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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Avaya Aura

    Score7.3 out of 10
    N/AThe 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.N/A

    RingCentral Contact Center

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/ARingCentral Contact Center is an AI-first contact center offers a set of cloud-based software plans with basic features including support for inbound and outbound call centers and IVR and ACD capabilities. Advanced features include analytics, real-time call reporting, workforce optimization analytics, and omni-channel integration with SMS, email, and social media platforms.N/A
    Pricing
    Avaya AuraRingCentral Contact Center
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    Avaya AuraRingCentral Contact Center
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Avaya AuraRingCentral Contact Center
    Considered Both Products
    Avaya
    Chose Avaya Aura
    Teams phone is much better in user administration and soft client. Another area that they are far apart are UC, meetings, collaboration, Video. Their noise cancellation is superb. Easy to use and set up are night and day compared to Avaya Aura remote worker. There is no easy …
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    RingCentral
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    96%
    Would buy again
    50 Answers
    94%
    Would buy again
    33 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    89%
    Delivers good value for the price
    42 Answers
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    30 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    92%
    Happy with the feature set
    48 Answers
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    33 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    71%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    24 Answers
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    20 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    82%
    Implementation went as expected
    36 Answers
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    22 Answers
    Features
    Avaya AuraRingCentral Contact Center
    Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software
    Comparison of Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software features of Avaya Aura and RingCentral Contact Center
    Feature
    Avaya Aura
    8.1
    28 Ratings
    4% below category average
    RingCentral Contact Center
    -
    Ratings
    High quality audio9.028 Ratings00 Ratings
    High quality video7.215 Ratings00 Ratings
    Screen Sharing
    Comparison of Screen Sharing features of Avaya Aura and RingCentral Contact Center
    Feature
    Avaya Aura
    6.9
    17 Ratings
    21% below category average
    RingCentral Contact Center
    -
    Ratings
    Desktop sharing6.917 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Meetings / Events
    Comparison of Online Meetings / Events features of Avaya Aura and RingCentral Contact Center
    Feature
    Avaya Aura
    6.8
    21 Ratings
    23% below category average
    RingCentral Contact Center
    -
    Ratings
    Calendar integration6.719 Ratings00 Ratings
    Meeting initiation7.018 Ratings00 Ratings
    Record meetings / events6.816 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Events Collaboration
    Comparison of Online Events Collaboration features of Avaya Aura and RingCentral Contact Center
    Feature
    Avaya Aura
    6.7
    12 Ratings
    21% below category average
    RingCentral Contact Center
    -
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    Live chat6.712 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Events Security
    Comparison of Online Events Security features of Avaya Aura and RingCentral Contact Center
    Feature
    Avaya Aura
    6.8
    20 Ratings
    15% below category average
    RingCentral Contact Center
    -
    Ratings
    User authentication6.518 Ratings00 Ratings
    Participant roles & permissions7.116 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cloud PBX
    Comparison of Cloud PBX features of Avaya Aura and RingCentral Contact Center
    Feature
    Avaya Aura
    7.5
    34 Ratings
    12% below category average
    RingCentral Contact Center
    -
    Ratings
    Hosted PBX6.619 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)9.025 Ratings00 Ratings
    Directory of employee names7.026 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call Management
    Comparison of Call Management features of Avaya Aura and RingCentral Contact Center
    Feature
    Avaya Aura
    7.4
    41 Ratings
    16% below category average
    RingCentral Contact Center
    -
    Ratings
    Answering rules9.034 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call recording7.328 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call park9.030 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call screening9.027 Ratings00 Ratings
    Message alerts7.030 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business SMS/External Messaging5.813 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Fax6.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Voicemail Transcription6.018 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile apps
    Comparison of Mobile apps features of Avaya Aura and RingCentral Contact Center
    Feature
    Avaya Aura
    7.0
    22 Ratings
    23% below category average
    RingCentral Contact Center
    -
    Ratings
    Mobile app for iOS7.121 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile app for Android6.820 Ratings00 Ratings
    Unified Communications Platform and Collaboration
    Comparison of Unified Communications Platform and Collaboration features of Avaya Aura and RingCentral Contact Center
    Feature
    Avaya Aura
    7.0
    35 Ratings
    19% below category average
    RingCentral Contact Center
    -
    Ratings
    Centralized communications management8.033 Ratings00 Ratings
    Team messaging6.720 Ratings00 Ratings
    Team document sharing6.214 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call and meeting analytics7.021 Ratings00 Ratings
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Avaya Aura and RingCentral Contact Center
    Feature
    Avaya Aura
    -
    Ratings
    RingCentral Contact Center
    8.6
    35 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Agent dashboard00 Ratings9.430 Ratings
    Validate callers00 Ratings7.010 Ratings
    Outbound response00 Ratings8.631 Ratings
    Call forwarding00 Ratings8.231 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)00 Ratings9.420 Ratings
    Warm transfer00 Ratings8.010 Ratings
    Predictive dialing00 Ratings8.716 Ratings
    Interactive voice response00 Ratings9.121 Ratings
    REST APIs00 Ratings9.910 Ratings
    Call scripts00 Ratings7.619 Ratings
    Call tracking00 Ratings9.010 Ratings
    Multichannel integration00 Ratings8.619 Ratings
    CRM software integration00 Ratings7.719 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Avaya Aura and RingCentral Contact Center
    Feature
    Avaya Aura
    -
    Ratings
    RingCentral Contact Center
    9.0
    34 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Inbound call routing00 Ratings9.430 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing00 Ratings9.020 Ratings
    Recording00 Ratings9.632 Ratings
    Quality management00 Ratings9.229 Ratings
    Call analytics00 Ratings8.931 Ratings
    Historical reporting00 Ratings9.030 Ratings
    Live reporting00 Ratings8.927 Ratings
    Customer surveys00 Ratings9.613 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics00 Ratings7.315 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Avaya AuraRingCentral Contact Center
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (52 ratings)
    9.3
    (35 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.6
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.7
    (6 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.9
    (4 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Avaya AuraRingCentral Contact Center
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Avaya
    Avaya Aura is secure and reliable; in our case, for customers that looking for stable solutions on voice, Avaya Aura is that solution fit. In a scenario where our customer is looking for digitalization, I think Avaya Aura is less appropriate.
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    RingCentral
    RingCentral Contact Center is extremely useful for tracking employee availability and working hours, particularly for remote employees. It is also helpful to be able to share certain skills between various employees so that customers dialing in have the best chance to get in touch with the correct contact immediately. RingCentral Contact Center is not ideal for lots of outbound outreach, particularly due to the phone number not coming in with the user's extension (and in our case, the number is an 800 number and looks more like spam), but for incoming calls it is very useful. The difference between a cold transfer and trying to conference someone on before you transfer is not always clear. Many people in the company often make mistakes, such as not being able to conference on the contact before transferring or accidentally hanging up on the conference, also affecting the others on the line.
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    Pros
    Avaya
    • So one of the things it's done well is it's stable. It's networked at all the sites. We have five-digit dialing everywhere, and one of the features we like is the crisis alert feature. So if somebody calls 911 at a particular school, it sets an alarm off on the phones upfront and displays the extension number and the room number of who called 911. So they can respond and they know where to send first responders. So it's pretty cool.
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    RingCentral
    • Reliability: Our previous service was prone to outages, RingCentral Contact Center has been rock solid as long as we've used it.
    • Integration: Our IT team was able to build a custom RingCentral Contact Center dashboard on our website for our salespeople to manage inbound/ outbound calling. From there we were able to send call data directly into activities in our ERP (Acumatica).
    • Ease of use: It works well whether in the office or WFH (which many employees do regularly.
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    Cons
    Avaya
    • Pricing is always a concern.
    • How to maintain the attractive price point as they transition from perpetual licensing to subscription-based.
    • Offering the benefits of 'economies of scale' even in situations where the transitioning is not wholesale from the onset but incremental over time.
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    RingCentral
    • I have not experienced it firsthand, but I have heard that their customer service is hard to reach and to resolve issues.
    • Verification to login can be annoying with the number of steps required.
    • I do receive spam calls through the number, which i wish were filtered out.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Avaya
    We are happy with this product since we have used until now around 10 years.
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    RingCentral
    If we haven't used the contact center for support is because the service is so good that make us not need to use it very often. However, I guess our IT team has found some useful features on it for system implementation, automation, and updates that have helped them to keep providing us with the right support as needed.
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    Usability
    Avaya
    Avaya Aura is extremely complex. Now that AI has come into the fold, Avaya needs to apply AI processes and tools to help identify and resolve issues with an installed platform. In addition, proactively identify potential issues. Ayaya has had some financial difficulties over the last few years. This may be why they outsource their expensive support. Our customer experience would benefit by having access to Avaya knowledgeable Engineers for questions about products and services as needed.
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    RingCentral
    It's a really intuitive platform. All the buttons and sections are almost exactly where you would expect them to be. Navigating the platform is fairly easy, even for folks who have not used it before. I can usually just tell my colleagues to "go to the settings tab and you'll see the audio settings" and they are able to take it from there.
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    Support Rating
    Avaya
    No answers on this topic
    RingCentral
    We honestly did not need much support but whatever we wanted was resolved via email and that experience was nice but took a bit of time
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    Implementation Rating
    Avaya
    No answers on this topic
    RingCentral
    It was really straightforward to get our phone number ported over and start using the platform. The agent walked us through the steps and we were able to configure everything ourselves. Much easier to setup than some of the other platforms
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    Alternatives Considered
    Avaya
    So I've seen the Cisco product out there. I've seen the old Nortel products, Mitel, I've been doing this for a long time. I've seen a lot of other products. And Avaya, Nortel were the Western Electric and Northern Electric of the world way back when. So pretty much the grandparents of all the other stuff that's out there. So their foundation is really strong. So I think this product stacks up amazing, especially for places that are mission critical, like hospitals, maybe the military, and stuff like that. They have the app, if you need an app, they do stuff on mobile devices, and that you can have remote workers. So I think they stack up really well against the other companies. The problem is probably advertising and the schools that are teaching this stuff are promoting a particular product and that's where the other products have the advantage. They're in the schools and it's, I call it indoctrination, but they're in the schools and they're teaching the people. The other product, their competitors are teaching in the schools, their product line. And that's how they can do promotion better.
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    RingCentral
    All of them are good choices, but if you're looking for something where all of these are included, it must needs be RingCentral Contact Center, All in one communication tool, don't worry about communication outages, RingCentral Contact Center updates in out of office schedules, if you're looking for "The Experience" RingCentral is the best choice.
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    Return on Investment
    Avaya
    • As far as a negative impact on a surface level, not too much negative impact was to go right into that and we had the scare eight months ago. Well, we didn't know if Avaya was a product we were going to be able to continue with. But after this conference, we got the warm and fuzzies back. That is a product that we can keep for a number of years and they'll continue to grow and keep on upgrading it and stay current. So we'll be sticking with that.
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    RingCentral
    • With RingCentral Contact Center we were able to connect with our customers. The feature that allows the call to be sent to the first available rep ensured that this happened.
    • Also, my favorite feature is the call recording and transcription feature. This allowed me to get the customer's emails without asking them to repeat if I missed them the first time. Hence, happier customers and more meetings.
    • RingCentral Contact Center also made it very easy to set up a mailbox for customers to leave messages and reassure them that they've connected with the right person.
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