Talkdesk vs. Thulium

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
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
Thulium
Score 0.0 out of 10
N/A
Software for the handling of calls, emails, chats, Messenger and Click2Contact in one tool. Used to take control of customer communication - integrate telephones, e-mails and chats.N/A
Pricing
TalkdeskThulium
Editions & Modules
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
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
TalkdeskThulium
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
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
TalkdeskThulium
Features
TalkdeskThulium
Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
Talkdesk
7.8
491 Ratings
8% below category average
Thulium
-
Ratings
Agent dashboard7.3470 Ratings00 Ratings
Validate callers7.8413 Ratings00 Ratings
Outbound response8.0430 Ratings00 Ratings
Call forwarding8.1423 Ratings00 Ratings
Click-to-call (CTC)8.2389 Ratings00 Ratings
Warm transfer8.6445 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive dialing8.9227 Ratings00 Ratings
Interactive voice response8.5315 Ratings00 Ratings
REST APIs6.5249 Ratings00 Ratings
Call scripts7.5224 Ratings00 Ratings
Call tracking8.3438 Ratings00 Ratings
Multichannel integration6.3323 Ratings00 Ratings
CRM software integration8.0375 Ratings00 Ratings
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Product A and Product B
Talkdesk
7.9
475 Ratings
5% below category average
Thulium
-
Ratings
Inbound call routing8.8435 Ratings00 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing7.2317 Ratings00 Ratings
Recording8.8459 Ratings00 Ratings
Quality management8.2417 Ratings00 Ratings
Call analytics8.2432 Ratings00 Ratings
Historical reporting7.9439 Ratings00 Ratings
Live reporting7.5432 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer surveys7.4242 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics7.0278 Ratings00 Ratings
User Ratings
TalkdeskThulium
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(505 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.5
(40 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.3
(321 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Availability
9.6
(9 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
9.8
(9 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
6.1
(132 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
In-Person Training
7.7
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
8.9
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.3
(224 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
10.0
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.9
(8 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.1
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.1
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
TalkdeskThulium
Likelihood to Recommend
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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Thulium
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Pros
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
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
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
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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Thulium
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Reliability and Availability
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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Thulium
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ScreenShots

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.

Thulium Screenshots

Screenshot of Wallboards are interactive boards often used in companies dealing with customer service, which display indicators of the work of the entire department, e.g. the number of customers waiting in the queue and the service level of agents.

The data is displayed in real time (refreshed every 10 seconds), thanks to which managers (e.g. department head) can constantly monitor the work progress, which allows for optimization and proper management of the consultants' work (including determining the length of breaks, planning the number of employees on particular shifts).Screenshot of The Click2Contact widget, used to place a chat on a company's website. It can be configured to best suit any needs and the style of the website.Screenshot of Thulium online chat, that when placed on a website encourages customers to make contact. Each chat conversation will be assigned to a customer card in CRM. The appearance of the chat can be adapted to the connected website using a wizard.

When an agent cannot reply to a message, the call will automatically be transferred to another agent. A limit can be set on the number of calls that the agent can handle at one time.Screenshot of the Thulium ticketing system, where the team has access to emails. Customers are recognized and the entire history of omnichannel communication is available, making work easier and improving the customer service process. Therefore, during the employee's absence, any person from the company can complete his tasks.Screenshot of Thulium Web Softphone is an application integrated with Thulium that allows agents to both make and receive calls directly from a web browser.