A Vendor Management System (VMS) used to find, engage, and manage a global external workforce – including temporary workers, freelancers, contractors, consultants, and service workers.
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Verint Workforce Management
Score 8.2 out of 10
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Verint® Workforce Management™ (WFM) is a cloud application that uses automation to simplify forecasting and scheduling of employees and bots across the enterprise, including contact centers, back offices and branch/service locations. The solution scales to accommodate a varying number of employees, channels, locations, time zones, schedule types, and request automation to meet the needs of mid-sized to global enterprise organizations. Verint removes the…
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Pricing
SAP Fieldglass
Verint Workforce Management
Editions & Modules
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WFM Enterprise
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WFM Enterprise
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WFM Enterprise
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per month per user
WFM Enterprise
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Offerings
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SAP Fieldglass
Verint Workforce Management
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup Fee
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Additional Details
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Verint offers a named user pricing model with SaaS and on-premise delivery methods.
SAP Fieldglass helps our company to efficiently manage external workforce, reduce costs, ensure compliance with labor laws and improve overall productivity. It integrates seamlessly with SAP and other enterprise resource planning systems. It also easily connects with human resources management systems for a unified view of the workforce. It monitors and manage budgets for projects and departments using temporary workers.
I would say it is very well suited for call centers that have, it's much easier to do the phone side of it. You have a lot of different media and you have a lot of different handle times for a bunch of different things. It's harder to do, but when you have that standard of your call system's integrated into variant and you're just using that data that's coming in, that's the easiest part of it is just to when you're using it for your phone side.
Verint WFM does adherence very well. We were able to customize with our internal company goals which improved our productivity,
Strategic planner (forecasting). Although there are challenges at times given my company's unique set up, strategic planner has allowed us to paint a more accurate picture of the future.
Verint also processes PTO requests very smoothly and in a way that makes sense.
The simple display and way you navigate the jobs page is not very intuitive. There could be better information displayed than what is there, and it doesn't always make sense in how you move from one page to another.
I really don't like the requirement of the last 5 digits of a candidate's social security number for the "Security ID." Some candidates are reluctant to give that out, when paired with their birth day (also required). I'm not sure why this couldn't be a different piece of information - last 5 of the primary phone number, for example.
Some of the field are not well-defined. For example. there is a Resume field, then an Attachments field. And the rate section isn't 100% clear, especially when entering overtime rates or discounted rates.
Adherence Graphs & DPA - The adherence graphs that show DPA data isn't entirely accurate based on how the system calculates different idle states. The system will look at each 15 minute interval and use the state that consumed the most time in that 15 minute interval.
Schedule creator - Sometime when you ask the system to generate multiple schedules, it doesn't always follow the rules that you set which ends up generating schedules that are not usable.
Forecasting to the service level vs. ASA. We have found that trying to forecast to an ASA is not as accurate as forecasting to the service level.
Again, Fieldglass is a strong contender but Fieldglass can be difficult at times to work with and not as supportive as I'd like. As so, I'd be willing to try Beeline or other top competitors
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.
For a smaller sized contact center who was previously using excel spreadsheets I feel we have had as of a transition into the program as one could expect. Not only did we go live with a cloud based WFM tool but we also launched a new CRM and telephony system on the same day so it was a lot for our contact center to take in but it has been done with ease
Verint Support is exceptional. I've never had an issue where the Verint Support analyst was lacking knowledge, didn't take the issue seriously, or not tried working with us to fix our quirky setups. Realizing that each business is different, has different needs, and there isn't a cookie-cutter solution for everyone ... Verint Support always continues to shine for us and help us out when needed.
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.
Great SAP system to use on multiple project data protection and preparation of clear reports and financial analytics gathering the SAP solution is effective. Through the platform, all our project documents are easy to access and upload, and to manage activities and project assets allocated via the platform are excellent.
We went through some vending consultants back in April, along with others was kind of selected, but we came from Aspect, it was more of an on-prem solution. So we were looking to update to the cloud to get more just to work well with others and other vendors that we can use to get our data.
We were then able to recognize trends and patterns
Once trends and productivity issues were addressed, we could then manage workflow and day to day activities such as training and meetings - ultimately optimizing time, forecasting, and staffing expectations.
Meeting service level goals is now manageable in most cases, allowing improvement across the board.
