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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    MaestroConference

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AMaestroConference is a web conferencing platform with the capability to run small break-out sessions within the main group. It incorporates voting and social capabilities.

    $49

    per month

    RingEX

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/ARingEx is a cloud-based VoIP solution available via computer mobile application. It features video and audio conferencing, desktop phone rentals, collaboration tools, and integrations with other business applications. Plans are available on a monthly, per user subscription basis.

    $20

    per month

    Pricing
    MaestroConferenceRingEX
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    MaestroConferenceRingEX
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Pricing is /user/month paid annually. Pricing increases when paid monthly. Core - $20/month (paid monthly) Advanced - $25/month (paid monthly) Ultra - $35/month (paid monthly) Customer Engagement Bundle - contact us for pricing
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    Community Pulse
    MaestroConferenceRingEX
    Considered Both Products
    MaestroConference
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    RingCentral
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    89%
    Would buy again
    167 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    156 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    92%
    Happy with the feature set
    173 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    90%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    137 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    88%
    Implementation went as expected
    149 Answers
    Features
    MaestroConferenceRingEX
    Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software
    Comparison of Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software features of MaestroConference and RingEX
    Feature
    MaestroConference
    -
    Ratings
    RingEX
    9.5
    24 Ratings
    12% above category average
    High quality audio00 Ratings9.526 Ratings
    High quality video00 Ratings9.424 Ratings
    Screen Sharing
    Comparison of Screen Sharing features of MaestroConference and RingEX
    Feature
    MaestroConference
    -
    Ratings
    RingEX
    9.9
    19 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Desktop sharing00 Ratings9.922 Ratings
    Online Meetings / Events
    Comparison of Online Meetings / Events features of MaestroConference and RingEX
    Feature
    MaestroConference
    -
    Ratings
    RingEX
    9.7
    20 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Calendar integration00 Ratings9.223 Ratings
    Meeting initiation00 Ratings9.923 Ratings
    Record meetings / events00 Ratings9.921 Ratings
    Online Events Collaboration
    Comparison of Online Events Collaboration features of MaestroConference and RingEX
    Feature
    MaestroConference
    -
    Ratings
    RingEX
    8.7
    15 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Live chat00 Ratings8.718 Ratings
    Online Events Security
    Comparison of Online Events Security features of MaestroConference and RingEX
    Feature
    MaestroConference
    -
    Ratings
    RingEX
    8.9
    22 Ratings
    11% above category average
    User authentication00 Ratings8.622 Ratings
    Participant roles & permissions00 Ratings9.224 Ratings
    Cloud PBX
    Comparison of Cloud PBX features of MaestroConference and RingEX
    Feature
    MaestroConference
    -
    Ratings
    RingEX
    8.5
    212 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Hosted PBX00 Ratings9.1119 Ratings
    Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)00 Ratings8.6162 Ratings
    Directory of employee names00 Ratings8.8197 Ratings
    Call Management
    Comparison of Call Management features of MaestroConference and RingEX
    Feature
    MaestroConference
    -
    Ratings
    RingEX
    9.0
    221 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Answering rules00 Ratings8.9207 Ratings
    Call recording00 Ratings8.6191 Ratings
    Call park00 Ratings8.7172 Ratings
    Call screening00 Ratings8.7180 Ratings
    Message alerts00 Ratings8.9208 Ratings
    Business SMS/External Messaging00 Ratings9.227 Ratings
    Online Fax00 Ratings9.524 Ratings
    Voicemail Transcription00 Ratings9.327 Ratings
    Mobile apps
    Comparison of Mobile apps features of MaestroConference and RingEX
    Feature
    MaestroConference
    -
    Ratings
    RingEX
    9.3
    195 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Mobile app for iOS00 Ratings9.2171 Ratings
    Mobile app for Android00 Ratings9.4152 Ratings
    Unified Communications Platform and Collaboration
    Comparison of Unified Communications Platform and Collaboration features of MaestroConference and RingEX
    Feature
    MaestroConference
    -
    Ratings
    RingEX
    9.0
    22 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Centralized communications management00 Ratings9.522 Ratings
    Team messaging00 Ratings9.221 Ratings
    Team document sharing00 Ratings8.618 Ratings
    Call and meeting analytics00 Ratings9.024 Ratings
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    Score9.5 out of 10
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    Score9.1 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    JioMeet
    Score9.8 out of 10
    Webex Calling
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Webex Meetings
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Webex Calling
    Score8.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    MaestroConferenceRingEX
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (229 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    5.9
    (3 ratings)
    8.9
    (15 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.7
    (11 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.4
    (159 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.3
    (28 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.1
    (6 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    MaestroConferenceRingEX
    Likelihood to Recommend
    MaestroConference
    This is best suited for webinars where you want increase participant engagement. Maestroconference has helped us avoid the type of webinar where the presenter has no idea if people are listening and participants often lose interest and end up checking email. The interaction level can become extremely high leading to increased engagement, satisfaction and buy-in.
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    RingCentral
    I love that RingEX lets you screen your call and take notes, then gives you a thorough review and summary that breaks down key points and flags what needs to be done. You get an email with the notes and summary, so you don't have to focus on anything but providing the customer with the summary and next steps. I think that helps with productivity.
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    Pros
    MaestroConference
    • The number one strength of Maestro Conference is the ability for the host to create "break out" groups where members of the call can interact with each other in smaller groups as if they were in an in-person conference.
    • Another quality of Maestro Conference that I love is the fact that the host can then "weave in and out" of the different break out groups, listening in, providing support and getting feedback. It's an incredibly tool that Maestro offers.
    • Lastly I think Maestro Conference has excellent customer service.
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    RingCentral
    • RingEX abilities to do multiple things at once, hands-free, is a huge time saver for me.
    • RingEX can record each word from beginning to end that may be part of a legal or written contract.
    • The amount of storage space that this program provides to my system is incredible.
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    Cons
    MaestroConference
    • The call sound quality was often pretty poor, and we had a lot of trouble with calls being dropped. Over the years I would periodically throw in the towel and go back to Free Conferencing just to have reliable quality. But they only have 3 of 4 breakout rooms and I couldn't conduct the rooms easily. Then I try MC again to see if the engineering had improved. It was like a wave. Sometimes better, sometimes worse.
    • The conductor interface has an annoying glitch wherein we could not change a persons attribute fields on the fly. I would interview my callers and assign them to one class or another based on their answers, and the partner up people into breakout rooms based on their answers. This meant editing the two attribute fields , and it just plain didn't work 75% of the time.
    • Maestro Conference repositioned its business away from small educators like me, to large organizations like political action committees. The price became too high for me, and it just no longer made sense. I repositioned my product to work with less expensive and less complicated solutions.
    • The add on features, like recording each conference room, were insanely expensive.
    • VOIP and MC didn't mix. The MC dialer never worked. Neither did Skype. This meant that my international callers were out of luck. This was FRUSTRATING to say the least. Now I just use Skype. A picture is worth a thousand words.
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    RingCentral
    • Reporting and analytics can be limiting. There is a solid baseline of reporting, but the customization is not what you would get with a call center product.
    • There is a platform API, but it is not as expansive as I would like. There is no easy way to build integrations with third-party tools, unlike Genesys Cloud, which has Data Actions.
    • The digital/messaging side is not present - we can't stick a widget on our website and allow people to live chat with us.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    MaestroConference
    we have found no other company with the technology that allows us to conduct webinars with this level of interactivity. We've also been watching as the company has added on addtional functionality and are very please with how it is developing.
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    RingCentral
    We are grandfathered into our unlimited toll-free minutes plan. We are very unlikely to switch because of that. It has been the major factor saving us a lot of money compared to switching to other solutions. I don't know any other company that still offers these unlimited plans.
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    Usability
    MaestroConference
    No answers on this topic
    RingCentral
    They were working on updating a few of the modules while we were going live, so this made usability difficult to train on once they did go live with those changes. Now that the changes are in place, we have really enjoyed the usability of the platform
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    Reliability and Availability
    MaestroConference
    No answers on this topic
    RingCentral
    Because it works great. In case there's a Wi-Fi issue, communication does not stop because the mobile app can be use with regular cell phone data. During one year + 3 months I've have the service, there's been only one time when there were issues on RingEX's side; however, the time of resolution was on the same day.
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    Performance
    MaestroConference
    No answers on this topic
    RingCentral
    Occasional bandwith issues. In addition to this, I have one individual whose calls are blocked. We were not able to determine whether this was a RingEX or a carrier issue.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    MaestroConference
    No answers on this topic
    RingCentral
    Call-in support is fantastic. I have never called in and had it taken more than 30 minutes to resolve our issue. Email support is terrible. You will likely go 24+ hours until you hear back and the response is likely a canned one. I personally prefer the email or chat support option, but find myself calling instead because the email support experience is so poor.
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    In-Person Training
    MaestroConference
    No answers on this topic
    RingCentral
    I really didn't know all the capabilities
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    Implementation Rating
    MaestroConference
    No answers on this topic
    RingCentral
    If someone has an existing system I tell them to keep that running initially and keep RingEX separate initially until the system is configured and tested to one's satisfaction. After testing and configuration is completed, then roll over the main phone numbers to the new RingEX system. I've seen one person who immediately flipped over to RingEX without properly configuring/testing the software and had many issues with missed customer calls until I helped him sort out his configuration.
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    Alternatives Considered
    MaestroConference
    Maestro Conference is the only service I know that allows you to create break out groups and allow participants to actively engage with each other and with the host. It is the most like an "in-person" event of any service I have used. And the customer service has always been excellent
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    RingCentral
    We are using these products like (Skype, Voip, TextNow, and Second line), but comparatively these products the RingEX has a good performance, because while we were using the other platform, we didn't get proper communication, we couldn't reach out the candidate, we lags to much into spam number, we couldn't communicate properly and the textnow we couldn't sigin sometime. When we start to use RingEX, we get much better productivity and proper communication with our clients.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    MaestroConference
    No answers on this topic
    RingCentral
    not to sign up for it or give them any money for a product that does not work
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    Scalability
    MaestroConference
    No answers on this topic
    RingCentral
    We have 75 users and 85 phones on the system and have yet to have any noticeable outages. The system just works all of the time without issues. Our old VOIP system on Voyant would go out all the time for multiple hours. RingEX is much more stable and reliable.
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    Return on Investment
    MaestroConference
    • When the monthly call with breakout rooms was working well I had a lot of good conversion. When it was not, because of sound quality of dropped calls, I was giving people a poor experience. Since I was using MC as the centerpiece of my TRIAL calls, it was a two edged sword.
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    RingCentral
    • Enhanced patient accountability, we can track all calls - incoming and outgoing - patients tend to state that they called and left a message, but they either never called or did not leave a message. With RingEX, we can track whether they really did. It saves us quite a bit of time and aggravation.
    • Faxing is more accurate and usually very quick. Because it's accurate, it saves us time with phone calls about faxes we never received and having to refax items. Also, faxing via the system instead of printing and scanning is a time-saver.
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    ScreenShots

    MaestroConference Screenshots

    Screenshot of Social Webinar exampleScreenshot of A "breakout group" discussion - where you can see the faces of the other people you talk with by phone or using VOIP/your computerScreenshot of You can poll your participants with Poll View in Social WebinarScreenshot of Share links with other participants in a Social Webinar chat window, while you talkScreenshot of Crowdsource ideas with Idea Board View in Social Webinar