Verint CX Automation vs. Zendesk Talk

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Verint CX Automation
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
Verint CX Automation is a contact center platform designed to lower an organization’s costs while simultaneously elevating its CX.N/A
Zendesk Talk
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Zendesk Talk is call center software built on the Twilio cloud communication platform that integrates with the Zendesk Support ticketing system. This allows customer service teams to provide phone support from the same platform they use to manage all other channels.N/A
Pricing
Verint CX AutomationZendesk Talk
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Verint CX AutomationZendesk Talk
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
Additional Details​​​​Verint offers a start-anywhere approach, meaning you only pay for the bots you choose to implement rather than having to purchase the whole platform. ​ Pricing structure: Verint's pricing options include named employee and volume-based models. Verint provides the ability to flex up and flex down, and swap licenses for bots as needed.
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Community Pulse
Verint CX AutomationZendesk Talk
Features
Verint CX AutomationZendesk Talk
Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
Verint CX Automation
6.8
13 Ratings
20% below category average
Zendesk Talk
7.8
16 Ratings
7% below category average
Agent dashboard7.313 Ratings9.816 Ratings
Validate callers6.26 Ratings6.012 Ratings
Outbound response6.66 Ratings10.014 Ratings
Call forwarding6.65 Ratings8.915 Ratings
Click-to-call (CTC)7.25 Ratings10.013 Ratings
Warm transfer6.86 Ratings9.912 Ratings
Predictive dialing6.83 Ratings5.08 Ratings
Interactive voice response7.44 Ratings10.010 Ratings
REST APIs6.95 Ratings5.07 Ratings
Call scripts6.67 Ratings7.06 Ratings
Call tracking6.15 Ratings9.814 Ratings
Multichannel integration6.78 Ratings5.110 Ratings
CRM software integration7.17 Ratings5.09 Ratings
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Product A and Product B
Verint CX Automation
6.7
17 Ratings
21% below category average
Zendesk Talk
7.8
16 Ratings
6% below category average
Inbound call routing6.58 Ratings9.812 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing6.37 Ratings5.110 Ratings
Recording7.615 Ratings9.815 Ratings
Quality management7.415 Ratings9.813 Ratings
Call analytics7.116 Ratings8.913 Ratings
Historical reporting6.316 Ratings8.813 Ratings
Live reporting5.412 Ratings4.814 Ratings
Customer surveys6.46 Ratings5.08 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics7.312 Ratings8.19 Ratings
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Verint CX AutomationZendesk Talk
Small Businesses
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Score 7.5 out of 10
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Score 7.5 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 7.5 out of 10
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 7.5 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 8.7 out of 10
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Score 8.7 out of 10
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User Ratings
Verint CX AutomationZendesk Talk
Likelihood to Recommend
8.3
(16 ratings)
9.8
(16 ratings)
Usability
7.4
(17 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
5.0
(3 ratings)
User Testimonials
Verint CX AutomationZendesk Talk
Likelihood to Recommend
Verint
Well suited for advocate process streamlining - being able to assist advocate/agents with processes and guidelines. Also able to deliver automated work vs manual to assist with call. We need to enhance the back end data to support integration with other bots and data acknowledgment. I have found the tools we are building very helpful to agents/advocates, but to create an output based on these tool to monitor behavior has ben challenging
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Zendesk
Zendesk Talk is a great partner that helps us in the customer care area by managing every type of contact with customers (both phone calls and emails). I know there is also the possibility to have integration with instant messaging apps (like messenger and WhatsApp but I have never used them in my experience). In my opinion, the best scenario for Zendesk Talk is represented by a context with a high amount of contacts/requests where a unique platform could be a help both on the external side (customers) and on the internal side (a lot of colleagues who are working in the same area and have to work in a coordinate way). For customers, they could benefit from tailor-made answers, also based on past contacts for the same topic, and avoid waiting times during phone calls, with an immediate follow-up. For internal work management, operators don't overlap in a single request, and even if the same operator is not available the one who manages the request later has complete visibility of the entire topic from the historical point of view. Last but not least, I think that Zendesk Talk helps a lot in the context in which the request's speed is a KPI to manage constantly.
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Pros
Verint
  • Their IVA product is great. No-code and best reps.
  • They document EVERYTHING! There is a ton of knowledge to get info from
  • The customization is great!
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Zendesk
  • Call recording is a nice feature! It is great for training purposes and for quality assurance.
  • The metrics you get from Explore are a great insight into how the team is handling the call volumes.
  • Zendesk Talk has met most of our needs. It can be a bit unreliable at times.
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Cons
Verint
  • As someone who learned WFM and Verint CX Automation early this year the UI menus (how and where things are broken down) is not intuitive.
  • Verint CX Automation can be a great resource but it's difficult to navigate and bookmarked pages get moved. For example the "What's New" page and corresponding Coming Soon in WFM and behavior changes pages have been moved twice in the last few months alone.
  • The security privileges are also not very user friendly. When trying to trouble shoot what additional access needs ot be given to someone to gain access to a specific feature in the system it's not intuitive.
  • Your release notes have changed sections and are not consistently published in the same place for availability. This inhibits our organization from reviewing them in advance and preparing for any changes or bug fixes we were unaware of and to setup our lab for testing.
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Zendesk
  • The lag on the phone is by far the most annoying thing with Zendesk talk due to the voice over IP.
  • Using the Reporting feature in Zendesk has never been a walk in the park. We have to customize a lot of fields and when something doesn't seem to add up, it at times feels like pulling teeth to get to the final answer of what went wrong.
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Usability
Verint
Based on my personal experience and the experience I have seen and heard from others in the industry. While I cannot disclose specific details on my personal experience, I feel like most who have used it have benefitted from its usability
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Zendesk
Everything about it works, as I have previously detailed. Coming from different companies and using other tools like Twilio or Aircall, those are VOIP tools that are built to be plugged into other tools, Zendesk Talk is natively built into Zendesk and feels correct in the user experience of Zendesk
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Support Rating
Verint
No answers on this topic
Zendesk
In our experience, we have had to go through many support people then ultimately getting frustrated enough to go directly to our point of contact who then doesn't always seem to be able to assist. We tend to get the support we need when it is escalated up to me and I reach out to our point of a contact person to express our frustration.
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Alternatives Considered
Verint
We have the five9 version of Verint CX Automation which took the place of Business IC Manager. The ease of use and real time coaching capabilities have been instrumental to give immediate coaching and understanding what our customer agents are doing at any given time. The canned reporting and transcription could improve.
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Zendesk
Slack and Zoom phones cannot compare because they have no ticketing systems. Zendesk Talk was the only option we considered because we were already using Zendesk for our email ticketing with customer concerns. We then expanded to using Zendesk's chatbot and then the Zendesk Talk system to keep it all integrated and streamlined.
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Return on Investment
Verint
  • Verint CX Automation lacks the Training expertise to assist clients to make the best of the software
  • If existing Verint WFO/WFM experience exists on staff, Verint CX Automation can be taken to the next level.
  • The product and company itself is rock solid, you can never go wrong with Verint as the name itself brings confidence to businesses
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Zendesk
  • We were able to reduce global headcount by 20% in our call centers.
  • Allowing customers to leave voicemails creates the personal touch needed and really increases our customer connectivity score. We saw increases in our CSAT scores after the implementation of this solution.
  • Call handling time and case reopen rates both decreased. Y/y it decreased 18% and 60%.
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ScreenShots

Verint CX Automation Screenshots

Screenshot of an overview of Verint CX AutomationScreenshot of Verint Agent Copilot BotsScreenshot of Verint EX BotScreenshot of Verint Interaction Wrapup BotScreenshot of Verint IVAScreenshot of Verint Knowledge Automation Bot