We performed a comparison between Five9 and NICE CXone based on the reviews we collected for contact center solutions, and the below key aspects emerged:
In summary, Five9 is particularly well-suited for organizations seeking a pure cloud contact center solution with strong voice and omnichannel interaction capabilities. Meanwhile, CXone is more appropriate for complex environments that require a mix of cloud and on-premises capabilities.
"The tool enables easier management."
"I like the ease with which we can make changes if necessary. Currently, we are using it for phone and email distribution, but we're talking about adding chat and delving into the omnichannel features more."
"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."
"The reporting is good, and we're testing AI summaries now. Also, the workflow automation feature, so far, has been good."
"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."
"It helped reduce costs in our organization. We've saved on staffing and we've saved on software by 10% to 15%."
"I like the fact that I can customize the cadencing. I can drill in and create custom contact point cadencing for all of our different categories of leads. We attack some people more aggressively, but others much more softly. I have much more confidence that things aren't slipping through the cracks. It continues to bring customers up for us until they've either moved through the cycle or we've removed them from the cycle. It gives us greater peace of mind. The ability to get in quickly and customize many of those pieces easily was appealing to us."
"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."
"It is easy to look up and playback calls with this system as it categorizes the different types of calls that come through my call center. I like that inContact is always updating and continues to improve. The quality of its recorded calls is among the best that I have had experience with."
"We are able to see the calls in queue and able to see if someone is available or not."
"I have found the ease of use of the ACD to be most valuable along with the inView dashboard."
"Customer support is terrific. The team is personable, informed, and responsive."
"inContact has helped our organization greatly by allowing us to see at a glance which agents are available to receive calls and those who are not, we are able to see why not."
"Being able to listen in on a call, which is exceptionally good with training."
"It has the ability to edit the HTML, as well as the WYSIWYG."
"It's easier as a supervisor to do your job more efficiently. You can have multiple things open at once to watch everything, being able to take one look at a page and see everything you need rather then having to flip through multiple programs. This is such a time saver. I get a lot more done in my day due to being able to keep my opened programs down to a minimum."
"The SMS feature could use some improvement as far as the opt-out process goes."
"There are certain issues around features that Chrome has deployed that we have to figure out. When we bring them to Five9's attention, they are usually able to help us navigate them. It seems that sometimes they already know about an issue, so it would be helpful if they more proactively engaged with us first..."
"Maintaining the original DNS on Five9 across campaigns is difficult."
"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."
"What would make Five9 better is a partnership with an SMS AI solution, which would make Five9 pretty powerful."
"I rate Five9 support five out of 10. My experience with Five9 support has been mixed. It's good at times but not particularly helpful sometimes."
"Five9's stability needs to be improved."
"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."
"One of the biggest missing pieces is a link checker."
"MindTouch would greatly benefit by providing a GitHub pull request functionality to foster draft mode and open contribution writing."
"It is a hassle, if you are busy and caught up with something, that it will log you out."
"If you have hundreds of books, the initial download is slow."
"It could improve the quality of calls."
"There are times when the data does not load and you have to keep hitting refresh. More colors and different layouts should be included in the next release."
"I would like to see inView be a built-in feature of CXone rather than a separate platform, but everything else is terrific."
"I have noticed that occasionally the dashboard will freeze and some things may get stuck for a while. For example, if I have a dashboard open that shows how many calls are in queue and how many are currently being handled by agents, sometimes a call that an agent is handling will get stuck on the dashboard after the agent ends the call and the dashboard will show that the call is still a live call. Our tech team has explained this to us as a ghost call. After some time (or maybe many screen refreshes) the call will go away like it has just ended."
Earn 20 points
Five9 is ranked 2nd in Workforce Engagement Management with 19 reviews while NICE CXone is ranked 4th in Workforce Engagement Management. Five9 is rated 8.6, while NICE CXone is rated 8.2. 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 NICE CXone writes "Enables us to have full visualization on all metrics and to manage and staff our center as necessary". Five9 is most compared with Amazon Connect, Cisco Webex Contact Center, Genesys Cloud CX, 8x8 Contact Center and Cisco CCX, whereas NICE CXone is most compared with Nuance IVR, Genesys Cloud CX, Sprinklr, Cisco Webex Contact Center and ServiceNow.
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