We performed a comparison between HCL Sametime and Skype for Business based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Virtual Meetings solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I can view the status and availability of colleagues or team members, which makes it easy to approach them when they are available."
"The integration with Microsoft Outlook for creating and scheduling meetings is nice."
"It's a good product, we like using it."
"The solution is scalable and is capable of working on every appliance on every operating system."
"I rate the solution's stability a nine on a scale where one is not stable and ten is very stable...I rate the solution's initial setup a nine on a scale where one is difficult, and ten is easy."
"The solution is stable and scalable."
"The GUI is very user-friendly."
"Desktop sharing is a valuable feature."
"The most valuable features of Skype for Business include its persistent chat, Edge Server, Reverse Proxy, front-end server, back-end server, and business calling capabilities, among others."
"The webinar should be integrated into Sametime for a larger number of participants."
"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."
"We have had trouble with scalability when trying to host large meetings."
"I feel that the whole look and feel of Skype should be improved, including its user-friendliness. It should also improve its scalability."
"We overcame the audio quality issues by asking users to use the 'Call Me' feature with their desk phone."
"The integration with Outlook could be improved."
"The ease of configuration or the lack of decent tooling to pinpoint your problems is probably its biggest issue."
"I am not familiar with all of the features or whether they can hold conferences because we use Zoom for that. But, in my opinion, if they can do something similar to what Zoom is doing, it will be a complete solution."
"There are some issues with stability during phone calls. Sometimes the connectivity drops, and it is frustrating."
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HCL Sametime is ranked 26th in Virtual Meetings while Skype for Business is ranked 4th in Virtual Meetings with 60 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 , whereas Skype for Business is most compared with Webex, Zoom, GoToMeeting, TeamViewer and Cisco Meeting Server. See our HCL Sametime vs. Skype for Business report.
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