CallHippo vs. Cisco Business Edition 6000 (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
CallHippo
Score 7.1 out of 10
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CallHippo is an on-demand Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) based Virtual Phone System. CallHippo allows startups and businesses to get local phone numbers instantly from over 50+ countries around the world. The vendor says the easy to use interface and robust backend architecture enables businesses to set up their phone system within less than 3 minutes. The CallHippo platform allows deployment of a flexible telephony network, wherever an…N/A
Cisco Business Edition 6000 (discontinued)
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE6000) was a telephony and VoIP business phone with unified communications features from Cisco, targeted at SMBs. The product is discontinued, and superseded by functionality found in Cisco Webex Calling.N/A
Pricing
CallHippoCisco Business Edition 6000 (discontinued)
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
No answers on this topic
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CallHippoCisco Business Edition 6000 (discontinued)
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup Fee$5 Per NumberNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
CallHippoCisco Business Edition 6000 (discontinued)
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
CallHippoCisco Business Edition 6000 (discontinued)
Call Management
Comparison of Call Management features of Product A and Product B
CallHippo
6.9
5 Ratings
20% below category average
Cisco Business Edition 6000 (discontinued)
8.8
21 Ratings
4% above category average
Answering rules7.15 Ratings8.919 Ratings
Call recording6.15 Ratings9.115 Ratings
Call park7.45 Ratings8.819 Ratings
Call screening00 Ratings8.820 Ratings
Message alerts00 Ratings8.519 Ratings
Mobile apps
Comparison of Mobile apps features of Product A and Product B
CallHippo
5.5
5 Ratings
41% below category average
Cisco Business Edition 6000 (discontinued)
7.4
15 Ratings
12% below category average
Mobile app for Android5.55 Ratings7.414 Ratings
Mobile app for iOS00 Ratings7.415 Ratings
Cloud PBX
Comparison of Cloud PBX features of Product A and Product B
CallHippo
-
Ratings
Cisco Business Edition 6000 (discontinued)
8.6
18 Ratings
5% above category average
Hosted PBX00 Ratings8.210 Ratings
Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)00 Ratings9.216 Ratings
User templates00 Ratings8.417 Ratings
Call reports00 Ratings8.34 Ratings
Directory of employee names00 Ratings9.216 Ratings
VoIP system collaboration
Comparison of VoIP system collaboration features of Product A and Product B
CallHippo
-
Ratings
Cisco Business Edition 6000 (discontinued)
8.7
20 Ratings
5% above category average
Video conferencing00 Ratings9.219 Ratings
Audio conferencing00 Ratings8.920 Ratings
Video screen sharing00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
Instant messaging00 Ratings8.616 Ratings
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CallHippoCisco Business Edition 6000 (discontinued)
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
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 9.5 out of 10
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Score 9.5 out of 10
Enterprises
Cisco Business Edition 7000 (discontinued)
Cisco Business Edition 7000 (discontinued)
Score 9.0 out of 10
Cisco Business Edition 7000 (discontinued)
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
CallHippoCisco Business Edition 6000 (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
5.5
(5 ratings)
8.6
(21 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.8
(2 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
1.0
(1 ratings)
9.4
(19 ratings)
User Testimonials
CallHippoCisco Business Edition 6000 (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
CallHippo
Calling abroad to international clients, while we use international number then response rate increases. Also, the client also prefers their country's number to respond. The pricing part is less appropriate. I believe they should be charged only for calling services. The name is also not suitable like what is Hippo means in the name. The person who uses this service is a Hippo?
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Discontinued Products
Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE6000) is well suited on small and medium sites that need entry-level voice and IP telephony capabilities, together
with powerful, easy-to-use collaboration tools. However , if a single user interface or VMware servers are deal breakers for you, I suggest another call system will likely be a better fit.
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Pros
CallHippo
  • No positive sides at all.
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Discontinued Products
  • provides phone support for many models of phones and conferencing devices
  • provides full telephony support for pretty much any phone requirement including call centre options
  • 911 service dialing options and tracking
  • bundle pricing on voice, phone and server licensing
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Cons
CallHippo
  • Waiting for iOS mobile app
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Discontinued Products
  • Include tools for inter-cluster migration, currently these are provided by 3rd parties
  • Improve the software upgrade process by automating the pre-upgrade and post-upgrade checks
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Likelihood to Renew
CallHippo
It's the need of my team to perform well and it's increasing the possibility of getting more business. Clients also have more trust while responding when they saw their country's number rather than any other country's unknown number.
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Discontinued Products
Happy with Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE6000); works great for us and costs to maintain it are well in hand. it also fits our current and future requirements going forward.
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Usability
CallHippo
No answers on this topic
Discontinued Products
BE6K [is] not just a bare metal server ,it is [a] complete solution with its own management tools.
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Support Rating
CallHippo
Their support is built around trying to prove why the customer (who is not getting the service promised at the price promised) is wrong. For that they pass with flying colors. For actually supporting the user though they are horrible. They come up with creative scenarios to overcharge the credit card while not giving a service.
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Discontinued Products
Overall, the product provides excellent value for money. Our employees may interact at the same time on the Cisco Business Edition 6000 without disrupting the conversation. We have a significant number of employees that perform the same thing with calls, texting, and presence, and none of them have an issue.
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Alternatives Considered
CallHippo
All of them. This seemed to be the best until they got us down.
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Discontinued Products
Both Mitel and [Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE6000)] allow the benefit of virtualization. If desired you could have an entirely virtual system. Cisco handles the virtualization a little better, however Mitel MiCollab is easier to integrate presence and calls. Cisco underlying architecture seems to be a little more stable, Mitel seems to be a little more user friendly. There are pros and cons and both are good solutions.
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Return on Investment
CallHippo
  • Call to all countries supported making it easy to connect.
  • Last resort to make calls
  • Easy to use
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Discontinued Products
  • Been easy to scale as our business has grown and from acquisitions
  • Been pretty easy to maintain the software and upgrade it over its lifetime to date
  • Software and license renewals are pretty straight forward
  • Adding newer model hardware to the system is pretty straight forward
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