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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

    Zendesk Talk

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AZendesk Talk is call center software built on the Twilio cloud communication platform that integrates with the Zendesk Support ticketing system. This allows customer service teams to provide phone support from the same platform they use to manage all other channels.N/A
    Pricing
    Cisco Unified Contact CenterZendesk Talk
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Cisco Unified Contact CenterZendesk Talk
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    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 CenterZendesk Talk
    Considered Both Products
    Cisco
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    88%
    Would buy again
    35 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    14 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    35 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    12 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    83%
    Happy with the feature set
    33 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    14 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
    9 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    30 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    14 Answers
    Features
    Cisco Unified Contact CenterZendesk Talk
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Cisco Unified Contact Center and Zendesk Talk
    Feature
    Cisco Unified Contact Center
    8.9
    40 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Zendesk Talk
    7.8
    16 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Agent dashboard8.640 Ratings9.916 Ratings
    Validate callers8.536 Ratings6.012 Ratings
    Outbound response8.936 Ratings10.014 Ratings
    Call forwarding9.037 Ratings8.915 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)9.730 Ratings10.013 Ratings
    Warm transfer9.235 Ratings9.912 Ratings
    Predictive dialing8.627 Ratings5.08 Ratings
    Interactive voice response9.034 Ratings10.010 Ratings
    REST APIs8.430 Ratings5.07 Ratings
    Call scripts9.335 Ratings7.06 Ratings
    Call tracking8.838 Ratings9.914 Ratings
    Multichannel integration8.530 Ratings5.110 Ratings
    CRM software integration9.030 Ratings5.09 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Cisco Unified Contact Center and Zendesk Talk
    Feature
    Cisco Unified Contact Center
    8.6
    41 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Zendesk Talk
    7.8
    16 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Inbound call routing8.738 Ratings9.912 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing9.030 Ratings5.110 Ratings
    Recording8.734 Ratings9.915 Ratings
    Quality management9.635 Ratings9.913 Ratings
    Call analytics9.536 Ratings8.913 Ratings
    Historical reporting8.839 Ratings8.913 Ratings
    Live reporting8.839 Ratings4.914 Ratings
    Customer surveys7.027 Ratings5.08 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics6.929 Ratings8.19 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Cisco Unified Contact CenterZendesk Talk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.3
    (49 ratings)
    9.9
    (16 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.3
    (7 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.3
    (16 ratings)
    5.0
    (3 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 CenterZendesk Talk
    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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    Zendesk
    Zendesk Talk is a great partner that helps us in the customer care area by managing every type of contact with customers (both phone calls and emails). I know there is also the possibility to have integration with instant messaging apps (like messenger and WhatsApp but I have never used them in my experience). In my opinion, the best scenario for Zendesk Talk is represented by a context with a high amount of contacts/requests where a unique platform could be a help both on the external side (customers) and on the internal side (a lot of colleagues who are working in the same area and have to work in a coordinate way). For customers, they could benefit from tailor-made answers, also based on past contacts for the same topic, and avoid waiting times during phone calls, with an immediate follow-up. For internal work management, operators don't overlap in a single request, and even if the same operator is not available the one who manages the request later has complete visibility of the entire topic from the historical point of view. Last but not least, I think that Zendesk Talk helps a lot in the context in which the request's speed is a KPI to manage constantly.
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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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    Zendesk
    • Call recording is a nice feature! It is great for training purposes and for quality assurance.
    • The metrics you get from Explore are a great insight into how the team is handling the call volumes.
    • Zendesk Talk has met most of our needs. It can be a bit unreliable at times.
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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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    Zendesk
    • The lag on the phone is by far the most annoying thing with Zendesk talk due to the voice over IP.
    • Using the Reporting feature in Zendesk has never been a walk in the park. We have to customize a lot of fields and when something doesn't seem to add up, it at times feels like pulling teeth to get to the final answer of what went wrong.
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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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    Zendesk
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Zendesk
    Everything about it works, as I have previously detailed. Coming from different companies and using other tools like Twilio or Aircall, those are VOIP tools that are built to be plugged into other tools, Zendesk Talk is natively built into Zendesk and feels correct in the user experience of Zendesk
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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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    Zendesk
    In our experience, we have had to go through many support people then ultimately getting frustrated enough to go directly to our point of contact who then doesn't always seem to be able to assist. We tend to get the support we need when it is escalated up to me and I reach out to our point of a contact person to express our frustration.
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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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    Zendesk
    Slack and Zoom phones cannot compare because they have no ticketing systems. Zendesk Talk was the only option we considered because we were already using Zendesk for our email ticketing with customer concerns. We then expanded to using Zendesk's chatbot and then the Zendesk Talk system to keep it all integrated and streamlined.
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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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    Zendesk
    No answers on this topic
    Professional Services
    Cisco
    Scripting not supported
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    Zendesk
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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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    Zendesk
    • We were able to reduce global headcount by 20% in our call centers.
    • Allowing customers to leave voicemails creates the personal touch needed and really increases our customer connectivity score. We saw increases in our CSAT scores after the implementation of this solution.
    • Call handling time and case reopen rates both decreased. Y/y it decreased 18% and 60%.
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