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Alcatel-Lucent Rainbow vs Microsoft Unified Communications as a Service comparison

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise and Microsoft are both solutions in the Unified Communications as a Service category. Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise is ranked #4, while Microsoft is ranked #5. Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise holds a 8.3% mindshare in UCS, compared to Microsoft’s 16.1% mindshare.
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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Alcatel-Lucent Rainbow
Ranking in Unified Communications as a Service
4th
Average Rating
0.0
Number of Reviews
0
Ranking in other categories
Unified Communications (16th)
Microsoft Unified Communica...
Ranking in Unified Communications as a Service
5th
Average Rating
0.0
Number of Reviews
0
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Unified Communications as a Service category, the mindshare of Alcatel-Lucent Rainbow is 8.3%, down from 8.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Unified Communications as a Service is 16.1%, up from 5.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Unified Communications as a Service Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Alcatel-Lucent Rainbow8.3%
Microsoft Unified Communications as a Service16.1%
Other75.6%
Unified Communications as a Service
 

Comparisons

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Alcatel-Lucent OpenTouch Enterprise Cloud vs Alcatel-Lucent Rainbow Logo
Alcatel-Lucent OpenTouch Enterprise Cloud vs Alcatel-Lucent Rainbow
Compared 44% of the time
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Product Reports

Buyer's Guide
Unified Communications
September 2025
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Also Known As

Alcatel Lucent Rainbow, Alcatel-Lucent OpenTouch Conversation
MS Unified Communications as a Service
 

Overview

The Rainbow app is a cloud-based UC service (UCaaS) that makes additional collaboration services available to users, regardless of their existing communications systems. ... Rainbow takes a hybrid cloud approach, integrating with Alcatel-Lucent OXO Connect and OmniPCX Enterprise, as well as non-ALE PBXs.

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise
Microsoft unified communications technologies offer customers choices in how their communications and collaboration software is delivered, managed, and maintained: On-premise, Hosted by partners and Hosted by Microsoft. By uniting your existing communication systems and tools: Desktop telephone systems, Legacy PBX and IP-PBX systems, Internet, Voice mail and Faxes.
Microsoft
 

Sample Customers

Blickle and Scherer, Loughborough University, CSF Inox, Caritas Speyer
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