Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Call Manager) vs. Net2Phone

The Cisco Unified Communications Manager platform would be most suited for the below scenarios. 1. An organization with very restricted policies and compliance where can't move to cloud-based solutions for data security. They can install the CUCM on-premises. 2. An organization that is still on a legacy phone system could adopt CUCM to save costs and have better services.

With a bustling office of workers going out to meetings, lunches, and sometimes working from home, having calls roll over and basically "finding" us, whether it's going from office to meeting room to cell phone, is essential! And having each employee able to create their own settings and change them day to day is a plus! Also having a group of phones ring at once, so any of a number of people can answer, while not bothering other offices, is imperative. No call gets missed and no one is bothered by constant ringing. Win-win

Incentivized

• Customizability - The program allows for a lot of specific features and ways to use the program.
• Traditional - The system is a very traditional phone system, with everything you would expect and need from an enterprise phone system.
• Expandable - The system allows from a small amount of users to a large amount, with no upper limit.

Incentivized

• High quality sound
• Stable web application
• Great support 24/7

Incentivized

• CUCM is overly complex and requires a very capable engineer to maintain it. Similarly, implementing anything new requires a great deal of specialized knowledge of CUCM.
• CUCM is difficult to troubleshoot because of it's complexity.
• CUCM is expensive licensing and they nickel and dime you with a plethora of tiny little license charges for every little feature. They have the most convoluted licensing models, ever, for their CU products in general.

Incentivized

• A little convoluted to use their video conferencing.....Huddle
• Not always easy to call forward my calls
• Have a different voice for their recording of a welcome menu

Incentivized

We have been using this product for 20+ years and will continue too. This is a great product and new features are always coming out.

Incentivized

Although it's very easy to use, once you understand the concepts of IP telephony, as I said before, I think Cisco could have improved the management interface of the platform, adding modern technologies and the design language of the other platforms like DNA Center, etc. This interface hasn't had a substantial improvement for about 10 years

Incentivized

CUCM is supported by most third-party vendors for related products, so it makes finding solutions to specific needs easy. Also Cisco TAC is very knowledgeable, and we have never run into a problem they have not been able to resolve. Usually they are resolved without the need to escalate tickers either.

Incentivized

This was the first phone system we implemented that could span multiple locations. We were very satisfied once fully implemented

Incentivized

The Cisco Call Manager application has been around for much longer than many of the competitors. As such, they have had plenty of time to resolve bugs and increase the feature set that comes natively with this solution. One of the biggest factors for us was the professional services/support that comes along with using any Cisco product.

Incentivized

I wish the Zoom chat feature could be a little more dynamic and security and privacy could be improved a little bit, but there are also things the administrator can do to enhance security and privacy. Messages sent privately between callers are not easily visible to recipients; overall, I am happy with Zoom, but no harm in trying other applications that people are talking great about; hence I tried my hands on Net2Phone!

Incentivized

• Return on Investment as one shot investment was made then only licensing contract renewing is needed.
• Virtualized environment and centralized administration tools.
• Money saving as a result on using features like TEHO.
• Business continuity assured on environments with SRST and Multi site Deployment with Distributed Call Processing.

Incentivized

• Reduced time of support to our users
• Problems if it hangs once and can be time consuming to restore you task in in between anything
• Not sure about ROI but for the organization it should have benn reduced as using only 1 application now instead of 2 or 3.

Incentivized