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Webex Calling

Score8.8 out of 10

474 Reviews and Ratings

What is Webex Calling?

Webex Calling is Cisco’s flagship cloud calling solution with over 12 million users worldwide. It delivers an enterprise-grade calling experience that enables customers to replace PBX hardware with a cloud calling solution. Webex Calling's connectivity and collaboration experience includes calling, meetings, messaging, contact center, and integrated devices.

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Top Performing Features

  • Participant roles & permissions

    Administrators can grant users different levels of access to conferences, as moderators, presenters, attendees, or participants. Permissions can be set for individual users, or based on user role/group.

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  • Calendar integration

    Scheduling capabilities integrate with users’ Calendars.

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  • Meeting initiation

    Meetings can be easily initiated, whether they are scheduled or on the fly.

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Areas for Improvement

  • Voicemail Transcription

    AI-powered voice-to-text transcription of voicemails

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  • Message alerts

    Receive SMS and email message notifications for voice and fax messages

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  • Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)

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

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Best Calling collaboration system.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use it to call customers and colleagues from my phone and from my laptop. I can always have the list of calls made on the go from my phone, and the sync between laptop and phone is great. It can be used to control external calls so that we can stay on the network without using PSTN via extension routing.

Pros

  • Simplicity of dialing out, especially using the Webex app.
  • Setting up devices and configuring users with devices.
  • Setting up queues and a group.
  • Creating virtual numbers that can have inboxes.
  • Send emails of voicemail with transcription.
  • A central location for all the feature configurations.

Cons

  • Definitely on reporting and tracking calls.
  • Call trace and details path - need similar to RTMT.
  • Wish to have a diagram that shows the path of a call.

Return on Investment

  • Positive - able to access it on the go and consistent product.
  • Positive, great quality and easy to access and utilize.
  • Positive, easy to configure and update.
  • Easy to acquire numbers and apply them to the tenant.

Alternatives Considered

Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Call Manager)

Other Software Used

Webex App, Webex Contact Center, Webex Connect

Webex Calling Review

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Into my organization, it's just for testing and in order to help the customer to implement some solution, some features. So I'm just testing with my computer the solution.

Pros

  • Webex calling is an offer which include many features natively. So that's something which is very appreciated by customer because they don't have to buy each server as it was the case with on-prem solution. They just buy WebEx calling and they have many features. Even if they don't need it, they have it and we can give thé taste.

Cons

  • No. Even if there is something, maybe it's missing. I know I follow many events of Cisco, they are including the roadmap, so that's nice. For the moment the customer are very happy. I don't have some bad features and some features missing for the moment. That's nice.

Return on Investment

  • Webex calling is a good solution for customer which are ready for cloud.
  • However some customers doesn't want to share their CDR to a UcaaS so Cisco shouldn't focus on cloud opportunity and up to me the gap of investment, marketing, evangelization is too big weighing the pros and cons for cloud too often

Alternatives Considered

Webex App, Webex Contact Center, Webex Meetings and Webex Webinars

Other Software Used

Webex Meetings, Webex Contact Center

Usability

Webex Calling for the Win

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Webex Calling to simply our overhead management of VOIP in our environment. We also have many multiple remote sites utilizing our on-prem USC box, so moving to Webex Calling has given us flexibility.

Pros

  • Management Dashboard
  • Unified VM and VOIP management system dashboard
  • Adding hardware

Cons

  • Providing a template tab or walkthrough for setting up new phones
  • Upgrading firmware at specific times.

Return on Investment

  • Easy of onboarding and transition
  • Moving off of legacy POTS services to cloud direct
  • Logs and troubleshooting

Alternatives Considered

Cisco 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 9000) and Cisco UCS Series

Other Software Used

Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Teams Rooms, Neat Bar

Webex Calling the ultimate communication application

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Webex Calling is used to connect with remote working employees and sharing information in real time with the team. It reduces distances and improves team management for team leads. It helps us share new projects with our team and Webex Calling enabled customers. This reduces the charges we were bearing for international calling and reduces our time to serve the market.

Pros

  • Calling team members
  • Real time information sharing
  • Call record keeping
  • Call recording and storing

Cons

  • Used to connect with colleagues overseas and save time
  • Record and store calls if needed
  • Maintain caller ID for fast connection with customers and teams

Return on Investment

  • It increased time to connect with the market
  • Improved customer contact and maintain directory
  • Maintaining call records and voice recording

Alternatives Considered

Webex Meetings and Salesforce CRM Analytics

Other Software Used

Microsoft Teams, Microsoft SharePoint, Google Analytics

A cutting edge tool for Collaboration

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have been working with Webex Calling for about four years so far, it is a robust and flexible solution which was just what we were looking for. Having one single app to do meetings, messaging, and video/phone calls is incredible and everything is managed through the Control Hub Portal which gives us all the privileges needed to complete and configure everything in our Webex Calling environment, features such as Hunt groups, Auto Attendant, Call Pickup, IVR and so forth.

Pros

  • Features like Auto Attendant, Call Pickup, Hunt Pilot and voicemail
  • Having recording integrated with the Control Hub portal
  • Integration with MS Azure to import user base

Cons

  • More friendly API interaction interface would be nice
  • More calling PSTN provider options for Latam market
  • Control about the Webex App version deployed in the Org ID

Return on Investment

  • Replacement of old ISR routers
  • We got rid of old physical IP phones
  • People can work anywhere

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Teams and RingCentral Contact Center

Other Software Used

Webex Contact Center, Cisco Headsets, Webex App

Usability