Amazon Connect vs. Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon Connect
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Launched in 2017 and available on AWS, Amazon Connect is a cloud-based omnichannel contact center designed to provide a seamless experience across voice and website live chat, featuring skills-based routing, task tracking, and analytic tools to track customer interactions, or evaluate agent activity. It can support office-based or virtual contact centers. The service is pay-per-usage, per feature.
$0
per profile/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
Customer Profiles
$0.0025
per profile/per month
Chat
$0
per message
Contact Lens (5 million+ monthly minutes)
$0.0125
per minute
Contact Lens (first 5 million monthly minutes)
$0.015
per minute
Voice
$0.02
per minute
Voice ID
$0.025
per transaction
Tasks
$0.04
per task
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Features
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Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Connect
7.1
Ratings
16% below category average
Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
9.2
Ratings
10% above category average
Agent dashboard5.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Validate callers7.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Outbound response7.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Call forwarding7.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Click-to-call (CTC)7.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Warm transfer9.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Predictive dialing5.00 Ratings9.20 Ratings
Interactive voice response6.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
REST APIs9.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Call scripts5.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Call tracking7.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Multichannel integration9.00 Ratings9.90 Ratings
CRM software integration9.00 Ratings5.10 Ratings
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Connect
5.7
Ratings
36% below category average
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8.5
Ratings
3% above category average
Inbound call routing9.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing5.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Recording7.00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Quality management7.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Call analytics3.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Historical reporting5.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Live reporting5.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Customer surveys5.00 Ratings6.80 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics5.00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
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8.0
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Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
7.9
(0 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
6.9
(0 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
7.1
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.6
(0 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.1
(0 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
3.8
(0 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
6.5
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
1.4
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Our company is a startup that is just starting to get wholesale customers. When we realized our customers needed support using our products, we set up a Contact Center via Amazon Connect. It has been very useful in allowing us to scale up very quickly, and provide services to our company as if we were a large corporation.
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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
  • The training and orientation from Amazon Connect is excellent, as there are documentations and online live training.
  • Further, Amazon Connect has a scalable call center, that supports voices, chats, and real time messaging.
  • The customer service is also intuitive, with flexible call hours, as the team of helpers is readily available.
  • Lastly, through Amazon Connect, there is a survey and feedback option.
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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
  • CCP (Contact Control Panel) Amazon Connect for agents very basic
  • Automated outgoing calls
  • Omnichannel to attend voice and text by the same agent
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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
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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
It is very easy to use for any access level and has greatly facilitated users' ability to properly document tickets without getting lost in short or vague comments. Each case is fully tracked through this transcription of information. This made it easier for us to decide whether to implement, use, and maintain it as our contact tool in our customer service center.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
  • No CapEx, only pay as you go.
  • Scale up or down quickly.
  • Omni-channel setup.
  • Feature rich.
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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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