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    Aspect Unified IP

    Score3.7 out of 10
    N/AAspect Software headquartered in Massachusetts offers Aspect Unified UP, a call center solution for enterprise contact centers. It supports an omnichannel customer experience across voice, email, chat, SMS, IM, and social channels.N/A

    Cisco Unified Contact Center

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ACisco Unified Contact Center is a contact center platform that can support up to 24,000 agents. It supports call routing, omnichannel integrations, and a management portal for creating customer profiles, segmentation, and resource monitoring.N/A
    Pricing
    Aspect Unified IPCisco Unified Contact Center
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    Aspect Unified IPCisco Unified Contact Center
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Aspect Unified IPCisco Unified Contact Center
    Considered Both Products
    Alvaria, Inc (Aspect Software + Noble Systems)
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    Cisco
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    88%
    Would buy again
    35 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    35 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    83%
    Happy with the feature set
    33 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    23 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    30 Answers
    Features
    Aspect Unified IPCisco Unified Contact Center
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Aspect Unified IP and Cisco Unified Contact Center
    Feature
    Aspect Unified IP
    7.4
    3 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Cisco Unified Contact Center
    8.9
    40 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Agent dashboard7.03 Ratings8.640 Ratings
    Validate callers9.03 Ratings8.536 Ratings
    Outbound response8.03 Ratings8.936 Ratings
    Call forwarding6.03 Ratings9.037 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)9.62 Ratings9.730 Ratings
    Warm transfer8.03 Ratings9.235 Ratings
    Predictive dialing9.03 Ratings8.627 Ratings
    Interactive voice response5.03 Ratings9.034 Ratings
    REST APIs8.03 Ratings8.430 Ratings
    Call scripts4.03 Ratings9.335 Ratings
    Call tracking6.03 Ratings8.838 Ratings
    Multichannel integration8.22 Ratings8.530 Ratings
    CRM software integration8.03 Ratings9.030 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Aspect Unified IP and Cisco Unified Contact Center
    Feature
    Aspect Unified IP
    8.5
    2 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Cisco Unified Contact Center
    8.6
    41 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Inbound call routing9.02 Ratings8.738 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing8.12 Ratings9.030 Ratings
    Recording9.62 Ratings8.734 Ratings
    Quality management9.12 Ratings9.635 Ratings
    Call analytics8.62 Ratings9.536 Ratings
    Historical reporting7.42 Ratings8.839 Ratings
    Live reporting7.42 Ratings8.839 Ratings
    Customer surveys8.62 Ratings7.027 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics9.12 Ratings6.929 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Aspect Unified IPCisco Unified Contact Center
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (4 ratings)
    9.3
    (49 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.3
    (7 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (16 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Aspect Unified IPCisco Unified Contact Center
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Alvaria, Inc (Aspect Software + Noble Systems)
    Aspect Unified IP is perfect to handle multiple outbound dialing campaigns, with tools that allow you to configure how customers must be reached, call them at different phone numbers by the time of the day, set priorities when dialing, or gather information about all running campaigns in dashboards in real-time.
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    Cisco
    I would recommend it to other people in my contact and business circle, but if I recommend it to someone who has certain difficulties in accessing some tools within Cisco, he may have great difficulty in getting help because of the support that is lacking in most of the times.
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    Pros
    Alvaria, Inc (Aspect Software + Noble Systems)
    • Integrates inbound and outbound call routing in one platform, allowing agents to work in a seamless blend mode between all call types (inbound, predictive, manual).
    • Allows you to associate an account number with every agent phone call, the call type, and the reccording ID giving you the critical datapoints necessary to research, put together a customers experience from a telephony perspective, etc.
    • Create agent templates to streamline agent setup reducing the potential for admins to configure an agent incorrectly, placing them in services they aren't skilled for and vice versa.
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    Cisco
    • Provides you with a solid routing engine that was built to handle Service Provider level throughput - if you need stability and a work horse this is the platform for you.
    • The core features on the whole are good, but where UCCE is very good is the eco-system of Solutions Plus partner integrations that expand on the core capabilities with the market leaders in areas such as WFO, Campaign Management, Biometrics and Natural Language.
    • The investment Cisco makes in the CC space means they are always improving the platform features, scale and reliability.
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    Cons
    Alvaria, Inc (Aspect Software + Noble Systems)
    • The reports are very basic.
    • There may be a broader reporting line, perhaps with more detailed records.
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    Cisco
    • After 25+ years, the product still requires experienced and highly skilled engineers to deploy the product properly per Cisco Best Practice guidelines.
    • Third-party integrations are also very cumbersome and require highly skilled and experienced engineers and significant time and financial investment to deploy.
    • Upgrading the product is cumbersome and requires Cisco ATP or Cisco AS which is time consuming and very expensive.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Alvaria, Inc (Aspect Software + Noble Systems)
    Aspect Unified IP is very competent to handle most customers' needs in the contact center and it delivers what is promised. The only negative aspect is the costs of services, maintenance and professional services, too expensive.
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    Cisco
    if it is up to me I would maintain its use. I was not able to make those decisions previously.
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    Usability
    Alvaria, Inc (Aspect Software + Noble Systems)
    No answers on this topic
    Cisco
    Cisco Unified Contact Center is a scalable product . Can be used in amy organizational units not only the contact center . Can be used for many IT Helpdesk setups and any internal or external CC . We can use it to automate the outbound dialing as well for marketting and invoices and other use cases
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    Support Rating
    Alvaria, Inc (Aspect Software + Noble Systems)
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    Cisco
    Cisco Unified Contact center is a very smart & reliable solution to go for. Its active-active sight base architecture and [customizable] features really help to deliver efficient customer service, enhanced next-gen experience, and uninterrupted operations. I believe every [organization] should opt for it if required.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Alvaria, Inc (Aspect Software + Noble Systems)
    We had evaluated Avaya. It was pretty good as well. However, we wanted a more software driven solution. Aspect also was able to give better results in our Proof of Concept.
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    Cisco
    Similar I guess, however, I feel like Avaya was more suited for a contact center and allowed for all information to be in one place. The QA Forms were more flexible and easy to review. Predicative analysis was available to assist with scheduling and staffing. It was easier to manipulate and implement- I didn't need to go through 3 different parties to make a simply modification.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Alvaria, Inc (Aspect Software + Noble Systems)
    No answers on this topic
    Cisco
    Licenses are very expensive. The customer has to buy IP telephony or Unified Communication and Collaboration Licenses and for Contact Center Solution licenses separately. There must be a price tone down as the competition is really high. New customers are willing to go for cloud-based solutions [that] are cheaper and easy to deploy.
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    Professional Services
    Alvaria, Inc (Aspect Software + Noble Systems)
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    Cisco
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    Return on Investment
    Alvaria, Inc (Aspect Software + Noble Systems)
    • As stated before, we have been using UIP for over a decade now. Prior to this tool we had agents logging into Avaya for inbound, and using CTI fuctionality to bounce the agent back and forth between inbound and any predictive campaigns. By moving to Aspect it allowed us to streamline that process, reduce agent downtime, lost efficiency, while at the same time consolidationg all of our call center telephony data into one central location allowing us to easily track a customers telephony experience over any period of time.
    • The only negative impact is due to the upgrade schedule that has made for some interesting challenges forcing us to utilize IT resources that could have been used on more critical corporate projects. These upgrades might not be as big of a deal for any company out there that does not have a lot of integration with Aspect such as custom reporting, data loads, API hooks, etc.
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    Cisco
    • A smoother route to helping end users with critical needs
    • With quick assist while on hold, less calls come into the pool while agents have the ability to assist more critical needs
    • The ability to work remotely during an extreme event assisting end users
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