Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE6000) vs Cisco Webex Board Series

Likelihood to Recommend

Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE6000) is well suited for midrange environments. If you want to silo your communication and collaboration environment is easy to implement without effecting your datacenter environment (Storage,vCPU,vRAM). You have your own little island with the BE6000. And with a second pair, you could easily cluster your environment and have a redundant solution.

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Professional in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 201-500 employees

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The Cisco Webex board is designed not only for audio/video meetings with sharing needs, but to make collaboration meetings impeccable. Mixed with Webex Meetings and/or Webex App (formerly Webex Teams), you'll get the ultimate collaboration experience. You can keep tracking of all docs/whiteboards you worked on and share it easily across the team. Unfortunately, it is a high end product, so may not fit in all budgets.

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Account Manager in Sales

Information Technology & Services Company, 51-200 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE6000)

Cisco Webex Board Series

Hosted PBX

Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)

User templates

Call reports

Directory of employee names

Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE6000)

Cisco Webex Board Series

Answering rules

Call recording

Call park

Call screening

Message alerts

Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE6000)

Cisco Webex Board Series

Video conferencing

Audio conferencing

Video screen sharing

Instant messaging

Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE6000)

Cisco Webex Board Series

Mobile app for iOS

Mobile app for Android

Pros

It helps with easy installation and setup for new office / migration.
Supports Hybrid Cloud and on-prem deployments.
Scalable Solution - catering to upgrade from a legacy platform.

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Contributor in Engineering

Telecommunications Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Proximity connection is great, anyone can share to the board easily.
The whiteboard feature is great, and being able to save and go back is a great feature.
Dialing into meetings with face to face contact brings the participants together.

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Executive in Information Technology

Higher Education Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Cons

Cost could always be lower, but you get a solid product for your investment
Licensing can still be confusing if you need multiple products on the appliance
Redundancy/DR

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Eric Taylor

VoIP Network Administrator

Penn State UniversityHigher Education, 10,001+ employees

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If you are not a Webex Teams user there could be an easier way to save the whiteboards. They autosave into Teams but if you don't have that it's a clunky process to email the whiteboard to yourself. Not terrible, but not easy either.
They could make a mobile cart for these as you have to do to a third party to get a mobile cart and I would like to see a Cisco version of this.

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Joshua Baever

Sr. Systems Administrator

T-MobileTelecommunications, 10,001+ employees

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Usability

Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE6000) 8.2

Based on 1 answer

BE6K [is] not just a bare metal server ,it is [a] complete solution with its own management tools.

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Oleksandr Tsapenko

Business Development Manager/Product manager

Wise IT UkraineInformation Technology & Services, 11-50 employees

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Cisco Webex Board Series 8.6

Based on 2 answers

Plug and play board.
User friendly interface, very easy to use.
Joining any meeting with one click only.
Webex assistant helps to manage calendar and run a meeting.

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Paraprofessional in Social Media

Education Management Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Support Rating

Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE6000) 8.3

Based on 6 answers

Support for the Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE6000) comes in the form of Cisco SmartNET or Cisco TAC Support. Cisco TAC Support thrives on providing an easy way to get support and they have never disappointed us, whether it was for hardware replacement or simple day-to-day questions that we needed answers to.

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Employee in Information Technology

Automotive Company, 10,001+ employees

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Cisco Webex Board Series 8.6

Based on 6 answers

As with all Cisco Support, there is no problem to say. Sometimes its longer but generally in 24 hours, the case is resolved. We never did any RMA for this type of device. We recommended the Cisco support for the Cisco Webex Board. Also, in case of a problem, you have a good Cisco community.

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Professional in Professional Services

Information Technology & Services Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

We couldn't get the MiCollab to work properly. It always crashed. With Mitel, we couldn't change our provider to someone else that had more capability and less cost.

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Director in Information Technology

Higher Education Company, 201-500 employees

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Cisco Webex is best integrated between all apps and devices. The Webex boards are specially designed to work with Webex. Other vendors often have apps on not best suited devices and that causes many issues.

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Benjamin Bubbers

Systems Engineer

Schleswig-Holstein Netz AGOil & Energy, 1001-5000 employees

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Return on Investment

This system facilities upgrading legacy phone systems to VoIP and lowers the total cost of ownership with cost-effective, time-saving operations.
Faster deployment times, with pre-installed, ready to use applications.
Support for Hybrid Cloud helps easier migration to cloud, if necessary.

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Contributor in Engineering

Telecommunications Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Hard to say...! To be honest, this a toy for big kids!
Price is high, so you must have collaboration needs, not only meetings needs to pay for that plus value.

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Account Manager in Sales

Information Technology & Services Company, 51-200 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Rating Summary

Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE6000)

Cisco Webex Board Series

Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE6000)

Cisco Webex Board Series

Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE6000)

Cisco Webex Board Series

Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE6000)

Cisco Webex Board Series

Likelihood to Recommend