TrustRadius Insights for Fuze are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Business Problems Solved
Fuze is widely used as a Unified Communications platform, offering voice, video, and text collaboration for offices and mobile users. Its cloud architecture and intelligent design ensure business continuity, even in the event of a primary circuit outage. With Fuze, organizations can address the distributed nature of their workforce by providing voice, call center, instant messaging, and teleconferencing capabilities throughout the organization. Users rely on Fuze as their primary means of communication, enabling 24/7/365 connectivity among employees in corporate offices, satellite offices, and work-from-home setups. During the Covid shutdown, Fuze proved invaluable as it replaced outdated phone systems and allowed employees to take their phones home and use them seamlessly as if they were in the office. Fuze's variety of features and capabilities meet the high expectations of users who have experienced more advanced systems in the past. It serves as a single communications platform across multiple locations and divisions within an organization, meeting the diverse needs of various divisions around the globe. Whether it's for collaboration, messaging, calling or replacing traditional phone systems, Fuze offers ease and convenience while addressing critical business issues such as managing multiple phone systems, supplier accounts, invoices, and call support problems. With its streamlined unified communications experience, Fuze has helped reduce telephony and conferencing costs while simplifying internal communications infrastructure. From remote meetings to contact center solutions and sales departments' communication needs, Fuze provides a reliable platform that improves productivity and builds stronger relationships with customers. Users appreciate how it integrates seamlessly with different devices like desk phones, computers, and mobile devices, streamlining communication processes and saving valuable time.
In summary, Fuze offers a wide range of use cases including voice calling, video conferencing, instant messaging for collaboration purposes within an organization or between offices and mobile users. It solves critical business problems by providing reliable connectivity among employees regardless of their location or setup. With its variety of features and capabilities, Fuze meets the high expectations of users who have experienced more advanced systems in the past. It simplifies internal communications infrastructure, reduces costs, and improves productivity by providing a streamlined unified communications experience. From contact center solutions to sales departments' communication needs, Fuze proves to be an invaluable tool that enhances collaboration and strengthens relationships with customers.
We selected Fuze to replace our old telecom infrastructure with their hosted Cloud VoIP solution for all our North America locations. The Fuze service was used in parallel with Polycom handsets, softphones, and mobile app. We also integrated Fuze calling with our Salesforce.com implementation. We did not use the Fuze IM feature and continued to use MS Teams for collaboration.
Pros
Fuze integrated nicely with Salesforce allowing call activity to be easily logged into SFDC.
Fuze call reporting provided valuable insight into call activity and the history of individuals.
The Fuze softphone UI was clear and simple.
Cons
We left Fuze because they could not integrate with MS Teams as a direct routing partner.
Overall the monthly cost for the licenses and variable per minute dialing costs were too high.
IT administration was a bit confusing because of all the Admin consoles used for different administration tasks.
Likelihood to Recommend
Fuze is a great solution with quite reliable voice quality when used with QoS. Fuze is a solid replacement for an old landline phone system with 200-500 users. As a direct routing partner for MS Teams Fuze was too expensive. I hope they are able to adjust their pricing model.
It is being used in our corporate office, a satellite office, and a work from home office. We selected it to replace an outdated Centrex system that we did not have the ability to maintain or support. One unanticipated benefit was that when we were shut down during Covid employees could take their phones home and use them as if they were in the office.
Pros
Voice (call) quality
Network reliability
Communication of any network issues/outages
Capabilities way beyond our needs
Cons
Getting support, when necessary, can be challenging especially for a lay person
[The] life cycle of phones seems relatively short and once they are EOL they are no longer supported and customers have to replace them
Billing issues can be difficult to resolve
There does not seem to be a single point of contact/relationship manager any more
Likelihood to Recommend
Fuze has way more capability than we need for our small office so it might be best suited for large installations, call centers, and complex environments. Our office is small and our needs [are] minimal, so when we need support we are challenged to understand the support person due to our lack of technical sophistication. We sometimes feel like we should switch to a solution more geared for consumers or SOHO. Nevertheless, Fuze provides reliable service at [a] reasonable cost that meets our needs, and because support is rarely needed we are happy with them most of the time, i.e. when support isn't needed.
We use Fuze company-wide. Desk phones, mobile app, desktop app, and Outlook add-in are all in use by various people. What parts of Fuze are used depends largely on the person's role in the organization. We needed a modern (cloud) UCaaS solution and Fuze does a great job of unifying voice, messaging, and meetings into one single platform.
Pros
Voice quality.
Mobile app.
Meetings - Simple, yet feature-rich interface.
Cons
Desktop application stability and compatibility with certain hardware.
Better installation - Per-user and per-computer installs sometimes compete with one another and/or upgrades fail to install.
[The] desktop app is not best for touchscreen-enabled devices due to lack of ability to scroll through messages using a finger or stylus.
Likelihood to Recommend
Suited best for an enterprise. Less appropriate for small businesses and/or businesses where messages are required to be retained/archived (for compliance).
VU
Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology (Wholesale company, 201-500 employees)
Fuze is our primary VoIP platform and is used across our business in 3 main countries: the UK, USA, and Australia. It provides its service for our sales teams that are calling worldwide and our internal teams that do so for commercial and internal collaboration purposes. Fuze solves the inherent need for sales communication that is simple to use and consistent in nature whilst also providing value-add collaboration to our back-office functions.
Pros
Meetings and features within meetings.
Clean and modern user interface.
Good reporting visuals.
Cons
Bandwidth allocation for calling services.
Coverage across Asia-Pac regions.
Admin platform navigation.
Likelihood to Recommend
Fuze has generally adapted well to our business needs and converted into the WFH environment during the global pandemic, especially being useful with inbuilt meeting and collaboration features. Over time, we learned internally that some of our users with non-business-level infrastructure could not use Fuze to its full capabilities. We discovered that though feature-rich, it wasn't optimized for certain connections. Fuze still retains great calling and communication functionality, though [it] could be improved for the above user type and for its back-end admin configuration portal.
VU
Verified User
Project Manager in Information Technology (Staffing & Recruiting company, 51-200 employees)
Fuse is used as our primary telephony company. We mostly use it for on-site phones and our users also use the mobile app, also a small contact center.
Pros
Getting involved when an issue is critical and they have liability.
Selling product features.
Believing that they have a superior product than the competition.
Cons
They make you sign orders with extended terms every time you get new lines (beware).
Unless you tell them multiple times, support will not be from your own country.
Their app, even on great wifi, has poor quality.
The phones will have random issues that need to be addressed daily.
The portal for customers is hard to navigate or implement changes.
The billing is confusing, almost purposefully confusing (in my opinion).
Set up and implementation is abysmal.
You will have issues if any of your extensions have the same last four digits as your DIDs.
Likelihood to Recommend
Fuze might be a good fit for a company looking for teleconferencing (We don't have that service) but [I feel that] their telephony service lacks any stability, ease of use, or innovation. Their contact center tech is almost nonfunctional compared to the competition.
VU
Verified User
Executive in Corporate (Retail company, 201-500 employees)
Fuze is used for quick communications through the message feature and calling anyone with ease (no need to look up or memorize phone numbers!!). You can search previous conversations, send pictures/screenshots, or share screens in real-time. You can also see if a colleague is available at a glance.
Pros
Easy to make contact with colleagues.
Searching instant messages.
Sharing screens.
Cons
Can not export call list.
Can not export contacts.
Does not let you know if someone has the app (available for instant messages).
Likelihood to Recommend
While working from home during COVID Fuze was great. It was an easy way to stay in contact with coworkers. You could see who was available, call using the speaker on your computer, or message. I have used other messaging software before that would not let you send pictures or share screens and it is very limiting. With Fuze, you have those options and it makes it so much easier when working from home and trying to carry on with the same productivity as working in the office.
We use Fuze throughout the whole company. Mainly used for chatting back and forth with other staff and departments. Very necessary while working remotely. We also use Fuze to make inter-office calls.
Pros
Chatting features.
Calling.
Cons
Lagging issues. Whether using it on an older pc or a brand new one, no matter my connection, there always seems to be a lag/delay.
Likelihood to Recommend
Really the main use I would recommend Fuze for is chatting and internet calling features. However, there’s many other apps and programs that do the same.
VU
Verified User
Employee in Sales (Insurance company, 201-500 employees)
We recently migrated away from the Fuze platform. It had originally been our contact center, collaboration, and telephony stack all in one.
Pros
The mobile app was delightful to use.
The GUI of the Windows/MacOS app were very intuitive.
Meeting quality was great.
Audio quality was phenomenal.
Cons
[In my experience,] customer service was bad. Might as well have been the Russian scammers from a Capital One commercial.
The contact center is a little more cumbersome to manage than the rest of the platform and is rebranded as InContact.
Had some SERIOUS billing/account management issues.
Likelihood to Recommend
For the price, I find It really hard to recommend Fuze. It certainly was easy enough to manage, but not as easy as others, especially given that we are now paying less for better overall service/product from a competitor.
We have adopted Fuze as our unified communications platform across the enterprise. Each employee utilizes Fuze for voice communications, video conferencing, virtual meetings, and collaboration. With each employee having a direct dial number, applications on their laptop and their mobile device they are able to stay engaged with clients and coworkers regardless of their physical location. This allowed our business to seamlessly transition to a work from anywhere environment.
Pros
Fuze seamlessly integrates audio communication, chat collaboration, file sharing, and video conferencing / video meetings in one easy-to-use software package.
The Fuze application is solid and steady across all platforms, Windows, iOS, or even Android.
Even if just collaborating via text, Screen sharing is available to use and works incredibly well.
Cons
While they have been improving, there is still a limit to video feeds in their meetings function. This limit is much higher on other platforms.
Other platforms have the ability to use virtual backgrounds, this feature is missing from Fuze.
While their technical support is good, sometimes a number of follow-ups are required to solve the more complicated issues.
Likelihood to Recommend
Fuze works great for employees and staff that could be in multiple locations or in the field, providing stable and consistent communications access from anywhere with internet or cell signal. If your company does not have a dedicated IT staff to work as a liaison to the Fuze support staff, I could see where there could be challenges.
It is being used as our phone service provider and fax solution across most of our divisions. It gives us the mobility of cell phone to easily set up and deploy phones to anyone across the us. While giving us efax solution for certain regions that still need it.
Pros
Easy deployment.
Simple setup.
SSO integration.
Cons
The Fuze app for windows needs to not rely on hardware acceleration by default.
Has simple design, but needs to have a compact mode to not take up so much screen space.
Needs to have a better recovery from computer shutting off wifi, bc it thinks it isn't in use. The error that displays for that doesn't go away until reopen application.
Likelihood to Recommend
Fuze is well suited in deploying to users in fast manner, in decent internet speeds, in situations where you don't want to spend a lot of money on hard phones, in situations that require user to be multiple locations.
Fuze is not appropriate in low internet service areas, where you don't have a IT person that can assist in working out the subtle nuances in the app for Windows.
VU
Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology (Legal Services company, 501-1000 employees)