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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Avaya Aura

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AThe on-premises Avaya Aura Platform delivers unified communications and customer service solutions, designed to enhance employee and customer experiences. It is presented as real time communications architecture using session-based collaboration technologies, and is used to enable multi-modal unified communications and omnichannel customer experience solutions.N/A

    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AGenesys 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
    Avaya AuraGenesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
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    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Avaya AuraGenesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Considered Both Products
    Avaya
    No answer on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    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.
    Incentivized
    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 …
    Incentivized
    Chose Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Genesys admin consoles are more modern and easier to navigate than Avaya tools that I have used in the past
    Incentivized
    Chose Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    We have our phone system of Avaya built underneath Genesys. Avaya is a good system but it lacks the ability to customize your business unit to meet their demands.
    Incentivized
    Chose Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Genesys Engage provides a variety of options and capabilities, with high availability and easy application upgrades as compared to other providers in the industry. While we experienced some challenges during development and at launch, Genesys Engage is now a product that meets …
    Incentivized
    Chose Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Genesys Engage is way ahead than Avaya Aura contact center as it is a purely software-based contact center solution. Genesys Engage is highly flexible and scalable to any extent based on the client's demand. It provides a best in class routing and reporting engine. Genesys …
    Incentivized
    Chose Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    I personally like the "pod-based" deployment tool used in Avaya Aura and the packaged concept of CISCO CCE. This shortens the deployment time for the base platform, uses standard tested configuration for a specific load, and allows additional/ optional components to be plugged …
    Incentivized
    Chose Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Genesys Engage's capabilities like high availability and application upgrades are much simpler as compared to other providers in the industry. The Genesys Engage platform provides the capability to use user-defined KVPs that can be used in complex routing techniques and call …
    Incentivized
    Chose Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Platform independent product, no need to use specific hardware and to be stuck with vendor locked. Easy and periodically updated.
    Incentivized
    Chose Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Genesys Engage combines the flexibility to be able to integrate and create every customer journey a customer wants together with the possibility to create your own configuration interface to manage the most common day to day options for let's say a supervisor.
    Incentivized
    Chose Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Genesys has more functionalities that can be applied in our organization. The possibilities it offers are immense.
    Routing strategies and subroutines can be very complex.
    Genesys Engage offer a lot of functionalities.
    Incentivized
    Chose Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    The flexibility of Genesys Engage was a prevalent point in the Genesys solution choice vs other vendor like Avaya. The expertise and customer service of the Genesys team teamed with interconnector was another prevalent point.
    Incentivized
    Chose Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    [We selected Genesys Engage because] It is robust, friendly and easy to use.
    Incentivized
    Chose Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    More flexible. Easier to configure. Better to expand with new functionalities, and better support and after care.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    96%
    Would buy again
    50 Answers
    86%
    Would buy again
    30 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    89%
    Delivers good value for the price
    42 Answers
    89%
    Delivers good value for the price
    24 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    92%
    Happy with the feature set
    48 Answers
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    33 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    71%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    24 Answers
    82%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    14 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    82%
    Implementation went as expected
    36 Answers
    79%
    Implementation went as expected
    23 Answers
    Features
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    Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software
    Comparison of Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software features of Avaya Aura and Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Feature
    Avaya Aura
    8.1
    28 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    High quality audio9.028 Ratings00 Ratings
    High quality video7.215 Ratings00 Ratings
    Screen Sharing
    Comparison of Screen Sharing features of Avaya Aura and Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Feature
    Avaya Aura
    6.9
    17 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Desktop sharing6.917 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Meetings / Events
    Comparison of Online Meetings / Events features of Avaya Aura and Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Feature
    Avaya Aura
    6.8
    21 Ratings
    19% below category average
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Calendar integration6.719 Ratings00 Ratings
    Meeting initiation7.018 Ratings00 Ratings
    Record meetings / events6.816 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Events Collaboration
    Comparison of Online Events Collaboration features of Avaya Aura and Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Feature
    Avaya Aura
    6.7
    12 Ratings
    18% below category average
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Live chat6.712 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Events Security
    Comparison of Online Events Security features of Avaya Aura and Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Feature
    Avaya Aura
    6.8
    20 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
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    User authentication6.518 Ratings00 Ratings
    Participant roles & permissions7.116 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cloud PBX
    Comparison of Cloud PBX features of Avaya Aura and Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Feature
    Avaya Aura
    7.5
    34 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Hosted PBX6.619 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)9.025 Ratings00 Ratings
    Directory of employee names7.026 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call Management
    Comparison of Call Management features of Avaya Aura and Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Feature
    Avaya Aura
    7.4
    41 Ratings
    13% below category average
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Answering rules9.034 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call recording7.328 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call park9.030 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call screening9.027 Ratings00 Ratings
    Message alerts7.030 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business SMS/External Messaging5.813 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Fax6.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Voicemail Transcription6.018 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile apps
    Comparison of Mobile apps features of Avaya Aura and Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Feature
    Avaya Aura
    7.0
    22 Ratings
    19% below category average
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Mobile app for iOS7.121 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile app for Android6.820 Ratings00 Ratings
    Unified Communications Platform and Collaboration
    Comparison of Unified Communications Platform and Collaboration features of Avaya Aura and Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Feature
    Avaya Aura
    7.0
    35 Ratings
    13% below category average
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Centralized communications management8.033 Ratings00 Ratings
    Team messaging6.720 Ratings00 Ratings
    Team document sharing6.214 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call and meeting analytics7.021 Ratings00 Ratings
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Avaya Aura and Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Feature
    Avaya Aura
    -
    Ratings
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    9.2
    118 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Agent dashboard00 Ratings10.0109 Ratings
    Validate callers00 Ratings10.096 Ratings
    Outbound response00 Ratings9.099 Ratings
    Call forwarding00 Ratings8.089 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)00 Ratings9.083 Ratings
    Warm transfer00 Ratings10.0105 Ratings
    Predictive dialing00 Ratings9.281 Ratings
    Interactive voice response00 Ratings10.0106 Ratings
    REST APIs00 Ratings10.099 Ratings
    Call scripts00 Ratings9.075 Ratings
    Call tracking00 Ratings10.0103 Ratings
    Multichannel integration00 Ratings9.9105 Ratings
    CRM software integration00 Ratings5.199 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Avaya Aura and Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Feature
    Avaya Aura
    -
    Ratings
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    8.5
    107 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Inbound call routing00 Ratings9.0100 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing00 Ratings10.092 Ratings
    Recording00 Ratings8.980 Ratings
    Quality management00 Ratings8.080 Ratings
    Call analytics00 Ratings8.088 Ratings
    Historical reporting00 Ratings10.0103 Ratings
    Live reporting00 Ratings9.0100 Ratings
    Customer surveys00 Ratings6.864 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics00 Ratings7.073 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Avaya AuraGenesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Small Businesses
    Broadvoice | GoContact
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Nextiva Contact Center
    Score9.6 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    PanTerra Networks
    Score6.3 out of 10
    CloudTalk
    Score7.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Webex Calling
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Score9.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Avaya AuraGenesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (52 ratings)
    8.0
    (147 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    7.9
    (26 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.9
    (18 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.1
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.6
    (21 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.1
    (3 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    3.8
    (11 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.5
    (3 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    1.4
    (4 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (4 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    Avaya
    Avaya Aura is secure and reliable; in our case, for customers that looking for stable solutions on voice, Avaya Aura is that solution fit. In a scenario where our customer is looking for digitalization, I think Avaya Aura is less appropriate.
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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
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Avaya
    • So one of the things it's done well is it's stable. It's networked at all the sites. We have five-digit dialing everywhere, and one of the features we like is the crisis alert feature. So if somebody calls 911 at a particular school, it sets an alarm off on the phones upfront and displays the extension number and the room number of who called 911. So they can respond and they know where to send first responders. So it's pretty cool.
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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
    Avaya
    • Pricing is always a concern.
    • How to maintain the attractive price point as they transition from perpetual licensing to subscription-based.
    • Offering the benefits of 'economies of scale' even in situations where the transitioning is not wholesale from the onset but incremental over time.
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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
    Avaya
    We are happy with this product since we have used until now around 10 years.
    Incentivized
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    Genesys Engage is instrumental in us meeting our service obligations to our customers. Engage enables our organization to deliver interactions to the right staff and helps us minimize service and coverage gaps through historical and real-time reporting. Additionally, we feel that only Genesys Engage can meet and exceed our business needs and requirements.
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    Usability
    Avaya
    Avaya Aura is extremely complex. Now that AI has come into the fold, Avaya needs to apply AI processes and tools to help identify and resolve issues with an installed platform. In addition, proactively identify potential issues. Ayaya has had some financial difficulties over the last few years. This may be why they outsource their expensive support. Our customer experience would benefit by having access to Avaya knowledgeable Engineers for questions about products and services as needed.
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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
    Avaya
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    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
    Avaya
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    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
    Avaya
    No answers on this topic
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    There's definitely room for improvement. I would have love to see the chat functionality work more frequently. The level of expertise has diminished over the years. I understand that this in part has to do with the number of new products that has been introduced, but should not be an excuse for the lack of readiness.
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    In-Person Training
    Avaya
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    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
    Avaya
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    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
    Avaya
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    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
    Avaya
    So I've seen the Cisco product out there. I've seen the old Nortel products, Mitel, I've been doing this for a long time. I've seen a lot of other products. And Avaya, Nortel were the Western Electric and Northern Electric of the world way back when. So pretty much the grandparents of all the other stuff that's out there. So their foundation is really strong. So I think this product stacks up amazing, especially for places that are mission critical, like hospitals, maybe the military, and stuff like that. They have the app, if you need an app, they do stuff on mobile devices, and that you can have remote workers. So I think they stack up really well against the other companies. The problem is probably advertising and the schools that are teaching this stuff are promoting a particular product and that's where the other products have the advantage. They're in the schools and it's, I call it indoctrination, but they're in the schools and they're teaching the people. The other product, their competitors are teaching in the schools, their product line. And that's how they can do promotion better.
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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
    Avaya
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    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
    Avaya
    • As far as a negative impact on a surface level, not too much negative impact was to go right into that and we had the scare eight months ago. Well, we didn't know if Avaya was a product we were going to be able to continue with. But after this conference, we got the warm and fuzzies back. That is a product that we can keep for a number of years and they'll continue to grow and keep on upgrading it and stay current. So we'll be sticking with that.
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    Discontinued Products
    • Utilizing Genesys Contact Center Portfolio has added increased employee efficiency, providing better availability to customer demands which in turn has increased customer satisfaction.
    • Utilizing Genesys Contact Center Portfolio has added increased management efficiency, automating resource planning and scheduling and providing management more time to focus on other important tasks.
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