We performed a comparison between HCL Sametime and TeamViewer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zoom Video Communications, Cisco, TeamViewer and others in Virtual Meetings."I can view the status and availability of colleagues or team members, which makes it easy to approach them when they are available."
"TeamViewer has been one of the easiest, right off the bat products, that we have employed at the college. We have had no issues. It's been one of the easiest solutions to pick up."
"From my perspective, the most important is the login."
"The solution is a very good tool for monitoring and for remote access. Anyone is able to use it, it is simple to use."
"It's very beneficial and time effective on how we are able to provide quick support. We've quadrupled our effectiveness as an IT support because we have cut down all that unnecessary travel time, even between floors."
"TeamViewer is fast and easy to manipulate."
"The document control is quite good."
"Getting started with TeamViewer was easy, with a very straightforward usage"
"The solution is scalable."
"The webinar should be integrated into Sametime for a larger number of participants."
"The product can sometimes crash."
"I don’t see any areas where improvement is needed."
"It would be useful if the solution could facilitate more than one remote user accessing my desktop at a time."
"TeamViewer has a legacy and may not be using the latest UI trends."
"The installation and the update agent could improve."
"Sometimes it lags."
"The business interface is clunky and not well-documented."
"Every now and then you'll get a silent crash and you relaunch the application. But it happens no more than with anything else in the Windows environment."
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HCL Sametime is ranked 26th in Virtual Meetings while TeamViewer is ranked 3rd in Virtual Meetings with 84 reviews. HCL Sametime is rated 8.0, while TeamViewer is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of HCL Sametime writes "Easily communicate and share files with colleagues". On the other hand, the top reviewer of TeamViewer writes "Solid cross-platform remote control, but with kludgy central management and some serious feature issues on macOS". HCL Sametime is most compared with Zoom, whereas TeamViewer is most compared with TeamViewer Tensor, Microsoft Remote Desktop Services, Parallels Access, ISL Online and LogMeIn Central.
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