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Azul Zulu vs Calabrio ONE comparison

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Azul Zulu
Ranking in AI Customer Experience Personalization
26th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
Application Infrastructure (10th), AI Content Creation (12th)
Calabrio ONE
Ranking in AI Customer Experience Personalization
3rd
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
42
Ranking in other categories
Workforce Engagement Management (3rd), AI Scheduling & Coordination (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the AI Customer Experience Personalization category, the mindshare of Azul Zulu is 0.8%, down from 13.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Calabrio ONE is 1.1%, down from 2.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
AI Customer Experience Personalization Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Calabrio ONE1.1%
Azul Zulu0.8%
Other98.1%
AI Customer Experience Personalization
 

Featured Reviews

BasilJiji - PeerSpot reviewer
System engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Standardized our Java estate and have reduced licensing costs while maintaining strong support
Azul Zulu's ability to allow us to standardize our Java estate on a single and well-supported platform stands out as one of its best features. This standardization simplifies our compliance audits and ensures all our applications receive timely security updates.Azul Zulu positively impacts our organization by providing a platform that allows us to standardize Java on a well-supported platform. Without the high cost associated with other proprietary vendors, Azul Zulu provides an excellent platform for running our applications.
Jaleelakadheer Mohideen - PeerSpot reviewer
Operation Planning Associate at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
Improved agent adherence and scheduling have boosted satisfaction but reporting still needs real time
In terms of improvements for Calabrio ONE, since I do not work with forecasting, I think we could collaborate AWS with Calabrio ONE to get live data fed into Calabrio ONE, which would be even greater for forecasting. We pull the majority of our reports through Calabrio ONE, and something I have noticed is that for the intraday report, if we want to pull data at 12:30, we have to wait until 12:45. It is a 15-minute refresher window, which is lagging behind. This delay is the same for any report being pulled. I do not have a grand overview of forecasting, but it generally takes a long time, and my agents have not been able to collaborate AWS with Calabrio ONE in the forecasting aspect. Apart from that, everything else is working great on Calabrio ONE. I would love it if it was more real-time and if I could download the data almost immediately without waiting for that 15-minute buffer. I rate Calabrio ONE a seven because I feel it could be improved. As I mentioned, the 15-minute buffer is an issue, and the real-time feeding into forecasting could be better. If we could control Shift Bags within Calabrio ONE instead of using another application like Teleopti to manage Shift Bags or control overall shifts, that would be even better. Right now, we use a combination of Teleopti and Calabrio ONE to decide the Shift Bags. The quantity and quality of results provided by Calabrio ONE are accurate 95 percent of the time. The forecasting feature in the application might not be the most accurate, which is an area where we do have issues, especially when scheduling breaks at intervals where calls might be at a higher volume. Those are rigged. Apart from that, since breaks and other meetings get allotted automatically, we do have to manually move them around because that forecasting is not accurate. If that could be improved, it would be great.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"We've had no issues with stability."
"We achieved specific outcomes from using Azul Zulu by reducing our Java licensing and support costs by approximately 70% when compared to our previous Oracle contract."
"I joined this project which had already been underway for approximately six months, and in two months, I refactored the whole project and wrote it, and it is functional."
"The customer service has been excellent, and we have received excellent remote and on site support."
"Calabrio ONE is a great product, is user friendly, and has great customer service."
"Calabrio's learning curve is very short, the user interface is extremely easy to use, and I could not be happier with this product."
"Customer Service: The customer service is always very good."
"Our agents have the functionality for partial coverage, this allows them to customize their schedule and still meet our SLA's."
"The dynamic scheduling functionality allows the agents to be more empowered which was not an option on our previous tool."
"Calabrio ONE has positively impacted our organization as the clients were happy with the implementation; they initially used NICE and switched to Calabrio ONE."
"By being able to manage better the time of the agents, and the ease of use thru intraday management, we have been able to move adherence goals from 80 to 85%, and we know that we can even bring it up to 90% in the near future, that alone has made our 6 locations that much more effective, resulting in better customer service for our patients and families."
 

Cons

"Improvements for Azul Zulu could include more automated tools for unused code visibility integrated directly into the standard portal to help further optimize our cloud footprints."
"I think Azul Zulu can be improved by always thinking about productivity, as most languages tend to evolve in that direction."
"It needs a better update daemon. At this time the process is manual and could be an issue on multiple desktop deployments."
"Calabrio ONE can be improved because the biggest challenge is that it is unnecessarily complicated, as the reporting and data exploration tools are somewhat complex for new users."
"The biggest issue that we have come across is the messaging where we receive Time Off Requests."
"Give agents the ability to cancel approved requests for time off. Vacation plans do actually change in the real world."
"What's currently limited is a forum for UK customer to share best practices with and to utilize these connections to ensure that we are using the system to its full capability."
"15 minute intervals across the solution would be of great value."
"Data migration support would have been helpful. Skill groups/mapping was very difficult to understand."
"Some of these new scheduling options are just that, new. So, updates are happening to ensure the product functions the way it was intended."
"We have encountered plenty of deployment issues."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
27%
Construction Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
8%
Financial Services Firm
20%
Outsourcing Company
19%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise38
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Azul Zulu?
I think Azul Zulu can be improved by always thinking about productivity, as most languages tend to evolve in that direction. I have two projects that I am working on in parallel, one using Angular ...
What is your primary use case for Azul Zulu?
My main use case for Azul Zulu in the current project is developing the archiving and unarchiving system. I use Azul Zulu on the back end when I created a REST API, which I use together with Java S...
What advice do you have for others considering Azul Zulu?
My advice to others who are thinking about using Azul Zulu is to try to explore as much as possible what it offers, getting away from the conventional paradigm. I would rate this review as a nine o...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Calabrio ONE?
I do not know about that because my company provided it to me. I do not know about the costing of Calabrio ONE, the licensing, or the setup costs because my organization provided it. I did not hand...
What needs improvement with Calabrio ONE?
The only thing I would say for improvement in Calabrio ONE is the meetings feature that we talked about. Sometimes it doesn't schedule everyone even though there are blocks available, and I'm not s...
What is your primary use case for Calabrio ONE?
My team as a whole uses Calabrio ONE for forecasting, reporting, and scheduling. In my actual role, my day-to-day usage is more focused on scheduling and tools like Intraday Adherence for monitorin...
 

Also Known As

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Calabrio
 

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Sample Customers

Microsoft, Kyocera, OKI, Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, Voya Financial
Polaris, Equifax, Fedex, Rabo, Paychex, Virteva, VITAS Healthcare Corp, Keurig Green Mountain, AT&T, Esurance, Subaru, Boeing, Tiffany & Co., Thomson Reuters.
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