Google Meet vs Zoho Meeting: Which is a better fit?

Babu: So myself, Babu, and I'm the leading software development team on a major platform in the company called British Car Auctions. We are based out of UK and Europe. I would rate not five, but just four for Google Meets because we mostly use Teams and Slack for the other purposes. We use Slack and Teams predominantly, but Google Meets is one of the key thing when we jump between the teams. I mean, for example, we are part of engineering team when we want to communicate with the business team or some other team internally communicating. Most of the leadership team, they prefer to use Google Meets, that's what we realized. But predominantly in the engineering team, we are using Teams and Slack. Microsoft Teams and Slack. It's not about any particular reason, but it's just the leadership team, they stick with the Google Meets instead. They don't want to use Microsoft Teams and Slack chat in the group. Whenever they want to communicate within other engineering teams or security teams, they usually schedule a meeting with Google Meets. We work from home, but literally leadership team, can join from anywhere. For security and other purposes, sometimes Microsoft Teams and Slack won't be available in public network with all the restrictions. That's the reason they go for. But we are pretty much okay with whatever we want to present all those things. It's the business leadership team's decision if they want to go for Google Meets. It's not a big deal because I believe it's not a basic setup which is needed for Slack and Teams organization and you need to give specific access through an EAD or support team. It'll be just like if you have a Google ID, it'll be more like accessing the Google Meets and all those things. But the thing is, if you want to use your official email ID, you need to create an email ID for your personal account, you can use it, but it's just advisable to use a company account. You need to map it. For example, my email ID would be a company email ID, then I need to map it to the Gmail one so that I can use the Google Meet. That's the one extra bit of process if you don't want to use the personal Gmail ID. I would say in rating purposes, I would not go for 10, but somewhere around eight. It's just they can use it like a backup or if they have any restricted content or want to use. Say they have some issues with Google Meet because they can't directly join into that Google Meet if they want to share any. Because it's about data governance, how data will be shared in this public portal. Because if you have Microsoft Teams and Slack, it'll be an enterprise account dedicated to your organization. But for Google Meet, I would say it'll be more of a general discussions or a business meeting. All those things. It'll be very handy instead of Microsoft Teams. So it'll be more of business discussions and general thoughts or any white board meetings. We can organize it in Google Meet so that anyone, like people joining from traveling can use it.

Susan: Hi, my name is Susan. I'm a Tech Ninja. I give Zoho Meeting a five out of five rating. For more reviews like this, click link below. Probably, most everybody else was Zoom. I switched primarily because I was using Zoho One and it was integrated with that. So one of the reasons I chose Zoho meeting is because it's integrated with Zoho CRM, so everything's in one place. But actually, I found a lot of features within Zoho Meeting that I like better than Zoom. One of the features was that when I was using Zoom, if I wanted to share a video with someone, I would have to download it and then email them because my storage on Zoom was getting filled up. With Zoho Meeting, once I record a video, it sends me an email with the link embedded, and all I'll have to do is forward that email link to my customer and they can just click on it. So, it was a lot less steps for me to do a meeting share like that. The other thing I like is there's actually a lot of features within Zoho. They had a chat area where I can take notes, besides the chat, and share that with people on the call. So there were just some features that Zoom may have integrated since I switched about a year ago, but there's some things in Zoom that I had never seen in Zoom... Or Zoho that I had never seen in Zoom before. So, that was really good. As far as integrating Zoho Meeting, it was pretty easy for me because I have been in tech for a while. It was a little disconcerting for my customers, because they were so used to Zoom that there was a little bit of a learning curve, but not much. Once they realized this was very similar to Zoom, it worked really well for them as well. So if you're looking for something else besides Zoom, I recommend Zoho Meeting as an alternative. One of the reasons I really made the switch is because I'm using Zoho One, I'm paying a fee of $37 per month for all the tools within Zoho One. And there are a lot. Zoho Meeting is just one of them. But one of the other things was just by integrating my invoicing and my meetings into Zoho, I was paying initially with Zoom and FreshBooks, $40 a month, and I'm only paying $37 a month with Zoho Meeting. So if you're looking to consolidate not only your tools as well as your cost into something, I recommend Zoho One as an alternative. But test it out.