Google Cloud Contact Center AI vs. GoTo Connect

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Google Cloud Contact Center AI
Score 7.0 out of 10
N/A
Google has launched a cloud based contact center software which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to improve the customer experience and provide real-time insights for agents. Announced in July 2018, this product adds three core AI functionalities to the contact center software tool belt with its Dialogflow feature: virtual agents, AI assistance for human agents, and contact center analytics. Google’s product streamlines inbound and outbound communications by…N/A
GoTo Connect
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
GoToConnect, from GoTo, is a cloud-based business phone system with built-in web-based video conferencing solutions. It includes features such as call analytics, call recording, softphone, fax to email, voicemail to email, and desktop integration.
$27
per month per user
Pricing
Google Cloud Contact Center AIGoTo Connect
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Basic
Starting at $27
per month per user
Standard
Starting at $32
per month per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Google Cloud Contact Center AIGoTo Connect
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsNo-obligation month-to-month account are available, or a long-term contract is available for better deals on service pricing and hardware. GoToConnect provides all features with unlimited use. Customer & Technical support is available 24/7 to resolve any issue. A dedicated onboarding team will help to the phone system set up for any plan.
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Features
Google Cloud Contact Center AIGoTo Connect
Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
Google Cloud Contact Center AI
8.4
Ratings
1% above category average
GoTo Connect
-
Ratings
Agent dashboard8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Validate callers7.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Outbound response8.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Call forwarding8.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Click-to-call (CTC)8.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Warm transfer8.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive dialing8.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Interactive voice response8.40 Ratings00 Ratings
REST APIs7.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Call scripts8.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Call tracking8.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Multichannel integration8.70 Ratings00 Ratings
CRM software integration8.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Product A and Product B
Google Cloud Contact Center AI
8.5
Ratings
3% above category average
GoTo Connect
-
Ratings
Inbound call routing8.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing8.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Recording8.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Quality management8.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Call analytics9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Historical reporting9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Live reporting8.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer surveys8.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics8.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Cloud PBX
Comparison of Cloud PBX features of Product A and Product B
Google Cloud Contact Center AI
-
Ratings
GoTo Connect
8.1
Ratings
2% above category average
Hosted PBX00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)00 Ratings7.70 Ratings
User templates00 Ratings6.80 Ratings
Call reports00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Directory of employee names00 Ratings9.60 Ratings
Call Management
Comparison of Call Management features of Product A and Product B
Google Cloud Contact Center AI
-
Ratings
GoTo Connect
7.9
Ratings
6% below category average
Answering rules00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Call recording00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Call park00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Call screening00 Ratings6.50 Ratings
Message alerts00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
VoIP system collaboration
Comparison of VoIP system collaboration features of Product A and Product B
Google Cloud Contact Center AI
-
Ratings
GoTo Connect
8.2
Ratings
3% above category average
Video conferencing00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Audio conferencing00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Video screen sharing00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Instant messaging00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Mobile apps
Comparison of Mobile apps features of Product A and Product B
Google Cloud Contact Center AI
-
Ratings
GoTo Connect
5.4
Ratings
38% below category average
Mobile app for iOS00 Ratings5.70 Ratings
Mobile app for Android00 Ratings5.00 Ratings
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Google Cloud Contact Center AIGoTo Connect
Small Businesses
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Score 7.2 out of 10
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Score 7.2 out of 10
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Score 7.2 out of 10
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Score 9.1 out of 10
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Score 8.6 out of 10
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User Ratings
Google Cloud Contact Center AIGoTo Connect
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(0 ratings)
9.2
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(0 ratings)
4.9
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(0 ratings)
7.9
(0 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
8.9
(0 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
9.4
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.3
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.4
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
9.4
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Google Cloud Contact Center AIGoTo Connect
Likelihood to Recommend
In a specific scenario in which I would not recommend it, it would be in a hospital, since the level of margin of error must be minimal, human lives are at risk and can cost dearly if Google cloud contact center AI fails, in the scenario in which I would recommend it, it would be in that of a legal company
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I would give it a 10 out of 10 rating just because of the service and easiness it has offered us, which made our work effortless and stress-free. I do recall an instance where one of our clients' medical conditions suddenly deteriorated while he was traveling overseas. The doctors there could not understand his situation at that time. He asked them to connect with our team, and our team guided them with his medical records, and his life was saved
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Pros
  • Google Cloud Contact Center AI is based on the same foundation infrastructure and services as Google Assistant, therefore, it is robust and flexible. The APIs are very well built and documented as well. Any newbie can start using the service with a very little learning curve.
  • Seamless integrations are also a great add-on. Google makes sure that Contact Center AI service integrates well with leading customer service platforms which helps any user to use only the required functionalities from Contact Center AI and meanwhile use any other primary platform.
  • Robust documentation which is always alive and is updated within no time is of great help! Google makes sure its end customers know what to do where and when in clear plain text and any issues/ bugs are also documented.
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  • GoTo Connect is a much more cost-effective solution rather than separate phone lines and video conferencing tools.
  • I conduct daily team meetings and project brainstorming sessions using video conferencing using GoTo Connect.
  • It integrates smoothly with our regularly used tools like Google Drive and has become very easy to share the documents we use.
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Cons
  • It's still in the beginning phase of sentimental Analysis and more data sets can really help during tough conversations.
  • Automation can be made a little simpler and basic for anyone to be able to work on it.
  • Each instance of the software can have its own AI learning for a wider range of real time issues.
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  • Making a dedicated button for "mute all" (other than yourself) for when someone "walks off before they mute"/has to quickly leave their computer....and FORGOT to Mute. Particularly when dogs are barking when someone working from home has a visitor at the door
  • I'd like to see some of the functionality from GoTo Webinar enabled for GoTo Connect: see who's "actively watching" vs has their computer screen on another application
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Likelihood to Renew
We are happy with the implementation and functionality of the software and associated systems. In general, unless something better can replace this system we intend on continuing. We think the ease of systems implementation and integration adds value and substantiates the use and excellent functionality of the product and associated services.
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They are knocking it out of the park on all fronts. I love the service and support I am receiving and have no complaints. If they raised their prices substantially I would reconsider but I don't think that will happen anytime soon. They would have to mess up something consistently moving forward to make me want to move
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Usability
Generally intuitive and easy to learn. I would like more guides but the learning curve is rather quick and makes the software rather an easy study for the average user. Generally, the support and functionality of the software make for a generally good outcome and easy implementation of the software and user experience.
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Overall, it's a decent product for the price. It has the basic features our company needed when it was brand new and was not overly difficult to set up. As we've grown, it's become increasingly difficult to build out the features we want to implement within the PBX, and customer support can be less than helpful. Many of the more advanced features (dial plans, queues, etc.) take a lot of research to understand how to implement. Some of the features we paid for weren't even available when we were attempting to set them up.
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Reliability and Availability
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I have never experienced or heard of unplanned outages when it comes to GoTo Connect. Most of the time the unplanned outage is always local power at a site or internet service provider having an unplanned outage. GoTo's service has never failed any of our orgs yet that I know of.
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Performance
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There is no lag in phone calls. There is no background noise or static/fuzz. Calls are crystal clear. With other dialers and phone systems, I have experienced delays between dialogue or delays with the caller picking up the phone and then being able to hear you. We do not experience this with Go To Connect.
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Support Rating
No answers on this topic
Support used to be great when it was Jive support out of Utah. Now that they've offshored support it can be difficult to get a response. Our most common issues are least cost routing, and we run into support pushing back in stead of just figuring out which upstream carrier is having an issue like they used to. We often have to get our account manager involved, who is pretty strong.
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Online Training
No answers on this topic
The training videos could be more in-depth. This would help our user base so that they can feel impowered to look up information that they need without having to ask our admins every time they have a question about the system. Online training videos are also inferior to an actual person explaining systems.
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Implementation Rating
No answers on this topic
The biggest challenge from implementation was deconstructing the mess that was our old system's config. After doing so, I believe there were primarily some methods that have worked better in the long run to implement up front, such as separating menus into separate dial plans for simpler updates, routing/re-routing.
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Alternatives Considered
Google is a known product that many have used and we didn't see any other competitors having the edge that they do in their products. This is seen in their customer service when it comes to learning how to use the product and they have the resources to self-learn it.
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I have nothing personal against Broadvoice and found their team pleasant to work with. The greatest difference has been the administrative portals. Where Broadvoice was confusing and I still hadn't really been able to figure it out over a period of years past some basic functions, I still had to call to get support just to provision or update phones. With GoTo, I had a functional understanding within a week and a couple years in, it is smooth sailing and no angst when needing to update or troubleshoot an issue and I have access to everything without a phone call. It is true freedom to meet my company's needs.
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Scalability
No answers on this topic
Its not readily apparent to me, other than cost, where you would run into any issues with larger scale deployments. When we went live on the product, the Jive team was always willing to do mass updates for us on our extensions, users, etc. in the system, so we didn't have to do too much manual one-by-one updates.
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Return on Investment
  • Reduced the number of minutes spent by live agents on trivial queries.
  • Our client saved thousands of dollars by using the AI contact center as now the agents spend most of their time solving real issues.
  • Customer satisfaction got increased exponentially.
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  • We stopped losing calls due to poor routing or not being able to make them.
  • It has helped us to be able to answer calls at any time or place, even outside of company hours.
  • We have the possibility to access these conversations from our CRM system.
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ScreenShots

GoTo Connect Screenshots

Screenshot of GoTo App - contact center general settingsScreenshot of GoTo App - meeting chat (in-session)Screenshot of simple setupScreenshot of mobile app - ongoing callScreenshot of session controlsScreenshot of call menu