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We performed a comparison between GoToMeeting and IBM Lotus Sametime Meetings [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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  • "Negotiate for discounts."
  • "It is a little expensive although now, with the competition from Zoom and other products, they have lowered their prices and it is better."
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    Top Answer:Reduced the need for physically commuting between offices.
    Top Answer:This is not an expensive solution, we pay around $5,000AUD maximum per year. There are other fees for data carriage, PABX fees, and the like but they would apply to any similar product.
    Top Answer:We're phasing out the use of GoToMeeting because of some of its deficiencies. It lacks ease of connectivity, calendar integrations, and third-party app integrations. The user interface is quite poor… more »
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    GoToMeeting web conferencing software makes it simple and cost-effective to collaborate online with colleagues and customers. Best of all, meeting participants can share their webcams in high definition, so you can enjoy more personal interactions _ without needing a complicated setup.

    IBM Lotus Sametime Meetings is platform for unified communications and collaboration. It provides a core set of synchronous (real-time) communication services that make it easier to find, reach and collaborate with colleagues, customers and business partners over an intranet or the Internet. Lotus Sametime awareness technology lets members who have logged in to Lotus Sametime to see all other members who are logged in. While awareness lists support instant collaboration with other online users, the Lotus Sametime Meeting Room Center provides a central meeting place for members of the community. The Lotus Sametime client is a Java application that uses the Eclipse-based IBM Lotus Expeditor. The Lotus Sametime client leverages the Eclipse plug-in framework to provide developers with extensibility features that go far beyond those available in previous Lotus Sametime releases. Instant meetings are meetings that Lotus Sametime Connect users can create on the fly, and are perfect for quick meetings when you don't need to save the meeting room, its content, and related information. The Lotus Sametime client allows users to talk to other Lotus Sametime users through their computer's audio features and Voice-over-IP (VoIP) technology. Users who are equipped with video components, Users can send files, allows the users to instantly create a telephone conference and equipped with location awareness that can be customized to reflect different locations.
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    AAPT, ACD Groupe, Addison Fire, Avigilon Corporation, Basic Industries Ltd., Bitdefender, Branson School Online, Budd Van Lines, Business Fitness, Business Wire
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    GoToMeeting is ranked 10th in Virtual Meetings with 24 reviews while IBM Lotus Sametime Meetings [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Virtual Meetings. GoToMeeting is rated 7.8, while IBM Lotus Sametime Meetings [EOL] is rated 0.0. 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 IBM Lotus Sametime Meetings [EOL] is most compared with .

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