Data Quadrant Awards 2020

Unified Communications as a Service

SoftwareReviews names Microsoft Teams, Cisco Webex Calling, Alcatel-Lucent Rainbow, and AT&T Office@Hand as Unified Communications as a Service Data Quadrant Award Winners.

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Unified Communications as a Service

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Unified Communications as a Service Data Quadrant

Note The axes ranges are dynamically adjusted based on minimum and maximum values in the dataset

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Software Experience

When distilled down, the software experience is shaped by both the experience with the software and the relationship with the vendor. Evaluating enterprise software along these two dimensions provides a comprehensive understanding of the product and helps identify vendors that can deliver on both.

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

130Reviews

Cisco Systems

Cisco Webex Calling

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

8.0

Composite
Score

+79

Emotional
Footprint

86%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

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47Reviews

Microsoft

Microsoft Teams

Work together how you want, when you want. Create and collaborate on documents with others and keep everyone organized and up-to-date with shared notebooks.

8.0

Composite
Score

+80

Emotional
Footprint

87%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

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21Reviews

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise

Alcatel-Lucent Rainbow

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.

7.6

Composite
Score

+82

Emotional
Footprint

75%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

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46Reviews

AT&T Inc.

AT&T Office@Hand

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.

7.5

Composite
Score

+67

Emotional
Footprint

83%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

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Vendor Capability Awards

Availability and Quality of Training

Microsoft Teams

Breadth of Features

RingCentral Office

Business Value Created

Microsoft Teams

Ease of Customization

CenturyLink Engage

Ease of Data Integration

Alcatel-Lucent Rainbow

Ease of IT Administration

CenturyLink Engage

Ease of Implementation

Microsoft Teams

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

CenturyLink Engage

Quality of Features

Cisco Webex Calling

Usability and Intuitiveness

Mitel MiCloud Connect

Vendor Support

Cisco Webex Calling

Vendor Capability Awards

Availability and Quality of Training

Microsoft Teams

Breadth of Features

RingCentral Office

Business Value Created

Microsoft Teams

Ease of Customization

CenturyLink Engage

Ease of Data Integration

Alcatel-Lucent Rainbow

Ease of IT Administration

CenturyLink Engage

Ease of Implementation

Microsoft Teams

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

CenturyLink Engage

Quality of Features

Cisco Webex Calling

Usability and Intuitiveness

Mitel MiCloud Connect

Vendor Support

Cisco Webex Calling

Other Evaluated Vendors

19Reviews

Mitel

Mitel MiCloud Connect

The cloud has changed the way the world connects and communicates. Companies are replacing the complex communications systems of the past with simple, seamless, cloud-based communications that increase productivity, reduce costs and enhance customer service. And they’re doing it with MiCloud—a powerful, scalable cloud family of platforms that delivers hosted voice, unified communications and collaboration to SMBs, enterprises and Fortune 500 companies around the world.

7.4

Composite
Score

+73

Emotional
Footprint

75%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

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13Reviews

RingCentral, Inc

RingCentral Office

RingCentral Office® offers a complete unified communications as a service (UCaaS) solution with enterprise VoIP capabilities. It also includes unified messaging, presence, audio, video and web conferencing, contact center, and fax.

7.4

Composite
Score

+68

Emotional
Footprint

80%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

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45Reviews

Avaya

Avaya OneCloud UCaaS

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

7.1

Composite
Score

+66

Emotional
Footprint

72%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

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18Reviews

Vonage

Vonage Business Communications

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.

6.6

Composite
Score

+56

Emotional
Footprint

62%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

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25Reviews

Unify

Atos Unify

Atos Unify is the family name for remote and distributed work offerings and solutions from Atos group. By combining our own OpenScape communication platforms and strategic partner offerings including Unify Office by RingCentral and Cloud Contact Center powered by NICE inContact, we help enterprises to work from anywhere using best-in-class communication, contact center and collaboration tools.

6.5

Composite
Score

+62

Emotional
Footprint

62%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

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14Reviews

Lumen

CenturyLink Engage

Access the communication building blocks and services you need to empower your global workforce and transform your business, with compelling unified communications and collaboration technology from CenturyLink.

6.3

Composite
Score

+37

Emotional
Footprint

69%

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.