AHEAD vs. CallTower

They are easily our go to company for anything revolving around VMware suite, whether that is infrastructure related, automation related, or monitoring related. It's a no brainier to get their assistance with a lot of tasks as they can competently implement complex designs. Also on the storage architecture side they are great. I'm sure there is much more but for my team we mainly leverage them in these areas.

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If you're looking to optimize your spend and resources around a corporate telephony solution, CallTower stands up against anything else I've seen. Lowering help desk tickets, allowing great communication and collaboration opportunities to thrive and providing a solution that just works!

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• The provided pre-req documentation was thorough and well thought out, making it easy to jump into the project.
• The design session to gather our requirements was very helpful, Sovereign's familiarity with the vRealize product line along with diagramming our desired layout confirmed our decision to bring in assistance with the project.
• When we ran into some issues with Sovereign's custom code their development team was on top of it and solved the issue in a matter of a few days.

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• Optimized integration with Teams
• Implementation was the 'flagship' experience for us
• Ongoing support is real not just empty promises
• The implementation model was extremely well thought out and was definitive

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• Coordination of product orders with the vendor although I think the vendor is the bigger issue. Insuring delivery time frames are met is of great importance with these kinds of projects.
• Communication between scheduled project meetings. There could be more contact between meetings.
• Provide a customer portal for project tracking.

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• Honestly nothing, I stack up other implementations against theirs, it was that good!

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I would not call it training, rather would call it knowledge transfer.

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Having extensive pre-implementaton dialogue really made the process much smoother. We had most of our bases covered and were ready for the equipment installation/implementation, except for the previously mentioned network configuration issues that arose.

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8x8 was our 2nd choice however for us they priced themselves out of the decision and we also tend to keep awareness around being right sized to the solutions we choose. With 8x8 we felt that their propensity to cater to large Enterprise would mean that we were the 'small fish in a large pond'. Being right sized means that we're not the largest fish but also not the smallest, which means that we get the right level of attention for who we are.

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