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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    8x8 Express (discontinued)

    Score3 out of 10
    N/A8x8 Express was a cloud-based phone system that included unlimited calling within the U.S and Canada, HD video conferencing, business SMS and team chat, pre-configured. As of March 2023 8x8 Express is end of sale and no longer available.N/A

    Cisco Room Series

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AThe 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
    Pricing
    8x8 Express (discontinued)Cisco Room Series
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    8x8 Express (discontinued)Cisco Room Series
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details——
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    8x8 Express (discontinued)Cisco Room Series
    Considered Both Products
    Discontinued Products
    No answer on this topic
    Cisco
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    8 Answers
    97%
    Would buy again
    86 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    79 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    8 Answers
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    87 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    72 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    82 Answers
    Features
    8x8 Express (discontinued)Cisco Room Series
    Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software
    Comparison of Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software features of 8x8 Express (discontinued) and Cisco Room Series
    Feature
    8x8 Express (discontinued)
    8.0
    6 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Cisco Room Series
    -
    Ratings
    High quality audio8.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    High quality video8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Screen Sharing
    Comparison of Screen Sharing features of 8x8 Express (discontinued) and Cisco Room Series
    Feature
    8x8 Express (discontinued)
    8.5
    2 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Cisco Room Series
    -
    Ratings
    Desktop sharing8.52 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Meetings / Events
    Comparison of Online Meetings / Events features of 8x8 Express (discontinued) and Cisco Room Series
    Feature
    8x8 Express (discontinued)
    8.7
    2 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Cisco Room Series
    -
    Ratings
    Calendar integration9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Meeting initiation8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Record meetings / events9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Events Collaboration
    Comparison of Online Events Collaboration features of 8x8 Express (discontinued) and Cisco Room Series
    Feature
    8x8 Express (discontinued)
    8.5
    2 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Cisco Room Series
    -
    Ratings
    Live chat8.52 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Events Security
    Comparison of Online Events Security features of 8x8 Express (discontinued) and Cisco Room Series
    Feature
    8x8 Express (discontinued)
    9.3
    5 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Cisco Room Series
    -
    Ratings
    User authentication9.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Participant roles & permissions9.54 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cloud PBX
    Comparison of Cloud PBX features of 8x8 Express (discontinued) and Cisco Room Series
    Feature
    8x8 Express (discontinued)
    8.0
    6 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Cisco Room Series
    -
    Ratings
    Hosted PBX7.54 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Directory of employee names8.66 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call Management
    Comparison of Call Management features of 8x8 Express (discontinued) and Cisco Room Series
    Feature
    8x8 Express (discontinued)
    8.9
    6 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Cisco Room Series
    -
    Ratings
    Answering rules9.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call recording9.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call park9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call screening9.34 Ratings00 Ratings
    Message alerts9.25 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business SMS/External Messaging8.54 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Fax8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Voicemail Transcription9.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile apps
    Comparison of Mobile apps features of 8x8 Express (discontinued) and Cisco Room Series
    Feature
    8x8 Express (discontinued)
    9.6
    3 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Cisco Room Series
    -
    Ratings
    Mobile app for iOS9.73 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile app for Android9.62 Ratings00 Ratings
    Unified Communications Platform and Collaboration
    Comparison of Unified Communications Platform and Collaboration features of 8x8 Express (discontinued) and Cisco Room Series
    Feature
    8x8 Express (discontinued)
    7.1
    5 Ratings
    18% below category average
    Cisco Room Series
    -
    Ratings
    Centralized communications management8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Team messaging8.34 Ratings00 Ratings
    Team document sharing6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call and meeting analytics6.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    8x8 Express (discontinued)Cisco Room Series
    Small Businesses
    Broadvoice | GoContact
    Score9.1 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    Webex Calling
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Cisco Headsets
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Webex Calling
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Cisco Webex DX80 (discontinued)
    Score9.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    8x8 Express (discontinued)Cisco Room Series
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.6
    (8 ratings)
    8.1
    (93 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.6
    (83 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    7.8
    (80 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    8x8 Express (discontinued)Cisco Room Series
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    The 8x8 app is great and very user friendly and straightforward. Team Members can adjust their own setting as needed.
    Incentivized
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    Cisco
    We had a conference room with a Radvision board that needed to be replaced. Our HQ is not fully Cisco but rather a mish mash of different products such as Rally bars, Poly, Radviison and Cisco. Putting Cisco into the conference room allowed us to have a single pane of glass for our needs.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • So easy to use!
    • Voicemail - can be accessed anywhere, includes transcription of the voicemail and an email message with the recording
    • Telephone services without all the fees of a landline service
    • Auto attendant, offering recordings of our messages
    Incentivized
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    Cisco
    • Captures everyone in the room with its wide angle camera automatically.
    • Counts the number of people in the video meeting.
    • Puts the camera focus on the person who is speaking.
    • Enhances the live meeting video experience with its AI features.
    • Removes the overheads of manually setting up cameras and adjusting them.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Discontinued Products
    • We are just starting to use the platform and using limited features at the moment and 8x8 is doing everything we need it to do.
    Incentivized
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    Cisco
    • Perhaps any downside I might see is not necessarily with this product, it's more interoperability with other products. And I think these are all roadmap items that are being addressed. For instance, when you're in a Cisco meeting, it's not as feature rich as it might be as if you joined from a computer. However, as I said, these seem to be roadmap items which are coming along soon. Things like integration with the text or chat rather in a meeting, and also whiteboard integration.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Cisco
    By the time we are up for an upgrade, this particular series of products might not even been in the market. The typical product cycle for such products in the market are about 5 years. More importantly, the codec supported by such devices may also change by the time we are up for an upgrade. Even so, getting this system to a level of functionality we require was a frustrating ordeal that I do not look forward to during the next cycle.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Cisco
    A lot of the features are really easy. You can just click connect and you're in. But using all of these other integrations and all these other features that are there, it's kind of the blind leading the blind as to how we use it. So it's probably the downside of it.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Cisco
    Once the order was place we received very quickly
    Incentivized
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    Performance
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Cisco
    Great product with a great user experience
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
    If you get less than 4 phones you fall into the online only customer service. There were a couple of times that I could have used more assistance but figuring it out online was a bit of a hassle.
    Incentivized
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    Cisco
    Cisco has always stood out for the excellent support and documentation on its products, this is one of the reasons why they are so well positioned. The means by which you can create a case and the response times are very good. I especially like the support through the Webex teams.
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    Implementation Rating
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Cisco
    Very easy to implement. Integration into our Unified Communications platform was simple and quick
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    8x8 has a much lower cost that avaya for the same features. 8x8 is a bit more user friendly than some other larger well established brands. It still uses industry standards in terminology and call flows to for anyone with voip experience its a pain free switch to make over.
    Incentivized
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    Cisco
    As a partner, I always used mainly Cisco products and offered them to my customers. I have personal experience with Avaya, Team and polycom but non of them provided me with the Premium feelings which Cisco does. Even the product quality and look of the product by itself gives you the premium experience. But I want to mention that Polycom has some features and easy setup which Cisco lacks sometimes. It is mainly 3rd party integration.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Cisco
    The product and backend systems are designed to scale from small to very large organization seamlessly and easily
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • Being able to listen to phone calls when there is a discrepancy
    • Keeping the honest honest by knowing we can listen to calls
    • Easy to communicate internally, been very helpful and time saving
    Incentivized
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    Cisco
    • The Cisco MTRoA solution has reduced the time it takes for our users to join their meeting and spend more time concentrating on business rather than the technology.
    • It simply works.
    • Ease of support.
    • We also appreciate the great support we get from intelligent folks in Cisco TAC organization.
    Incentivized
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