Data Quadrant Awards 2019

Unified Communications as a Service

SoftwareReviews names Cisco Unified Communications, NEC Unified Communications, Mitel Unified Communications, and AT&T Unified Communications as Unified Communications as a Service Data Quadrant Award Winners.

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Unified Communications as a Service

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Unified Communications as a Service Data Quadrant

Note Software product placement is based on the scores provided by users, recency of the reviews, and review volume. Axes are dynamically adjusted based on the minimum and maximum values in the data set.

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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).

Gold Medalists

114Reviews

Cisco Systems

Cisco Unified Communications

Cisco's unified communications provides call-control & flexible platforms, applications and telephony extensions.

7.9

Composite
Score

+78

Emotional
Footprint

84%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

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25Reviews

NEC Corporation of America

NEC Unified Communications

With NEC's Unified Communications solutions, tools, collaboration, conferencing and messaging all become more immediate and flexible. Whether accessing a critical application, connecting with a colleague or determining how best to contact someone our technology provides the accessibility and transparency needed to get the task done.

7.7

Composite
Score

+78

Emotional
Footprint

81%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

42Reviews

AT&T

AT&T Unified Communications

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

+69

Emotional
Footprint

83%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

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17Reviews

Mitel

Mitel Unified Communications

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

+71

Emotional
Footprint

77%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

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Vendor Capability Awards

Availability and Quality of Training

Cisco Unified Communications

Breadth of Features

Cisco Unified Communications

Business Value Created

Cisco Unified Communications

Ease of Customization

CenturyLink Unified Communications and Collaboration

Ease of Data Integration

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Unified Communications

Ease of IT Administration

CenturyLink Unified Communications and Collaboration

Ease of Implementation

CenturyLink Unified Communications and Collaboration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Unified Communications

Quality of Features

Cisco Unified Communications

Usability and Intuitiveness

Mitel Unified Communications

Vendor Support

NEC Unified Communications

Vendor Capability Awards

Availability and Quality of Training

Cisco Unified Communications

Breadth of Features

Cisco Unified Communications

Business Value Created

Cisco Unified Communications

Ease of Customization

CenturyLink Unified Communications and Collaboration

Ease of Data Integration

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Unified Communications

Ease of IT Administration

CenturyLink Unified Communications and Collaboration

Ease of Implementation

CenturyLink Unified Communications and Collaboration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Unified Communications

Quality of Features

Cisco Unified Communications

Usability and Intuitiveness

Mitel Unified Communications

Vendor Support

NEC Unified Communications

Other Evaluated Vendors

17Reviews

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Unified Communications

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.

7.4

Composite
Score

+77

Emotional
Footprint

74%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

10Reviews

RingCentral

RingCentral Unified Communications

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.

7.2

Composite
Score

+67

Emotional
Footprint

77%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

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54Reviews

Avaya

Avaya Unified Communications

Explore communications, conferencing, and infrastructure solutions that support real-time engagement by integrating voice, video, data, messaging, conferencing, mobility, and more

6.9

Composite
Score

+62

Emotional
Footprint

71%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

12Reviews

CenturyLink

CenturyLink Unified Communications and Collaboration

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.

6.7

Composite
Score

+54

Emotional
Footprint

72%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

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25Reviews

Unify

Unify Unified Communications

Unified communications is a methodology that unifies separate modes of communication into a single, combined user experience. Email, text, and voice messaging work seamlessly with live voice, audio and video conferencing, and Web collaboration, in one interface, with “presence” notification to indicate your availability to participate.

6.6

Composite
Score

+62

Emotional
Footprint

63%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

18Reviews

Vonage

Vonage Business

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.

6.5

Composite
Score

+56

Emotional
Footprint

62%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

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SoftwareReviews Gold Medal Awards recognize outstanding vendors in the technology marketplace as evaluated by their users. Gold Medals are the capstone of an in-depth software evaluation report, and awarded using a proprietary, transparent methodology based on a composite satisfaction score that averages four different areas of evaluation: Net Emotional Footprint, Vendor Capabilities, Product Features, and Likeliness to Recommend. The Net Emotional Footprint Score measures user emotional response ratings of the vendor (e.g. trustworthy, respectful, fair).

Software Reports present comprehensive evaluations of software vendors on the above elements. Software buyers can use this data to make more informed, data-driven software purchasing and renewal decisions.