Cisco Contact Center Reviews & Pricing

Key Features

• Cloud Contact Center
  • Unified Open Platform: Enhance workflow efficiency and business processes, and integrate with business tools with its open platform architecture, agent desktop, management and reporting.
  • Routing and Queue Management: Distribute calls intelligently across teams, agents and remote agents in multiple sites. Create routing strategies to leverage skill assignments at the agent or team level. Match agent skill set and availability with customer needs, priorities and values.
  • Call Distribution: Prioritize call distribution depending on agent capabilities, Designate the way calls are distributed to salespeople and reroute them to another available agent if the prior one is elusive. Put the non-responsive worker to an unavailable state to avoid sending them calls and toggle their status back to an active state once they’re back.
  • Flow Builder: Build custom contact flows over system-generated events, including transfer, hang-up and agent answer, while handling customers with precise routing and workflows. Create, edit or validate flows before publication through an automatic drag-and-drop UI interface. Configure Call Associated Data (CAD) variables, courtesy callbacks and transfer activity based on Estimated Wait Time (EWT) and Place In Queue (PIQ) while customers hear music. Enable custom flow requests, including Dual-Tone Multi-Frequency (DTMF), playing prompts, touchtone menus, digit collection, screen pops, triggers for feedback and music in the queue with Webex Experience Management.
  • Wrap-Up Codes: Create deposition codes to track the reason for an agent’s inactivity and call’s end.
  • Callback Options: Offer customers the option to leave their contact numbers and receive a callback from agents rather than waiting in a long queue.
  • Disaster Recovery: Redirect traffic during unexpected emergencies such as transport facility outages, natural disasters and power disruptions. Be productive anytime and anywhere only with the availability of a computer, internet connectivity and phone.
  • Single Sign-On: With a one-time login, you can access all Webex applications. Integrate all call center solutions with your Webex Control Hub identity.
  • Webex Control Hub: Offer a blended administration experience for all collaboration services such as messaging, calling and contact center. Enable a simplified and seamless onboarding experience to users for multiple collaboration services through a unified interface along with security, control entitlements and compliance
  • Management Portal: Set up simple, flexible call flows and routing strategies, direct multi-skilled sales representatives to queues and administer a Default Outdial Automatic Number Identification (ANI). Monitor team performances in real time via call monitoring and dashboards, analyze customer trends by accessing historical reporting and analytics and log out team members who are inactive through the agent state dashboard.
  • Supervisory Features: Access calls and listen to conversations from a dial-in connection or corporate network without the agent or caller's knowledge. Barge in or coach during the call at any time and train the agent privately during a live discussion.
  • Email Channel Capabilities: Pull emails from multiple accounts, set up a template with signatures and greetings, route messages by the subject line keyword analysis and edit emails with rich-text capabilities. Access add-on capabilities such as attachment support with configurable limits, wrap-up codes, audible indicators for new emails, conversation history and grouping. Access email reporting in the analyzer and multi-session support for contacts.
  • Text/Social Media Capabilities: Access various features, including secure interactions, wrap-up code for chats, blind/consult transferring and conferencing, submission of customer satisfaction (CSAT) surveys, reporting on text/social interactions in Analyzer and customer satisfaction history on social channels.
  • Virtual Agent (Chat and Voice): Offer a 24/7 intuitive, self-service experience across multiple channels with a bot for less complex and simple inquiries to customers. Reduce calls to agents, leading to better customer experiences and improved productivity. Improve call containment with fewer calls escalating to agents, automate more business transactions using self-service and relieve agents from mundane and repetitive tasks.
  • CRM Integrations: CRM Integrations: Improve workflows with pre-built connectors for integration with several leading CRM systems, including Zendsk, Salesforce and MS Dynamics.
  • Flexible Cloud Migration: Take the first steps to the cloud with the "cloud-first-not-cloud-only” approach. With advanced hybrid cloud and flexible consumption services, you can achieve cloud innovation without disturbing existing on-premise models.
• On-Premise Contact Center
  • Finesse Desktop: Improve agent performances through customizable supervisor and agent desktop layouts, personalized heading and logo, blended agents with outbound and inbound capability, screen-pop-ups with complete information about customers, phonebook, E 164 support, multi-session web chat, live data reporting, agent state and call history and drag and drop gadgets
  • Customer Surveys: Conduct surveys to understand the client’s needs and serve them better. View self-assessments and compare with other team members and boost productivity.
  • Home Agents: Use Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) phone devices to transfer, accept, disconnect and conference calls while Cisco Unified CCX handles interactions.
  • Workflows: Allow simple and easy configuration of complex screen-up actions via REST APIs and Finesse HTTP. Set up actions and workflows for digital and voice channels using an intuitive, logic-based interface that offers better service and reduces handle times.
  • Cloud Connect: Enable customers to connect an on-premises solution to the product’s highly redundant and secure Webex Contact Center and deliver new services and consistent reporting.
  • Next-Generation Reporting: Get live and historical data and dashboards along with flexible presentation options through the Unified Intelligence Center. View historical and live or custom reports depending on the information that needs tracking via existing studies.
  • Open System: Take advantage of hardware platforms to enable various benefits at a modest hardware cost. Access features, including Open Database Connectivity (ODBC)-compliant databases and Java interfaces for CTI applications and integrate them with existing solutions while preserving investments and offering a platform with modern applications.
  • Smart Licensing: Manage licenses across the business with a more agile method and let customers pool licenses across various sites. Redeploy when required and increase usage during burst requirements.
• Cloud Applications
  • Predictive Analysis: Make informed decisions regarding improving customer and agent experience for positive business outcomes.
  • Financial Analysis: Access a one-page, boardroom-ready financial analysis to get budget and buy-in approval for customer experience initiatives.
  • Journey Path Analysis: Solve the attributes impacting financial metrics and customer experience to get better results.
  • Theme Analysis: Get 95% accuracy while analyzing the theme and sentiment of customers’ unstructured data through AI and machine learning.
  • Dashboards: Create a personalized dashboard and access real-time performances of agents through KPIs, comparisons and analysis.
  • Actionable Insights: Track customer experience and improve performances by turning mounds of data into real-time measurable actions through customer journey maps.
  • Closing The Loop: Improve customer experiences by listening to all customer responses and handling them in real time
  • Question Builder: Add, delete and modify questions easily. Create surveys to analyze customer experience across all channels and touchpoints.

Approach to Common Challenges

• Enhancing Productivity: Cisco's call center software automates various tasks like call routing, monitoring and recording, allowing agents to focus on resolving customer issues more efficiently. The Cisco Finesse web-based interface enables agents to accurately display their availability status (ready, not ready, talking), helping other representatives and supervisors stay informed.
• Improving Security and Compliance: Cisco's cloud-based solutions provide advanced security features to protect customer data, including encryption, user access controls and data backup. This ensures customer information remains secure and compliant with industry regulations.
• Ensuring Smooth Management: Cisco Contact Center Express provides supervisors with tools to monitor critical performance metrics, manage queues and campaigns, view active call details, silently monitor calls and replay recorded conversations. These features enable supervisors to lead positive customer service experiences.
• Omnichannel Support: Cisco's cloud contact center solutions enable customers to connect through various channels including SMS, voice, chat, email and social media. This allows businesses to provide a seamless and consistent customer experience across all touchpoints.

Cost of Ownership

Limitations

• Doesn’t offer power dialer functionality.
• Call center and agent scripting are supported with custom development.

Training Resources

• Cisco Community: Connect with peers and Cisco to discuss tools that help teams work better together. These include contact centers, internet-based phone systems, apps for video calls and messaging and high-tech video conferencing (telepresence).

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