- Subscriptions are charged per participant per month
- Web conferencing only: $29.99 per participant per month
- Web conferencing with VOIP: $34.99 per participant per month
- Quick and effective tool for sharing voice, video and data over the internet
- Just three easy steps to interact with colleagues and customers
- Share any application and presentation on your desktop
- Alternate between desktop control with ease
- Integrated VOIP for communications
- Invite up to 150 participants
- No installation required for participants
- SMART Board interactive whiteboard integration
- Support for up to 4 webcams at once
- Send invitations with automatically generated emails
- More than one person can write onto a shared desktop at once
- All communications encrypted using SSL technology
- Optionally password protect meeting rooms
- Support for 13 different languages
- Extensive training available at extra cost
- Free trial available
- Hosting compatible with Windows only, participants can be running Windows or Mac OS
Bridgit is a quick and easy way to share your desktop and host meetings across the internet. It is developed by the people who produce SMART interactive whiteboards, which are commonly used in offices around the world, and as such one of the most attractive features is that it integrates well with these. The rest of the web conferencing features work well, but subscriptions are quite expensive and you can probably find a better deal if you can live without the SMART board integration.
Bridgit provides all the features you would expect from a good web conferencing application. It allows you to easily share either your whole desktop or a single application with all the participants of the meeting and share control between different participants' desktops. Meetings are easy to set up quickly as the participants don't need to download any software and the application can be set to send out email invitations automatically.
For communications during the meeting, Bridgit provides integrated VOIP support so that participants can just use a microphone connected to their computer to talk. This is a slightly more expensive subscription option, but probably cost effective in the long run as it will save a lot on using expensive teleconferencing services to support your meetings. Unlike some services, Bridgit does not provide its own teleconferencing system to link in with the VOIP so if some of your guests don't have a microphone, organising a meeting could be tricky. There is also support for up to 4 webcams at once and the host can easily choose who gets to broadcast.
Probably the most useful feature of Bridgit is the fact that it integrates directly with SMART interactive whiteboards. If you have one of these it makes it easy for different participants to draw onto the screen at the same time in order to highlight important points or demonstrate with diagrams. If your office already has one of these SMART boards it would probably make Bridgit a very attractive option.
In terms of security, Bridgit provides enough for most types of usage. Communications during meetings are encrypted using SSL so that anyone intercepting the traffic could not interpret it. Additionally meeting rooms can be password protected to stop any unwanted people joining.
Bridgit provides a fairly good service, especially if you already have a SMART board that you can use during meetings. However, the lack of an integrated teleconferencing facility may leave some guests without the ability to communicate during meetings. We also think the subscription cost needs some revising as, although it is possible to have up to 150 participants in a meeting, you must pay a monthly subscription fee for each participant whether you use the meeting space or not. This means that for web conferencing with VOIP support for 100 participants you could be paying about $3,500 per month! When compared with some other products this is very, very expensive, but a free trial is available for you to make up your own mind.
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