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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Adobe Connect

    Score7 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

    LiveWebinar

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ALiveWebinar is a cloud-based tool that helps users manage online webinars, meetings, training, live streaming, chats, screen sharing, social media broadcasting and high definition (HD) recording via web browsers. It is a customizable solution that allows users to change logos, room colors, and design layouts, as well as create personalized registration forms to match their business's brand identity, and control email delivery and report designs. LiveWebinar allows users to broadcast…

    $17.99

    per month per user

    Pricing
    Adobe ConnectLiveWebinar
    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 ConnectLiveWebinar
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    Adobe ConnectLiveWebinar
    Considered Both Products
    Adobe
    Chose Adobe Connect
    I have used GoToMeeting only a few times. I am more familiar with Adobe connect. I have found them both useful in connecting employees, reviewing material together. I am not sure how GoToMeeting does with videos to stream. Due to the frequency of use, I would recommend Adobe …
    Incentivized
    RTCLab
    Chose LiveWebinar
    LiveWebinar doesn't require participants to download software and can easily run from computers or mobile devices. Webex and Adobe Connect also have challenges with staying connected, these are probably equal and may be somewhat related to the internet service more than the …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    76%
    Would buy again
    25 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    83%
    Delivers good value for the price
    20 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    29 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    77%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    17 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    82%
    Implementation went as expected
    18 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Adobe ConnectLiveWebinar
    Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software
    Comparison of Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software features of Adobe Connect and LiveWebinar
    Feature
    Adobe Connect
    7.7
    66 Ratings
    3% below category average
    LiveWebinar
    9.0
    3 Ratings
    10% above category average
    High quality audio8.065 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    High quality video7.065 Ratings00 Ratings
    Low bandwidth requirements6.855 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile support9.042 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    Screen Sharing
    Comparison of Screen Sharing features of Adobe Connect and LiveWebinar
    Feature
    Adobe Connect
    7.5
    65 Ratings
    6% below category average
    LiveWebinar
    -
    Ratings
    Desktop sharing7.065 Ratings00 Ratings
    Whiteboards8.055 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Meetings / Events
    Comparison of Online Meetings / Events features of Adobe Connect and LiveWebinar
    Feature
    Adobe Connect
    5.6
    66 Ratings
    38% below category average
    LiveWebinar
    9.0
    3 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Calendar integration6.042 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Meeting initiation5.057 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrates with social media4.029 Ratings00 Ratings
    Record meetings / events6.061 Ratings9.03 Ratings
    Slideshows7.052 Ratings9.03 Ratings
    Event registration00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Online Events Collaboration
    Comparison of Online Events Collaboration features of Adobe Connect and LiveWebinar
    Feature
    Adobe Connect
    6.7
    65 Ratings
    19% below category average
    LiveWebinar
    8.5
    3 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Live chat7.063 Ratings00 Ratings
    Audience polling7.056 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Q&A6.053 Ratings9.03 Ratings
    Online Events Security
    Comparison of Online Events Security features of Adobe Connect and LiveWebinar
    Feature
    Adobe Connect
    8.4
    61 Ratings
    4% above category average
    LiveWebinar
    8.5
    2 Ratings
    2% above category average
    User authentication7.953 Ratings00 Ratings
    Participant roles & permissions8.061 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Confidential attendee list9.348 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    VoIP system collaboration
    Comparison of VoIP system collaboration features of Adobe Connect and LiveWebinar
    Feature
    Adobe Connect
    6.5
    1 Ratings
    12% below category average
    LiveWebinar
    -
    Ratings
    Video conferencing8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Audio conferencing7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Video screen sharing8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Instant messaging3.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Adobe Connect and LiveWebinar
    Feature
    Adobe Connect
    -
    Ratings
    LiveWebinar
    7.3
    3 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings6.72 Ratings
    Data exportability00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Online Events Marketing
    Comparison of Online Events Marketing features of Adobe Connect and LiveWebinar
    Feature
    Adobe Connect
    -
    Ratings
    LiveWebinar
    8.5
    3 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Branding options00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
    Integration to Marketing Automation00 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Adobe ConnectLiveWebinar
    Small Businesses
    ClickMeeting
    Score9.6 out of 10
    GoTo Webinar
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    JioMeet
    Score9.9 out of 10
    Webex Webinars
    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Webex Meetings
    Score8.7 out of 10
    BlueJeans Events (discontinued)
    Score2.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Adobe ConnectLiveWebinar
    Likelihood to Recommend
    5.5
    (94 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (27 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.5
    (38 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    5.5
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.5
    (31 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.5
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.9
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Adobe ConnectLiveWebinar
    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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    RTCLab
    LiveWebinar is best for individuals holding quick meetings or daily scheduled events. Having friction less meetings for teams which does not require prior app installation or setup makes this the perfect webinar platform for persons with techphobia. Schedule, Send, and Start the meeting. There's even built in surveys and tests which makes the meeting or event more engaging and interactive. Unfortunately for multi-day events, it is very hard to use LiveWebinar for this purpose. Let's say for virtual conferences which has defined dates and times for each session, LiveWebinar won't fit this purpose, or at least, it is very hard to execute this scenario using the platform.
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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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    • Let's you create dedicated (permanent) meeting rooms for recurring meetings/training.
    • Easy overview of all past events/webinars.
    • Branding of a meeting room with company logo possible.
    • Lots of features that make the meeting more professional.
    • No need to install software to connect to a webinar.
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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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    RTCLab
    • Connectivity and streaming are not always reliable and a webpage needs to be reloaded.
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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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    RTCLab
    Absolutely love the features of Livewebinar and it's probably the most advanced Live webinar solution that I have used. Even with the absence of a native mobile app, the platform is useable on mobile or tablet screen sizes. There's no noticeable lags during the presentation and users find it easy to use and navigate during the presentations / webinars.
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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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    RTCLab
    LiveWebinar is an all in one solution for daily meetings and events. I made it a 9 as it is almost perfect in its current form. However, there were some reported issues on mobile connectivity as there is no native app of LiveWebinar for both iOS and Android. Moreover, I'm hoping that LiveWebinar could connect to my Google, Outlook, or iCal calendar to synch events regularly. I'd love to see my calendar inside LiveWebinar which makes it to the top of the feature wishlist for this platform. Further, if LiveWebinar is able to handle multiple day events or meetings with just a few clicks, that would make this platform, a 11/10 rating!
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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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    RTCLab
    Customer support of LiveWebinar is top notch. They are available almost 24x7x365. I rarely wait for the next response and given that people are not suppose to work on holidays or weekends, their support agents are always there to lend a helping hand. The responses are spot on. It's not that I need help with platform having some issues or anything, but for general account questions, they quickly respond to each and every query I raise over to support. Definitely one of the best things with LiveWebinar.
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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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    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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    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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    RTCLab
    • Lower cost of ownership
    • Same or superior features
    • No additional software needs to be installed to join the meeting since everybody has already a web browser.
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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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    RTCLab
    • LiveWebinar has made coordinating schedules for training easier.
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    ScreenShots

    LiveWebinar Screenshots

    Screenshot of live streamingScreenshot of LiveWebinar brandingScreenshot of Room view on laptop and mobileScreenshot of Room view with live chat and participantsScreenshot of Room view YouTube PlayerScreenshot of User panel - registration forms + automation