Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued) vs. Lifesize CxEngage

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Genesys Multicloud CX (formerly Genesys Engage, or PureEngage) is the Genesys customer engagement platform for enterprises. It is designed to be flexible for enterprises, who often have multiple and multi-national locations (including outsourcing) and large peak volumes and populations.N/A
Lifesize CxEngage
Score 7.8 out of 10
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CxEngage 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.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
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Features
Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)Lifesize CxEngage
Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
9.2
Ratings
10% above category average
Lifesize CxEngage
6.9
Ratings
18% below category average
Agent dashboard10.00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Validate callers10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Outbound response9.00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Call forwarding8.00 Ratings6.40 Ratings
Click-to-call (CTC)9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Warm transfer10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive dialing9.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Interactive voice response10.00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
REST APIs10.00 Ratings6.40 Ratings
Call scripts9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Call tracking10.00 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Multichannel integration9.90 Ratings6.30 Ratings
CRM software integration5.10 Ratings6.40 Ratings
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Product A and Product B
Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
8.5
Ratings
3% above category average
Lifesize CxEngage
7.0
Ratings
16% below category average
Inbound call routing9.00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Recording8.90 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Quality management8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Call analytics8.00 Ratings6.80 Ratings
Historical reporting10.00 Ratings5.90 Ratings
Live reporting9.00 Ratings6.40 Ratings
Customer surveys6.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics7.00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
User Ratings
Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)Lifesize CxEngage
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
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7.7
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Likelihood to Renew
7.9
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Usability
6.9
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Availability
8.0
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-
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Performance
7.1
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-
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Support Rating
8.6
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-
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In-Person Training
8.1
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-
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Online Training
7.3
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Implementation Rating
3.8
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8.2
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Configurability
6.5
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Ease of integration
1.4
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Product Scalability
7.3
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Vendor post-sale
7.3
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Vendor pre-sale
7.3
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User Testimonials
Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)Lifesize CxEngage
Likelihood to Recommend
Solution is extremely agile and flexible. The new generation of containerized solution would be a game changer since it brings the ease of deployment and ability to get the innovations to a new total different place. I believe it is really hard to find in the competition who would have something similar or even close
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Implementation was top notch. Great team to work with. Application and tools are good and very useful. Customer Support is strong as well. Would recommend more details and assistance on some resolutions but over all, quick response and quick resolutions is the norm. Room for improvement for front line associates working from home. And better understanding on how Twilio issues affect CxEngage as some time the status pages don't match the same story
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Pros
  • VHT as a stand alone model can be easily plugged into to the current call routing with minimal changes and it works like charm.
  • Platform SDKs are a powerful tool that help integrate with other third party solutions or to build custom made applications.
  • The whole routing solution is amazing . With user friendly composer, you have the option of building both VRUs and routing strategies. And, they are very easy to deploy.
  • The level of details for report customization is another strong point.
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  • 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
  • Genesys needs to pick up the pace with application upgrades. We see more and more issues with Genesys applications falling behind the operating systems versions. We need more apps to be ready for the latest server OC models. There is a lag.
  • There seems to be constant unrest with the management application platform, CME, SCI, Genesys administrator, GAX, then GAX plugins, then a move away from plugins. We would like one stable management platform that encompasses ALL aspects of management within the contact center.
  • Real-time reporting deficiencies with Genesys pulse web. this application cannot live up to CCPulse with respect to flexibility of views. Pulse web was a plugin now it's not a plugin any longer. constant movement, we finally get pulse web plugin onto production, 6 months later these something supposedly better.
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  • 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
Genesys Contact Center Portfolio is an expensive product to purchase and maintain. Once committed to, it is also an expensive product to replace. That said, our company is constantly evaluating Genesys and other contact center technology vendors to determine which will provide us with the best ROI.
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Usability
Overall, from a customer perspective and also an agent perspective, it is very easy to use Genesys Engage's platform. The Agent Desktop and Genesys WDE are good. Usability is high and I would consider it an easy to use product and easy to adopt from this perspective.
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Reliability and Availability
There are occasional failures, but distributed and High Availability features work well when architected, installed, and configured properly. Thoroughly reading and understanding system documentation is a must.
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Performance
Never being disappointed in my 11 plus years of utilizing the various aspects of the system. No matter what we throw at it, the systems continue to perform as expected.
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Support Rating
Giving this rate especially for eServices support team which help us immediately and pin point the issue directly. Most of the time, we raised issue to genesys support regarding to social media, they're replied a solution or a way to get rid of the problem after sending initial response which means they cared about the case.
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In-Person Training
Good training, but on limited locations. You can almost only follow trainings in europ in the UK and in Germany. Uk location is relatively difficult to get to and on a exppensive location. The content of the training is good, supplied training material is okay, but sometimes a bit outdated. When you follow a training it is most likely because of a recent purchase which is uasually the latest version.
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Online Training
Interesting webinars on relevant topic are being provided regularly. Th e webinars a often provided by Genesys and hosted by a very experienced product owner. In many occasions a customer is invited to share his / her experiences and best practices. Webinars can be watched at a later time for your convenience.
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Implementation Rating
It was a death march. We finally learned enough about the product to know that our vendor knew nothing and had done it wrong. We hired voice engineers and took over the project. We should have fired our vendor much earlier
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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
For a similar contact center structure, I find Genesys products are faster to produce outcomes, and fast to respond (loading, changing screens...). However, in terms of user interface, I do prefer the way NICE did things there. Coming from an agent background, I find that the NICE agent interface is more visually appealing and offers more flexibility (parameters for agent exceptions).
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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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Scalability
The Interactive Intelligence SIP based contact center platform has broken through the barriers of "board based" technology to processor based limits on scalability. This means their CIC premise or cloud platform can be engineered to support agent counts into the thousands.
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Return on Investment
  • Custom Kiosk application using generic interaction for walk in customers improved the efficiency of the lobby staff by almost 200%
  • QA tools allow for automation of many aspects and the efficient management of scoring and recording .
  • Manages all types of interactions and improves agent productivity for emails, voicemails, calls, chats and walk in interactions
  • Manages reporting on of interactions and improves agent productivity for emails, voicemails, calls, chats and walk in interactions
  • Centralized support tools allow for small staff to support and administer all parts of the system
  • Integration of all modules allows for active, real time passing of data to provide real time speech analytics, qa, reporting, workforce management and general interaction management
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  • lower operational costs
  • improved agent productivity
  • improved flexibility in design and admin work
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ScreenShots

Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued) Screenshots

Screenshot of Altocloud in Workspace

Lifesize CxEngage Screenshots

Screenshot of Agent Interface - SFDC Integrated AgentScreenshot of Agent Interface - Skylight Desktop Chat InteractionScreenshot of Agent Interface - Skylight Mockup 1Screenshot of Agent Interface - Skylight Mockup 2Screenshot of Chat - Mockup 1Screenshot of Chat - Mockup 2