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Contact center advice from people who’ve run the cutovers.

Five9, Genesys Cloud, NICE CXone, Microsoft Dynamics Contact Center, Webex and Zoom CC — we compare them honestly, price them line-by-line, and manage the rollout. We’re paid the same whichever you pick, so the recommendation is yours.

First question: do you actually need a contact center?

Plenty of teams are sold a full CCaaS seat when smart call queues on their existing phone platform would do. The honest line: if you need skills-based routing, agent dashboards, QA scorecards, omnichannel (SMS, chat, email in one queue), or workforce management — you need CCaaS. If you need ring groups, voicemail-to-email, and basic reporting, you probably don’t, and we’ll say so. That answer costs you nothing either way.

What we help you choose & deploy

The whole stack, one accountable advisor.

Platform selection

Five9, Genesys Cloud, NICE CXone, Dynamics, Webex CC, Zoom CC — matched to your seat count, channels, and budget.

IVR & call flows

Menus and routing rebuilt around how customers actually call — not lifted from the old system’s bad habits.

Omnichannel

Voice, SMS, web chat, and email in one queue with one history per customer.

AI agent assist & QA

Real-time transcription, after-call summaries, and scorecards — what’s real versus what’s demo-ware, in plain English.

Reporting & WFM

Service levels, abandon rates, forecasting, and scheduling your supervisors will actually use.

CRM integration

Salesforce, HubSpot, Dynamics — screen pops, click-to-dial, and interaction logging wired in from day one.

The honest read

How the major platforms actually differ.

Five9

Strong all-rounder for 25–500 seat operations; mature outbound dialer; pricing negotiable at renewal — which is exactly when you want a benchmark in hand.

Genesys Cloud

Deepest routing and orchestration for complex, multi-department operations; more platform than small teams need — and priced like it.

NICE CXone

Analytics and workforce management lead the pack; shines past 100 seats where QA and forecasting discipline pay for themselves.

Microsoft Dynamics / Teams

Compelling if you live in M365 and want one vendor — check feature depth per channel before committing; it’s improving fast but not equal everywhere.

Every platform above pays us roughly the same residual. That’s why this page can be this blunt.

Let’s scope it together.

Talk to the Buckeye team — the owner is involved in every engagement, and there’s no advisory fee.

Talk to the team

Prefer to talk now? Call or text 614-224-2003.