Sideline vs RingEX: Which is a better fit?

Ross A: Hi, I'm Ross. I'm the owner of the business. I give Sideline a five out of five. If you want to get more reviews like this, click the link below. Before Sideline, I was using my landline through Comcast, and I switched to Sideline because it had way more features. It was one eighth of the price and I was also able to have it... answer remotely through my cell phone anytime I needed it. I didn't have to just be tied to the spot. I chose Sideline because it had all of the features I was looking for, call waiting, forward to voicemail, text to voicemail. I could manage the greetings, I could have different times for when I was in class versus when the school was closed. It just gave me all the features that I had in my previous, plus about 10 more, without it costing anything extra. Setting Sideline up was very easy. It was basically just plugging in my phone number. They did most of the setup on the back end. I had to go in and record my greetings and set up my text, my auto text messages. Sideline has been great. I've been using it for about four years now. In the entire four years, I've only had maybe one or two dropped calls, and that was probably more of a network thing than them. The program works flawlessly. It's very inexpensive. It has lots and lots of features. I couldn't recommend them enough. I have been approached by multiple other platforms, and checking them out they don't come close to the features and the pricing.

Anjan: Hi, my name is Anjan. I'm a managing director. For RingCentral Office, I give it a rating of four out of five. For more reviews like this, click below. The other applications that we considered prior to going with RingCentral were Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Hangout. For Zoom, we found the file sharing capability was limited. As I recall, Microsoft Teams really did not meet our needs at all in terms of a collaborative approach, because we were going to have about 25 to 30 people logging in simultaneously. Being able to send and receive files seamlessly through the application while being engaged in a video call did not really match up, and the same thing was with Google. I think the reasons that we chose RingCentral was, number one, cost. It was very, very affordable, more affordable than some of the other enterprise licensing parameters. From an actual application standpoint, we liked the seamless ability to be able to send and receive files back and forth. These were a group of students that we were working with. They were dispersed globally, and I needed to be able to access their submissions and their projects in a seamless manner, and be able to collaborate on them and provide them with feedback, and we found that RingCentral was offering the best opportunity and the platform to do that. RingCentral was extremely easy to integrate. Being a SAS application, there was no major installation or requirement. As a matter of fact, our participants could actually just log in with their browsers, so that was actually really beneficial as well. It also allowed for people that were participating in the seminar, if they had a lower bandwidth or if they did not have adequate internet access in terms of bandwidth, that they could still participate in the RingCentral forum without losing any of the direction or visibility or collaborative efforts that the application itself provides. So those were all great, great things with RingCentral, and again, allowed us to very easily and seamlessly utilize the product. The recommendation that we would give for people using RingCentral is that it is not Zoom. So it is powered by Zoom, it looks a lot like Zoom, but it is not Zoom. So my first learning was the fact that, hey, I can't change the background on this thing very, very easily, or as seamlessly as I could in Zoom. When I actually got over the fact that it is not Zoom, but it is powered by Zoom, the application itself became a lot more usable. Where I recommend people focus on is that collaborative element and being able to sort of transfer files back and forth, collaborate on a project, collaborate on a seminar. Those are things that RingCentral is really known for and can be used for. So not Zoom, but RingCentral has some great features.