We performed a comparison between GoToMeeting and HCL Sametime based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zoom Video Communications, Cisco, TeamViewer and others in Virtual Meetings."Screenshare is the most valuable feature as well as the number of meeting participants possible in a meeting. It also has good quality."
"The most important feature for me was the iPhone app."
"Ease of setup and login by attendees. Facilitates sharing visually, and not just via audio."
"We like that this solution allows us to assign separate numbers to people without having to have a physical telephone system in place."
"It's easy to set up."
"The key advantage of GoToMeeting is the ability to use it without installing anything."
"It was just chosen because somebody at the company said, "We need a meeting thing. Hey, go find a meeting thing." It wasn't me, but somebody else in the organization was like, "Alright, let's use GoToMeeting. It's free.""
"Pricing is reasonable. It's not expensive. The pricing is one of the great selling points for the product."
"I can view the status and availability of colleagues or team members, which makes it easy to approach them when they are available."
"The product itself doesn't stand out against other options on the market."
"GoToMeeting breaks down a lot. We're not sure if it's breaking down, but we start getting very erratic community channels. I don't know if it's because of GoToMeeting or if we're not buying enough bandwidth. Maybe it is just the infrastructure that it's running on. I'm not quite sure."
"Lacks ease of connectivity, calendar integrations, and third-party app integrations."
"Manageability needs to be improved."
"The solution could always be more secure."
"I don't know whether it is an issue or not but my boss was asking me if person one is in one room, and another person wanted to use another room at the same time, I don't know whether it is possible."
"It is not so stable."
"The enrolment for a non-IT user should be easier. It should be simplified for non-IT users."
"The webinar should be integrated into Sametime for a larger number of participants."
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GoToMeeting is ranked 10th in Virtual Meetings with 24 reviews while HCL Sametime is ranked 26th in Virtual Meetings. GoToMeeting is rated 7.8, while HCL Sametime is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of GoToMeeting writes "It features low latency, which is crucial because everybody is using VPN to connect to their PCs at work". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HCL Sametime writes "Easily communicate and share files with colleagues". GoToMeeting is most compared with Skype for Business, TeamViewer, Adobe Connect, Zoom and BlueJeans Meetings, whereas HCL Sametime is most compared with Zoom.
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