Cisco Webex Experience Management (discontinued) vs. Quadient Inspire

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Cisco Webex Experience Management (discontinued)
Score 8.5 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Cisco Webex Experience Management (CloudCherry, before being acquired by Cisco) was a real-time, omni-channel Customer Experience Analytics and Sentiment Mapping product that helps customer-facing brands track, measure and improve customer delight. The product has been discontinued and is no longer available.N/A
Quadient Inspire
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Quadient Inspire offers a customer experience management portfolio that provides human-centric communication solutions that span the entire customer lifecycle, to help organizations to create meaningful connections with their customers, wherever, whenever they prefer.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsThe solution is highly modular. Pricing may differ a lot depending on usage and configuration.
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
Cisco Webex Experience Management (discontinued)
Chose Cisco Webex Experience Management (discontinued)
We have a contract with Cisco, so it works, but honestly, each of the different software systems has its pros and cons and a lot of it comes down to personal preference and what you will actually use. It's no use getting any of these if you won't actually use them and the data …
Chose Cisco Webex Experience Management (discontinued)
Best meeting experience even though subscription cost is high. Compared to Zoom support and features Cisco Webex has more. Best efficient tool and we can integrate with any of our platforms. Recording of the session is easily accessible and there is more cloud storage compared …
Chose Cisco Webex Experience Management (discontinued)
The Cisco Webex is much more secure in terms of managing business data plus the integration with the other product platform is making it a superior product to its peers. The simplicity of the design makes it different than products that are available in the market. I would …
Chose Cisco Webex Experience Management (discontinued)
Cisco Webex Experience Management gives time series analysis and helps in formalizes long term strategies and marketing plans. It gives overall scores about various parameters of comparisons, charts giving comparison between various time periods, may be daily, weekly, monthly …
Chose Cisco Webex Experience Management (discontinued)
Besides the high cost of Cisco Webex Experience Management, it beats its competitors in all other aspects.
Chose Cisco Webex Experience Management (discontinued)
All are at par when comes to their capabilities and have some pros and cons. Implemented different ones in different places.
Chose Cisco Webex Experience Management (discontinued)
As I remember in 2011-12 Cisco was [the] only goto collaboration tool and it made [the] life of [the] entire team [fun-filled] and productive. The ease of connecting [teams] across the world and making communication effective[.]
Chose Cisco Webex Experience Management (discontinued)
Cisco Webex Experience Management offers customers a comprehensive selection of maturity models during the subscription, depending on their needs. One agreement covers software, features, services, and technical support. easy-to-use SaaS-based product that brands can use to …
Chose Cisco Webex Experience Management (discontinued)
[Cisco] Webex Experience Management integrated with Contact Center is a key differentiator rather than having standalone evaluation tools like Qualtrics which are managed by the Marketing team.

Contact Center feedback should be managed by a solution that integrates tightly and …
Quadient Inspire
Chose Quadient Inspire
Quadient Inspire is more user friendly as compared to Opentext Exstream. The user interface, the options for editing are very simple in Quadient Inspire, we can see in the layout what all options do we need, which is a bit complex in Opentext Exstream. Both are CCM solutions …
Chose Quadient Inspire
Its been years since I've formally evaluated competing products. At my last look, again if you in need of a full variable print solution to drive volumes of production, there is no other software which comes close.
Chose Quadient Inspire
Quadient excels in speed, functionality, robust features offered and more. I haven't experienced anything as complete as Quadient Inspire.
Chose Quadient Inspire
This workhorse blows DesignMerge away. Allowing for an abundance of more complexity.
Chose Quadient Inspire
Planet Pres This software was by far inferior to Quadient Inspire in both user friendliness and processing power. It also has a lot more scope in the software to grow into other avenues where as planet Pres is just a document composition software. As your organisation grows …
Chose Quadient Inspire
For the past 5 years, I have been consistently using Quadient Inspire products for customer communication management. The best part of Quadient products is the easy GUI which makes it easy even for non-technical users. And Quadient has a knowledge-sharing site called Quadient …
Chose Quadient Inspire
Quadient is more powerful [than] them. Because Quadient Inspire uses all inbuilt features and this is a full CCM service suite. There is very little need to integrate this tool with others for more features and advancements. This tool has better GUI than others and the support …
Chose Quadient Inspire
We have looked at no other software.
Chose Quadient Inspire
Quadient Inspire was used by a third-party supplier for document composition so the choice to use Designer and Interactive was set as we were bringing the function in-house. Adding CJM came afterward and a thorough review of the top 10 journey mapping software in the market was …
Chose Quadient Inspire
I believe that Inspire stacks up well against the other products I've seen. While others have some nice fancy features, I believe that Inspire is the complete package.

The breadth of the solution, in particular, allows you to cover many potential use cases in one solution with …
Chose Quadient Inspire
Back in the 2004-2005, I was working in Telecommunications company. We used Elixir Opus for our document composition. We ran into Quadient software (at the time it was called GMC PrintNet - version 4.5) and were simply amazed. It was unlike anything we have used before. All the …
Chose Quadient Inspire
This is my first product in this category and I believe my company selected Quadient Inspire because amongst all the other software available out there, this was the more suitable to our use, and the price is also affordable.
Chose Quadient Inspire
Previously we used Objectif Lune's PlanetPress suite. A few years ago, when I first became aware of it, this appeared to revolutionise the possibilities when compared to what went before. But now there has been a similar quantum leap thanks to Quadient Inspire. The intuitive …
Chose Quadient Inspire
I have been using this solution since the beginning... and before that I used the previous incarnation... from Printnet 3, to Printnet T, to GMC Inspire Designer, to Quadient Inspire. One of the best things about this solution is that they are constantly evolving, which allows …
Chose Quadient Inspire
The above drop down would not allow me to pick the similar products that I have used previously.

Planet Pres :
Chose Quadient Inspire
Quadient Inspire is a lot more user friendly and faster.
Chose Quadient Inspire
Having used the legacy platform EMC xPression (now part of OpenText Exstream) the extra functionality of being both a data and composition tool reenforces the market leading stance that Quadient has held for the last 5 years.

The roadmap and focus on continuous improvement and …
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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9.8
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Likelihood to Renew
9.0
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9.1
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Usability
8.2
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8.8
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Availability
-
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9.1
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Performance
-
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8.2
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Support Rating
8.2
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7.9
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In-Person Training
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10.0
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Online Training
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9.1
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Implementation Rating
-
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9.1
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Configurability
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8.2
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Ease of integration
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1.0
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Product Scalability
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9.1
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Vendor post-sale
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9.1
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9.1
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
[Cisco] Webex Experience Management is suited ideally in these places 1. Greenfield Opportunities 2. Measuring Customer journey's throughout the customer lifecycle and seeing where the optimal service fails or needs improvement [Cisco] Webex Experience is NOT suited in scenarios where 1. Customer has invested in Medallia or Qualtrics and is happy using them. The incentive to make the change is not tangible and having to retrain and relaunch using a new tool seems to be not sellable.
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Quadient Inspire is well suited to complex processes and requests. It is very well designed software which includes numerous plug in options for ease of use with other software. They have built in security functions to protect intellectual property and prohibit unauthorized changes. This software is great for people who need control and large feature sets or work with quantities in the millions. Of course, it also works fine on smaller projects. Where it would be overkill is for environments which only need simple variable pieces. Just setting up an address block? If this is your regular job, this software is excessive
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Pros
  • Audio and video quality is amazing.
  • Screen sharing is easy.
  • Very secure connection.
  • Collaboration is made easy.
  • Easy access thanks to different versions available.
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  • Highly flexible data ingestion
  • Clear and powerful workflow design that makes support easy to understand as teams evolve
  • Great internal debugging tool that simplifies and accelerates the development cycle
  • Powerful scripting structure available at nearly every aspect of data management, composition, and finishing allowing for specialized requirements not available in the standard toolset to be met
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Cons
  • Not always intuitive or user friendly
  • Getting the most out of the software requires dedicated personnel/time
  • Not that useful unless you'll do something with the data
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  • Usually quick to de-bug/resolve any issues, currently having a problem saving production profiles. Its more of a little annoyance than a problem and its not a time consuming fix. Maybe I'm just being lazy..
  • No more issues that I have currently come across that haven't already been resolved.
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Likelihood to Renew
We are happy with Cisco webex services. Webex is great platform to conduct our all kind of online meets.
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We are using Quadient Inspire products since last 5 years. And we are able to achieve everything with respect to the customer's needs and desired output. Quadient is adding new very important features every day that make document structure very easy for developers and end users. We would like to stick with Quadient for a long time.
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Usability
No code / Low Code Easily pluggable to any digital solution Comprehensive dashboard builder Predict Revenue based on CSAT and NPS scores Monitor Customer Journey end to end Visual Journey Maps
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There are parts of the product that are extremely easy to use, but it can be hard to build it up to get to that point. I'm a power user and I know I've only barely scratched the surface, but the transactional users barely have to lift a finger to get their letters out. There's a lot more that can be done if I had the time and resources to devote to improving our letters more and there are times when the interface is in my way as to meeting those goals, but by and large, it's a swift and easy to use program.
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Reliability and Availability
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I am giving this rating because Quadient products are highly available. Most of the time all Quadient products are available. In some cases Quadient always follows the planned schedule and maintenance. They always inform all the partners and clients a day or two in advance so that the clients can work accordingly.
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Performance
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I want you to rate the performance of the Quadient Inspire 9 out of 10. Because every time we work with Quadient products I never feel any sluggishness and any performance issue. Along with this, one thing that we all should understand is that the performance of any application also depends on the computer hardware. So along with the software application, your hardware should also meet the minimum requirements.
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Support Rating
Cisco Webex Experience Management team are very supportive from training to implementation to support and is a definite plus whenever you take a new product that challenges existing paradigm.
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Overall Quadient team is very responsive and willing to come to the table and provide valuable information and resolution for problems. What tier of support you have would defiantly impact the experience you have. Had some challenges with a few members of the support team , but when brought up with the vendor it was quickly resolved
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In-Person Training
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I had a couple of weeks of training back in 2005 on the Quadient premises in Hradec Kralowe. The instructor was just great! Besides showing as normal functionalities, he went so far to solve our concrete challenges. He actually encouraged me to become a "real" programmer. I have written my first lines of code in Inspire (GMC PrintNetT) and never looked back.
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Online Training
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Quadient offers online training for all of its products (paid service). You can choose your pace and go through the material and then solve real challenges. At the end, you can choose to take a final assignment and get certification which is a really good thing to do. If you get stuck, the training team will answer any of your questions and give you guidance.
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Implementation Rating
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As you consider your digital transformation, think of the people who may object. They have valid criticisms, valuable insights and information critical to your success. Quadient’s advice is to build a strong internal team and confront these questions early. When everyone understands the project from their perspective, the project has a better chance of success.
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Alternatives Considered
Cisco Webex Experience Management gives time series analysis and helps in formalizes long term strategies and marketing plans. It gives overall scores about various parameters of comparisons, charts giving comparison between various time periods, may be daily, weekly, monthly and yearly pattern of customers. The direct interaction with customer is possible only in this application. Being a cloud based application it is also easy to manage.The platform creates a wonderful interaction between various stake holders which helps in long run.
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Quadient Inspire is more user friendly as compared to OpenText Exstream. The user interface, the options for editing are very simple in Quadient Inspire, we can see in the layout what all options do we need, which is a bit complex in OpenText Exstream. Both are CCM solutions but vary a bit in terms of user friendliness.
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Scalability
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I am giving this rating because Quadient products are very reliable. Quadient products can be deployed across multiple departments and sites as needed. We can integrate Quadient products with other applications and tools in a very effective, efficient and flexible way. We can deploy Quadient products in Cloud as well.
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Return on Investment
  • We have been able to show that an improved Member Satisfaction score often leads to cost savings and deeper share of wallet.
  • We have been able to survey our members throughout the lifetime of their relationship with us and gage their overall satisfaction.
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  • We've restructured the entire organization on customer journey based on the understanding gain by mapping customer touchpoints from their perspective instead of business processes
  • We have been able to reduce SLAs for comms changes from 8 weeks to 5 days using Quadient Inspire tools and bringing this in-house.
  • We have also standardized templates and reduced the number of variants of comms be being able to build once and deploy across multiple channels.
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ScreenShots

Quadient Inspire Screenshots

Screenshot of Inspire Interactive can be used to create ad hoc communications with pre-approved blocks of content.Screenshot of Additional personalization can be added leveraging customer data and variable content with Inspire Interactive.