Fuze UCAS solution
August 09, 2017

Fuze UCAS solution

Igor Pelipenko | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Modules Used

  • Voice

Overall Satisfaction with Fuze Voice

Response times to issues are not always consistent, and require extra effort from the user to get things progressing through support queues.
From a network engineer perspective, deployment was pretty smooth, there were no major issues encountered. Some minor firewall tweaking was required. From end user adoption perspective, it is a mixed bag, but a lot of it is human factor, although the improvements I listed would help make it smoother.
Fuze is currently being used in our corporate office and a number of field offices as a main UCAS solution, replacing our legacy phone systems. Eventually the entire company will be using Fuze. Fuze has helped us reduce telephony and conferencing costs, simplify internal unified communications infrastructure, and provide a more streamlined collaboration experience.
  • Voice quality and resilience of Fuze phone. We have an MPLS circuit to Fuze specifically for Fuze voice, backed up by an Internet connection. Call quality is great and failover is seamless.
  • Ease of setting up meetings from Outlook.
  • Vanity links for meetings is a great feature.
  • Content sharing in Fuze meetings is easy and intuitive.
  • Ability to transfer calls between multiple devices seamlessly.
  • Better notifications, especially for IMs. Right now it is lacking, we miss a lot of IMs or phone calls because the notifications are very inconspicuous. Sometime they plain don't show up.
  • In a Fuze meeting when/if I chose "dial in" option for joining audio, the client should dial the conference bridge number by just clicking a link, instead of having to exit to main screen and use the dial pad to dial the number. Same for "call me"- my Fuze number should already be pre-filled in the box, so I can just click OK and it will dial.
  • Overall better interface for IMs. Like opening a separate window for an IM conversation.
  • Need to be able to clear a list of recent calls in the app.

Skype for Business, 8x8, on-prem PBX.

Fuze has better call and video quality then other UCAS services we have evaluated and is more resilient. No equipment or cap-ex needed vs an on-prem PBX solution, and user provisioning is much easier.

Fuze is a great fit for a company with tech savy people who embrace technology. Especially if the company has significant global presence, Fuze is the only UCAS provider, as far as I know, that can provide local phone numbers pretty much anywhere in the world.

Less suited for people who shy away from technology and like the feel of a traditional phone.


Fuze Feature Ratings

Hosted PBX
9
Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)
Not Rated
User templates
Not Rated
Call reports
7
Directory of employee names
8
Answering rules
Not Rated
Call recording
8
Call park
Not Rated
Message alerts
3
Video conferencing
9
Audio conferencing
9
Mobile app for iOS
Not Rated
Mobile app for Android
8