What do you like best about the product?

NICE CXone is a complete orchestration package. Technically you could use CXone to replace many backend business processing across multiple tech stacks, especially in hybridized networked/VPN and non-network integrated entities since CXone is a compliant system with state/federal regulations. There are many ways to integrate SOAP/RESTful APIs to extend functionality, and the actions allowing for SIP header activity/transfers are particularly helpful in hybridized cloud environments. CXone is a very rare telephony platform that is able to integrate with COBOL IBM Mainframes if you are able to code a web service yourself to integrate via Service Bus.

The best parts of NICE are that they are genuinely interested in pursuing true CI/CD integration as part of scripting. This will massively enable CXone at scale across enterprises larger than 40k seats at the drop of a hat. The other key upside is CXone is a holistic platform solution for any large businesses, including ones doing DoD or Federal work. While it means switching BUs/clusters, it is easier being on the same platform instead of multiple telephony platforms.

CXone is also a full responsible organization, so you can have cloud-originated phone numbers via CXone. They also support bring your own carrier connectivity solutions as well. There are numerous other upsides to CXone, but basically it's a powerful solution you could use to automate letter writing and OCR to generate tasks via work items, use a bot to intelligently assign them to someone, and then the screen pop integrates with EPIC and starts a dialer to call customers back who missed a prescription pickup for example, or who wrote negative letters. This is just the tiniest use case we've seen for CXone as a full business process orchestration and omnichannel communications and integration platform.

We use CXone every day, it is easy to implement for basic builds, but advanced enough to handle complicated use cases if you have the technical expertise.

What do you dislike about the product?

CXone TAMs are very hit or miss. Two businesses can pay for the same TAM package, and the TAMs will completely change whether or not the value is being delivered. My experience of CXone TAMs is they are either very smart, helpful, and able to get things done to drive forward platform adoption, or they know very little, talk very "executively" and try to force you to buy add-ons or services you don't need, and technically aren't required to pay for anyways. Basically if you get a bad TAM you may want to cancel your package. TAMs at NICE should emphasize the T in TAM for "Technical." If I cannot ask a technical question without being billed for it, then why pay for the package?

The other downside of CXone is the add-ons. If you are a small business and don't have internal expertise in telephony, you may want to pay for a contractor. While NICE will recommend CIPs, these are very hit or miss. I've had bad experiences with CIPs and they constantly ask for CRs and additional billing for the tiniest fixes for something they messed up. If you pay for your own contractor you may see better results. If your business is particularly small, then you may be better served by a more limited platform. If you have very highly technically proficient individuals you may prefer Twilio or 8x8 where you can build most of what you want yourself.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

NICE CXone is helping us solve the problems of today and tomorrow revolving around privacy, PHI, PCI, PII, and automations/AI. We are partnering with NICE to also implement full CI/CD and partitioned administration of platform, allowing for shared service teams to minimize labor investment required to enable business functionality at scale.