Likelihood to Recommend Mitel Networks Corporation
As a phone system, MiVoice Business is absolutely fantastic. It's equipment and even virtual appliances are extremely stable. Simple auto attendants and making/receiving calls is where the strength is. Where is needs help is the Windows-based software. Upgrading this can be extremely difficult and it frequently fails for no reason. Services stop running and needs frequent reboots. The client has improved greatly with newer releases but can be buggy. Sadly, the old ways of a traditional desktop phone is dying and I think MiVoice Business isn't as good as some other options that provide more. The end user client just isn't as stable as something like
Microsoft Teams or Zoom Voice that can provide a more stable soft phone experience.
Read full review The audio is very clear, but when the two devices are close, there is considerable noise. Also the calling is quite expensive considering that there are countless free tools available which provide the same features. Call recording is an add on so there you need to think about whether it's worth purchasing or not. Also that it can be used on multiple devices with the app makes things easier. For small scale corporates and teams it's all good, but with respect to its competitors bringing so much on plate and that too for free, I rate it 6/10.
Read full review Pros Mitel Networks Corporation
Virtual appliances if you have a strong VM infrastructure The user client is decent and has improved since earlier versions of MiVoice Business Extremely easy to setup new extensions/users For the most part, it's an extremely stable system with just making and receiving phone calls. Read full review For example, with WebEx calling, it's an offer which include many features of each on-prem server and every features are included in WebEx calling. So that's something which is very appreciated by customer because they don't have to buy each server like it was the case. They just buy WebEx calling and they have many features. Even if they don't need it, they have it and we can give them the notice to use them and they can use it and they are very happy with this software. Read full review Cons Mitel Networks Corporation
Softphone working through a VPN/Work-From-Home has always been a struggle While I'm told an upgrade is near, the Contact Center is outdated and needs work The upgrade process is very flakey and regularly fails on a Window server. Read full review It might be that we didn't have this package, but transcription capabilities were not included. Sometimes, using Webex Calling would make my computer and other programs run slow If screens were being shared, it required a lot of bandwidth and sometimes froze or glitched. Read full review Likelihood to Renew Mitel Networks Corporation
because have been using it and its easy to configure and manage
Read full review Usability Mitel Networks Corporation
It is a very easy product to deploy and configure and to really take advantage of. It does not matter if you are using it in an office or your home, or for a security office or a collaboration meeting room - you have the right endpoint available for each case and the configuration parameters to improve the functionality you need.
Read full review Support Rating Mitel Networks Corporation
I have been working for a long time with Cisco as a provider and also Cisco TAC and Cisco Support Engineers. The support starts right beforehand in the documentation of the product you are interested in. From the start you have a good, complete, and detailed and easy to read datasheet and there's always someone available to answer any questions.
Read full review Alternatives Considered Mitel Networks Corporation
I've used MiVoice Business at multiple employers. Once of them was moving from a very old Avaya PBX, another was with an NEC phone system that was slightly newer. MiVoice was far more easier to setup phones, setup users, manage voicemail, ETC. While we had consultants perform any upgrades with Avaya and NEC, MiVoice we did more collaborative with our support partner but we ran into far more issues with upgrades of MiVoice. My last 2 companies have discussed moving their phone system to
Microsoft Teams and my current position they've already done that. All the issues with MiVoice relating to upgrades and issues with the Connect client are not existant with Teams. Teams is the bar, sadly MiVoice Business - while a very good product - falls short. They just haven't yet resolved issues that have long existed and in a pre-covid world it was OK. Now that people are displaced, the office environment has changed and end users are not isolated to a desk with a physical phone. MiVoice Business needs to catch up.
Read full review The differences between both software can be marginal in some aspects,
but for the campaign in a proffessional level it was a clear win to
Webex due the quality and security of the platform, being a Cisco
product has more impact on the final decision, and in the end the
overall experience has been great, having used
Twilio in the past, that
last part is my personal opinion.
Read full review Return on Investment Mitel Networks Corporation
Was able to replace our old dying PBX system Softphone, when it's working, allows users to answer phone calls from home Can leverage our existing VM infrastructure to use virtual appliances instead of physical appliances Read full review I don't make decisions on ROI, but Webex Calling is used quite widely in the organization. The ease of calling definitely makes it easy to coordinate across teams and geographies. Good performance in low bandwidth situations means that employees with lower bandwidths don't necessarily need to upgrade internet speeds to have video calling. Read full review ScreenShots Webex Calling Screenshots