Cisco Business Edition 7000 vs Ring4

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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Good for creating a new business or branching a business abroad.

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🍍 Gabriel Jarrosson

Founder

Leonis InvestissementVenture Capital & Private Equity, 1-10 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Cisco Business Edition 7000

Ring4

Task Management

Gantt Charts

Scheduling

Workflow Automation

Mobile Access

Search

Visual planning tools

Cisco Business Edition 7000

Ring4

Chat

Notifications

Discussions

Surveys

Internal knowledgebase

Integrates with GoToMeeting

Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts

Integrates with Outlook

Cisco Business Edition 7000

Ring4

Versioning

Video files

Audio files

Document collaboration

Access control

Advanced security features

Integrates with Google Drive

Device sync

Cisco Business Edition 7000

Ring4

Directory of employee names

Cisco Business Edition 7000

Ring4

Call recording

Message alerts

Cisco Business Edition 7000

Ring4

Mobile app for iOS

Mobile app for Android

Cisco Business Edition 7000

Ring4

Instant messaging

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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Manage Team Lines
Transcribe calls
International Calling
Call Recording
Free video conferencing

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C-Level Executive in Marketing

Marketing and Advertising Company, 11-50 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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I've sometimes seen text messages being sent in double.

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🍍 Gabriel Jarrosson

Founder

Leonis InvestissementVenture Capital & Private Equity, 1-10 employees

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Usability

No score

No answers yet

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Ring4 9.1

Based on 1 answer

It's super easy and simple to use, and very straightforward.

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🍍 Gabriel Jarrosson

Founder

Leonis InvestissementVenture Capital & Private Equity, 1-10 employees

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Support Rating

No score

No answers yet

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Ring4 9.1

Based on 2 answers

I had a question, and had my answer that same day.

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🍍 Gabriel Jarrosson

Founder

Leonis InvestissementVenture Capital & Private Equity, 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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Ring4 had everything we need in a business phone line in a more simple format and less expensive.

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C-Level Executive in Marketing

Marketing and Advertising Company, 11-50 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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Less expensive business phone
Can answer on the go
Less to manage, more simple

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C-Level Executive in Marketing

Marketing and Advertising Company, 11-50 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

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

9.99*

* per phone line, per month

Rating Summary

Cisco Business Edition 7000

Ring4

Cisco Business Edition 7000

Ring4

Cisco Business Edition 7000

Ring4

Likelihood to Recommend