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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Adobe Connect

    Score6.7 out of 10
    N/AAdobe Connect is a web conferencing platform that enables users to create presentations, online training materials, and learning modules. The product is entirely Adobe Flash-based and has several add-ons for customizing its software to suit each users’ unique needs.

    $50

    per host/per month

    Brightly Event Manager™

    Score4.4 out of 10
    N/ABrightly Event Manager is designed for enterprises in various industries to use for online calendar sharing and promotion, booking facilities, and managing / promoting events. The application is available as a standalone event management solution for offering space for tenants or guests or as part of Brightly's IWMS suite.N/A

    Eventleaf

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AEventleaf is event registration software by Jolly Technologies. The product allows users to customize event pages and registration forms, create an event schedule, send invitations and confirmation emails, track invitation status, manage contacts, and sell tickets online.

    $1

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    Pricing
    Adobe ConnectBrightly Event Manager™Eventleaf
    Editions & Modules
    Meetings
    $50
    per host/per month
    Webinars & Learning
    $130
    per host/per month
    Small Meetings
    Free
    Forever free for up to 3 participants
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Adobe ConnectBrightly Event Manager™Eventleaf
    Free Trial
    YesNoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    Adobe ConnectBrightly Event Manager™Eventleaf
    Considered Multiple Products
    Adobe
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    Brightly Software
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    76%
    Would buy again
    25 Answers
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    100%
    Would buy again
    20 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    83%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    18 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    29 Answers
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    20 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    77%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    17 Answers
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    17 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    82%
    Implementation went as expected
    18 Answers
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    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    17 Answers
    Features
    Adobe ConnectBrightly Event Manager™Eventleaf
    Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software
    Comparison of Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software features of Adobe Connect and Brightly Event Manager™ and Eventleaf
    Feature
    Adobe Connect
    7.7
    66 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Brightly Event Manager™
    -
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    Eventleaf
    -
    Ratings
    High quality audio8.065 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    High quality video7.065 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Low bandwidth requirements6.855 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile support9.042 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Screen Sharing
    Comparison of Screen Sharing features of Adobe Connect and Brightly Event Manager™ and Eventleaf
    Feature
    Adobe Connect
    7.5
    65 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Brightly Event Manager™
    -
    Ratings
    Eventleaf
    -
    Ratings
    Desktop sharing7.065 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Whiteboards8.055 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Meetings / Events
    Comparison of Online Meetings / Events features of Adobe Connect and Brightly Event Manager™ and Eventleaf
    Feature
    Adobe Connect
    5.6
    66 Ratings
    38% below category average
    Brightly Event Manager™
    -
    Ratings
    Eventleaf
    -
    Ratings
    Calendar integration6.042 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Meeting initiation5.057 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrates with social media4.029 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Record meetings / events6.061 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Slideshows7.052 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Events Collaboration
    Comparison of Online Events Collaboration features of Adobe Connect and Brightly Event Manager™ and Eventleaf
    Feature
    Adobe Connect
    6.7
    65 Ratings
    19% below category average
    Brightly Event Manager™
    -
    Ratings
    Eventleaf
    -
    Ratings
    Live chat7.063 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Audience polling7.056 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Q&A6.053 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Events Security
    Comparison of Online Events Security features of Adobe Connect and Brightly Event Manager™ and Eventleaf
    Feature
    Adobe Connect
    8.4
    61 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Brightly Event Manager™
    -
    Ratings
    Eventleaf
    -
    Ratings
    User authentication7.953 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Participant roles & permissions8.061 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Confidential attendee list9.348 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    VoIP system collaboration
    Comparison of VoIP system collaboration features of Adobe Connect and Brightly Event Manager™ and Eventleaf
    Feature
    Adobe Connect
    6.5
    1 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Brightly Event Manager™
    -
    Ratings
    Eventleaf
    -
    Ratings
    Video conferencing8.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Audio conferencing7.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Video screen sharing8.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Instant messaging3.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Score8.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Adobe ConnectBrightly Event Manager™Eventleaf
    Likelihood to Recommend
    5.5
    (94 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.5
    (37 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (27 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.5
    (38 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    5.5
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.5
    (31 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.5
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.9
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Adobe ConnectBrightly Event Manager™Eventleaf
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Adobe
    Adobe Connect is wonderful for repeatable branded learning experiences or webinars. They allow for creating an event with a series of similar layouts. The ability to alter these are easy, and duplicating layouts makes for fast alterations. Changing between layouts also creates visual interest as learners see things shift. Adobe Connect also is great for accessibility, the captions allow for resizing and placing the captions in various sections. The recordings also can have a searchable transcript to get to the information you want fast. Adobe Connect allows for running fun games/events as well, there are lots of apps that make the experience unique, and allows for managing content on screen as you'd like.
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    Brightly Software
    This is an ideal program for any school or district looking for a way to monitor room and maintenance requests. The digital routing availability will help ease the burden of paper copies and make it quicker for everyone to use and submit their needs. Schools with a variety of staff members are best suited, especially since when submitting a request you can designate those that need to be involved and what specific needs you have from facility to technology.
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    Jolly Technologies Inc
    When preparing for an event, having online registration is vital to planning. The online registration allows participants to learn about the event, determine their schedule and inform the host of their needs. For planning purposes, there are several helpful reports available through the Eventleaf Online app. This is a great tool if your organization will collect registrations for >50.
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    Pros
    Adobe
    • It's a quick method to exchange files, file, documents, and videos from a web app. Real-time conversation, and screen-sharing are all supported. It has a highly user-friendly interface. It is really simple to assist the teams.
    • Even team engagements is beneficial since it allows them to share their expertise with others, and the big benefit is the security of the rooms' access is fairly simple to manage.
    • The interface, which include features like notes, chat, pods, etc. When we're trying to gather rapid and exact information, simplify our work as much as possible.
    • Adobe Connect's features since they allow team members to express their ideas during meetings without causing disruptions, thereby bypassing the current international boundary of distance.
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    Brightly Software
    • You are able to designate whether you are submitting a maintenance request or a schedule request (for rooms).
    • You can set recurring schedules for areas or rooms you may need weekly or monthly to be requested on a set day or time.
    • SchoolDude autoroutes to the personnel you designate, taking out any physical paperwork involved.
    • You can see your history of requests (both maintenance and schedule) in the database.
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    Jolly Technologies Inc
    • Easy to use: I was a first time user and signing up was super easy.
    • Intuitive: The progam flowed naturally; the order of the tabs and their contents made sense and led me through the process with ease.
    • Comprehensive: While I only used the program to register folks for a fundraiser, it has other options which I will totally use down the road.
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    Cons
    Adobe
    • Nonetheless, Adobe Connect lacks the engagement monitoring, which can be critical for the management to oversee.
    • Besides, Adobe Connect has no certification management, which is essential in the current education or training field.
    • Lastly, Adobe Connect has no offline editing tool, hence, when the internet connection is not there, many things can not be conducted effectively.
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    Brightly Software
    • The filter and ability to sort through your request history is a little difficult to navigate and can be glitchy if you are not sorting in the correct way.
    • There should be a quicker and simpler way to verify whether a room is booked prior to scheduling.
    • A cleaner, more simplistic look and navigation would go a long way.
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    Jolly Technologies Inc
    • Although the registration component is fully customizable, the website itself could be more customizable. It is pretty restrictive on what you can put where.
    • The registration takes a little while to set up depending on how much information you need. It also doesn't allow for repeat fields which makes bringing multiple guests challenging.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Adobe
    The longer you use Adobe Connect, the longer you are likely to use it. Because you can build more and more resources over time, creating rooms that you re-use, recorded content you can repurpose, and tools that form the basis of ever increasing productivity, the more you use Connect, the more productive you become. Unlike competing products where, with every meeting you essentially start over -- setting up your resources for each meeting -- in my Connect rooms, I have highly tuned tools to accomplish my knowledge transfer goals. When I want to conduct another session - I send a link out to the appropriate room and instantly we are all focusing on getting a job done together. This ability of Adobe Connect to make you productive at an ever quickening rate is a competitive advantage
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    Brightly Software
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    Jolly Technologies Inc
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    Usability
    Adobe
    I gave it a 6 because it does have lots of functionality, has a strong brand and reputation following, etc. but it does have its glitches and experiences with low bandwidth issues. I believe it has more features than my organization fully leverages, so some of those pieces haven't been explored yet. But there are opportunities for improvement in their online resource support, stability at high usages as well.
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    Brightly Software
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    Jolly Technologies Inc
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    Support Rating
    Adobe
    The customer support of Adobe connect is professional and well-skilled for resolving our minor and major issues. Moreover, it has almost all the features that will provide you a secure connection, with people across the world. Education institutes can also implement this software. On the basis of its quality and technology, I will surely advise you to try it once.
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    Brightly Software
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    Jolly Technologies Inc
    Great customer service. My colleague reached out for support midway through planning our event and they replied quickly with a thorough solution to our problem
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    Online Training
    Adobe
    The ability to have most of the functionality of a full LMS at a fraction of the cost is huge. I can create manage and deploy both synchronous and asynchronous training based on the situation and all of my training is tracked through a series of easily created reports
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    Brightly Software
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    Jolly Technologies Inc
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    Implementation Rating
    Adobe
    Prices do not seem to vary much among resellers of the Adobe Connect hosted license; the only price variation you're likely to find are among the audio providers. When implementing, you may also wish to look into expanding the amount of storage you are allowed on the server to avoid any problems later on as your library of files starts to build up
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    Brightly Software
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    Jolly Technologies Inc
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    Alternatives Considered
    Adobe
    Actually, it was the other way around....we were using Adobe Connect, company-wide, then switched over to Zoom, mostly, I think, as a cost-cutting measure. But some Learning & Development folks campaigned to be allowed to retain some Adobe Connect licenses (for example, one L&D area had literally over 250 room layouts that their course facilitators could just jump into and use to deliver a course on short notice), which also allows some of us to continue to publish Presenter and Captivate modules to the Adobe server. (But, even those of us who still have Adobe Connect licenses use Zoom for most regular business meetings.)
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    Brightly Software
    This is the only program I have used for the facility, maintenance, technology, and room requests. However, there are programs that include similar features. Frontline Professional Growth is a platform that includes digital forms and routing similar to SchoolDude. But it is a vastly more in-depth program with features that go beyond what SchoolDude is often used for.
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    Jolly Technologies Inc
    The EventLeaf website made me feel that their product/service was more about my event needs and less about hyping themselves. I found the timely and helpful support from EventLeaf wonderful. The team that presented the live demo were very helpful, answered what might have seemed like dumb questions from me (being new at this) with respect and helpfulness. The ability to customize pricing to the scope and needs of the event we were planning was great
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    Return on Investment
    Adobe
    • Save on time - our instructors and people that use the platform can teach more classes and more often than in-person training and time traveling.
    • We cut down on spending. When we offer training using Connect - we do not have to spend on meals, hard copy materials, and reserving a venue to deliver training.
    • We increase our training sales significantly but offering Connect as an alternative - any unforeseen cancellations to a public class can result in transferring to a remote online Connected class.
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    Brightly Software
    • Less printing and copying in a district.
    • Quicker submitting and processing time.
    • Able to track requests and see what is being used in the district.
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    Jolly Technologies Inc
    • Eventleaf cut the cost of event management software by nearly $2.5
    • It has saved us countless hours on the phone with customer care--we spent 10 years with a big-brand event management company which equated to 100s of hours on the phone with customer service. I haven't had to contact customer service yet.
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    ScreenShots

    Brightly Event Manager™ Screenshots

    Screenshot of Community CalendarScreenshot of Event DashboardScreenshot of Event Reporting

    Eventleaf Screenshots

    Screenshot of Eventleaf Online syncs with Eventleaf DesktopScreenshot of Ticket Sales Online
Admission tickets, workshop packages, training courses, tours, and meals.Screenshot of Invitations
Can be sent to members, past attendees, prospects and other contacts. Contact details including name, organization and e-mail can be imported from a file or entered by hand.Screenshot of Confirmation Email
Registration confirmation e-mails sent to guests after they register can be customized to include a message, event and registration details, directions and check in procedures and a barcode for fast check in upon arrival.Screenshot of Speaker and Presenter Information
Photos and biographical information about the people that will be speaking or presenting at an event.Screenshot of Event Schedule
Includes the dates and times for each workshop, meeting, seminar and other schedule items that will be occurring during the event.