NiCE Cognigy - AI Agents for Enterprise Contact Centers
Voice assistant has reduced support calls and delivers accurate customer conversations
What is our primary use case?
My main use case for Cognigy.AI Platform is building a chatbot and voice bot for customers in Europe and the US. Check status or queries is a particular scenario where Cognigy.AI Platform has helped.
What is most valuable?
Cognigy.AI Platform offers excellent features including easy integration with AI and good quality, with voice detection quality being very good. The voice detection quality of Cognigy.AI Platform stands out compared to other platforms I have seen because the interpretation, voice detection, and all accuracy metrics are much higher in Cognigy.AI Platform.
Cognigy.AI Platform has positively impacted my organization by reducing development time, providing efficiency gains, and improving accuracy for our agents. We are getting fewer calls for our agents, with most of our generic queries resolved by Cognigy.AI Platform's voice bot. We have specific metrics showing that we reduced overall calls by 20%.
What needs improvement?
Cognigy.AI Platform is good, but I hope to see new features and enhancements based on new technology that emerges daily, and I expect the same to be implemented in Cognigy.AI Platform as well, particularly more AI capabilities.
Regarding needed improvements for Cognigy.AI Platform, consideration should be given to reducing the development effort for developers so that the time to market will be reduced.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Cognigy.AI Platform for two and a half years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Cognigy.AI Platform is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Cognigy.AI Platform's scalability is high and good.
How are customer service and support?
The customer support for Cognigy.AI Platform is nice.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
For voice bot, I have not used any other solution.
What was our ROI?
I have seen a return on investment as we need fewer employees for calls and fewer calls are landing on our customer support team.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Before choosing Cognigy.AI Platform, my manager was inclined towards Cognigy.AI, and we parallely checked Yellow.ai as well. Cognigy.AI Platform is much better than the competitor in terms of efficiency, accuracy, and cost.
What other advice do I have?
Regarding Cognigy.AI Platform's AI capabilities, I think its governance and security are good, but they may still have room for enhancements. Most clients are looking for GDPR and PII data to be secure, and as of now, Cognigy.AI Platform's governance policy is good. I hope they can gain more certifications based on future requirements.
Regarding Cognigy.AI Platform's accuracy and reliability of output, based on our use case, we are getting 95 plus accuracy. I would advise others considering using Cognigy.AI Platform that if you are looking for accuracy, ease of use, and easy development, you can choose Cognigy.AI Platform. I am providing this review with an overall rating of 9.
Low-code design has transformed how I build conversational and IVR flows for complex customer journeys
What is our primary use case?
My main use case for Cognigy.AI Platform is as a software engineer where I do the implementation and configuration of different CCaaS tools, with Cognigy being one of the tools I mainly use for designing flows, conversational AI designs, and IVR designs.
What is most valuable?
Cognigy.AI Platform offers best features that include designing flows, setting up conversational AI or IVR, and integrating with external tools, which stand out to me as very easy for any configurator or implementation person.
I find the ease of integrating Cognigy.AI Platform with external tools to be very smooth. The integrations with Cognigy.AI Platform or a third-party tool are straightforward, allowing connection and use of all the pre-built, predefined integration tools, making it very easy compared to other CCaaS tools.
Cognigy.AI Platform has positively impacted my organization by helping with the automation of tasks and providing pre-built libraries that assist configurators with no-code design, which outclasses other tools.
What needs improvement?
I have not come across any areas for improvement in Cognigy.AI Platform because it stands out as a tool that is easy to build or configure with low-code functionality compared to other tools.
I wish for better documentation for Cognigy.AI Platform. The articles and help articles would definitely assist any configurator or customer in understanding the features and functionality to make complete use of Cognigy.AI Platform's capabilities.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Cognigy.AI Platform for more than six months. I have gone through extensive training and completed my certifications.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Cognigy.AI Platform is stable in my experience.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Cognigy.AI Platform's scalability is adequate and can handle increased workloads or users easily.
How are customer service and support?
I think customer support for Cognigy.AI Platform can be improved, but currently it is good.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I previously used Genesis before switching to Cognigy.AI Platform because of its low-code and no-code capabilities and its integration functionalities.
How was the initial setup?
I am not directly involved in the purchase process of Cognigy.AI Platform through the AWS Marketplace. My company handles that, and I am the one who does the configuration and implementation.
What about the implementation team?
A specific example of a project where I used Cognigy.AI Platform for conversation or IVR design is with an airline customer, where we designed flows based on zero-shot models. Whenever a customer reaches out to their website to understand ticket-related or luggage-related information and wants to make a payment for extra luggage, we configured the workflows in such a way that Cognigy.AI Platform is being used.
What was our ROI?
Since using Cognigy.AI Platform, I have seen specific outcomes like time saved, improved customer satisfaction, and reduced manual work, all of which are achievable because the tool is easy to understand and can be quickly learned to start building easily.
Since using Cognigy.AI Platform, I have observed a return on investment that includes performance-wise improvements, time saved, and cost-wise savings which are helping customers.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I am not much aware of the pricing and licensing features for Cognigy.AI Platform, but I would love to learn about them.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
The evaluation for solutions was already done and we finalized our choice before I became involved in the decision.
What other advice do I have?
Cognigy.AI Platform is a very easy tool to configure and understand, with no-code and low-code functionalities being standout features. I rate Cognigy.AI Platform a nine out of ten.
Regarding Cognigy.AI Platform's AI capabilities, I think it has good governance and compliance, though I have encountered other tools as well, and I feel it is good but there will always be room for improvement.
I have practically used Cognigy.AI Platform and seen how it can achieve better accuracy and reliability of output compared to other tools.
My advice for others looking into using Cognigy.AI Platform is to definitely choose it as it is a very good tool.
I have no additional thoughts about Cognigy.AI Platform. Everything is good, and I am happy to work more on Cognigy.AI Platform and make customers happy.
Building multilingual airline assistants has reduced development time and improves customer service
What is our primary use case?
My main use case for Cognigy.AI Platform is that I work for an airline and I create conversational assistants. A concrete example of how I use Cognigy.AI Platform to create these conversational assistants within the airline is that we have different agents connected to each other. I would like to add that they are ultimately connected to APIs and dump the data into the airline's systems.
What is most valuable?
The best features that Cognigy.AI Platform offers according to my experience are the ease of connecting with different external services and the ease of managing the different languages that the assistant can have.
Cognigy.AI Platform facilitates the management of multiple languages and integration with external services in cases where there is no artificial intelligence. Creating flows is very simple because you can change the language and you do not have to replicate the bot in different languages.
Cognigy.AI Platform positively impacts my organization by making it easier not to have to program everything in a programming language and to have an interface that allows you to create things without initially having knowledge of Cognigy.AI Platform.
What needs improvement?
I think Cognigy.AI Platform could improve by addressing the part related to agents and connection with different artificial intelligence providers. I would like to add that in the NLP part it needs to work better.
I think the part about agent management could be improved, as it is still starting out and you can see it needs to continue evolving. The NLP part also requires improvement.
I think Cognigy.AI Platform should improve the documentation as sometimes it is a bit scarce and you do not find solutions for what you are looking for.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using this tool for almost three years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I consider Cognigy.AI Platform to be stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The scalability of Cognigy.AI Platform needs to improve because there are times when you generate packages and they do not work the same way in different environments.
How are customer service and support?
Cognigy.AI Platform's customer support is usually good since you open a public ticket and they respond quickly. You can even schedule meetings with support and see it in real time. I would rate customer support on a scale from one to ten as a seven.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I did not previously use another solution.
What was our ROI?
I have observed a return on investment as there are some cost savings since the virtual assistant resolves issues before they reach the contact center. A specific result related to this impact is that there has been a reduction in development time and we have also managed to reduce costs for the airline, which was the client.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Before choosing Cognigy.AI Platform, I know they did a product comparison, but that was not made transparent to us.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate Cognigy.AI Platform an eight on a scale from one to ten. I give it a rating of eight because of the ease of use, the web interface, and the documentation aspect. My advice to other professionals considering using Cognigy.AI Platform is to take the training courses available on the website. My overall review rating for Cognigy.AI Platform is eight.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Conversational agents have improved containment and now support flexible, secure API integration
What is our primary use case?
My main use case for Cognigy.AI Platform is building conversational AI agents. Regarding my main use case on Cognigy.AI Platform, we're also now looking into, or maybe mainly I'm looking into the domain also for integrating MCP within the conversational AI agents.
How has it helped my organization?
Cognigy.AI Platform has positively impacted my organization because, on the use cases itself, the AI-driven decisions are working quite well. It is better received than the NLU solution that was in place before, so I'd say the implementation itself was a definite win.
What is most valuable?
The best features that Cognigy.AI Platform offers include the flexibility of the different nodes provided in order to develop different domains, so you are independent of APIs, or you do not have to rely on specific APIs that are only available in Cognigy.AI Platform, but you can also work with other APIs and then get it integrated. I think that is the biggest advantage.
The flexibility of Cognigy.AI Platform has helped me in my projects because it's easier to integrate it with the in-house or on-premise APIs that clients have, which makes it easier. Of course, you have to consider the security layer there, but it's almost direct access you have to the resources, considering that you also take the security into account.
Since implementing Cognigy.AI Platform, the containment rate has improved. Most of the conversations are maintained within Cognigy.AI Platform itself, and unnecessary conversations such as intents that shouldn't be processed are taken quite well and then also accordingly responded to from the AI agent.
What needs improvement?
I believe Cognigy.AI Platform could be improved in terms of versioning of flows, for example, similar to GitHub, not only on the custom extensions that you have, but also on the flows itself. If there's some versioning possible, that would be helpful, and this is one of the bigger issues.
Regarding Cognigy.AI Platform's AI capabilities, I think security-wise there are some concerns because you cannot really protect the REST endpoints, and there are some open points on the security perspective and on the governance perspective. There are options for OAuth authentication, but for the REST endpoints, for example, this was a major topic.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Cognigy.AI Platform for around a year.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Cognigy.AI Platform is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Regarding the scalability of Cognigy.AI Platform, there's a limitation on the rate limit. However, with the right vendor support, there are ways to avoid these kinds of issues.
How are customer service and support?
The customer support for Cognigy.AI Platform is quite good.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I previously used a different solution before Cognigy.AI Platform, specifically Dialogflow from conversational agents from GCP. The reason we switched was that the vendor support was better with Cognigy.AI Platform than with conversational agents from GCP.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Before choosing Cognigy.AI Platform, I evaluated other options such as Dialogflow or conversational agents from GCP. This was one of the first choices because we initially had some experience there with that product.
What other advice do I have?
My advice for others looking into using Cognigy.AI Platform is to complete the training that is offered from Cognigy.AI Platform itself to get an idea of how flow building and everything works, and to get a high-level overview. On a second level, use metaprompting to build your flows because a lot of the components can already be co-developed using metaprompting.
The development itself on Cognigy.AI Platform is quite self-explanatory. Via metaprompting, you get all the resources, and it's also easily configurable. The UI is quite friendly, but far from perfect. In terms of Cognigy.AI Platform's AI capabilities regarding its accuracy and reliability of output, it's quite good. It depends on the language model you use, but in general, all functionalities work quite well. At the end, it depends on the end-to-end testing and the quality of the data you have. On a scale of one to ten, I would rate Cognigy.AI Platform an eight.
Agentic support flows have improved customer interactions but analytics still need major upgrades
What is our primary use case?
I built an agentic bot for customer support with Cognigy.AI Platform, where I had the possibility to come up with my own architecture. I constructed both an agent that was performing intent recognition. To understand the accuracy of the agent, I built a judge that was an LLM system evaluating the agent responses and intent accuracy recognition. This was useful because since the analysis section in Cognigy.AI Platform is limited, by using another system to judge the decision, I was able to track how accurately the system was performing intent recognition.
What is most valuable?
The academy resources provided by Cognigy.AI Platform are valuable for getting started. After learning everything, there is a test that, once passed, provides a certification, which is useful as a backup document certifying that I am a developer in Cognigy.AI Platform.
In terms of building flows and working with the platform, the setup is easy to understand. There is no backend black box that could allow me to mess something up. The platform allows sharing projects with different people who can work simultaneously on the same project. I can see who is changing what and when, which is a strong feature.
Cognigy.AI Platform's natural language processing capabilities have helped streamline communication within my organization in positive ways.
Cognigy.AI Platform has enhanced my customer interactions because all clients have been positive about it and have seen the benefits. When connecting cloud systems with different sections that are organized, everybody can see what goes where and when. There is transparency that the client values.
What needs improvement?
Cognigy.AI Platform is limited from a developing perspective, especially regarding the analytics aspect that should improve. When debugging, there is no direct page for this. I have to go to the logs and see what errors appear each time I run the flow. There is significant room for improvement where the platform needs to think from a technical perspective and support different personas, both non-technical and technical.
For technical people, it would be beneficial if the platform could connect to Visual Studio Code so that technical people can easily debug without having to go node by node and adjust things whenever errors are thrown.
The graphs in the analysis section of Cognigy.AI Platform should display metrics such as average duration of calls or number of conversations, which would be helpful if visualized internally.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working with Cognigy.AI Platform for six months.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Cognigy.AI Platform is performing accurately, but to do so, I need to restrict the LLMs properly. There is a lot of back and forth in terms of system prompt adjustments. If I rely solely on the LLM, things would go downside. I have to be very careful about how I am defining and setting up the prompt engineering.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I find Cognigy.AI Platform scalable.
How are customer service and support?
The technical support team takes some time to provide a response.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup of Cognigy.AI Platform is straightforward. I just have to define the agent prompt, set up the model that I want to use, and then move forward to building the actual workflow. This is similar to what ElevenLabs does, so on that regard, they are the same.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Cognigy.AI Platform's pricing is expensive for the service that is offered.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
In comparing Cognigy.AI Platform and ElevenLabs, the analysis section of ElevenLabs is different because it offers a different number of conversations, average duration, and total cost, all set up internally.
Pros for Cognigy.AI Platform include the easy setup and the possibility to build everything from scratch instead of predefining it as is done in ElevenLabs.
Pros for ElevenLabs include the agentic bot that I can speak to directly, which is not just doing everything within a flow. This is a feature that Cognigy.AI Platform is lacking. The language configuration within ElevenLabs gives a lot of freedom to target different markets.
What other advice do I have?
The main benefits that Cognigy.AI Platform brings to the table are easy setup and the academy. Clients now rely more on Cognigy.AI Platform because ElevenLabs is relatively new to the market. If I can provide Cognigy.AI Platform to them, they will be very happy because they already know the platform well.
Given my experience with Cognigy.AI Platform and ElevenLabs, my advice for users looking into Cognigy.AI Platform who would like to start working with it is to check all the videos and get the certification first. It would be useful to complete this within a week because it is absolutely achievable. Then, do not be afraid to start being creative and setting up things so you can understand how Cognigy.AI Platform thinks, how it works, and what kind of freedom is available when using it.
I would rate this product a 7 out of 10.
Automated voice and chat assistants have streamlined customer and employee service workflows
What is our primary use case?
Over the past year, my main use case for Cognigy.AI Platform has been to build both voicebots and chatbots for B2C use cases across several industries. Projects have included a voice assistant for an automotive dealership that automates appointment scheduling, handling identity verification, customer data lookup, and escalation without using staff involvement, as well as projects related to an internal employee-facing chatbot for a large corporate to handle ID and document processes, automating this entire process with self-service flows such as identity verification, document request, and appointment booking, as well as developing a multilingual, agentic hotel chatbot answering guest questions using both German and English.
The project for building an assistant for an automotive dealership stands out as the most interesting and challenging because we had to integrate multiple databases and use API endpoints, which made it complex because of the way the endpoints were also built. Understanding users' requests and intents regarding when they want their input was very challenging as well.
What is most valuable?
One of the best features Cognigy.AI Platform offers is being agentic because when I previously started working with Cognigy.AI Platform, it mainly was rule-based using NLUs. Currently, having agentic capabilities and using the tools is very useful, as well as having Playbooks because they really automate the way that we test. We used to do manual testing, and with more engagement with Cognigy.AI Platform, we have started really using Playbooks, and they are a very helpful feature.
We have mainly used Playbooks for testing on Cognigy.AI Platform, so we have created our use scenario and what we expect to have from our flows. Instead of going through manual testing where we have to type everything one by one, we run a Playbook, and it checks whether the feature is completely developed as it should be or if there are any edge cases that are happening. This simplifies the way we test and really helps to stay on track with the use case that we are creating or implementing.
Cognigy.AI Platform has really helped us positively in our organization with our customer projects because the projects that I have worked on have been customer-related. We also use it internally for automating different tasks, such as ID card registration. Instead of employees going through the entire process and communicating with different colleagues to just get access for a certain building, having to do it via Cognigy.AI Platform is much easier and more simplified.
What needs improvement?
One of the biggest challenges I continue facing while using Cognigy.AI Platform is the fact that the platform lacks proper version control, and this makes it difficult when I am working with multiple team members and it is very hard to track the changes that I do or the changes that my peers are doing.
One improvement for Cognigy.AI Platform would be creating a version control, which would really help developers. This way, we can keep track of what we are doing and how we are doing it. Additionally, if we could make an integration with IDEs just like Visual Studio Code, it would make easier implementation for the coding part and just to have an integration between an IDE and the local platform. I think that would be an interesting feature.
For how long have I used the solution?
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
How are customer service and support?
I have not had the chance to have a lot of communication regarding customer support because it is handled by another level of support for us, but it has been quite useful. Every moment that we have had the need for customer support from Cognigy.AI Platform, they have been there for us, solving our issues and guiding us.
What was our ROI?
If I take it from the customer side point of view, I think we have seen a return on investment. Automating customer service really reduces the number of employees needed during peak hours, which is an achievement, especially if you are dealing with multiple calls per day. This would reduce a lot of the work for the employees.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
What other advice do I have?
Cognigy.AI Platform has really helped us positively in our organization with our customer projects because the projects that I have worked on have been customer-related. We also use it internally for automating different tasks, such as ID card registration. Instead of employees going through the entire process and communicating with different colleagues to just get access for a certain building, having to do it via Cognigy.AI Platform is much easier and more simplified.
I would suggest getting into Cognigy.AI Platform. The more you start working with it, the more you can see that you can do a lot of great things. You learn by doing and by being curious about what Cognigy.AI Platform can offer.
Regarding Cognigy.AI Platform's AI capabilities, I would say its governance and security are good so far, but this is not one of the scopes I focus on.
When it comes to the accuracy and reliability of output from Cognigy.AI Platform, the information is accurate. We just need to always be careful with the guardrails, mainly when prompting. I would rate this review an eight out of ten.
Voice and chat AI have transformed manager self-service and improved employee insight access
What is our primary use case?
My main use case for Cognigy.AI Platform is that we use it as the enterprise voice chat AI agent layer for Instill's Manager, HR, and employee workflows, which helped us expose Instill culture operating system and people insights through conversational experience.
A quick, specific example of how I use Cognigy.AI Platform in one of those workflows is that our users, such as managers, can ask questions about why a team's trust score dropped, and they will receive Instill-backed answers through chat or voice.
What is most valuable?
The best features Cognigy.AI Platform offers include the most valuable part being the ability to deploy AI agents across voice and chat while connecting them to Instill's people, culture, and meeting insight data.
Cognigy.AI Platform has positively impacted my organization, as our ROI is coming from faster manager and HR self-services that reduce the manual people operations support and better use of Instill insights and inside conversational workflows, although the exact ROI is not calculated yet.
What needs improvement?
Connecting Cognigy.AI Platform to our internal data had some challenges, with setup complexity existing, pricing clarity needing improvement, and privacy control for sensitive employee data needing improvement.
The improvement areas for Cognigy.AI Platform include the setup complexity, pricing clarity, and privacy control, which all need to be enhanced so that we can control the employee-related data more carefully.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Cognigy.AI Platform for the last three months.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I find Cognigy.AI Platform to be stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The scalability of Cognigy.AI Platform is pretty good, as it's really good overall, with quality being good and it's reliable.
How are customer service and support?
The customer support is really good, as whenever we need something, we get a response very quickly.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I did not previously use a different solution, as this is the first one.
What was our ROI?
I have seen a return on investment with the customer satisfaction score improving by nine points as an output of implementing Cognigy.AI Platform.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was that pricing was not clear, the setup cost was not there, and pricing needs improvement for informed decisions.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Before choosing Cognigy.AI Platform, I evaluated Kore.ai and Yellow.ai for the chat layer before finalizing on Cognigy.AI Platform.
What other advice do I have?
Regarding time savings or efficiency gains, there's no metric for the speed, but there is a metric for the quality, so now the answers coming in the chat and voice are far better, and the NPS score has improved by nine points.
I would rate Cognigy.AI Platform a nine out of ten. I chose nine out of ten because the use case is straightforward, it's effective, and the quality of the chat is really good, though the setup complexity and pricing clarity have to be improved; once these are improved, I will give it a ten.
Regarding Cognigy.AI Platform's AI capabilities, I think its governance and security are straightforward as they have given us the certifications we needed, but I am skeptical about the data privacy of employees and if there is any role-based access control existing in the platform.
I find the accuracy and reliability of output from Cognigy.AI Platform to be very good, as the scalability of the solution was really good and our quality of answers was really good, so there is no issue in those areas.
My advice to others looking into using Cognigy.AI Platform is to explore all the options and see what your use case is before finalizing on Cognigy.AI Platform. My overall rating for this product is nine out of ten.