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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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).
Cisco Systems
Cisco's unified communications provides call-control & flexible platforms, applications and telephony extensions.
8.0
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+79
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
86%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
Microsoft
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
Composite
Score
+80
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
87%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise
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
Composite
Score
+82
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
75%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
AT&T Inc.
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
Composite
Score
+67
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
83%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
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
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
Mitel
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
Composite
Score
+73
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
75%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
RingCentral, Inc
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
Composite
Score
+68
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
80%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
Avaya
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
Composite
Score
+66
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
72%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
Vonage
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
Composite
Score
+56
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
62%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
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
Composite
Score
+62
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
62%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
Lumen
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
Composite
Score
+37
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
69%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
For the full list of vendors in this space, click here.
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