Google Meet vs. RingCentral Video

Well suited for both our workplace and virtual meetings, especially when people are not in one place. It is also more appropriate with audio, visual, and captions. It is also more appropriate to send a recording to your drive for reference on parts that a host may not have captured.

I've never had any technical difficulties while participating on a RingCentral Video meeting. One thing that was cumbersome was when they migrated from RingCentral Meetings to RingCentral Video, it was a bit labor intensive to migrate existing meetings, so that could have been easier.

• I think it's fairly easy to operate. Once people get in, they know where the buttons are and stuff.
• The chat's good.
• It does good transcriptions.
• I like the backgrounds that are available.
• I like the just overall, I guess the layout is simple and most people know how to use it, which is good.

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• One click solution to conduct video calls and conferences.
• Intuitive UI and great app to view call recordings, run reports and analyse call data.
• Easy to set up and adopt quickly.

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• One of the challenges that I see is that whenever we have in a meeting, we won't be able to drop some of the documents that we have. That's one of the big challenges which I see in Google Meet. At that point of time, we either have to Slack or we have to share an email. We cannot do that, like sending that particular document in the Google meet chat.

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• Only a rudimentary add-in for Outlook if using on-prem Exchange
• Bugs in screen sharing that include an "application was minimized" error and the inability to share audio from a pre-recorded video
• No simple way to join a RingCentral Video from the phone app without typing in the exact meeting ID, which can be tedious.

Google Hangouts Meet is easy to use and easy to access. I've experienced very few technical issues compared to other similar software options. It's a little less formal than Microsoft Teams but makes it easy to access other google items such as google drive and google docs. Meeting in hangout gives you an easy-to-use hub to not only meet for planning or team-building purposes but to easily share information that can help you with your meeting goals.

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Google Meet is very easy and simple to use. I can schedule a meeting right on my calendar - it literally takes a few seconds. There is no additional app I have to open to schedule anything. Guests can click on the link easily to join any meetings. 10/10!

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Easy to use once it has been set up and onboarded with your company. Once you learn how to use all of the various features and dial out to other countries, it is a great product and in my opinion, superior to some of its competitors on the market currently.

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Google does a great job of providing tech support for this product, as it does many others. Similarly, Google has FAQs that cover a large amount of issues faced by users. Problems have not persisted in our use of this product. Problems are resolved quickly and easily, with or without personal Google support.

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Did not require support

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Google Meet gives faster screen sharing speed than others. Also, it has a feature that the meeting creator can make meeting admin to anyone, can go for a short break and again join back. Also, in Google Meet, one can use a single link and make meetings using it multiple times.

We selected RingCentral for calling and we got RingCentral Video as part of the bundle. We thought we could reduce costs by using RingCentral for both calling and meetings. However, RingCentral Video is simply not a mature platform for meetings. Other options are better, which makes RingCentral calling a less attractive option.

• I would say, recently they introduced the transcription feature as well, so we can get the summary. It’s easy to conclude a meeting and send the minutes of the meeting very, very fast. Before, it used to take ages because you had to manually write down the notes — now Gemini does it for you. So that’s a big reduction in the manual effort we usually do. Also, the recurring meetings feature is something that I think really makes an impact. You don’t need to worry about rescheduling again and again — it does that for you.
• It’s positive. As I said, there are definitely some improvements to be made, because if everything is perfect, I think that’s not the best product — there’s always room for improvement.

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• It helps us create a better picture of the goals and updates that we need to do to our everyday activities, not relying on emails that may or may not be clear.
• It's easy for everyone to join and we can coach in a more personal way.

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