MiVoice Business Solution vs 3CX: Which is a better fit?

Bernard G.: I'm Bernard, Unified Communications Cloud as a service consultant. I rate the Mitel MiCloud Connect a four out of five. For more information about the Mitel suite of solutions, click below. The solution used before the Mitel MiCloud Connect was the ShoreTel On Premises Phone System, which was working fine but did not provide the same level of functionality for operation via the cloud. Switching from the On-Premise Legacy System to the MiCloud Connect Solution was by far the easiest alternative than going to other cloud solutions. By leveraging the on-premise phones, it was very easy to migrate the solution to the cloud, make it easy for the employees, and the end result was a pure cloud solution became available. Getting started with Mitel MiCloud Connect is very easy if you have a existing compatible phone system. If you do, then switching is very easy. You actually migrate the users and the telephone circuits to the cloud and it's made very, very simple for the employees to essentially on a Friday go home, have the switching done on a weekend, and have it up and running on Monday with no disruption to the business. It's very, very easy for employees to now even greater access to cloud services like Mobile Access than ever before. My recommendation for anyone evaluating MiCloud Connect is to assess the importance of keeping the existing Legacy phones in use for the service. If you can use the existing phones and they're compatible with the service that you're evaluating, that's a definite advantage. However, if more employees are using their iPhones and MacBooks and PCs as their preferred device, then you may want to consider another pure cloud solution like Zoom or the Microsoft Team Solutions which also support certain on-prem's devices as needed.

Kelsey B.: My name's Kelsey, and I'm an IT specialist for a volunteer fire department in rural south Louisiana. I give 3CX a five star rating. We've tried other providers such as Vonage, RingCentral, and all those were primarily not cost-effective for us because they were on a per user basis and all the extra bells and whistles were a whole lot more money. Since we're basically operate off of fundraising and grants, it was well out of our budget. So, 3CX enabled us to basically provide phone service for everybody in our office at a very, very low cost compared to the competitors. Again, we chose 3CX because it was flexible, easy to implement, and the cost was very, very low compared to the others. I mean, when we were paying for a small business license as opposed to paying $300 a month for everyone having phone access at their desk, it's a very, very big cost difference. And when you're relying on fundraising to pay the bills, it's always good to try and find a good option at a really good price. Implementing 3CX was very easy because we use CallCentric, and that again, is also a very affordable option. So, combining the two and getting it all set up for all of our people, it required minimal effort. I mean, it was really, support was great when we had to call in. But the online tutorials were also great, so it was an ease to implement 3CX in our workplace. For anybody out there considering options for phone service in their small business, I would highly recommend 3CX to anyone to try out, because again, with the feature rich aspect of it, as far as the cost and the ease of implementation, you won't be disappointed. I think you highly appreciate the value for the product you receive.