings
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Product A and Product B
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Ratings
Talkdesk
7.9
473 Ratings
5% below category average
Inbound call routing00 Ratings8.8433 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing00 Ratings7.2315 Ratings
Recording00 Ratings8.8457 Ratings
Quality management00 Ratings8.3415 Ratings
Call analytics00 Ratings8.2430 Ratings
Historical reporting00 Ratings8.0437 Ratings
Live reporting00 Ratings7.6430 Ratings
Customer surveys00 Ratings7.5240 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics00 Ratings7.1276 Ratings
Best Alternatives
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Small Businesses
Front
Front
Score 9.1 out of 10
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 7.5 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Genesys DX (discontinued)
Genesys DX (discontinued)
Score 10.0 out of 10
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 7.5 out of 10
Enterprises
Genesys DX (discontinued)
Genesys DX (discontinued)
Score 10.0 out of 10
Google Cloud Contact Center AI
Google Cloud Contact Center AI
Score 5.4 out of 10
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
7.4
(37 ratings)
8.4
(498 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.5
(39 ratings)
Usability
7.7
(2 ratings)
8.6
(313 ratings)
Availability
8.2
(2 ratings)
9.8
(8 ratings)
Performance
8.2
(2 ratings)
10.0
(8 ratings)
Support Rating
6.5
(32 ratings)
6.9
(131 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(3 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(5 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.4
(222 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(7 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(7 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(3 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(3 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
SAP
It would be most suitable to help you attain swift conversation flows as you engage with your audiences. The bots are also of indispensable value in handling repetitive tasks around the firm such as automated HR resourcing expeditions or marketing campaigns or any other important but monotonous tasks. I however admit that analyzing the bot's performance is quite complex, have an RPA specialist around.
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Talkdesk
Talkdesk is a very innovative company. They truly want to be at the forefront of emerging technologies. That was shown when they developed the current platform. But, its also being shown with the rapid growth and change brought on by AI today. Talkdesk wants to be an innovative solution that not only leverages emerging technologies but also wants to develop their own to be a leader in this space. While Talkdesk has a lot of resources available to their clients, if you do not have IT resources available to admin the system and continue to leverage the technologies Talkdesk offers, then this solution may not be for you. We have not identified a managed services service offered by Talkdesk. So, you have to manage the solution yourself or outsource to a vendor to help ensure your system is optimal and continues to be developed.
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Pros
SAP
  • SAP has helped me manage my teams cost in material management.
  • SAP Conversational AI has provided with the goal of developing bot analytics to respond to common user face issues when reporting troubleshooting issues with software equipment as well as technical equipment.
  • Has helped deploy new bots to increase response time to employees who require assistance with ordering equipment software as well as application development in software ordering.
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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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Cons
SAP
  • SAP can certainly provide better and more clear documentation on how to customize and deploy the chatbot/use SAP Conversational AI.
  • There is lot less developer community around SAP Conversational AI so it is hard to get help from outside developers and experts on best practices, hacks and existing applications/integrations.
  • It is hard to use SAP Conversational AI outside SAP S/4HANA Cloud, for example on AWS or GCP or in a multi cloud environment.
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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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Likelihood to Renew
SAP
No answers on this topic
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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Usability
SAP
Chatbots have already acquired most of the market and are still trending with the needs of changing market everyday. It will keep evolving with AI and NLP more to offer for improvements. SAP CAI is a good product to add to an enterprise using SAP ERP Suite
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Talkdesk
Talkdesk is helpful because we use it to receive calls in our BPO. Not only do we track live ques and statuses from agents, but we also receive feedback from our assessors through the talk desk as well as coaching, and it also stores customer contact data; I can track all my calls, and It records all the calls so we can come back to review them. You can also listen live and track your daily productivity. You can change your aux statuses very quickly, and there was an update talk desk that allows you to queue another status while you are on a call or after-call work, which is a great feature.
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Reliability and Availability
SAP
Never had an issue. SAP CAI shares the same platform as any other product hosted on SAP Cloud Platform (aka BTP) and depends on your hosting (US, Europe, Asia). Maintenance modes are planned and customers are aware of it well in advance in order to mitigate potential impacts on the service offering.
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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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Performance
SAP
It's a pure SaaS platform hosted on SAP Cloud Platform (aka BTP). The experience is pretty much seamless with minimum loadings or noticeable lags. The hosting depends on your location so you may want to make sure the instance is available on a server close to you, such as the USA, Europe or Asia.
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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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Support Rating
SAP
Great support from the people of SAP Conversational AI as of the community. Sometimes it takes a little while for folks of the SAP Conversational AI team to answer but this has mostly to do with the overload of questions and users the product has. The gold-support channel within Slack that SAP Conversational AI has, is a great help to distinguish more professional usage and therefore more urgent questions.
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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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In-Person Training
SAP
No answers on this topic
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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Online Training
SAP
No answers on this topic
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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Implementation Rating
SAP
No answers on this topic
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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Alternatives Considered
SAP
The platforms have similarities in terms of making the organization more data-driven. However, the use cases are different. SAP Analytics Cloud is used for reporting, deploying dashboards, and scheduling timely delivery of reporting and analytics. SAP Conversational AI is a more front-end product that end users can directly use to navigate the web application better. Both have strengths in their respective areas. Conversational AI is more recent and cutting edge.
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Talkdesk
Talkdesk is used to take inbound and outbound calls, which helps improve customer experience. It also provides evaluations through quality management. Talk desk scores are sometimes behind, but they still work well regarding taking and receiving calls. Some agents blame the Talk Desk because they lack knowledge of how to use it.
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Scalability
SAP
No answers on this topic
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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Return on Investment
SAP
  • The impact has been very positive for our business objectives. Through the chatbot, our clients can have an immediate response to any of their requests without the need of an intervention of a person or without the use of the telephone or email. Customer satisfaction has been much higher.
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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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ScreenShots

SAP Conversational AI (discontinued) Screenshots

Screenshot of Transform your customer and employee experience with SAP Conversational AI, which combines a powerful bot building platform and a digital assistant nicknamed CoPilot.Screenshot of Bot Training – Plug human-like understanding in your chatbots.Screenshot of Bot Builder – Build adaptable conversational flows through a powerful and visual tool.Screenshot of SAP Conversational AI provides a powerful building platform that allows the building of end-to-end chatbots as well as the customization of your digital assistant.Screenshot of Leverage the power of our highly performing NLP technology capable of building human-like AI chatbots in any language.Screenshot of Understand how your chatbot is used and leverage that data to improve the performance of your dataset.

Talkdesk Screenshots

Screenshot of Talkdesk Guardian™, which is an AI-driven, 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.