PowWow365
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| Industry | Web Conferencing software and services |
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| Headquarters | U.S. |
Area served | Worldwide |
| Services | Audio Conferencing, Web Conferencing,File Sharing , Instant Messaging |
| Website | www.powwow365.com |
PowWow365, designed and developed by Hirasoft Corp,[1] is a web conferencing application for businesses and organizations, allowing them to host and attend their meetings, conferences, trainings or workshops from anywhere around the world. The application allows both standard types of communications, i-e, real-time Point-to-point communications and All-to-all communication from one sender to the many receivers.
Overview:
PowWow365 is complemented by (SSL) with Advanced Encryption Standard AES 256-bit encryption data transfer, which makes it quite reliable and efficient solution for synchronous conferencing at enterprise levels. It introduces the features such as host or invite, chat or call, save and share meeting media to the participants in a neat and clean interface. However, it is this app’s integration to WebRTC which supports and enables contextual communications in simultaneous and synchronous fashion during meetings and training sessions.
Features of a PowWow365 include:
- Slideshow presentations - where files and documents are presented to the participants along with markup tools to discuss slides content in an interactive fashion.
- Voice over IP - Real time audio communication using group of internet technologies, speakers allowing speakers to engage with meeting participants with conference calls.
- File Sharing – Pre-meeting, post-meeting and during meeting documents (meeting literature) to make meetings more informative and productive
- Web tours - where URLs, data from forms, cookies, scripts and session data can be pushed to other participants enabling them to be pushed though web based logons, clicks, etc. This type of feature works well when demonstrating websites where users themselves can also participate.
- Meeting Recording - where presentation activity is recorded on the client side or server side for later viewing and/or distribution.
- Whiteboards - with markup tools for annotation (allowing the presenter and/or attendees to highlight or mark items on the slide presentation. Or, simply make notes on a blank whiteboard.)
- Instant Messaging - For live question and answer sessions, limited to the people connected to the meeting. Text chat may be public (echoed to all participants) or private (between 2 participants).
Currently, application does not support Video conferencing and Desktop sharing features, however in coming releases these features are also being introduced.
Mobile Support:
Recently, iOS version of PowWow365 has been released for iPhones and iPads. This online meeting application combines all the features of Communication and Collaboration (C&C) including VoIP calls, chat, file sharing, along with integrations with plethora of 3rd party SaaS applications such as Yammer, SalesForce, Chatter DropBox, Box, Asana, Podio and others. App is available for download at App Store.
Comparison with other meeting applications:
| Features | PowWow365 | Mighty Meetings | Any Meeting | Goto Meeting | Webex | Join.me |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share and Schedule
Schedules meetings in advance and share invitations with attendees. The meetings will be added to calendar automatically |
Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| Context aware conversations
All chats/in-messages are provided in context with the backdrop of the shared slide, sticky note and free hand notes being discussed |
Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Automated meeting notes
At the end of meeting, meeting notes are generated automatically and maybe shared with all attendees with a single click |
Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Publish to multiple enterprise platforms
It allows hosts to create action items for attendees and publish them on all famous enterprise platforms like Asana, Podio, Yammer and Salesforce |
Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| Share action items via email
Host can assign action items during a meeting and share the details via email |
Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| Resume presentation
A robust set of annotations providing rich collaboration capabilities |
Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Annotation
If a presenter accidentally closes a presentation/meeting, PW will allow him to resume the meeting from where it was dropped |
Advanced | Basic | No | Basic | Basic(Web) | No |
| Recent Activities
A list of recent activities by a user for the last seven days |
Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No |
| Meeting notifications
Notifications for upcoming meetings on the dashboard |
Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| File formats
The files can be presented using a specific tool |
Ppt(x), PDF, Doc(x), Jpeg, Png | Ppt(x), PDF | Ppt(x), PDF | Ppt(x), PDF, Doc(x), Jpeg, Png | Ppt(x), PDF, Doc(x) | |
| Edit content
Hide slides, rearrange slides, rename slides |
Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Cloud storage
Single click access to all data stored on cloud |
Dropbox, Box, SugerSync | No | No | DropBox(only) | DropBox, Box | No |
| Audio Conference | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |