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    Aktana

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AAktana offers intelligent customer engagement for the global life sciences industry. By ensuring that every customer experience is tailored to individual preferences and needs, Aktana helps life science companies strengthen their relationships with healthcare providers to inspire better patient care. Aktana services now include technology from Tact.ai, a virtual personal assistant that provides intelligence on a day's meetings and interactions, with scheduling functionality and CRM task…N/A

    Verint Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA)

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AThe Verint Intelligent Virtual Assistant (formerly Verint Self-Service solutions) is a customer-oriented knowledge management solution including technology acquired by Verint from Next IT in 2017. The platform includes voice self-service IVR, a virtual AI-guided assistant (Next IT), and Verint's own knowledge management system for self-service.N/A
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    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    67%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    AktanaVerint Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.4
    (3 ratings)
    8.4
    (6 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
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    7.4
    (5 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    AktanaVerint Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Aktana
    If you have an organization that requires salespeople to go into the field and your organization is mid-sized, then I recommend Tact.ai for your salespeople. It is not possible to carry laptops when they are out in the field but it is possible to carry an iPad or phone. This makes their tasks easy and reduces considerable time wasted on administrative activities and increases productivity at the same time.
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    Verint
    The IVA is very well suited to handle routine questions and basic actions that would typically require customer support. It may be a little more challenged handling edge cases but in those instances we have found it provides an easy transfer to a live agent
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    Pros
    Aktana
    • Scan Business Cards into SalesForce
    • Have the SalesForce Data Offline
    • Able to log notes from meetings
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    Verint
    • Use of Acknowledgment base and AI engines.
    • F&Q.
    • Automate process such as consults, modifications and cancel reservations.
    • Execute triggers for notify customer reservations.
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    Cons
    Aktana
    • Adding calendar is cumbersome. Integration between Outlook and Tact.ai is required
    • Time required to log in is very high. It wastes so much time every time.
    • Schedule view is limited to 2 weeks ahead only
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    Verint
    • There is minimal documentation around what we can and can't do for IVA
    • IVA seems to be a newer product so this is difficult when trying to implement new things
    • IVA has a lot of non-Verint friendly terms (Think Prompt, vs. answer or Intent/Alternate vs. context).
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Aktana
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    Verint
    While I enjoy the IVA product, there is still some fine-tuning of the platform that can be done. There are some nuances to the Verint platform, which can make it difficult to start quickly. We thought business users would be able to easily manage the work needed within the IVA platform for our business; however, with how complex we want to make the experience, that was not possible. We quickly realized we needed more support than just our business users, who were not familiar with how to add API information into a conversation flow. This is why we expanded to others within our business to support the tool.
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    Usability
    Aktana
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    Verint
    Based on my experience. Once the client is familiarize with the AI and of course the AI company solution has been implemented correctly. We able to offer the customer a best service.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Aktana
    The Salesforce app sucks and so it's not useful to do the searches that we need.
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    Verint
    Verint Intelligent Virtual Assistant had more features and functionality than the Genesys product as well as customization and further options for internal system integration to our existing on-prem systems. In addition, we also had a rapport with other Verint products and were more familiar with their AI capabilities, making them the obvious choice.
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    Return on Investment
    Aktana
    • We have been able to experience better performance in our sales, as we spend more time dedicated to our customers than doing administrative tasks, thanks to Tact.ai.
    • Our team is more organized with clients, with meetings up to date, no delays in responding to clients, which has increased productivity and performance considerably.
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    Verint
    • Positive - Containment
    • Negative - Customers animosity to bots
    • Positive - Reduction of Calls
    • Negative - Mishandled calls receive greater scrutiny than agents
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    Verint Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA) Screenshots

    Screenshot of the IVA analytics dashboardScreenshot of an IVA conversation flowScreenshot of out-of-the-box IVA NLP AI modelsScreenshot of the connectors integration