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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Front

    Score7.1 out of 10
    N/AFront is a communication hub that helps businesses keep the human touch in every interaction.

    $29

    per month per user

    Verint Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA)

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/AThe Verint Intelligent Virtual Assistant (formerly Verint Self-Service solutions) is a customer-oriented knowledge management solution including technology acquired by Verint from Next IT in 2017. The platform includes voice self-service IVR, a virtual AI-guided assistant (Next IT), and Verint's own knowledge management system for self-service.N/A
    Pricing
    FrontVerint Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA)
    Editions & Modules
    Starter
    $29
    per month per user
    Growth
    $79
    per month per user
    Scale
    $99
    per month (billed annually) per user
    Premier
    $229
    per month (billed annually) per seat (50 seat minimum)
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    FrontVerint Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA)
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsDiscount for annual pricing on Starter and Growth plans. Scale and Premier plans are annual price only.
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    Community Pulse
    FrontVerint Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA)
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    Front
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    91%
    Would buy again
    20 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    17 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    21 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    85%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    11 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    92%
    Implementation went as expected
    12 Answers
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    User Ratings
    FrontVerint Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.5
    (28 ratings)
    7.7
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    5.9
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.8
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    FrontVerint Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Front
    I think Front is very useful for every company with multiple teams working together on different emails from clients. Not so useful if a lot of different teams need to work on a request at the same time, because when an email is sitting in multiple shared inboxes things can get messy. Also would not recommend for teams that work is individualized, as team work is the main point of Front.
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    Verint
    The IVA is very well suited to handle routine questions and basic actions that would typically require customer support. It may be a little more challenged handling edge cases but in those instances we have found it provides an easy transfer to a live agent
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    Pros
    Front
    • Even if you are just trying to compose a single email, Front gives a smart system that has options such [as] organized templates, tags, alerts, [and] changing your outbound dpt email.
    • Tasks- with Front you will not miss any interaction. When you are required to get assistance from a coworker, you only need to mention him/her and that notification will appear automatically in their inboxes.
    • Smart Notifications- sometimes we are just overwhelmed about the several notifications on our devices that we tend to miss some of them, but Front offers a new way to notify every email, discussion, mentioning, or tag that you really would not want to miss.
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    Verint
    • Use of Acknowledgment base and AI engines.
    • F&Q.
    • Automate process such as consults, modifications and cancel reservations.
    • Execute triggers for notify customer reservations.
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    Cons
    Front
    • Their integration to Salesforce is lacking. As the owner of our productivity tools and how they are used, I have very little control over what things to enforce, or even change what objects are available. For example, we don't use Cases in Salesforce but with the Salesforce integration the Cases object shows up. There's no need to have that there. I've heard there is a roadmap improvement forthcoming.
    • One of our uses is for our sales development reps to prospect with visitors. Because of the high volume of inquiries it's difficult for our reps to efficiently manage all their follow ups. It would be nice if we could run a "scheduled campaign" where a predesigned cadence of email follow ups can be sent automatically. To be clear, they do have a scheduling capability, but it just can't be used as a prebuilt option.
    • Integrations to other systems require you have a user account to those systems. We have SSO and therefore we don't always have a user account. For example, out integration to Jira uses SSO so we don't each have individual Jira logins. This is an outage for us.
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    Verint
    • There is minimal documentation around what we can and can't do for IVA
    • IVA seems to be a newer product so this is difficult when trying to implement new things
    • IVA has a lot of non-Verint friendly terms (Think Prompt, vs. answer or Intent/Alternate vs. context).
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Front
    We are very happy with Front and don't anticipate changing
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    Verint
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    Usability
    Front
    It's very easy to understand and use by new customer support agents as well. Be it a technology, product, or marketing person, we have trained most of the company folks to read and respond to customer conversations in their free time with the help of the Front app. It is also easy to set up for an admin and manage his/her team with communication rules.
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    Verint
    It is well suited for employees with technical experience
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    Support Rating
    Front
    The support is good, and it's definitely prompt, but still lags when it comes to technical requirements, as I guess they are slow in developing newer features fast. So no complaints in terms of responsiveness, but yeah, at times it's not very helpful when you need certain features or are blocked on things which can't be unblocked.
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    Verint
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    Alternatives Considered
    Front
    This is something I am not familiar but it seems like it is [available] in Gmail. Thus I cannot give any feedback about it. What I am sure about is Front works for our team and I see Zoom using the service in the Customer Success Organization in a long run.
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    Verint
    Verint Intelligent Virtual Assistant had more features and functionality than the Genesys product as well as customization and further options for internal system integration to our existing on-prem systems. In addition, we also had a rapport with other Verint products and were more familiar with their AI capabilities, making them the obvious choice.
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    Return on Investment
    Front
    • Saved our executive team considerable amount of time chasing support questions through different channels.
    • Gave our team clear accountability for who was lead on a support issue and how to escalate.
    • Customer regularly say our support is the best in the industry.
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    Verint
    • Human agent hours operations
    • More interactions will be attended by AI agents
    • Reducing human agent licensing costs
    • Attending more interaction in less time
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    Verint Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA) Screenshots

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