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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Avaya Call Center Elite

    Score7.6 out of 10
    N/AAvaya Call Center Elite is used to run a full-featured call center that handles inbound and outbound contacts, manageable with real-time and historical reporting insights. The CC Elite solution offers options for contact handling so customers are treated in a more efficient manner, enabling agents to more effectively respond to their needs.N/A

    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
    Avaya Call Center EliteZendesk Talk
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    Avaya Call Center EliteZendesk Talk
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    90%
    Would buy again
    28 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    90%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    79%
    Implementation went as expected
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    100%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Avaya Call Center EliteZendesk Talk
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Avaya Call Center Elite and Zendesk Talk
    Feature
    Avaya Call Center Elite
    7.3
    24 Ratings
    13% below category average
    Zendesk Talk
    7.8
    16 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Agent dashboard7.314 Ratings9.916 Ratings
    Validate callers7.518 Ratings6.012 Ratings
    Outbound response6.813 Ratings10.014 Ratings
    Call forwarding8.520 Ratings8.915 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)7.613 Ratings10.013 Ratings
    Warm transfer8.021 Ratings9.912 Ratings
    Predictive dialing7.411 Ratings5.08 Ratings
    Interactive voice response7.214 Ratings10.010 Ratings
    REST APIs6.99 Ratings5.07 Ratings
    Call scripts7.817 Ratings7.06 Ratings
    Call tracking8.819 Ratings9.914 Ratings
    Multichannel integration5.211 Ratings5.110 Ratings
    CRM software integration5.914 Ratings5.09 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Avaya Call Center Elite and Zendesk Talk
    Feature
    Avaya Call Center Elite
    7.2
    20 Ratings
    13% below category average
    Zendesk Talk
    7.8
    16 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Inbound call routing8.017 Ratings9.912 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing7.28 Ratings5.110 Ratings
    Recording7.216 Ratings9.915 Ratings
    Quality management7.113 Ratings9.913 Ratings
    Call analytics6.815 Ratings8.913 Ratings
    Historical reporting7.317 Ratings8.913 Ratings
    Live reporting7.216 Ratings4.914 Ratings
    Customer surveys6.56 Ratings5.08 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics7.69 Ratings8.19 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Avaya Call Center EliteZendesk Talk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.5
    (32 ratings)
    9.9
    (16 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Usability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    5.0
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    Avaya Call Center EliteZendesk Talk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Avaya
    The way Technology is expanding, Elite can be utilized and integrated into any environment as long as it keeps pace with the merging needs. I strongly recommend that there needs to be more innovation within the product to bring it back to where it was in the past.
    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.
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    Pros
    Avaya
    • I think the reporting cause Elite does really good with reporting related to CMS and with the proper to-left knee programming. It performs well from a routing perspective. It will identify where the call needs to be routed to and it will cure it to that group pretty effectively. We've also found it to be relatively stable. You don't hear a lot of incidents about Call Center Elite going down. Sometimes it might be a database that might be having an issue or something else, but you never hear the call center has gone down or we can't route calls. You normally don't hear that. So it's been relatively stable.
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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
    Avaya
    • I do feel that their support definitely needs a room for improvement. There is not a lot and I say that as in from the technology support side of it is the support definitely needs to be a lot better and that's because if we're running into troubles or issues, there's not a lot of help outside of when we go to Avaya to help fix it. We get a little down a bumpy road trying to get that fixed. The last time I was here, I worked up there.
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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
    Avaya
    Very easy to use.
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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
    Avaya
    Avaya always has good partners for support.
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    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
    Avaya
    I've used a C Experience portal, Contact Center Elite for Avaya Symposium, and Symposium Express for other manufacturers. I've used the Cisco solution for the Cisco. I believe the Contact Center Elite is the easiest of all the products for the enterprise industry and it's got the best user feel to be able to integrate it into your phone system
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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
    Avaya
    • Once purchased and running, you don't need to worry about it for years.
    • Support price is following the other companies. Price is good.
    • When you need to upgrade it the cost can grow fast as most of the time you need to replace hardware.
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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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