Five9 vs Vonage Business Communications: Which is a better fit?

Mike: Hi, my name's Mike, I'm a Career Advisor. I would give Five9 four out of five stars. For more reviews like this, please click below. Five9 allows us to connect with our customers spread out across the entire world, mostly throughout the US, but also in other countries, as well. As a career advisor, we help a lot of military families. And being able to connect with people wherever they are without having to dial country codes and just having a seamless system is great. Really, it just lets us keep track of all of our learners seamlessly and efficiently. My favorite parts of Five9 are the fact that it's all contained within the plugin that we use in our Salesforce application. So basically, we can have full access to our phones, our voicemail, transfers, inbound calls, outbound calls, all while working within our CRM. So it's a one-size-fits-all tool for us, where we don't have to have lots of different applications running and everything can just be in one location, it makes it really easy. If I could change anything about Five9, I think I'd make it a little bit more consistent on wireless networks. It's definitely very stable when you are connected to ethernet, but if you are on a wifi network or you're sharing a network, as a lot of people probably are in their remote work-from-home environments, it can be a little bit spotty with some dropped calls and connectivity issues.

Shawn B.: Hi, my name is Shawn, I'm an IT solutions architect, and I give a five for Vonage Business Solutions. For more videos like this and more reviews like this, click on the link below. So before using Vonage, we were using Cable Vision's homegrown system, I forget what the name was, but it would give you three or four lines, phone lines, and they would expect those phone lines to be tied down to phones, so if you ever moved from one location to the other, you'd have to call back and basically reprogram the phones. It wasn't working for us because our team was growing and a lot of the people would move around the office space and we would have to be on the phone somewhere very often, so that was one of the hurdles. One of the many reasons we went ahead with Vonage is because unlike traditional key line systems, where you would have to purchase a lot of the phone equipment and also the phone servers and put them in the back and then have somebody come in and build it and configure it, Vonage was in the cloud. So they will just ship you the phones, pre-programmed with your extension, with your name, and you could plug it anywhere in the network, just like a computer, and your phone would just be part of this internet PBX, so to speak. Initially, we never integrated or communicated with a voice-over IP service before, so the first time it was just a little, I would say, a little learning curve, but by the second or third phone, we just knew what had to be done and it was a breeze. And every time after that, we went up to about 11 phones or 11 extensions, and then after COVID, we scaled down to about six, but it was extremely easy. In fact, not only was it so great for us, we started selling Vonage Business Systems to a lot of our small business clients because we are in the IT space. So, very honestly, Vonage is a no-brainer. There isn't any upfront investment. There isn't a long turnover. I would suggest that anybody who is interested, whether it's a one man shop or a 50 man business, they could just pick up the phone, call Vonage and be they'll able to help them get a big company look, so it's really a no-brainer.