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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.
- 6.7Agent dashboard(55) Ratings
Enables agents to track and view their individual and team performance.
- 7.5Validate callers(48) Ratings
Authenticates inbound callers with a customer ID.
- 8.5Outbound response(41) Ratings
Allows agents to make outgoing responses via different communication channels (e.g. phone, SMS/text, live chat, messaging apps etc..).
- 7.7Call forwarding(56) Ratings
Forwarding of calls to the appropriate agents.
- 8Click-to-call (CTC)(43) Ratings
Allows one-click calling for agents.
- 8.3Warm transfer(57) Ratings
Allows current agent to speak with new agent before call is transferred.
- 7.9Predictive dialing(36) Ratings
Dials multiple numbers at once and connects the salesperson if a live speaker answers.
- 8Interactive voice response(45) Ratings
Pre-recorded greeting and menu options a customer can select from a telephone keypad.
- 7REST APIs(37) Ratings
Open APIs, SDKs, and supporting documentation, that enable businesses to customize and build on the Contact Center platform.
- 8.5Call scripts(39) Ratings
Providing agents with a predefined conversation script.
- 7.7Call tracking(55) Ratings
Enables agents and managers to see the origin of the call.
- 9Multichannel integration(44) Ratings
Ability to collect, store, and share customer data across communication channels such as voice (phone), email, fax, SMS/text, video, web chat, and social media
- 8CRM software integration(38) Ratings
Allows agents to access aggregated customer information and call history data, enabling them to view a comprehensive history of a customer’s interactions.
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Tools that allow managers or team leaders to evaluate and track agent performance.
- 6.5Inbound call routing(51) Ratings
Connecting inbound callers to agents based on wait time, call priority, or whether any specific skills or knowledge is required to handle the call.
- 6.5Omnichannel inbound routing(39) Ratings
Connecting inbound communications (coming from a variety of channels) to agents based on wait time, call priority, or whether any specific skills or knowledge is required to handle the call.
- 4.5Recording(52) Ratings
Record conversations to improve service quality by evaluating agent-customer interactions.
- 4.5Quality management(46) Ratings
Ability to monitor conversation content, administer evaluations, establish policies etc..
- 3Call analytics(43) Ratings
Gathers key performance indicators (KPIs) such as average time in the queue, average call abandonment rate, average handle time (AHT), average speed of answer etc..
- 5Historical reporting(52) Ratings
Ability to analyze long-term call patterns and trends such as peak call times and downtimes.
- 6.5Live reporting(48) Ratings
Ability to analyze real-time agent-customer interactions such as how long a caller has in the queue and call script deviation.
- 7.9Customer surveys(35) Ratings
Allows agents to gather post-interaction feedback from customers on the communication channel of their choice.
- 5.1Customer interaction analytics(30) Ratings
The process of taking unstructured interaction data across channels (audio, video, email, text etc..) and formatting it so that it can be searched and categorized based on interaction patterns.
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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
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- Cisco
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Genesys PureConnect (discontinued) Technical Details
Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Windows |
Mobile Application | iPad Supervisor |
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(216)Attribute Ratings
- 8.6Likelihood to Renew12 ratings
- 9.1Availability3 ratings
- 8.8Performance3 ratings
- 7.3Usability12 ratings
- 4Support Rating12 ratings
- 8.3Online Training3 ratings
- 8.2In-Person Training4 ratings
- 6.1Implementation Rating7 ratings
- 9Configurability2 ratings
- 8.2Product Scalability3 ratings
- 8.1Ease of integration2 ratings
- 8.8Vendor pre-sale3 ratings
- 8.8Vendor post-sale3 ratings
Reviews
(51-75 of 115)Mixed Bag
- Flexible options with call routing
- Stability (very few system outages)
- Allows optimized use of available resources in a multi-skill environment
- Real time performance management system is excellent
- Historical performance reporting
- When there are outages (which are rare) complexity of the system tends to require significant investigation to determine the root cause and provide a fix
- Too many options for frontline customer service representatives using the tool which has lead to increased handling time per transaction
Genesys PureConnect
- CX Insight makes it easier to define and track KPIs and create your own modern, interactive dashboards for real-time monitoring and that makes it easier to achieve desired business outcomes.
- Modern Interface.
- Widgets-let you more easily deploy and use chat capabilities. You don’t have to write code to customize and personalize these features. Launch chat widgets on your website to enable chat conversations with just a few configuration settings and the push of a button.
- Modern Interface places a priority on building out a single, modern all-in-one interface to provide users with more flexibility and ease of use.
- External chat (customer to an agent) is currently poor, with very basic and limited experience. The internal chat is much more feature-rich but is only used between system users.
- Supervisor and administrator interfaces are not as well designed as the agent experience. Simple and common tasks are often inconvenient, or difficult to find.
PureConnect Review
- Call routing
- User administration
- IVR
- Reports, certain pieces are segmented into particular reports and/or certain areas. You can't even piece it together in the report builder.
- Random problems that seem to have no cause, baffle you, and then fix themselves.
- Users view randomly reset
Amazing experience with Pure Connect
- Easy to manage specially in VMware environment
- Provide a good solution for our employee size organization
- I like the idea to move to the web
- Reports, specially custom reports.
- Upgrades sometimes are having issues and we find out after the upgrade. This situation implies to open a ticket with Partner/Genesys to get a solution and sometimes business needs sooner the fix.
- I would like to see a different tier structure to manage Interaction Administrator. We have a three tier structure and is a challenge to give some permissions to lower tiers without putting at risk some settings.
Review of Genesys Solution
- Great Telephony Solution (Call Flows, Email Flows, and user phone management) -- Flexible, easy to use/administer, and effective.
- Intra-Day Monitoring & Reporting -- Strong Intra-Day Monitoring and Reporting Capabilities which allow the contact center leaders to have visibility through a wide range of live views and historical reports.
- Good Admin solutions for User Management to update agent profiles and workgroup settings.
- Need to include more out of the box options instead of selling "Custom Dev" for things that the company obviously developed for other clients several times in the past.
- Genesys Support needs to have better communication/coordination between their internal teams.
PureConnect Review as a Gold Partner Support Manager
- Ease of use.
- Minimum bugs.
- Documentation.
- Language support.
- Outbound dialer.
- Lots of our customers are asking for Naturel WebRTC support.
- Support was much faster and better in ININ times :). When we create a ticket, we were receiving a meaningful reply in 1-2 hours. Now it is taking weeks.
- I really could not find any others!
PureConnect, the contact center communication software
- Real live view of all communication.
- Logging is very good.
- Reporting is really complete.
- Integration of SIP Softphone and Interaction Desktop is poor.
- Getting started with web based phone should be feasible with standard media servers, it stops us to roll out interaction connect.
- Standard reports in Business manager are subject to GDPR non-compliancy.
The Ups and Downs to PureConnect
- It allows for automation of call routing which is more efficient than hiring somebody to manually do it.
- We are able to make internal calls easily by using interaction desktop instead of remembering specific extensions. Calls are done quickly by locating a name and calling from the computer.
- The product has a lot of aspects that require extensive training to use, which can be expensive for companies and challenging for employees.
- For this product you have to manage your own servers which makes upgrading the software more challenging than if it were a cloud based product.
- Working with Genesys is sometimes time consuming and getting to the root cause of an issues can be difficult at times.
Our PureConnect Story
- Flexibility
- Easy to manage (all in one solution)
- Powerful as we can easily customise to meet our needs
- Good for remote location architecture
- Reporting
- Documentation
- Training courses
Great contact center "One stop shop" solution from Genesys
- We wanted a "one stop shop" provider that can provide all CCC features needed in one solution with minimum of "add-ons'.
- We needed a solution that could integrate with multiple telephony environments & separation of contact center and telephony investments and roll-outs.
- Partnership with Microsoft for UC, including joint product roadmaps and tight product integration – Hassle free upgrades.
- Recognized by trusted industry experts (Gartner, Frost & Sullivan etc.).
- Cost is a hindrance for utilizing Genesys products and services, especially for smaller sites and smaller teams.
- The tools is sofisticated and advanced, and that's great, but it would be good to have a "Basic" license with a lower cost that could be used for smaller teams with limited requirements.
- Each individual implementation can be cumbersome and requires substantial investment and dedicated resources.
My Experience with Genesys PureConnect
- Bring Intelligence with automation of mailing campaigns
- With the use of the dialer, we can increase the effectiveness of campaigns.
- Administrative areas, solution focused in areas of Contact Center.
- Absence of App for Android and IOS that allows the use of the corporate extension.
- The software is not compatible with Mac and Linux users, currently we have to resort to third party solutions, without guarantee of full operation.
PureConnect, a brief history
- Clean administration, supervisor interfaces
- A recent aggressive push towards fully functional web client
- Another recent change to improve the help site has been incredibly helpful
- Customization. There is a real gap between what is included and manageable with the product (with intermediate exposure) and what forces detailed handler changes. Many companies include conversion programs that make some of this easier.
- Sample configurations (templates) that could be explored and easily implemented as potential add-on/solutions.
- A more user friendly recorder interface.
PureConnect from a Trainer's Perspective
- It displays another user's availability. As long as my co-workers keep their status updated, it is clear when I can contact them and when I shouldn't.
- It makes it super easy to have a conference call without disconnecting the other person in the process. The click and drag feature is my favorite thing!
- The flexibility of turning features on/off is great. I can customize my view of PureConnect for how I'm feeling that day.
- The widget that is used to move the views around is a bit tricky. Dragging a view is easy, but placing it in the widget correctly takes a few times to hit it just right.
- When adding new views, it can be tricky to find what you're looking for because some are buried a few clicks deeper than expected.
PureConnect does its job well enough, but not exceeding expectations
- Call routing and IVR is easy to build and easy to manage with advanced customization
- Great Optimizer feature which handles workforce management, forecasting, adherence and scheduling
- Integration with 3rd party systems and CRM
- Technical support is helpful but at times requires too many captures and 3rd party software (an issue when it comes to a business with strict security.) This further delays resolutions. Online help can be a nightmare to source at times, and documentations are not very helpful.
- Integration with Salesforce is a great feature, but seems to be missing some features from the interaction desktop, such as notifications and forwarding notes. Call linking in Salesforce is also poorly executed--having multiple accounts opened while on a call can sometime cause it to link to the wrong account.
- Plenty of reports, however most are irrelevant, and some won't even work without contacting support.
- Unable to manually adjust average speed of an answer with the workforce manager tool is a massive flaw when forecasting.
- Extras and add-ons can be costly. No out of the box wallboard solutions.
A stable dialler and telecom solution for over 15 years
- Optional features that can be enabled
- Disaster save using different locations for the PBX servers in a WAN / LAN setup
- The solution can grow and shrink with the size of the organisation.
- The solution seemless integrates with our Latitude platform.
- Secure IVR integration.
- The integrated Analyser is not very good and to manual to tune and maintain.
- The workforce management should integrate better with the outbound dialler.
- Integration with more and different CRM systems
- More out of the box plug-ins for Workforce Management systems.
PureConnect - The PBX agnostic contact centre solution.
- Works seamlessly across our mosaic telephony infrastructure. It doesn't matter that one site runs on an NEC PBX and the other uses Nortel. it can hand the call to a an NEC phone, an Avaya phone, a soft phone or even a cell phone.
- I now have consistent metrics and KPI's for both sites, calculated the same way.
- I am now able to load balance calls between my two sites now in a one-centre-two-sites model.
- We were able to create a custom handler that allows critical calls to ring to a group of stations concurrently. The first agent to click it, gets the call. Even if an agent is on another call, they just double click on the new interaction and it will automatically put their existing caller on hold and answer the critical call.
- I would like to be able to listen live to my agents from within the ICBM application without also having to run the agent desktop. Either through PC speakers or by dialing my phone. I'm still learning the nuances of this application so my answer might be more of an educational opportunity than a feature request.
- I would like to add extra directories to my agent desktop without having to ask my administrator, or them having to request new SQL tables from IT.
- It can sometimes take a few seconds for the agent template to load when they log in. If an agent touches the application while the template is loading, it can get messed up. They have to manually reapply the template when that happens. It can be hard for my fastest agents to resist...
- When using the search feature in the top row of a directory, it only searched for the exact text string you are typing in the exact order. I would prefer if it could search for a word even if that word was not the first one in the string.
Do not fall asleep, you've got a good product!
- Open - easy to integrate with other applications of the applicative landscape
- Scalable
- Reliable
- Reporting/Monitoring : capacity to make value from the information collected
- Efficient support of the new interaction channel as the social media
- Voice analytics
Hey, PureConnect, please catch up PureEngage
- All subsystems integrated in one server. Less server deployments.
- Easily customizable using Handlers.
- Organized Technical Support and proper escalation process.
- Lack of social media integration to PureConnect.
- Lack of Omnichannel enhancement.
- Lack of automation, AI bot, AI voice bot.
PureConnect the Globe
- Genesys has some good engineers who are always ready to help in order to get a case solved within a short period of time.
- PureConnect is an easy to handle system. Most changes in the system can be done by our slef without involvment from Genesys.
- PureConnect gives you the option to answer a call wherever you have a free agent available, even on the other side of the world, without a lot of work.
- As PureConnect gives you so many possibilities its sometimes hard to pick the best option.
- The complexity of the system makes it hard to find a root cause in the case of an issue.
Why PureConnect is not what you are looking for but might like
- Integration with CRM system is easy.
- Remote stations solves a lot of roadwarios out serving our customers
- One server for all functions, not a whole farm of servers doing one thing only. This solution just need one.
- Reports are not perfect. We use some own SQL scripts to get what we want out of the system.
All-in-one Customer Experience Solution at it's best!
- The PureConnect system has a very open architecture which allows for customization. This is very valuable in today's World where integrations into other complex systems is necessary to increase Customer Experience and self service functionality.
- The PureConnect system combines many systems into a single easy to use platform. We were able to consolidate 7 to 8 individual systems with a single PureConnect system. This saved time and money on maintenance and support.
- The PureConnect system does DR very well. Redundancy for failover works very well and allows us to have a very high percentage for up time.
- The PureConnect systems built in WFM tool (Optimizer) could use some refining. It is very rigid with it's constraints when scheduling. More options for set schedules would be nice.
- The PureConnects Quality Manager Questionaire question rating could use some flexibility. The ability to set defaults to answers (that could be changed if need be by the reviewer) would save time for those that review the questionaires.
- One more item on the PureConnects Quality Manager Questionaire tool could use a little refining as well. Saving and archiving old questionaires is currently a manual process that requires database modifications to get the old questionaires into the correct folders for archiving. Adding the ability to move these old questionaires to different folders would be great.
PureConnect connects you to the world!
- Routing decisions upon customer data entries
- DB lookup and routing
- Create customer handlers to adapt customer business needs
- The call flow creation via Attendant is a bit "Old school". Using a graphical interface to create call flows is industry standard by now, such as with PureCloud.
PureConnect Review
- The reliability of PureConnect is fantastic with the redundant servers pairs.
- The system is very flexible, there are very few business work flows that I cannot accommodate with native functionality.
- The integration with Salesforce is a must around our company and PureConnect has a very clean product to connect to Salesforce.
- They are still in the process of migrating the supervisor and admin tools to an online environment. It is a bit cumbersome to support my supervisors connecting to a remote desktop to get what they need.
- Support is at times slow to respond on more difficult cases.
- Reporting tools are also still not in an online environment and the reporting tool they currently have is pretty limited in the quantity of data that can be pulled in one report.
Genesys PureConnect is a solid platform but needs work on call recording and support
- The environment is for the most part stable.
- The applications are pretty user friendly.
- Code red support is good.
- The recording solution is not stable
- General support is not good. (Excluding code red). However, I may note it has improved under Genesys then what it used to be under Interactive Intelligence.
- ADFS/single sign on is not implemented as it should and is not well supported.
Genesys PureConnect - An Engineer's Opinion
- Extensive ability to customize the solution and integrate it with other platforms
- Stable platform with regular releases and patches
- One of the most powerful contact center platforms in the industry
- Ability to perform intrusive testing and debugging to troubleshoot issues
- PureConnect has (for the last few years) suffered for lack of focus due to the emphasis placed on PureCloud and other cloud initiatives
- WebRTC has not yet been added to the solution
- The PureConnect architecture is dated and needs to be updated
- Multi-modal interactions that can smoothly flow from one media type to another but are viewed as a seamless single conversation
- New call flow interface to replace Attendant that would make handlers obsolete but still allow for custom subroutines and custom event handlers
- Completion of webification initiatives for feature parity with the web client, supervisor, and administrative applications
- Fully baked enterprise feature set