We compared Five9 and Genesys Cloud across several parameters based on verified reviews from real users. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Based on user reviews, Genesys Cloud CX has seamless integration with various communication channels, efficient call routing and management, robust reporting and analytics capabilities, and the ability to provide personalized customer experiences. Users highly praise Five9's customer service and support, describing them as prompt, effective, and knowledgeable. While both products have positive feedback on pricing and ROI, Genesys Cloud CX users have expressed the need for better system stability, improved user interface, and enhanced integration capabilities.
"Queue callback, agent skill-based routing, call reporting, and the flexibility to log in from anywhere are some of the most valuable features for our organization."
"Five9 has made our contact center more flexible by taking it to the cloud. The user experience for agents is great because everything is on one dashboard, from the dialer to the workflows for transferring calls and creating tickets."
"Five9 has a lot of AI tools, which I find valuable. It offers transcription services and a power dialer for outbound dialing. I like that Five9 is built for outbound and suitable for that purpose."
"What I found most valuable in Five9 is its AI feature, mainly the feature that gives AI summaries called Agent Assist, where the AI listens to the call, transcribes it, and then creates a summary at the end of the call, which has cut the ACW of agents in half."
"It helped reduce costs in our organization. We've saved on staffing and we've saved on software by 10% to 15%."
"The admin tools are most valuable, such as using the UI to configure all the campaigns and all the settings that we use. Also, the monitoring panels it has are very good. Our supervisors and sales managers build dashboards in the solution so that we can understand how our operation is performing throughout the day. That is very useful."
"Five9's most critical feature is a common user interface that delivers consistent customer service across various channels."
"The reporting is good, and we're testing AI summaries now. Also, the workflow automation feature, so far, has been good."
"Genesys Cloud CX has very good training material and training – instructor-led training, self-paced training, and documentation – things are very organized and helpful."
"Genesys Cloud is an excellent platform."
"The stability is really good."
"What's most valuable in Genesys Cloud is that it's a complete cloud solution, so it's reliable and 99.99% available. It's also elastic. Genesys Cloud also has chatbots, which I find valuable."
"The most valuable features include being an omnichannel solution with customer journey insights, full reporting, and continuous updates based on consumer feedback through their portal."
"Predictive engagement and gamification are valuable features with good inbound functionality."
"What's most valuable in Genesys Cloud is that it's easier to use because everything is already built. Another valuable feature of Genesys Cloud is drag-and-drop."
"The latest version and updates have been great. It really has everything we need."
"Maybe they could do better on how we access all the data if we want the data to work outside of Five9. Sometimes, that's not the easiest process. It's not bad, but if there's an area for improvement, that could be one."
"There have also been some challenges in being able to keep the format of an original email. The solution acts as a proxy, but it's not bringing over the full format that the email came in with... Five9's email channel isn't as good as some other vendors' email channels that I've seen. But there is an upgrade coming..."
"Five9's stability needs to be improved."
"The pricing could be improved. It is set in US dollars, so it doesn't account for the exchange rate with other regions."
"It would be ideal if they could combine the tools into one suite."
"I would like to see more of the functions from the original Five9 adapter included in the Salesforce Plus adapter, as they do not automatically update when Five9 releases new features."
"An area for improvement in Five9 is the reporting on the emails, as it's not very user-friendly. It's a bit tricky because you must manually add filters to see how many emails each agent answers."
"There are some minor issues with some of their filtering that I'd like them to handle on their back end. The only limitation I can think of is that I'm always looking backward and can't look forward. I can't see how many calls are scheduled for tomorrow based on our system."
"The whole process of creating an agent is quite long and automating quite a bit of that would be very helpful."
"I would like to see some of that functionality or features from Genesys Engage added to Genesys Cloud."
"Reporting isn't the best feature of Genesys Cloud and could be improved. You can't customize reports and applications on Genesys Cloud."
"Issues can happen during technical troubleshooting, which is completely out of our hands compared to the on-premise solution."
"The tool's pricing could be more flexible, and there should be clearer indications of consumption and fair usage policies."
"Process automation in Genesys Cloud is an area for improvement. It's quite a new feature and still has room for improvement."
"Pricing is the biggest criterion for improvement. If I compare the pricing between Amazon Connect and Genesys Cloud CX, there is a huge difference."
"AI still needs improvement when it comes to predictive engagement."
Five9 is ranked 2nd in Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) with 20 reviews while Genesys Cloud CX is ranked 1st in Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) with 9 reviews. Five9 is rated 8.6, while Genesys Cloud CX is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Five9 writes "Interaction analytics evaluates all our agents' calls, helping us identify and train agents who are struggling". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Genesys Cloud CX writes "Offers built-in AI functionality, broad third-party integrations, out-of-the-box AI features and designed specifically for contact centers ". Five9 is most compared with Amazon Connect, Cisco Webex Contact Center, 8x8 Contact Center, NICE CXone and Cisco Contact Center Enterprise, whereas Genesys Cloud CX is most compared with Genesys PureConnect, Amazon Connect, NICE CXone, Cisco CCX and Aspect Workforce Optimization. See our Five9 vs. Genesys Cloud CX report.
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