Contents

Introduction

Differences  between Meeting Center and WebEx Meetings

Meetings and Web Application (page side)

Meeting Client

Recording/Network Based Recording (NBR)

Cross Platform

Productivity Tool

Localization

Audio

Mobile

IM

Admin/Enterprise Features

APIs

Related Cisco Support Community Discussions

Introduction

This document describes the basic differences between Meeting Center and  WebEx Meetings.

Differences  between Meeting Center and WebEx Meetings

Meeting URL for Meeting Center: <company name>.WebEx.com for example, cisco.webex.com

Meeting URL for Cisco WebEx Meetings: meetings.webex.com (for the basic account)

Meetings and Web Application (page side)

Feature/Module

Meeting Center

WebEx Meetings

Notes

Advanced Scheduler  Send copy of invitation email to me flag

Yes

No

Not needed as host and invitees get a contextual invite.

Advanced Scheduler: Delete my meetings when completed

Yes

No

Different logic for restart for Meetings.

Advanced Scheduler: Ability to change timezone from scheduler

Yes

Roadmap

Advanced Scheduler: Plan meeting timezones

Yes

No

Advanced Scheduler: Attendees can join before start time; first attendee to be presenter; attendee to join audio

Yes

Yes

All settings are moved to site admin only and are enabled by default.

Advanced Scheduler: Email reminder

Yes

Yes

Moved to users meetings preference.

Advanced Scheduler: Yearly recurrence

Yes

No

Advanced Scheduler: Ability to not show Toll free and/or global call-in numbers

Yes

Roadmap

Advanced Scheduler: Entry exit tone

Yes

Yes

Moved to meeting preference.

Advanced Scheduler: Request that attendees verify rich media players before joining the meeting

Yes

No

Advanced Scheduler: Require attendees to have an account on the website in order to join the meeting

Yes

Roadmap

Advanced Scheduler: Registration

Yes

Roadmap

Advanced Scheduler: Info tab templates

Yes

No

Advanced Scheduler: Automatically share presentation or document once a participant joins the meeting

Yes

No

Advanced Scheduler: Meeting options (chat, video, notes etc.)

Yes

No

Advanced Scheduler: Attendee privileges

Yes

No

Scheduler: Record meeting flag

No

Yes

Scheduler: Attach files to meetings

No

Yes

Scheduler: Specify alternate location

No

Yes

Meeting templates

Yes

No

One-Click meeting

Yes

Yes

Cisco WebEx Meetings allows users to modify - Topic, Invitee list and meeting password before launching the meeting.

Public meeting calendar

Yes

No

Personal Meeting Room (PMR)

Yes

No

Will be done in the form of Virtual Meeting Room (VMR)/PMR concept.

Exception support for recurring meetings

No

Yes

Access Anywhere

Yes

No

Decision to End-Of-Life (EOL).

Custom session types

Yes

No

Will be handled with enhanced policies.

Default session type

Yes

No

Custom welcome page

Yes

No

Have the new Cisco WebEx Meetings dashboard.

My WebEx

Yes

No

Dashboard

No

Yes

With social capabilities of Feed and Comments.

Integrated Instant Messaging (IM)

No

Yes

Integrated Presence

No

Yes

Meeting Spaces

No

Yes

File

Yes

Yes

File library, versioning, sharing and permissions, Webdocs, folders, file locking.

Contacts

Yes

Yes

Cisco WebEx Meetings contains Corporate Directory (for specific users only), My WebEx Contacts (which are really IM /Jabber contacts), Imported Contacts (contacts who get added either via an actual import operations or via an email address when invited to a meeting/file share).

Contact schema in Meeting Center is much more rich than in WebEx meetings today. The contact schema in WebEx meetings only has firstName, lastName, and emailAddress. There would be data loss on migration of Meeting Center Contacts to WebEx meetings Contacts. Users are able to retain access to their contact information after migration to WebEx meetings, possibly via Comma Separated Values (CSV) file that are exported for them. The schema that Common Contacts will provide in WebEx meetings 1.5 is able to support everything in the Meeting Center schema; if the Meeting Center users are migrated to W11 after the integration with Common Contacts, then no contact data is lost.

Centers

Yes

Yes

Centers on Cisco WebEx Meetings have an old look and feel and they work on the old code base.

Search

Yes

Yes

Cisco WebEx Meetings have much more robust search that spans across meetings, files and contacts.

Instant search

No

Yes

User predictive search

No

Yes

First time experience with videos

No

Yes

Recently viewed files

No

Yes

Recently viewed contacts

No

Yes

Notifications preference

No

Yes

Profile visibility preference

No

Yes

User avatars

No

Yes

Common Identity (CI)

No

Yes

CI integration is completed as part of the 1.4 release.

Unified meeting list

No

Yes

Reports

Yes

Yes

Uses the Trains reports.

Training

Yes

No

No link to WebEx University. They are substituted by "How To" videos. Also, orgs can customize to add additional links if they want in the Help section.

Verify client join (host, attendee)

Yes

No

Rich text/HTML emails

No

Yes

Alternate Host

Yes

Yes

If you have a Cisco WebEx Meetings Free, Free Trial, or Premium account, it is NOT possible to assign an alternate host.

If you have a Cisco WebEx Meetings Enterprise account, and you have a colleague who also has a Cisco WebEx Meetings host account on your site then you can assign an alternate host.

Schedule on Behalf

Yes

Yes

If you have a Cisco WebEx Meetings Free, Free Trial, or Premium account, it is NOT possible to assign an alternate host.

If you have a Cisco WebEx Meetings Enterprise account, and you have a colleague who also has a Cisco WebEx Meetings host account on your site then you can assign an alternate host.

Meeting Client

Feature/Module

Meeting Center

WebEx Meetings

Notes

Meeting Space integration

No

Yes

Files shared in the meeting client get automatically uploaded to the meeting space. Host has a way to control this option.

Avatars

No

Yes

User avatars are displayed during the meeting.

Share web content

Yes

No

Share remote computer

Yes

No

Send transcript

Yes

No

Close captioning panel

Yes

No

Notes panel

Yes

No

Customizable quick start

Yes

No

Access to contacts & typeahead when inviting users

No

Yes

Setting for auto-record meeting

No

Yes

Local Recording/.wrf

Yes

No

Recording/Network Based Recording (NBR)

Feature/Module

Meeting Center

WebEx Meetings

Notes

Standard formats

Yes

Roadmap

Is integrated into Meetings in the 1.4 release

Supported in Meeting Center for WebEx Enabled Telepresence (WeTP) only.

Editing recording in recording details page.

Truncate lead-in and lead-out of recordings

Editing recording titles & descriptions

Editing what panels show up in the recording

Yes

No

Local recording

Yes

Yes

Enterprise only.

Record Other Teleconference Audio

Yes

Yes

Not for free users.

Reassign recordings to another user

Yes

No

On a very long list to add to WebEx Meetings.

Table of Contents

Yes

Yes

The new Standard Format NBR does not have the full Table of Contents. However, it does incorporate the times of screen sharing in the thumbnail section.

Disabling a recording

Yes

No

Set a password to access the recording

Yes

No

Streaming link,

download link and

send sharing link via email

Yes

Yes

Cross Platform

Feature/Module

Meeting Center

WebEx Meetings

Operating System/Browser/System Requirements

Refer to the link: System Requirements and Feature Support, refer to the table under Operating System and Browser Support.

Refer to the link: System Requirements Release Notes, refer to the table under Cross Platform Support.

Productivity Tool

Feature/Module

Meeting Center

WebEx Meetings

CWMS

Mac PT

No

Yes

No

Lotus Notes Integration

Lotus Notes 8.5.3 Supports windows OS platform: Win7/Win Vista/XP

Roadmap

Roadmap

TP integration

Yes

Roadmap

No

SOBO

Yes

Win PT - Yes

Mac PT - Not support

Yes, only for WebEx audio; No support to PCN ( Personal Conference Number )audio

Alternate Host

Yes

Yes

Yes

Single occurrence

No

Yes

Yes

Calendar View

No

Yes

No

Automatically Record support

No

Yes

No

Outlook Support

Refer to the link: What Programs Integrate with Productivity Tools for Cisco WebEx Meetings?, refer to the table under Outlook Integration Matrix Cisco WebEx Meetings 1.3

Refer to the link: What Programs does Productivity Tools Integrate With?, refer to the table under Outlook Integration for Windows.

CWMS ( Cisco WebEx Meeting Server )

Supported: Outlook 2007/Exchange 2007, Outlook 2010(32 bit)/Exchange 2007, Outlook 2010(32 bit)/Exchange 2010, Outlook (64 bit)/Exchange 2007, Outlook (64 bit)/Exchange 2010

Not Supported: Outlook 2013/Exchange 2010 (CMWS 2.0 and above), Outlook 2010/Exchange 365 Hosted (CMWS 2.0 and above), Outlook 2013/Exchange 2013 (CMWS 2.0 and above), Outlook 2013/Exchange 365 Hosted (CMWS 2.0 and above)

Localization

Feature/Module

Meeting Center

WebEx Meetings

Russian

No

Yes

Swedish

Yes

Roadmap

Audio

Feature/Module

Meeting Center

WebEx Meetings

Notes

Coverage

{full footprint}

no diff. HT

diff. offers LT: US & Canada offers; Euro10

Personal Conferencing

yes

HT only

Internal aka on-net call-back

yes

<confirming>

supports VoIP-only

yes

yes

session type/privilege management somewhat different

Call back

yes

yes

offer dependent

Invite by Phone

yes

HT only

(removed from LT offer for fraud control)

Hybrid audio

yes

yes

{voip and telephony in same meeting}

TSP Integrated audio

yes

yes

TSP Hybrid audio

yes

yes

(TSP provided voip)

Meeting Place integrated audio

yes

<confirming>

CCA (Cloud Connected Audio)

yes

yes

Audio prompt languages

same

same

<list>

Dial in

yes

yes

Mute/Entry exit/Expell/Active speaker

same

same

Mobile

Feature/Module

Meeting Center

WebEx Meetings

Notes

iOS - Single Sign On

Yes

No

roadmap

Training Center - iOS

Yes

No

roadmap

Training Center - Android

Yes

No

roadmap

iOS - Meeting Handoff

Yes

No

no plans yet

IM

Feature/Module

Meeting Center

WebEx Meetings

Notes

IM

No

Yes

Built-in IM client in WebEx Meetings pre and post Meeting pages.

Admin/Enterprise Features

Feature/Module

Meeting Center

WebEx Meetings

Notes

Admin configurable Branding

No

Yes

Can be managed through admin tools instead of creating a remedy ticket.

Rich text/HTML emails

No

Yes

Except some EC templates

PT forced install on log in

Yes

Roadmap

Network and Identity based policies

No

Yes

Single Sign On

Yes

Yes

Support for Enterprise Partial and iOS coming soon

Lockdown

Yes

Roadmap

Multiple URL support

Yes

Roadmap

Still exploring as to what is the right approach of supporting use cases around Multiple URLs

Telepresence Integration (Killers)

Yes

Roadmap

Custom Session Types

Yes

Yes

Still exploring if we we support session types in the future or provide as policies.

ASR Node support

Yes

No

Its being EOL on the Trains

Admin audit logs

Yes

Yes

Admin audit trail report

File upload controls (internal/external)

No

Yes

Session timeout limits

No

Yes

User profile permissions

No

Yes

Contacts permissions

No

Yes

Meeting Place Integration

Yes

No

APIs

Feature/Module

Meeting Center

WebEx Meetings

Notes

Admin and User: User Management APIs (including Search APIs)

Yes

Roadmap

Cisco WebEx Meetings 1.4 - Common Identity System for Cross-Domain Identity Management (SCIM) APIs

Meetings Management APIs

Yes

Roadmap

Cisco WebEx Meetings 1.4

Meeting Invite APIs

Yes

Roadmap

Cisco WebEx Meetings 1.4

Admin and User: User's Meeting Preference APIs

Yes

Roadmap

Cisco WebEx Meetings1.4 (OneClick Settings, Personal Conference Number (PCN), Telephony Service Provider(TSP) Audio settings, other preferences)

Meeting Attachment APIs

N/A

No

Requires a File Service either on top of current Data Management System (DMS) solution or any other longer term option

Recording APIs

Yes

Yes

Current neighbor (NBR) Web Service Server (WSS) will work. Must be replaced with REpresentational State Transfer (REST) APIs.

Social APIs

N/A

Roadmap

Tentatively Cisco WebEx Meetings 1.4 if Scrum teams can deliver.

Admin: History APIs

Yes

No

Need further analysis on usage and incorporate into roadmap for future release.

Admin: Organization Management APIs

Yes

Roadmap

Partial set of APIs being planned in Cisco WebEx Meetings 1.4. Remaining depend on a combination of Common   Identity System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) APIs and Meetings Admin APIs.

Training Center APIs

Yes

No

Pending integration of Centers into Cisco WebEx Meetings, including users. Old XML APIs work for old centers

Support Center APIs

Yes

No

Pending integration of Centers into Cisco WebEx Meetings, including users. Old XML APIs work for old centers.

WebACD APIs for Support Center

Yes

No

Pending integration of Centers into WebEx11, including users. Old XML APIs work for old centers.

Event Center APIs

Yes

No

Pending integration of Centers into WebEx11, including users. Old XML APIs work for old centers.

User Login Flows

Yes

Roadmap

Cisco WebEx Meetings 1.4 - CI/Oauth flows

Anonymous Login Flows

Yes

Roadmap

Cisco WebEx Meetings 1.4 - CI/Oauth flows

Admin: B2B API Call Flows

Yes

Roadmap

Basic support being planned for in Cisco WebEx Meetings 1.4. Partner Admin support depends on Partner Admin Role/Gateway.

Developer App Key Management

N/A

Roadmap

Cisco WebEx Meetings 1.4 (through developer.cisco.com)

Admin: Acces Token Management

N/A

Roadmap

Cisco WebEx Meetings 1.4 (through Org Admin tool)

User: Access Token Management

N/A

No

On backlog, pending which UI it should go in (Meetings Preferences UI?)

Admin: Custom Session Type APIs

Yes

No

Pending support of Custom Session types in Org Admin

Contact APIs (including Search APIs)

N/A

Roadmap

Tentatively Cisco WebEx Meetings 1.5, when Cisco WebEx Meetings integrates with Common Contacts

Files APIs

N/A

No

Pending a common files service (Not implemented yet)

Multi-URL Support in APIs

Yes

No

Pending the final solution of multi-URL support. Not implemented yet )

Enterprise/Partner Shared Site support in APIs

N/A

No

Pending the final solution for Shared site. Low touch site will be supported

API Version Control

Yes

Roadmap

Cisco WebEx Meetings 1.4

API Explorer

Yes (Basic)

Roadmap

Cisco WebEx Meetings 1.4 (to be integrated in developer.cisco.com)