Avaya Call Center Elite vs. LiveAgent

I think it's well suited for voice-only contact centers, small or large, specifically large contact centers because Avaya's been doing contact center and routing for years and they do it well. I think that it could be better in terms of ease of customization. You really have to know vectors and VDMs in order to manipulate some things and do some customized things. You need some specialized knowledge for that. So I think that that could be made easier. But call center lead has been a standard for a lot of companies for a long time and they do call routing pretty well.

Incentivized

I think [LiveAgent] is great from a customer service perspective, though I don't know that I would recommend it for B2B purposes. It has so many features that are fantastic as far as creating a great customer experience goes, I just think it is far more geared toward B2C than B2B.

• The product addresses how our customers can reach us efficiently by skill-based. They can reach the right group of people. We have products that support callbacks and so I think we're trying to make it easier for our customers. So I think that's what the product does.

Incentivized

• It's a complete OMNI channel. You can configure all communication medium for your customer with LiveAgent i.e. Ticketing, Social Media, Phone, and Chat.
• Low on pricing.
• You can easily setup LiveAgent for your organization. You don't need to be a technical expert to implement this.
• The user-friendly application.

Incentivized

• I think the biggest room for improvement in Call Center Elite is excellent with voice. But we have other channels such as email, and chat, and one of the reasons why we're bringing in Oceania is to fill that gap to provide customers with options no matter how they contact us, voice, email, or chat, they're serviced effectively. So that's the biggest gap right now and that's why we have a project to help fill that gap and to add AI functionality. It's good that Avaya has relationships with companies like Google because they're able to bring AI to the table like Google CC, AI, and Dialogue Flow. They're able to bring that to the table so we can leverage our investment in Lead and add on to it.

Incentivized

• Occasionally when "resolving" a ticket, the page will not load the full list of remaining tickets. However, the moment you scroll, the tickets appear so it's not too big of a deal, but I'd like to see that cleaned up. It does not always happen.
• When dialing a phone number, the format needs to be specific, i.e. +15125555555. We often receive phone numbers in the more traditional format, i.e. (512) 555-5555. The outgoing call will not work when pasted this way. I think it will get fixed. These little things seem to get sorted out after enough people complain about it.
• The mobile version has a few bugs, but when on the run, it at least allows you to read and respond to email. Examples of bugs include not being able to transfer the ticket to another department (on iOS the drop down menu functions like a text field for some reason so clicking into it selects the text as if you are going to copy and paste it). Also, the ability to add an admin note would be nice on the mobile version.

Incentivized

I am giving this rating as Live Agent is a very good software that is essential to any small or big business that provides customer support services. It gives you the possibility to manage any of your clients issues, answer questions and keep a good relationship with them by providing quick solutions.

The setup was smooth, once the system is learned it is very easy to manage. Benefits both employees and management.

Incentivized

The initial setup, onboarding and training is easy. The system provides 2 graphic version of interfaces in black or white default colors. I would appreciate, if there were more. Some of the setup forms are not correctly resized. Overall, I'm always able to find what I am looking for in LiveAgent.

Avaya always has good partners for support.

Incentivized

The one time that I contacted the customer support at LiveAgent, they were very quick to help me out and the customer support representative walked me through every thing that I needed to know to set up what I needed. Over all, the support staff at LiveAgent were perfect.

Implementation was quick and when not counting a bug on our website, it took a couple hours. It was mostly done on our end or with the assistance of LiveAgent's live chat support team. We recommend to check out LiveAgent's tutorial videos on their youtube channel or browsing their knowledge base - we've almost always found answers to our queries there.

When it comes to the core, the products in the market are similar. What is different is the bells and whistles and backend plumbing. One of the key criteria that we chose Elite was that we were using Avaya in the past, and system stability was excellent, plus the user experience remained consistent.

Incentivized

bold360 worked for our basic purposes but it was pretty bare bones. It didn't give us the option to get sales or to translate from Spanish to English and it made things a bit more difficult. LiveAgent has the features that we needed and it has many of the similar options that we also still use.

Incentivized

• It's done everything we've expected it to do and we've been able to tailor it some to benefit us better from getting KPIs to being able to connect to everything that we need. There is a way to do it all and so it's been a lifesaver and it's just been a great product to be able to work with.

Incentivized

• We are generating more sales by having sales representatives online chatting with customers.
• The customer service team is able to avoid answering the same guest on a number of platforms (ie. when a guest emails in, fills out a "contact form," and chats with a representative in live time in the span of ten minutes) because LiveAgent enables us to have all of our communication in one platform.