![]() The dimensional research survey confirmed that close to 70% of companies that have adopted Lync cannot easily report on savings. Getting insight into how much cost savings a UC solution brings to the table is difficult. desk phones)ĭespite these intentions the survey also revealed that over half of organizations did not know they were successful in achieving any of these desired outcomes! 55% hoped to reduce spending on traditional telephony costs (e.g.66% hoped to reduce meeting room space costs.76% hoped to reduce costs of other web and teleconferencing tools.80% hoped to save on their travel budgets.UC solutions such as Microsoft Lync are being deployed to reduce travel costs, reduce existing telephony and web conferencing costs, and even reduce physical office space costs as remote workers are first class citizens and capable of effectively working from anywhere.Ī recent survey commissioned by Dimensional Research on Lync Adoption and Challenges confirms that for organizations that have adopted Microsoft Lync: Microsoft Lync vs.Guest blog by Curtis Johnstone, Unified Communication (UC) product architect with Dell Software and a Microsoft Lync MVPĪs organizations realize the promised benefits of better collaboration and more efficient communications from their Unified Communication (UC) solution, the cost saving benefits are drawing more attention. WebEx Meeting Center scores healthier on all essential parameters, a clear representation of Most Preferred Meeting Center available in the current set up. Let’s take a sneak peak evaluating the two applications. The mobile app, usage is equally convenient and hassle free. – WebEx Meeting Center is a leader in mobile with native apps for iPhone, Android, and Blackberry. – Presentation controls were both easy to use and powerful. – Collaboration features make it a preferred choice for team projects. Even the desktop sharing showed why it is known to bring best-in-class video conferencing experience. – Video conferencing looked perfect in our tests. – It has a dedicated audio network that improves the sound quality and reliability significantly. Annotation tools, Meeting options, Change Presenters, Whiteboard, Chat, Outlook integration, Recording, Selective application & file sharing makes it for some great features. – WebEx has feature-rich web conferencing application. WebEx Meeting Center scores significantly on its interface, layout, feature rich packages and security. The standard version has ample and decent capacity. Meeting Center has mobile apps for iOS, Android, and Blackberry. It is now most preferred online meeting product from Cisco for small business. WebEx has been the de facto choice for enterprise web conferencing software from the past 10 years. – No native mobile applications, at time of this review. – Presentation features: Being integrated into Microsoft’s Office suite, it’s easy to share powerpoint and other documents. Compared to it, WebEx annotation tools gives clarity to your presentation. – Collaboration features: It lost its point here as it isn’t as accessible towards other tools. However, it’s not as user-friendly as WebEx Meeting Center and other dedicated online meeting services. – Its user-interface has considerably improved over the time, and is much easier to use than its previous versions. – Audio quality, video conferencing and desktop sharing worked well during testing. – Microsoft Lync Online is decent for those who are deeply entrenched into Microsoft’s software ecosystem. ![]() The meetings can’t be recorded either (until unless Lync Server is purchased). Also, there is no way to purchase its stand-alone subscription for cloud service. However, the purchase options for Lync are confusing unlike WebEx Meeting Center Plans. Either buy it in a bundle with Microsoft Office 365 or purchase it as a stand-alone product (Microsoft Lync Server). Microsoft’s latest online meeting service is ‘Lync Online’.
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