Cisco Jabber Competitors and Alternatives

The top Cisco Jabber competitors are

Avaya Aura
Lync Server
Avaya one-X
Fortinet FortiVoice
Digium Asterisk
3CX

Read reviews of Cisco Jabber competitors and alternatives

3CX

Enterpri2472

Enterprise Account Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Aug 20 2017

What is most valuable?

* Call reporting * Call recording * Soft phone functionality The features set the system, stands out from a lot of its competitors in the PBX market. Typically for these features,... more»

How has it helped my organization?

The product increases the variety of services that my company is able to sell to their customers.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

It is private hosted if you have over 20 employees. For cloud/onsite, if you are under 20 employees, you can get the best commercial model.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We used Avaya, SIP Communicator, and Panasonic.

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Digium Asterisk

Digium

Amjad-Khan

Technical Lead with 51-200 employees

Aug 01 2018

What is most valuable?

From my perspective as an integrator, the most valuable features are call recording, call logging, and the stability.... more»

How has it helped my organization?

With Asterisk-based systems, we can even offer Cisco phones, unlike other IP systems, since there is a wide variety of... more»

What needs improvement?

CTI, computer telephony integration, is a necessary component. It must be a part of the basic code. Currently, we need... more»

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

If the client requires an economical solution with many features, we can offer them Digium Asterisk, where there is no... more»

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We mainly replace old telephony equipment. If, for instance, there is an old Alcatel telephone system (digital or... more»

What other advice do I have?

I would rate this solution an eight because it is stable. However, it lacks some features like CTI. We need to depend... more»

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Lync Server

Microsoft

Herbert Zimbizi

Senior Specialist Unified Communications at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Jul 23 2017

What is most valuable?

RDS, Conferencing, VoIP and IM are the most valuable features. The Remote Desktop Sharing, our users can now call other Lync users in other... more»

How has it helped my organization?

We have used Microsoft products and this product is tightly integrated in the Microsoft ecosystem. Everyone in the company uses some aspect of... more»

What needs improvement?

Conferencing and interoperability need to be improved. The biggest challenge has been seen in terms of interoperability with the other vendors.... more»

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Business Enterprise Voice provides the most pain for pricing.

What other advice do I have?

QoS and ample bandwidth are a must. Virtualization can be a source of pain, i.e., if it is not implemented as per the requirements from Microsoft.

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