Webex App - A bit disappointed
November 04, 2021
Webex App - A bit disappointed
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Webex App
This review comes from an organization currently using Cisco Jabber. Webex App has yet to be released to our firm. Upon piloting the software as a potential replacement to Cisco Jabber and the Webex Desktop Client, it falls short specifically when it comes to replace Jabber. It takes control away from IT when setting features to default values in the Webex App for users. For example, there are no registry keys to enable the Microsoft Office calendar integration ahead of time leaving our users with having to do this themselves. While this is not a difficult task for users to do, it creates confusion, frustration, and generates calls to our helpdesk until resolved. It would have better user acceptance if this could be set ahead of time by IT administrators. Other concerns also revolve around pop up reminders even for non-Webex meetings. So any meeting in a user's calendar having sip details will be picked up by Webex. Users joining calls using other platforms such as Zoom will be reminded by Webex and prompted to join. The Webex App can launch the meeting but it lacks the features inherent with other platforms. A user may not realize they have launched the app using the Webex App thus resulting in calls to our helpdesk because they think something is wrong.
- Webex meetings work well.
- Messaging and message confirmations.
- Call management.
- Improve deployment features and tools for IT.
- Better detection of non-Webex calendar meetings.
- No alert feature to inform coworkers when available (currently available in Jabber).
- Fine tune the concept of spaces versus groups. Both seem to accomplish similar goals.
- We have not yet deployed the Webex App to our users.
- We anticipate it will have a positive impact with some challenges once we deploy.
Do you think Webex App delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Webex App's feature set?
No
Did Webex App live up to sales and marketing promises?
No
Did implementation of Webex App go as expected?
No
Would you buy Webex App again?
No