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- Call forwarding (56)7.777%
- Call tracking (55)7.777%
- Agent dashboard (55)6.767%
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Genesys Cloud CX (formerly PureCloud, Genesys Cloud) is a contact center application optimized for automatic call distribution, interactive voice response, email, social media, chat, and text/SMS. It is also a VoIP interconnect service provider.
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Contact Center Software
Contact center software allows companies to manage inbound and outbound customer communications across a range of channels at scale, and may or may not include call reporting analytics. These channels can include voice (phone), email, fax, VoIP, webchat, video chat, and social media platforms.
- 6.7Agent dashboard(55) Ratings
Enables agents to track and view their individual and team performance.
- 7.5Validate callers(48) Ratings
Authenticates inbound callers with a customer ID.
- 8.5Outbound response(41) Ratings
Allows agents to make outgoing responses via different communication channels (e.g. phone, SMS/text, live chat, messaging apps etc..).
- 7.7Call forwarding(56) Ratings
Forwarding of calls to the appropriate agents.
- 8Click-to-call (CTC)(43) Ratings
Allows one-click calling for agents.
- 8.3Warm transfer(57) Ratings
Allows current agent to speak with new agent before call is transferred.
- 8Predictive dialing(36) Ratings
Dials multiple numbers at once and connects the salesperson if a live speaker answers.
- 8Interactive voice response(45) Ratings
Pre-recorded greeting and menu options a customer can select from a telephone keypad.
- 7REST APIs(37) Ratings
Open APIs, SDKs, and supporting documentation, that enable businesses to customize and build on the Contact Center platform.
- 8.5Call scripts(39) Ratings
Providing agents with a predefined conversation script.
- 7.7Call tracking(55) Ratings
Enables agents and managers to see the origin of the call.
- 9Multichannel integration(44) Ratings
Ability to collect, store, and share customer data across communication channels such as voice (phone), email, fax, SMS/text, video, web chat, and social media
- 8CRM software integration(38) Ratings
Allows agents to access aggregated customer information and call history data, enabling them to view a comprehensive history of a customer’s interactions.
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Tools that allow managers or team leaders to evaluate and track agent performance.
- 6.5Inbound call routing(51) Ratings
Connecting inbound callers to agents based on wait time, call priority, or whether any specific skills or knowledge is required to handle the call.
- 6.5Omnichannel inbound routing(39) Ratings
Connecting inbound communications (coming from a variety of channels) to agents based on wait time, call priority, or whether any specific skills or knowledge is required to handle the call.
- 4.5Recording(52) Ratings
Record conversations to improve service quality by evaluating agent-customer interactions.
- 4.5Quality management(46) Ratings
Ability to monitor conversation content, administer evaluations, establish policies etc..
- 3Call analytics(43) Ratings
Gathers key performance indicators (KPIs) such as average time in the queue, average call abandonment rate, average handle time (AHT), average speed of answer etc..
- 5Historical reporting(52) Ratings
Ability to analyze long-term call patterns and trends such as peak call times and downtimes.
- 6.5Live reporting(48) Ratings
Ability to analyze real-time agent-customer interactions such as how long a caller has in the queue and call script deviation.
- 7.9Customer surveys(35) Ratings
Allows agents to gather post-interaction feedback from customers on the communication channel of their choice.
- 5Customer interaction analytics(30) Ratings
The process of taking unstructured interaction data across channels (audio, video, email, text etc..) and formatting it so that it can be searched and categorized based on interaction patterns.
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Genesys PureConnect (discontinued) Features
Contact Center Software Features
- Supported: Agent dashboard
- Supported: Validate callers
- Supported: Outbound response
- Supported: Call forwarding
- Supported: Click-to-call (CTC)
- Supported: Warm transfer
- Supported: Predictive dialing
- Supported: Interactive voice response
- Supported: REST APIs
- Supported: Call scripts
- Supported: Call tracking
- Supported: Multichannel integration
- Supported: CRM software integration
- Supported: Automatic speech recognition (ASR)
- Supported: Natural language processing for IVR
- Supported: Communications forecasting
Workforce Optimization (WFO) Features
- Supported: Inbound call routing
- Supported: Omnichannel inbound routing
- Supported: Recording
- Supported: Quality management
- Supported: Call analytics
- Supported: Historical reporting
- Supported: Live reporting
- Supported: Customer surveys
- Supported: Customer interaction analytics
Omnichannel support Features
- Supported: Email
- Supported: Voice (phone)
- Supported: VoIP
- Supported: SMS/Text
- Supported: Video channel
- Supported: Live chat channel
- Supported: Co-browse
- Supported: Social media channels
- Supported: Mobile applications
Predictive Analytics Features
- Supported: Intelligent call routing
- Supported: Chatbots
- Supported: AI assistance for live agents
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Genesys PureConnect (discontinued) Competitors
- Avaya IP Office
- Cisco
- inContact
Genesys PureConnect (discontinued) Technical Details
Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Windows |
Mobile Application | iPad Supervisor |
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- 8.6Likelihood to Renew12 ratings
- 9.1Availability3 ratings
- 8.8Performance3 ratings
- 7.3Usability12 ratings
- 4Support Rating12 ratings
- 8.3Online Training3 ratings
- 8.2In-Person Training4 ratings
- 6.1Implementation Rating7 ratings
- 9Configurability2 ratings
- 8.2Product Scalability3 ratings
- 8.1Ease of integration2 ratings
- 8.8Vendor pre-sale3 ratings
- 8.8Vendor post-sale3 ratings
Reviews
(1-3 of 3)Genesys PureConnect Review
- PureConnect's customization through the c# API, web API and handlers is fairly welcoming to customization with a fair amount of supporting documentation.
- The dial plan in PureConnect is one of the best laid out that I have seen in a contact center product. It is very readable.
- The ability to farm out responsibilities like agent onboarding and terms to department level users through granular security is a real timesaver.
- The ease of setup of the platform of itself is practically unheard of in the call center space. Simple Windows wizards with easy to follow documentation and you can very easily have an environment that can pass BFT.
- The hub and spoke model of services employed by the core engine of pureconnect is very reliable.
- Genesys development strategy over the years has allowed the platform to become somewhat stagnant. Too much emphasis was put on PureCloud which is not an adequate replacement for PureConnect and the platform was only given bug fixes for a few years.
- The built in voicemail function feels like an afterthought and requires user action to complete polling for messages.
- They take far to long to address very basic SCRs (change requests for bugs) unless they are service impacting.
- Their entry level support has degraded somewhat since the acquisition.
I can't say that I would generally recommend this platform any longer. Genesys has outsourced their support for the PureConnect application family to a 3rd party that has had significant difficulties in the transition. All of their sales are marketing efforts are geared towards their cloud offerings. They are ending their sale of non-subscription licensing for the platform as of Feb 2022 as well, which is unfortunate as all estimates we have for migrating to their subscription model (even with the licensing bundling they have done) would lead to an increase in the tco of the platform.
If you already have this platform, it's great. If you're shopping around, I think you have better options.
- Webservice integration and customizations via handlers
- Ease of use of the client applications
- Platform stability
- Agent dashboard
- 30%3.0
- Validate callers
- 70%7.0
- Outbound response
- 80%8.0
- Call forwarding
- 80%8.0
- Click-to-call (CTC)
- 40%4.0
- Warm transfer
- 80%8.0
- Predictive dialing
- 80%8.0
- Interactive voice response
- 90%9.0
- REST APIs
- 100%10.0
- Call scripts
- 80%8.0
- Call tracking
- 90%9.0
- Multichannel integration
- 80%8.0
- CRM software integration
- 80%8.0
- Inbound call routing
- 90%9.0
- Omnichannel inbound routing
- 90%9.0
- Recording
- 90%9.0
- Quality management
- 60%6.0
- Call analytics
- 80%8.0
- Historical reporting
- 70%7.0
- Live reporting
- 90%9.0
- Customer surveys
- 60%6.0
- Customer interaction analytics
- 60%6.0
- The initial setup of the platform and deployment had a negative impact, as Interactive Intelligence sales oversold licenses and poorly designed the system with things like redundant imonitor servers and redundant storage servers that cannot properly be leveraged.
- Inbound contact center traffic
- IVR self service
- Reporting and analysis of historical interactions.
- Workforce utilization and activity monitoring.
- Self Service IVR payments
- Replacing a legacy self service system that relied on a mainframe
- Broaden contact channels by adding an SMS broker
- expanding existing contact channels to further agencies
- additional integrations to bolster self service offerings.
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Implemented in-house
- Determining what features were critical enough to host them in our backup location (balancing the expense vs the value add)
- Working with a 3rd party doing a PSO design implementation for the customer's IVR while we were building the environment internally.
- Online training
- In-person training
From a supervisor's perspective, the amount of visibility you have into the contact center activity is fantastic. It does require some upfront configuration to get the most out of it, but nothing is particular complex or convoluted. The built in help is a key feature for supervisory applications like IC Business Manager and Interaction Administrator.
From an administrative perspective, the platform just works. It's very easy to set up and can be fairly hands off after it is up and running. Some of the log files can be a tad obtuse when trying to find information that should be relatively easy to expose (main example, who changed a user's status or reporting on license usage) that just isn't easy to obtain or there at all, but for the most part administration and setup is easy.
- Inbound attendant configuration.
- Configuring and customizing the dial plan
- Extending attendant and other functionality using call handlers
- User provisioning
- Management of workgroup skills
- Getting worthwhile data out of the built in reports
As far as IVR operations, web service calls, database operations: they all operate reasonably.
- Upgrades contain rolled up bug fixes
- Genesys is using the upgrades as an avenue to add more functionality to Interaction Connect
- Modern features trickling in from PureCloud and PureEngage (widgets, WebRTC, co-browse chat)
- more Dutch red...
- Chat switching from the current IIS hosted version to the new widget that just uses the web server as a reverse proxy
- Support for Windows server 2016
- Full TLS 1.2 support
Genesys PureConnect
- Intelligently routes customer calls to the most experienced agents.
- Interaction Process Automation allows us to streamline business processes and manage the work.
- Call recording allows us to perform quality assurance on our agents to ensure they are handling the customer the best way possible.
- Ability to write custom handlers to extend the out-of-the-box functionality allows us to increase efficiency of handling business processes.
- None, this product does everything we need it to do and so much more!
- Agent dashboard
- 80%8.0
- Validate callers
- 80%8.0
- Outbound response
- 90%9.0
- Call forwarding
- 80%8.0
- Click-to-call (CTC)
- 70%7.0
- Warm transfer
- 90%9.0
- REST APIs
- 90%9.0
- Call tracking
- 90%9.0
- Multichannel integration
- 90%9.0
- Inbound call routing
- 90%9.0
- Omnichannel inbound routing
- 90%9.0
- Recording
- 90%9.0
- Quality management
- 90%9.0
- Call analytics
- 90%9.0
- Historical reporting
- 90%9.0
- Live reporting
- 90%9.0
- Customer surveys
- 90%9.0
- Customer interaction analytics
- 90%9.0
- It has improved our ability to support our customers.
- It has improved agent satisfaction.
- Enhanced IVR to provide self service to the customer.
- Web chat to allow customers different ways of engaging our agents.
- Ability to have the customer contact our agents via SMS messages.
- Ability to customize to meet business needs.
- Process Automation helps reduce work time for escalated issues.
- IVR allows us to help customers as quickly as possible.
- Ability to recognize store phone numbers and route those with higher priority and to a specialized team of agents.
- Integrates with the Oracle Service Cloud to provide agents with custom screen pops.
- Dynamic routing of emails using Handlers to decrease response time on escalated issues.
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
- Analyst Reports
- None
- Online training
- In-person training
- Self-taught
- IVR management is straightforward.
- Setting up new queues.
- Managing new users.
- None
- Oracle Service Cloud
- Calabrio
- File import/export
- API (e.g. SOAP or REST)
- Javascript widgets
- Staying on a current release to ensure we get all the necessary patches.
- Improved chat platform
- Improved Chat Platform
- Social monitoring.
A stable dialler and telecom solution for over 15 years
- Optional features that can be enabled
- Disaster save using different locations for the PBX servers in a WAN / LAN setup
- The solution can grow and shrink with the size of the organisation.
- The solution seemless integrates with our Latitude platform.
- Secure IVR integration.
- The integrated Analyser is not very good and to manual to tune and maintain.
- The workforce management should integrate better with the outbound dialler.
- Integration with more and different CRM systems
- More out of the box plug-ins for Workforce Management systems.
- Agent dashboard
- 70%7.0
- Call forwarding
- 100%10.0
- Click-to-call (CTC)
- 100%10.0
- Warm transfer
- 100%10.0
- Predictive dialing
- 100%10.0
- Interactive voice response
- 100%10.0
- REST APIs
- 70%7.0
- Call scripts
- 100%10.0
- Call tracking
- 100%10.0
- Multichannel integration
- 100%10.0
- CRM software integration
- 100%10.0
- Inbound call routing
- 100%10.0
- Omnichannel inbound routing
- 100%10.0
- Recording
- 100%10.0
- Quality management
- 100%10.0
- Call analytics
- 90%9.0
- Historical reporting
- 90%9.0
- We can replace our 3rd party web chat with the platform integrated one
- We can use the integrated survey system to replace the 3rd party one we use now
- Outbound dialling of campaigns with segmentation of targetes by campaign types, time of day and period of the week and month.
- Inbound call handling. The system is used in a blended way, therefore call volumes on inbound queues will throttle the outbound campaigns.
- Secure automated payments using the integrated solution will reduce per payment cost that other solutions have and is majorly less expensive then 3rd party solutions.
- Integrated with the Latitude debt collection platform (also Genesys owned) and the ability of linking diallers scripting directly with Latitude accounts.
- Originally we were looking for a 3rd party secure payment option to get PCI DSS compliant when we found out that there was an integrated solution available.
- Product Features
- Prior Experience with the Product
- Analyst Reports
- Implemented in-house
- The diallers agent interface was new and required some adjusting.
- Implementing upgrades requires the same amount of testing to ensure that things don’t break in between versions.
- Online training
- In-person training
- Self-taught
- Consult transfers, looking up colleagues and see their availability.
- Listen in or to recordings and scoring call recordings which helps agents to get training in their weak areas and to ensure company wide quality.
- Moving agents across campaigns in- or out-bound.
- Implementing the right dialler rules can be a little tricky without the appropriate skills and experience.
- We use Latitude debt collection (also owned by Genesys)
- Integrated with our Card Payment System
- We’re not looking at integration with other platforms in near future
- API (e.g. SOAP or REST)
- Fixing some long outstanding bugs that caused dialler issues.
- Ability to use newer phones
- Enable the use of secure IVR
- Use of newest phones
- Bug fixes (stability)
- Use of latest features in agent application.