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	WebTrain

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WebTrain is a new, rich and full-featured Web conferencing system, that offers one of the most comprehensive array of live presentation and collaboration facilities, a second-generation set of features integrated in its design.

Webtrain offers a pay-per-use pricing model that may please some small to mid-sized companies and certainly a great number of enterprises and large organizations.

WebTrain is relatively easy to use and its interface is overall not intimidating even for a novice user. Still due to the richness and variety of features available some further refinements and improvements to design of the interface would make WebTrain a truly outstanding tool at least from a functionality viewpoint.

WebTrain offers application sharing, whiteboarding and live mark-up and annotation, the ability to show a PowerPoint presentation, co-browsing, moderator features, audio over IP, video conferencing, participant feedback tools and a file sharing area.

At its present cost WebTrain maybe one of the most capable and feature-rich Web conferencing systems available.. Priced strategically against other major "enterprise" solutions (WebEx, Live Meeting, Centra, Interwise, etc.), it may not be perceived as being truly competitive by SOHO users due a price-per-use policy which is traditionally not welcome in this market.

Functionally suitable for many different kinds of SOHO implementation and especially for small indipendent businesses and non-profits, it nonetheless offers services and features that will make many academic institutions and large organizations marvel at the range of facilities offered and relative cost-effectiveness as they are actively seeking effective alternatives to mainstream "enterprise" system like WebEx, Centra, Microsoft Live Meeting, Interwise and others.

WebTrain Communications is a Canadian company that started out in January 1999. It has primary offices in Toronto and Vancouver.

The young age of the company and the need to still refine some rough technical and marketing edges may not make WebTrain yet the killer solution that it was designed to be. More attention to details, marketing approach, interface design and usability could certainly make this technology one of the best stories about Web conferencing that the press could write about.

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Posted on September 11, 2003 at 02:04 PM

Updated on November 17, 2003 at 03:05 PM

Overview