Cisco Business Edition 7000 vs Nextcloud

Likelihood to Recommend

Based on the business model, this likely wouldn’t serve a small or start up company that doesn’t need all the features and can support itself on a more economical infrastructure. For a large business with multiple locations, this product is well suited. It offers a lot of features and integrations for collaboration as well as the support of a known company.

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Engineer in Professional Services

Mechanical Or Industrial Engineering Company, 10,001+ employees

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Nextcloud is well suited in any collaboration scenario where users wants to share comments and resources as well as organize events or work together.

It is also very well suited for non-profit organizations as it is free to use and very simple even for non-tech users.

I can't imagine scenarios where it might not be appropriate as running requirements are minimal (php, mysql) so even a single user could find benefit to use it as an alternative for basic icloud or gmail use (files with desktop and mobile clients, calendar and address book).

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Joseph Costa

CEO (Chief Executive Officer)

josephcosta.euInternet, 1-10 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Cisco Business Edition 7000

Nextcloud

Task Management

Gantt Charts

Scheduling

Workflow Automation

Mobile Access

Search

Visual planning tools

Cisco Business Edition 7000

Nextcloud

Chat

Notifications

Discussions

Surveys

Internal knowledgebase

Integrates with GoToMeeting

Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts

Integrates with Outlook

Cisco Business Edition 7000

Nextcloud

Versioning

Video files

Audio files

Document collaboration

Access control

Advanced security features

Integrates with Google Drive

Device sync

File search

Cisco Business Edition 7000

Nextcloud

User and role management

File organization

Pros

All in one platform that includes all the Cisco UC services in one appliance.
All the services are ready to use and preconfigured.
Tools available improve productivity and user experience.

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Paraprofessional in Social Media

Education Management Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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File sharing (internal, public or federated).
One software, many activities (files, address book, calendar, chat, edit, email) ...
Groupware, sharing between users or groups is really easy and finely controlled.
Integrations and many apps.

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Joseph Costa

CEO (Chief Executive Officer)

josephcosta.euInternet, 1-10 employees

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Cons

Licensing should be easy and collaborative.
Management interface should be provided with redundancy.
I've came across difficulties while I installed Windows server on BE6K. It's hard to gather Windows server keys.

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Engineer in Customer Service

Telecommunications Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Merge talk and file client apps on mobile devices.

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Joseph Costa

CEO (Chief Executive Officer)

josephcosta.euInternet, 1-10 employees

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Support Rating

No score

No answers yet

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Nextcloud 9.0

Based on 1 answer

I never needed support as everything always worked fine. The documentation on Nextcloud website is extensive and clear. The community is very active on the forum and should support you if you don't already find what you are looking for.

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Joseph Costa

CEO (Chief Executive Officer)

josephcosta.euInternet, 1-10 employees

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Alternatives Considered

MS Teams again is an app hosted on cloud and earlier on box like BE and I feel hardware of Cisco is better and support from TAC is way better than anybody.

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Ujjwal Goel

Senior Build & Design Consultant

BTTelecommunications, 10,001+ employees

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Even excluding the budget and privacy concerns, we selected Nextcloud for its simplicity of use and the UI is very clear.

It just does what it is supposed to do.

No license.
Much, much ease of use.
Not opening several windows.
No un-useful services.
No automatic update.
Control over data.
Open-source software.
Integrations.

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Joseph Costa

CEO (Chief Executive Officer)

josephcosta.euInternet, 1-10 employees

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Return on Investment

High ROI, the communication platform provides all the necessary that is required employees to be always connected wherever they are. This improves companies overall performance and certainly income.
Simplified maintenance and user friendly interfaces. The platform has all the admin tool to make support easy and efficient.
Employees are enabled with all the Unified Communication services and they are more productive which again improves overall company's performance.

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Paraprofessional in Social Media

Education Management Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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We do not spend money on software license (unlike Office 365).
Very simple maintenance and upgrading.
Very simple backup and restore.

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Joseph Costa

CEO (Chief Executive Officer)

josephcosta.euInternet, 1-10 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

Rating Summary

Cisco Business Edition 7000

Nextcloud

Cisco Business Edition 7000

Nextcloud

Likelihood to Recommend