Collaboration tools are now at the heart of the business team experience. If you want your employees to be productive, then you need to give them a way to connect with their colleagues.
As more companies turn to video conferencing and screen sharing tools to support the remote workforce, the number of options available continues to grow. Today’s decision makers need to pick between leading heritage companies like Cisco, and new contenders, like Workplace from Facebook.
So, how do you make sure that you’re making the right choice for your team?
Cisco Webex Meetings offers a premium experience for business leaders in search of secure and reliable collaboration tools. With Webex, you can add collaborative options to an environment that you already know and trust.
Workplace from Facebook makes meetings more accessible to everyone, with support for guest accounts, live streaming, and tools that make video conversations feel natural.
Let’s compare the two.
Workplace Rooms Features
Workplace from Facebook Rooms is one of the more recent collaboration tools to hit the market. Designed by the Workplace from Facebook group, Rooms gives people a place to share ideas, thoughts, and even screens with members of their team.
You can launch a Room from anywhere, including within a Facebook Group or on your news feed. Plus, Workplace Rooms also offers access to easy live streaming, for quick video announcements. During streams, users can host polls, Q&As, and even check the health stats of their video.
Features of Workplace Rooms include:
- Support for 50 participants per room
- Easy access for any device
- Facebook Portal hosting
- Live video broadcasting
- Guest access support
- Q&A and polling features
- Auto-generated captions with translation
- Screensharing (window or full screen)
Workplace Rooms users can share their screen to add context to a meeting or turn on automatic captions. Captions are excellent for helping those with hearing impairments or no headphones to stay active in a meeting. Plus, Workplace even offers live translation for a range of languages.
Cisco Webex Features
The Cisco Webex portfolio includes everything from Webex Meetings, for video conversations, to Webex Teams for instant chat and file-sharing. You can even design your own meeting rooms with Cisco dedicated hardware, or tap into Cisco calling for business voice.
Cisco’s incredible history in the communication environment will make the Webex portfolio a natural choice for many teams who already feel comfortable with Cisco devices The solutions from Cisco are globally supported, secure, and reliable.
