Skype for Business was an online messaging and conferencing tool, now superseded by Microsoft Teams.
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Zoom Workplace
Score 8.2 out of 10
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Zoom helps consolidate communications and collaboration in the boardroom, classroom, operating room, and everywhere. Zoom is an intelligent collaboration platform that makes connecting easier, more immersive, and more dynamic. Zoom technology facilitates collaboration through solutions like Zoom Team Chat, Phone, Meetings, omnichannel cloud Contact Center, smart recordings, and Whiteboard.
Chose Skype for Business, now part of Microsoft Teams
Where Skype for Business, now part of Microsoft Teams fails, Zoom shines. Zoom is able to handle significantly higher number of participants without dropping in quality and/or issues with viewing all participants. Other aspects such as more fine-tuned control of participants is …
Chose Skype for Business, now part of Microsoft Teams
Skype for Business's unique features offers many benefits.
When I need to communicate with my colleagues, I rely on the chat function. Its
interface is intuitive and has top-notch sound. Making groups is easy, and
Chose Skype for Business, now part of Microsoft Teams
Our school district uses both Zoom and Microsoft Teams. Many of our users prefer Zoom over Teams because they say Zoom is easier. Not considering just the Chat feature, I like the ease of setting up a conference in Teams and sending out the calendar event. The integration of …
Chose Skype for Business, now part of Microsoft Teams
Skype for Business existing before all these other softwares were present. So legacy is maintained by Skype. Main feature that stacks up Skype against all of the mentioned apps is security provided by Skype for Business apps. As we all know Zoom was not at all safe to use as lots …
Chose Skype for Business, now part of Microsoft Teams
Skype for Business is great for arranging interactive sessions with group members. It has great audio and video quality and live chat enable others to communicate with each other personally or as a group during any session. File sharing is also easy. It is best for its quality …
Chose Skype for Business, now part of Microsoft Teams
We have Skype and teams both in the company. Teams GUI is very great when compared to Skype and also it has more features and options. It works with other 365 products. File storage, video quality is much better. Also, application integration are tremendous. It shows best …
Chose Skype for Business, now part of Microsoft Teams
We [use] Zoom at least 10x more often than Skype for Business, and even though I feel like Zoom has some very shady business practices, their recent security upgrades have been a really valuable way to feel safer about our calls. The biggest drawback on Zoom vs Skype for …
Chose Skype for Business, now part of Microsoft Teams
We're working to transition away from Skype for Business and onto one of the alternatives. Working with Skype for Business, many of the features feel "last-gen" and while it's not terrible and it gets the job done, the alternatives have more team collaboration utilities and …
Chose Skype for Business, now part of Microsoft Teams
Skype for Business is the paid version of Skype and thus provides more features and capabilities. As a business with employees worldwide, we require video conferencing software that supports more than 25 members in a call, which is why Skype for Business is preferred over Skype.…
Chose Skype for Business, now part of Microsoft Teams
Skype is a solid product, but in comparison to the other tools on the market (mainly the 3 we have used being UberConference, Zoom, and Join.e), it is significantly overpriced. The power of Skype for Business is extreme, however, they are all great at this point and it has no …
Chose Skype for Business, now part of Microsoft Teams
Skype for Business has made itself a clear leader among the pack. I would put it at the top of the list because it's easy to deploy/manage and simply works great!
Chose Skype for Business, now part of Microsoft Teams
We had a similar situation, when the server was saturated, it was impossible to connect, but you could raise your hand to ask questions, it had polling and Q&A. You could also record the meetings, even when you connected through phone.
Chose Skype for Business, now part of Microsoft Teams
Slack has a bit higher sound quality on calls but does not have a very comfortable GUI and not very good notification sounds. On the other hand, you can connect several accounts to Slack client, as for Skype for Business you can connect only one account and run only one …
Skype for Business will not work for video conferencing outside of our network so we can only video conference internally. Their chat feature is way better as well. You can save your chats and search them as well. You can also record meetings and it automatically takes notes …
Skype for Business had reliability issues and we often experienced poor quality audio and/or video. For a while, we tried using it with a large number of participants (50+) and encountered some bandwidth/quality issues. We haven't had any of these issues with Zoom.
We've selected Zoom because it integrates easily with our CRM and allowed to port our phone number. Unfortunately, their billing and tech support are really bad.
Low cost and improve quality when you have several participants. Multi platform support is also amazing for this tool, no mater if we are talking about PC or MAC, Windows or Linux, Zoom can be easily be used. Support provided by the vendor is also an incredible key feature of …
Zoom is much better than using a source such as Vonage for business meeting solutions. The main reason would be Vonage has limits and can't always function properly when using a government computer. In those situations, one would need to use a mobile device. When it comes to …
Verified User
Contributor
Chose Zoom Workplace
Zoom seems to be a bit more intuitive and user-friendly than Skype. We like the record function, screen share, and multi-use product.
Lecturer in Computational Design and Advanced Manufacturing (Architecture)
Chose Zoom Workplace
Zoom is 100% superior in almost all aspects compared to its 2 main competitors: Microsoft Teams and Skype. Only a few organizations in the Australian Education sector use Skype anymore. There are several universities and organizations that are forced to use Teams by their …
Zoom has a very friendly UI that allows any kind of people to easily use the application, it has a light design but with all the necessary features without overflooding the options. Zoom has great stability and great performance among other counterparts making this a very …
Despite the availability of many tools like Zoom on the market, Zoom has made its presence and become the most valuable and loved tool. The tool has all the features that any other tool like this should have and provides a one-stop solution for all the demands any business …
I used to use Skype before Zoom. Zoom's robust and quality features are not available in Skype. Zoom is a video conferencing solution that maintains advanced online collaboration features while improving video quality. It has made it possible for me to continue my work as a …
Verified User
Consultant
Chose Zoom Workplace
Zoom app is user friendly, it is also very fun to use. We chose zoom over other apps because of its efficiency and better functionality. Because of Zoom, we've all become great communicators. Also, since it is widely used by business owners and corporations, people are counting …
Skype is Windows only, so it's completely unusable for us. It's got poor audio and video quality too. Microsoft Teams, at least on Linux, is incredibly slow. I once timed it--it took 45 seconds from hitting enter in the browser location bar until the Teams channels were usable. …
Verified User
Analyst
Chose Zoom Workplace
In my opinion, Zoom blows Skype out of the water. Skype was a great tool, but always seemed like an unprofessional form of communication given that I had been using it since my adolescence. While Zoom can be used by the younger generation as well, it seems to be a much better …
Zoom stacks up as the best product against Skype since Skype is very very slow and lags a lot between calls and video conferences whereas Zoom has all the [same] features with better quality and [more] user friendly. Sometimes it's hard to open Skype as it gets stuck on the …
Verified User
Engineer
Chose Zoom Workplace
We went with Skype since the pricing was better compared to other options.
I did not list all of the software we have tried here, but we have literally tried and used everything, nothing works as seamlessly and easily as Zoom.
We were formerly a Skype shop which worked great for internal IM and phone, yet, when we attempted to share content outside the organization the ability to do so never worked. We then turned our attention to Cisco WebEx which provided the collaboration externally but was …
Zoom is easier to access and it doesn't fail like Webex does. I have issues getting into a Webex meeting all the time. I have to click on it multiple times to access or call the owner to figure out why I can't access the meeting. Very frustrating when you are trying to join a …
Compared to these other products, Zoom has greater ease of use, and easier connection for our end users. Faster set up, with minimal to no hiccups. We have had user acceptance at a much more successful rate and customer satisfaction has been positive. I look forward to trying …