With our first application post for videoconferences , we end at the moment with a third post dedicated to applications to perform videoconferences and telework as comfortable as possible.

Zoom

The most used and downloaded application of the year 2020 because of confinement, with the aim of performing videoconferences.

We have already talked about Zoom in the occasional post and these are some of the updates today.

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Zoom gives us a wide range of possibilities to hire your service, adapting to our needs, with different plans:

· Zoom Education : From 20 participants to 149 participants , with a price of € 84 per year per participant. The main feature is that it is integrated with LMS Zoom, Moodle, Canvas, Desire2lear, Sakai and Blackboard.

· Zoom for medical care : To hire this service you must contact Zoom. It integrates perfectly with Epic.

· Basic free and individual use up to 100 users , but with a limitation of 40 minutes per session , although meetings 1 to 1 are unlimited.

· Pro : € 139.90 per year per license. With limited meetings up to 100 participants, and those of unlimited group. You can transmit on social networks. You have 1GB of cloud recording per license.

· Business : € 189.90 per year per license. Allows meetings of up to 300 participants . Unique login, cloud recordings transcripts, administered domains and you can put the image of your company's brand.

· Enterprise : € 189.90 per year per license. Meetings of up to 500 participants and with the Enterprise+ plan up to 1000 participants.

In all licenses, including free, videoconferences are in 720p of video and audio.

FreeConferencecall

It is another application to make videoconferences. In order to start a video call, you must create an account or enter a meeting from its website, and the application will be downloaded to follow the meeting.

The company has a very peculiar customer to capture, and you choose what you want to pay. If you pay more than € 4, they include a personalized greeting in the application.

It has several plans, but include the same. Do not confuse with Freeconference, which has 3 types of plans , Free with a maximum capacity of 100 calls in calls, maximum of 5 web calls, unlimited videoconferences ..., Started 9.99 $ a month, with maximum capacity of 100 participants in calls, maximum of 5 participants on the website, unlimited videoconferences, 100 minutes of calls internations per month ... and pro with a price of 34,99 $ a month, with a maximum capacity of 100 calls in calls, maximum of 100 participants on the web, unlimited videoconferences, 750 minutes of calls hospitalizations per month ...

LINE

It is an application of messaging for mobile, Tabests, PC and Mac. In addition, you can perform video calls, called both 3G/4G per VoIP, send images, audios ... Line is the great eastern competitor of WhatsApp. It is free and group video calls only show up to 6 participants on the same screen, but allows you up to 500 people in the same video call.

Gotomeleting

It is a software package oriented to videoconferences, online meetings, shared desktop use. You can integrate both into Slack, Microsoft 365, Google Calendar and Salesforce . It has 3 plans, Professional that costs € 10.75 per month per user (up to 150 participants), Business with a price of € 14.33 per month per user (up to 250 participants) and the Enterprise , where 500 to 3000 participants can be connected from 500 to 3000 participants.

Bluejeans

cloud -based interoperable video -expression service Its intuitive system makes users very attractive, in addition to the video calls and audio are in HD .

Bluejeans has 3 plans : standard with a price of $ 9.99 per month per user (maximum of 50 participants in video calls), pro with the price of $ 13.99 a month per user and with a maximum of 75 participants in a video call, and Enterprise with a maximum of 100 participants in a video call. This last plan must contact them to request it.

Slack

It is the perfect communication tool for companies, whatever its size. The possibility of creating both private and public channels makes work in your company safe. With Slack Calls you can perform video calls or calls with the other participants. The maximum participants of a videoconference is 15 people . Slack offers us several plans:

· Standard : up to 10,000 messages can be stored. Access to guests. Unlimited applications. 10 GB of storage per member. Its price is € 6.25 per active user per month, invoiced annually.

· Plus : Integrated connections with a great variety of authentication suppliers and the option of customizing SAML. This plan has a service level agreement (SLA) of 99.99% availability. 20 GB of storage per member. All this for € 11.75 per user per month if paid annually.

· Enterprise Grid : Customize Slack to your business. It complies with security agreements such as Finra, Hipa and Fedramp. Encryption keys administration. 1 TB of storage per member. You must contact them to hire this plan.

Skype

It is a chat software distributed by Microsoft . The application is available for the different Windows, Android, iOS or Macos platforms. It allows up to 50 participants in the same conference, both audio and video in HD , where you can activate live subtitles if you need it.

You can make phone calls if you have credit in your account. You can see the cost of the call in the following table.

Wechat

It is the famous Chinese application for the different mobile devices, in addition to the Windows and Macos desktop version. It offers messenger, free calls, RRSS and an online payment system. The application can also make videoconferences but with a maximum of 9 participants at the same time .

Others

There are many more programs, such as Jitsi Meet , which we dedicate a post of how to use it. Another application for videoconferences is Spike , which provides the possibility of making a video call through its website and the different applications for both iOS and Android. ICQ is an instant messaging customer released in 1996 and that today allows video calls through its ICQ network.

Gowtech makes an endless applications available, such as the second post to perform videoconferences . Teleworking is essential for companies and their workers and we put all possible information in these three posts .