Skip to main content
TrustRadius
Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)

Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)

Overview

What is Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)?

Genesys PureConnect was an omnichannel contact center platform that offered cloud-based or on-premise deployments. It featured a SIP-based architecture with VoIP capabilities, allowing companies to connect legacy voice systems and use existing phones. A legacy product, new users are encouraged…

Read more
Recent Reviews

PureConnect Feedback

8 out of 10
August 19, 2020
We are currently using Genesys PureConnect within several areas of the business. Genesys PureConnect is currently being used to support …
Continue reading

GENErations SYStemed

9 out of 10
May 19, 2020
Incentivized
I was in a Customer handling role in the last 5 years and it's been a year since I moved to the Administration team, working with Genesys …
Continue reading
Read all reviews

Awards

Products that are considered exceptional by their customers based on a variety of criteria win TrustRadius awards. Learn more about the types of TrustRadius awards to make the best purchase decision. More about TrustRadius Awards

Popular Features

View all 22 features
  • Warm transfer (57)
    8.3
    83%
  • Call forwarding (56)
    7.7
    77%
  • Call tracking (55)
    7.7
    77%
  • Agent dashboard (55)
    6.7
    67%
Return to navigation

Pricing

View all pricing
N/A
Unavailable

What is Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)?

Genesys PureConnect was an omnichannel contact center platform that offered cloud-based or on-premise deployments. It featured a SIP-based architecture with VoIP capabilities, allowing companies to connect legacy voice systems and use existing phones. A legacy product, new users are encouraged to…

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.genesys.com/platform/pureco…

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Would you like us to let the vendor know that you want pricing?

3 people also want pricing

Alternatives Pricing

What is Genesys Cloud CX?

Genesys Cloud CX (formerly PureCloud, Genesys Cloud) is a contact center application optimized for automatic call distribution, interactive voice response, email, social media, chat, and text/SMS. It is also a VoIP interconnect service provider.

What is Amazon Connect?

Launched in 2017 and available on AWS, Amazon Connect is a cloud-based omnichannel contact center designed to provide a seamless experience across voice and website live chat, featuring skills-based routing, task tracking, and analytic tools to track customer interactions, or evaluate agent…

Return to navigation

Features

Contact Center Software

Contact center software allows companies to manage inbound and outbound customer communications across a range of channels at scale, and may or may not include call reporting analytics. These channels can include voice (phone), email, fax, VoIP, webchat, video chat, and social media platforms.

7.9
Avg 8.3

Workforce Optimization (WFO)

Tools that allow managers or team leaders to evaluate and track agent performance.

5.5
Avg 8.3
Return to navigation

Product Details

What is Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)?

Now superseded by the more modern Genesys Cloud CX, the Genesys PureConnect platform was a contact center solution for omnichannel and business communications. While PureConnect is still available to use until 2025, visitors exploring Genesys solutions are encouraged to investigate Genesys Cloud CX, the company's newest evolution of their customer communication solutions.

Genesys PureConnect (discontinued) Features

Contact Center Software Features

  • Supported: Agent dashboard
  • Supported: Validate callers
  • Supported: Outbound response
  • Supported: Call forwarding
  • Supported: Click-to-call (CTC)
  • Supported: Warm transfer
  • Supported: Predictive dialing
  • Supported: Interactive voice response
  • Supported: REST APIs
  • Supported: Call scripts
  • Supported: Call tracking
  • Supported: Multichannel integration
  • Supported: CRM software integration
  • Supported: Automatic speech recognition (ASR)
  • Supported: Natural language processing for IVR
  • Supported: Communications forecasting

Workforce Optimization (WFO) Features

  • Supported: Inbound call routing
  • Supported: Omnichannel inbound routing
  • Supported: Recording
  • Supported: Quality management
  • Supported: Call analytics
  • Supported: Historical reporting
  • Supported: Live reporting
  • Supported: Customer surveys
  • Supported: Customer interaction analytics

Omnichannel support Features

  • Supported: Email
  • Supported: Voice (phone)
  • Supported: VoIP
  • Supported: SMS/Text
  • Supported: Video channel
  • Supported: Live chat channel
  • Supported: Co-browse
  • Supported: Social media channels
  • Supported: Mobile applications

Predictive Analytics Features

  • Supported: Intelligent call routing
  • Supported: Chatbots
  • Supported: AI assistance for live agents

Genesys PureConnect (discontinued) Screenshots

Screenshot of Screenshot of Screenshot of Screenshot of Screenshot of Screenshot of

Genesys PureConnect (discontinued) Videos

EMS, Inc. Harnesses the Cloud to Meet Diverse Client Needs
Yahoo Japan Elevates the Customer Experience with an All-in-one Cloud Engagement Solution

Genesys PureConnect (discontinued) Competitors

Genesys PureConnect (discontinued) Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows
Mobile ApplicationiPad Supervisor

Frequently Asked Questions

Genesys PureConnect was an omnichannel contact center platform that offered cloud-based or on-premise deployments. It featured a SIP-based architecture with VoIP capabilities, allowing companies to connect legacy voice systems and use existing phones. A legacy product, new users are encouraged to investigate Genesys Cloud.

Avaya IP Office are common alternatives for Genesys PureConnect (discontinued).

Reviewers rate Multichannel integration highest, with a score of 9.

The most common users of Genesys PureConnect (discontinued) are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
Return to navigation

Comparisons

View all alternatives
Return to navigation

Reviews and Ratings

(216)

Attribute Ratings

Reviews

(76-100 of 115)
Companies can't remove reviews or game the system. Here's why
September 25, 2018

ClickDesk 3.8 (12)

Natalya Lekomtseva | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our business requires us to send charging warnings to our clients and individuals. To achieve this we use the PureConnect Dialer stage to run Agentless, Preview/Predictive, and even SMS-powered campaigns to achieve our part base. Not outsourcing this work enables us to significantly screen and change our outbound procedure as required. We can rapidly create and discharge SMS-powered charging notices on account of the Dialer's handling of the implicit advancement arrangement.
  • The Genesys sales and support engineers are the best in the business. Any thoughts or inquiries that need attention are rapidly and precisely addressed with a telephone call or email to our Customer Success Manager, Service Delivery Manager, or Support Team.
  • The help we get feels trustworthy, and the level of care doesn't change based on the number of installations we have
  • It gives a great steering and skill power. This allows us to get clients to the ideal solution on the first try. We have been able to be extremely inventive in our answers, in light of the adaptability that PureConnect gives in its steering abilities.
  • There are so many roles to the product, and each is contingent upon what you need to do. Some days I needed to sign into 6 things at once to do all that I required (Desktop, Business Manager, Supervisor, Administrator, Scripter, Attendant)
  • The managing devices are missing, so we had to come up with some in-house solutions
  • I hate the lack of correspondence from Genesys with respect to issues, refreshes, guides, and fixes to their bugs
  • My greatest concern is their client care and the absence of following a BEC understanding with respect to time periods
PureConnect is exceptionally in depth and there are a ton of highlights. Try not to be put off at first with its multifaceted nature, and attempt to stick it out and learn it. When I had my head around it, I really loved it; however I should admit I was exceptionally overwhelmed toward the start, as I didn't have anybody to show me. I simply needed to make sense of it. Arrange a decent amount of support in your product agreement, the goal being that you can depend on them to help you where possible.
September 05, 2018

The good, the bad, the ugly

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use this across 4 of our main offices across the whole organisation. This helps us call share between offices over different time zones. Having everyone in the contact center on the same platform is a win for us.
  • Call routing is easy to build and use and delivers really well to keep call waits under control while still delivering the calls to the right people.
  • The IPA add-on has been great for us to manage our off the phone administration tasks. We have noticed an increase in productivity and resolution times.
  • Support is great for this product and the knowledge base is really comprehensive. Makes solving issues yourself really easy and if you cant support is always quick to respond.
  • The IVR build has been hard for the rest of the business to follow. If they don't have a technical background they find the interface hard to follow and use.
  • Upgrade waiting times are too long and always getting pushed back. A better way to handle these would be good.
This product is well suited to multi-office locations where you need to juggle and prioritize a lot of calls and tasks. It makes it simple and takes the need out for someone to manually do. We found when this was just our office that it was probably more than we needed so might not be suited to smaller organisations.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use PureConnect all day every day primarily for reporting and scheduling. My organization uses it as our phone system and to deliver interactions to customer service and tech support agents.
  • Automated (scheduled) reports are fairly well done. They allow me to forget about that particular task, freeing time and allowing me to work on more important projects.
  • Regarding Optimizer, the scheduling add-on for PureConnect: The interface for adjusting already published schedules throws exceptions frequently and it's missing functionality. For example, if I have a published schedule with attached data and an agent's schedule changes by 1/2 hour, I must go to each day and adjust manually.
  • Some of the report formats have been orphaned and abandoned. Try and export a CSV file and what should be a 24K file is delivered as 30 MB file because it's filled with massive amounts of repeated data. There exists some exceptional weirdness in these formats that would take too much time to detail.
Well suited for any call center
Leon N.M. van Adrichem | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Genesys PureConnect is our standard platform for all multi-channel support within our European organisation. Beside our contact centres we do use this platform for our office automation and our regular telephone services like receptionists as well.
Due to the fact that this platform is delivered out of our European Data centre for many locations in Europe, it helps me to manage one service to all my sites in Europe. Standardization of my infrastructure and having the opportunity to share implementations based on best-practices available for all my sites and all my users is a big benefit. Besides this fact, it helps me to get a good leverage of related infrastructure (likes telephone lines and minutes), CTi integrations with CRM-applications (like Salesforce, Oracle serviceCloud and Microsoft Dynamics as examples), and last but not least it helps me to innovate faster- and smarter. If we have realized a new innovation, it will be available for all of my sites.
  • Manage all my contacts within the multi-channel arena.
  • Helps me to provide 100% call center functionalities (recording; agent screen scripting; CTi-integrations; speech analytics etc).
  • Get the best out of volume (smart platform to create sharp outbound minutes).
  • Innovate smart, easy to deploy.
  • Adapt more innovations out of the box.
Fits my requirements.
Susie Morgan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use the product as our primary telephony platform. PureConnect has allowed us to understand our customer demand and provide a better customer experience. We have been able to deliver all our service delivery in one integrated product that we can easily monitor and analyse.
  • Integrating multiple channels into one solution.
  • Constantly evolving the product to meet user and market demands.
  • Lots of opportunity to customise the solution.
  • Great focus on partnering with customers.
  • Better reporting and dashboards. They are working on this.
  • Better visibility on license usage
PureConnect handles our high volumes well. It is a very stable system and we rarely encounter outages. Easy to customise for different department's needs. Additional modules like Quality and WFM allows an organisation to deliver all its Contact Centre activities through the platform.
Adam Wright | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The Genesys package is primarily used to run our contact centres, from forecasting and scheduling, leave management and call/email delivery to our advisors.
  • Covers all the bases, one shop tool that can do everything.
  • Strong forecasting and analysis capabilities
  • Flexible product that can easily be configured to handle everything from simple to complex contact centre environments.
  • Genesys refuses to directly support their own software, rather selling via a retailer (generally a telecommunications company). These retailers are supposed to add value, however all they do is add cost. They arent experts so the user has to often work out what is wrong for them before they can fix it.
  • Example, the automated leave system needs several steps to set it up and get it running. I happen to have an expert in the system who knows all those steps, so when they told us "the error is on our side" we were able to tell them exactly where to go to switch on auto approvals and fix the problem.
  • When we need issues resolved, the retailer doesn't want to take that to Genesys because they will have to pay for the help. Meanwhile the retailer doesn't know how to fix an issue but is charging for their services.
  • Many functions are stripped back from the ultimate product because the retailer has chosen not to support them, or is yet to learn how to support them.
  • Genesys happily try to sell you more add on to the packages, but don't confirm that the retail partner can actually handle that.
  • Every problem we have had is been due to the retail partnership. Love the product when you get it direct from Genesys... otherwise the experience is quite simply horrible. I have now met and talked to 7 different corporate users who report the same issues.
See previous feedback... it is an amazing system with horrific support.
Duncan Hernandez | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Giving agents the tools for self service is really key and helps improve efficiency by a great amount. Automating background processes also is a nice benefit for this product. We can route incoming calls any way that we want to, which helps us guide our customers in the quickest and easiest way for optimal service.
  • Call Routing
  • Self Service
  • Lower waiting times for agents
  • Better reporting
  • Bug fixes can be slow and be out of reach for crucial time frames
  • Live data can be hard to view at some times.
  • Prices for add-ons can add up
The big scenario is the call routing. When times get really busy, the call routing is very efficient when the phones starting ringing and have to be transferred everywhere. It really lowers our overflow and makes the agents much more happier and less stressed out. Being able to see how the day went with the reporting is nice to see that number improving over time.
Luke Ferrel | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We used Genesys as a contact center solution. It works extremely well. We were using it to complete WFM as well as customizing the our call center flows. We used it in only one department, although I believe it could be using in other applications. In the end our use was much smaller than was needed for such a powerful solution, so we switched to a less feature rich solution. If you have advanced or large call center applications Genesys is a big win.
  • WFM
  • Advanced customization - Waiting times, queue management, call back, it's inclusive
  • Customization. If you need any unusual solution for a contact center that is run differently than the norm, Genesys can get it done
  • Sometimes the code pushes can be a bit disruptive
  • Support is so-so. As they grow this seems to be a tough issue
The only reason I wouldn't recommend Genesys is if your contact center is very out of the box or small. Genesys is great for larger contact centers, or if you want a very customized solution. We are small so it was a little rich for us, but if you're on the enterprise level it's a win.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
PureConnect is used specifically within our organization to look at listener & customer care analytics and KPIs, in addition to driving to a more self-service solution. It was implemented to help drive costs down for call centers and increase our digital deflection volume and digital engagement for current and new consumers.
  • Dreate a more personalized self service environment for the customer to solve problems online rather than use external sources
  • Deliver analytical data to help derive insights, conclusions, and foundations of creative campaigns or strategy
  • Increase response time and lowers costs
  • A more user friendly interface
  • More ways to derive and pull data for analytics
  • A larger support community / forum
Genesys PureConnect would be helpful for people looking for a new content management system, those in digital or online analytics, those in community management and content creation, online engagement, statistical analysis, and any other customer support forum that uses information from customer data to gain further insights in solutions, strategy.
Ariel Levin | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Genesys PureConnect is used across our whole organization and finally enabled us to consolidate contact center and business communications infrastructures. We love how it it connects with our CRM system as well as various workforce management tools and communications systems we use. We can better channel our human resources from tasks PureConnect now does to more meaningful communications. An essential must have tool.
  • consolidate communication channels
  • superb integration with 3rd party systems
  • fanstastic easy to understand reporting
  • conditional logic
  • artificial intelligence
  • better visual customization
When you have to deal with gen x-rs, gen y-rs and baby boomers and connect with them in their preferred method while keeping all the CRM data up to the minute and consistent Genesys PureConnect does the job extremely well. Our field guys can use this information to provide amazing service to our clients.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Used by 4 lines of business; sales, client service, call centre & I/T. The goal is to get the caller to the right person as accurately and quickly as possible.
  • Very flexible in handling multiple channels
  • Endless configuration possibilities for routing to agents
  • Client software is very easy to use for the end user
  • Documentation can be hard to find
  • Creating support tickets takes too long. Some support groups are only available via email which is very frustrating when dealing with password issues.
Great when using the desktop client, frustrating when using a CRM plugin which is very limited.
Kristopher Kauth | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
PureConnect is used in our Contact Centre operations as a means of communication for outbound phone calls and inbound calls with IVR menus and routing. It also handles creating and storing recordings for the Quality Assurance team. One main aspect of the system is being the chat routing engine for our customized integration with various external applications.
  • PureConnect is able to have customized code built to help achieve specific requirements for company-specific needs.
  • The administrative, supervisory, and user interfaces are straightforward, and can also be customized at a group or individual level.
  • PureConnect has been quite stable, which is required for a call centre platform.
  • There are extensive help files and documentation to aid the users, which reduces the need for support tickets.
  • For members of our User Support team to be able to submit support tickets to Genesys, they are forced to complete a full week of training, including several subjects and systems that they don't even have access to as part of their role. Example: Before they can submit a ticket for "nobody is able to login", they must have completed course content for "Configuring Attendant IVR Menus", which is not related to their job. This has caused us to have only one person (Master Administrator) to be able to submit support requests, and the rest of the support team has to contact that person to submit them. Not great for a 24/7 contact centre.
  • The licensing and contract details are disjointed. There is no proper/direct map from what is on the contract to what is configured in the system, and some items can only be "name user" licenses, which is quite difficult to deal with if your other items are "concurrent user" licenses.
  • Requests relating to their online portals tent to take an abnormally long time to resolve, such as resetting a user password, sometimes with no success.
It is a good choice for large businesses, or businesses with complex communication requirements, or contact centre specific scenarios. It can be customized and integrated with other systems or complex environments. However, it might not be cost effective for small to medium businesses, or businesses that have only basic phone or contact requirements.
Eric Krueger | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We currently use Genesys PureConnect in our company's environment to great success. Our end users love being able to communicate directly with our call center and get faster responses. The trouble it took in the past is over now with Genesys PureConnect and the time reduction in SLA's made it worth the investment. End users are happier and issues are resolved faster to greater effect.
  • By being able to communicate faster issues are solved in a timely manner.
  • Managing SLA's and call volumes are easier and giver better overall data analysis.
  • Total ROI is worth using this product for what you can get out of it.
  • As with any system there could always be more customization available.
  • Some of the initial setup could use better wording.
Well suited for any business looking to streamline their calls and get SLA's under control. Being able to do IT analysis on issues makes this product a must have. For a smaller company it may be overkill but would still be worth the investment. By making all communications better and faster this product rocks.
July 19, 2018

Genesys PureEngage

Betsy Scruggs | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It was being used as a part of the organization. Our organization is a health care community that has more than 10,000 employees. I’m sure not all of them used it but it was available to them all.
  • So simple and easy
  • User friendly
  • All in one system
  • More support needed
  • Guides would be helpful
  • N/a
I’m not sure about less appropriate but we get a lot of phone calls throughout our organization so it’s been really helpful that we can use our existing hardware but use their data system.
Greg McLaughlin | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Genesys to track the calls made to and from our Customer Service Associates. Additionally, we have connected Genesys to Salesforce to better automate the process of tracking call details. Our Reps can initiate a call through Genesys by clicking a Contact record in Salesforce or for incoming calls, Genesys attempts to connect the incoming number to a recognized Contact in Salesforce to link the call and help automate the creation of an Activity record.
  • Tracks calls effectively
  • Provides robust analytics on call stats
  • Connects to Salesforce lightning interface
  • Doesn't use AI to record calls, interrogate the content of the call and provide guidance on how to respond
  • Doesn't always connect the number to the Contact in Salesforce
  • Slow to initiate and clumsy to have an extra little window open
The feature that searches Salesforce and automatically connects the call to the Contact record as well as the ease of adding Activity comments is very effective in helping to drive adoption of Activity tracking within the CRM environment and program. The fact that it works well with the Salesforce Lightning interface is a nice feature as well.
July 19, 2018

Meets every need

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use PureConnect for ACD routing and Auto Attendant feature across about a dozen business units. We service the public so nearly all of our public facing businesses leverage the Genesys platform.

We love that this tool is a true platform which our teams can achieve all the business goals they need by leveraging the many features of the platform. We have yet to run across a business need that couldn't be met. Being able to extend out of the box features using custom handlers has been a big step forward for us from out past contact center systems.
  • Easy to manage Auto Attendants, a visual hierarchy for management.
  • Customizable handlers using a robust tools set.
  • Amazing live dashboard for management and IT support staff
  • Reporting on Auto Attendants is hard to understand
  • User provisioning is hard to set up initially, easy to recreate for subsequent users
  • I would love to see a virtual media server
I would recommend this tools to contact centers who are looking to move past the basic hunt groups, groups who need advanced ACD, database lookups and who want seamless call recording. This product shines in its business user application. The data that is collected about calls is impressive.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We used Genesys across a couple of departments: marketing (demand gen), sales, and customer support. The system enabled us to track progress made in our demand gen strategy while also fueling our sales pipeline. The platform provided in-depth report that other platforms didn't provide or couldn't visually compare. The contact center feature provided our support team an efficient way of working as everything was in one place rather than needing to tie together multiple 3rd party tools.
  • The analytics provided are great both in detail and visual aspect. We were able to easily understand the information presented as well as show it to other not using the platform and explain it in detail.
  • It was simple to integrate into our daily processes. We didn't have to 'shut things down' for days in order to add this into our process; it was easy to add in and made it more efficient. We were also able to reduce the number of applications we used day to day.
  • The platform helped to keep sales on track with their quotas. Sales reps were able to visually see how they were performing . The sales solution also encouraged marketing and sales alignment as it allowed us to create a more uniform communication strategy with customers and prospects.
  • We did find that the texting feature was a little hard to perfect. Our messages would either be too long and show in multiple messages or the links would give an error.
  • The digital automation feature is wonky as well. We found that the automation would provide odd and out-of-place responses.
  • The pricing for the platform (we found) to be more costly than other solutions.
If you're looking to enhance your current sales and marketing alignment while also having a flexible budget, this tool is a good one to utilize. I'd also say that is you have a sizeable database of contacts (more than 500 but less than 50K), it'd also be a good start. I wouldn't recommend for SMBs or for brand new companies as it relies (from my experience) on more contacts.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using Genesys PureConnect to manage all relations with vendors in our supply chain group. It makes it easy to pull up all customer interaction for specific vendors!
  • Easy to use for end users and very slick design
  • Easy to implemnent for IT support
  • Very cost effective
  • Could make user experience a bit more simpler by removing additional fields
Perfect for viewing vendor interaction from previous years up till most recent where resources change roles.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
PureConnect is being used both within certain departments, along with being company wide. Our Customer Service, Technical Support and Sales departments are using ACD routing with Skills, while the rest of the company uses it on a much simpler level.

The problem it addresses is long customer wait times, endless loops in the phone tree and ensuring the customer is getting to the best agent for their needs.
  • Skills Based Routing provides our customers with the ability to get to the right person, the first time! Definitely helps provide a one call resolution!
  • PureConnect Support is great! They are so willing to help out whenever we are stumped and at a dead end! Their support is timely and very informative.
  • Reporting: PureConnect provides excellent reporting statistics which allow us to stay on top of our game!
  • Training: In order to connect to a support rep at Genesys, one must be certified in Genesys' system. Training is costly and can be confusing. Only the basics are covered and leaves alot to learn.
  • It would be nice for Chat to be set up like voice or email tree's rather than requiring handlers to do all the work.
  • Upgrades can be cumbersome.
Once the system is in place, it works flawlessly, doing exactly what is programmed.
Training is flexible, offering either a classroom setting or a virtual setting. Instructors are knowledgeable, but move quickly through the materials. I recommend having some knowledge of telephony and networks before jumping into training.
Building the system can be a chore though, unless you are extremely trained or have assistance from a third party.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have clients that work as part of a call center. They make up a sizable portion of our business, so keeping them efficient is what keeps them happy, and helps us get paid. We needed a solution for them that helped them to track and report and measure trends within their database – something to automate their own clients' IVR journey and give them the best experience possible.
  • Genesys has pretty much every feature you could ever need. It has a multi-client, multi-channel technology for customer care centers, for example (which is handy because those get high volume)
  • It's easy to pick up and run with, very minimal training and customer-service is quick to respond if you have any questions
  • It consolidates multiple views into one streamlined interface on your desktop. If it's one thing that drives me nuts, it's having a billion windows open.
  • It would be nice to have some bilingual speech analytics. Since we deal with clients across the world, it would be nice to have support for local languages.
  • Sometimes the administrator tools can be a bit lacking, so we had to improvise a bit with some in-house solutions.
  • I would like some more transparency from Genesys when they plan to update their programs – a lack of a roadmap can be a bit problematic.
It's a good system to implement if you have a call center and want to track data based on your employees' interaction with clients. You can look up trends and see what's basically working and what's not. It's basically an all-in-one solution, you can deal with one vendor to hit your contact-center needs without having to go through a million channels first.
July 12, 2018

You won't regret it

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Last year after doing research on how to improve our CRM I stumbled across Genesys PureConnect. Our previous CRM was so limited that we were unable to properly identify where our inquiries were coming from and who we were reaching out to. This in return didn't provide a solid amount of data to measure the ROI. Genesys was able to show us exactly what demographic we are the most successful with, to understand pain points of our products, as well as be able to take our cold/warm leads into hot leads. Currently it is only being used in our cross functional support department. This team addresses both the marketing side and the customer service side for existing buyers.
  • Now when receiving leads we are able to see the information we need immediately. Prior to set up our account manager walked us through what fields would be available and which ones made the most sense to include or not include.
  • The amount of customer service you receive is phenomenal. We started off by only purchasing PureConnect although we were initially encouraged to take advantage of the cloud services as well. Despite only having a single platform and being an extremely small start up we were treated as if we are a Fortune 500 company. For every little question we always have a LIVE PERSON to speak with and help us work through issues.
  • I have been part of many software integrations and the integration of getting their software "to talk and play nice" with ours was a bit more difficult than we had originally anticipated. However, their integration team held bi-weekly calls with us to discuss the project road map, what the integration testing would look like, and what the results of the testing were. This all happened prior to the integration going live, giving us plenty of time to work through any bugs or issues that might have come up.
  • I don't have many cons to mention. The only thing that I was a bit bummed about was that sometimes it seemed like fields were more limited than what I had initially been led to believe. However, it seems to have worked out for the best as less is more sometimes!
Since we have just passed our one year mark I can only rate this as a 7 to recommend to a colleague. I would definitely recommend to those who are unfamiliar with CRM's. Genesys PureConnect has been able to streamline the process and put all of the key factors into their platform. They are still adding more everyday of course but it is a very simple platform. Which is great for those who are just starting off! I'm not sure I can see it working as well for extremely robust organizations as their is limited manipulation of the platform allowed to meet specific needs. Again, I'm only a little over a year in and could be wrong!
Leah Jakaitis | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Genesys PureConnect is used by a number of clients serviced by the agency. It provides a holistic customer service / experience platform. The business problem Genesys PureConnect addresses is that of the optimal customer experience: it consolidates customer communication and contact into one platform, and streamlines the providing of customer service to a variety of users and clients, across multiple communication channels. PureConnect provides a variety of contact methods for the customer, and through this omnichannel approach, tries to create the best user experience possible.
  • Reporting and analytics: extensive data capturing, which - in turn - can help drive insights into customer use, satisfaction, and optimization strategy.
  • Genesys PureConnect's integrations with other platforms (including CRM systems) is excellent.
  • Extensive documentation is available on the platform's use, development, and integration requirements.
  • I'd love to see improvements in process automation - to make the interaction process more streamlined or intuitive to setup.
  • Integrations with new and emerging technologies: a lot of the big platforms are available for integration, but more rapid development to stay abreast of different communication platforms would be great.
  • Scalability! PureConnect is great for mid-large size companies, but having an iteration readily implemented onto a small business (
PureConnect is well-suited for mid and large-size companies that are looking to enhance their omnichannel communication: it is easily customizable and can be tailored to fit whatever the needs may be for outreach and molding the customer experience. Its integrations make it suitable for a variety of platforms (we primarily use it for Salesforce - a must!).

Customer service is excellent and provides rapid insight/fixes to problems: responsiveness is a huge win for Genesys.
Steven Naji | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it across our entire facility, which connects 800+ employees. PureConnect allows us to integrate different business solutions as well as administer our phone systems. My IT team uses Genesys PureConnect on a daily basis as we have employees coming and going from all over the world to our site here in Texas.
  • It has a very clear interface.
  • It appears to be a secure platform.
  • I believe customer support always has room for improvement.
The platform is well suited for mid-size companies to administer their communication networks.
Jason Neton | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
Here at Adapt, we both use thePureConnect product for our enterprise, but also are one of the biggest and long standing Value Added resellers of the product in the country. We use it here in our support call center, but deploy it every year to 20-30 new sites, as well as taking new clients who have been with other resellers or direct with Interactive Intelligence.

The Interaction Center product solves many business communications issues by offering an extremely robust and feature rich communications platform for businesses of all sizes.

This platform is particularly impressive for call centers, and there is a huge presence of this in the Credit Union space and on top of delivering great functionality natively, it also has many customization points for special applications.

  • Innovation - they are frankly one of the most innovative companies I have experienced and constantly try to stay ahead in the new feature race
  • Expanded to being an industry leader along with the big communication platforms in only 10 years, and have entered the desired Gartner magic quadrant for business. Competing with the big boys now!
  • Strong VAR relationship for this organization. Really stress the partnership in serving the client, and have done so ever since we have been in business selling Interactive Intelligence.
  • Our company sells NO OTHER communication platform we are so much in support of the Interaction Center platform.
  • Really focused on the "Customer Experience" fully.
  • More rapid bug detection and methods to address. They are currently working on changing the update process to be more "mainline" and avoid large disruptive upgrades
  • Better documentation of the changes technologically for the engineers to follow
  • Better rapid training for new support engineers as they grow rapidly.
  • Reporting is always a chief concern for any organization, and PureConnect has needed some changes in this way. Luckily with the acquisition by Genesys, they are making huge investments in many areas of the product, but in particular reporting is being revamped this year.
May be too much for the very small enterprise, as it can be overkill from a cost perspective for tiny organizations.

This is a great product, and I have seen so many businesses succeed using it!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We user PureConnect across the whole organization, from our contact center to our investment officers. Our director saw this product at a conference back in 1998 when it was just a start up company. He really liked its concept and we've been using it ever since.
  • Upgrades are smooth. This product has been around long enough to have this process matured into a doable event without any major downtime.
  • ACD routing is accurate and easily adjustable. I can easily configure how I want my calls, emails, chats, etc. delivered.
  • The software as a whole is very flexible. I can buy just the parts and pieces my company wants to use.
  • Interaction Attendant could use some love. Getting information from a database is easy yet very basic. If I want to get creative with my SQL selection I've either got to do it in a lot of steps or use Interaction designer.
  • They seem to change how they handle reporting often. They are good about making past methods still work after and upgrade but it causes my reports to be in various styles and versions rather than a consistent platform.
PureConnect is exceptional at delivering ACD calls and getting your interactions to the right people. It is useful for business users but for the price a bit over the top. We bought it early on when the price was less. My business users do enjoy it and there would be a huge push back if we decided to go with something else for them that was less expensive.
Return to navigation