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Cisco Business Edition 6000 (discontinued) vs. touchcast

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Cisco Business Edition 6000 (discontinued)
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE6000) was a telephony and VoIP business phone with unified communications features from Cisco, targeted at SMBs. The product is discontinued, and superseded by functionality found in Cisco Webex Calling.N/A
touchcast
Score 0.0 out of 10
N/A
Touchcast is a video conferencing platform that offers AI-powered live event services for premium users. Using Nvidia Maxine, a software development kit for creating GPU powered applications, as a baseline for operations, the SDK is capable of AI powered background removal, simulating eye contact, and measuring body pose in sports. Live semantic segmentation uses AI to separate a person from the background in high quality, making it possible to automatically place people in a mixed reality set…N/A
Pricing
Cisco Business Edition 6000 (discontinued)touchcast
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Cisco Business Edition 6000 (discontinued)touchcast
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details—ALL PLANS START AT $50,000
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Community Pulse
Cisco Business Edition 6000 (discontinued)touchcast
Features
Cisco Business Edition 6000 (discontinued)touchcast
Cloud PBX
Comparison of Cloud PBX features of Product A and Product B
Cisco Business Edition 6000 (discontinued)
8.6
Ratings
8% above category average
touchcast
-
Ratings
Hosted PBX8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)9.10 Ratings00 Ratings
User templates8.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Call reports8.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Directory of employee names9.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Call Management
Comparison of Call Management features of Product A and Product B
Cisco Business Edition 6000 (discontinued)
8.8
Ratings
5% above category average
touchcast
-
Ratings
Answering rules8.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Call recording9.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Call park8.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Call screening8.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Message alerts8.40 Ratings00 Ratings
VoIP system collaboration
Comparison of VoIP system collaboration features of Product A and Product B
Cisco Business Edition 6000 (discontinued)
8.7
Ratings
9% above category average
touchcast
-
Ratings
Video conferencing9.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Audio conferencing8.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Video screen sharing8.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Instant messaging8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile apps
Comparison of Mobile apps features of Product A and Product B
Cisco Business Edition 6000 (discontinued)
7.2
Ratings
10% below category average
touchcast
-
Ratings
Mobile app for iOS7.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile app for Android7.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Cisco Business Edition 6000 (discontinued)touchcast
Small Businesses
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 7.2 out of 10
Lifesize Video Conferencing
Lifesize Video Conferencing
Score 10.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 7.2 out of 10
Cisco Desk Series
Cisco Desk Series
Score 8.5 out of 10
Enterprises
Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Call Manager)
Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Call Manager)
Score 8.7 out of 10
Cisco Desk Series
Cisco Desk Series
Score 8.5 out of 10
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User Ratings
Cisco Business Edition 6000 (discontinued)touchcast
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(0 ratings)
-
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Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.2
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.4
(0 ratings)
-
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User Testimonials
Cisco Business Edition 6000 (discontinued)touchcast
Likelihood to Recommend
Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE6000) is well suited on small and medium sites that need entry-level voice and IP telephony capabilities, together
with powerful, easy-to-use collaboration tools. However , if a single user interface or VMware servers are deal breakers for you, I suggest another call system will likely be a better fit.
Jorge E. Cantillo C. | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jorge E. Cantillo C.
Network Consulting Engineer
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Pros
  • Smarter and more economical telephone system.
  • Deployed on a Cisco UCS server.
  • Easy and centralized management.
  • Unified communications with chat, voice and video for all users.
  • Telephone support in Portuguese with Cisco.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Cons
  • Include tools for inter-cluster migration, currently these are provided by 3rd parties
  • Improve the software upgrade process by automating the pre-upgrade and post-upgrade checks
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Anonymous
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Likelihood to Renew
Happy with Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE6000); works great for us and costs to maintain it are well in hand. it also fits our current and future requirements going forward.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Usability
BE6K [is] not just a bare metal server ,it is [a] complete solution with its own management tools.
Oleksandr Tsapenko | TrustRadius Reviewer
Oleksandr Tsapenko
Business Development Manager/Product manager
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Support Rating
Overall, the product provides excellent value for money. Our employees may interact at the same time on the Cisco Business Edition 6000 without disrupting the conversation. We have a significant number of employees that perform the same thing with calls, texting, and presence, and none of them have an issue.
Pratham Radadiya | TrustRadius Reviewer
Pratham Radadiya
Full Stack Engineer
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Alternatives Considered
Both Mitel and [Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE6000)] allow the benefit of virtualization. If desired you could have an entirely virtual system. Cisco handles the virtualization a little better, however Mitel MiCollab is easier to integrate presence and calls. Cisco underlying architecture seems to be a little more stable, Mitel seems to be a little more user friendly. There are pros and cons and both are good solutions.
Steve Davis | TrustRadius Reviewer
Steve Davis
Solutions Architect
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Return on Investment
  • Been easy to scale as our business has grown and from acquisitions
  • Been pretty easy to maintain the software and upgrade it over its lifetime to date
  • Software and license renewals are pretty straight forward
  • Adding newer model hardware to the system is pretty straight forward
Verified User
Anonymous
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