|
Feature
|
Benefit
|
VMukti
|
Webex
|
MS Live Meeting
|
DimDim
|
Skype
|
|
Scalability
|
Support
for large number concurrent users per server, New business models can evolve
that were impossible till date like video job portals, interactive video news
sites, virtual classrooms and more
|
Yes -
Share media directly between endpoints reducing the load on the server
by 1/10th of a client/server platform
|
Dependant
on Server and Propriety licenses
|
Dependant
on Server and Propriety Licenses
|
High load
on the server
|
Limited by
its desktop-only characteristics
|
|
Quality
|
A 100
participant conference having the same quality as 2 participant conference call
|
Yes
|
No -
Server round trips reduces quality due to latency issue
|
No -
Server round trips reduces quality due to latency issue
|
Server
round trips reduces quality due to latency issue
|
Yes
|
|
Application Showing
and Sharing
|
Retain
privacy of other applications while showing one or more specific applications
to many people over the Internet
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Slow Participants do
not impact experience of others
|
Consistent
performance allows you to focus on the presentation
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
|
Set up meetings in
advance
|
Organize
future meetings and send an email invite in advance of the meeting
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
|
Basic Voice
Teleconferencing
(dial-in support)
|
Combined
solution for voice and presentations simplifies meetings and saves money
|
Free
|
Extra
|
Extra
|
No
|
Extra
|
|
Advanced
Teleconferencing (VoIP)
|
Voice
and presentation controls in one interface means effortless online meetings
|
Free
|
Extra
|
Extra
|
No
|
Extra
|
|
Telephony
|
Receive
your calls, SMS, Fax, Voicemails on the same workspace
|
Free
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Free
|
|
Session Recording
|
The
ability to record and play back your recorded sessions
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Add conferencing to
your own web site
|
Send
your Guests to your own web site to join a session where you use your own
branding
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
|
Private branding and integration available (OEMs and ASPs)
|
OEM
vendors, ASPs and corporations can quickly add web meeting functionality to
their own applications or web
sites
|
Yes
|
Extra
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
|
Participant List
|
Know who is
looking at your presentation and disconnect when needed
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Text Chat
|
Allows you to
interact with your audience
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Usage Reports
|
Monitor account
activity
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
|
Full screen option
for guests
|
Provides an
excellent experience with nothing else on the screen but your presentation
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Run as Distributed
PBX
|
No
need for separate PBX system for organization
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
|
Work as organization
call center
|
Use it
for inbound / outbound calling
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
|
Ease of Use
|
Customizable
personalized web interface, Access all your favourite web services from one
place
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
|
Grant guests remote
control of shared desktop
|
Customer
can test drive your application during the demo
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
|
Open Source
|
Empower customers with freedom to take better
decisions for their business
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
|
Trial Period
|
Trial period of professional/ business edition
|
30 Days
|
14 Days
|
14 Days
|
30 Days
|
No
|
|
Pricing Model
|
Options
available to the customers to choose from
|
Free with Ads,
Appliance, Subscription 1/3 to 1/10 of Competitors
|
Enterprise
|
Enterprise
|
Free,
Enterprise, No Appliance
|
Free +
Subscription
|
|
Cost
|
Cost of
developing, maintaining and delivering products and services based on the
platform
|
less
servers, bandwidth and maintenance; No 3rd party licenses
|
High cost
of H/W & B/W
|
High cost
of H/W & B/W
|
High cost
of H/W & B/W
|
less
servers, bandwidth and maintenance; No 3rd party licenses
|
