CallHub vs. Cisco Unified Contact Center

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
CallHub
Score 8.0 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
CallHub is designed to integrate with an organization’s CRM. The solution helps users to reach the right people the right time with their virtual call center, voice and SMS broadcasting software. CallHub is available in over 200 countries. Key benefits include: Virtual Call Center Agents all over the country to talk to leads using the software. Agent accounts are free because CallHub charges only for the calls made. Agents can make calls from a browser, phone, SIP…N/A
Cisco Unified Contact Center
Score 8.3 out of 10
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Cisco Unified Contact Center is a contact center platform that can support up to 24,000 agents. It supports call routing, omnichannel integrations, and a management portal for creating customer profiles, segmentation, and resource monitoring.N/A
Pricing
CallHubCisco Unified Contact Center
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CallHubCisco Unified Contact Center
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsCallHub does not charge per seat, but only for the calls and SMSs. Credits can be purchased and used as required.
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Community Pulse
CallHubCisco Unified Contact Center
Features
CallHubCisco Unified Contact Center
Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
CallHub
8.4
Ratings
1% above category average
Cisco Unified Contact Center
8.9
Ratings
7% above category average
Agent dashboard8.00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Validate callers8.00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Outbound response9.00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Call forwarding8.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Click-to-call (CTC)8.00 Ratings9.70 Ratings
Warm transfer8.00 Ratings9.20 Ratings
Predictive dialing9.00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Interactive voice response9.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
REST APIs8.00 Ratings8.40 Ratings
Call scripts9.00 Ratings9.30 Ratings
Call tracking9.00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Multichannel integration8.00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
CRM software integration8.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Product A and Product B
CallHub
8.4
Ratings
2% above category average
Cisco Unified Contact Center
8.6
Ratings
5% above category average
Inbound call routing9.00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing8.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Recording8.00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Quality management8.00 Ratings9.60 Ratings
Call analytics9.00 Ratings9.50 Ratings
Historical reporting8.00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Live reporting8.00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Customer surveys9.00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics9.00 Ratings6.90 Ratings
User Ratings
CallHubCisco Unified Contact Center
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(0 ratings)
9.3
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
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9.1
(0 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.3
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
CallHubCisco Unified Contact Center
Likelihood to Recommend
It is a simple process: Go to the campaign tab and click on the campaign you are joining, and here, review the questions and suggested script to guide your conversation, remembering, of course, that the most important thing is to be yourself through this software and the window that will mark the progress so join the campaign at this point do not hang up now you are controlling the communication through this software you can leave the campaign and fill with a smile the answers you get from users.
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I would recommend it to other people in my contact and business circle, but if I recommend it to someone who has certain difficulties in accessing some tools within Cisco, he may have great difficulty in getting help because of the support that is lacking in most of the times.
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Pros
  • All you'll require is your login credentials.
  • You have been given a username for two complementary programs that we use: one is for limited access to remote sales services and call services.
  • Callhub has been limited to protect privacy.
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  • Provides a great cradle-to-grave reporting capability of a customer journey through the Customer Contact Center.
  • Integrations with numerous third-party vendors providing the end-user several choices in vendors offering similar offerings.
  • The User community is vast, yet tight knit and collaborative spirited.
  • Documentation set is vast
  • Reliable once installed correctly and patched regularly.
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Cons
  • Using new software is frustrating at first, but worth the effort.
  • It's a little weird at first, but it saves you time and the frustration of dialing the wrong number.
  • If it doesn't sometimes work, simply press the update button until you see the phone number you want to answer.
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  • The Enterprise version Cisco Unified Contact Center has a lot of sunk cost involved and harder to support due to the expertise involved.
  • Licensing and ongoing support is also a huge undertaking. Licensing is hard to understand for Cisco in general. When you have created a certification for understanding Cisco Licensing maybe that is a hint to simplify your licensing instead.
  • The Express Unified Contact Center version is getting outdated and has capacity limitations. The Enterprise version is a huge undertaking to implement and get approved cost wise.
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Likelihood to Renew
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if it is up to me I would maintain its use. I was not able to make those decisions previously.
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Usability
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Cisco Unified Contact Center is a scalable product . Can be used in amy organizational units not only the contact center . Can be used for many IT Helpdesk setups and any internal or external CC . We can use it to automate the outbound dialing as well for marketting and invoices and other use cases
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Support Rating
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Cisco Unified Contact center is a very smart & reliable solution to go for. Its active-active sight base architecture and [customizable] features really help to deliver efficient customer service, enhanced next-gen experience, and uninterrupted operations. I believe every [organization] should opt for it if required.
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Alternatives Considered
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Similar I guess, however, I feel like Avaya was more suited for a contact center and allowed for all information to be in one place. The QA Forms were more flexible and easy to review. Predicative analysis was available to assist with scheduling and staffing. It was easier to manipulate and implement- I didn't need to go through 3 different parties to make a simply modification.
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Return on Investment
  • For all calls, you must complete at least the first question you are asked in the survey so that we know what type of connection.
  • You can leave a voice message, and a pre-recorded message will play on your answering machine or service when the call is saved.
  • If you get a signal compromised or problem you can hang up once you are in the software which makes it quick and easy.
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  • The removal of 4 disparate ACD systems within the environment and replacement of it with UCCE was a big positive in terms of ROI and decreases in support and maintenance costs.
  • The negative side is the cost of additional integrations from the Solutions Plus partners to take you beyond the out of the box capabilities.
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ScreenShots

CallHub Screenshots

Screenshot of Agent interface to make calls and fill in survey questionsScreenshot of Configurable agent dial in methodsScreenshot of Call monitoringScreenshot of Voice broadcast campaign with analyticsScreenshot of SMS Sign up campaignScreenshot of Power dialer