We performed a comparison between HCL Sametime and Skype for Business 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."
"There are free versions of the solution available."
"The most valuable feature of Skype for Business is that it has many other tools that you can be integrated with it. It makes the meetings more interactive."
"The solution is scalable and is capable of working on every appliance on every operating system."
"The most valuable feature is stability."
"The most valuable features of the solution are that it is quick and easy to use. It is a good tool for group calls."
"I like the seamless integration to local telecommunications."
"The solution is easy to use and includes the ability to text message, video and voice chat, and transfer files."
"The integration with Microsoft Outlook for creating and scheduling meetings is nice."
"The webinar should be integrated into Sametime for a larger number of participants."
"The technical support from Microsoft needs to be improved."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"There are not many options, in terms of some other third-party integration."
"We need a feature where you can virtually raise your hand to silently let the presenter know that you have a question."
"We have had trouble with scalability when trying to host large meetings."
"We are looking for a more collaborative tool, not only in terms of virtual meetings but also for teams to collaborate, share a document, work together, and all those types of things."
"The solution lacks to provide reporting functionality, and I would like to see the solution provide that feature."
"The challenge we had with Skype for Business was with the signing in when a user signed out and when signing in back in again, there was a bit of a problem. We switched from Skype for Business to Teams, and Teams never had that sign-in problem once we did the switch."
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HCL Sametime is ranked 26th in Virtual Meetings while Skype for Business is ranked 4th in Virtual Meetings with 59 reviews. HCL Sametime is rated 8.0, while Skype for Business is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of HCL Sametime writes "Easily communicate and share files with colleagues". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Skype for Business writes "Reliable, useful for remote work, and great but isn't as robust as Microsoft Teams". HCL Sametime is most compared with Zoom, whereas Skype for Business is most compared with Webex, Zoom, TeamViewer, GoToMeeting and Cisco Meeting Server.
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