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Evolve IP Unified Communications

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What is Evolve IP Unified Communications?

Evolve IP is a cloud-based business phone system that has integrations with third-party applications such as Google, Salesforce, and Zendesk. It includes features such as call forwarding, call park, voicemail, caller ID, group directory, audio conferencing, and inbound fax messaging.

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What is Evolve IP Unified Communications?

Evolve IP is a cloud-based business phone system that has integrations with third-party applications such as Google, Salesforce, and Zendesk. It includes features such as call forwarding, call park, voicemail, caller ID, group directory, audio conferencing, and inbound fax messaging.

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Product Details

What is Evolve IP Unified Communications?

Evolve IP’s cloud IP Phone systems are designed to help businesses move away from having to manage carriers, hardware and vendors by providing an enterprise quality hosted PBX with advanced unified communications features and world-class voice quality to any user, in any location, for a low, predictable monthly fee. The vendor’s value proposition is that their solution will help companies attain cost savings, mobility, flexibility, control and quality that is crucial to their success.

According to the vendor, by leveraging Evolve IP’s unique carrier access cloud, or the user’s existing Internet connections, businesses can enjoy the flexibility of hosted VoIP services with the quality and control of on-site equipment – eliminating maintenance headaches and increasing up-time.

Evolve IP Unified Communications Features

  • Supported: Advanced ACD Routing Policies
  • Supported: Agent and Supervisor Features
  • Supported: Scalability and Capacity
  • Supported: Unlimited usage and DID
  • Supported: Polycom VVX HD handsets Included
  • Supported: PX, MAC, Google and Mobile integration
  • Supported: Unified Messaging
  • Supported: Skype for Business, MS Lync, Google Apps and CRM Integration
  • Supported: Instant Messaging and Presence (IM&P), Video, Desktop Sharing
  • Supported: International Options
  • Supported: Built-in disaster recovery/business continuity features
  • Supported: Monitored and managed 24x7

Evolve IP Unified Communications Integrations

Evolve IP Unified Communications Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
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Reviews and Ratings

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Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our entire company uses this as our phone system as well as call center. Internally, we utilize the UC-One softphone application on Windows laptops and cell phones. It doesn't really address any "problems", but certainly causes a lot. We needed a new phone system a few years back and this was what was chosen.
  • For UC calls, it works fine for the most part. Making and taking calls using a physical Polycom phone works fine.
  • It is pretty reliable as a service. We use an Edgewater device on our network to apply quality of service to the phone and prioritize that network traffic. Even the remote usage seems to work fine.
  • There are so many ways they need to improve. I can't list them all.
  • First off, their tech support is the worst I've ever seen. They generally break something on at least half the tickets we submit. New accounts always have some kind of issue and it is amazing when one works 100%. Response times were terrible too. It could take 2-8 days just to get a new account setup.
  • Reporting is inaccurate. Even trying to get it configured with their support team was a hassle and didn't work and wasn't even our data.
  • Billing had mistakes often and there could be 3 SKUs for the same item. Same item number, description has the same words in a different order.
  • Admin features are lacking. We can't even change the physical phone on an account. We can't create new accounts. Very limited options.
  • The admin portal info is inaccurate. Some accounts show no phone associated even though they have one that is working on their account.
  • There are times that randomly something stops working and not even the tier 1 support can fix it - a checkbox could "uncheck" itself magically and neither we nor the tier 1 tech can check the box again.
  • When we ask to have licenses removed, they don't remove all the licenses. Then, when we re-use that DID (which is what the account is tied to) for a new user, the license applies to them - for instance, call recording. And we didn't ask for call recording on that new user.
  • UC-One crashes all the time. It frustrates our users and has a few commonly seen issues.
I would leave it at the "?" rating because what can you rate them? 1 is too high. The only way they'd be "ok" is if:
1. Your company isn't growing and your users never leave the company.
2. You don't have to call support or make edits to the admin portal.
3. Don't need reporting.
4. Only use a physical phone to make/receive calls.
5. Do not plan to use a softphone or call center system.
6. Enjoy systems or people that frustrate you.
Cloud PBX (5)
40%
4.0
Hosted PBX
70%
7.0
Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)
60%
6.0
User templates
N/A
N/A
Call reports
10%
1.0
Directory of employee names
60%
6.0
Call Management (5)
40%
4.0
Answering rules
50%
5.0
Call recording
20%
2.0
Call park
50%
5.0
Call screening
40%
4.0
Message alerts
40%
4.0
VoIP system collaboration (4)
37.5%
3.8
Video conferencing
N/A
N/A
Audio conferencing
40%
4.0
Video screen sharing
50%
5.0
Instant messaging
60%
6.0
Mobile apps (2)
70%
7.0
Mobile app for iOS
70%
7.0
Mobile app for Android
70%
7.0
  • It wastes our admins time with all of the issues we have to deal with.
  • It wastes our employee's time with all of the issues they have to deal with while waiting for a resolution.
Evolve is worse than Dialpad, Vonage, RingCentral, Genesys, MS Teams, 8x8, and any other system I've dealt with. These mentioned all have better features, work well, are simple to use and admin, and some of them cost less.
Support? If I could do everything myself with the time I don't have, I would do it better than their support. I don't like saying it that way, but it is the truth. We hired someone from another company that also used Evolve IP and when they found out that is what we used here, he expressed all of the same complaints and stories that we had.
Robert Ross | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Within our residential property management business we find ourselves needing solutions that provide low cost of entry points and can be centrally managed. Evolve IP (EIP) fit the need. We vetted 5 other providers before selecting EIP and have never once looked back. They are partners in every sense of the word. Working with us as our business needs change has been the biggest benefit to working with them. When we have issues we are able to get management quickly involved in the process to get them resolved quickly. The project management teams are second to none. Their industry expertise and level of professionalism made each of our projects run like a finely tuned machine.
  • One pane of glass to manage multiple sites
  • Zero upfront cost of ownership
  • Flexibility in configuration
  • Better reporting system more of a GUI for creating reports
  • More device selections
  • More included features in the more expensive monthly service offering
For small locations, it's perfect but maybe not for larger locations with more then 50 people. It would depend on your bandwidth availability and what type of redundancy you have in place.
Cloud PBX (5)
78%
7.8
Hosted PBX
90%
9.0
Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)
80%
8.0
User templates
80%
8.0
Call reports
50%
5.0
Directory of employee names
90%
9.0
Call Management (5)
90%
9.0
Answering rules
90%
9.0
Call recording
90%
9.0
Call park
90%
9.0
Call screening
80%
8.0
Message alerts
100%
10.0
VoIP system collaboration (1)
70%
7.0
Audio conferencing
70%
7.0
Mobile apps (2)
65%
6.5
Mobile app for iOS
60%
6.0
Mobile app for Android
70%
7.0
  • We have reduce operational expenses by an average of 30 percent by switching to EIP.
  • Higher level of employee engagement with customers (given phone features).
  • Only negativity would be if you have a single point of failure for internet service it proves to be a challenge.
Service and cost of entry is what led us to our decision. Some of the others have better reporting. but EIP has the lowest cost of entry.
February 08, 2016

Evolve-IP for SMB

Alex Fuchs | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We utilize Evolve-IP VOIP services at our urgent care clinics in combination with their edge appliance the Cloud Connect. It solves the issue of VOIP QOS with poor ISP connections.
  • Unified Communications
  • Centralized management of a distributed phone system
  • Training
  • User UI
SMBs are its ideal environment.
Cloud PBX (5)
42%
4.2
Hosted PBX
80%
8.0
Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)
20%
2.0
User templates
10%
1.0
Call reports
60%
6.0
Directory of employee names
40%
4.0
Call Management (5)
48%
4.8
Answering rules
60%
6.0
Call recording
N/A
N/A
Call park
60%
6.0
Call screening
60%
6.0
Message alerts
60%
6.0
VoIP system collaboration (2)
N/A
N/A
Video conferencing
N/A
N/A
Audio conferencing
N/A
N/A
Mobile apps (2)
N/A
N/A
Mobile app for iOS
N/A
N/A
Mobile app for Android
N/A
N/A
  • Increase in ROI due to decrease in downtime
We switched from 8x8 due to voice quality issues.
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