Made the move to Talkdesk and loving it
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We replaced an on-premise ancient Cisco system with Talkdesk a few years ago. Moving to the cloud and having the AI and reporting tools that come with Talkdesk have been great for us. We require scalability and the option to make changes to call flows quickly which Talkdesk has delivered.
Pros
- Scalability - Purchasing and launching new phone numbers
- Call Flow Changes - Graphic user interface used to plan and adjust call flows
- AI Summarization - Summaries created for our agents during calls are spot-on
Cons
- Call Holding Alerts - We haven't found a way to get real-time alerts into Slack or email besides the new tool within Live which requires the dashboard be open.
- Billing - We've had issues with the accuracy of invoices that we think are fixed but then tend to reappear.
- Troubleshooting with VMWare - It's difficult to troubleshoot some issues since we run Talkdesk within VMWare. Guardian's stats don't accurately reflect the full network journey from an agent, to our data center, to Talkdesk.
Likelihood to Recommend
I'd hesitate to recommend Talkdesk to those using VMs because we've had some sound quality issues that are difficult to troubleshoot.
I would most definitely recommend Talkdesk for a company that is making regular changes to call flow and requires these changes to be made in a short amount of time.

