Cisco Room Series vs. Microsoft Teams

Cisco Room Series

200 Reviews and Ratings

Microsoft Teams

6,736 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Cisco Room Series	Score8.7 out of 10	N/A	The Cisco Room Series is a video conferencing solution that wakes up when users walk into a meeting room where it is installed and provides theater-quality voice and video, as well as content sharing from personal devices. For small to medium rooms with 6-8 people, there's Cisco Room 55, and for larger rooms of 7-14 people there's Cisco Room Kit (camera and codec in one device) and Cisco Kit Plus (separate codec plus and quad camera). Any of these systems can be run in the cloud or on-premises.	N/A
Microsoft Teams	Score7.9 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft Teams combines video conferencing software with team collaboration tools. The communications platform allows MS Office users to conduct conference calls and share files via SharePoint, and join or initiate a group chat.	$4.80 per month per user

Pricing

Cisco Room Series

Microsoft Teams

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Microsoft Teams Essentials: $4.80
per month per user
Microsoft Teams Enterprise: $5.25
per month (paid yearly) per user
Microsoft Teams Enterprise: $5.25
per month per user
Microsoft 365 Business Basic: $7.20
per month per user
Microsoft 365 Business Standard: $15
per month per user

Pricing Offerings
Cisco Room Series	Microsoft Teams
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Discounts are available for non profit organizations.

Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Cisco Room Series	Microsoft Teams
Considered Both Products	Cisco Verified User Chose Cisco Room Series When it comes to compatibility with other systems, the Cisco Webex Room Series offers the most leeway. Without an additional Cisco license, the Room Series can connect to Zoom and Microsoft Teams rooms. When compared to our product, the alternatives from other manufacturers … Incentivized Helpful? joao Ferreira Associate Director in Finance and Accounting at Btg pactual (Banking, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Cisco Room Series Cisco is more reliable Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Room Series None Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Room Series Cisco has and is the only vendor currently doing native MTR integration within the video collaboration space. No other vendor stacks up against Cisco as you are getting all of the value that Cisco provides such as noise cancellation, cinematic meetings, cross view, intelligent … Incentivized Helpful? Vitalii Kopievskii Network Engineer in Engineering at Green Light LLC (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Cisco Room Series Compared to its competitors, Cisco equipment stands out due to the quality of the components it consists of. Absolutely any of their devices is the Rolls-Royce of video conferencing equipment. I would also like to note the extreme ease of setting up the devices. Cisco's … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Room Series The Cisco Webex Room Series is the most flexible in terms of interoperability. The Room Series can join both Zoom and Teams rooms without requiring any extra Cisco licensing. The other vendors either don't work at all or require extra licensing in some cases Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Room Series We tend to purchase the Cisco Webex Room Series for larger rooms with the dual-screen option (ie: 55 or 70-inch dual screens). We're able to duplicate the output on each screen for local presentations and if on a video call the participants will show up on the left screen … Incentivized Helpful? Matt Waechter Senior Collaboration Engineer in Information Technology at Business Information Group (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Cisco Room Series The major difference the clients are going to look at is cost, upfront and ongoing. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Room Series The Cisco room kits it a cut above the rest of the competition, the interface is easy to use and intuitive. The video quality is best in class. I would recommend that you get one or more if you run any sort of remote training or town halls Incentivized Helpful? Samir Esber Information Technology in Information Technology at University of Luxembourg (Education Management, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Cisco Room Series Unfortunately, I cannot say anything about a different brand [as] a competitor, but I choose [Cisco] Webex Room Series as it's a more complete setup than other brands that require third-party platforms and sometimes don't work very well. Incentivized Helpful? David Arnold Communications Engineer in Information Technology at University of Wollongong (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Cisco Room Series Cisco Webex Room Series has the largest range of room options in a suite that is cohesive, global, and centralized. The hardware has a long service life [and] is quick to deploy, reliable, and easy to manage. Incentivized Helpful? Kevin Martin Senior Network Engineer in Information Technology at BancFirst (Financial Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Cisco Room Series The quality of the Logitech Rally series camera is sub-par in comparison to the Room Series Cameras. Also, the audio and noise cancelation features on the [Cisco Webex] Room [Series] kit make it a far superior product. Also to note, there is no wireless sharing feature on the … Incentivized Helpful? Amrit Sidhu Director of Managed Services in Customer Service at New Era Technology (Information Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Cisco Room Series [It was more] easy to use. Incentivized Helpful? Shanaya Desai Process Executive in Information Technology at Patra Corporation (Information Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Cisco Room Series Cisco delivers the best devices and apps for office use. Webex room 55 is also a great product from cisco. GoToRoom was our first option because it's cheaper. But when coming to user experience Webex room 55 was on the next level. It's so good and well designed. It delivered … Incentivized Helpful? Tommer Catlin Collaboration Guy in Sales at Dynamix (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose Cisco Room Series They work... just Cisco Webex Room Series works better with Cisco Webex Room Series Incentivized Helpful? Balazs Balogh CIO (Chief Information Officer) in Information Technology at Gloster (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Cisco Room Series Actually, we have other room systems and desk products as well. Deskpro, dx80, Room Kit Mini, and room USB. We, as an IT integrator, installed almost every type of Cisco collaboration device. I think the Webex Room Series portfolio is absolutely good for any kind of conference … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Room Series Cisco Webex Room Series offers a great integration of the different Webex solutions together. For instance, starting a Cisco meeting on a Webex Room Devices directly from the Cisco Webex App, sharing content from the Webex App wirelessly with Cisco Proximity. In addition, a … Incentivized Helpful? Steve Demetrious Video Communications & Audio Visual Specialist in Information Technology at Centerstone (Mental Health Care, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Cisco Room Series The Zoom Rooms are a nice product line but they are bulky and require a lot of wired connections. The Cisco Room Kit series is simpler and the all-in-one models are much more practical. Plus the Cisco Room Kits don't require an additional PC/Tablet to run. Incentivized Helpful? Viktor Mulac Senior Consultant in Information Technology at A.T. Kearney (Management Consulting, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Cisco Room Series I have used several video conferencing systems e.g. Skype and Polycom, for which both are far behind with respect to ease of use, speed, stability and options for interaction. Polycom (older solution) has rarely worked as expected. The Webex solution provide a much better and … Incentivized Helpful?	Microsoft No answer on this topic
	Would buy again
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Implementation went as expected
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Features

Cisco Room Series

Microsoft Teams

Comparison of Project Management features of Cisco Room Series and Microsoft Teams
Feature	Cisco Room Series - Ratings	Microsoft Teams 6.9 191 Ratings
Task Management	00 Ratings	7.5146 Ratings
Gantt Charts	00 Ratings	6.075 Ratings
Scheduling	00 Ratings	6.1161 Ratings
Workflow Automation	00 Ratings	7.1100 Ratings
Mobile Access	00 Ratings	8.1183 Ratings
Search	00 Ratings	6.7168 Ratings
Visual planning tools	00 Ratings	7.1117 Ratings

Comparison of Communication features of Cisco Room Series and Microsoft Teams
Feature	Cisco Room Series - Ratings	Microsoft Teams 7.8 200 Ratings
Chat	00 Ratings	8.7199 Ratings
Notifications	00 Ratings	7.8198 Ratings
Discussions	00 Ratings	8.4186 Ratings
Surveys	00 Ratings	8.2111 Ratings
Internal knowledgebase	00 Ratings	8.1121 Ratings
Integrates with GoToMeeting	00 Ratings	6.547 Ratings
Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts	00 Ratings	5.743 Ratings
Integrates with Outlook	00 Ratings	9.1156 Ratings

Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Cisco Room Series and Microsoft Teams
Feature	Cisco Room Series - Ratings	Microsoft Teams 7.6 185 Ratings
Versioning	00 Ratings	8.2129 Ratings
Video files	00 Ratings	7.1157 Ratings
Audio files	00 Ratings	8.2159 Ratings
Document collaboration	00 Ratings	9.2172 Ratings
Access control	00 Ratings	8.7155 Ratings
Advanced security features	00 Ratings	6.8116 Ratings
Integrates with Google Drive	00 Ratings	5.353 Ratings
Device sync	00 Ratings	7.5131 Ratings

User Ratings
	Cisco Room Series	Microsoft Teams
Likelihood to Recommend	8.7 (82 ratings)	8.1 (277 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	5.5 (5 ratings)	3.7 (9 ratings)
Usability	9.3 (71 ratings)	8.3 (61 ratings)
Availability	10.0 (1 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Performance	10.0 (1 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	9.2 (71 ratings)	8.3 (113 ratings)
Implementation Rating	10.0 (1 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Configurability	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model	- (0 ratings)	6.3 (7 ratings)
Ease of integration	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	10.0 (1 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Professional Services	- (0 ratings)	7.0 (7 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)