Web Conferencing – A Newbies Guide

 

Popular Web conferencing software

There's a raft of different web conferencing solutions to choose from these days. Selecting the right software is not a trivial matter. The list of vendors that provide web conferencing capabilities includes:

  • Astound
  • Centra
  • Elluminate
  • e-tractions
  • Genesys
  • Global Crossing
  • LoudEye
  • Netbriefings
  • Pixion
  • Placeware
  • Raindance
  • Smiletiger
  • Sonexis
  • SpartaCom
  • WebEx

So how do you select the right solution?

Start with a list of must-haves and a handful of it-would-be-nices. Do you need chat, whiteboard, presentation, annotation, polling, and application sharing? On which operating systems do you need to run? Match those must-haves with the capabilities shown in the following charts:

 
CAPABILITIES
VENDOR
chat
white-board
present
annotate
poll
app share
Astound
Centra
Elluminate
e-tractions
Genesys
GlobalCrossing
LoudEye
Netbriefings
Pixion
x
x
x
x
x
x
Placeware
Raindance
Smiletiger
Sonexis
SpartaCom
WebEx
 
 
 
 

 
------------- ON-SITE PLATFORMS -------------
VENDOR
Hosted
WinXP
W2K
NT
Solaris
Linux
Mac
Astound  
Centra  
Elluminate  
e-tractions  
Genesys  
GlobalCrossing  
LoudEye  
Netbriefings  
Pixion
x
x
x
x
x
x
Placeware  
Raindance  
Smiletiger  
Sonexis  
SpartaCom  
WebEx  
   
   
   
   

Once you've narrowed down your search to the web conferencing applications that meet your most important needs, you can then winnow things down with regard to price. In other words, meed those needs first, then worry about price ...

 

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