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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    CallHub

    Score8 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

    Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)

    Score6.8 out of 10
    N/AGenesys PureConnect was an omnichannel contact center platform that offered cloud-based or on-premise deployments. It featured a SIP-based architecture with VoIP capabilities, allowing companies to connect legacy voice systems and use existing phones. A legacy product, new users are encouraged to investigate Genesys Cloud.N/A
    Pricing
    CallHubGenesys PureConnect (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CallHubGenesys PureConnect (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    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
    CallHubGenesys PureConnect (discontinued)
    Considered Both Products
    CallHub
    No answer on this topic
    Discontinued Products
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    60%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    88%
    Delivers good value for the price
    7 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    90%
    Happy with the feature set
    9 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    4 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    57%
    Implementation went as expected
    4 Answers
    Features
    CallHubGenesys PureConnect (discontinued)
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of CallHub and Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)
    Feature
    CallHub
    8.4
    1 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)
    7.9
    64 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Agent dashboard8.01 Ratings6.755 Ratings
    Validate callers8.01 Ratings7.548 Ratings
    Outbound response9.01 Ratings8.541 Ratings
    Call forwarding8.01 Ratings7.756 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)8.01 Ratings8.043 Ratings
    Warm transfer8.01 Ratings8.357 Ratings
    Predictive dialing9.01 Ratings8.036 Ratings
    Interactive voice response9.01 Ratings8.045 Ratings
    REST APIs8.01 Ratings7.037 Ratings
    Call scripts9.01 Ratings8.539 Ratings
    Call tracking9.01 Ratings7.755 Ratings
    Multichannel integration8.01 Ratings9.044 Ratings
    CRM software integration8.01 Ratings8.038 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of CallHub and Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)
    Feature
    CallHub
    8.4
    1 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)
    5.5
    54 Ratings
    40% below category average
    Inbound call routing9.01 Ratings6.551 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing8.01 Ratings6.539 Ratings
    Recording8.01 Ratings4.552 Ratings
    Quality management8.01 Ratings4.546 Ratings
    Call analytics9.01 Ratings3.043 Ratings
    Historical reporting8.01 Ratings5.052 Ratings
    Live reporting8.01 Ratings6.548 Ratings
    Customer surveys9.01 Ratings8.035 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics9.01 Ratings5.030 Ratings
    User Ratings
    CallHubGenesys PureConnect (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    5.3
    (116 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.6
    (12 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (12 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.8
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.0
    (12 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.3
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.1
    (7 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.1
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.8
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.8
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CallHubGenesys PureConnect (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    CallHub
    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.
    Incentivized
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    CIC is best suited for business models that rely on heavily leverage Data Integration especially one like ours that require real-time and high-speed data access for billing and customer integration. CIC is not well suited for small organizations < 50 where they are only answering phones in the course of doing business VS. the business is the phone.
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    Pros
    CallHub
    • 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.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • Purely Software Based System: On Microsoft OS. It is an all software-based system making it easy to manage, integrate and interface with other systems
    • One Vendor: All modules, IVR, ACD, Dialer, WFM are from one vendor. So, no compatibility and latency issues at all.
    • Superb Notifier Service: You don't have to restart any process or service for a change to take effect.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    CallHub
    • 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.
    Incentivized
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    • Licensing can be challenging and very expensive.
    • Client templates are hard to administer and are built very different than the rest of the functionality.
    • Web desktop has been slow to come along and include all the features.
    • Optimizer is very sub-par product.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    CallHub
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    We are so embedded on Pure Connect that we like to progress with it. For instance, we are looking into ways to provide different solutions to our customers, help our business to succeed, and work in a better CX.
    One of the biggest advantages is that all is in one platform.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    CallHub
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    The interface is only semi user-friendly on almost every front. Agent experience is lacking and we have found many limitations within the system. Workforce forecasting is not as robust as expected. Quality continues to be a struggle. Interaction searches are not robust.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    CallHub
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    The application itself uses a hub and spoke model that can help isolate errors in one section of the application from the rest, creating a much more stable overall program. Of all of the outages that we've had with our contact center platform, I can count on one hand how often it was truly a Genesys issue rather than a network issue, server issue or issue with a platform relied upon for an integration (web services, db calls).
    Incentivized
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    Performance
    CallHub
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    Some of the client applications take a bit of time on initial load, but with the move towards web based applications that issue is alleviated. You can tell that effort really isn't putting into the desktop apps any longer and that the client development effort is being put into bringing Interaction Connect closer to feature parity with the desktop (and bringing wholly new features to Connect). As far as IVR operations, web service calls, database operations: they all operate reasonably.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    CallHub
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    Some cases are resolved quickly others are taking longer and the reseller sometimes has to chase support several times and explain the issue seen several times. While being a direct customer before, I recognise this and it seems that when a case moves to another engineer they don’t read the previous case notes or don’t understand what has been done. This, from a customers perspective, slows down resolution times.
    Incentivized
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    In-Person Training
    CallHub
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    I liked the setup of the whole class. The instructor knew the topic well enough to answer questions from entry level to a more advanced one.
    Instructor encouraged participation of the whole class and was able to engage every one. Also provided "real live" examples so everyone can relate to it.
    Incentivized
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    Online Training
    CallHub
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    The online training itself is good. You are provided resources and can self study to a certain point, but the pacing always felt off. Either snails pace or like trying to drink from a fire hose. I think this easily could have had to do with course material and my personal preparations, though. I would say my main gripe is that since the acquisition the team responsible for actually booking training is very unresponsive and often not knowledgeable about the courses they offer. Booking my last training was a real chore.
    Incentivized
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    Implementation Rating
    CallHub
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    Don't try to go the perfect solution as a first target. Work on answer the more needs with a simple solution. Then analyse and try again to answer the most needs with adding a bit if complexity only if require. No needs to customise straight from the beginning or deployment takes too long.
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    Alternatives Considered
    CallHub
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    Call Manager, you had to buy all the components that are out of the box for PureConnect. The licensing model is more expensive on the Cisco side vs the Genesys PureConnect side. Lastly was on the Cisco side since you have to connect/integrate all the components on the cisco side you have to have so many vendors to install those parts. This drives the cost up even more so it was not worth going that route for our organization.
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    Scalability
    CallHub
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    Genesys PureConnect's core and adjunct model allows for fairly easy growth in satellite locations via off site session managers, remote located media servers, remote content servers, etc to allow you to spread the infrastructure out while not pushing as much network traffic to your core data centers.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    CallHub
    • 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.
    Incentivized
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    • We're improving our CX by optimizing our call centers, using additional attributes and keys to identify the best rep for the job.
    • We are also streamlining the journey of each individual customer by using PureConnect as the central interface for omnichannel interactions, allowing us to pick up the conversation where we left off.
    • Using additional attributes that start with the contact center interaction, we're able to track a student journey and proactively step in - increasing our individualized support to focus on the student outcome.
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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

    Genesys PureConnect (discontinued) Screenshots

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