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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 14, 2024
 

Categories and Ranking

Five9
Ranking in Contact Center Platforms
3rd
Ranking in Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS)
3rd
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
Workforce Engagement Management (2nd), Contact Center Infrastructure (1st), Sales Force Automation (4th)
LinkLive
Ranking in Contact Center Platforms
4th
Ranking in Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS)
5th
Average Rating
8.8
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
Help Desk Software (10th)
 

Featured Reviews

DN
Jun 17, 2024
Easily integrated into our custom dashboards, provides great visibility into data, and has great reporting
The workflow automation is incredible for aggregating information and providing visibility into data and performance. The workflow automation helped us a lot because we could use different skills to get various people. Our programmer easily integrated the Five9 APIs into our custom dashboard, allowing for real-time data access. This was incredibly useful because we could create alerts based on Five9 data, something impossible with our previous tool. This provided us with immediate insights into issues, like high call volume, that would have gone unnoticed otherwise. Five9's strength lies in its reporting, ease of tracking, and ability to cater to both large and small businesses. Despite our company's size, Five9 offered the features and functionality we'd expect from a system used by major call centers, making it feel like we were playing in the big leagues. Five9's impact was immediate. Its automated workflow handling eliminated our inefficient, linear system where tasks had to be passed sequentially from agent to agent. Five9's ability to split and parse tasks automatically not only improved performance but also reduced costs, even though our previous system cost less. Five9 helped us reduce dropped calls, which was a major improvement. We used to have a 12-16 percent abandonment rate, and while other factors played a role, Five9's contribution was significant. Additionally, their "whisper" feature is a great training tool. It allows us to coach agents during live calls without the customer hearing, making it a valuable resource for onboarding new staff. The improved supervisor tools allowed for more efficient agent tracking, which in turn boosted productivity. This eliminated downtime and ensured agents were focused on their tasks. Five9 helped us improve our agents' ability to answer calls quickly. The targeted problem-solving capabilities improved our CSS and benefitted the entire business. The high-quality data from Five9's porting function allowed us to pinpoint issues and develop solutions based on that data.
Amanda Osier - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 13, 2022
The chatbot has helped reduce the call volume because it can answer simple questions
One of the primary features we use it for is the Agent Connect screen-sharing feature. I find it invaluable when troubleshooting customer problems with online banking. It saves us time, and time is money. LinkLive lets you switch between modes on the fly. When chatting with somebody, I can just throw our fee schedule into a chat or an address change form if they need it. I also like that when customers are logged into online banking, it shows that they're authenticated. It's good to know our chats are encrypted, providing a safe way for customers to message us. We also have policies to safeguard their personal information. For example, we ask them not to send their account number over the chat or anything. At the same time, it's good to know that it's not easily hacked. They can see all our chats. Our federal auditors are here, and they requested LinkLive's security agreement. I just gave that to them yesterday.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The reporting is good, and we're testing AI summaries now. Also, the workflow automation feature, so far, has been good."
"It helped reduce costs in our organization. We've saved on staffing and we've saved on software by 10% to 15%."
"Agent Assist and AI server are the two best features because they remind new and existing agents about tips and generate detailed case summaries, saving them the time and effort of making small modifications before posting."
"When it comes to drop calls, we don't have a problem. They are performing to our satisfaction."
"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 product’s IVR script editor is very easy and simple to use."
"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."
"The admin platform is easy to use and navigate. That has been incredibly useful for us because it has given us the ability to self-provision in a lot of situations. The ability to create and track data elements has also been a valuable addition."
"One of the primary features we use it for is the Agent Connect screen-sharing feature. I find it invaluable when troubleshooting customer problems with online banking. It saves us time, and time is money."
"Being the president of our organization, I love the secured email because there are a lot of messages that I have to send out that are secure. There have not been any issues with sending the messages or with individuals receiving and viewing them."
"It's very reliable and we haven't had much experience with any downtime or dropped calls, which, of course, is one of the most important things to us. That's been a big win for us."
"LinkLive gives us a central location for our communication channels and that is very important. I can go back and see if someone has a complaint. Although our users are spread out, everything, all the conversations, is housed in one place. I can keep up with the conversations. The interface works wonderfully."
"The presentation of calls within the applications used to access conference call forwarding is straightforward and user-friendly."
"LinkLive makes us more progressive in terms of efficiency and productivity. It is just a better customer experience."
"Our agents find the authenticated session feature to be the most helpful. It can take 30 to 45 seconds to verify someone with verifying questions through digital banking, and we didn't have the capability of verifying questions through digital banking before LinkLive. This feature allowed us to work in partnership with our digital banking provider, who can see that a customer is within an authenticated digital banking session. They do not need to ask verifying questions again to ensure that the person is who they say they are. That is one of the nicest things for us, and especially for our agents."
"There are so many valuable features. One of the things that we really appreciate is the uptime. LinkLive rarely, if ever, goes down or disconnects calls. We appreciate that we don't have to be concerned about dropping calls or losing a customer mid-call as a result of those issues."
 

Cons

"Five9 has an active-passive high-availability model. I would prefer active-active."
"What would make Five9 better is a partnership with an SMS AI solution, which would make Five9 pretty powerful."
"The knowledge base of their support is not as strong as the IVR build."
"The pricing could be improved. It is set in US dollars, so it doesn't account for the exchange rate with other regions."
"Integration with third-party solutions can be difficult and has room for improvement."
"Five9's stability needs to be improved."
"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."
"Maintaining the original DNS on Five9 across campaigns is difficult."
"In our experience, the areas where there could be improvement are training, staff adoption, and getting the staff comfortable with utilizing the complexities of LinkLive, such as screen sharing."
"The onboarding process could be enhanced by providing comprehensive training to all users, not just administrators."
"Our agents have made some requests for some automated responses and some ways that they could improve the way those get pushed out. Right now, the way that canned responses are set up, they could be set up with as many responses as you want. However, the one thing that they liked from our previous providers is that you could categorize responses. So, if you have a certain area where you might have four or five responses related to one topic, then you could easily just click on the topic and see your responses. That is one area which is not a huge deal, but it gives back those five seconds that you are looking for a response to get more lengthy responses out to a customer. It would be nicer to have that a little bit more available."
"The notifications for incoming chats could be a little more obvious. Our organization doesn't have a call center, so we don't have someone sitting at the computer waiting for a chat to come in. They're busy with other work."
"I would like LinkLive to rework the notification system. There's an audible sound, and an alert pops up on the screen. However, in Microsoft Teams, an unviewed chat message appears red on my taskbar. That doesn't happen in LinkLive. My only enhancement request is to improve the notifications."
"On the back-office side, it houses email addresses for when you look at the agent hunt groups. I can't use my work email address in my own online banking account because it messes up whether I'm an employee or a customer."
"I would like to see more video conferencing, some degree of mobile apps, and artificial intelligence. That's the wave of the future with healthcare. Our providers are all on-the-go, so anything that allows them to remain mobile and not have to go to a desk to take a phone call, would be a good addition."
"In the browser-based experience, I would love to see a hold button. Presently, you have to drag the hold music into a call and then drag it out. A hold button would really be easier, particularly if you have to put someone on hold multiple times."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The cost is not at the lower end of the market, but it's worth it."
"The product's pricing is flexible and reasonable."
"The product is not the most expensive, but it's not cheap."
"Five9 is reasonable."
"I prefer Five9's licensing model."
"The pricing seems reasonable. I had anticipated that whatever solution we went with would be more expensive. I was actually pleasantly surprised that the features that we had in Evolve IP, one-to-one, did not cost significantly more in Five9."
"Their license structure, out of the box, is better than that of other providers and their pricing is much less than other vendors we've looked at."
"Five9 is expensive, but most companies would find that using it is worth the cost."
"The pricing is fair."
"In terms of cost, LinkLive was similar to other products. I find it reasonable. Its features, for the cost, were a better deal comparatively speaking."
"We have been very comfortable with the pricing. We are a smaller financial institution so pricing is always a factor. We feel that we are just getting a ton of value for what we are spending."
"The pricing is exceptionally competitive, and the value we receive from LinkLive for the cost is a significant advantage."
"You definitely get more bang for the money with LinkLive.You can get a more expensive product that does what this one does, and possibly more, but for the cost, it works perfectly with our core system."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
17%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Healthcare Company
7%
Computer Software Company
52%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Healthcare Company
7%
Real Estate/Law Firm
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Five9?
I like the capability of call and screen recording. It has helped us to hold our agents accountable to the expectations for the role. It creates a clearer picture than giving feedback that is just ...
What needs improvement with Five9?
Five9 outages have been a concern for us. While I'm unsure of the industry benchmark, we've experienced three or four incidents in the past year, which feels excessive. Ideally, we'd see a signific...
What is your primary use case for Five9?
We used Five9 in a call center for a bike delivery company. We transitioned to a new call center but opted to keep using the Five9 software we were familiar with from our previous provider.
What do you like most about Revation LinkLive?
The presentation of calls within the applications used to access conference call forwarding is straightforward and user-friendly.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Revation LinkLive?
The pricing is exceptionally competitive, and the value we receive from LinkLive for the cost is a significant advantage.
What needs improvement with Revation LinkLive?
The onboarding process could be enhanced by providing comprehensive training to all users, not just administrators. This would ensure that everyone is well-equipped to utilize the features effectiv...
 

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