Avaya Experience Platform vs. Microsoft Teams

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Avaya Experience Platform
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
The Avaya Experience Platform aims to turn moments with customers into momentum for businesses by making it easier to deliver memorable experiences across all channels and devices, at all times, giving employees tools to respond faster, with greater insight, while engaging and satisfying the needs of customers. The solution boasts an innovation without disruption approach to reduce the amount of investment required to add best-in-class technologies into the customer experience workflows to drive…
$48
per month
Microsoft Teams
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft Teams combines video conferencing software with team collaboration tools. The communications platform allows MS Office users to conduct conference calls and share files via SharePoint, and join or initiate a group chat.
$5
per month
Pricing
Avaya Experience PlatformMicrosoft Teams
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Free
$0.00
per user/per month
Microsoft 365 Business Basic
$5.00
per user/per month
Microsoft 365 Business Standard
$12.50
per user/per month
Office 365 E3
$20.00
per user/per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Avaya Experience PlatformMicrosoft Teams
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
Additional DetailsDigital - $48.00 (Per User/Per Month) Voice - $83.00 (Per User/Per Month) All Media - $125.00 (Per User/Per Month)Discounts are available for non profit organizations.
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Community Pulse
Avaya Experience PlatformMicrosoft Teams
Considered Both Products
Avaya Experience Platform
Chose Avaya Experience Platform
Avaya Experience Platform stacks up against Microsoft Power BI providing a great integration to create more advanced and specific reports, it is a great feature when your organization already has its own way to analyze and create performance and areas to improve. I selected …
Chose Avaya Experience Platform
Avaya Experience Platform it's a great match with many telecommunication software but I prefer to mention some data transformation and presentation tools like Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerBI, this first one it's the must-have if you want to take your own reports to the …
Chose Avaya Experience Platform
We were using Cisco Finesse earlier but it was a lil bit more confusing as had a lot of features but the dashboard was not so well organized like Avaya Experience Platform.
Microsoft Teams
Chose Microsoft Teams
MS Teams is less user friendly than Google Meet, The ease of use is not available for people who are not tech savvy. It requires several credentials to enter not like a SSO.
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Avaya Experience PlatformMicrosoft Teams
Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
Avaya Experience Platform
8.3
37 Ratings
0% below category average
Microsoft Teams
-
Ratings
Agent dashboard8.035 Ratings00 Ratings
Validate callers8.432 Ratings00 Ratings
Outbound response7.031 Ratings00 Ratings
Call forwarding9.135 Ratings00 Ratings
Click-to-call (CTC)8.828 Ratings00 Ratings
Warm transfer8.735 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive dialing6.727 Ratings00 Ratings
Interactive voice response9.031 Ratings00 Ratings
REST APIs8.226 Ratings00 Ratings
Call scripts7.729 Ratings00 Ratings
Call tracking8.934 Ratings00 Ratings
Multichannel integration9.132 Ratings00 Ratings
CRM software integration8.631 Ratings00 Ratings
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Product A and Product B
Avaya Experience Platform
8.1
37 Ratings
1% below category average
Microsoft Teams
-
Ratings
Inbound call routing8.636 Ratings00 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing8.632 Ratings00 Ratings
Recording8.335 Ratings00 Ratings
Quality management7.933 Ratings00 Ratings
Call analytics7.933 Ratings00 Ratings
Historical reporting8.334 Ratings00 Ratings
Live reporting7.433 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer surveys7.930 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics7.829 Ratings00 Ratings
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Avaya Experience Platform
-
Ratings
Microsoft Teams
6.9
190 Ratings
12% below category average
Task Management00 Ratings7.2145 Ratings
Gantt Charts00 Ratings6.374 Ratings
Scheduling00 Ratings7.4160 Ratings
Workflow Automation00 Ratings6.499 Ratings
Mobile Access00 Ratings7.6182 Ratings
Search00 Ratings6.7167 Ratings
Visual planning tools00 Ratings6.7116 Ratings
Communication
Comparison of Communication features of Product A and Product B
Avaya Experience Platform
-
Ratings
Microsoft Teams
7.5
199 Ratings
6% below category average
Chat00 Ratings8.8198 Ratings
Notifications00 Ratings7.8197 Ratings
Discussions00 Ratings8.2185 Ratings
Surveys00 Ratings7.3110 Ratings
Internal knowledgebase00 Ratings6.9120 Ratings
Integrates with GoToMeeting00 Ratings6.547 Ratings
Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts00 Ratings5.743 Ratings
Integrates with Outlook00 Ratings9.0156 Ratings
File Sharing & Management
Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Product A and Product B
Avaya Experience Platform
-
Ratings
Microsoft Teams
7.3
184 Ratings
8% below category average
Versioning00 Ratings7.3128 Ratings
Video files00 Ratings7.5156 Ratings
Audio files00 Ratings7.7158 Ratings
Document collaboration00 Ratings8.3171 Ratings
Access control00 Ratings7.5154 Ratings
Advanced security features00 Ratings7.0115 Ratings
Integrates with Google Drive00 Ratings5.453 Ratings
Device sync00 Ratings7.9130 Ratings
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User Ratings
Avaya Experience PlatformMicrosoft Teams
Likelihood to Recommend
8.6
(53 ratings)
7.7
(277 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.3
(11 ratings)
3.9
(9 ratings)
Usability
8.2
(7 ratings)
8.4
(60 ratings)
Availability
7.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
10.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
9.1
(4 ratings)
8.3
(113 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.2
(2 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
6.3
(7 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(7 ratings)
User Testimonials
Avaya Experience PlatformMicrosoft Teams
Likelihood to Recommend
Avaya
The Avaya Experience Platform is well suited to allow remote working for call center agents. Staff can log in and work from anywhere using Chrome and their user credentials. The technical issues and lack of some features have caused some frustration for our staff and made it difficult to get buy-in for this product across all call center groups. This is difficult because a solution like this is intended to make their work more efficient as opposed to causing frustration.
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Microsoft
Positive: The virtual workspace created for a work team within the same company, for the resemblance of information and communications in one place.Negative: The access for members of a non-profit organization who have external emails from the host but need the same access as an internal person since their volunteer work is part of the very core of the federation.
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Pros
Avaya
  • The app and the ability to use the "office" phone while on the road.
  • There's an easy implementation and training process to get everyone on board quickly.
  • Flexibility of transferring calls to different mediums - I can switch a phone call to a conference or patch in other parties with ease.
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Microsoft
  • Virtual meetings - ease of set up and execution
  • File sharing! We build channels for projects, and being able to invite only project members is huge!
  • Peer-to-peer communications - being able to "ping" one of my colleagues, either text, video or call-only, on-demand, is what runs our business.
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Cons
Avaya
  • One are for improvement for Avaya is the ability to operate behind the VPN. For the virtual employee, this is an issue as we are unable to use it behind the VPN and it must be launched from the remote desktop.
  • The color scheme could definitely use some updating. The charcoal gray background of Avaya's windows, coupled with the black font is not very contrasting. I have used Avaya for years and would love to see an update as to its color scheme to better fit the virtual employee.
  • Avaya could also improve the way an employee moves within the program by titling the icons seen or expanding the Avaya window to allow for a better understanding of what each con does. For example, the Work History window would go unnoticed, had I not been playing with the software one day. These little items are unknown to many professionals in my industry as they sit in the window with no explanation.
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Microsoft
  • The feature of notifications in the mobile application could be improved. Sometimes notifications of different teams are not visible and are only visible when the application is opened.
  • It uses lots of computational resources while running and thus, slows down the system sometimes.
  • It allows a few channels per team. The number of channels could be increased for better productivity.
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Likelihood to Renew
Avaya
I am really not the decision maker on this subject but given the cost of the investment in Avaya, I do not see the company not renewing the use of Avaya. The new licensing model no longer requires expensive upgrades to stay current with new features added to the system and really helps with the cost of investment.
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Microsoft
Microsoft Teams is included with our Office 365 subscription and we have no intention of migrating off of Office 365 and Microsoft products. Since Microsoft Teams is included for free with our Office 365 subscription, and since we enjoy all the features, benefits, and functionality, there is no question that our team will continue to use the product
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Usability
Avaya
Very Easy to use and Intuitive. Reporting and Graphical user inferface suport the latest browsers and that fact it integrated and complements existing customer experience platform make it easy to bring over into the environment. Finally, the fact it is all in the cloud, no issues running updates, upgrades, or things of that nature that would slow the service.
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Microsoft
User experience has been much better than the previous Skype for Business app. It has an easy-to-use interface with persistent chats. The search feature is very fast and useful. MS Teams has mostly focused on Collaboration and team building features which are very useful for organizational communications. Since Teams is accessible from multiple platforms like Laptop, Desktop, Mobile phones, etc it has been very convenient from a Mobility perspective.
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Reliability and Availability
Avaya
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
Rare, but outages do happen
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Performance
Avaya
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
Sometimes about once a week I get a message that says "Sorry, there seems to be something wrong". But it goes away in a few minutes.
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Support Rating
Avaya
I give it this rating because the support services of Avaya have proven to be reliable when needed. Great feedback for our queries has always been received from the support agents. 24/7 availability of support, which is very essential as our Call Center department also functions this way, therefore, the knowledge and technical support we require is always available to us.
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Microsoft
Using Microsoft Teams has resulted in much faster business communications with both co-workers and consultants. There has been little need for support with this software as the interface is very intuitive and the product is overall very well designed. We did encounter an issue with the built-in phone service, however, this was quickly resolved by the support team.
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Implementation Rating
Avaya
No, everything was implemented by Avaya Support
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Microsoft
I find everything I need for my day-to-day work.
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Alternatives Considered
Avaya
Switched from Polycom to Avaya, although polycom worked well there were too many reoccuring connectivity issues and the turn around time for solving them was also too long. Avaya has fewer connectivity problems and their support is much better too. Pricing wise they were similar so we didn't have much to lose.
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Microsoft
Our company and IT department previously used Skype for our communication needs. Skype was not dependable in my opinion, because it seems each time I used it during a call and/or a meeting, I and several other team members would get disconnected more than once. This caused a great interruption of our meeting, caused team members to have to ask others to repeat themselves and caused a general lack of interest in employee attendance during meetings.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Avaya
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
Honestly, this tool is worth every penny. Yes, it's not free and you pay for the quality of services and the license. But the ROI and the benefits are all there. Also, the renewal, negotiation, and contract terms are all very well explained by our Microsoft account manager, and she's a charm.
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Scalability
Avaya
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
It does not appear to have a limit to how many teams and employees we can have using it
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Professional Services
Avaya
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
I used Skype for Business to take calls, hold conferences, and provide remote assistance to users. Microsoft Teams, on the other hand, is superior to Skype for Business in my opinion. My job entails a lot of screen sharing.
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Return on Investment
Avaya
  • It does what we need it to do, so we don't heavily invest in this technology but rather into the manufacturing end of our business.
  • We believe we have more than achieved the return on our investment for the Avaya phone system and associated equipment.
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Microsoft
  • I'm not sure I can point to a specific ROI, but it has improved our ability to communicate and work more effectively together.
  • It's also nice to have records of every interaction, photo, and document that has been shared. Less chance of something completely disappearing.
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