GlobalMeet Collaboration (discontinued) vs. Polycom RealPresence Immersive Studio

I would recommend the service to anyone who is in need of consistent, clear, and professional audio conferencing. I think PGi and GlobalMeet are clearly one of the leaders in the space. The only knock against the services are that they can be expensive long-term contracts where you're more likely to pay for more than you use. I believe smaller organizations or those with less of a need for audio conferencing may benefit by a pay-as-you-go plan which in my experience PGi has not offered.

Polycom RealPresence Immersive Video Conferencing is perfect for an organization with different offices all over the world and this comes from first hand experience. It is well suited for an organization that relies on video conferencing to video chat with clients that also use Polycom. It would not be well suited for a company that could make do with a cheaper solution, i.e. Skype or Zoom.

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• Setting up the meetings only takes a few seconds. I value this function.
• Global set works in conjunction with Microsoft office. This makes integration very simple.
• The system is user friendly and easy to understand...even for those without a lot of experience.

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• Small Conference Rooms
• Ad-Hock Meetings
• Scheduler Room Reservation

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• As I mentioned before, it is not as convenient to use when sharing data as Teams so we tend to use Teams for sharing presentations.
• On occasion, there is an echo which makes it hard to hear others.
• I have noticed that when I use my computer as the device rather than my phone, it tends to drop more often than my phone (may be my internet connection).

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• Affordable support package
• Though they are the best it's not easy procuring product
• All in one cloud solutions

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GlobalMeet is not a very good tool. There are better web meeting platforms available in the marketplace. The system is clunky, not intuitive, and experiences often technical issues. They have made updates recently but it is too little too late. It may be a good platform for smaller organizations with tighter budgets.

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Interface is fairly intuitive. Ease of use is a big plus. Both presenters and users find it easy to learn, easy to understand and easy to remember. We've had very few issues with the system since beginning to utilize it.

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It is fairly easy to set up and use both for the administrator and the end user.

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We have never had an issue with the availability of GlobalMeet. It has always been available when we needed it.

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For the most part GlobalMeet loaded everything quickly. The only problem that we had was when the whole company was on a training at one time, we had a hard time with screen sharing and the pages loading in a timely manner. Everything seemed to slow down when lots of people were on the system at once

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As previously mentioned, I was in charge of facilitating a weekly meeting with 60 attendees. I had major issues with the screenshare crashing repeatedly during the meeting. I got in contact with a GlobalMeet Technician immediately. He was extremely responsive and worked with my technician to resolve all of the issues quickly. After his intervention, I never had the same issue again.

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GlobalMeet was easy to get set up with the company and starting to use.

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Our small non-profit organization appreciates the ease of use of the platform for conference call needs. Other platforms can be much more complicated for users unfamiliar with conference call technology. We use it several times a month for committee meetings, regional rep check ins, and meetings with our board of directors.

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Polycom RealPresence is really only the preferred teleconferencing solution when using a purpose built room for a scheduled face to face meeting. For ad hoc video meetings, Hangouts, Skype, and Slack all provide fewer friction points for average use cases. In fact, as Google accounts are nearly ubiquitous at this point, Hangouts has almost become the de facto standard for ad hoc video conferencing amongst our users.

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This product seems to be able to handle the growing amount of work within our company without any problems.

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• The price for webinar for GlobalMeet is quite pricey compared to other similar vendors.
• GlobalMeet can be used for unlimited free calls and video conferencing, hence in our company with extensive global calls this platform is very cost-effective.
• Unlike most conferencing software. Other users don't have to download GlobalMeet App and therefore it is easy to send meeting invite to clients.
• Attentively support system that responds fast to queries and this saves time for us.

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• It makes conferencing with our team members in Ireland, India, and Peru much easier and more cost effective.

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