Avaya UCaaS vs. Fuze

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Avaya UCaaS
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Avaya UCaaS is an all-in-one business communications platform. Avaya UCaaS aims to set employees up for success with unified internal communication, supporting voice, chat, email, video, file sharing, task management and more. Create collaboration in real-time, using any device or system, through one platform.
$19.99
per month per user
Fuze
Score 7.6 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Fuze is a cloud-based unified communications platform that includes IP PBX voice service, video conferencing, and collaboration tools such as content sharing and instant messaging capabilities. It also integrates with a wide range of popular CTI, CRM, and click-to-call solutions.
$15
per month
Pricing
Avaya UCaaSFuze
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
US Outbound
$0.02
Per Minute
Fuze Meetings
$15
Per User/Per Month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Avaya UCaaSFuze
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeRequired
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Features
Avaya UCaaSFuze
Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software
Comparison of Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software features of Product A and Product B
Avaya UCaaS
6.0
18 Ratings
30% below category average
Fuze
-
Ratings
High quality audio7.918 Ratings00 Ratings
High quality video7.015 Ratings00 Ratings
Screen Sharing
Comparison of Screen Sharing features of Product A and Product B
Avaya UCaaS
7.6
11 Ratings
5% below category average
Fuze
-
Ratings
Desktop sharing7.611 Ratings00 Ratings
Online Meetings / Events
Comparison of Online Meetings / Events features of Product A and Product B
Avaya UCaaS
7.6
12 Ratings
5% below category average
Fuze
-
Ratings
Calendar integration7.012 Ratings00 Ratings
Meeting initiation7.212 Ratings00 Ratings
Record meetings / events6.910 Ratings00 Ratings
Online Events Collaboration
Comparison of Online Events Collaboration features of Product A and Product B
Avaya UCaaS
8.1
12 Ratings
5% above category average
Fuze
-
Ratings
Live chat7.112 Ratings00 Ratings
Online Events Security
Comparison of Online Events Security features of Product A and Product B
Avaya UCaaS
7.4
15 Ratings
1% below category average
Fuze
-
Ratings
User authentication7.414 Ratings00 Ratings
Participant roles & permissions7.415 Ratings00 Ratings
Cloud PBX
Comparison of Cloud PBX features of Product A and Product B
Avaya UCaaS
7.5
21 Ratings
8% below category average
Fuze
5.9
111 Ratings
33% below category average
Hosted PBX7.914 Ratings5.578 Ratings
Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)7.414 Ratings6.373 Ratings
Directory of employee names6.019 Ratings6.0107 Ratings
User templates00 Ratings5.360 Ratings
Call reports00 Ratings6.592 Ratings
Call Management
Comparison of Call Management features of Product A and Product B
Avaya UCaaS
7.6
21 Ratings
8% below category average
Fuze
6.8
107 Ratings
21% below category average
Answering rules8.620 Ratings7.199 Ratings
Call recording9.016 Ratings6.489 Ratings
Call park7.916 Ratings7.273 Ratings
Call screening7.115 Ratings00 Ratings
Message alerts8.919 Ratings6.693 Ratings
Business SMS/External Messaging7.411 Ratings00 Ratings
Online Fax5.59 Ratings00 Ratings
Voicemail Transcription6.716 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile apps
Comparison of Mobile apps features of Product A and Product B
Avaya UCaaS
8.2
19 Ratings
5% below category average
Fuze
8.1
103 Ratings
3% below category average
Mobile app for iOS7.814 Ratings8.194 Ratings
Mobile app for Android8.716 Ratings8.177 Ratings
Unified Communications Platform and Collaboration
Comparison of Unified Communications Platform and Collaboration features of Product A and Product B
Avaya UCaaS
7.0
14 Ratings
6% below category average
Fuze
-
Ratings
Centralized communications management7.313 Ratings00 Ratings
Team messaging6.611 Ratings00 Ratings
Team document sharing7.09 Ratings00 Ratings
Call and meeting analytics7.213 Ratings00 Ratings
VoIP system collaboration
Comparison of VoIP system collaboration features of Product A and Product B
Avaya UCaaS
-
Ratings
Fuze
7.4
91 Ratings
11% below category average
Video conferencing00 Ratings7.377 Ratings
Audio conferencing00 Ratings7.590 Ratings
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Avaya UCaaSFuze
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Score 9.1 out of 10
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Score 9.5 out of 10
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Nextiva Business Phone Service
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Score 9.1 out of 10
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Score 9.5 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 8.6 out of 10
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User Ratings
Avaya UCaaSFuze
Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
(97 ratings)
8.0
(116 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.5
(5 ratings)
7.7
(20 ratings)
Usability
6.6
(5 ratings)
7.1
(12 ratings)
Availability
8.7
(4 ratings)
8.9
(3 ratings)
Performance
6.2
(4 ratings)
8.0
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
7.4
(80 ratings)
7.4
(88 ratings)
In-Person Training
6.8
(2 ratings)
8.0
(2 ratings)
Online Training
9.1
(1 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
6.0
(4 ratings)
8.0
(111 ratings)
Configurability
5.5
(2 ratings)
8.7
(3 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
9.5
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.1
(1 ratings)
8.0
(3 ratings)
Product Scalability
5.9
(2 ratings)
7.8
(3 ratings)
Professional Services
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.2
(2 ratings)
8.6
(3 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
7.7
(2 ratings)
8.0
(3 ratings)
User Testimonials
Avaya UCaaSFuze
Likelihood to Recommend
Avaya
Call centers where lots of calls come in per day are better suited for Cloud office. Small businesses or companies that don’t really make outgoing calls or receive a lot of incoming calls other than within the company would not really be suited for Avaya Cloud Office.
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Fuze
Fuze has way more capability than we need for our small office so it might be best suited for large installations, call centers, and complex environments. Our office is small and our needs [are] minimal, so when we need support we are challenged to understand the support person due to our lack of technical sophistication. We sometimes feel like we should switch to a solution more geared for consumers or SOHO. Nevertheless, Fuze provides reliable service at [a] reasonable cost that meets our needs, and because support is rarely needed we are happy with them most of the time, i.e. when support isn't needed.
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Pros
Avaya
  • User-friendly GUI management interface with the possibility to create different rooms, notebooks, calendars, and chats.
  • The management interface for recordings is made in the rooms with the possibility of downloading them to the location.
  • Link and file sharing with other participants.
  • Chat with all participants and individual.
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Fuze
  • Support Team - the best I have ever worked with. They help 24/7 on any issue I could come across. Usually it is an item I could fix myself and they fix it and show me how to fix the same issue if I have it in the future.
  • Contact Center - We do Commercial Collections involving Sales and Collections. We have 50 people on the phone at one time. Contact Center lets a Manager listen live and gives help if the rep needs help selling or collecting.
  • Pandemic 2020 - without Fuze we would have been unable to work for 3 months. They saved our "rears" since we already had all their services up and running for years.
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Cons
Avaya
  • Avaya has very strong contact center offerings and more contact with our salesperson would be helpful, so we can explore the latest offerings
  • Although it's adequate a slightly more intuitive UI would be helpful
  • More integrated reporting at the end-user level.
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Fuze
  • Desktop application stability and compatibility with certain hardware.
  • Better installation - Per-user and per-computer installs sometimes compete with one another and/or upgrades fail to install.
  • [The] desktop app is not best for touchscreen-enabled devices due to lack of ability to scroll through messages using a finger or stylus.
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Likelihood to Renew
Avaya
I would like to have better communication with the support teams and do not want to have to port to a new system.
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Fuze
Fuze is a solid application that is a great asset to the business for our sales staff to make daily calls to clients and candidates. Managers can monitor call data and times to keep up to date with team performance, as well as monitor calls for users on their team. The Fuze/MS Teams integration is an exciting prospect that would be very beneficial to us as a business, for seamless integration between the 2 platforms.
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Usability
Avaya
There are few times that we have not been able to take advantage of the tool, but those moments are related to the bandwidth of each person in [their] home. Those who have low signal cannot access meetings on the platform smoothly.
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Fuze
Fuze was built with the end-user in mind. It was built to have a common interface on mobile and desktop. Fuze Web is new, and it also has the exact same interface as the desktop and mobile, and they are still working on the ability to make phone calls from the browser itself, currently it can do meetings just fine. Everything about Fuze was built with the end-user in mind.
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Reliability and Availability
Avaya
Throughout a year and and a half of remote learning, we only experience two minor technology issues that were resolved within an hour
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Fuze
We've had a few outages over the past year. More than other vendors I've used. They usually have outages fixed within an hour. The downside is they do not provide root cause of outages. If they do at takes them at least a month to get it to you
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Performance
Avaya
We have not been faced to any performance issue.
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Fuze
Since Fuze runs across multiple devices and platforms they really strived to make a lightweight interface that is optimized for phone calls, chat, and collaboration. The web client loads fast, the chat is always up-to-date, phone calls arrive on-time. The desktop client is the most feature rich and basically it just adds desktop sharing functionality as well as VoIP for calling, and the mobile client doesn't consume a lot of battery, and it stays running to get phone calls, chats, and can do meetings over Wifi, Cellular Data, or Cellular voice.
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Support Rating
Avaya
The Customer Service and Representatives are always kind and willing to go the extra mile to get anything resolved. Yet, we have not really needed them after the initial set up since the product actually works and we have not really experienced any major issues.
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Fuze
Our experience with Fuze support has been overall very positive. Their technicians seem to be well trained and able to handle a variety of requests and issues without unnecessary delays or extensive troubleshooting. Fuze allows enough customer access to avoid the need to call support for every little issue but is ready to assist when issues are beyond our capabilities to resolve.
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In-Person Training
Avaya
whilst on site it was delivered by teams to the desks , not the fault of the trainer
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Fuze
At many of our sites with more than 50 users, Fuze sent someone onsite to train. This worked surprisingly well, as the trainer allowed the users to set the pace and answered TONS of questions. Fuze has a very streamlined training process, their staff is very professional, very knowledgeable and very engaging.
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Online Training
Avaya
The online training was clear and effective.
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Fuze
Fuze has vast amounts of training videos and guides on how to use its products and services. There are literally endless-hours of training and I often point end-users to a particular video which addresses the specific needs of the user, for example: how to check voicemail. Or, how to share your desktop, etc.
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Implementation Rating
Avaya
Thank to the help of Avaya implementation team, the migration was done with minimal impact. All activities were well defined and done in time.
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Fuze
Personally, I didn't have any trouble getting started with Fuze. It was installed on my computer on my first day and I was good to go! Little to no hiccups. I was not with the company when they first adapted Fuze so I can not speak to the implementation as a whole.
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Alternatives Considered
Avaya
Apart from Cisco Webex Calling/app no other vendor offers their own phones hardware, gateways. We need to add other vendors like yealink, Poly, Audiocodes to complete the solution. This makes things very difficult from management perspective. As you have to hire a person who can manage a multivendor environment. Also, in case of outage, multiple bridge open and every vendor blame others. Cisco is costly so we gave a chance to Avaya UCaaS based on its history and reputation in Calling market.
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Fuze
Fuze was far more expensive and more complicated to set up. Our current platform took a few days to set up with SSO. Our contact center took a bit longer but works amazingly.
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Scalability
Avaya
Scalability was less important for our organization as our needs are quite stable.
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Fuze
Fuze does have scalability limits but most of that is how many end-points they can put on a virtual PBX, or VCX as they call them, I THINK its limit is somewhere between 2,000 and 5,000, but we've not had issues with that because we have put users into various VCXs some by location, some by department or function. Either way, we have 7,000 currently deployed, and are going to end up with over 15,000 when we are done, Fuze is VERY scalable.
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Return on Investment
Avaya
  • This made working from home possible, allowing me to take calls that I wouldn't be able to without having them forwarded by our communications department
  • It works with Teams, realizing when I'm on a conf call and automatically sets a status of away, preventing my phone from ringing, but allowing me to see the voicemail via text so that I can respond
  • If I step out of the office for a little bit, I can have my calls go directly to my cellphone to make sure I'm still available if needed
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Fuze
  • We receive constant negative feedback from mangers about the system not functioning correctly. (This is mainly due to lack of support from Fuze)
  • This has had a positive impact in that the system is cheaper and we are missing less calls due to the functionality of the system.
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