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Avaya UCaaS

Score7.1 out of 10

245 Reviews and Ratings

What is Avaya UCaaS?

Avaya UCaaS is an all-in-one business communications platform. Avaya UCaaS aims to set employees up for success with unified internal communication, supporting voice, chat, email, video, file sharing, and task management. The software enables users to create collaboration in real-time using any device or system through one platform.

Top Performing Features

  • Call park

    Ability to hold calls in virtual location and subsequently access from any phone in system

    Category average: 8.4

  • Call screening

    Ability to block numbers or send calls directly to voicemail

    Category average: 8.4

  • Calendar integration

    Scheduling capabilities integrate with users’ Calendars.

    Category average: 8.7

Areas for Improvement

  • Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)

    IVR is a phone menu allowing callers to interact with the system through voice and keypad

    Category average: 7.7

  • Centralized communications management

    All voice, chat, and video features can be managed from one central platform.

    Category average: 8.6

  • High quality video

    High quality video connection is consistently available, with few or no interruptions.

    Category average: 8.7

Avaya - Awesome Performance Analysis Tracking.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Avaya to improve customer excellence by tracking the performance analysis dashboard. Avaya has allowed us to monitor the company's overall performance regarding the average hold time, inbound/outbound calls, average time spent on each call, volume of calls each day, and peak times/hours. It has also given us visibility into each staff member's level of performance.

Pros

  • Visibility
  • Measure Performance.
  • Tracking

Cons

  • Average hold time.
  • Staffing based on peak times/days.
  • Patient Accessibility.

Return on Investment

  • Due to visibility of the performance analysis tool, we can track in real time.
  • Ability to have more lines available during peak time.
  • Flexibility in the phone tree (not restricted—the sky is your limit with how you wish to set up the phone).

Alternatives Considered

Weave

Avaya UCaaS Must-Have Solution

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Instant communication with limitless possibilities. Instant messaging, video conferencing with rich collaboration built in to ensure users are allowed several means to share and collaborate within the company for both local and remote users. Avaya has leverage the cloud remove the restrictions that the traditional systems and struggling the cross over.

Pros

  • Instant messaging
  • Video conferencing
  • Remote users telephony
  • Integration with productivity tools

Cons

  • GUI for the app could be simpler
  • Hardware cost could be leveraged against least to own
  • More certified 3rd party apps for integration

Return on Investment

  • Finance team will prefer to have physical hardware that can be capitalized.

Other Software Used

Act! CRM, Oracle Analytics Cloud, Apache OpenOffice

Usability

Avaya UCaaS Review

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Avaya UCaaS is our primary phone system within the business, from the customer facing IVR down to individual and public space extensions - it also provides important analytics and highly customizable dashboards for the different support teams to monitor there overall SLA performance against there targets and other important call stats.

Pros

  • Call quality
  • Metrics
  • Ease of use
  • Simple admin dashboard
  • Responsive support team

Cons

  • Purchasing numbers
  • IVR options
  • Support speed

Return on Investment

  • Cheaper call transfer between dispersed teams
  • No physical line rental or on prem PBX
  • Auto provision of user accounts when linked to SSO

Alternatives Considered

8x8 Contact Center and Microsoft Teams

Other Software Used

Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Teams Rooms

Usability

Avaya UCaaS - A great tool for collaboration!

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Avaya UCaaS is mainly used for internal collaboration across the organization. Working on a Project that spans across 5 teams across 3 business verticals demands the requirement of a strong collaboration tool to ensure that the communication and messaging is streamlined. Avaya UCaaS is a great product that allows efficient collaboration specially for Ad-Hoc purposes. I am able to easily break down tasks into multiple streams and have separate and streamlined collaboration spaces for each one of them. This greatly increases prevents confusion which might have been caused by having all those collaboration at one space. Additionally, it is very easy to track communication and search for specific communication of file which makes everyone's life easy.

Pros

  • Instant creation of Ad-Hoc Collaboration groups helps a lot!
  • Interface is very easy to understand and use
  • Sharing screen and Files is very easy and is important for collaboration
  • Easy to search conversations and files

Cons

  • Limited documentation on usage. It's very difficult to self-troubleshoot
  • Support is very slow. Sometimes they take weeks to resolve an issue. However, issues are rare.
  • Don't see a major differentiator in Avaya UCaaS. It's more or less similar to what competitors offer (sometimes for a cheaper price!)

Return on Investment

  • Streamlining collaboration has increased overall productivity and efficiency.
  • Documenting and tracking action items in Ad-Hoc Collaborations have improved time to delivery by atleast 5%
  • It's easy to add/remove collaborators and this helps in easy scaling of collaboration. Sharing chat history helps new members to get context quickly.
  • Overall usage analytics helps us ensure we don't spend too much time on meetings. This is important for individual contributors

Alternatives Considered

Webex Calling, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet

Other Software Used

Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Microsoft 365

One stop shop for your Comms? definitely Avaya UCaaS :)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Avaya in our organization to get in touch with the US regulators. The phone helps me get important messages through its voicemail service. Very useful since I work from the Philippines and we have different time zones. It also helps me collaborate with my colleagues who are located across the globe.

Pros

  • Video calls also allow you to share files to your colleagues
  • Instant messaging and phone interface are easy to use.
  • It works on mobile phones saving you from long distance charges.

Cons

  • I wish that the settings options is easy to find.
  • The options for Signing in on the phone should just be one button and not with so many tick boxes.
  • Auto-save of credentials would be best as mandatory.

Return on Investment

  • I know that we have saved thousands in US dollars for long distance charges.
  • Reduced the time in sending documents through file sharing.
  • Allowed the office to facilitate Townhalls without concerns on the number of participants

Other Software Used

Microsoft Teams, Looker Studio, Scrive eSign