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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

    NiCE CXone Mpower

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/ANICE CXone Mpower is a cloud-based contact center platform that manages customer interactions across multiple communication channels. It includes features such as automatic call distribution (ACD), interactive voice response (IVR), omnichannel routing, workforce optimization, feedback management, and interaction analytics.

    $71

    per month per user

    Pricing
    Cisco Unified Contact CenterNiCE CXone Mpower
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    CXone Mpower Digital Agent
    $71
    per month per user
    CXone Mpower Voice Agent
    $94
    per month per user
    CXone Mpower Omnichannel Agent
    $110
    per month per user
    CXone Mpower Essential Suite
    $135
    per month per user
    Cxone Mpower Core Suite
    $169
    per month per user
    CXone Mpower Complete Suite
    $209
    per month per user
    CXone Mpower Ultimate Suite
    $249
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Cisco Unified Contact CenterNiCE CXone Mpower
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Cisco Unified Contact CenterNiCE CXone Mpower
    Considered Both Products
    Cisco
    Chose Cisco Unified Contact Center

    I am typically post RFP and selection process, but clients that have selected UCCE over the competitors are the clients that are not quite ready to embrace cloud or SAAS solutions, or they have selected Cisco due to reputation and long-term stability suitability.

    Clients want to …

    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco Unified Contact Center
    Besides the initial cost and the in house expertise required to manage Cisco Enterprise, the Cisco platform holds up pretty well in my opinion to its competitors. Cisco needs to modernize its product delivery. The costs should be more spread out and there should be built in …
    Incentivized
    NICE Systems
    Chose NiCE CXone Mpower
    Interactive Intelligence
    Cisco Express and Enterprise.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    88%
    Would buy again
    35 Answers
    94%
    Would buy again
    275 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    35 Answers
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    192 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    83%
    Happy with the feature set
    33 Answers
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    283 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    23 Answers
    90%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    127 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    30 Answers
    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    154 Answers
    Features
    Cisco Unified Contact CenterNiCE CXone Mpower
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Cisco Unified Contact Center and NiCE CXone Mpower
    Feature
    Cisco Unified Contact Center
    8.9
    40 Ratings
    7% above category average
    NiCE CXone Mpower
    9.4
    582 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Agent dashboard8.640 Ratings9.2560 Ratings
    Validate callers8.536 Ratings9.6472 Ratings
    Outbound response8.936 Ratings9.5491 Ratings
    Call forwarding9.037 Ratings9.3444 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)9.730 Ratings9.2404 Ratings
    Warm transfer9.235 Ratings9.8532 Ratings
    Predictive dialing8.627 Ratings9.6318 Ratings
    Interactive voice response9.034 Ratings9.5377 Ratings
    REST APIs8.430 Ratings9.3302 Ratings
    Call scripts9.335 Ratings9.2323 Ratings
    Call tracking8.838 Ratings9.5511 Ratings
    Multichannel integration8.530 Ratings9.3365 Ratings
    CRM software integration9.030 Ratings9.0366 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Cisco Unified Contact Center and NiCE CXone Mpower
    Feature
    Cisco Unified Contact Center
    8.6
    41 Ratings
    5% above category average
    NiCE CXone Mpower
    9.4
    557 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Inbound call routing8.738 Ratings9.5512 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing9.030 Ratings9.1374 Ratings
    Recording8.734 Ratings9.6496 Ratings
    Quality management9.635 Ratings9.0481 Ratings
    Call analytics9.536 Ratings9.3487 Ratings
    Historical reporting8.839 Ratings9.4480 Ratings
    Live reporting8.839 Ratings9.4466 Ratings
    Customer surveys7.027 Ratings9.5300 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics6.929 Ratings9.6320 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Cisco Unified Contact CenterNiCE CXone Mpower
    Small Businesses
    Nextiva Contact Center
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Nextiva Contact Center
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Score8 out of 10
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Score9.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Cisco Unified Contact CenterNiCE CXone Mpower
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.3
    (49 ratings)
    9.7
    (614 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    10.0
    (28 ratings)
    Usability
    8.3
    (7 ratings)
    9.3
    (588 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.5
    (10 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.9
    (10 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.3
    (16 ratings)
    9.1
    (7 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.7
    (6 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.4
    (8 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.1
    (12 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.5
    (7 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (7 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.6
    (10 ratings)
    Professional Services
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.9
    (9 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.9
    (9 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cisco Unified Contact CenterNiCE CXone Mpower
    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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    NICE Systems
    NICE CXone Mpower offers a great suite of products and tools appropriate for contact centers. It is a one stop shop for all of the monitoring, scheduling, reporting, and quality tools a large or small contact center may need. It is very feature rich and has many components, some of which we haven't even grown to adopt yet but may in the near future.
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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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    NICE Systems
    • Organizes everyone's interactions within the platform
    • Shows interactions real time with productivity stats
    • Makes Chat/Call quality a breeze with customizable quality forms
    • Easy to share an interaction within the company for others to review
    • Keeps everyone on track with scheduled lunches/breaks/meetings so you don't have to remember yourself and never miss another event again!
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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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    NICE Systems
    • There can be changes in interface of the app, however it's still very good
    • I would appreciete detailed web page with all necessary information, but when I need anything, the customer support is very quick and provide all the information
    • Hardly to find any other :)
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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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    NICE Systems
    Nice made it possible for employees to work from anywhere with access to the internet, it made it possible to extract data from contacts in a very thorough way. In addition, the meticaes can be fully customized and the day-to-day monitoring of the operation is more visible.With nice, contacts with clients abroad became easier.
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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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    NICE Systems
    The lack of written SOPs makes some features (WFM / Performance management) very difficult to use. The training provided by NICE is extensive, but it's hard to remember everything shared in the hour. We spend so much time on the platform just trying to figure out how to use the features; it would be much easier with written instructions and screenshots.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    NICE Systems
    NICE inContact CXone is available when you need it. I have been using it for about a year and I have never suffered any issues that caused my not to have access to the product. If there are updates, they must be downloaded and install in the background because I do not see them
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    Performance
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    NICE Systems
    NICE inContact CXone performs very well even on old computers that are limited in resources. I use a older computer with limited memory and it seems to handle NICE inContact CXone very well in most cases. There will be times when it acts up for whatever reason bust over ninety percent of the time.
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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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    NICE Systems
    inContact only allows specific users to contact them for support. Even though I use the product daily and it accounts for a large amount of my workload, I still have to contact an authorized user to create an incident. These users are managers and their schedules are very busy. This can result in delays in incidents being opened and resolved.
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    In-Person Training
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    NICE Systems
    The In-person training was fine for a general overview. I think it would have been really helpful to have a review of pre-built reports and how to use them as tools.
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    Online Training
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    NICE Systems
    I would rate 10, since the explanations were far enough to catch all the usabilities.I would rate 10, since the explanations were far enough to catch all the usabilities.I would rate 10, since the explanations were far enough to catch all the usabilities.I would rate 10, since the explanations were far enough to catch all the usabilities.
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    Implementation Rating
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    NICE Systems
    We love the use of our new tools. However, NICE staff turnover was frustrating. We lost ground each time a new team took over. Some people were good some were not as much. Some people did great training while others were not as helpful
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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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    NICE Systems
    When it comes to this specific situation (cell centers) NICE definitely has an ADP beat. The analytics, scheduling, and forecasts are extremely well-tailored for this situation. ADP has a more comprehensive solution in my opinion - I feel their UI and mobile app are also more user-friendly. But in terms of performance management functionality, NICE has a more robust system and is able to create additional metrics if we need them When I used ADP there were no custom options available.
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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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    NICE Systems
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    NICE Systems
    I rated 10, because Nice CX one is very much functional. You can simply acess it by website Nice, in any navigator, desktop, notebook or mobile, so you can in a fast way run on every departament of the company.
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    Professional Services
    Cisco
    Scripting not supported
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    NICE Systems
    No answers on this topic
    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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    NICE Systems
    • NICE CXone has allowed us the ability to, on specific teams, not have to back fill positions due to attrition.
    • NICE CXone has provided us insight into data metrics that we did not have before.
    • NICE CXone provides us with visibility into the productivity of our offshore agents which we did NOT have prior to our partnership.
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    ScreenShots

    NiCE CXone Mpower Screenshots

    Screenshot of a holistic view of omnichannel call center metrics, with insights for everyone in the contact center. The CXone Mpower Dashboard aggregates both real-time and historical cross-domain data.Screenshot of CXone Mpower Copilot for Agent, which empowers agents with smarter interactions, personalized coaching, and automation opportunities.Screenshot of the CXone Mpower AgentScreenshot of CXone Mpower Orchestrator, a tool that does not require programming skills, but instead empowers everyone—from business user to routing flow programmer—to build and manage routing flows for all channels.Screenshot of CXone Mpower Interaction Analytics, used to get actionable insights from every voice, digital, and self-service customer interaction.Screenshot of CXone Mpower Performance Management, which aligns employee performance, contact center goals, and customer expectations with continuous improvement.