Cisco UC-One vs. Unify Office by RingCentral, from Atos

For a company like ours where 24/7 reliability is important both for the safety of our techs and the ability to complete the task at hand, this product has served us well. Like any other tech change, there was an initial learning curve, but this one was low and our time to implementation short

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If you are looking for a tool for Teams to use where they can keep everything together, then this will work really well. A complete package than tools such as WhatsApp or Skype for Business when it comes to documenting handling and more polished than the likes of Slack or HipChat for the team working and communication element.

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• Clear quality of service
• easy implementation
• good return on investment

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• The mobile use of the platform is very powerful. To be able to answer a video call on your phone and them simply swipe when you get to your desktop to have a seamless transfer is impressive.
• The simple interface makes it easy for new users. There is nothing to make them feel overwhelmed.
• Keeping all the information in the threads of conversations makes it easy to find. There is also a search tool, so as long as you know what you need, you can look accross all your conversation to find the information you are looking for.

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• Mobile App Chats do not always sync to the PC application.
• Switching from WiFi to Cellular on mobile applications typically drops the call.
• Caller ID on the iPhone/iPad app only shows the phone number and not the Caller ID information.

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• We would like to see the ability to break out to Group video conferencing systems. We understand that this is on its way in a software update in the near future.

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Jive as a whole has a better back end user interface, however, BroadSoft UC One far surpasses it in terms of overall functionality. The larger feature set (IM, Softphone [Jive has], collab bridge, etc) makes the slightly less intuitive back end a small ding against the software as a whole. Plus the stability of UC One as a whole is much higher as well.

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Each of the tools above does something well. We have found that the Unify solution simply does a better job of combining all the features of the other services. \easy to start using, while remaining a powerful tool is a tricky task to pull off, but Unify have done this and they have done it well.

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• The services as a whole are a better feature set for a better price.
• The software is much easier to use and administrate than previous offerings on the same platform offering a better customer experience.
• Updates made to the back end are not well communicated and sometimes cause unexpected behavior as a result.

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• A shortening of timescales as information is not stuck on an internal server somewhere - we can include it as part of the thread. This also applies to updates and revisions. You automatically know which the latest revision is, as it is the most recent in the timeline.
• The relative cost of implementation is low and there is a wide range of solutions for phones and clients, from software based solutions running on desktop and smartphone or quality hardware to make your desk phone a powerful tool in itself.

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