Lifesize Share vs. Scala

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Lifesize Share
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Lifesize Share is a meeting room and digital signage solution, presenting wireless screen sharing and room automation for the modern meeting space.N/A
Scala
Score 6.0 out of 10
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Scala in Malvern, PA offers their digital signage software which provides Designer for content design, Content Manager for content organization and control, and Player for content viewing. Notably the software supports a wide array of digital signage including touchscreen kiosks and service for direct customer engagement and interaction.N/A
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Community Pulse
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It is nice to implement, easier than other solutions and in my opinion, other solutions could be harder to implement. I was doing some demos for other software with other companies and I realized that the way of work is more difficult to implement and probably to maintain, at …
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Lifesize desktop app is suitable for guest invitees. It's well-designed, intuitive, and hassle-free software available on all platforms plus web-based interfaces that don't need any pre-installation. It is fully integrated with Lifesize Share. This can be used jointly with …
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The Webex boards are much more expensive and need a bunch of other Cisco products to work really well. The Cisco solution also requires significantly more administration, and the initial setup is best done by professionals with deep experience installing the solution. We also …
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User Ratings
Lifesize ShareScala
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Usability
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User Testimonials
Lifesize ShareScala
Likelihood to Recommend
Is a easy to use, ease to setup and cheaper option with good performance. i 've havea good experience overall we can integrate standart tv, no specific end point needed The customer service is excelente and rapid
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If you are in the data science world, Scala is the best language to work with Spark, the defacto data science data store. I think that is really the main likely reason I would ever recommend Scala. Another reason is if you already have a team of programmers familiar with functional programming, e.g. they all have years of Haskell experience. In that case, I definitely think Scala is a superior and faster-growing language than Haskell and that picking up Scala after Haskell should be quick.
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Pros
  • 4K Videoconferencing
  • Whiteboard
  • Content sharing
  • Collaborative meetings
  • Digital Signage
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  • Compatibility with Java: if you are switching off of Java onto a new language, one reason to pick Scala is that it is about 99% compatible with Java, so any Java libraries or code you were using before can be called from Scala (not vice-versa though).
  • Great built-in features for managing concurrency (e.g. Futures, Actors, and Akka). Making the most of every single thread on the machines your Scala code is running on is much easier and safer than doing it with Java. Scala abstracts away thread pools and threads quite well with Futures. I wouldn't say Futures are easy to learn though....but they are definitely safer to use than pure threads.
  • Null-pointer safety: In Scala, null pointers are rare because most libraries pass around a class called Option when whatever you are referencing could possibly be null. Options are first-class and the functional nature of Scala combined with Options means you can almost always avoid referencing a null directly using Option.map or Option.flatMap (see here for what they do https://www.scala-lang.org/api/current/scala/Option.html). That means you'll almost never encounter another null-pointer exception unless you do something quite stupid and avoidable. Java has Options for helping with this now, but it's not widely used and not nearly as powerful.
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Cons
  • Sometimes I have compatibility issues with mac.
  • Loads and updates automatically without permissions.
  • No recording included.
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  • The social media feed is not editable.
  • The social media feed cuts off link previews in posts, which can hurt posts that rely on visual context.
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Likelihood to Renew
We may or may not return to the office as the Pandemic finally gets behind us.
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Usability
We found that employees could use Lifesize Share without any prior training as long as we created "cheat sheets" to leave in each conference room where the equipment is installed.
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Support Rating
Both the initial installation and any ongoing support went very well. The support personnel was very knowledgeable, thorough, and professional. We were very pleased with how quickly any questions were answered and that very few incidents reoccurred.
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The Scala community is still pretty active and friendly. Martin Odersky, the creator Scala, and his team are sill quite passionate and gone above-and-beyond to fix bugs and address the need for more features. They also have a company called Lightbend that will help you integrate Scala into your engineering stack. I have heard mixed things about them but never worked with them myself so take what I say with a grain of salt.
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Alternatives Considered
Lifesize desktop app is suitable for guest invitees. It's well-designed, intuitive, and hassle-free software available on all platforms plus web-based interfaces that don't need any pre-installation. It is fully integrated with Lifesize Share. This can be used jointly with Microsoft Teams which is the main collaborative tool used in the company. The user experience is smooth and no difference is noticed between a user connecting from Teams or a user connecting to Lifesize App.
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Return on Investment
  • Accepted by users.
  • Expensive
  • Good solution.
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  • Scala has helped market accounts in-branch in a more visually engaging way than your garden-variety collateral.
  • Scala players have shut down on more than one occasion, and it can take time to order and receive a replacement.
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