Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued) vs. GoTo Connect

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
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
GoTo Connect
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
GoToConnect, from GoTo, is a cloud-based business phone system with built-in web-based video conferencing solutions. It includes features such as call analytics, call recording, softphone, fax to email, voicemail to email, and desktop integration.
$27
per month per user
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Basic
Starting at $27
per month per user
Standard
Starting at $32
per month per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsNo-obligation month-to-month account are available, or a long-term contract is available for better deals on service pricing and hardware. GoToConnect provides all features with unlimited use. Customer & Technical support is available 24/7 to resolve any issue. A dedicated onboarding team will help to the phone system set up for any plan.
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
Chose Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
Slack and SAP Access Control
Chose Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
It has less functionality and is not cloud-based, so I feel like there is reduced capacity. Genesys Multicloud CX has limited functionality as it can't seem to expand compared to Genesys Cloud CX. Today's technology and other ones that I haven't used but have seen demos seem to …
Chose Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
From a contact center point of view, I'm just using Genesys products, and Genesys Multicloud CX is the next level.
Chose Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
1) Omnichannel capabilities 2) Easier to integrate 3) User-friendly 4) Stable Organization with good product offers 5) Good customer end-to-end support
Chose Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
Genesys Multicloud CX is intuitively designed with ease of building customer focused applications / solutions
Chose Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
Genesys Multicloud CX has the Enterprise, Bulk solution and ability to be customized to an extent that no other product has. I would say that any of the Genesys products has a leading edge on the competition, and suits brackets of their own on the market, and for us, the …
Chose Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
We POC Avaya but did not like some of the features or lack of features compare to Genesys Multicloud CX.
Chose Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
more functionnalities
Chose Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
Agility of the solution (more into SW) and
better adoption for omnichannel
Chose Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
We chose it for a better customer experience, and I think the most practical way to achieve this is Genesys Power Routing. You can watch all Routing operations live. All audio and digital industries enable us to combine business elements and inbound and outbound interactions. …
Chose Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
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 …
Chose Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
Genesys Multicloud CX (formerly Genesys Engage) is a lot more complex than Genesys PureConnect. In addition, it seems like Genesys never makes Genesys Multicloud CX (formerly Genesys Engage) easier to manage--features are added, UIs and are created, but it doesn't seem like the …
Chose Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
I haven't used any.

Call center can be built on open source software like Asterisk and Tomcat services. But it would be harder to support and may not include some important functions.
Chose Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
The above mentioned technologies also provide the same solutions as Genesys Engage does. However, Genesys Engage leads this market as this solution package contains all the functionalities provided by different software mentioned above as distinct functionality is provided by …
Chose Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
Engage was born first, Engage is more suitable if you [want] to have all services running on your server.
Chose Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
Reliability is the key difference between our last product and Genesys Engage. We are also now able to make small changes on the fly, where previously we would need to log a job with a vendor to have things like business hours amended. This platform puts the control back in …
Chose Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
Genesys Engage products can be more justified to customer needs. Integrations to other systems are easier to implement.
Chose Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
Genesys is a very powerful platform leading in contact center technology. Very up to date in the technologies used in the platform. Easy to integrate with.
Chose Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
Greater form of flexibility when it comes to integrating it with our backend systems. We were not limited by the connection specifications of the previous solution.
Chose Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
Avaya: As a brand, they are trying to get rid of their hardware-vendor image, but this fails. Omni channel routing is separate in 2 systems. And the reporting solution is torn apart into CMS and Avaya analytic. Customers can't see a clear roadmap.

Aspect: Weak local team with no …
Chose Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
Genesys Cloud - it's more simple, for customers who don't want highly complex architecture, without great integrations and complex reports. Cloud doesn't have many logs to analyse the environment, in some cases, we need help from Factory Support.
GoTo Connect
Chose GoTo Connect
GoTo Connect was more complete and affordable than Zoom for what we needed. Much more affordable than teams, some features were sacrificed, but the overall experience is better in my opinion.
Chose GoTo Connect
As I mentioned, the system has given us the freedom to make changes without depending on the provider. It has also given us options we couldn't imagine being possible in a telephone system. The previous system was too controlled by the provider and didn't show us any reports …
Chose GoTo Connect
I have not managed other phone systems before and have not used phones as a large part of positions that I have had
Chose GoTo Connect
Mounds above any of the compitition. They not only beat them on price but again the customer service part in even winning the bid for us was amazing. They truley went far above any other vendor.
Chose GoTo Connect
GoTo works as expected, unlike other VOIP providers that often have unfriendly user interfaces and products that don't function as intended.
Chose GoTo Connect
Honestly, we still need to use LogMeIn Rescue because of differences in use cases, and GoTo Meetings leaves a lot to be desired if you are trying to demonstrate how to use different features of Windows or Apple products.
Chose GoTo Connect
GoTo Connect's pricing is VERY competitive, and, in my opinion, their customer service is MUCH better than Zoom's. Easy to understand their tech support agents' English, and most of their support folks are VERY well trained. You don't typically have to go into "Tier2" or …
Chose GoTo Connect
Avaya IP office was for us a complicated and inflexible on-prem solution. It could be made to do a great many things similar to GoTo, however it was not flexible and scalable in the same way as GoTo, which is to be expected of a cloud solution. In particular, as we aimed to …
Chose GoTo Connect
I think Resolve is easy to navigate and features are constantly being added. It is also very affordable. Easy setup and installation on endpoints with the ability to look at the system without remoting in to pull information. You can easily see where there a security gaps and …
Chose GoTo Connect
It was a touch cheaper, but Goto seemed to provide better value, better support, and seemed easier from a user perspective.
Chose GoTo Connect
I gave RingCentral a chance and nearly switched, but, in my opinion, their platform was terrible and their customer service worse. I understood how they were able to offer such a cheap price. They also claimed they could switch us over seamlessly, but I doubt it highly.
Chose GoTo Connect
The faxes all come to an app that we can download and print the faxes. We have been using RingCentral before we switched to GoTo. We still have RingCentral because it is easy to download and see faxes in their app. I do find having faxes emailed is easy, but not everyone has …
Chose GoTo Connect
We went with GoTo Connect because Mitel was removing its offering of on -premises PBX and forcing users to switch to their cloud offerings. This did not sit well with us which had us looking for alternatives. We met with many vendors and GoTo was the one that made the best …
Chose GoTo Connect
User friendly PBX interface. The above products have a more complex and less intuitive interface design. Pricing is also a big factor, as other products can cost more compared with what GoTo offers. In addition, the access to customer support and the quality of support …
Chose GoTo Connect
We looked at several leading phone systems, ultimately choosing GoTo Connect for functionality we thought met our needs. We ultimately thought the reception console was the best one we saw and the admin screens seemed easy to navigate. In addition, their pricing was so …
Chose GoTo Connect
GoTo has been a far superior system to both Avaya and Mitel - from available features to ease of administartion.
Chose GoTo Connect
I would say rank GoTo in this order from my list above

Chose GoTo Connect
GoTo Connect did not have the same functionality of Teams. Teams has better Meeting rooms
Chose GoTo Connect
GoTo Connect is ranked at the top of the market options. Surely the best option for small and medium size companies accross the Americas region
Chose GoTo Connect
I’d recommend GoTo Connect, if you’re looking for a reliable, all-in-one communication tool. It’s user-friendly, comes with great support, and works well for teams of all sizes.
Chose GoTo Connect
GoTo Connect serves the needs of medium-sized organizations like ours better than MS Teams. Its User Interface and call connectivity feel better than that of MS Teams. GoTo Connect was a better fit for our specific business needs, offering the right combination of telephony …
Chose GoTo Connect
GoTo Connect came from an old system called Jive. The online PBX is one of the best I have used due to is ease of setup and configuration. GoTo Connect is a setup above the rest in this aspect.
Chose GoTo Connect
Everything we need is in one system and have no connection issues and easy to access through phone and computer
Chose GoTo Connect
I just discovered the GoTo Connect here in my current company, I have been using other platform before, but this app is just right for me and in my remote set up job. Since then, I never used other platform since it has features that I really like, such as recordings, …
Chose GoTo Connect
We prefer GoTo to TeamViewer. Teamviewer had a good recording feature, but that was the only advantage.
Features
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Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
9.2
Ratings
10% above category average
GoTo Connect
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Ratings
Agent dashboard10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Validate callers10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Outbound response9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Call forwarding8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Click-to-call (CTC)9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Warm transfer10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive dialing9.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Interactive voice response10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
REST APIs10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Call scripts9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Call tracking10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Multichannel integration9.90 Ratings00 Ratings
CRM software integration5.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Product A and Product B
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8.5
Ratings
3% above category average
GoTo Connect
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Ratings
Inbound call routing9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Recording8.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Quality management8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Call analytics8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Historical reporting10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Live reporting9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer surveys6.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Cloud PBX
Comparison of Cloud PBX features of Product A and Product B
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Ratings
GoTo Connect
8.1
Ratings
1% above category average
Hosted PBX00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)00 Ratings7.70 Ratings
User templates00 Ratings6.90 Ratings
Call reports00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Directory of employee names00 Ratings9.60 Ratings
Call Management
Comparison of Call Management features of Product A and Product B
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Ratings
GoTo Connect
7.9
Ratings
6% below category average
Answering rules00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Call recording00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Call park00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Call screening00 Ratings6.50 Ratings
Message alerts00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
VoIP system collaboration
Comparison of VoIP system collaboration features of Product A and Product B
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Ratings
GoTo Connect
8.2
Ratings
2% above category average
Video conferencing00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Audio conferencing00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Video screen sharing00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Instant messaging00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Mobile apps
Comparison of Mobile apps features of Product A and Product B
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Ratings
GoTo Connect
5.4
Ratings
38% below category average
Mobile app for iOS00 Ratings5.70 Ratings
Mobile app for Android00 Ratings5.10 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)GoTo Connect
Small Businesses
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 7.2 out of 10
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 7.2 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 7.2 out of 10
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 7.2 out of 10
Enterprises
Bright Pattern Contact Center
Bright Pattern Contact Center
Score 9.1 out of 10
Cisco Business Edition 7000 (discontinued)
Cisco Business Edition 7000 (discontinued)
Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
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9.2
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Likelihood to Renew
7.9
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4.9
(0 ratings)
Usability
6.9
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7.9
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Availability
8.0
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8.9
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Performance
7.1
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9.4
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Support Rating
8.6
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8.3
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In-Person Training
8.1
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Online Training
7.3
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Implementation Rating
3.8
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7.4
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Configurability
6.5
(0 ratings)
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Ease of integration
1.4
(0 ratings)
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Product Scalability
7.3
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9.4
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
7.3
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Vendor pre-sale
7.3
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
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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I would give it a 10 out of 10 rating just because of the service and easiness it has offered us, which made our work effortless and stress-free. I do recall an instance where one of our clients' medical conditions suddenly deteriorated while he was traveling overseas. The doctors there could not understand his situation at that time. He asked them to connect with our team, and our team guided them with his medical records, and his life was saved
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Pros
  • 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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  • GoTo Connect is a much more cost-effective solution rather than separate phone lines and video conferencing tools.
  • I conduct daily team meetings and project brainstorming sessions using video conferencing using GoTo Connect.
  • It integrates smoothly with our regularly used tools like Google Drive and has become very easy to share the documents we use.
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Cons
  • 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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  • Making a dedicated button for "mute all" (other than yourself) for when someone "walks off before they mute"/has to quickly leave their computer....and FORGOT to Mute. Particularly when dogs are barking when someone working from home has a visitor at the door
  • I'd like to see some of the functionality from GoTo Webinar enabled for GoTo Connect: see who's "actively watching" vs has their computer screen on another application
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Likelihood to Renew
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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They are knocking it out of the park on all fronts. I love the service and support I am receiving and have no complaints. If they raised their prices substantially I would reconsider but I don't think that will happen anytime soon. They would have to mess up something consistently moving forward to make me want to move
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Usability
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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Overall, it's a decent product for the price. It has the basic features our company needed when it was brand new and was not overly difficult to set up. As we've grown, it's become increasingly difficult to build out the features we want to implement within the PBX, and customer support can be less than helpful. Many of the more advanced features (dial plans, queues, etc.) take a lot of research to understand how to implement. Some of the features we paid for weren't even available when we were attempting to set them up.
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Reliability and Availability
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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I have never experienced or heard of unplanned outages when it comes to GoTo Connect. Most of the time the unplanned outage is always local power at a site or internet service provider having an unplanned outage. GoTo's service has never failed any of our orgs yet that I know of.
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Performance
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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There is no lag in phone calls. There is no background noise or static/fuzz. Calls are crystal clear. With other dialers and phone systems, I have experienced delays between dialogue or delays with the caller picking up the phone and then being able to hear you. We do not experience this with Go To Connect.
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Support Rating
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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Support used to be great when it was Jive support out of Utah. Now that they've offshored support it can be difficult to get a response. Our most common issues are least cost routing, and we run into support pushing back in stead of just figuring out which upstream carrier is having an issue like they used to. We often have to get our account manager involved, who is pretty strong.
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In-Person Training
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
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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The training videos could be more in-depth. This would help our user base so that they can feel impowered to look up information that they need without having to ask our admins every time they have a question about the system. Online training videos are also inferior to an actual person explaining systems.
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Implementation Rating
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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The biggest challenge from implementation was deconstructing the mess that was our old system's config. After doing so, I believe there were primarily some methods that have worked better in the long run to implement up front, such as separating menus into separate dial plans for simpler updates, routing/re-routing.
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Alternatives Considered
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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I have nothing personal against Broadvoice and found their team pleasant to work with. The greatest difference has been the administrative portals. Where Broadvoice was confusing and I still hadn't really been able to figure it out over a period of years past some basic functions, I still had to call to get support just to provision or update phones. With GoTo, I had a functional understanding within a week and a couple years in, it is smooth sailing and no angst when needing to update or troubleshoot an issue and I have access to everything without a phone call. It is true freedom to meet my company's needs.
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Scalability
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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Its not readily apparent to me, other than cost, where you would run into any issues with larger scale deployments. When we went live on the product, the Jive team was always willing to do mass updates for us on our extensions, users, etc. in the system, so we didn't have to do too much manual one-by-one updates.
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Return on Investment
  • 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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  • We stopped losing calls due to poor routing or not being able to make them.
  • It has helped us to be able to answer calls at any time or place, even outside of company hours.
  • We have the possibility to access these conversations from our CRM system.
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ScreenShots

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GoTo Connect Screenshots

Screenshot of GoTo App - contact center general settingsScreenshot of GoTo App - meeting chat (in-session)Screenshot of simple setupScreenshot of mobile app - ongoing callScreenshot of session controlsScreenshot of call menu