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Genesys Cloud CX vs Microsoft Dynamics CRM comparison

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Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
5.6
Genesys Cloud CX boosts profit margins, user satisfaction, call response, and efficiency, making it a justified investment despite higher costs.
Sentiment score
6.8
Microsoft Dynamics CRM enhances operations, boosting efficiency and ROI, despite high costs, with benefits varying by industry and implementation.
After implementing Genesys Cloud CX, we achieved a 97% call response rate compared to 80% with our previous self-service software.
Founder at SJT Consult
We have seen a very good return on investment using Genesys Cloud CX, achieving growth of 117% this fiscal year, which is beyond our expectations, mainly due to customer retention and onboarding.
senior executive at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
In terms of cost-effectiveness, I find Genesys Cloud CX provides overall ROI benefits; however, after the first year, customers usually expect lower pricing at the time of renewal.
Cx Product Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
I recommend that those considering Microsoft Dynamics CRM conduct an ROI exercise to determine scalability and complex business needs because it is indeed a fantastic tool, especially if Microsoft can provide a better commercial model, which can significantly impact cost-effectiveness.
Chief Digital Officer at Cipher7
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.2
Genesys Cloud CX support is reliable and praised, though smaller companies may face delays and third-party dependency issues.
Sentiment score
5.6
Microsoft Dynamics CRM support is responsive but inconsistent; premium plans and local partners improve service for large enterprises.
They respond swiftly, often resolving problems within two to three hours.
senior executive at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The impact of the real-time dashboards on the decision-making processes is excellent.
Cx Product Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Many agents report not receiving alerts or calls consistently—missing two or three calls out of thirty on a given day.
Associate | Genesys Cloud Developer at Conizant Technological Solutions
I would rate customer support as ten out of ten.
CISO at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
When we create a technical ticket for Microsoft, mostly the ETA is two to three days, but we mostly get responded to in 24 hours.
Principal Consultant at Systems Limited
While the support operates within their standard SLA, it can be difficult to speak directly with someone over the phone.
Head of Digital Transformation at Simplified Consulting
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.4
Genesys Cloud CX excels in scalability, seamless integration, and performance, requiring infrastructure readiness for optimal user expansion and management.
Sentiment score
7.3
Microsoft Dynamics CRM offers scalability and adaptability, though customizations, standalone stability, and license management can pose challenges.
We have not faced any issues such as system slowness or degraded call quality despite handling over 200,000 calls.
Associate | Genesys Cloud Developer at Conizant Technological Solutions
We achieved notable success implementing Genesys Cloud CX during COVID when home offices were necessary, leading to improved KPIs in customer satisfaction.
Founder at SJT Consult
Genesys Cloud CX's scalability is impressive; it efficiently manages increased workloads and user growth without data loss over five years.
senior executive at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Microsoft Dynamics CRM is highly scalable, rated at ten, even fifteen out of ten.
CISO at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
I would give it a ten out of ten for scalability.
Head of Digital Transformation at Simplified Consulting
Microsoft Dynamics CRM is scalable; it's easy to scale, but when customizations become extensive, maintainability can become challenging.
Chief Digital Officer at Cipher7
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.7
Genesys Cloud CX is stable with AWS infrastructure, minimal downtime, and rapid recovery, despite occasional voice and support challenges.
Sentiment score
7.8
Microsoft Dynamics CRM boasts high stability, minimal downtime, and enhanced availability, thanks to Azure Cloud integration and regular updates.
Genesys is brilliant concerning stability.
BA at Rise Asia Technology Limited
The stability and reliability of Genesys Cloud CX are good, as it can handle multiple agents, numbering in the hundreds or even thousands, located in different parts of the world.
Associate | Genesys Cloud Developer at Conizant Technological Solutions
Built as a cloud-native platform, it boasts 100% uptime globally while effectively handling failures.
senior executive at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
I would rate it ten out of ten.
CISO at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
There have been instances where issues with Microsoft Azure have affected Dynamics due to the infrastructure layer.
Chief Digital Officer at Cipher7
In the last two or three years, I have not seen anything or heard of that occurring with someone else anywhere in our organization.
Principal Consultant at Systems Limited
 

Room For Improvement

Genesys Cloud CX requires improved process automation, integration, pricing, customization, access management, autonomy, and AI-driven personalization capabilities.
Microsoft Dynamics CRM is complex, requiring customization, with slow support, costly pricing, and needing improved user-friendliness and integration.
It required extensive training, especially for predictive elements, because it is a business-class tool not suited for everyone and often demands several months of training.
Founder at SJT Consult
If I have over 100 organizations in Genesys Cloud CX, my support team struggles with access management, and there's no single pane of glass to manage the entire set of tenants.
Cx Product Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Genesys Cloud CX is hosted on the AWS environment, and if there's an issue on AWS or any outage, there is no other alternative provided by Genesys.
Associate | Genesys Cloud Developer at Conizant Technological Solutions
More use-case-oriented material should be provided to help users and implementers learn how to do more, faster.
CISO at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Microsoft Dynamics CRM needs improvement in simplifying the setup and configuration process, which can be relatively complex when we want all features to work properly.
Head of Digital Transformation at Simplified Consulting
Microsoft Dynamics CRM doesn't provide solutions that allow you to transform easily if you have a heterogeneous mix of technologies or if your contact center is on analog and you try to digitize it.
Chief Digital Officer at Cipher7
 

Setup Cost

Genesys Cloud CX is pricey but negotiable, offering flexible plans, valuable features, strong security, and integration capabilities.
Microsoft Dynamics CRM pricing ranges from $50-$115/user monthly, competitive with Salesforce, yet complex for small businesses.
Overall it's affordable, as indicated by a pricing rating of four out of ten.
Manager, Customer Experience Country (France) at Stellantis
Genesys' licensing model is flexible, though not the cheapest.
BA at Rise Asia Technology Limited
Genesys Cloud CX is not a low cost, and that is because Genesys Cloud CX is a secure app, is a good app, friendly, great to develop, and great to create any channel for communication.
Genesys Cloud Speacialist at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
When we compare it to SAP or something like that, Microsoft Dynamics CRM is a very affordable solution.
Principal Consultant at Systems Limited
The pricing of Microsoft Dynamics CRM can be complex due to Microsoft's complicated licensing model.
CISO at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Microsoft Dynamics CRM costs about $110 to $115 per user per month, following a recent price increase.
Head of Digital Transformation at Simplified Consulting
 

Valuable Features

Genesys Cloud CX offers robust cloud capabilities with AI, seamless integrations, and APIs to optimize customer interactions and satisfaction.
Microsoft Dynamics CRM is ideal for seamless Microsoft integration, customization, and robust features for sales management and customer engagement.
It has helped to optimize customer interactions as a contact center solution by improving Average Handle Time, and as AHT improves, customer satisfaction and NPS turn green as a whole for the customer, leading to more business generation for us.
Cx Product Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
If a prospect calling in has a particular need, predictive AI routes the call to the most suited agent.
Founder at SJT Consult
Genesys Cloud CX is easy and great to work with. It is friendly for users, developers, troubleshooting, and supervisors.
Genesys Cloud Speacialist at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The backend storage integrates seamlessly with OneDrive, and the solution offers robust security features, including Azure integration, two-factor authentication (2FA), and comprehensive audit trails.
CISO at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
The CRM is very fast, which is the most important aspect, and it's very handy.
Data Scientist at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees
The most valuable feature of Microsoft Dynamics CRM is its integration with Outlook and other Microsoft products like Microsoft 365, which includes emails, Teams, and SharePoint.
Head of Digital Transformation at Simplified Consulting
 

Categories and Ranking

Genesys Cloud CX
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
18
Ranking in other categories
Contact Center Platforms (1st), Workforce Engagement Management (1st), Customer Experience Management (5th), Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) (1st)
Microsoft Dynamics CRM
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
80
Ranking in other categories
CRM Customer Engagement Centers (1st), CRM (2nd), Local Government CRM (1st), Marketing Management (2nd), Sales Force Automation (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Contact Center solutions, they serve different purposes. Genesys Cloud CX is designed for Contact Center Platforms and holds a mindshare of 10.6%, down 18.1% compared to last year.
Microsoft Dynamics CRM, on the other hand, focuses on CRM Customer Engagement Centers, holds 13.6% mindshare, down 18.1% since last year.
Contact Center Platforms Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Genesys Cloud CX10.6%
Amazon Connect8.9%
Avaya Infinity Platform8.6%
Other71.9%
Contact Center Platforms
CRM Customer Engagement Centers Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Microsoft Dynamics CRM13.6%
Salesforce Service Cloud10.3%
Zendesk8.9%
Other67.2%
CRM Customer Engagement Centers
 

Featured Reviews

JB
Founder at SJT Consult
Omnichannel contact center has unified customer interactions and delivers smarter routing
Regarding scripters, I should clarify that Genesys Cloud CX dashboards provide real-time data, showing call counts, satisfaction levels, and pending interactions in the queue. Agents can see their workload and know when to take breaks, with managers benefiting from comprehensive team management. We also created dashboards tailored for point-of-sale locations managed by Genesys Cloud CX, and overall, we have been very satisfied. However, I should note that the dashboards are somewhat basic in functionality, making it challenging for an agent to build visually appealing dashboards compared to other market solutions where drag-and-drop features are simpler. My overall experience with Genesys Cloud CX has been positive but should be seen in perspective, as nothing is purely black or white; there are shades of gray. While the metrics and system capabilities reflected success, our goal in implementing Genesys Cloud CX was to standardize processes. Thus, we faced challenges related to change management due to the tool's complexity. It required extensive training, especially for predictive elements, because it is a business-class tool not suited for everyone and often demands several months of training.
Muhammad Sohaib Abbasi - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Consultant at Systems Limited
Unified customer journeys have boosted analytics-driven sales and simplified global implementations
Analytics features of Microsoft Dynamics CRM are good. When we are implementing chatbot and Co-pilot with Microsoft Dynamics CRM on their Omni-channels where we have to analyze all the incoming data coming from different multiple social media platforms, WhatsApp, Facebook, or anything else, and then create proper reporting on the dashboard with proper analytical reports using analytics. It is good, but sometimes it is laggy or crashy or just hangs. Sometimes it does lag and is a little bit buggy. But it works most of the time very fine, but sometimes it gets laggy. I think that might be an issue of the API link being down or something like that, but sometimes it takes time to get the graphs ready. However, it is a very good option where I personally design dashboards using mostly pie charts and bar charts for the client side. I can give a proper generic report to the clients and for pre-sales in multiple projects that I have done. It is a very good selling point for the clients. We can know how many clients we are having and how much data flow we are having. We can explain to them from which channel and where they are getting the higher footsteps into their business, whether it is their social media accounts, their website, or their walk-in customers. The analytics part is a very good helpful part as well because this is the main thing that interests mostly the top tier management of any company. The management can see the complete sales, what the profit is, what the quarterly profit is, what the investment is, what the stock left is, and all those things that we can manage here. Specifically we were working on a Telco project for Malaysia for a Telco company. We created them a complete product catalog on Microsoft Dynamics CRM. The product catalog was handling it very well as we were creating multiple small configurations of the business rules such as this promotion going on for the airtime and this promotion going on for products. The management was able to see that a certain age group of people were interested and what age group wanted what type of cellular products. It is a very helpful tool as well.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Government
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business7
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise12
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business43
Midsize Enterprise22
Large Enterprise21
 

Questions from the Community

Which is better - Genesys Cloud or Amazon Connect?
Our organization ran comparison tests to determine whether the Genesys Cloud or Amazon Connect contact center management software was the better fit for us. We decided to go with Genesys Cloud. Ge...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Genesys Cloud?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Genesys Cloud CX is that the pricing is a little high. Integration is not that difficult, but the integration with the application that I a...
What needs improvement with Genesys Cloud?
Genesys Cloud CX can be improved by reducing the cost a little bit for a smaller company to be on board with Genesys Cloud CX. They can also make study materials easily available, so I do not need ...
What are the pros and cons of MS dynamics vs. Salesforce CRM?
When comparing Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Salesforce CRM in 2026, both are leading CRM platforms, but they serve slightly different strengths depending on business needs. Features: Salesforce is t...
Is it advisable to purchase Dynamics CRM in addition to NAV 2016?
Short answer: depends on your sales needs. NAV 2016’s built-in CRM is very basic. It’s fine for simple contact management and basic sales tracking, but it lacks: Proper pipeline management Adva...
What needs improvement with Microsoft Dynamics CRM?
A few areas where Dynamics CRM can improve: User experience → Still feels complex for non-technical users, especially for daily tasks Customization vs complexity → Easy to customize, but quickl...
 

Also Known As

Genesys PureCloud, Genesys, Genesys Customer Interaction Management Platform, Interactive Intelligence PureCloud
Dynamics CRM, MS Dynamics CRM
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

1. Adobe 2. Airbnb 3. American Express 4. AT&T 5. BMW 6. Coca-Cola 7. Delta Air Lines 8. eBay 9. FedEx 10. General Electric 11. Hilton 12. IBM 13. Johnson & Johnson 14. Marriott International 15. Microsoft 16. Netflix 17. Nike 18. Oracle 19. PepsiCo 20. Procter & Gamble 21. Salesforce 22. Samsung 23. Siemens 24. Sony 25. Starbucks 26. Target 27. Toyota 28. Uber 29. Verizon 30. Visa 31. Walmart 32. Xerox
Metro Bank, Nissan, Pandora, Delta, Haynes International, City of London, Trek and many more market leaders.
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