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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    NiCE CXone

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/ANICE CXone is a cloud-based contact center platform that manages customer interactions across multiple communication channels. It includes features such as automatic call distribution (ACD), interactive voice response (IVR), omnichannel routing, workforce optimization, feedback management, and interaction analytics.

    $110

    per month per user

    MiCloud Connect / ShoreTel (discontinued)

    Score3 out of 10
    N/AMiCloud Connect, or ShoreTel, was a business communications solution for contact centers that included features like IP PBX telephony service, desk phones, softphone, and collaboration tools. It was acquired by RingCentral in early 2026, and discontinued, with customers being moved to RingCentral's MVP platform.N/A
    Pricing
    NiCE CXoneMiCloud Connect / ShoreTel (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
    CXone Omnichannel Agent
    $110
    per month per user
    CXone Essential Suite
    $135
    per month per user
    Cxone Core Suite
    $169
    per month per user
    CXone Complete Suite
    $209
    per month per user
    CXone Ultimate Suite
    $249
    per month per user
    CXone Mpower Ultimate Suite
    $249
    per month per user
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    NiCE CXoneMiCloud Connect / ShoreTel (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details
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    NICE Systems
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    Chose MiCloud Connect / ShoreTel (discontinued)
    ShoreTel beats the competition in several areas - ROI, TCO, end user adoption rate, ease of administration, ease of deployment, system up time, ability to scale easily and sound quality of each and every call.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    94%
    Would buy again
    276 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    193 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    284 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    90%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    128 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    155 Answers
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    Features
    NiCE CXoneMiCloud Connect / ShoreTel (discontinued)
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of NiCE CXone and MiCloud Connect / ShoreTel (discontinued)
    Feature
    NiCE CXone
    9.4
    581 Ratings
    11% above category average
    MiCloud Connect / ShoreTel (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Agent dashboard9.2559 Ratings00 Ratings
    Validate callers9.6471 Ratings00 Ratings
    Outbound response9.5490 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call forwarding9.3443 Ratings00 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)9.2403 Ratings00 Ratings
    Warm transfer9.8531 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive dialing9.6317 Ratings00 Ratings
    Interactive voice response9.5376 Ratings00 Ratings
    REST APIs9.3301 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call scripts9.2322 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call tracking9.5510 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multichannel integration9.3364 Ratings00 Ratings
    CRM software integration9.0365 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of NiCE CXone and MiCloud Connect / ShoreTel (discontinued)
    Feature
    NiCE CXone
    9.4
    556 Ratings
    12% above category average
    MiCloud Connect / ShoreTel (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Inbound call routing9.5511 Ratings00 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing9.1373 Ratings00 Ratings
    Recording9.6495 Ratings00 Ratings
    Quality management9.1480 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call analytics9.2486 Ratings00 Ratings
    Historical reporting9.4479 Ratings00 Ratings
    Live reporting9.4465 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer surveys9.5299 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics9.6319 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cloud PBX
    Comparison of Cloud PBX features of NiCE CXone and MiCloud Connect / ShoreTel (discontinued)
    Feature
    NiCE CXone
    -
    Ratings
    MiCloud Connect / ShoreTel (discontinued)
    8.2
    27 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Hosted PBX00 Ratings7.515 Ratings
    Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)00 Ratings8.315 Ratings
    User templates00 Ratings8.016 Ratings
    Call reports00 Ratings8.621 Ratings
    Directory of employee names00 Ratings8.327 Ratings
    Call Management
    Comparison of Call Management features of NiCE CXone and MiCloud Connect / ShoreTel (discontinued)
    Feature
    NiCE CXone
    -
    Ratings
    MiCloud Connect / ShoreTel (discontinued)
    8.6
    28 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Answering rules00 Ratings9.024 Ratings
    Call recording00 Ratings8.323 Ratings
    Call park00 Ratings8.626 Ratings
    Call screening00 Ratings8.622 Ratings
    Message alerts00 Ratings8.323 Ratings
    VoIP system collaboration
    Comparison of VoIP system collaboration features of NiCE CXone and MiCloud Connect / ShoreTel (discontinued)
    Feature
    NiCE CXone
    -
    Ratings
    MiCloud Connect / ShoreTel (discontinued)
    7.6
    23 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Video conferencing00 Ratings8.08 Ratings
    Audio conferencing00 Ratings9.023 Ratings
    Video screen sharing00 Ratings7.04 Ratings
    Instant messaging00 Ratings6.75 Ratings
    Mobile apps
    Comparison of Mobile apps features of NiCE CXone and MiCloud Connect / ShoreTel (discontinued)
    Feature
    NiCE CXone
    -
    Ratings
    MiCloud Connect / ShoreTel (discontinued)
    6.2
    15 Ratings
    24% below category average
    Mobile app for iOS00 Ratings8.014 Ratings
    Mobile app for Android00 Ratings4.512 Ratings
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    Score8 out of 10
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    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Score8.4 out of 10
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    Score8.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    NiCE CXoneMiCloud Connect / ShoreTel (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.7
    (613 ratings)
    8.3
    (63 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (28 ratings)
    8.6
    (42 ratings)
    Usability
    9.3
    (587 ratings)
    8.0
    (21 ratings)
    Availability
    8.1
    (9 ratings)
    10.0
    (27 ratings)
    Performance
    7.7
    (9 ratings)
    5.1
    (9 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (6 ratings)
    3.5
    (16 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.2
    (5 ratings)
    6.0
    (3 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.9
    (7 ratings)
    2.0
    (12 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.5
    (11 ratings)
    9.6
    (30 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.2
    (6 ratings)
    6.4
    (3 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    6.8
    (6 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.3
    (9 ratings)
    7.6
    (5 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    7.5
    (8 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    7.5
    (8 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    NiCE CXoneMiCloud Connect / ShoreTel (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    NICE Systems
    NICE CXone Mpower offers a great suite of products and tools appropriate for contact centers. It is a one stop shop for all of the monitoring, scheduling, reporting, and quality tools a large or small contact center may need. It is very feature rich and has many components, some of which we haven't even grown to adopt yet but may in the near future.
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    Discontinued Products
    Mitel is excellent at allowing me as a user to setup up custom call routing in response to rapidly changing work flows. If I need to work from home for a period due to medical or other reasons, logging into Mitel and setting my office phone to ring through to my home or cell is quick and simple. Changing back is just as quick.
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    Pros
    NICE Systems
    • Organizes everyone's interactions within the platform
    • Shows interactions real time with productivity stats
    • Makes Chat/Call quality a breeze with customizable quality forms
    • Easy to share an interaction within the company for others to review
    • Keeps everyone on track with scheduled lunches/breaks/meetings so you don't have to remember yourself and never miss another event again!
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    Discontinued Products
    • The system up-time has been 100% over 3 years.
    • With separate systems and two locations we used to have to fake the system into 4 digit dialing by forwarding all remote extensions to DIDs. Now with Shortel extended to the remote location we have true 4 digit dialing.
    • The Shortel desktop application makes managing calls and call routing a breeze for even our most novice users.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    NICE Systems
    • There can be changes in interface of the app, however it's still very good
    • I would appreciete detailed web page with all necessary information, but when I need anything, the customer support is very quick and provide all the information
    • Hardly to find any other :)
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    Discontinued Products
    • There are persistent problems with the app's functionality on mobile devices.
    • At times, the web conferencing service may have delays. It appears to be less stable than competing approaches.
    • Using a headset instead of the microphone and speakers integrated into a desktop computer slows down the softphone's performance.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    NICE Systems
    Nice made it possible for employees to work from anywhere with access to the internet, it made it possible to extract data from contacts in a very thorough way. In addition, the meticaes can be fully customized and the day-to-day monitoring of the operation is more visible.With nice, contacts with clients abroad became easier.
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    Discontinued Products
    Although the price is higher than some of the other Hosted systems out there, the value is definitely worth a renewal. Everything is relative: there are some companies out there who need phones, but don't necessarily care how they work, the functionality/features available/durability etc., they just care that they have phones that make and receive calls. There are other companies that are completely reliant on phones and certain functionality that is provided by the system. There are even some companies who are straight up dependent on the phone system and are losing tons of money anytime they are down, ShoreTel is the perfect fit for theSMB client who sees value in a solid,robust, reliable and high functioning phone system
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    NICE Systems
    The lack of written SOPs makes some features (WFM / Performance management) very difficult to use. The training provided by NICE is extensive, but it's hard to remember everything shared in the hour. We spend so much time on the platform just trying to figure out how to use the features; it would be much easier with written instructions and screenshots.
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    I have not used a wide array of communication software, but this far ShoreTel/MiCloud has been the simplest and easiest to get into. My work employs several temps at certain points throughout the year, and they use this piece of software frequently, and new hires seem to have little to no issue using this software. Additionally, this is our primary telephone communication infrastructure, and I have yet to encounter any issues when signed in and regularly using it handling external calls to our department.
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    Reliability and Availability
    NICE Systems
    NICE inContact CXone is available when you need it. I have been using it for about a year and I have never suffered any issues that caused my not to have access to the product. If there are updates, they must be downloaded and install in the background because I do not see them
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    Discontinued Products
    The system has gone down on us MULTIPLE times. We asked them to move us to a different cluster. Shoretel declined. Basically we had problems or outages every month of the year from June 2012 to date. Our old phone system was just that: OLD, no bells or whistles. But it was up every day and I never had to think about it much until it was time for an upgrade. That's how I want Shoretel to be. I want it so reliable that I never have to think about it.
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    Performance
    NICE Systems
    NICE inContact CXone performs very well even on old computers that are limited in resources. I use a older computer with limited memory and it seems to handle NICE inContact CXone very well in most cases. There will be times when it acts up for whatever reason bust over ninety percent of the time.
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    Discontinued Products
    Even though the system uses a lower bandwidth connection we have experienced a higher call quality than our previous system which required a T1 line and back up broadband connection.
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    Support Rating
    NICE Systems
    inContact only allows specific users to contact them for support. Even though I use the product daily and it accounts for a large amount of my workload, I still have to contact an authorized user to create an incident. These users are managers and their schedules are very busy. This can result in delays in incidents being opened and resolved.
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    Discontinued Products
    ShoreTel Sky's support is amazing. The only reason why I didn't give it a 10 is that we still need to contact them for stuff that we should be able to do, for ourselves, within the management portal. I know their portal is being worked on, so hopefully they will get the "little things" included for self-management.
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    In-Person Training
    NICE Systems
    The In-person training was fine for a general overview. I think it would have been really helpful to have a review of pre-built reports and how to use them as tools.
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    I attended the first ShoreTel installer class in Austin,TX. It was a week of intensive study with a live lab and having hands on experience made the class worthwhile. I have taken all of the sales courses and remaining technical courses either online or self study to keep costs down. I send my techs to the first installer course in Austin as I feel it gives them a solid foundation and most of teh other courses they have taken have been online.
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    Online Training
    NICE Systems
    I would rate 10, since the explanations were far enough to catch all the usabilities.I would rate 10, since the explanations were far enough to catch all the usabilities.I would rate 10, since the explanations were far enough to catch all the usabilities.I would rate 10, since the explanations were far enough to catch all the usabilities.
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    Discontinued Products
    The training identified some things M5 (ShoreTel's cloud division) could provide, however it was only using it every day and asking the Shoretel support several questions that I got the hang of it. The training was able to highlight functions but I did not learn how to use the phone from the training.
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    Implementation Rating
    NICE Systems
    We love the use of our new tools. However, NICE staff turnover was frustrating. We lost ground each time a new team took over. Some people were good some were not as much. Some people did great training while others were not as helpful
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    Discontinued Products
    Each of our locations has a dedicated ShoreTel router and managed QoS. With full management, it provides us a breath of space and bandwidth to use our resources in other means. Strongly consider the managed solution as you have to maintain more technical issues when hosting with your ISP. You have to make sure your ISP can provide you the best service for voice and data. Plug and 'hope' doesn't work with just routing your phones over any Internet connection....especially when your handsets run int he 100's
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    Alternatives Considered
    NICE Systems
    When it comes to this specific situation (cell centers) NICE definitely has an ADP beat. The analytics, scheduling, and forecasts are extremely well-tailored for this situation. ADP has a more comprehensive solution in my opinion - I feel their UI and mobile app are also more user-friendly. But in terms of performance management functionality, NICE has a more robust system and is able to create additional metrics if we need them When I used ADP there were no custom options available.
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    Discontinued Products
    Aptela. I chose M5 (ShoreTelSky) because their platform puts call quality first. Their system also uses Cisco endpoints, which are very compatible with the rest of my Cisco network. I also liked the fact that ShoreTelSky uses the internet only as a backup for transport; I use MPLS as my primary connectivity.
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    Scalability
    NICE Systems
    I rated 10, because Nice CX one is very much functional. You can simply acess it by website Nice, in any navigator, desktop, notebook or mobile, so you can in a fast way run on every departament of the company.
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    Discontinued Products
    I believe that ShoreTel can be used by a minimum company size of about 25 to almost any size of a company and this can be achieved while the company grows, hence makes it pretty scalable when required. For companies which are smaller in size i.e. smaller than 25, I am not sure how useful it would be, it may be depending upon the type of business
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    Return on Investment
    NICE Systems
    • NICE CXone has allowed us the ability to, on specific teams, not have to back fill positions due to attrition.
    • NICE CXone has provided us insight into data metrics that we did not have before.
    • NICE CXone provides us with visibility into the productivity of our offshore agents which we did NOT have prior to our partnership.
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    Discontinued Products
    • At my branch alone, we are saving over $500 a month using Shoretel Sky versus the phone company we were using before them.
    • Shoretel Sky has increased customer service by allowing our employees to easily transfer a call to the proper department or branch no matter where they are located instead of giving the caller a phone number to call.
    • Most of our locations did not have caller ID before Shoretel Sky. That feature has increased employee efficiency because when they know who is calling before they answer allows them to professionally greet their caller and have their info up on their computer as they answer.
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    ScreenShots

    NiCE CXone Screenshots

    Screenshot of CXone Copilot is a partner for every conversation — bringing knowledge, next steps, and smart suggestions before agents even have to ask.Screenshot of CXone Orchestrator is a visual yet tool that does not require programming skills, but instead empowers everyone—from business user to routing flow programmer—to build and manage routing flows for all channels.Screenshot of CXone Interaction Analytics, used to get actionable insights from every voice, digital, and self-service customer interaction.Screenshot of CXone Performance Management aligns employee performance, contact center goals, and customer expectations with continuous improvement.

    MiCloud Connect / ShoreTel (discontinued) Screenshots

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