Bright Pattern Contact Center vs. Pypestream

Bright Pattern has been fantastic in allowing us to automate voice and chat contacts, and we're currently building out scenarios that will allow us to automate even more. It's super simple to collect data from customers, and using some API calls provides the answers they're looking for without a human needing to get involved. There is less functionality currently for emails. Emails can be routed to queues based on keywords, and auto-replies can be sent, but it's pretty basic functionality. We'd love to see some of the enhanced capabilities offered in voice and chat scenarios for email.

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Pypestream is suited for standard chatbot and conversational flows versus more multi-departmental scenarios. They do very well with guided flow bot services which are great for agent bots within a contact center, but less so for those implementations that have a large document management implementation for FAQs. They do well with service integrations; however, at times troubleshooting edge cases that are impacting performance and adoption can take a while to remedy. I want to believe that better monitoring tools on the platform side would alleviate this for them.

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• AI platform integration - IBM Watson, Google Dialogflow, for example
• Quality Management - out of the box sentiment anlysis
• Unified agent desktop - ability to see all channels in one pane of glass
• Robust analytic widgets that can also drive wall boards

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• Native live agent platform
• Managed services for service creation and maintenance
• Custom analytics

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• Realtime reporting is good but there should be a pop out if supervisor or a manager wants to see his whole team.
• Wallboard needs to have some calculations option. Ofcourse APIs are there but still we recommend
• Wallboard needs to have more options to customise

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• Generative AI - Large Language Model Support
• Standardized Reporting
• Custom UI Support
• Developer Tools

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Es una plataforma confiable, en la que ya tengo bastante tiempo utilizando y conociendola. Entonces me siento confiada en volver a utilizarla dentro de la empresa e igual que al ofrecer a mis clientes internos y externos, además con el roadmap que nos brindan estoy segura que seguirá innovando cada vez

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It's pretty simple for agents to pick up quickly, it takes a bit longer for supervisors to get familiar with. QA tools are pretty barebones but functional enough. It can be as simple or complex as you need it to be, if you spend some time configuring the settings or working with Bright Pattern's support team to build out what you need.

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It is always on. The only outage to date that I have experienced was with an upstream telco provider a few years ago. The inbound leg telco was hit by a DDOS attack which led to delays in routing calls to the platform. This was not the fault of the Bright Pattern platform but the telco provider. We have had a few minor carrier issues with call quality, or a handful of brief drops, but Bright Pattern is quick to identify these and change carriers when it starts to happen.

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All pages load when expected, and reports render either in the web browser or as a download. I never really have issues with accessing the admin or agent desktop sites. It just works.

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People are accessible. You are able to talk to the relevant subject matter experts that can address your specific problem. Everyone we deal with comes across as knowledgeable in their field and where they cannot solve specific problem they put you in contact with someone that can. You never feel like you are just a number even though you might be a small client or partner.

In-person and virtual training was great, but Bright Pattern could use some online training videos similar to other platforms. I would welcome online training videos to keep the steady flow of new agents up to date. Admin training is one of the largest areas that need video. The static documentation is great. It is pretty easy to follow and configure your contact center as you progress through each step. The documentation is available online on an easy to use knowledgebase or wiki style site. You do not need a user account to access the help docs, meaning that users at any level can freely access the materials to learn about the platform.

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Online training is documentation based only. It is thorough and step by step, but no videos. It would also be helpful to have more information within the help docs on custom reporting. I find that many of the Bright Pattern specific configurations for the Jasper Reporting Server have to be "stumbled" across through existing report templates and they are not clearly listed out somewhere. In person training will not generally go into great depth on report customizations.

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As an implementor, I have found the Bright Pattern Contact Center very easy to work with. The platform operates in the manner which I think. Therefore, everything I do seems logical and works exactly as expected. Many solutions are much more difficult to work with and make implementations difficult

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Bright Pattern offers many more options for scalability and the pricing is always best. The agent desktop and quick support is supirior in many ways but more importantly for us the price is best all while offering the same features and in some cases even more than its competitors

In comparison to Microsoft Bot Framework or now Azure AI service structure, where Pypestream is better suited is in those organizations who want to truly have a partner in development. Pypestream allows the flexibility for your Dev teams to do it themselves, or to be in a managed service where you provide requirements and information and they build and allow you to test and give approvals. They are more willing to work directly with you versus a Microsoft where you will eventually get pushed off to a 3rd party partner to help with advanced implementations.

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Very flexible and will scale without any intervention from my team. Scaling at the carrier/telco layer is handled by Bright Pattern, if you use their offered telecom

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• Bright Pattern Contact Center' reliability has allowed us to improve the overall SLA we offer
• Bright Pattern Contact Center has allowed us to win business that we could not have done with other platforms
• Bright Pattern Contact Center has enabled us to expand our product offering into new market spaces.

• Enabled the contact center business lane to grow a chat agent support channel that has a 2 to 1 (customer to agent) support ratio
• Provides an alternate channel for training, marketing information, and data services which help grow our business and support different value streams

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