Five9 vs. Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Five9
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Five9 is cloud contact center software for inbound, outbound, blended, or multi-channel operations. This solution includes management capabilities such as campaign management, quality monitoring, real-time and historical reporting, and call recording.
$119
per month
Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Genesys Multicloud CX (formerly Genesys Engage, or PureEngage) is the Genesys customer engagement platform for enterprises. It is designed to be flexible for enterprises, who often have multiple and multi-national locations (including outsourcing) and large peak volumes and populations.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
Core
$119
per month
Digital
$119
per month
Premium
Contact sales team
Contact sales team
Optimum
Contact sales team
Contact sales team
Ultimate
Contact sales team
Contact sales team
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsFive9 offers pricing options to suit your business needs: Monthly On-Demand —Companies looking to quickly scale their operations with minimum costs Per-Minute Fees — Products such as voice message broadcasting or IVR with Speech recognition Annual Contracts — Reduced fee compared to monthly on-demand pricing
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Features
Five9Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
Five9
8.0
Ratings
4% below category average
Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
9.2
Ratings
10% above category average
Agent dashboard7.50 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Validate callers6.20 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Outbound response7.10 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Call forwarding8.10 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Click-to-call (CTC)9.90 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Warm transfer8.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Predictive dialing10.00 Ratings9.20 Ratings
Interactive voice response10.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
REST APIs8.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Call scripts5.10 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Call tracking8.50 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Multichannel integration6.60 Ratings9.90 Ratings
CRM software integration8.50 Ratings5.10 Ratings
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Product A and Product B
Five9
8.6
Ratings
5% above category average
Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
8.5
Ratings
3% above category average
Inbound call routing8.50 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing6.60 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Recording9.00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Quality management8.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Call analytics10.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Historical reporting8.50 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Live reporting8.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics10.00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Customer surveys00 Ratings6.80 Ratings
User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
6.5
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8.0
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(0 ratings)
7.9
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(0 ratings)
6.9
(0 ratings)
Availability
9.0
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
Performance
8.0
(0 ratings)
7.1
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(0 ratings)
8.6
(0 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.1
(0 ratings)
Online Training
10.0
(0 ratings)
7.3
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
10.0
(0 ratings)
3.8
(0 ratings)
Configurability
9.0
(0 ratings)
6.5
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.0
(0 ratings)
1.4
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.0
(0 ratings)
7.3
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.0
(0 ratings)
7.3
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
8.0
(0 ratings)
7.3
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
very well suited for large number of enrollments, registrations by insurance companies. Also we recently implemented it for automating a order placement. Maybe not very well suited for live agent chat experience as there are limitations on texting, laggy performance in this area. I think its also hard to incorporate a payment system within the five9- Salesforce automation.
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Solution is extremely agile and flexible. The new generation of containerized solution would be a game changer since it brings the ease of deployment and ability to get the innovations to a new total different place. I believe it is really hard to find in the competition who would have something similar or even close
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Pros
  • Inbound and outbound calls it process is so well.
  • The service is so good and they give very efficient support in customer need.
  • The calls we can do in Five9 include incoming, outgoing, voicemails and we can also send a note to a specific person. It's a very reliable mode of communication.
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  • VHT as a stand alone model can be easily plugged into to the current call routing with minimal changes and it works like charm.
  • Platform SDKs are a powerful tool that help integrate with other third party solutions or to build custom made applications.
  • The whole routing solution is amazing . With user friendly composer, you have the option of building both VRUs and routing strategies. And, they are very easy to deploy.
  • The level of details for report customization is another strong point.
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Cons
  • Text. Texting is incredibly difficult on Five9. We've had issues with only some texts logging to Salesforce, issues with threading of text conversations, and issues with having Salesforce contact information appear on the text widget (knowing who you are texting, not just their phone number).
  • The interface to "pause" is challenging. There are not good reminders to our reps to remember to pause or log out of Five9. If you forget to log out, this can affect stats about who worked the longest hours that day - and it's hard to know who actually was active on the phones.
  • Inbound voicemails are too-easily hidden. It's challenging for a lot of our reps to remember to check their inbound voicemails because it is hard to access them in the Five9 widget.
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  • Genesys needs to pick up the pace with application upgrades. We see more and more issues with Genesys applications falling behind the operating systems versions. We need more apps to be ready for the latest server OC models. There is a lag.
  • There seems to be constant unrest with the management application platform, CME, SCI, Genesys administrator, GAX, then GAX plugins, then a move away from plugins. We would like one stable management platform that encompasses ALL aspects of management within the contact center.
  • Real-time reporting deficiencies with Genesys pulse web. this application cannot live up to CCPulse with respect to flexibility of views. Pulse web was a plugin now it's not a plugin any longer. constant movement, we finally get pulse web plugin onto production, 6 months later these something supposedly better.
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Likelihood to Renew
Robust product, great reliability and support.
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Genesys Contact Center Portfolio is an expensive product to purchase and maintain. Once committed to, it is also an expensive product to replace. That said, our company is constantly evaluating Genesys and other contact center technology vendors to determine which will provide us with the best ROI.
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Usability
I wish it was a 10. For the sake of a call center, it allows me to keep it simple for newer sales reps and just focus on basic KPI's. This is not an advanced CRM used for digital approaches. It is strictly a churn and burn call center CRM for me. It is a dialer.
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Overall, from a customer perspective and also an agent perspective, it is very easy to use Genesys Engage's platform. The Agent Desktop and Genesys WDE are good. Usability is high and I would consider it an easy to use product and easy to adopt from this perspective.
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Reliability and Availability
We have had minimal downtime due to system outages since it was implemented.
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There are occasional failures, but distributed and High Availability features work well when architected, installed, and configured properly. Thoroughly reading and understanding system documentation is a must.
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Performance
The system's performance is great. Page loads quickly. Reports are generated quickly and sent to our email or FTP. The integration did not impact the performance of our other applications. We have not seen any drop in the performance of either applications since we performed the integration.
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Never being disappointed in my 11 plus years of utilizing the various aspects of the system. No matter what we throw at it, the systems continue to perform as expected.
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Support Rating
Five9's Customer Support team is also based in Manila Philippines, thus turnaround email response times for our reported issues are great for our requirements. Their CS agents also facilitate mobile calls to followup on outstanding issues and operate on a 24/7 schedule. We've also had experience working with the senior tech agents to investigate recurring issues to completion.
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Giving this rate especially for eServices support team which help us immediately and pin point the issue directly. Most of the time, we raised issue to genesys support regarding to social media, they're replied a solution or a way to get rid of the problem after sending initial response which means they cared about the case.
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In-Person Training
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Good training, but on limited locations. You can almost only follow trainings in europ in the UK and in Germany. Uk location is relatively difficult to get to and on a exppensive location. The content of the training is good, supplied training material is okay, but sometimes a bit outdated. When you follow a training it is most likely because of a recent purchase which is uasually the latest version.
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Online Training
I took the certification course for administrator and also received some tips while working with the developer during implementation. The UI was very intuitive, so I was able to figure out how things worked when I configured the users, skills, campaigns, IVR scripts. I worked with the Five9 AI team to beta test Agent Assist.
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Interesting webinars on relevant topic are being provided regularly. Th e webinars a often provided by Genesys and hosted by a very experienced product owner. In many occasions a customer is invited to share his / her experiences and best practices. Webinars can be watched at a later time for your convenience.
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Implementation Rating
The implementation team that was assigned to us was great. The project manager was very helpful and managed the timeline very efficiently. The developer was very helpful and provided insights while helping us configure the system.
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It was a death march. We finally learned enough about the product to know that our vendor knew nothing and had done it wrong. We hired voice engineers and took over the project. We should have fired our vendor much earlier
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Alternatives Considered
We use Five9 as a tool to make and receive calls from various departments such as Customer Care, Underwriting, Claims, and others. These departments have experienced issues primarily from supervisor consoles because they sometimes lose access without making significant changes to the admin console. Although it's a tool that has helped us complete various tasks to contact our customers, it has also allowed us to replace Zoom Phone, as it makes it easier to assign new contact numbers to agents, while Zoom Phone only allows reusing numbers.

A good tool with an easy interface for new users.

They need a more minimalist look.

They need to improve the supervisor console because it's very basic.

New agents aren't receiving calls from previous agents because they don't reuse numbers.

The user group license is cheaper than the Zoom Phone license, which allows for a better ROI.
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For a similar contact center structure, I find Genesys products are faster to produce outcomes, and fast to respond (loading, changing screens...). However, in terms of user interface, I do prefer the way NICE did things there. Coming from an agent background, I find that the NICE agent interface is more visually appealing and offers more flexibility (parameters for agent exceptions).
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Scalability
It was very easy to add additional licenses. Once we placed the order, it was activated the following day. Since it's web-based, it's very quick to deploy across multiple sites.
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The Interactive Intelligence SIP based contact center platform has broken through the barriers of "board based" technology to processor based limits on scalability. This means their CIC premise or cloud platform can be engineered to support agent counts into the thousands.
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Return on Investment
  • ROI was not as anticipated due to lacking reporting functionality - Negative
  • Allowed us to develop a geographically dispersed call center workforce in response to the pandemic - Positive
  • Provided true omnichannel capability that we lacked in the past (Voice/Voicemail/Chat). Positive
  • CRM integration (with Salesforce) was not as expected. Negative
  • Bang for the Buck just was not where it needed to be. High cost solution. Negative.
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  • Custom Kiosk application using generic interaction for walk in customers improved the efficiency of the lobby staff by almost 200%
  • QA tools allow for automation of many aspects and the efficient management of scoring and recording .
  • Manages all types of interactions and improves agent productivity for emails, voicemails, calls, chats and walk in interactions
  • Manages reporting on of interactions and improves agent productivity for emails, voicemails, calls, chats and walk in interactions
  • Centralized support tools allow for small staff to support and administer all parts of the system
  • Integration of all modules allows for active, real time passing of data to provide real time speech analytics, qa, reporting, workforce management and general interaction management
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Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued) Screenshots

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