Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Front
Score 9.1 out of 10
N/A
Front is a communication hub that helps businesses keep the human touch in every interaction.
$29
per month per user
Jive
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Jive Software, part of the Aurea family of customer experience solutions, provides the gateway to an organization's most important assets – its knowledge and people. Jive's interactive intranet solution promises to connect people, information and ideas to help businesses outpace their competitors. The vendor says the product has more than 30 million users worldwide across every industry, and is consistently recognized as a leader by top analyst firms.N/A
Zoom Workplace
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Zoom Workplace, Zoom’s open collaboration platform with an AI Companion, empowers teams to be more productive, and strengthen customer relationships throughout the customer lifecycle with Zoom’s Business Services for sales, marketing, and customer experience teams, including Zoom Contact Center.
$16.99
per month per user
Pricing
FrontJiveZoom Workplace
Editions & Modules
Starter
$29
per month per user
Growth
$79
per month per user
Scale
$99
per month (billed annually) per user
Premier
$229
per month (billed annually) per seat (50 seat minimum)
No answers on this topic
Add-On Zoom Translated Captions
$5
per month per license
Pro
$16.99
per month per user
Business
$21.99
per month per user
Add-On - Conference Room Connector
$499
per year
Basic
Free
Enterprise
Custom
Add-On - Zoom Whiteboard
starting at $2.49
per month per user
Add-On - Large Meetings
starting at $600
per year
Add-On - Cloud Storage
starting at $120
per year
Add-On Audio Conferencing
starting at $1200
per year
Add-On Zoom Phone Power Pack
Starting at $300
per year per user
Add-On - Quality of Service Subscription
Contact Sales
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
FrontJiveZoom Workplace
Free Trial
YesNoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsDiscount for annual pricing on Starter and Growth plans. Scale and Premier plans are annual price only.Discount available for annual billing.
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
FrontJiveZoom Workplace
Considered Multiple Products
Front
Chose Front
This is something I am not familiar but it seems like it is [available] in Gmail. Thus I cannot give any feedback about it. What I am sure about is Front works for our team and I see Zoom using the service in the Customer Success Organization in a long run.
Chose Front
Thanks to Front, it has allowed us to have smooth and effective internal communication between departments, attaching projects, problems, and endless files without any problem. It is allowing us to have practical and soft customer support.
Chose Front
Front is a flexible and quickly growing tool that integrates with almost every system we use. Front have been our go-to support system since we started and will continue to be for the foreseeable future.
Jive

No answer on this topic

Zoom Workplace
Chose Zoom Workplace
Zoom has blown our previous Voice & Meeting vendors away in cost, quality, and consistency. The cost was a major factor that allowed us to take a risk on a newer service, but the quality of the voice and video across all zoom products paired with the outstanding communication …
Chose Zoom Workplace
I've generally used Skype less and less over the years... the main reason to do so is that I find the other party uses a different system than me, but we both have Skype accounts. The address book that I've built over the years is probably the main reason that this app is …
Features
FrontJiveZoom Workplace
Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
Front
7.8
6 Ratings
5% below category average
Jive
-
Ratings
Zoom Workplace
-
Ratings
Organize and prioritize service tickets8.46 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications6.94 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission7.94 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Ticket response7.94 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Self Help Community
Comparison of Self Help Community features of Product A and Product B
Front
7.1
6 Ratings
12% below category average
Jive
-
Ratings
Zoom Workplace
-
Ratings
External knowledge base7.16 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-Channel Help
Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Product A and Product B
Front
8.8
4 Ratings
10% above category average
Jive
-
Ratings
Zoom Workplace
-
Ratings
Customer portal8.43 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Social integration9.33 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Email support9.14 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration8.52 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software
Comparison of Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software features of Product A and Product B
Front
-
Ratings
Jive
-
Ratings
Zoom Workplace
8.4
1005 Ratings
1% above category average
High quality audio00 Ratings00 Ratings8.7997 Ratings
High quality video00 Ratings00 Ratings8.8996 Ratings
Screen Sharing
Comparison of Screen Sharing features of Product A and Product B
Front
-
Ratings
Jive
-
Ratings
Zoom Workplace
8.6
1004 Ratings
2% above category average
Desktop sharing00 Ratings00 Ratings9.31003 Ratings
Online Meetings / Events
Comparison of Online Meetings / Events features of Product A and Product B
Front
-
Ratings
Jive
-
Ratings
Zoom Workplace
8.6
1010 Ratings
3% above category average
Calendar integration00 Ratings00 Ratings8.8922 Ratings
Meeting initiation00 Ratings00 Ratings9.1984 Ratings
Record meetings / events00 Ratings00 Ratings9.1959 Ratings
Online Events Collaboration
Comparison of Online Events Collaboration features of Product A and Product B
Front
-
Ratings
Jive
-
Ratings
Zoom Workplace
8.4
873 Ratings
3% above category average
Live chat00 Ratings00 Ratings9.0855 Ratings
Online Events Security
Comparison of Online Events Security features of Product A and Product B
Front
-
Ratings
Jive
-
Ratings
Zoom Workplace
8.8
863 Ratings
12% above category average
User authentication00 Ratings00 Ratings8.8757 Ratings
Participant roles & permissions00 Ratings00 Ratings8.6828 Ratings
Cloud PBX
Comparison of Cloud PBX features of Product A and Product B
Front
-
Ratings
Jive
-
Ratings
Zoom Workplace
7.9
237 Ratings
5% below category average
Hosted PBX00 Ratings00 Ratings8.0115 Ratings
Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)00 Ratings00 Ratings7.7141 Ratings
Directory of employee names00 Ratings00 Ratings8.2220 Ratings
Call Management
Comparison of Call Management features of Product A and Product B
Front
-
Ratings
Jive
-
Ratings
Zoom Workplace
8.0
266 Ratings
5% below category average
Answering rules00 Ratings00 Ratings8.5194 Ratings
Call recording00 Ratings00 Ratings8.6243 Ratings
Call park00 Ratings00 Ratings7.7151 Ratings
Call screening00 Ratings00 Ratings7.8168 Ratings
Message alerts00 Ratings00 Ratings8.0212 Ratings
Business SMS/External Messaging00 Ratings00 Ratings8.0135 Ratings
Voicemail Transcription00 Ratings00 Ratings7.7186 Ratings
Mobile apps
Comparison of Mobile apps features of Product A and Product B
Front
-
Ratings
Jive
-
Ratings
Zoom Workplace
8.7
294 Ratings
1% above category average
Mobile app for iOS00 Ratings00 Ratings8.6260 Ratings
Mobile app for Android00 Ratings00 Ratings8.8180 Ratings
Unified Communications Platform and Collaboration
Comparison of Unified Communications Platform and Collaboration features of Product A and Product B
Front
-
Ratings
Jive
-
Ratings
Zoom Workplace
8.5
251 Ratings
3% above category average
Centralized communications management00 Ratings00 Ratings8.7201 Ratings
Team messaging00 Ratings00 Ratings8.6217 Ratings
Team document sharing00 Ratings00 Ratings8.4194 Ratings
Call and meeting analytics00 Ratings00 Ratings8.3204 Ratings
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Score 8.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
FrontJiveZoom Workplace
Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
(35 ratings)
9.1
(37 ratings)
8.8
(1019 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(1 ratings)
6.6
(17 ratings)
7.7
(25 ratings)
Usability
9.4
(9 ratings)
6.1
(4 ratings)
8.8
(45 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
9.8
(5 ratings)
6.9
(2 ratings)
6.2
(46 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
5.0
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
3.0
(1 ratings)
6.3
(11 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(13 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(2 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
9.7
(3 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
9.2
(8 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
FrontJiveZoom Workplace
Likelihood to Recommend
Front
I think Front is very useful for every company with multiple teams working together on different emails from clients. Not so useful if a lot of different teams need to work on a request at the same time, because when an email is sitting in multiple shared inboxes things can get messy. Also would not recommend for teams that work is individualized, as team work is the main point of Front.
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Aurea
It's definitely worth considering Jive for the type of application we've developed i.e. a central shared repository for all employees to host and discuss information. I can't say I have ever used a superior tool, but they may exist. I'm just not sure I would want to use it exclusively for file hosting, though. It does integrate with various other tools, so perhaps it would be fine if used in conjunction with another tool for that purpose.
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Zoom
Zoom Workplace is ideal for many businesses, more so because it saves money by uniting different functionalities into one app - meetings, messaging, phone, and scheduling. The tool keeps teams connected thanks to the amazing collaboration and communication features. In addition, Zoom Workplace is helpful for businesses with a hybrid team, thanks to its effortless connections.
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Pros
Front
  • Even if you are just trying to compose a single email, Front gives a smart system that has options such [as] organized templates, tags, alerts, [and] changing your outbound dpt email.
  • Tasks- with Front you will not miss any interaction. When you are required to get assistance from a coworker, you only need to mention him/her and that notification will appear automatically in their inboxes.
  • Smart Notifications- sometimes we are just overwhelmed about the several notifications on our devices that we tend to miss some of them, but Front offers a new way to notify every email, discussion, mentioning, or tag that you really would not want to miss.
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Aurea
  • Individual design
  • Presence of Russian language (localization can be independently established)
  • You can configure several information tapes with different themes. One for work, the second for communication
  • A newly-arrived network user immediately receives a prepared block for beginners. After completing several game tasks, the user will receive the basics of using Jive.
  • There is a template for each scenario. There is even a template for planning R&D, and there are more than twenty of them.
  • Integrates with MS Office, Google Drive, Google Docs
  • There are all platforms (even Winphone and blackberry)
  • You can create forum threads
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Zoom
  • It offers amazing unified collaboration features, including Zoom whiteboard, Zoom team chat, and integrated mail and calendar.
  • Zoom is a great meeting solution, with features like smart recording, breakout rooms, and personalized video and audio, making it a functional business meeting tool.
  • It is equipped with amazing AI features that help summarize meetings, generate content, and provide quick catch-up, allowing one to ask AI questions without interrupting meetings.
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Cons
Front
  • Their integration to Salesforce is lacking. As the owner of our productivity tools and how they are used, I have very little control over what things to enforce, or even change what objects are available. For example, we don't use Cases in Salesforce but with the Salesforce integration the Cases object shows up. There's no need to have that there. I've heard there is a roadmap improvement forthcoming.
  • One of our uses is for our sales development reps to prospect with visitors. Because of the high volume of inquiries it's difficult for our reps to efficiently manage all their follow ups. It would be nice if we could run a "scheduled campaign" where a predesigned cadence of email follow ups can be sent automatically. To be clear, they do have a scheduling capability, but it just can't be used as a prebuilt option.
  • Integrations to other systems require you have a user account to those systems. We have SSO and therefore we don't always have a user account. For example, out integration to Jira uses SSO so we don't each have individual Jira logins. This is an outage for us.
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Aurea
  • Search functionality is very weak
  • The information architecture and taxonomy doesnt allow for easy discoverability of content
  • It's hard to navigate the and find spaces/groups that I already know about
  • The main profile/interface does not allow easy access to key tasks or common tasks.
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Zoom
  • I don't think there is any malfunction in their solution; it's extremely convenient to use, be it creating a meeting invite, adding people, sending any extra stuff to them. It's quick, and this is the only tool that works seamlessly even on Androids.
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Likelihood to Renew
Front
We are very happy with Front and don't anticipate changing
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Aurea
There are always external factors that can impact this decision but currently, the Jive platform is maintaining its lead in the market place in this area. If the innovation in this space by Jive continues, then this number will remain high. Integration with other systems and adaptability to changes in the market or in client needs will also make this decision hard to predict more then 6 months into the future
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Zoom
We're sticking with Zoom for the foreseeable future--given its compelling feature set, ease of use, and advanced technology, there's just no other competition to be excited about. Plus it's a Gartner-recognized industry leader, so it's a rather easy choice.
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Usability
Front
It's very easy to understand and use by new customer support agents as well. Be it a technology, product, or marketing person, we have trained most of the company folks to read and respond to customer conversations in their free time with the help of the Front app. It is also easy to set up for an admin and manage his/her team with communication rules.
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Aurea
It was harder to use that expected. The admin needs to be code savvy to truly customize the system. And users need to trained on the system and the setup. Trainings and monitoring need to continue to enforce use.
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Zoom
Zoom is made for the non tech office. It has features that can be made to do what you need to run things on a day to day basis. Immediately we we able to get meetings going with remote employees. The ability to be able to add smartphone connected people was a big plus. Zoom met our needs at the time.
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Reliability and Availability
Front
No answers on this topic
Aurea
Uptime was OK. But there was one day that the system crashed for a whole day. Our company was unable to operate. And all the plugins to word/excel froze causing those systems to freeze.

Jive posted a statement to the media saying all customers were up, but we were not.
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Zoom
There have been less than a handful of outages during our two years with Zoom, and whenever there was one, an email informing us of the outage went out immediately, and they had the issue resolved shortly thereafter.
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Performance
Front
No answers on this topic
Aurea
The product worked as designed. It just didn't work for our needs.
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Zoom
Zoom has among the best performance of any video conference platform, as I've mentioned several times. Besides that, their Chat platform works great, and their back end always runs smooth. It's unfortunate that reporting can now only be done by one month at a time, but nonetheless, it only takes a second to run any kind of Zoom report, whether it's an attendee report, Poll results, a user report, a list of meetings from the past month, etc.
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Support Rating
Front
The support is good, and it's definitely prompt, but still lags when it comes to technical requirements, as I guess they are slow in developing newer features fast. So no complaints in terms of responsiveness, but yeah, at times it's not very helpful when you need certain features or are blocked on things which can't be unblocked.
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Aurea
They did an OK job when I needed them. Except for the one day the system went down. Jive pointed the finger at the hosting company, and the hosting company pointed the finger at Jive. No reliable information came to us.
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Zoom
Because I got a response right away, and was assigned one specific individual to work with me from the beginning to the resolution. I had an actual email address and direct contact with this person without having to start over and over every time I contacted Zoom - this singular individual remained attentive and was well informed on the subject matter and quite able to resolve my needs.
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Online Training
Front
No answers on this topic
Aurea
Jive online training is there. It is OK/average. I feel some other companies are doing better. It is not a piece that is required to have a successfully implementation, but it could be useful to improve it
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Zoom
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Front
No answers on this topic
Aurea
If I did this over, I would hire out the implementation. They know the best practices and could have guided us to make an easier to use setup.
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Zoom
If you receive any pushback from higher ups, point to any of the various positive reviews like this one. Or show Zoom's excellent Gartner report, or articles describing Zoom's partnership with Sequoia capital. It's not difficult to show how Zoom is a trustworthy industry leader with best-in-class technology.
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Alternatives Considered
Front
This is something I am not familiar but it seems like it is [available] in Gmail. Thus I cannot give any feedback about it. What I am sure about is Front works for our team and I see Zoom using the service in the Customer Success Organization in a long run.
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Aurea
We had a Google phone number set up before and Jive was a lot better option than that. It is more consistent and can be configured much easier and with more advanced settings. Additionally, based on the pricing as well as working with the rep on our account, it was a perfect option for us
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Zoom
Teams do not stack up to Zoom at all. My clients use Teamas because it is a corporate policy, and they use it most of the time between employees of the same company. It makes sense for this, NOT for me. Every time a Teams meeting is launched, since I am not part of this company, the meeting is laborious, the interface is not as nice as Zoom's, sharing documents is more difficult, etc., etc. Zoom is superior to Teams in every way!!!
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Front
No answers on this topic
Aurea
No answers on this topic
Zoom
The billing and price model is really fair for so many functions that they offer, our remote work requires each of the features that Zoom offers, so accepting payment for a tool like this is the least we can do. I like that billing arrives on time and that they offer opportunities and payment times.
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Scalability
Front
No answers on this topic
Aurea
No answers on this topic
Zoom
Because the Basic licenses are completely free, and because it's very easy to configure and install Zoom, and because anyone can join Zoom from a link without needing an account, scaling is a Breeze. There are absolutely no roadblocks. My company keeps adding more Zoom Pro license every week since it's so in demand. We were able to convert users from several different platforms onto Zoom with no trouble at all.
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Professional Services
Front
No answers on this topic
Aurea
No answers on this topic
Zoom
Zoom is perfect for our business. We use it to video chat with prospective clients. The name recognition alone gives us credibility and it is very easy to screen share and send content out.
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Return on Investment
Front
  • Saved our executive team considerable amount of time chasing support questions through different channels.
  • Gave our team clear accountability for who was lead on a support issue and how to escalate.
  • Customer regularly say our support is the best in the industry.
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Aurea
  • reduce email traffic
  • reduce amount of files/documents scattered & lost across shared drives
  • increased discovery, awareness and interaction of historically more separated individuals & team functions across the organisation
  • from an IT perspective, we've benefited from improved IT operations (e.g. troubleshooting info shared and easily searched/found with all team members - such that even junior team members can solve technical problems outside of business hours, lessening the burden for standby/call-in for more senior team members)
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Zoom
  • We are still early in our adoption of Zoom Workplace for business, so we don't really have any data to show cost savings.
  • The ability to take a call summary or meeting summary and add it to our practice management system have been remarkable. It's a quick copy/paste and it's in the system. Prior to this, we would have to scan in notes and save them into the system, if it even got that far. Mostly, attorneys would be searching through legal pads for the notes of a previous meeting or phone call.
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ScreenShots

Front Screenshots

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Jive Screenshots

Screenshot of Jive's Interactive Intranet software provides a single platform for employee collaboration without complication.

Zoom Workplace Screenshots

Screenshot of an example collaboration feature. These are used to:
Transcribe, summarize, and capture action items with AI Companion from your in-person meetings.
Improve visibility and alignment by sharing emails to chats
Elevate a chat to a meeting or phone call to get to resolution faster. 
Continue meeting conversations and easily access shared information in Team Chat.Screenshot of an example of Zoom's productivity features. These features are used to:
Improve productivity across teams, locations, and time zones.
Organize project deliverables and assets in a centralized, collaborative doc.
Collaborate and map out projects visually on a whiteboard.
Jumpstart brainstorming sessions using AI and templates.
Gather valuable team input for well-informed decision-making with surveys and polls.
Stay on top of action items surfaced from across Zoom Workplace.Screenshot of some additional collaboration features. These are used to:
Optimize office experiences and in-person time.
Make sure remote participants feel connected with what is going on in the room.
Collaborate across remote and in-person teams on a virtual whiteboard.
Easily know and identify who is in the room and who is speaking in a Zoom Room with smart name tags and smart speaker tags.Screenshot of an example of Zoom's AI companion. This feature is used to streamline communications, improve productivity, increase employee engagement, and optimize flexible work.Screenshot of additional AI Companion features. The tools is also used to:
Launch internal campaigns.
Deliver visually rich updates with live streams, billboards, and videos.
Ensure critical comms are never missed with read receipts.
Send updates to deskless workers with Workvivo TV and Chat.