There have are just too many players right now who are looking to provide Web-Conferencing services making it a very crowded place to play in. Latest announcements have come for Adobe Connect and Unyte.
Unyte from WebDialogs is giving its product for free to people who want to do 1:1 web conferencing. From the SMB perspective they also have Unyte+ that supports 1 – 25 users priced at $30/year and have couple of other plans focused on Enterprise customers. Unyte has integrated its product with Skype for users to invite their Skype contact to the conference calls.
Adobe on the other hand has finally finished the integration of Macromedia Breeze to roll out Adobe Connect. Each personal meeting room at Adobe Connect will cost $39 per month or US$395 per year, which puts it right in the range of GotoMeeting and WebEx. Acrobat Connect Professional is priced at $15,000 depending on configuration, and licensing.
It is interesting to note that the top enterprise oriented companies including WebEx and GotoMeeting are trying to milk 1:1 user conferences, which leaves just the right space for companies like Unyte to jump in with free products and try to establish themselves with the startup crowd.
Links:
Unyte
Adobe Connect
December 12, 2006 at 8:56 am |
Here are some more:
Vyew.com
dimdim.com
December 13, 2006 at 2:24 am |
[...] It was just yesterday I had written that the top enterprise web-conferencing service providers should offer some kind of free access to entry level users. Unyte seems to be filling up that gap very well with its free offering of Skype integrated conference calling and full desktop sharing for 1:1 meetings. [...]
December 19, 2006 at 4:01 pm |
[...] Last week I had written about WebEx launching its plugin for Yahoo IM and previously written about the emerging developments in webconferencing. Now Unyte has quickly come up with its own plugin for Yahoo IM that beats the WebEx plugin hands-down. [...]
January 9, 2007 at 11:55 pm |
[...] With the web-conferencing space getting tighter by the day, we can expect few fallouts. And it is rumored that the first major change in directions comes from Convoq, which provides Flash-based live chat and web conferencing capabilities aimed primarily at Salesforce customers. Convoq is set to give up its existing product mix and work towards a new idea related in the “consumer social networking” space. Also as part of the change, Convoq has a new CEO, Steve Brand. [...]
February 1, 2007 at 10:54 am |
[...] Product seems to have most of the features available for free including the ability to have Presentations, Desktop & Application Sharing, Whiteboard & Annotations, Multi User Chat, polling, scheduling, outlook & GCal integration, and localization. You need get an enterprise license to record your meetings, private label, and hookup to your AD. As always, scalability of product, support team expertise, and maintenance/licensing fees would decide the future direction in a crowded market in which at least one player is planning to call quits. [...]
February 12, 2007 at 2:19 pm |
[...] I don’t we needed another desktop sharing application. I had previously written about the overheated web-conferencing market and later about at least 1 startup looking to quit. Nevertheless, UK based Yuuguu thinks there is still space. Yuuguu offers one-click screen and application sharing with cross-platform support. Multi-people chat, conversation history, and SSL encryption, all included. I think that Yuuguu has taken care of from the very start is to support both Windows and Macs machines, unlike other companies taking a long time to realize the need for cross-platform support. I don’t know about Yuuguu’s business plan, but maybe they think there is still space in the EMEA market. [...]
March 15, 2007 at 10:26 am |
[...] Again an updated list of other players in this space – LiveMeeting, GotoMeeting, Yuuguu, WebDialogs, AdobeConnect, DimDim, Yugma, Vyew Tags:Share and Enjoy: [...]
March 16, 2007 at 3:28 am |
Another company from Europe (Germany), targeting both commercial users and personal users with a free license:
teamviewer.com
March 29, 2007 at 8:41 am |
[...] As I had noted few months back, Microsoft and other major conferencing service providers are missing out on the consumer side of desktop sharing. Well as it seems right now, Microsoft is moving in quickly to fill up the space with a new desktop sharing and collaboration product codenamed “Tahiti”. [...]
April 4, 2007 at 4:13 pm |
[...] Just as a FYI, Unyte Meeting is not free unlike the Unyte Lyte integration with Skype. Once you signup for the beta, It’s free for up to 1,500 minutes or until April 25—whichever comes first [...]