Adobe Connect Review
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What is Adobe Connect?
Adobe 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.
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- Live chat (62)9.494%
- High quality audio (64)8.787%
- Desktop sharing (64)8.080%
- High quality video (64)7.272%
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Meetings
$50
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Webinars & Learning
$130
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per host/per month
Small Meetings
Free
On Premise
Forever free for up to 3 participants
Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
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- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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What is Adobe Connect?
Adobe Connect is a web conferencing platform that provides standard features like video, audio, screen-sharing, polls, chat, Q&A, and document transfers, as well as the ability for 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. Some extensions that are available include, but are not limited to, Closed Captioning support, Word Cloud (for visualizing live discussions), and MP3 player for adding music to users’ meeting rooms.
Users can create or style their own meeting room layouts which can be saved. They can also add multiple chat pods, polls, quizzes, simulations, breakout rooms, HD video, and games to make meetings and online conferencing more interactive. Additionally, Adobe Connect allows for presenters and hosts to utilize a “virtual backstage” to chat and collaborate outside of the main meeting or conference. It also allows for users to go into a “preparation mode” to make adjustments right before or during a session.
Pricing for Adobe Connect Meetings ranges from $50/mo up to $370/mo. Additional webinar capabilities through Adobe Connect Webinar ranges $140/mo to $580/mo, from a webinar with 100 participants to one with up to 1000 participants.
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Adobe Connect Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac |
| Mobile Application | No |
Frequently Asked Questions
Adobe 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.
GoTo Meeting, Webinato, and Cisco Webex Support (discontinued) are common alternatives for Adobe Connect.
Reviewers rate Live chat and Confidential attendee list highest, with a score of 9.4.
The most common users of Adobe Connect are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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June 18, 2018
Adobe Connects the Dots--Mostly
- Adobe is a communication platform that has benefited us as it allows us to "transact" our meetings. Without it or a similar platform, we could not host our meetings at all.
- Adobe requires many manual steps to share a webinar or something from the archive. The process is cumbersome for the user and could be improved.
- In our organization, the leadership roles change sometimes annually. There has been an issue with the NAME on the account being "married" to the original user rather than to the organization. This fact is problematic as it reflects a person at login that is no longer with the organization. It is also difficult to change admin settings for leadership changes. In an ever-moving organization, we would like these features improved without compromising security.
June 15, 2018
Function and Form with a Learning Curve
- Provided a larger platform for us to expand our training nationally. Regardless of location, we've been able to provide L&D resources to every level of the company.
- The easy user interface has allowed us to provide accounts for multiple departments bringing their meetings together nationwide with video and presentations, rather than just a conference call.
March 18, 2018
A one stop shop with very mediocre products
- Very positive ROI when the same team is located in different geographical areas.
February 28, 2018
One of the best
- Confidential - but I can say the impact is massive
February 16, 2017
Great webinar software!
- Adobe connect has helped address travel time and costs. This has positively impacted our business objectives.
- Adobe connect does not have a per user fee. This is helpful when doing informational webinars for users across the state.
- The content management area has helped with server costs and information sharing.
July 11, 2016
Adobe Captivate - Connecting Colleagues
- We did not have to pay for as much employee travel since communication could be carried out over long distances with this software.
- Many people could receive training at one time/in one virtual meeting.
- Employees could also receive additional, on-demand support with ease, since major travel arrangements were not needed to access colleagues.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Our clients love it and our consultants struggle with any other tool.
- Lack of reporting can be a drag because finding who attended what event is necessary, especially if a client complains about services. Tracking attendance can help in those client discussions.
- We simply couldn't offer a year of collaborative learning with a group of clients if we didn't have cumulative meeting rooms.
May 04, 2016
A love hate relationship with Adobe Connect.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Positive: Creation of Video Catalogue for existing customers.
- Helps customer retention through nurturing and providing of content that is easily catalogued.
- Positive: Links for sales & customer service.
- Rooms and layouts can be styled and cloned easily. This saves time and ensures that content is always available once it has been created. Definitely helps to add to the bottom line through the professionalism.
- Negative: Use of some PowerPoint presentations and LeadGen webinars.
- Some presentations fail and partially load for no apparent reason. Has meant that some webinars weren't as fluid as we liked and time lost to figure out the issues.
- Negative: API with Marketo.
- The syncing of information between AdobeConnect and Marketo is not entirely reliable. Of 100 leads, about 40 will synced, where the last 60 will have to be manually checked and converted. This means that a CSV file is pulled from Adobe and also from Marketo, where every signup is then cross verified manually. Extremely time consuming.
- Negative: Can't use KeyNotes.
- Means that some presentations have to be converted to ensure usage. Animations are lost and other design elements.
- Adobe Connect was extremely valuable to the organization community. Providing real-time information to global colleagues brought better morale and engagement.
- Recordings of live events were valuable options for staff that could not adjust their schedules and/or lived in non-concurrent time zones.
- Even for domestic employees the ability to participate without traveling (time, costs, convenience) from as far as other states to as near as in the same building!
October 09, 2015
Real-time solution for cross functional presentations.
- Clearly audience participation and overall engagement is higher when using Connect as opposed to a audio only conference call.
- While we don't presently use Connect for customer facing meetings, I'm hopeful that we will in the near future.
- As a training tool we've seen an 18-20% increase in overall scores related to comprehension.
October 06, 2015
Adobe Connect is great for education
- Adobe Connect has allowed us to deliver our course material synchronously online internationally. This capability has increased our reach and sell our product to customers who would otherwise be unable to attend our courses in person.
October 02, 2015
Adobe Connect - A Highly Interactive Platform
- RVIBE has helped our clients achieve 70-80% ROI on their virtual meetings using Adobe Connect over travel.
- The most important metric is not ROI but time out of field. If you can keep them home they will more likely be happier and they won't loose that valuable time in the field which could trump ROI.
- With all that money saved clients are able to have more touch points with the field. RVIBE designs with pre-launch and 30/60/90 day touch point meetings where feedback is most important.
- Mundane HR information for new hires is made more interesting with RVIBE and Adobe Connect. If it's interesting it will likely be remembered longer term.
- Adobe Connect Platinum Service is top notch and always available.
October 02, 2015
Adobe Connect in Higher Learning
- Cut down on travel costs
September 30, 2015
Adobe Connect - The Luxury Car of Collaboration Tools
- Our company saves thousands of dollars every year by conducting webinars and virtual conferences online instead of live events.
- The leads we get from marketing events are better qualified when we use the webinar module because we can customize the registration forms and see from where the leads were generated.
- I work a lot with the Department of Defense and they have saved hundreds of thousands in training costs, since much of their budgets have been tightened or eliminated.
August 19, 2015
Connect with Adobe
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Adobe Connect has increased student success and student relationships with instructors.
- Employees are now able to log-in for meetings that fit around their schedule while still being able to view archives for missed information.
- Employees from a variety of places are able to come together to gain insights on best practices, new college initiatives and state of the college as well as share ideas.
April 29, 2015
Adobe cannot Connect
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- It was disasterous. We ended up using WebEx
March 11, 2015
Adobe Connect forefront of webinar
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Better customer service with students and alumni as it allows another form of communication
- Another way of reaching out to students
- Being able to access various audiences that cannot be there in person
December 12, 2014
Adobe- You cannot go wrong!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Employee efficiency
- Excellent Training Tool
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- We are able to host several concurrent events every day on one platform with ease.
- I can't imagine delivering our training on any other platform at the moment, the breakout rooms, whiteboards, and status tools alone make it a great experience for participants.
- We are able to replicate the feel of a face to face classroom with this product.
- Our participants seem to enjoy the interactivity and intuitive nature of Adobe Connect for online training.
November 26, 2014
Adobe Connect for Education and Training
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Maintaining records of training completion across the orgainization
- Distributing the management and workflow across the organzation
- Distributing the content creation and management across the organization
- Adobe Connect was roughly HALF the cost of competitor's products for a similar number of seats/concurrent licenses.
February 20, 2014
Adobe Connect: what "grown ups" choose
- Travel Avoidance: Because of Adobe Connect's quality and breadth of features, activities usually relegated strictly to classrooms, including skill practices, small group breakouts, and moderated individual work, can all be accomplished with Adobe Connect. This takes the typical travel Avoidance ROI rationale and puts it on steroids -- when you realize you don't need to go anywhere anymore and still can do a great job.
- Time to productivity: Adobe Connect lets you reach your audiences at time of need, reducing time to productivity. Many customers with high growth and high turnover environments (call centers, customer support, seasonal needs, ACA scale up initiatives at BCBS organizations, to name a few) have found that by using Adobe Connect you can meet the need for knowledge transfer much faster -- and this reduced time to productivity has a big impact in gained productivity and avoided costs.
- Other solutions waste a bunch of time. For example, because Adobe Connect uses "persistent rooms" (the rooms you build stay just as you left them) you never have to waste your time re-building before a meeting. People generally find this saves them 5 - 15 minutes, personally, per meeting. That is time you can be using to conduct another meeting.
- Participants don't have to download things to participate. This is huge. Many times, with other products people slot a hour meeting but plan only 45 or 50 minutes of content because they aren't sure how long it will take their participants to download the plug ins, install everything, and get through security hoops. Consider what the COST of that is in an organization using a product all day long -- if everyone at every meeting has, essentially 10 minutes in every hour where they're waiting for the meeting to be ready. that is EXPENSIVE. With Adobe Connect, you hit the meeting link and bam -- you're in the session. This gives you the full hour for your one hour meetings.
February 11, 2014
Using Adobe Connect for Enterprise-Wide Training
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Rapid deployment of enterprise-wide training
- Scalable classrooms to accommodate large audiences
- Less travel for training participants and less time required away from work to attend training
February 11, 2014
Adobe Connect connects us to our members in new and better ways
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- We turned what was formerly an annual mini-conference into a series of webinars, allowing us and our members to save on meeting and travel expenses.
- We have added value to our members' experience, because we can now offer many virtual opportunities year-round as opposed to only during live events throughout the year. The visual and interactive elements of a webinar make them more attractive as a learning experience than a simple teleconference. And because the webinars are recorded, members can view them at their leisure.
- We've been able to expand what we offer to our chapters in terms of support from the national office, and we've given them an additional means of delivering professional development opportunities to their local members.
February 09, 2014
Great for educational and training presentations
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- This really does not apply to me from the business stand point, however, it did help me improve my presentation skills since I was able to see myself on video and was able to improve my presence and non-verbal cues.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Well, I can not comment on this as I was an user and was not in the process of decision making. However I feel that it certainly helps to facilitate in achieving business objectives. It can surely provide faster solutions.