Data Quadrant Awards 2018

Unified Communications

SoftwareReviews names NEC Unified Communications, Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Unified Communications, Cisco Unified Communications, and AT&T Unified Communications as Unified Communications Data Quadrant Award Winners.

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Unified Communications

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Software Experience

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Product Features and Satisfaction

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Vendor Experience and Capabilities

The vendor relationship is calculated in a weighted average of the satisfaction scores tied to vendor capabilities (e.g. software implementation, training, customer support, product roadmap) as well as emotional response ratings toward the vendor (e.g. trustworthy, respectful, fair).

Gold Medalists

22Reviews

NEC

NEC Unified Communications

NEC's Unified Communications solutions unleash the productivity within organizations large and small. Access voice mail, e-mail and faxes from any device ... anywhere. Locate a colleague and determine how best to contact them regardless of location.

8.2

Composite
Score

+78

Emotional
Footprint

82%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

14Reviews

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Unified Communications

Alcatel-Lucent is the leading IP networking, ultra-broadband access, and cloud technology specialist. We believe that networks are the foundation of our ultra-connected world.

7.8

Composite
Score

+76

Emotional
Footprint

76%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

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43Reviews

CISCO

Cisco Unified Communications

Cisco's unified communications provides call-control & flexible platforms, applications and telephony extensions.

7.7

Composite
Score

+70

Emotional
Footprint

79%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

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18Reviews

AT&T

AT&T Unified Communications

The AT&T Unified Communications and Collaboration Portfolio are integrated solutions that bring multiple tools together such as instant messaging, conferencing, email, and voice calling, for seamless interactions with co-workers, partners, and customers wherever work demands.

7.6

Composite
Score

+64

Emotional
Footprint

87%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

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Vendor Capability Awards

Availability and Quality of Training

Unify Unified Communications

Breadth of Features

AT&T Unified Communications

Business Value Created

NEC Unified Communications

Ease of Customization

Vonage Business

Ease of Data Integration

AT&T Unified Communications

Ease of IT Administration

AT&T Unified Communications

Ease of Implementation

AT&T Unified Communications

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Unified Communications

Quality of Features

AT&T Unified Communications

Usability and Intuitiveness

NEC Unified Communications

Vendor Support

AT&T Unified Communications

Vendor Capability Awards

Availability and Quality of Training

Unify Unified Communications

Breadth of Features

AT&T Unified Communications

Business Value Created

NEC Unified Communications

Ease of Customization

Vonage Business

Ease of Data Integration

AT&T Unified Communications

Ease of IT Administration

AT&T Unified Communications

Ease of Implementation

AT&T Unified Communications

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Unified Communications

Quality of Features

AT&T Unified Communications

Usability and Intuitiveness

NEC Unified Communications

Vendor Support

AT&T Unified Communications

Other Evaluated Vendors

29Reviews

Avaya

Avaya Unified Communications and Collaboration

Explore communications, conferencing, and infrastructure solutions that support real-time engagement by integrating voice, video, data, messaging, conferencing, mobility, and more

7.2

Composite
Score

+65

Emotional
Footprint

69%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

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17Reviews

Unify

Unify Unified Communications

Unified communications is a methodology that unifies separate modes of communication into a single, combined user experience. Email, text, and voice messaging work seamlessly with live voice, audio and video conferencing, and Web collaboration, in one interface, with “presence” notification to indicate your availability to participate.

6.9

Composite
Score

+64

Emotional
Footprint

67%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

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12Reviews

Vonage

Vonage Business

Vonage’s unique cloud communications platform brings together a robust unified communications solution with the agility of embedded, contextual communications APIs. This combination enables businesses to collaborate more productively and engage their customers more effectively across messaging, chat, social media, video and voice.

6.4

Composite
Score

+55

Emotional
Footprint

58%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

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SoftwareReviews Gold Medal Awards recognize outstanding vendors in the technology marketplace as evaluated by their users. Gold Medals are the capstone of an in-depth software evaluation report, and awarded using a proprietary, transparent methodology based on a composite satisfaction score that averages four different areas of evaluation: Net Emotional Footprint, Vendor Capabilities, Product Features, and Likeliness to Recommend. The Net Emotional Footprint Score measures user emotional response ratings of the vendor (e.g. trustworthy, respectful, fair). The top 5 vendors in a software category are eligible for awards pending composite scores achieve a sufficiently high satisfaction threshold.

Software Reports present comprehensive evaluations of software vendors on the above elements. Software buyers can use this data to make more informed, data-driven software purchasing and renewal decisions.