
Pipedrive is the flexible pipeline manager. Close is the sales floor with a phone built in - and for teams that live on calls, that difference settles the argument.

Dialpad, 8x8, Sprinklr, Broadvoice, Squaretalk, CloudTalk, Convoso and UJET all promise to run your phone lines with artificial intelligence. Here is what actually separates them once the demo ends.

Four contact center software makers - the French dialer pioneer Vocalcom, the billion-dollar public company Five9, the private-equity roll-up Sharpen, and the Google-backed newcomer UJET - are betting on very different futures for the support call.