Major Web Conferencing Vendors

WebEx Web Conferencing
Adobe Connect
Microsoft Live Meeting
iLinc Communications
Citrix (Go To Meeting)
Raindance (InterCall)

Web Conferencing Vendors and Providers

The iLinc Suite
Designed for both online meetings and distance learning applications. Uses a small downloadable client rather than a web browser. Offered as a hosted service or as licensed software on a per-seat basis.
Web Conferencing VendorsRegister for a Free daily demo of iLinc features.

Microsoft Office Live Meeting
Web conferencing, PowerPoint presentations, whiteboard, web tours, live software demos, polling, streaming video.
Web Conferencing VendorsFree Trial

Acrobat Connect
Formally Macromedia Breeze, this company's Web conferencing product is oriented toward online presentations or Webinars, featuring PowerPoint slides via the appshare feature, live and recorded video, audio, Flash presentations, and live screen sharing.
Web Conferencing VendorsFree Trial

Centra
Centra offers three conferencing software products: Centra Symposium for virtual classrooms, Centra Conference for large group presentations, and Centra eMeeting for meetings. All of these are also available as hosted ASP services through CentraNow.
Web Conferencing VendorsFree Trial

WebEx
Offers a Meeting Center for online collaborative work, Support Center for customer support interactions, Training Center for e-learning and online training, and OnStage for large events and seminars.
Web Conferencing VendorsFree Trial

Raindance
Hosted service offering web conferencing, presentations, live webcasting, recording and playback of conferences, application sharing, web tours, and live polling.
Web Conferencing VendorsFree Trial


Additional Vendors:

A+ Conferencing
Low cost, reservationless web conferencing, phone conferencing, and video conferencing.

Agile Live
Offers WebEx web conferencing services on either a pay-per-use basis or per-seat unlimited use basis.

ASAP, by Convoq
Presence-powered conferencing: combines presence awareness and instant messaging with web conferencing. Using an IM interface, you can instantly initiate a conferencing session. Scheduled conferencing is also available. Inexpensive hosted service.

Assemble Conferencing, by Globalive Communications
Exclusively serves wholesalers and resellers. Customers receive a branded self-serve site featuring audio and web conferencing.

aveComm, by Atinav Inc.
Available as a hosted web conferencing service through ASP partners, or can be licensed on an OEM basis.

Batipi
Offers web conferencing services under a variety of payment plans: per minute, per port, or per named user. Also offers webcasting and audio conferencing services.

Blive
Inexpensive hosted web conferencing service for small group meetings.

Cata
Hosted web conferencing service providing online meeting facilities for up to 50 people for a monthly fee.

Click to Meet, by First Virtual Communications (formerly CUSeeMe)
Software for collaborative meetings. Features voice and video telephony, streaming media, and data collaboration. Offers an XML-based developer's kit which allows custom applications to be built.

Communiqué Conferencing
Hosted service offering web conferencing via WebEx and other software, as well as pay-as-you-go phone conferencing.

Conferral
Peer-to-peer web conferencing software that integrates with Microsoft Office. Meeting attendees need only a web browser to view presentations and even concurrently edit documents with the presenter.

Connex International
Hosted service offering web conferencing, webcasting, audio, and video conferencing.

divine
Hosted service offering a variety of conferencing platforms for group collaboration and customer support.

Dreamcast F.A.S.T.
Licensed software featuring realtime audio and video at half or full duplex, along with web conferencing capabilities.

EasyWebPresenter, by EasyConnectFree.com
Inexpensive hosted service for online PowerPoint presentations. (Not a full-featured web conferencing service.) Telephone conference bridge is optional.

eBlvd
Inexpensive peer-to-peer web conferencing service. Flat monthly rate, unlimited usage. Features text chat or Voice over IP, whiteboard, web tours, and application sharing.

eCollaborate, by eDedicated.net (division of Canfone)
Hosted web conferencing service featuring VoIP, PowerPoint presentations, and meeting recording and playback.

eCollaboration
A pay-as-you-go site that makes Microsoft NetMeeting easier to use.

Elluminate
Conferencing software designed for live learning and training. Available as a hosted service or as licensed software.

Encounter Collaborative
Offers a range of hosted conferencing services, from simple screen sharing via their own ShareItNow to full-scale web conferencing using Microsoft LiveMeeting.

e-Vis
A hosted service meant for engineers and manufacturers. In addition to standard web conferencing features, e-Vis offers 2-D and 3-D visualization of models from CAD/CAM systems, project management features, threaded e-mail based discussions, and more.

Extrini
Hosted web conferencing and VoIP service, mainly serving the Asia Pacific region.

ezenia!
Offers two licensed software products to facilitate collaborative meetings: InfoWorkSpace, with text chat, whiteboard, and other web conferencing features, and the Encounter family of products, which incorporates live video and audio.

eZmeeting, by Sigma Design
Hosted web conferencing service sold on a monthly per-seat basis. Offers real-time presentations, with annotation capabilities, whiteboard, file sharing, and instant messaging. Includees a viewer capable of displaying Office documents, PDF files, CAD drawings and 3D models.

GatherPlace
Hosted conferencing service with a simple user interface, featuring remote control, multiple presenters, and a free audio bridge.

Genesys Conferencing (formerly Astound)
Small group meetings and webcasting of Powerpoint presentations to large groups.

Gentner Communications
Offers web conferencing services under the name TheDataPort.com, as well as audio and video conferencing.

GoToMeeting
Simple, inexpensive, and easy to use conferencing service for small group meetings.

GRClive, by GrassRoots Communications
Offers internet web conferencing services providing video conferencing, audio, document and file sharing, and collaboration on demand. Also features instant messaging compatible with major IM networks such as AIM, Yahoo, and MSN. Low monthly fee; no per minute costs.

GrouputerNet
Web conferencing designed for small and large meetings, learning, and decision making. Offers both synchronous (real-time) and asynchronous modes of discussion. Uses proprietary client software.

GroupWorld.net
Very inexpensive conferencing software that can be licensed and hosted on any Windows or Linux computer. Features whiteboard, voice/video conferencing and desktop sharing, or host your own 3D chat world.

HelpMeeting
Inexpensive, easy-to-use hosted service for screen sharing and web conferencing, featuring full cross-platform support for presenters and attendees. Up to 100 concurrent participants; no software downloads required for attendees. Free trial.

HorizonLive
Designed for delivering online presentations to an audience, especially for distance learning. Available as a hosted service or as licensed software.

hotComm
Offers both peer-to-peer and server-based conferencing. Participants can send any item on their Windows desktop to other users with a single click. Also offers IM-Live which lets post or email a link through which anyone can instantly initiate a chat session with you.

HP Virtual Classroom
Hosted conferencing service from Hewlett-Packard, built on Placeware's PlaceServer engine.

IMConferencing (IMC), by LiveOffice
Instant messaging combined with web conferencing, conference calling, and real-time video. Offered as a hosted service on a per-seat basis. Free trial.

InComm Conferencing
Offers a range of audio, video, and web conferencing services, reselling technology from WebEx and other providers.

InstantPresenter
Service designed for live presentations, featuring VoIP, optional webcam video, slide shows, and whiteboard.

InterCall
Hosted web conferencing services using Mshow, MeetingCenter, Conference Place, Present Online, and other software. Also offers video conferencing, streaming media, and a variety of online event management solutions.

Inter-Tel Web Conferencing
Premise-based conferencing software, featuring multi-point video, file transfer, polling and quizzing, desktop sharing, annotation, co-browse and record and playback features.

Interwise Enterprise Communications Platform
Very high end suite of conferencing applications targeted at large corporations.

Intranets.com
Inexpensive hosted web conferencing and web collaboration service.

IPx Connect
Hosted conferencing services. Offers IPNexus for web conferencing, and IPVideo to combine video conferencing with web collaboration.

iTeleFusion, by GlobalSoft
Designed to be installed behind the firewall for use at companies with multiple locations. Combines live video, VoIP, data conferencing, and instant messaging.

JBlurb
Features web conferencing, instant messaging, document sharing, and PowerPoint presentations.

LaunchForce, by Eloquent
Designed for large-scale online presentations, especially product launch events.

Link Conference Service
Remotely hosted web conferencing and phone conferencing.

Liveproof
Remotely hosted meeting center featuring voice conferencing, document sharing, application sharing and demos, and web tours.

Lotus Sametime
Features instant messaging (compatible with AIM), whiteboard, and application sharing. A developer's toolkit allows building custom applications. Free trial/demo use is available at Sametime.com.

Loudeye Express
Hosted, reservationless conferencing service designed for presentations. There is a monthly fee for presenters, with no per-seat cost.

Meet By Web
Hosted web conferencing service offered at low per-minute rates, or for fixed monthly fees. Also offers toll-free audio (phone) conferencing, which can be used alone or in combination with web conferencing.

MeetingOne
Remotely hosted service providing web tools for managing and participating in phone conferences. Also offers web tours, and web conferencing via Microsoft NetMeeting.

MeetingPlace, by Cisco (formerly Latitude Communications)
Designed to be integrated permanently with a company's existing communication infrastructure. Available as licensed software or as a hosted service.

Meetingroom7
Offers a virtual shared desktop, in which any Windows application can be run, allowing PowerPoint presentations, collaborative document editing, web tours, etc.

MeetingServer, by Data Connection Ltd (formerly DC-MeetingServer)
A conferencing server designed for use by service providers who will sell online meeting services, or for direct use by large-scale enterprises.

Meetrix
Remotely hosted service offering real-time multi-party video, voice, and data collaboration.

MegaMeeting
Offers a range of video and web conferencing services, from personal to enterprise level. Guest participants need only a web browser; no additional software to install. Supports Windows, Macintosh, and Linux.

Microsoft Exchange Server
Features instant messaging and chat, audio and video conferencing, data sharing, whiteboard, scheduling, and more. Custom applications can be built.

Mshow, by InterCall
Designed for large group webcasts and online presentations. Presentations can include streaming video and audio, PowerPoint presentations, web tours, and application demos. Voting, polling, and instant messaging between participants is also supported.

NetDIVE
NetDIVE offers a complete suite of software systems and services for web-based conferencing, collaboration and community building: eAuditorium for web conferencing, WeMeeting for instant messaging, SiteSticky web chat, CallSite for online customer interaction and the NES email server. NetDIVE also offers the free Oxygen web browser.

Netbriefings
Netbriefings provides large, broadcast-style webcast services specifically suited for secure company meetings, outbound marketing events and online training. Offers robust streaming media capabilities for live full-motion video or audio with slides, and an end-to-end "catering service" approach.

NetMeeting
Free peer-to-peer web conferencing software from Microsoft.

Netspoke (formerly iMeet)
Java-based service designed for meetings, and includes components for scheduling, registration, evaluation, and archiving. This is a remotely hosted service.

NetTogether Presenter
Offers a way to give PowerPoint presentations to small-to-medium size groups with no need for audience members to install browser plugins or software.

Obvio
Offers services for web and audio conferencing and webcasting.

pdmOffice
Collaborative workspace designed for CAD engineers and Architects, offering real-time web conferencing as well as document libraries, project management, etc.

Persony
Inexpensive conferencing that can be run on an ordinary web server.

PictureTalk, by Pixion
Enterprise web conferencing with support for clustered servers using Mac OS X Server, Windows NT/2000 Server, or Solaris; thousands of concurrent connections. Supports LDAP.

PresentAnytime
Designed for online sales presentations and training. Available as a hosted service or as licensed software.

PresenterNet
Inexpensive hosted service for online PowerPoint presentations with some unique features. Slides may be interactive, allowing audience members to respond to questions, with their replies stored in a database for later analysis. Audience members need only an ordinary web browser. Audio is delivered over a telephone conference or via Skype.

Present Online, by Conferencing.net
Hosted web conferencing service offering application sharing, polling, web tours, chat, and whiteboard.

RCI
Offers audio conferencing, video conferencing, web conferencing, and broadcast messaging services.

RoomTalk Communicator
Hosted service offering VoIP conferencing along with web conferencing features.

SalesWebMeeting
Hosted service offering web conferencing with VoIP. Per-minute fees.

SaveOnConferences
Offers low-cost telephone conference calling, with Spectel web conferencing available at no extra cost.

SmartMeeting
Hosted collaborative meeting service with some unusual features, including both real-time and asynchronous meeting participation, 2D or 3D interactive environment, avatars with facial expressions, video streaming, and more.

SmileTiger
Conferencing offerings include eMeeting Server, eTraining Server, eSupport Server, and Web Presentation Server, plus hosted web conferencing services.

SNT Conferencing
Provides conferencing services in the Netherlands, including audio conferencing, video conferencing, web confencing, and tailored events.

Sonexis ConferenceManager
Offers web and audio conferencing as a hardware/software appliance installed at your site.

SpaceCruiser, by Oridus
General purpose client/server conferencing software designed to be installed behind your corporate firewall. The SpaceCruiser server also supports a variety of conferencing applications specialized for IC design and engineering work.

Spectel DataXchange
Offers web conferencing services for a variety of vertical markets.

SwitchPort, by Limu Solutions
Hosted service designed for large-scale corporate collaboration, e-learning, and knowledge management.

Sykaro Web Conferencing
Hosted service offering audio and video conferencing, chat, instant messaging, web tours, whiteboard, and polling.

Talking Communities
Offers VoIP voice conferencing combined with web cobrowsing. Online conferencing rooms can be rented on a monthly basis, or you can purchase your own conferencing server. Also offers very inexpensive pay-per-minute conferencing at On-Demand Conferencing.

Tavos Service
Conferencing service featuring full motion video, VoIP, multicasting, application sharing, and group web browsing.

TelSpan
Offers reservationless web conferencing and audio conferencing.

Telus Web Conferencing
Offers pay-as-you-go access to WebEx for business users in Canada.

The Conference Depot
Inexpensive web conferencing, phone conferencing, and video conferencing for small groups.

ThePacketCenter.com
A collaboration service based on Microsoft NetMeeting.

THT Web (Townhall Teleconferencing)
An international teleconferencing service also offering video and web conferencing services.

TTC Global Talk Interactive Web Conferencing
Hosted web conferencing service.

Umeeting
Hosted web conferencing service that also offers a persistent discussion forum and library for ongoing communication after a real-time meeting.

Vcall Web Conferencing (formerly Communicast)
Hosted service designed for presentations. User interface for audience members is very simple but allows many forms of interactivity.

VIA3, by VIACK Corporation
A highly secure online meeting service. Participants use proprietary client software rather than a web browser.

Virtual-Workspaces, by VirtualDesign.net
Hosted collaboration toolset, offering multipoint audio and video conferencing, CAD file viewers, threaded discussion, community space and application sharing.

VoiceCafé
Offers a variety of conferencing environments, all with secure voice communication delivered over the internet, some with live video. Uses WebDemo as its conferencing engine. Also see VoiceCafe.org.

Voxwire
Conference rooms featuring VoIP and co-browsing for a flat monthly fee based on the number of seats. Requires Internet Explorer with plugin.

V2 Conference, by IT Global One
Video, audio, and web conferencing offered as licensed on-premises software.

WebClass, by Eedo
Conferencing software designed especially for e-learning applications. Video conferencing via webcam is available as an add-on. Uses WebDemo as its basic conferencing engine.

WebConference
Low-cost service that allows sharing your desktop with multiple participants over the web.

Web Conferencing, by WiredRed's e/pop
A turnkey conferencing system for enterprises and service providers, oriented toward collaborative work, featuring multiparty video conferencing, desktop and application sharing, and PowerPoint presentations.

Web Conferencing Central
Hosted conferencing service offering web presentations, application sharing, and document sharing,

Web Conferencing Warehouse, by Obidicut
Low cost access to name-brand web conferencing platforms.

WebConferencing4U, by Obidicut
Name-brand web conferencing at discount prices, including WebEx, Placeware, WebDemo, and StartVisuals

WebDemo, by Linktivity (division of Inter-Tel)
Designed primarily for delivering demonstrations to an audience over the internet, but also serves well for online meetings, training, and support applications. Features voice and text chat, web tours, and whiteboards. Available as a licensed server software package.

WebInterpoint, by WebDialogs
Simple web conferencing, available as a hosted service or licensed software.

WebTrain
Hosted web conferencing service oriented toward live training.

Web-4M
Collaboration software offering chat, audio and video conferencing, whiteboard, presentations, application sharing, phone, news, email, calendar, document sharing, training assessment tools, and more.

Workspace3D, by Tixeo
Hosted web and video conferencing service offering a feature set similar to other conferencing vendors, but inside an immersive 3D environment with moving, gesturing avatars.

1-4-U Conference Call
Offers a full range of audio, web, and video conferencing services at discount prices.