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Avaya Aura

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73 Reviews and Ratings

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What is Avaya Aura?

The on-premises Avaya Aura Platform delivers unified communications and customer service solutions, designed to enhance employee and customer experiences. It is presented as real time communications architecture using session-based collaboration technologies, and is used to enable multi-modal unified communications and omnichannel customer experience solutions.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Avaya Aura has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
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Top Performing Features

  • High quality audio

    High quality audio connection is consistently available, with few or no interruptions.

    Category average: 8.6

  • Answering rules

    Ability to enter rules to route calls to main number or other extensions in case of absence

    Category average: 8.6

  • Call park

    Ability to hold calls in virtual location and subsequently access from any phone in system

    Category average: 8.4

Areas for Improvement

  • Voicemail Transcription

    AI-powered voice-to-text transcription of voicemails

    Category average: 8.1

  • Online Fax

    Ability to send and receive faxes over the internet

    Category average: 7.8

  • Business SMS/External Messaging

    Unlimited SMS and/or MMS with clients

    Category average: 8.3

Reviews

What users are saying about Avaya Aura.
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Avaya Aura - V10

Incentivized
David PerryView profile
Lead Network Architect in Information Technology at Hospital for Special Surgery (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Avaya Aura for our Enterprise phone system. We have tried using alternatives such as Avaya in the cloud and other hosted services, however, we found that only an on-prem solution with Avaya allows us the customizations our users require.

Pros

  • Call Center
  • User Interface to make customizations
  • Rich Feature set

Cons

  • Support model - More attention from Avaya is desired
  • Scalability with respect to limited logins
  • Better control and notification of bugs

Return on Investment

  • Has allowed detailed customizations for our many call centers. This allows our specialized staff for various departments to give appropriate attention to patients

Usability

My great experience with Avaya.

Incentivized
Joao Aquino
IT Manager in Engineering at Algar Tech (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Avaya Aura with Voice Services capabilities. It`s very secure and reliable and provides high availability. As an outsourcing company, we offer this technology for all types of industries.

Pros

  • Voice Services.
  • IVR Services.
  • Reports

Cons

  • Improve ways to integrate more easily.
  • Add digital channel.
  • Move to Cloud.

Most Important Features

  • Voice
  • IVR
  • Reports

Return on Investment

  • The price is positive.
  • Voice quality is positive.
  • Digital is not positive.

Alternatives Considered

Avaya Experience Platform

Other Software Used

Microsoft Teams, Alvaria CXP Pro, Genesys Cloud CX

Avaya Reliability.

Incentivized
Peter Maloney
Engineering Technician in Information Technology at Sandia National Labs (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I handle day-to-day tickets with MACS, including trouble tickets. This also includes trouble tickets ranging from station users to trunking and or contact center issues.

Pros

  • Easy administration process.
  • Avaya is very reliable in regard to uptime.

Cons

  • I wish that the loading of firmware on VoIP phones would be faster.
  • I wish that admins could save their programming at the same time.

Most Important Features

  • Large-scale end-user deployments.
  • Ease of end-user programming.

Return on Investment

  • No negative impacts.

A little bit of both sides.

Incentivized
Richard Campbell
IT Application Specialist in Information Technology at Loma Linda University Health (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use it at a contact center. Telephony and WFM solutions. Customer and Rep integration. On the customer side, we use it for patient scheduling, registration, and financial services. On the rep side, we use it for Scheduling, adherence, call monitoring, tracking, and reporting. We also utilize it for creating quality forms, eLearnings, internal experience videos, and quality control.

Pros

  • Data Collection.
  • Reporting
  • Quality Control.

Cons

  • Data Collection.
  • Telephony
  • User friendly.
  • Quality Control.

Most Important Features

  • Call quality.
  • Call monitoring.
  • Employee Monitoring.
  • Data Collection.

Return on Investment

  • User ease of use.
  • Customer call routing.
  • User friendly.

Other Software Used

Microsoft Teams, Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Call Manager), Epic Cadence Enterprise Scheduling

Avaya - Love their Integration!

Incentivized
Jessie Caynon
Telecommunications Director in Information Technology at East Boston Neighborhood Health Center (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our PBX is Aura 8.1; we have an on-prem PBX; we use it for all telephony; we have a mixture of physical phones and softphones. We have an AES server that is used with an external company's Contact Center. We have SIP trunks, so we also use Session Manager, SBCs, and System Manager to manage our infrastructure.

Pros

  • Their upgrades are seamless; we don't seem to have any issues whenever we upgrade.
  • Their engineers are very knowledgeable and help resolve issues we have.
  • The customer service is great.

Cons

  • The length of time to get an engineer's schedule needs to improve, especially when we're having service-impacting issues.
  • At times, some of the engineers have language issues which make it difficult for some of our team to work with, despite the knowledge of the engineer.

Most Important Features

  • Integration with external company software.
  • The ease of deployment of the softphone.
  • The reliability of their phones in our environment.

Return on Investment

  • When Covid hit, we were able to deploy OneX communicator quickly to get our agents working remotely - there was little setup needed.
  • Once we migrated from OneX to Workplace, again, the switch was done with relative ease.

Other Software Used

TouchPoint Software, Microsoft Teams, OpenText RightFax

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