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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Amazon Connect

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/ALaunched 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

    Zendesk Talk

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AZendesk Talk is call center software built on the Twilio cloud communication platform that integrates with the Zendesk Support ticketing system. This allows customer service teams to provide phone support from the same platform they use to manage all other channels.N/A
    Pricing
    Amazon ConnectZendesk Talk
    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
    Amazon ConnectZendesk Talk
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Amazon ConnectZendesk Talk
    Considered Both Products
    Amazon AWS
    Chose Amazon Connect
    Amazon Connect introduced an analytical and reporting feature, which evaluates the details and the concerns of clients. Besides, Amazon Connect clearly records all the calls, which captures the exact information which we use it in the future. The product is also as important in …
    Incentivized
    Zendesk
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
    14 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    12 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    14 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    90%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    9 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    14 Answers
    Features
    Amazon ConnectZendesk Talk
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Amazon Connect and Zendesk Talk
    Feature
    Amazon Connect
    7.1
    4 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Zendesk Talk
    7.8
    16 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Agent dashboard5.04 Ratings9.916 Ratings
    Validate callers7.04 Ratings6.012 Ratings
    Outbound response7.04 Ratings10.014 Ratings
    Call forwarding7.04 Ratings8.915 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)7.04 Ratings10.013 Ratings
    Warm transfer9.04 Ratings9.912 Ratings
    Predictive dialing5.03 Ratings5.08 Ratings
    Interactive voice response6.04 Ratings10.010 Ratings
    REST APIs9.03 Ratings5.07 Ratings
    Call scripts5.04 Ratings7.06 Ratings
    Call tracking7.04 Ratings9.914 Ratings
    Multichannel integration9.04 Ratings5.110 Ratings
    CRM software integration9.04 Ratings5.09 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Amazon Connect and Zendesk Talk
    Feature
    Amazon Connect
    5.7
    4 Ratings
    36% below category average
    Zendesk Talk
    7.8
    16 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Inbound call routing9.04 Ratings9.912 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing5.04 Ratings5.110 Ratings
    Recording7.04 Ratings9.915 Ratings
    Quality management7.04 Ratings9.913 Ratings
    Call analytics3.04 Ratings8.913 Ratings
    Historical reporting5.04 Ratings8.913 Ratings
    Live reporting5.04 Ratings4.914 Ratings
    Customer surveys5.04 Ratings5.08 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics5.04 Ratings8.19 Ratings
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Score8 out of 10
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    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Score9.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Amazon ConnectZendesk Talk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (4 ratings)
    9.9
    (16 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Amazon ConnectZendesk Talk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Zendesk
    Zendesk Talk is a great partner that helps us in the customer care area by managing every type of contact with customers (both phone calls and emails). I know there is also the possibility to have integration with instant messaging apps (like messenger and WhatsApp but I have never used them in my experience). In my opinion, the best scenario for Zendesk Talk is represented by a context with a high amount of contacts/requests where a unique platform could be a help both on the external side (customers) and on the internal side (a lot of colleagues who are working in the same area and have to work in a coordinate way). For customers, they could benefit from tailor-made answers, also based on past contacts for the same topic, and avoid waiting times during phone calls, with an immediate follow-up. For internal work management, operators don't overlap in a single request, and even if the same operator is not available the one who manages the request later has complete visibility of the entire topic from the historical point of view. Last but not least, I think that Zendesk Talk helps a lot in the context in which the request's speed is a KPI to manage constantly.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • It helps us connect with ServiceNow as a direct integration.
    • It allows us to document everything from the chat with ticket documentation in real time.
    • It allows us to track agent and case activities.
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    Zendesk
    • Call recording is a nice feature! It is great for training purposes and for quality assurance.
    • The metrics you get from Explore are a great insight into how the team is handling the call volumes.
    • Zendesk Talk has met most of our needs. It can be a bit unreliable at times.
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • Support for large contact center with more than 1000s of agents.
    • Enterprise level solution.
    • More supported regions.
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    Zendesk
    • The lag on the phone is by far the most annoying thing with Zendesk talk due to the voice over IP.
    • Using the Reporting feature in Zendesk has never been a walk in the park. We have to customize a lot of fields and when something doesn't seem to add up, it at times feels like pulling teeth to get to the final answer of what went wrong.
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
    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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    Zendesk
    Everything about it works, as I have previously detailed. Coming from different companies and using other tools like Twilio or Aircall, those are VOIP tools that are built to be plugged into other tools, Zendesk Talk is natively built into Zendesk and feels correct in the user experience of Zendesk
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    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    Zendesk
    In our experience, we have had to go through many support people then ultimately getting frustrated enough to go directly to our point of contact who then doesn't always seem to be able to assist. We tend to get the support we need when it is escalated up to me and I reach out to our point of a contact person to express our frustration.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
    Amazon Connect introduced an analytical and reporting feature, which evaluates the details and the concerns of clients. Besides, Amazon Connect clearly records all the calls, which captures the exact information which we use it in the future. The product is also as important in conducting research, as it maximizes the information that clients issue to us, for successful planning, and business budgeting.
    Incentivized
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    Zendesk
    Slack and Zoom phones cannot compare because they have no ticketing systems. Zendesk Talk was the only option we considered because we were already using Zendesk for our email ticketing with customer concerns. We then expanded to using Zendesk's chatbot and then the Zendesk Talk system to keep it all integrated and streamlined.
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • 1 year ROI
    • 60% of voice and whatsapp contacts automated
    • CSAT, CES and NPS achieved
    • Overall call center cost reduced
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    Zendesk
    • We were able to reduce global headcount by 20% in our call centers.
    • Allowing customers to leave voicemails creates the personal touch needed and really increases our customer connectivity score. We saw increases in our CSAT scores after the implementation of this solution.
    • Call handling time and case reopen rates both decreased. Y/y it decreased 18% and 60%.
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