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    Cisco Room Series

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AThe 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

    Webex App

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AThe Webex App brings together Webex Calling, Meetings, and Messaging into a single application, fostering collaboration and unlocking more productive ways to work.

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    Cisco Room SeriesWebex App
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Basic Plan
    $0.00
    user/month
    Meet Plan
    $13.50
    user/month
    Meet + Call Plan
    $25.00
    user/month
    Enterprise Plan
    Contact Sales
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    Pricing Offerings
    Cisco Room SeriesWebex App
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Cisco Room SeriesWebex App
    Considered Both Products
    Cisco
    Chose Cisco Room Series
    Cisco Webex Room Series offers a great integration of the different Webex solutions together. For instance, starting a Cisco meeting on a Webex Room Devices directly from the Cisco Webex App, sharing content from the Webex App wirelessly with Cisco Proximity. In addition, a …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco Room Series
    Simplicity and dashboard
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco Room Series
    As a distributor, I don't really have the option to not choose this product, but I've used other vendors' products. They haven't seemed as well built in my opinion. And so I'd say the quality overall of the Cisco products is, I don't think it's matched.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco Room Series
    I took this tool as given; that's why I am not sure if there are any alternatives considered or not.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco Room Series
    The video quality is superior to that of the poly studio, the way of operating the devices is very different since the room kit series are professionals compared to the poly studio since it is only like a PC peripheral.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco Room Series
    The Cisco Webex Room Kit definitely has higher-quality audio and video. The integration with our Control Hub has allowed us to customize much of the experience and get valuable insights via analytics. The Webex Assistant has been great as well, as we can say various …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco Room Series
    When it comes to compatibility with other systems, the Cisco Webex Room Series offers the most leeway. Without an additional Cisco license, the Room Series can connect to Zoom and Microsoft Teams rooms. When compared to our product, the alternatives from other manufacturers …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco Room Series
    The Cisco Webex Room Series is the most flexible in terms of interoperability. The Room Series can join both Zoom and Teams rooms without requiring any extra Cisco licensing. The other vendors either don't work at all or require extra licensing in some cases
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco Room Series
    We tend to purchase the Cisco Webex Room Series for larger rooms with the dual-screen option (ie: 55 or 70-inch dual screens). We're able to duplicate the output on each screen for local presentations and if on a video call the participants will show up on the left screen …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco Room Series
    [Cisco] Webex Room [Series] devices are the most advanced devices for customer and local IT satisfaction. The installation is so simple and easy that the nearly anybody is able to install the device. Cisco takes care of software updates and monitoring. If a system has a …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco Room Series
    Cisco Webex Room Series has the largest range of room options in a suite that is cohesive, global, and centralized. The hardware has a long service life [and] is quick to deploy, reliable, and easy to manage.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco Room Series
    [Cisco] Webex [Room Series] integrates into a room much better than the others.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco Room Series
    [It is] easy to use and easy to integrate. [There are] lots of interesting features using cloud and also on-premises.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco Room Series
    Actually, we have other room systems and desk products as well. Deskpro, dx80, Room Kit Mini, and room USB. We, as an IT integrator, installed almost every type of Cisco collaboration device. I think the Webex Room Series portfolio is absolutely good for any kind of conference …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco Room Series
    The ability of the Cisco Webex Room Series to integrate with other Cisco infrastructure products greatly improves the support and maintenance we can provide.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco Room Series
    I currently use a DX 80 as a personal video and point and I love it. It is quite intuitive and uses the same functionalities as the room series therefore there is no learning curve for a user like me. We are seriously looking into getting some room kits mini for some of our …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco Room Series
    In my opinion Microsoft and Polycom are entry level video conferencing solutions. Their overall cost may be cheaper but you are getting what you paid for. They seem to be designed for the small business needs and don't offer a seamless collaboration experience. If keeping …
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    Chose Cisco Room Series
    The Spark Room Kit is the ideal extension for meeting rooms which are already equipped with a display. The Spark room 55 is ideal for new rooms without display
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    Cisco
    Chose Webex App
    They are all on the Webex platform.
    Incentivized
    Chose Webex App
    Webex integrates Cisco hardware range very well with its software offering, particularly nice to take meetings on the go with the App. This provides a seamless experience. The others don't have a great hardware range, or what they have is limited & co-branded making it …
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    Chose Webex App
    Webex Teams is a good trade-off of features and ease of use. When compared to Slack, the licensing fees are better when you have a large number of users. The chat and video call features are similar to Webex Teams feeling like a more mature product.
    We still have an Adobe Connect
    Incentivized
    Chose Webex App
    Against Skype its easy Webex teams are so much more feature-rich and easy to use, Skype and the federation of Skype is just a pain and you don't know who you will and won't be able to talk to.

    Against MS Teams, none of that messy guest account access and flipping between …
    Incentivized
    Chose Webex App
    I have only mentioned one alternative since it supposed to be "the competition" for WebEx App, but in general, all the alternatives lack something. If not a good integration with a communications system, maybe the support the vendor has, maybe the endpoints available for HD …
    Incentivized
    Chose Webex App
    Using standards-based communications (i.e. SIP) for video and voice, it is easy to integrate Cisco Webex Teams with other Voice and Video applications and services, unlike the Skype/MSTeams products which have been very proprietary and not as easy to integrate with without …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    97%
    Would buy again
    86 Answers
    93%
    Would buy again
    600 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    79 Answers
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    523 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    87 Answers
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    606 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    72 Answers
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    380 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    82 Answers
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    440 Answers
    Features
    Cisco Room SeriesWebex App
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Cisco Room Series and Webex App
    Feature
    Cisco Room Series
    -
    Ratings
    Webex App
    8.3
    638 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Task Management00 Ratings8.0362 Ratings
    Gantt Charts00 Ratings7.5173 Ratings
    Scheduling00 Ratings8.7501 Ratings
    Workflow Automation00 Ratings8.4244 Ratings
    Mobile Access00 Ratings8.8600 Ratings
    Search00 Ratings8.3512 Ratings
    Visual planning tools00 Ratings8.5278 Ratings
    Communication
    Comparison of Communication features of Cisco Room Series and Webex App
    Feature
    Cisco Room Series
    -
    Ratings
    Webex App
    7.8
    680 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Chat00 Ratings9.1670 Ratings
    Notifications00 Ratings8.6661 Ratings
    Discussions00 Ratings8.6612 Ratings
    Surveys00 Ratings8.2349 Ratings
    Internal knowledgebase00 Ratings8.3307 Ratings
    Integrates with GoToMeeting00 Ratings8.4152 Ratings
    Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts00 Ratings2.1175 Ratings
    Integrates with Outlook00 Ratings8.8381 Ratings
    File Sharing & Management
    Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Cisco Room Series and Webex App
    Feature
    Cisco Room Series
    -
    Ratings
    Webex App
    8.0
    590 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Versioning00 Ratings8.1361 Ratings
    Video files00 Ratings8.5512 Ratings
    Audio files00 Ratings8.6511 Ratings
    Document collaboration00 Ratings8.4474 Ratings
    Access control00 Ratings8.3376 Ratings
    Advanced security features00 Ratings8.7390 Ratings
    Integrates with Google Drive00 Ratings5.1171 Ratings
    Device sync00 Ratings8.5365 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Cisco Room SeriesWebex App
    Small Businesses
    No answers on this topic
    Flock
    Score9.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Cisco Headsets
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Troop Messenger
    Score9.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Cisco Webex DX80 (discontinued)
    Score9 out of 10
    Cisco Business Edition 7000 (discontinued)
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Cisco Room SeriesWebex App
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.1
    (93 ratings)
    8.6
    (747 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    5.0
    (6 ratings)
    8.4
    (34 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (83 ratings)
    8.9
    (393 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.3
    (13 ratings)
    Performance
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.7
    (12 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.8
    (80 ratings)
    8.6
    (396 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (7 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.1
    (16 ratings)
    Configurability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.3
    (15 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.7
    (12 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.3
    (12 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.4
    (11 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.7
    (13 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cisco Room SeriesWebex App
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    We had a conference room with a Radvision board that needed to be replaced. Our HQ is not fully Cisco but rather a mish mash of different products such as Rally bars, Poly, Radviison and Cisco. Putting Cisco into the conference room allowed us to have a single pane of glass for our needs.
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    Cisco
    It's perfect for project rooms for collaborative work, file sharing, quick reporting and incident handling, and initiating conversations via chat, voice, and video. Some more formal matters are better handled by email. There's a greater chance they won't get lost, and if we want to revisit them months or even years later, we'll be able to find them more easily.
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    Pros
    Cisco
    • Captures everyone in the room with its wide angle camera automatically.
    • Counts the number of people in the video meeting.
    • Puts the camera focus on the person who is speaking.
    • Enhances the live meeting video experience with its AI features.
    • Removes the overheads of manually setting up cameras and adjusting them.
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    Cisco
    • The online meeting within the internal team using Webex App is always a good experience as it helps well in sharing screen, and any content for that matter.
    • It helps in arranging online interviews and it is also very good experience using the web version of Webex App.
    • It also helps in arranging online training sessions and webinars which generally involve huge number of participants generally over 200+ participants and Webex App handles it very well.
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    Cons
    Cisco
    • Perhaps any downside I might see is not necessarily with this product, it's more interoperability with other products. And I think these are all roadmap items that are being addressed. For instance, when you're in a Cisco meeting, it's not as feature rich as it might be as if you joined from a computer. However, as I said, these seem to be roadmap items which are coming along soon. Things like integration with the text or chat rather in a meeting, and also whiteboard integration.
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    Cisco
    • Compared to zoom, I think the user experience is not as good.
    • I am not familiar with more detailed options; maybe they are too hidden: how do I integrate Slido better?
    • Not a fan of a mobile app. Maybe needs some improvement.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cisco
    By the time we are up for an upgrade, this particular series of products might not even been in the market. The typical product cycle for such products in the market are about 5 years. More importantly, the codec supported by such devices may also change by the time we are up for an upgrade. Even so, getting this system to a level of functionality we require was a frustrating ordeal that I do not look forward to during the next cycle.
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    Cisco
    While Webex has strong adoption on the administrative side, the LTI tool for Webex is lacking some important support for teaching and learning. Therefore, faculty do not see much value in Webex and prefer to use other tools that are easier to access and more likely to benefit their students within the LMS. Webex has not been the easiest to work with for identifying pedagogical roadmap improvements, especially compared to competitors who work closely in the education space
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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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    Cisco
    Webex is quite usable, and it is, in fact very easy to use as well. You don't need a lot of documentation to learn how to use the app as it's mostly self-explanatory. The user interface is easy on the eyes, and people can see buttons without issues. Overall, WebEx's front-end design is great and I don't have much issue with it.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Cisco
    Once the order was place we received very quickly
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    Cisco
    I would say every time I open it, it is there, there are times that our users have to sign out and back in to get it to work or even do a full exit as the app will disconnect from the controlling the desk phone, but some easy steps to sign-out or fully exit the app gets the user back up and running quickly.
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    Performance
    Cisco
    Great product with a great user experience
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    Cisco
    On standalone it works fine, it used to consume a considerable amount of system resources in the past, but with updates and upgrades, this has improved quite a lot. As far as integrations with other systems, we have not come across any critical issues with the app.
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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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    Cisco
    Talking about Webex App technical support is talking about the quality because they are always attentive and willing to attend to our needs, and the response is immediate; every time we have needed help to solve a problem or find out a function, they have not responded quickly, Cisco has always been characterized by being efficient and deserving 10 points.
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    In-Person Training
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Cisco
    I am very satisfied with my experience with Webex App in online training. The creation of the event is very easy with the possibility of scheduling it in advance. The management of participants, organizers, and animators is complete. The invitations are automated and by simply using emails we can create all the schedules of the training session
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    Online Training
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Cisco
    I would rate the online training 8/10. It provided clear and well-structured content, making it easy to understand the core features of Webex. However, I believe it could have been more interactive, with practical exercises or real-life scenarios to enhance user engagement. More advanced topics or troubleshooting guides could also be helpful for deeper learning.
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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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    Cisco
    There was quite a bit of back and forth with TAC and Cisco Reps to get it fully up and running but we did get there. Some of which had to do with documentation was not fully understandable. But with Cisco TAC we were able to get fully up and running.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cisco
    As a partner, I always used mainly Cisco products and offered them to my customers. I have personal experience with Avaya, Team and polycom but non of them provided me with the Premium feelings which Cisco does. Even the product quality and look of the product by itself gives you the premium experience. But I want to mention that Polycom has some features and easy setup which Cisco lacks sometimes. It is mainly 3rd party integration.
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    Cisco
    Microsoft Teams is the main competitor of the Webex App. But it provides services for less cost than Webex App. And also teams are used by majority of companies in software industries due to its support for other Microsoft services.
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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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    Cisco
    Once everything is in place on the back end getting Webex on a user's PC is now very easy and with single sign-on, users are able to sign in without having to remember another password. Just make sure you have all the user settings in CUCM, CUC set right, and that they have the needed licenses in Webex Control Hub.
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    Return on Investment
    Cisco
    • The Cisco MTRoA solution has reduced the time it takes for our users to join their meeting and spend more time concentrating on business rather than the technology.
    • It simply works.
    • Ease of support.
    • We also appreciate the great support we get from intelligent folks in Cisco TAC organization.
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    Cisco
    • Comfort in switching multiple OS platforms, when there is similar UI design.
    • HD video quality and HD screen share, make up presentations look more professional and standardized.
    • Less call/meeting drops as seen in other platforms applications.
    • Builds a level of trust, when we connect on Cisco's application platform with customers who are having their whole communication infrastructure shifted to Cisco Webex App.
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