Cisco Room Series vs. Neat Board

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Cisco Room Series
Score 8.7 out of 10
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The Cisco Room Series is a video conferencing solution that wakes up when users walk into a meeting room where it is installed and provides theater-quality voice and video, as well as content sharing from personal devices. For small to medium rooms with 6-8 people, there's Cisco Room 55, and for larger rooms of 7-14 people there's Cisco Room Kit (camera and codec in one device) and Cisco Kit Plus (separate codec plus and quad camera). Any of these systems can be run in the cloud or on-premises.N/A
Neat Board
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Neat Board is presented as a complete meeting room package in a simple and elegant all-in-one device. Boasting an immersive 65-inch multi-touch screen, audio system and versatile wide-angle camera, Neat Board is designed to give the user a collaboration experience beyond video meetings and wireless content sharing by enabling annotations and whiteboarding.
$6,190
one-time fee
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
Cisco Room Series
Chose Cisco Room Series
We were using Polycom group series and poly studio earlier for P2P meetings but after covid scenario totally changed, we are using MS Teams as a main platform for meetings & messaging. Now, the challenge for us to join teams meeting from VC devices. Gradually online meetings …
Neat Board

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Top Pros

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User Ratings
Cisco Room SeriesNeat Board
Likelihood to Recommend
7.7
(76 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
5.5
(5 ratings)
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Usability
7.2
(64 ratings)
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Availability
10.0
(1 ratings)
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Performance
10.0
(1 ratings)
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Support Rating
7.5
(67 ratings)
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Implementation Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
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Configurability
10.0
(1 ratings)
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Ease of integration
10.0
(1 ratings)
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Product Scalability
10.0
(1 ratings)
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Vendor post-sale
10.0
(1 ratings)
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Vendor pre-sale
10.0
(1 ratings)
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User Testimonials
Cisco Room SeriesNeat Board
Likelihood to Recommend
Cisco
The only limitations where I could see, we are using ceiling microphones for this kind of room kit. So if there is an HVAC vent or something like that near to that ceiling microphone, the audio will not be that clear
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Neat
If you are looking for zoom or teams room solution then Neat Board is great product. It has native zoom and teams functionality so that you can directly join zoom and teams meeting from Neat Board with native application experience. It has USB passthrough option for BYOD. HDMI out for second screen and sensor helps to maintain room quality.
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Pros
Cisco
  • Audio is particularly good with the Babble labs integration. There's always a nice clear audio signal both to and from the customer or to our other peers within the company. In addition, the video quality is excellent. There's a variety of camera options for all these products to range anywhere from a small huddle room to quite large auditoriums, but still get very near closeups of any participant.
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Neat
  • Deep noise suppression and dereverberation
  • HDMI out option to connect second screen
  • Sensors for temperature , humidity & air quality
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Cons
Cisco
  • Actually the main problem for the customers are the pricing
  • From my own experience microphone quality is not very high. Because wall mounted microphones can sometimes perform somehow very badly
  • Possibility of contacting 3rd party meetings without configurations or creating store for downloading apps for this devices and connecting 3rd party meetings as we already familiar in PCs
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Neat
  • wide angle camera
  • Powerful microphone
  • 4K active touch
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Likelihood to Renew
Cisco
We like our Cisco endpoints a lot. However, the technology is getting better in the Zoom room market and we are interested in exploring those options. I'd really like to see some new improvements in the room kit series such as wireless controllers and the ability to mount the room kits in multiple configurations. I would also like to see the Room Kit and Room Kit Plus series standardize their audio line inputs to accommodate 3rd party microphone and DSP solutions.
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Neat
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Usability
Cisco
A lot of the features are really easy. You can just click connect and you're in. But using all of these other integrations and all these other features that are there, it's kind of the blind leading the blind as to how we use it. So it's probably the downside of it.
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Neat
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Reliability and Availability
Cisco
Once the order was place we received very quickly
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Neat
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Performance
Cisco
Great product with a great user experience
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Neat
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Support Rating
Cisco
Cisco has always stood out for the excellent support and documentation on its products, this is one of the reasons why they are so well positioned. The means by which you can create a case and the response times are very good. I especially like the support through the Webex teams.
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Neat
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Implementation Rating
Cisco
Very easy to implement. Integration into our Unified Communications platform was simple and quick
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Neat
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Alternatives Considered
Cisco
The Webex Room Kit is without a doubt a much higher quality experience with audio and video. Especially with the recent enablement of USB passthrough mode in certain models, there is almost no comparison. Cisco has committed to the Room Kit being an open solution that will work in any use case on any platform. To get the best collaboration room experience there is no better choice.
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Neat
We have used cisco board before we evaluate Neat Board. In cisco board we are not getting native teams meeting experience. We need CVI license to join teams meeting from cisco board and the quality and experience is not up to the mark in CVI calls. Live power point presentation is not working on CVI calls.
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Scalability
Cisco
The product and backend systems are designed to scale from small to very large organization seamlessly and easily
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Neat
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Return on Investment
Cisco
  • With this system, our staff is able to collaborate remotely, eliminating the need for an expensive office space.
  • So that HR can handle a steady workload, we can plan meetings using this tool.
  • Facilitates problem solving, reducing the need for product replacement.
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Neat
  • Enhance decision making
  • Avoid travelling
  • Excellent meeting experience like in person
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