Avaya Communications API vs. Vonage Communications APIs

Following are ideal use case scenarios for Avaya OneCloud CPaaS:

• Agent Onboarding in Contact Centers – personalized digital transformation for contact center agents as part of a workforce management solution. Included in the Spaces Learning suite.
• Reskilling and Upskilling in BPO Enterprises – skills gap training and assessment for technical employees and salespeople. Included in the Spaces Learning suite.
• Virtual Classroom in Higher Education – integrated platform for educational content delivery, virtual lectures, small group projects, hands-on labs, and collaboration. Included in the Spaces Learning suite.
• Remote Development Collaboration for Engineering Teams – agile platform for remote coding and development, virtual scrum meetings, and real-time chat.

Following are use case scenarios where Avaya OneCloud CPaaS is less appropriate:

• Large Virtual Conference Events
• Consumer Social Media Gatherings

While there are likely a variety of scenarios that would work well with Vonage [Communications APIs (formerly Nexmo)], implementations that need transactional message and response actions are a great fit. Our experience with transactional messaging has been really good and we are continuing to look at opportunities to expand our usage of this part of their service.

• Provides a simple well-designed API for 2-way texting.
• Enables us to manage multiple clients using a single account.
• Enables us to bill our clients and monitor their usage easily.
• Provides rapid setup of numbers and easy scripting of programmatic responses.

• I like the delivery speed, it's very instantaneous. As soon as the delivery status changes on the website, the message gets delivered. The rates are also cheap and affordable.
• The accuracy of the services and the non-stop supportive team.
• Simple API, easy to integrate with existing notification functionality in your Laravel apps.
• Ease of implementation. We needed less than one month to go live.

Incentivized

• By adding the ability to add sub-users to an account.
• By adding the ability to redact certain aspects of the logs.

Incentivized

• Written documentation and discovery could be a lot better.

We were able to achieve the objectives of the integration we wanted to create in a short timeframe with a minimum of development needed.

The overall usability of Vonage [Communications APIs (formerly Nexmo)] system for message delivery is sufficient for our implementation. Some improvements and additional reporting options in the account administration interface would increase our utilization of the post-delivery data further in order to provide further value-added features for our clients.

Avaya OneCloud CPaaS support has been excellent. Specifically:

• Onboarding new users (licensing)
• API integration support
• Client platform support for learners
• Seamless rollout of new features (and documentation)

The teams we have dealt with have been knowledgeable, but early interactions with the tech support team experienced some slowness in response. Once we had a dedicated account manager assigned to our partnership, the level of interaction and support with the appropriate teams at Vonage increased.

We have tried many other CPaaS platforms including Twilio, Telnyx, Nexmo, SignalWire and Bandwidth. The Avaya CPaaS has the richest set of available features combined with the most competitive pricing model!

Incentivized

Nexmo is the best platform in the industry for sure. We don't use all the features that the API provides but we are really satisfied with the ones we use. We are sure this is the best solution in the market if you need to solve the communication in real time with your customers. When we have to build a new website we are going to support the solution with Nexmo.

Incentivized

• Automating the IVR creation gives our business a new dimension.

• Allowed us to go to market faster (positive).
• Greatly limits our claim to quality as the ceiling on video quality is lower than other platforms (negative).