Cvent Event Diagramming vs. Slido

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Cvent Event Diagramming
Score 9.4 out of 10
N/A
Cvent Event Diagramming (Social Tables) is a software application that allows event planners and properties to work together online. Cvent's cloud-based hospitality software positions event properties to increase sales and work more collaboratively and efficiently with their event, and meeting customers. The vendor boasts over 175,000 unique users who rely on Social Tables and state that over 4 million events have been planned within the platform.
$199
per month billed annually
Slido
Score 9.4 out of 10
N/A
Slido is an audience interaction platform that helps users to get the most out of meetings and events by crowdsourcing top questions and engaging participants with live polls and quizzes. From internal communications professionals to team leaders, conference organizers, and individual presenters, Slido can be used by those looking to enable open conversation at a live or virtual meeting. Slido works with popular video conferencing and presentation platforms and integrates with Microsoft…
$49
Pricing
Cvent Event DiagrammingSlido
Editions & Modules
ESSENTIAL
$0
PROFESSIONAL
$199
per month billed annually
CUSTOM PACKAGE
Contact
Engage (one-time)
$49.00
Engage (EDU annual)
$72.00
Professional (EDU annual)
$120.00
Engage (annual)
$144.00
Professional (one-time)
$199.00
Professional (annual)
$720.00
Institution (EDU annual)
$720.00
Premium (one-time)
$999.00
Enterprise (annual)
$2400.00
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Cvent Event DiagrammingSlido
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee$144 per year
Additional DetailsAdditional users are extra $100.00 - $600.00
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Cvent Event DiagrammingSlido
Considered Both Products
Cvent Event Diagramming
Chose Cvent Event Diagramming
It has similar tools that MeetingMatrix has, but the Collaboration, or allowing vendors access is the feature that I appreciate the most that Cvent Event Diagraming offers that MeetingMatrix did not have. It is also easier to save as a PDF to print and email a version to …
Slido

No answer on this topic

Features
Cvent Event DiagrammingSlido
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Cvent Event Diagramming
7.0
3 Ratings
18% below category average
Slido
8.9
8 Ratings
2% above category average
Responsive Design for Web Access6.32 Ratings8.98 Ratings
Mobile Application7.13 Ratings8.97 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile7.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Online Meetings / Events
Comparison of Online Meetings / Events features of Product A and Product B
Cvent Event Diagramming
7.3
1 Ratings
14% below category average
Slido
9.1
7 Ratings
5% above category average
Calendar integration6.41 Ratings00 Ratings
Meeting initiation7.31 Ratings00 Ratings
Integrates with social media6.41 Ratings9.27 Ratings
Slideshows7.31 Ratings00 Ratings
Event registration9.11 Ratings8.84 Ratings
Record meetings / events00 Ratings9.45 Ratings
Online Events Collaboration
Comparison of Online Events Collaboration features of Product A and Product B
Cvent Event Diagramming
3.2
1 Ratings
87% below category average
Slido
9.1
9 Ratings
4% above category average
Live chat2.71 Ratings9.18 Ratings
Q&A3.61 Ratings9.29 Ratings
Audience polling00 Ratings9.29 Ratings
Presentation Streaming00 Ratings8.76 Ratings
Online Events Security
Comparison of Online Events Security features of Product A and Product B
Cvent Event Diagramming
7.6
2 Ratings
10% below category average
Slido
8.8
7 Ratings
5% above category average
User authentication7.32 Ratings8.45 Ratings
Participant roles & permissions7.32 Ratings9.26 Ratings
Confidential attendee list8.21 Ratings00 Ratings
Online Events Marketing
Comparison of Online Events Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Cvent Event Diagramming
6.0
2 Ratings
32% below category average
Slido
-
Ratings
Branding options5.72 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration to Marketing Automation5.72 Ratings00 Ratings
Attendee list export6.41 Ratings00 Ratings
Virtual Event
Comparison of Virtual Event features of Product A and Product B
Cvent Event Diagramming
5.5
3 Ratings
37% below category average
Slido
-
Ratings
Registration, RSVP, and ticketing7.31 Ratings00 Ratings
Email marketing7.31 Ratings00 Ratings
Audience engagement1.81 Ratings00 Ratings
Networking7.32 Ratings00 Ratings
Event analytics3.61 Ratings00 Ratings
Audience Engagement
Comparison of Audience Engagement features of Product A and Product B
Cvent Event Diagramming
-
Ratings
Slido
9.2
27 Ratings
3% above category average
Quizzes00 Ratings10.027 Ratings
Survey Features00 Ratings9.28 Ratings
Gamification Features00 Ratings8.75 Ratings
Engagement Tracking Tools00 Ratings8.87 Ratings
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User Ratings
Cvent Event DiagrammingSlido
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(53 ratings)
9.4
(58 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.4
(3 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(3 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
8.3
(25 ratings)
8.2
(6 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Cvent Event DiagrammingSlido
Likelihood to Recommend
Cvent
It's the best software I've used. It allowed me to collaborate on a huge event with multiple stakeholders to ensure the main planner understood the venue and capacity issues. It's also allowed me to realize the scope of venue needs and abilities. Very helpful in visualizing a space
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Cisco
How was it well suited to me? - The leaderboard and freedom to edit the quiz. The fastest finger quiz to announce the winner based on fairness. The ease of login through QR Scanner. Also, it did not pinch my pocket at all. The best part is this $25 earning opportunity via feedback :-). And the list goes on... The less appropriate part was mentioned earlier in ways that I see improvements with Slido, coming to utilize Slido everywhere and in various ways. Overall, I love the AI suggestions.
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Pros
Cvent
  • Scaling - I love that you can scale a layout in the program, and it tends to be pretty spot on. For example, we could have 20 different measurements for a street, once we type in a single measurement the rest auto fills (and is REALLY close to accurate).
  • Uploading - I love that you can upload images and mark all over them. Particularly, you can upload google earth images for outside festivals, and scale them accordingly.
  • Creating - In the program you can create a diagram based on the size of the room. For example, if you know you have a 40x80 tent, you can make a custom layout and build the whole thing.
  • Setup Templates - These templates make it easy for you to auto fill an entire room with rounds, rectangles or other formations without having to fill them all in individually.
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Cisco
  • Slido integrates well with Microsoft PowerPoint which is very much useful for us.
  • The post poll dashboard reports are very much insightful.
  • Shareable links are created easily with Slido. Also, this saves a lot of time and manual effort for us.
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Cons
Cvent
  • A development that would be useful would be the ability to reorder the diagrams to a custom order in one event so that when exported as one document, they are in an order that can be customized to flow well for the meeting planner.
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Cisco
  • I miss the Slack integration; they used to have this and they deprecated it in the last year or so.
  • I believe they have a nice integration for PowerPoint, would be nice if they had something similar with google slides since that is what we typically use internally.
  • We use the word cloud feature often and sometimes answers seem to get lost (as in don't show up at all) on the screen. for example, an answer will be there, then as more answers come in it disappears, and when we get to a certain threshold of answers it somehow pops back up again. It's not the worst but sometimes someone will ping me that their submission didn't make the word cloud and they're bummed.
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Likelihood to Renew
Cvent
No answers on this topic
Cisco
It gives High engagement of audience or trainees during live workshops and easily connect with other software. Ease of use for both participants and host for live interaction and workshops. Since it doesn't require any app to download and can be used via browser. It understands the issue of users and gives updates time to time.
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Usability
Cvent
Cvent Diagramming really does cover the bases for us. It's an easy to use program that anyone can figure out. It's got collaboration features so we can share with clients and they can make their own edits. Venues can send us there floorplans and send directly to us for edits. Overall: their templates, table numbering feature, measuring, scaling and shape/object tools make building floorplans easy
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Cisco
Overall, it is a handy tool. We do not use it too often in meetings; we started using it creatively for quizzes and Q&A with radio/TV audiences. Producers or Sponsors often explicitly request the option to include this particular type of interaction, and we are happy to do so. It helps that the setup is easy, so is copying events, etc. I sometimes miss Switcher (for our live events), but I understand the reasons it was phased out
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Reliability and Availability
Cvent
No answers on this topic
Cisco
It is available all the time as it doesn't create issues while using.
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Performance
Cvent
No answers on this topic
Cisco
It's great working and doing collaboration. Require more working on page reloading
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Support Rating
Cvent
The support was exceptional, and they remained an arm's reach away for when we ran into any questions after we began using the tool. Overall, we experienced phenomenal customer service. We also had more than one web-based call where their team would walk us through examples and answer any questions we had.
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Cisco
I had to use the support for this tool only once. The response was very rapid, very professional and fulfilled my needs immediately. Online support services are sometimes advertised only to lure people into buying the product but and non-existent or difficult to use afterwards. Not with Slido. This was not an automated chatbot and the direct contact really helped me
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In-Person Training
Cvent
No answers on this topic
Cisco
It was very helpful knowing the software and its features.
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Online Training
Cvent
No answers on this topic
Cisco
I find that training is very informative as it helps understanding the software usages and implementation. It gives the usgaes area and how to create gamification and live Q&A section so that you can use in live team meetings and workshops. It is very useful in training and webinars where a large pool of people are there.
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Alternatives Considered
Cvent
It has similar tools that MeetingMatrix has, but the Collaboration, or allowing vendors access is the feature that I appreciate the most that Cvent Event Diagraming offers that MeetingMatrix did not have. It is also easier to save as a PDF to print and email a version to vendors as well
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Cisco
Slido has various upsides when compared to Kahoot or Quizizz. Firstly, Slido offers live video integration so people don't have to switch tabs to interact with us during events or webinars. Secondly, Slido has multiple options like MCQs, rating and ranking for polls which increases its use case. Lastly, its user interface is way easier to navigate for the audeince and the results are in real time. The analytics provided after the meetings are also very helpful.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Cvent
No answers on this topic
Cisco
No everything is working perfectly fine
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Scalability
Cvent
No answers on this topic
Cisco
It very scalable to large pool audiences during live townhall or meetings.
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Professional Services
Cvent
No answers on this topic
Cisco
It's effective
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Return on Investment
Cvent
  • Has saved us 10+ staff hours per event.
  • Has streamlined our registration and check-in process, saving us an hour+ on-site, plus ensuring a safer and more enjoyable experience for staff and attendees.
  • Has saved us up to $1,000+ for signature events when managing F&B budget items.
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Cisco
  • Slido has helped us analyze essential data from our CAB meetings, such as the participants' up or down voting in Q&A and the specified poll insights
  • Our teams have been able to collect relevant information from larger groups within our organization
  • We've seen more people interacting with us now we use Slido than before
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ScreenShots

Cvent Event Diagramming Screenshots

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Slido Screenshots

Screenshot of Slido Live pollsScreenshot of Slido Event analyticsScreenshot of Slido Audience Q&AScreenshot of Slido Live pollsScreenshot of Slido QuizzesScreenshot of Slido for remote setup