We performed a comparison between Avaya Spaces and Skype for Business based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Atlassian, Slack and others in Enterprise Social Software."The microphone's noise cancellation and static feature that record a human's voice are some of the most valuable features."
"We chose Skype for Business after other colleagues suggested that we give it a try. It has served us well."
"The solution is scalable and is capable of working on every appliance on every operating system."
"Making calls and having meetings is easy."
"The simplicity and ease of use are the most valuable features. It's so much easier and quicker than writing an email to someone and waiting for them to read it."
"Desktop sharing is a valuable feature."
"Scalable communication tool that's easy to install. Even old people are using it, because of its ease of use."
"Video conferencing to hold virtual meetings helps to prevent employee displacement, where everyone can now enjoy the comfort of their own offices."
"There are free versions of the solution available."
"There were some additional features coming up, as they informed us through email. But we didn't get any update on them."
"The challenge we had with Skype for Business was with the signing in when a user signed out and when signing in back in again, there was a bit of a problem. We switched from Skype for Business to Teams, and Teams never had that sign-in problem once we did the switch."
"Lacks a zoom-in feature for whoever is presenting."
"There might be some invitation issues with Skype for Business."
"We need a feature where you can virtually raise your hand to silently let the presenter know that you have a question."
"The solution requires deployment on a Microsoft server and its performance is heavy because it consumes too many resources from the RAM."
"There are not many options, in terms of some other third-party integration."
"We would like to better customize our instructions within the Outlook plugin/invite, but we are unable to do so."
"The tool needs to have a dynamic file updating feature, so people you share a file with could update the file dynamically, all at once, all at the same time."
Avaya Spaces is ranked 19th in Enterprise Social Software with 1 review while Skype for Business is ranked 4th in Virtual Meetings with 59 reviews. Avaya Spaces is rated 0.0, while Skype for Business is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Avaya Spaces writes "A collaborative tool with a good noise cancellation feature". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Skype for Business writes "Reliable, useful for remote work, and great but isn't as robust as Microsoft Teams". Avaya Spaces is most compared with Fortinet FortiVoice and Microsoft Teams, whereas Skype for Business is most compared with Webex, Zoom, TeamViewer, GoToMeeting and Cisco Meeting Server.
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