Dialpad Ai Voice vs. Microsoft Teams

Dialpad vs Microsoft Teams: How are they different?

Both Dialpad and Microsoft Teams are digital communications platforms that allow for both synchronous and asynchronous communication using voice and video channels. If you look more closely, however, you’ll find some significant differences between the two.

Outbound calling capabilities

Microsoft Teams allows team members to do voice and video calls with other Microsoft Teams users, but making outbound calls to external numbers is impossible to do out-of-the-box. In order to activate outbound calling, Microsoft Teams admins have to bring in a third-party UCaaS or telephony provider to implement direct routing—which involves more setup complications and additional costs, including a USD 8/mo/user charge for the MS Teams Phone license. Some companies that have heavy Microsoft users can get this license included with an E5 business license, but you still have to pay for additional calling minutes on top of that.

Dialpad, on the other hand, lets you call external numbers as soon as a phone number is assigned to you, with unlimited calling, SMS and MMS in your country, the US, and Canada:

Unified communications functionality

In addition to UCaaS functionality like voice and video calling, chat functionality, and SMS/MMS, Dialpad also has extensive contact centre-focused features like IVR, call monitoring, call recordings, and the industry’s most powerful AI engine that transcribes calls in real time, provide assistance to agents live on calls, and more:

The best part? It’s all cleanly integrated into the same application. All features interact with one another in a logical and holistic way. For example, in Dialpad you can search for customer info that’s logged in your CRM and see previous information on calls, meetings, and chats—all while you’re on the phone with the customer.

AI-powered contact centre functionality

If you make and receive outbound and inbound calls for sales, service and general customer communications, you probably need a contact centre platform. Dialpad Ai Contact Centre comes with one of the world’s most advanced AI that’s designed to help you provide a better customer experience.

For example, managers can support agents through live sentiment analysis, which alerts them when a call isn’t going well. Before the manager jumps into the call, they can review the live transcript to get a sense of the situation and use Dialpad’s messaging feature to provide advice to the agent. Other features like Ai CSAT can automatically infer customer satisfaction based on the conversation:

Agents can also benefit from Real-Time Assist (RTA) cards that pop up with helpful advice about product info, available discounts, and more when certain keywords, phrases or even competitor names are mentioned.

Microsoft Teams, unfortunately, has zero contact centre functionality, and can’t even make outbound calls without an upgrade. It does have messaging and voice/video meetings for internal teams, but that’s about it. And because external voice is usually supplied by a third-party, the data from calls doesn’t automatically carry over to the rest of Microsoft Teams.

Cost versus value

Microsoft Teams is included with all Microsoft Office 365 and Microsoft 365 licenses, but with the lack of basic outbound calling, IVR, and other important features, it then becomes a question of how much value it can truly provide to your organisation without costly add-ons—which may not be worth the time or investment given the alternatives.

Speaking of alternatives, Dialpad carries a lot of value for a reasonable cost. You get a full-featured UCaaS (Unified Communications as a Service) solution for a reasonable and fully transparent price, with no issues about purchasing additional features or functionality.

Customer experience

Dialpad has superior customer experience at every tier. From top call quality powered by a global telephony network, to full pricing transparency and 24/7 customer support over the phone and live chat, Dialpad delivers best-in-class customer service and support.

Dialpad also offers a guaranteed 100% uptime for Enterprise customers. Microsoft Teams lists a 99.9% uptime guarantee on their website, but that 0.1% difference translates to literally hours of downtime over the course of a year.

*Source: Stratus.com