We performed a comparison between PGi GlobalMeet and Zoom 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 am impressed with the tool's production support."
"Ability to record sessions."
"The most valuable features of Zoom are the screen blur and the background transition, which is great because we are working from home. Without this feature we would not have private meetings, they do not need to see what is happening in our background. The background transition is good with Zoom."
"The screen sharing feature is valuable. It is easy to set up a meeting if you are on a call with a non Teams user if you need to do screen sharing."
"Easy to use whenever and wherever necessary."
"It is a scalable solution."
"It's got a simple, easy-to-understand user interface."
"There are many valuables features of Zoom. The visibility is very good. The ability to see everyone that is talking and the indication spotlight of who the primary speaker is helpful. The solution is interactive, the participants are able to raise their hand, comment, give gestures, such as thumbs up or down."
"There are many valuable features. Security is one – you can lock Zoom meetings when you find that all the participants have joined so that there are no intruders."
"The tool is slow in updating changes. It also has a poor dashboard operating system."
"Zoom often does fixes or checks the vulnerability of their solution. However, they could increase security."
"My company uses the Zoom security setting that requires the host to admit users. The host often forgets to do that, so you sometimes have a lot of people sitting out there. It would be nice if Zoom made it obvious that somebody is in the waiting room."
"The pricing of the product could be lowered a bit."
"Zoom's user interface could be improved. For example, it could have bigger buttons for elderly people."
"I would like to see something like a virtual board or conference room where participants are seated around a virtual table, and pictures of them sitting on the chair or an avatar that the user can choose and control within that virtual world."
"Zoom could improve by increasing the time limitation in the free version."
"The chat functionality in Zoom could improve."
"There were times on the free version where I wasn't done the meeting and it just took me out. They need to give more time."
PGi GlobalMeet is ranked 21st in Virtual Meetings with 10 reviews while Zoom is ranked 1st in Virtual Meetings with 201 reviews. PGi GlobalMeet is rated 8.8, while Zoom is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of PGi GlobalMeet writes "Unlike other conferencing services, we've never had any issues with not being able to dial-in or sudden drop-outs when using GlobalMeet Audio". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zoom writes "Easy to use and provides good video and sound quality". PGi GlobalMeet is most compared with Webex, whereas Zoom is most compared with Webex, Skype for Business, TeamViewer, Cisco TelePresence and Cisco Meeting Server.
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