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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Adobe Connect

    Score6.6 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

    BuzzCast

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/ABuzzCast supports flagship events for clients such as The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, Uber, Fiserv, Carnival, The World Travel and Tourism Council, and AES. Crafted specifically to handle the needs of top tier production companies and their enterprise clients, BuzzCast is focused on three core pillars: Scalability Security Service Built from the ground up on the newest AWS Serverless…N/A

    Tripleseat and Gather

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/ATripleseat, from the company of the same name in Concord, is a Sales and Event Management web application designed to generate sales and streamlines the planning process for restaurants, hotels, and unique venues, a web-based system created by restaurant event planners for restaurant event planners. Tripleseat was merged with Gather March, 2020, to combine the applications' capabilities. The product line will continue under the Tripleseat brand.N/A
    Pricing
    Adobe ConnectBuzzCastTripleseat and Gather
    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 ConnectBuzzCastTripleseat and Gather
    Free Trial
    YesNoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional Details—BuzzCast offers an annual subscription based pricing model. Calculations are based on number of attendees, numbers of event and rehearsal days, streaming usage and level of production support you require. Our suite of leading edge features are yours to utilize for the duration of the annual license.—
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    Community Pulse
    Adobe ConnectBuzzCastTripleseat and Gather
    Considered Multiple Products
    Adobe
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    BuzzCast
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    Tripleseat
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    76%
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    83%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    29 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    9 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    77%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    17 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    8 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    82%
    Implementation went as expected
    18 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    9 Answers
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    Features
    Adobe ConnectBuzzCastTripleseat and Gather
    Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software
    Comparison of Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software features of Adobe Connect and BuzzCast and Tripleseat and Gather
    Feature
    Adobe Connect
    7.7
    66 Ratings
    3% below category average
    BuzzCast
    -
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    Tripleseat and Gather
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    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 BuzzCast and Tripleseat and Gather
    Feature
    Adobe Connect
    7.5
    65 Ratings
    6% below category average
    BuzzCast
    -
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    Desktop sharing7.065 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Whiteboards8.055 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Meetings / Events
    Comparison of Online Meetings / Events features of Adobe Connect and BuzzCast and Tripleseat and Gather
    Feature
    Adobe Connect
    5.6
    66 Ratings
    38% below category average
    BuzzCast
    -
    Ratings
    Tripleseat and Gather
    7.7
    2 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Calendar integration6.042 Ratings00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Meeting initiation5.057 Ratings00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Integrates with social media4.029 Ratings00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Record meetings / events6.061 Ratings00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Slideshows7.052 Ratings00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Event registration00 Ratings00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Online Events Collaboration
    Comparison of Online Events Collaboration features of Adobe Connect and BuzzCast and Tripleseat and Gather
    Feature
    Adobe Connect
    6.7
    65 Ratings
    19% below category average
    BuzzCast
    -
    Ratings
    Tripleseat and Gather
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Live chat7.063 Ratings00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Audience polling7.056 Ratings00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Q&A6.053 Ratings00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Online Events Security
    Comparison of Online Events Security features of Adobe Connect and BuzzCast and Tripleseat and Gather
    Feature
    Adobe Connect
    8.4
    61 Ratings
    4% above category average
    BuzzCast
    -
    Ratings
    Tripleseat and Gather
    9.2
    2 Ratings
    7% above category average
    User authentication7.953 Ratings00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Participant roles & permissions8.061 Ratings00 Ratings9.52 Ratings
    Confidential attendee list9.348 Ratings00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    VoIP system collaboration
    Comparison of VoIP system collaboration features of Adobe Connect and BuzzCast and Tripleseat and Gather
    Feature
    Adobe Connect
    6.5
    1 Ratings
    12% below category average
    BuzzCast
    -
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    Tripleseat and Gather
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    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
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Adobe Connect and BuzzCast and Tripleseat and Gather
    Feature
    Adobe Connect
    -
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    BuzzCast
    -
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    Tripleseat and Gather
    8.3
    2 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Mobile Application00 Ratings00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Online Events Marketing
    Comparison of Online Events Marketing features of Adobe Connect and BuzzCast and Tripleseat and Gather
    Feature
    Adobe Connect
    -
    Ratings
    BuzzCast
    -
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    Tripleseat and Gather
    8.3
    2 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Branding options00 Ratings00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Integration to Marketing Automation00 Ratings00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Attendee list export00 Ratings00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Virtual Event
    Comparison of Virtual Event features of Adobe Connect and BuzzCast and Tripleseat and Gather
    Feature
    Adobe Connect
    -
    Ratings
    BuzzCast
    -
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    Tripleseat and Gather
    7.2
    2 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Registration, RSVP, and ticketing00 Ratings00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Email marketing00 Ratings00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Livestreaming00 Ratings00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Audience engagement00 Ratings00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Event recording00 Ratings00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Virtual booths00 Ratings00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Networking00 Ratings00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Event analytics00 Ratings00 Ratings8.52 Ratings
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    ClickMeeting
    Score9.5 out of 10
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    Score6 out of 10
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    Score9.6 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    JioMeet
    Score9.9 out of 10
    RingCentral Events
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Splash
    Score7.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Webex Meetings
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Zoom Events & Webinars
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Webex Events (formerly Socio)
    Score8.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Adobe ConnectBuzzCastTripleseat and Gather
    Likelihood to Recommend
    5.5
    (94 ratings)
    9.1
    (9 ratings)
    9.5
    (3 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (27 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.5
    (38 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.5
    (2 ratings)
    Availability
    5.5
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.5
    (31 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.5
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.9
    (4 ratings)
    -
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    -
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    Product Scalability
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    Adobe ConnectBuzzCastTripleseat and Gather
    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.
    Incentivized
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    BuzzCast
    BuzzCast is great for large, complex online events - especially during the pandemic when it's been hard or impossible to gather folks in person. If you only need a smaller group of 5 or 10 people, BuzzCast is probably overkill. Once you have lots of people / multiple sessions, or want to capture and save presentations for later, you'll want to start looking at BuzzCast.
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    Tripleseat
    I would recommend to anyone managing a venue that books events, especially venues with larger teams. It's great to keep the whole lead generation cycle organized from start to close. It's also great to have analytics and reporting to be able to provide to our accountant, or see trends and changes in our business.
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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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    BuzzCast
    • The BuzzCast platform was excellent in every way.
    • The platform is sleek and easy to use, both the backend and the UX.
    • The entire team at BuzzCast is supportive and works hard to make your event a complete success.
    • Building and deploying the conference was made easy by the expertise and hard-working BuzzCast staff.
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    Tripleseat
    • Makes client communication easy.
    • Allows reports for our accounting and payroll team.
    • Easy contract creation.
    Incentivized
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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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    BuzzCast
    • Within the platform it would be great to have direct access to make edits changes (I believe this functionality is in process)
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    Tripleseat
    • Slow uploading
    • Image uploading issues
    • Hard to edit events enmasse
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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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    BuzzCast
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    Tripleseat
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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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    BuzzCast
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    Tripleseat
    Very easy to use! Once you get your venue details set up and menus added in, it's extremely user friendly. It's also easy to make changes to settings as needed or add new menus, lead forms, contract templates, etc. Anyone that can work an email system can easily use it.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    BuzzCast
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    Tripleseat
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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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    BuzzCast
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    Tripleseat
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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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    BuzzCast
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    Tripleseat
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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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    BuzzCast
    BuzzCast platform has the most amount of features that our events require (public chat/private chat, breakouts, auto-scrolling agenda). The entire platform is built and designed so that it's intuitive for our viewers and they are shown exactly how to operate the platform in under a minute. The quality of the stream is superior. The BuzzCast team is great to work with and are true partners who are all solution-oriented.
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    Tripleseat
    Tripleseat is far superior to anything else we have used. The ease of use is unmatched. Many other systems are still very outdated. Tripleseat does a really good job of staying on top of industry trends and advancements, and listening to what their customers are asking for. I wouldn't switch back to any other platform.
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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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    BuzzCast
    • BuzzCast enabled one of my clients to deliver an investors' meeting that resulted in a $10 billion increase in market cap
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    Tripleseat
    • Helped us organize and plan catering events better.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

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    Screenshot of custom landing page for long time clients The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Grand Challenges eventScreenshot of Adding eCommerce capabilities to your BuzzCast exhibitor booths or being able to accept donations at your annual fundraising gala is just one of many many features we offer.Screenshot of BuzzCast offers a wide range of 3D rendered exhibitor booth options. Booth attendees can do things like join a video meeting or demo, schedule a meeting on the booth owners calendar, fill out check in forms for lead generation, visit websites, check out special offers & more.Screenshot of BuzzCast's Watch Party feature!!  enough said.Screenshot of custom 3D exhibitor hall entrance lobby's are a spectacular addition to any event. BuzzCast's talented in-house designers can create magic virtual environmentsScreenshot of Public chat. Private chat. Emojis. Likes. You'll like it!