We performed a comparison between HCL Sametime and TeamViewer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zoom Video Communications, Cisco, TeamViewer and others in Virtual Meetings."I can view the status and availability of colleagues or team members, which makes it easy to approach them when they are available."
"It's very easy to set up."
"I don't know of any performance problems with TeamViewer - generally, it's a stable product."
"It's pretty easy to use. Just key in an ID and password and connect. For meetings, just enter the meeting ID and connect."
"The best feature is the remote access and being able to control another person's computer when you're showing them something, or teaching them how to do something during training, or fixing a problem they're having."
"The most valuable features of TeamViewer are the ease of connecting to remote computers. I do not need a lot of information about their computers to connect, a nontechnical person can give me the information needed for me to connect. Additionally, the solution does not gather other system information about the host or client's systems as other solutions might, such as AnyDesk."
"I have been satisfied with TeamViewer overall."
"The solution is a very good tool for monitoring and for remote access. Anyone is able to use it, it is simple to use."
"The product is easy to install."
"The webinar should be integrated into Sametime for a larger number of participants."
"This solution could be improved by offering more flexibility in terms of usage."
"I don’t see any areas where improvement is needed."
"Every now and then you'll get a silent crash and you relaunch the application. But it happens no more than with anything else in the Windows environment."
"TeamViewer could be more secure."
"They could give more information about using certain kinds of applications for secure transactions, such as secure file transfers."
"The support could improve their speed."
"TeamViewer could improve by having support for other operating systems, such as Linux."
"Sometimes it lags."
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HCL Sametime is ranked 26th in Virtual Meetings while TeamViewer is ranked 3rd in Virtual Meetings with 84 reviews. HCL Sametime is rated 8.0, while TeamViewer is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of HCL Sametime writes "Easily communicate and share files with colleagues". On the other hand, the top reviewer of TeamViewer writes "Solid cross-platform remote control, but with kludgy central management and some serious feature issues on macOS". HCL Sametime is most compared with Zoom, whereas TeamViewer is most compared with TeamViewer Tensor, Microsoft Remote Desktop Services, Parallels Access, ISL Online and LogMeIn Central.
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