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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cisco Unified Contact Center

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ACisco 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

    Lifesize CxEngage

    Score7.8 out of 10
    N/ACxEngage is a cloud contact center solution designed to meet users' needs and work in their environment. Unlike monolithic architectures and on-premises solutions, CxEngage is a ‘born-in-the-cloud’ platform to deliver unified visibility across voice, video, and digital channels. CxEngage is designed to just work anywhere, and to be implemented in a few days or weeks.

    $85

    per month per user

    Pricing
    Cisco Unified Contact CenterLifesize CxEngage
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    Cisco Unified Contact CenterLifesize CxEngage
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    Cisco Unified Contact CenterLifesize CxEngage
    Considered Both Products
    Cisco
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    88%
    Would buy again
    35 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    35 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    83%
    Happy with the feature set
    33 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    23 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    30 Answers
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    Features
    Cisco Unified Contact CenterLifesize CxEngage
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Cisco Unified Contact Center and Lifesize CxEngage
    Feature
    Cisco Unified Contact Center
    8.9
    40 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Lifesize CxEngage
    6.9
    2 Ratings
    18% below category average
    Agent dashboard8.640 Ratings7.31 Ratings
    Validate callers8.536 Ratings00 Ratings
    Outbound response8.936 Ratings7.31 Ratings
    Call forwarding9.037 Ratings6.41 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)9.730 Ratings00 Ratings
    Warm transfer9.235 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive dialing8.627 Ratings00 Ratings
    Interactive voice response9.034 Ratings7.31 Ratings
    REST APIs8.430 Ratings6.41 Ratings
    Call scripts9.335 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call tracking8.838 Ratings7.72 Ratings
    Multichannel integration8.530 Ratings6.32 Ratings
    CRM software integration9.030 Ratings6.41 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Cisco Unified Contact Center and Lifesize CxEngage
    Feature
    Cisco Unified Contact Center
    8.6
    41 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Lifesize CxEngage
    7.0
    2 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Inbound call routing8.738 Ratings7.32 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing9.030 Ratings00 Ratings
    Recording8.734 Ratings8.62 Ratings
    Quality management9.635 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call analytics9.536 Ratings6.82 Ratings
    Historical reporting8.839 Ratings5.92 Ratings
    Live reporting8.839 Ratings6.42 Ratings
    Customer surveys7.027 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics6.929 Ratings7.31 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Cisco Unified Contact CenterLifesize CxEngage
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.3
    (49 ratings)
    7.7
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    -
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    Usability
    8.3
    (7 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    7.3
    (16 ratings)
    -
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    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cisco Unified Contact CenterLifesize CxEngage
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    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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    Lifesize
    CxEngage can handle some more complex flow options that other vendors don't seem to be able to do. The integration for voice calls with Salesforce is a huge plus. The integration of email support with Salesforce is a BIG miss. After fighting with it for a year, we finally just turned it off and use Salesforce Omnichannel for email support. Chat using Salesforce Live Agent worked fine enough.
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    Pros
    Cisco
    • Provides you with a solid routing engine that was built to handle Service Provider level throughput - if you need stability and a work horse this is the platform for you.
    • The core features on the whole are good, but where UCCE is very good is the eco-system of Solutions Plus partner integrations that expand on the core capabilities with the market leaders in areas such as WFO, Campaign Management, Biometrics and Natural Language.
    • The investment Cisco makes in the CC space means they are always improving the platform features, scale and reliability.
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    Lifesize
    • Great flexibility working with flow creation and editing
    • Great support staff
    • Good overall package for workforce management and quality monitoring
    • Integrates well with our tools.
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    Cons
    Cisco
    • After 25+ years, the product still requires experienced and highly skilled engineers to deploy the product properly per Cisco Best Practice guidelines.
    • Third-party integrations are also very cumbersome and require highly skilled and experienced engineers and significant time and financial investment to deploy.
    • Upgrading the product is cumbersome and requires Cisco ATP or Cisco AS which is time consuming and very expensive.
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    Lifesize
    • Stronger support and more reliable system for users not on a commercial network
    • Consumer friendly and intuitive reporting and dashboard tools. build canned reports
    • Reporting: Ability to get a combined SVL for all queues included on a report (now we manually calculate after exporting the report into excel). Same for all major data points (ASA, AHT, etc.)
    • Ability to include abandoned calls and an abandonment percentage which excludes short abandons on the Queue summary report. Now the report just shows total abandons and abandonment percentage so if we want to exclude short abandons we have to pull a separate report to find out how many calls abandoned in less than 10 seconds then calculate the "true abandoned number" (calls abandoned minus short abandons)
    • Ability to change what is considered a "short abandon" and then report on it. Right now the only option is the built in tracking of calls that abandoned in equal to or less than 10 seconds.
    • Ability to "save" an agents "default" skill profile so that any changes we make can be returned to "BAU" with a click of a button
    • quicker data/historical report retrieval
    • way to separate what we have listed as a queue name for reporting vs. what is used for the queue name in the "whisper" (the issue we had with WT queue naming conventions because we had to have the whisper be super precise)
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cisco
    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
    Cisco
    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
    Cisco
    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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    Implementation Rating
    Cisco
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    Lifesize
    We implemented in 2018 and were only given 8 weeks to do it...as per the direction of our parent company at the time. Serenova at the time responded well and we were able to go Live within 8-weeks...albeit the product overall was a big change and had gaps in features over our previous contact management solution.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cisco
    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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    Lifesize
    It's been too many years...I don't remember. Except in 2021 we looked briefly at Amazon and Salesforce call center offerings. Both were too basic at the time that even if we got a great deal on licensing (we are a Salesforce house for other things), we couldn't easily (or at all) do things like Callbacks and some of the more robust flow buildouts that we have in place today with Lifesize.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Cisco
    Licenses are very expensive. The customer has to buy IP telephony or Unified Communication and Collaboration Licenses and for Contact Center Solution licenses separately. There must be a price tone down as the competition is really high. New customers are willing to go for cloud-based solutions [that] are cheaper and easy to deploy.
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    Professional Services
    Cisco
    Scripting not supported
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    Return on Investment
    Cisco
    • A smoother route to helping end users with critical needs
    • With quick assist while on hold, less calls come into the pool while agents have the ability to assist more critical needs
    • The ability to work remotely during an extreme event assisting end users
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    Lifesize
    • lower operational costs
    • improved agent productivity
    • improved flexibility in design and admin work
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