Damien, I would look at a different solution of you are a small company and looking at a standalone license. A different story when you are looking at the pay per minute license.
Support for Breeze is really awful. Questions on the Macromedia forums remain unanswered. And what I heard from persons having insight information about Breeze, the product is priced so high because they can't afford to provide service to small companies, they simply do not have the resources for it. No problem for big companies using Breeze, like T-Mobile and ABN Amro which get first class tickets but a big problem for smaller business. We use Breeze Live on a pay-per-minute-per-participant basis, and honestly. Overall, I do like the product. It has that "Wow!" feeling, and the ease of using it when you only need the Flash Player is tremendous. It has some issues, regarding usability, and the site covering Breeze is really difficult to unwrap into what each type of product does. The negative points I mentioned about usability are for example: When screen sharing a window, popups opened by that window are not take into account. You have the option though to perform a full screen sharing, but this also means the participants see your Breeze Live interface too. In our case we have a product which opens edit boxes in popups, and thus giving us problems. Tuning is required for running a smooth session, we have quite some upload bandwidth here, but we had to turn the web cam pod off or else the speech is useless. It was like Ho.. Do Yo.. L.ke our pr.d.ct ? We could have used 56k but that turned out to decrease the screen sharing image quality that much we got yellow, instead of windows buttonface colors. You don't want your designed product to look like windows 3.11 in a sales presentation. Then my main point was that you need to make a participant a presenter, in order the let them speak or use a webcam. I wish all participants would receive this functionality instantly, and that the presenter would be able to mute them afterwards. Providing them that presenter functionality however also enables them to make recordings, .. we didn't like that. Then we have the collaboration part, we were unable to really collaborate. Only the presenter was able to make drawings, which is pretty useless if you want the other party to draw on the business process schemes you just showed them. Micha Schopman Project Manager Modern Media, Databankweg 12 M, 3821 AL Amersfoort Tel 033-4535377, Fax 033-4535388 KvK Amersfoort 39081679, Rabo 39.48.05.380 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----- Modern Media, Making You Interact Smarter. Onze oplossingen verbeteren de interactie met uw doelgroep. Wilt u meer omzet, lagere kosten of een beter service niveau? Voor meer informatie zie www.modernmedia.nl ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----- -----Original Message----- From: Damien McKenna [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: vrijdag 11 maart 2005 0:03 To: CF-Talk Subject: Is breeze worth it? I showed the sales director a link to breeze and he was blown away by it. Naturally enough the issue of cost came up and he is a little hesitant but we might be able to push for it. My question to you is whether anyone has a) bought/licensed it and whether you think it is worth the cost? He's thinking of primarily using it for training materials but there's also the possibilities of having special member sessions online (we're an MLM). -- Damien McKenna - Web Developer - [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Limu Company - http://www.thelimucompany.com/ <http://www.thelimucompany.com/> - 407-804-1014 #include <stdjoke.h> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:198359 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
