Evenium

Very flexible, powerful and affordable solution for our non-profit.

Kommentare: There is no such thing as a perfect solution, but this is close and it gives us everything we need to do at the best possible price. We are able to have a much more robust and sophisticated event and conference solution than I thought we were going to be able to afford.

Vorteile:

Evenium has all of the features of the top event services but at a fraction of the cost. It has some features that the top ones don't have. You can easily update participants, use codes, embed it seamlessly into your website and choose your payment processor and many other options. We really appreciate the ability to organize events from multiple entities with one account, and have different user groups to administer those events. They have the best customer service - we have used almost every major company - and I never waited to get an answer on any of my questions for long. It's great to have the to be able to easily vet applicants for events that are not general admission, and conferences and retreats.

Nachteile:

The consumer view is only minimally adjustable and needs the ability to group tickets into different categories. A seamless integration with Salesforce would be awesome too.

Easy to set up & use - in-person event and webinar

Kommentare: Overall, the experience with ConnexMe was exceptional for keeping remote/virtual attendees engaged. We wanted an app that was easy to access and use, yet powerful enough to overcome distractions for business people attending events. ConnexMe delivered on all fronts!

Vorteile:

Very easy to set up polls that provided great feedback for our presenters. As a user, the live audio and note-taking on slides as they were presented made me feel very connected to the content and presenters even though I was remote. It was easy to network with other attendees using ConnexMe and getting my questions actually answered during the sessions helped me understand things in real-time.

Nachteile:

No real cons come to mind. If anything, would have liked for an integration with our custom CRM (which no one seems to have>)

Promising, But Would Not Recommend

Vorteile:

I had high hopes for Evenium ConnexME, and I think with some time, they'll have everything worked out. But it's just not ready. The registration functions are great and it's easy to pull various reports on registrants. We didn't have a need to work much with the agenda feature, but it appeared to work very well. The people I worked with from Evenium were fairly responsive and did try to solve any problems and answer our questions. It's not really geared to hybrid events - the interface and all functions are identical whether you are in-person or online. So, the attendee sitting in the room can watch the stream. Fortunately for us, Evenium agreed to not charge us for any viewing hours of in-person attendees who watched the stream. The chat function worked well, as did polling, and we were able to pull transcripts and other analytics afterwards.

Nachteile:

The two biggest issues we had were A) that attendees had a hard time understanding the process for accessing the event, and that once they accessed the event, they weren't able to see the stream; and B) the stream performance was very inconsistent. Some viewers could hear the audio but not see video. Some could neither hear nor see. Several viewers reported the video would play for 5 seconds and then stop. Tech suppport's solution was to reload, but that rarely solved the problem. It was suggested that the viewers' poor bandwidth was causing the drops. However, I joined as an attendee, and had at least 20 Mbps up and down, and it would drop for me as well. Our Evenium contact admitted dissatisfaction with some third party streaming technologies they were using, and that they were developing their own. In the end, there was no concrete solution or answer provided, and we await hearing that they've solved the problem.

Simple to use, decent reporting, great for free events.

Vorteile:

It's a very clean interface. The mobile app isn't white label but that's ok for most events. The screen casting is quite unique. Audience interaction tools are top notch.

Nachteile:

It doesn't seamless integrate with abstract collection & evaluation platforms. To build the agenda you'd have to export from your system, reformat the data, then use Evenium's spreadsheet template to upload into its system.

Well thought out and designed to engage all participants

Kommentare: It allowed all members of our conference committee to engage.

Vorteile:

It seamlessly creates a central hub for all attendees that allows them to not only interact during the conference itself but on off campus as well. It has the ability for have the attendees write notes and asks questions during the conference without interrupting the speaker. The agenda portion allows the attendees to know exactly what the schedule is and where they are expected. It allows the administrator to adjust the agenda and send pings to the users phones if any changes or reminders need to be sent.

Nachteile:

Agenda adjustments take time and if changes need to be made it isn't easy. Training was required for each presenter. Ticket scanning was also very time consuming.