Microsoft Office Live Meeting [EOL] vs Skype for Business comparison

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  • "We have been able to save money by moving our conferencing solution to Skype for Business Conferencing."
  • "We negotiated a fair price with Microsoft. It is definitely worthwhile to negotiate with them for the best price for your solution."
  • "The pricing is really good. It is quite affordable because it came with our Office 365. It is on a per-user license, which is nice. I quite like that they have made it very granular with all of their licensing."
  • "It may be considered costly for certain markets, such as in India."
  • "It may be slightly costly, but the features are awesome."
  • "To realize value from the purchase of Skype Business, you need to take advantage of all the important functions of the program."
  • "The cost of Skype for Business is incorporated into our Office 365 licenses."
  • "We purchased an open license."
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    Ranking
    Unranked
    In Emerging Solutions
    4th
    out of 63 in Virtual Meetings
    Views
    2,839
    Comparisons
    1,073
    Reviews
    23
    Average Words per Review
    332
    Rating
    7.7
    Comparisons
    Also Known As
    Office Live Meeting, MS Office Live Meeting [EOL]
    Skype for Business Plan 1, Skype for Business Plan 2, Lync Server
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    Overview
    Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007 is an online meeting space that organization subscribes to or organization hosts internally. It can support meet with colleagues online, which allows to collaborate in real-time. Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007 is installed on computer, offers deeper connections across and between organizations with online meetings, events, and training. Users can connect with customers, partners, and employees to discuss and collaborate. The meeting window has been redesigned in order to improve user experience across the board. Meeting organizers can keep attendees engaged and focused during conferencing sessions and presenters can receive feedback from meeting attendees in real-time, enabling them to adjust their pace and content accordingly, to meet the needs of the audience.The power of live meeting is that meeting attendees can deliver a presentation, kick off a project, brainstorm ideas, edit files, collaborate on whiteboards, and negotiate deals from their personal computer.
    Skype for Business offers features including presence, IM, voice and video calls, online meetings, conferencing, and telephony solutions that support enterprise-level collaboration requirements. Skype for Business Record meetings, share your screen, and annotate PowerPoint for real-time collaboration with up to 250 people and use whiteboard, polls, Q&A, and built-in IM during your business meetings to make them more productive. Skype for Business provides new client experience, Skype for Business Server provides several new features to improve manageability of on-premises servers and hybrid solutions. Skype for Business also supports the Lync client experience so that you can choose a phased upgrade approach to the new client experience for users. Skype for Business is also an integral part of Microsoft Office 365, providing PSTN Conferencing, Cloud PBX, PSTN Calling, and Skype Meeting Broadcast capabilities to Office 365 users.
    Sample Customers
    Grupo Romero, Bajaj finance Limited, Tokushima Prefecture, Cšritas, Instituto Nacional de Estadistica y Geografia, TP Group, Dusit International, CompassLearning, Instituto Politecnico Nacional
    EmpireCLS Worldwide Chauffeured Services,LA Fitness, MedcoEnergi International, Tampa General Hospital, and HopewellHoldings Limited.
    Top Industries
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    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company25%
    Financial Services Firm20%
    Comms Service Provider13%
    University8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Educational Organization87%
    Computer Software Company2%
    Government2%
    Financial Services Firm2%
    Company Size
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    REVIEWERS
    Small Business27%
    Midsize Enterprise27%
    Large Enterprise46%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business4%
    Midsize Enterprise89%
    Large Enterprise8%

    Microsoft Office Live Meeting [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Emerging Solutions while Skype for Business is ranked 4th in Virtual Meetings with 59 reviews. Microsoft Office Live Meeting [EOL] is rated 0.0, while Skype for Business is rated 7.8. 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". Microsoft Office Live Meeting [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Skype for Business is most compared with Webex, Zoom, TeamViewer, GoToMeeting and Cisco Meeting Server.

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