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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Avaya Unified Communications

    Score6.1 out of 10
    N/AAvaya UCaaS is a business communications platform. Avaya UCaaS aims to set employees up for success with unified internal communication, supporting voice, chat, email, video, file sharing, and task management. The software enables users to create collaboration in real-time using any device or system through one platform.N/A

    Fuze

    Score8.2 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 Unified CommunicationsFuze
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    US Outbound
    $0.02
    Per Minute
    Fuze Meetings
    $15
    Per User/Per Month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Avaya Unified CommunicationsFuze
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeRequired
    Additional Details
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    Avaya Unified CommunicationsFuze
    Considered Both Products
    Avaya
    No answer on this topic
    Fuze
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    90%
    Would buy again
    88 Answers
    77%
    Would buy again
    20 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    81 Answers
    77%
    Delivers good value for the price
    17 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    92 Answers
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    23 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    86%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    66 Answers
    79%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    11 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    72 Answers
    67%
    Implementation went as expected
    12 Answers
    Features
    Avaya Unified CommunicationsFuze
    Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software
    Comparison of Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software features of Avaya Unified Communications and Fuze
    Feature
    Avaya Unified Communications
    5.9
    22 Ratings
    35% below category average
    Fuze
    -
    Ratings
    High quality audio7.922 Ratings00 Ratings
    High quality video6.618 Ratings00 Ratings
    Screen Sharing
    Comparison of Screen Sharing features of Avaya Unified Communications and Fuze
    Feature
    Avaya Unified Communications
    8.3
    14 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Fuze
    -
    Ratings
    Desktop sharing8.314 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Meetings / Events
    Comparison of Online Meetings / Events features of Avaya Unified Communications and Fuze
    Feature
    Avaya Unified Communications
    8.8
    17 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Fuze
    -
    Ratings
    Calendar integration9.017 Ratings00 Ratings
    Meeting initiation9.017 Ratings00 Ratings
    Record meetings / events8.113 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Events Collaboration
    Comparison of Online Events Collaboration features of Avaya Unified Communications and Fuze
    Feature
    Avaya Unified Communications
    8.5
    16 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Fuze
    -
    Ratings
    Live chat8.016 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Events Security
    Comparison of Online Events Security features of Avaya Unified Communications and Fuze
    Feature
    Avaya Unified Communications
    7.5
    20 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Fuze
    -
    Ratings
    User authentication7.519 Ratings00 Ratings
    Participant roles & permissions7.519 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cloud PBX
    Comparison of Cloud PBX features of Avaya Unified Communications and Fuze
    Feature
    Avaya Unified Communications
    7.8
    27 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Fuze
    5.5
    111 Ratings
    36% below category average
    Hosted PBX8.119 Ratings5.178 Ratings
    Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)6.918 Ratings6.073 Ratings
    Directory of employee names8.024 Ratings5.1107 Ratings
    User templates00 Ratings5.060 Ratings
    Call reports00 Ratings6.192 Ratings
    Call Management
    Comparison of Call Management features of Avaya Unified Communications and Fuze
    Feature
    Avaya Unified Communications
    8.5
    26 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Fuze
    6.5
    107 Ratings
    23% below category average
    Answering rules7.624 Ratings7.099 Ratings
    Call recording8.320 Ratings6.089 Ratings
    Call park9.421 Ratings7.073 Ratings
    Call screening9.420 Ratings00 Ratings
    Message alerts8.423 Ratings6.193 Ratings
    Business SMS/External Messaging8.314 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Fax8.711 Ratings00 Ratings
    Voicemail Transcription7.820 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile apps
    Comparison of Mobile apps features of Avaya Unified Communications and Fuze
    Feature
    Avaya Unified Communications
    7.7
    23 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Fuze
    8.0
    103 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Mobile app for iOS8.418 Ratings8.094 Ratings
    Mobile app for Android7.020 Ratings8.077 Ratings
    Unified Communications Platform and Collaboration
    Comparison of Unified Communications Platform and Collaboration features of Avaya Unified Communications and Fuze
    Feature
    Avaya Unified Communications
    7.9
    18 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Fuze
    -
    Ratings
    Centralized communications management7.216 Ratings00 Ratings
    Team messaging7.915 Ratings00 Ratings
    Team document sharing8.313 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call and meeting analytics8.216 Ratings00 Ratings
    VoIP system collaboration
    Comparison of VoIP system collaboration features of Avaya Unified Communications and Fuze
    Feature
    Avaya Unified Communications
    -
    Ratings
    Fuze
    7.1
    91 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Video conferencing00 Ratings7.077 Ratings
    Audio conferencing00 Ratings7.190 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Avaya Unified CommunicationsFuze
    Small Businesses
    Broadvoice | GoContact
    Score9.1 out of 10
    CallFire
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Webex Calling
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Cisco Business Edition 6000 (discontinued)
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Webex Calling
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Call Manager)
    Score8.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Avaya Unified CommunicationsFuze
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (101 ratings)
    8.0
    (116 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    6.6
    (7 ratings)
    7.7
    (20 ratings)
    Usability
    7.6
    (7 ratings)
    7.1
    (12 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.9
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    7.9
    (5 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.3
    (84 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
    8.1
    (6 ratings)
    8.0
    (111 ratings)
    Configurability
    6.3
    (3 ratings)
    8.7
    (3 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    9.5
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    6.5
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    6.3
    (3 ratings)
    7.8
    (3 ratings)
    Professional Services
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    6.6
    (3 ratings)
    8.6
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Avaya Unified CommunicationsFuze
    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
    Things change, business requirements change so when we come to renew we may explore other options, we might go all in on Teams or look at something different - we need something that allows us to increase and importantly decrease our licence count more flexably which Avaya / Ring Central don't allow.
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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
    I have never contacted support directly. However, my rep with Enterprise Systems is excellent. Since joining Avaya, all inquiries and/or concerns have always been resolved within a reasonable amount of time. If it's a less complex issue, it is resolved in real time. I receive a response within 30 minutes or less. When he is out of the office, he always has a backup.
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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
    It fits us well being in multiple geographic areas and we can purchase local numbers or do a BYOD SBC setup
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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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