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Collaborative Presentation Tools

Collaborative presentation tools plays an important role in today’s business, simplifying various tasks in all part of organization, such as, marketers can connect to their clients immediately, technical support Engineers can connect to their customer machines remotely to troubleshoot issues, trainers can perform training remotely, without need for in class session, salesmen can demonstrate product remotely and many other uses. By using presentation tools companies are saving travel costs, reaching faster resolution on matters which earlier needed travel, and are collaborative on content.

There are various presentation tools available in market today, which gives broad range of options, some of the tools are DimDim, Microsoft LiveMeeting, WebEx, Acrobat Connect, GoTo Meeting, LotusLive, ShowmyPC and many more. Below are the dimensions which should be looked before deciding to select a presentation tool for an organization. The key dimensions are features, security, performance and cost.

Features

Conferencing: Audio, video

Recording: Phone, Presentation

Q&A Pannel Chat Browser Compatibility Sharing User Interface Dial in Number Toll Free Number

Performance Video Audio Page Load time

Documentation Deployment Doc Admin Doc Liscence

Cost Maintenance Hosting License

Security Access Control List Meeting ID

When selecting a presentation tool, the business unit planning to use the product should review the full cycle of the use cases and identify the features which would be critical. Features and functionalities of the presentation tool ranges from – phone and screen recordings, options to play and download these recordings, chat console and saving the chat logs, voting option, monitor the seating chart and the geographical reference of attendees and Q&A control panel and more.