Adobe Connect vs RingCentral Events: Which is a better fit?

Speaker 1: Hi, my name is Andrew. I'm an SEO manager. I would give Adobe Connect a four out of five. For more reviews like this click below. Prior to using Adobe Connect, we used Zoom. And we still use Zoom for some of our meetings, however, some meetings just lend themselves to the Adobe Connect's environment. The reason that we chose to go with Adobe Connect is because we use many of the other Adobe products and it integrates well with them for some of our web browsers that we need docked internally. Getting started with Adobe Connect was very easy because it operates on a cloud, we basically just logged in and went from there. For any organization looking at Adobe Connect, I'd recommend that they look at some of the alternatives out there, Zoom, Cisco's tool. There are many that are out there, and it really is just about an organizational fit that's important.

Heejin: My name is Heejin and I was a program associate at Apex, which is a small nonprofit that aimed to increase API representation at all levels of government. And I give Hopin a three out of five. Before using Hopin, my organization held all of our virtual events on Zoom and we could see that we weren't getting the level engagement that people really wanted or could get out of our events. Everyone was using Zoom, people were exhausted and sick of it, and it really just felt like we wanted to give our users and our guest speakers a better experience. My organization decided to move with Hopin because the most important thing was that it would be user-friendly. There's so many new apps and technologies that people have to download all the time, so we wanted to make sure that it would be worth it and really easy and intuitive so folks didn't have to waste time getting glossed on the, "How do I use this app?" And could just really engage and jump in with our content. And thankfully with our organization's size and for the event size we were going for, we found something that was within our budget. When I started using Hopin, there's definitely a learning curve. Me and our staff had to really sit down and work out all the kinks, a lot of things that you don't think about, like the sequencing events and things like that. But I would say that there was enough video tutorials and just through working it out, it was user-friendly enough from an event organizer perspective to be as functional as we needed to be for the event. So my recommendation for anyone who's using the technology is that anytime you bring on speakers, the process will be a little bit more complicated for them than a regular event attendee. So we always made sure to set up time with the speakers, do a test practice run so that they could get really familiar with the technology, so that they wouldn't be distracted on the day of, and we could avoid all the technical difficulties possible.