FoxDen (Discontinued) vs. Zeen

FoxDen tended to work slightly better for very small video conferences. The audio was typically reliable, so it would be ok to use for audio conferencing. It is definitely not ready for prime time: it cannot handle very large conferences. It didn't seem ready to be used on mobile either. I also think it's better suited for a smaller company.

Incentivized

Zeen is perfect for daily stand-ups and quick calls with customers.

• Easy to join meetings
• Audio is fairly reliable
• Moderately easy to host meetings

Incentivized

• I love the fact that I can save the audio recording of the call
• When you log in to a meeting, your video is on by default - which seems more natural for our use case
• Having the ability to set an agenda prior to the call, is really useful

• Horrible video quality. It basically never worked, and we stopped using the video feature.
• Buggy behavior all the time. Dropped calls, loss of screen sharing, rendered unusable most of the time.
• Poor response by the vendor to issues. The answer was basically "we know it's unusable, and we're trying to figure that out. There's nothing we can do right now."

Incentivized

• The on-boarding process for Team spaces is a little confusing and could be improved

I believe they selected FoxDen because we use ReadyTalk for voice conferencing and FoxDen represented a cost savings compared to our previous Skype for Business investment. However, in the end, most of our company has abandoned ever using FoxDen and, instead, still uses all of the products listed above (Skype for Business, Google Hangouts, Slack) or just plain ReadyTalk voice conferencing.

Incentivized

Zeen wins over its competition because of its ease of use, tightly controlled feature set and the fact that no additional software is required.

• Increased the length of our meetings due to copious amounts of time spent trying to fix the video and screen sharing.
• Added frustration for everyone who attempted to use it.
• Ultimately resulted in a lot of money lost on video equipment that everyone stopped using in favor of voice-only conferencing due to the faulty video.

Incentivized

• Overall, Zeen reduces time fussing about getting into meetings; especially the fact that you don't need to install additional software.