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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Product Features and Satisfaction
The satisfaction is captured in the overall satisfaction score, which is driven by the likelihood of users to recommend the software, combined with user satisfaction across top product features.
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
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
Composite
Score
+78
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
82%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
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
Composite
Score
+76
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
76%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
CISCO
Cisco Unified Communications
Cisco's unified communications provides call-control & flexible platforms, applications and telephony extensions.
7.7
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+70
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
79%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
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
Composite
Score
+64
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
87%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
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
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
Composite
Score
+65
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
69%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
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
Composite
Score
+64
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
67%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
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
Composite
Score
+55
Emotional
Footprint
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.
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