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Cisco Unified Contact Center Express vs Five9 comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Cisco Unified Contact Cente...
Ranking in Contact Center Infrastructure
4th
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
IVR Systems (3rd)
Five9
Ranking in Contact Center Infrastructure
1st
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
25
Ranking in other categories
Contact Center Platforms (3rd), Workforce Engagement Management (3rd), Sales Force Automation (8th), Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Contact Center Infrastructure category, the mindshare of Cisco Unified Contact Center Express is 9.6%, down from 16.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Five9 is 12.0%, up from 10.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Contact Center Infrastructure Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Five912.0%
Cisco Unified Contact Center Express9.6%
Other78.4%
Contact Center Infrastructure
 

Featured Reviews

GR
Operation Director at Dammam University
Interactive voice response and automatic call distribution help to improve our customer service
Our primary use case is for customer service, in higher education and healthcare This solution provides uni-channel service support and is fully integrated with our DB. The new Cisco Finesse is really amazing. The most valuable features of this solution are the IVR (Interactive voice response)…
NS
Sr Specialist - Analytics Metrics and Reporting at Mercer
Real-time monitoring and reporting help with better operations
The Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA) feature helps to monitor the agents. We can see if an agent is getting stuck. For example, if an agent has not been logged out properly, we can log out that particular agent from a particular session because it hampers productivity. It helps us to be more productive. Our call center agents use the Agent Assist feature. Our call center leaders are also using it to monitor agents' quality metrics. We are also using Qlik Sense along with Five9. Five9 is for monitoring, and Qlik Sense is for service-level reports. Five9 provides us with real-time information, whereas solutions like Verint take a lot more time. Qlik Sense can have intermittent logging issues where it might not work properly, whereas Five9 works properly. Among these three, Five9 is the best. Five9 also gives more bifurcation options. Five9 is good and intuitive. It helps to know how things are. I love it and use it every day. There are always new reports to generate. There are a lot of opportunities within Five9. Additionally, the real-time agent monitoring and ability to skill agents based on calls in the queue are invaluable and much easier than previous solutions like the AWS application. Previously, using the AWS application involved cumbersome steps to manage users and agents, making Five9 a welcome change. Overall, Five9 has made my job easier compared to before, and I do not struggle with it. Five9 has helped improve our call center’s speed to answer. Our leaders are using Five9 to monitor everything. It is not a time-consuming application.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"This solution provides uni-channel Service support and is fully integrated with our DB."
"The tool enables easier management."
"Five9's most critical feature is a common user interface that delivers consistent customer service across various channels."
"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."
"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 reporting is the most valuable feature in Five9."
"Queue callback, agent skill-based routing, call reporting, and the flexibility to log in from anywhere are some of the most valuable features for our organization."
"I'm interested in all the features we're using and the reporting that's needed to get them up and running."
 

Cons

"This solution could be improved with better support for higher education and healthcare."
"It would be ideal if they could combine the tools into one suite."
"What would make Five9 better is a partnership with an SMS AI solution, which would make Five9 pretty powerful."
"There are some minor issues with some of their filtering that I'd like them to handle on their back end. The only limitation I can think of is that I'm always looking backward and can't look forward. I can't see how many calls are scheduled for tomorrow based on our system."
"The technical support is inconsistent and has room for improvement."
"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."
"The reporting could be a bit better."
"The knowledge base of their support is not as strong as the IVR build."
"For Five9, I would like a feature where reports such as AHT or workforce-related reports can be generated automatically without starting from scratch"
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Five9 is reasonable."
"The product's pricing is flexible and 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."
"Five9 is expensive, but most companies would find that using it is worth the cost."
"Five9's pricing wasn't quite as flexible as I'd hoped, but it ended up being reasonably priced overall."
"The cost is not at the lower end of the market, but it's worth it."
"The product is not the most expensive, but it's not cheap."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Insurance Company
24%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Government
9%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Insurance Company
8%
Healthcare Company
7%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Company SizeCount
Small Business7
Midsize Enterprise7
Large Enterprise7
 

Questions from the Community

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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?
The reporting suite needed improvement. I saw recently that Five9 released a new platform for reporting, as the reporting was not great previously.
What is your primary use case for Five9?
I was using Five9 in the senior living space.
 

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Sample Customers

Aegean Motorway, BC Hydro, City of Biel, Houston Methodist, Linz AG, Logicalis, London Hydro, Pirelli, SickKids Foundation, Sony Corporation, Sony Marketing (Japan) Inc.
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