Zip through your Cisco UC deployments using BE7K
May 13, 2021

Zip through your Cisco UC deployments using BE7K

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Business Edition 7000

I've set up collaboration nodes for a few of our customers. Used this to support small-sized and medium-sized deployments. Small being under 1000 users and medium being a 3000 user set up. Application servers came pre-installed/pre-deployed, so that saved a lot of our time which usually would've been spent in downloading iso files copying them to datastores and setting up the nodes.
  • The fact that the nodes come pre-installed.
  • Easy to set up.
  • Saves a lot of installation, pre-installation time.
  • Integrated email notifications on hardware failure.
  • Expensive
  • Easier and faster deployments.
  • Costly.
I've used 220s and 240s too, but it takes a lot of time to set them up, a lot of time to download the iso files, and set up of datastores. 7k saves the engineer a lot of pre-build assessment and evaluation time. Gets a lot done in a lot less time, returns are a happy engineer and a happier customer.

Do you think Cisco Business Edition 7000 (discontinued) delivers good value for the price?

Not sure

Are you happy with Cisco Business Edition 7000 (discontinued)'s feature set?

Yes

Did Cisco Business Edition 7000 (discontinued) live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Cisco Business Edition 7000 (discontinued) go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Cisco Business Edition 7000 (discontinued) again?

Yes

Its well suited for small to medium scale deployments if the infra is in-house. Webex and other SaaS solutions are in demand these days and are cost-effective too, but if for some reason your deployments need a locally-managed data center, then go for the BE7K or the BE6K depending upon your requirement.

Cisco Business Edition 7000 (discontinued) Feature Ratings

Task Management
6
Mobile Access
6
Notifications
5
Discussions
6
Internal knowledgebase
6
Versioning
6
Document collaboration
6
Access control
6
Advanced security features
6