Web conferencing these days is almost everywhere, be it for personal talks to maintain ties with family from around the globe, or be it large scale professional issues that need to be discussed by global corporate houses or business organizations with their various branches across the world. Indeed, web conferencing has come up fast as one of the most effective tools for maintaining links with contacts and expanding businesses.

In this entire scenario, with web conferencing spreading across the globe, the major credit that goes in making this process effective and efficient is to Webex, one of the first companies to come up with good and reliable software services for meeting online or web conferencing. Thanks to the advancements in technology and the efforts of Webex, we now have wonderful software such as Webex MeetMeNow and Webex Meeting Center, which have proved to be highly beneficial. Here, we discuss these two in detail, and try to help you decide which one is better for you and in accordance with your needs and preferences.

Budget is one of the major deciding factors, whenever someone plans to make an investment in web conferencing or hosting Webinars. So, in terms of the cost, you can get Webex MeetMeNow for approximately $49 per month, and Webex Meeting Centre for about $39 per month. Both of these offer unlimited monthly meetings that allow up to fifteen attendees per meeting. However, if you are not ready for such a type of commitment, or are looking for something that is need based or utility based, then Webex also has another option for you, and that is Webex Pay–Per–Use Program. According to this program, you can use Webex Meeting Centre with no minimum cost. All you do is, paying $0.33 per minute per participant. For live integration of audio, video and data sharing, you pay an additional flat rate of $0.20 per minute.

Webex MeetMeNow also has a unique feature for holding instant or impromptu meetings. And it also allows MS Office integration so that one can conveniently start online meetings from the applications itself. So, basically whether you are an individual, a small business, or a large organization, Webex will always provide you with something that is specifically customized according to your needs.

In terms of learning how to use the software, user reviews at some places have stated that Webex Meeting Center is difficult to master, and would require several hours of practice. However, the reviews also say that the effort is worth it as powerful collaborative tools along with white board sharing, so that one can easily illustrate his or her ideas while explaining them.