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."Even for somebody who does not have a lot of experience, they can easily use it."
"The most valuable feature is the dial-in capability."
"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.""
"GoToMeeting's security is very good. I've never known anybody to crash a GoToMeeting."
"It's easy to set up."
"It works, it's reliable."
"It's cost-effective."
"GoToMeeting's low latency is crucial because everybody is using VPN to connect to their PCs at work. The sound and video quality are solid, and the whiteboarding features were especially useful. The administrative side of it was fairly simple and intuitive to use."
"I can view the status and availability of colleagues or team members, which makes it easy to approach them when they are available."
"In the next release, I would for it to incorporate files more efficiently from one computer to another when we covert things and send them out. I'm not sure if it's capable of that."
"Sometimes we'll run into issues where firewall rules aren't set correctly and won't work."
"I would like to see better support for mobile devices."
"The newer user interface takes a bit longer to get used to."
"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."
"Using GoToMeeting in a meeting-sized conference room is kind of a letdown. The camera is supposed to track the speaker and focus on that person so that they can be on the screen. That feature rarely worked. We tested it thoroughly, so maybe it was an issue with the size of the conference room. It may not be suitable for large conference rooms."
"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."
"We would like some improvement in the speed of initiating this solution, as it is currently fairly slow."
"The webinar should be integrated into Sametime for a larger number of participants."
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GoToMeeting is ranked 8th in Virtual Meetings with 5 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, 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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