Aspect Unified IP vs. Verint Workforce Engagement (discontinued)

The system is very complicated for the initial installations in the servers, which
requires highly qualified personnel for the start-up. It cost me the installation at the beginning but I knew it would be worth it because the use of an administrative control of calls is important and more when you have many service providers.

Incentivized

• Easy to scale up, especially for a company with staff in different locations.
• Real-time adherence, compatible with non-telephony systems, particularly webchat and email.
• Highly customizable system for administrators and resource planners.
• Time off management including automated holidays, shift swap.
• Requires specialist support to get the system working.

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

• The end user interface and administration is easy to use
• Ease to integrate with Avaya PBX based on my expertise
• The Customer Survey application is excellent and has a well defined architecture to get accurate feedback for a CS representative
• The solution is robust to work with

• The reports are very basic.
• There may be a broader reporting line, perhaps with more detailed records.

Incentivized

• Products need to be able to support current operating system and Java revisions on a more timely basis
• Implementation resources are often in high demand and engaging them often create delays, as they frequently don't use the same resource within the same project and for the same client. Delays occur when new resources need to be educated on information /history between resources
• Project managers need to understand the products better so they can be engaged better with the implementations

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.

Incentivized

Honestly, from what I hear from other industry experts, other WFO systems have the same support issues we have with Verint. We know the product and the system is maturing and becoming more stable. The business has no issue with the Verint product and is seeking to grow not only what we have in place today, but are very interested in other products, such as BackOffice Analytics, that Verint has to offer. I would just love to see a stronger partnership with Avaya.

Because its great

Because its excellent tool

I do not have any key insights regarding implementation of Verint

I have not spent any time recently doing a detailed analysis of other vendors to comfortably answer this question. I will say that the last time I checked, the ability to have all 3 call types (inbound,outbound,and manual) managed in one convenient seamless platform was not available which is very important to me.

Incentivized

I haven't actually used any other WFO solutions as yet Verint has been apart of our organization since 2008/9 and i have been managing it since 2013/14. I have looked at alternative solutions in the past but none seem to ever come up to the same standard as Verint in all areas. We recently upgraded from Version 11 to 15.1 so we are still in the early stages of getting to grip with the newer version and all the added functionality.

Incentivized

• Aspect Unified IP has been a great investment for us, and we have been their customers for 10 years now
• Aspect is important for us in delivering WOW experiences for our customers

Incentivized

• It has a great ROI in that, if this is setup correctly, it will tie scheduling with adherence and therefore make setting staffing levels a breeze
• Employee efficiency was also up because of scorecards and adherence client which keeps agents on the ball