Avaya Experience Platform vs. RingCentral Contact Center

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Avaya Experience Platform
Score 8.4 out of 10
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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
RingCentral Contact Center
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
RingCentral 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 Experience PlatformRingCentral Contact Center
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Avaya Experience PlatformRingCentral Contact Center
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
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)
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Features
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Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
Avaya Experience Platform
8.5
35 Ratings
2% above category average
RingCentral Contact Center
7.7
19 Ratings
8% below category average
Agent dashboard8.033 Ratings7.715 Ratings
Validate callers8.330 Ratings7.310 Ratings
Outbound response7.629 Ratings8.316 Ratings
Call forwarding9.033 Ratings8.817 Ratings
Click-to-call (CTC)8.826 Ratings8.29 Ratings
Warm transfer8.733 Ratings8.010 Ratings
Predictive dialing7.425 Ratings6.95 Ratings
Interactive voice response8.829 Ratings8.59 Ratings
REST APIs8.324 Ratings8.07 Ratings
Call scripts8.227 Ratings6.810 Ratings
Call tracking9.032 Ratings8.610 Ratings
Multichannel integration9.030 Ratings6.710 Ratings
CRM software integration8.829 Ratings6.410 Ratings
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Product A and Product B
Avaya Experience Platform
8.2
35 Ratings
1% below category average
RingCentral Contact Center
6.8
18 Ratings
19% below category average
Inbound call routing8.634 Ratings8.416 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing8.730 Ratings7.710 Ratings
Recording8.533 Ratings8.416 Ratings
Quality management8.031 Ratings7.114 Ratings
Call analytics8.131 Ratings7.115 Ratings
Historical reporting8.532 Ratings6.115 Ratings
Live reporting7.831 Ratings7.113 Ratings
Customer surveys8.028 Ratings5.27 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics8.027 Ratings4.46 Ratings
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Small Businesses
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Score 9.5 out of 10
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Score 9.5 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
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Score 10.0 out of 10
Bright Pattern Contact Center
Bright Pattern Contact Center
Score 10.0 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 8.9 out of 10
Google Cloud Contact Center AI
Google Cloud Contact Center AI
Score 8.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
Avaya Experience PlatformRingCentral Contact Center
Likelihood to Recommend
8.7
(52 ratings)
8.3
(19 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.3
(12 ratings)
7.0
(4 ratings)
Usability
8.2
(5 ratings)
8.7
(3 ratings)
Availability
7.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.1
(4 ratings)
6.3
(3 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.2
(2 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Avaya Experience PlatformRingCentral Contact Center
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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RingCentral
The ease of use and file retention/retrieval is key. The adjustment from an e-mail-focused workflow to the RingCentral Contact Center was easier with the organization. Recall and search features mimic Outlook and allow me to quickly find what I’m looking for. RingCentral Contact Center is not ideal for communication with external partners, so we still have to rely on Outlook e-mails for that.
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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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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
  • 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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RingCentral
  • I would like to be able to text from our main office line rather than only my office direct line, so I can keep my direct line private
  • I wish it was easier for all users to be able to toggle between calls ringing at their desk phone and cell phone
  • It would be nice if the process to add other team member's numbers to our desk phone screen was easier
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Likelihood to Renew
Avaya
I have always found Avaya's technology and support to be the best in the industry. Even as they worked out financial difficulties and continue to fend off competitors they have adopted and incorporated new technologies. They have done so in a logical and supportive manner and offered all these benefits as they went along. I haven't seen any of their competitors do any of this.
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RingCentral
We have no intention of renewing our contract with Ring Central. We have had multiple outages in the past 2 years. We have been without an account manager for the past 4 months and the resolution of open issues takes 2-3 months. We were being misbilled for cancelled services for almost 12 months. We are not satisfied with the quality, support, or price of the service
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Usability
Avaya
I find Avaya easy to use but I am not a beginner. I think it is much more difficult for beginners unless the administrator has some basic programming skills. The system is getting more difficult to use but I enjoy learning and haven't found myself stumped yet.
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RingCentral
RingCentral Contact Center is not just only an app or platform which allows the company to manage the telephone calls, messaging functions, social media and emails, but also allows advanced features like the possibility of easy integration with other industrial systems, and customer/call analysis functions as well. It also supports and included with AI technology as well into some extent.
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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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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, everything was implemented by Avaya Support
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RingCentral
As I recall it was not a very cumbersome implementation and we were up and running as promised
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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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RingCentral
RingCentral Contact Center's application is much more intuitive than Nextiva's application. It's also easier to configure. It also has a lot of functionality that Nextiva does not. For example, RingCentral will transcribe Voice mail messages for us, whereas Nextiva does not. RingCentral also sends us notifications when a customer sends us a text message, whereas Nextiva does not.
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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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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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