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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Bright Pattern Contact Center

    Score9.1 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Bright Pattern provides an AI-powered omnichannel contact center software. With the purpose of making customer service, sales, and marketing brighter and faster, Bright Pattern offers an advanced omnichannel cloud platform with embedded AI. Bright Pattern’s platform can be…N/A

    Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service

    Score6.4 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service is designed to create positive experiences through any channel and on any device to exceed customer expectations.

    $50

    per month per user

    Pricing
    Bright Pattern Contact CenterMicrosoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service
    Editions & Modules
    Omnichannel CX
    -
    per month per seat
    Call Center Standard
    -
    per month per seat
    Digital CX
    -
    per month per seat
    Dynamics 365 Customer Service Professional
    $50
    per month per user
    Add-In - Chat
    $60
    per month per user
    Dynamics 365 Customer Service Enterprise
    $105
    per month per user
    Dynamics 365 Customer Service Premium
    $195
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Bright Pattern Contact CenterMicrosoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsOne-time set-up fee includes 45 hours of services for workflow implementation and training: Discovery and Design Workshop; Configuration and Customization to customer requirements; Testing and Evaluation; Agent and Supervisor Training; Administration Mentoring & Knowledge Transfer—
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    Community Pulse
    Bright Pattern Contact CenterMicrosoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service
    Considered Both Products
    Bright Pattern, Inc.
    No answer on this topic
    Microsoft
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    32 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    31 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    32 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    30 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    30 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Bright Pattern Contact CenterMicrosoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Bright Pattern Contact Center and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service
    Feature
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    7.9
    31 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service
    -
    Ratings
    Agent dashboard8.130 Ratings00 Ratings
    Validate callers8.128 Ratings00 Ratings
    Outbound response8.128 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call forwarding8.127 Ratings00 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)8.024 Ratings00 Ratings
    Warm transfer8.230 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive dialing9.025 Ratings00 Ratings
    Interactive voice response8.328 Ratings00 Ratings
    REST APIs7.427 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call scripts8.224 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call tracking8.126 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multichannel integration7.226 Ratings00 Ratings
    CRM software integration6.227 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Bright Pattern Contact Center and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service
    Feature
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    7.9
    29 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service
    -
    Ratings
    Inbound call routing8.328 Ratings00 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing8.127 Ratings00 Ratings
    Recording8.929 Ratings00 Ratings
    Quality management7.227 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call analytics8.124 Ratings00 Ratings
    Historical reporting8.129 Ratings00 Ratings
    Live reporting7.227 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer surveys8.126 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics7.121 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Bright Pattern Contact Center and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service
    Feature
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    -
    Ratings
    Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service
    8.5
    2 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Expert directory00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings3.02 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Ticket response00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of Bright Pattern Contact Center and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service
    Feature
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    -
    Ratings
    Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service
    5.5
    2 Ratings
    35% below category average
    External knowledge base00 Ratings3.02 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Bright Pattern Contact Center and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service
    Feature
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    -
    Ratings
    Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service
    7.8
    2 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Customer portal00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    IVR00 Ratings5.02 Ratings
    Social integration00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Email support00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
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    Bright Pattern Contact CenterMicrosoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service
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    Score9.7 out of 10
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    Score7.9 out of 10
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    Score8 out of 10
    LiveAgent
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Google Cloud Contact Center AI
    Score7 out of 10
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    Score7.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Bright Pattern Contact CenterMicrosoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (31 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.3
    (31 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (31 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.3
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Bright Pattern Contact CenterMicrosoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Bright Pattern, Inc.
    Bright Pattern has been fantastic in allowing us to automate voice and chat contacts, and we're currently building out scenarios that will allow us to automate even more. It's super simple to collect data from customers, and using some API calls provides the answers they're looking for without a human needing to get involved. There is less functionality currently for emails. Emails can be routed to queues based on keywords, and auto-replies can be sent, but it's pretty basic functionality. We'd love to see some of the enhanced capabilities offered in voice and chat scenarios for email.
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    Microsoft
    With the constant changes included in the product, we can now use it for all the customer service scenarios / channels, for e.g. earlier for voice, we had to buy 3rd party CTI based tools, but now Voice Channel being available as the part of the product, that solves that thing. Also we see constantly new AI-driven features added to the product that could save lot of time of the agents while working on the cases like case summary, automate email generation, sentiment analysis etc.
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    Pros
    Bright Pattern, Inc.
    • AI platform integration - IBM Watson, Google Dialogflow, for example
    • Quality Management - out of the box sentiment anlysis
    • Unified agent desktop - ability to see all channels in one pane of glass
    • Robust analytic widgets that can also drive wall boards
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    Microsoft
    • Dynamic CS allows you to access a wider customer base and gain artificial intelligence-powered insights into numerous client interaction activities.
    • It assists in gaining deep insights into numerous data analyses performed on various customer interaction activities, as well as data visualization and customer satisfaction enhancement.
    • This product has been extremely beneficial to my firm since it allows us to communicate with customers via a variety of channels, including e-mail and social media.
    • Extensible, and Microsoft responds rapidly to market demand with new features. In terms of service, both Microsoft customer success and technical teams collaborate closely to ensure appropriate delivery.
    • A better way to track client interactions is SaaS-based cloud services. This software may also be linked to outlook.
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    Cons
    Bright Pattern, Inc.
    • That they had a text and voice analysis module Que tuvieran un modulo de analisis de texto y voz
    • Customized agent interface with company logos. Interfaz de agente personalizada con logos de la empresa
    • The softphone, when entering multiple interactions, causes the advisors to become confused when they have several. It should be less complex and more adaptable.
    • El softphone al momento de ingresar varias interacciones, los asesores se pierden cuando tienen varios. que sea menos complejo y mas adaptable
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    Microsoft
    • It occasionally crashes or slow down, but it usually works great.
    • Costly.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Bright Pattern, Inc.
    Es una plataforma confiable, en la que ya tengo bastante tiempo utilizando y conociendola. Entonces me siento confiada en volver a utilizarla dentro de la empresa e igual que al ofrecer a mis clientes internos y externos, además con el roadmap que nos brindan estoy segura que seguirá innovando cada vez
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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Bright Pattern, Inc.
    It's pretty simple for agents to pick up quickly, it takes a bit longer for supervisors to get familiar with. QA tools are pretty barebones but functional enough. It can be as simple or complex as you need it to be, if you spend some time configuring the settings or working with Bright Pattern's support team to build out what you need.
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    Microsoft
    Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service is generally very user-friendly, especially for those familiar with Microsoft products. The strength of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service is its integration with Outlook and Microsoft Office products like Word, Excel etc. and it user interface being similar to those products. This makes it easy for user to adopt to any new app.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Bright Pattern, Inc.
    It is always on. The only outage to date that I have experienced was with an upstream telco provider a few years ago. The inbound leg telco was hit by a DDOS attack which led to delays in routing calls to the platform. This was not the fault of the Bright Pattern platform but the telco provider. We have had a few minor carrier issues with call quality, or a handful of brief drops, but Bright Pattern is quick to identify these and change carriers when it starts to happen.
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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Bright Pattern, Inc.
    All pages load when expected, and reports render either in the web browser or as a download. I never really have issues with accessing the admin or agent desktop sites. It just works.
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    Microsoft
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    Support Rating
    Bright Pattern, Inc.
    Although we have only had 1 very short outage in our 4 years of service. Bright Pattern support was easy to contact and solved our sisue very quickly as well as provided more than adequate information on an RCA (Root Cause Analysis) for our clients
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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    In-Person Training
    Bright Pattern, Inc.
    In-person and virtual training was great, but Bright Pattern could use some online training videos similar to other platforms. I would welcome online training videos to keep the steady flow of new agents up to date. Admin training is one of the largest areas that need video. The static documentation is great. It is pretty easy to follow and configure your contact center as you progress through each step. The documentation is available online on an easy to use knowledgebase or wiki style site. You do not need a user account to access the help docs, meaning that users at any level can freely access the materials to learn about the platform.
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    Microsoft
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    Online Training
    Bright Pattern, Inc.
    Online training is documentation based only. It is thorough and step by step, but no videos. It would also be helpful to have more information within the help docs on custom reporting. I find that many of the Bright Pattern specific configurations for the Jasper Reporting Server have to be "stumbled" across through existing report templates and they are not clearly listed out somewhere. In person training will not generally go into great depth on report customizations.
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    Microsoft
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    Implementation Rating
    Bright Pattern, Inc.
    As an implementor, I have found the Bright Pattern Contact Center very easy to work with. The platform operates in the manner which I think. Therefore, everything I do seems logical and works exactly as expected. Many solutions are much more difficult to work with and make implementations difficult
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    Microsoft
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    Alternatives Considered
    Bright Pattern, Inc.
    As a contact centre technology vendor we have experience of many different contact centre platforms. We chose Bright Pattern Contact Center because its the best omni-channel contact centre we've ever seen, it's incredibly reliable, its hosted in-country, it has the Microsoft integrations many of our customers want, we can integrate with virtually any CRM or ITSM system and the platform offers a vast feature set.
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    Microsoft
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    Scalability
    Bright Pattern, Inc.
    Very flexible and will scale without any intervention from my team. Scaling at the carrier/telco layer is handled by Bright Pattern, if you use their offered telecom
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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Bright Pattern, Inc.
    • We saved customers between 30% - 40% of the cost of their current omnichannel contact center solutions when we implemented Bright Pattern Contact Center
    • Very quick to implement so we are able to service more customers with same number of staff
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    Microsoft
    • It has help us serve our customers better and get Support Contracts from them after we have designed / developed and deployed Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service based solutions for them
    • Ease of Routing it to appropriate customer support agent
    • Because of multiple channel support we now give our customers option to raise a ticket or connect with their preferred communication medium, be it email, SMS, Chat etc.
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