alfaview vs Microsoft Teams

alfaview

Published per-room capacities up to 500, unlimited webinar streaming, 50 breakout rooms and simultaneous screen sharing is genuine scale. But the evidence is silent on waiting rooms, mute-all and per-participant moderation, and says nothing about behaviour on a bad connection — a dropped call my people cannot diagnose is a dropped call.

Microsoft Teams

Published capacity of 300 participants, 30-hour meetings, hardware-room support through certified Yealink, Crestron, Lenovo, Polycom and AudioCodes partners, and Teams admin center management give a real meeting platform. But we found no public information on screen sharing, breakout rooms, moderation controls, or what happens on a constrained connection, so the core mechanics of an ordinary call rest on inference.

alfaview

Encryption is TLS per BSI guidelines plus at-rest server disk encryption — transport-plus-at-rest with the vendor holding the keys. No end-to-end option, no lobby or host-controlled admission, no per-meeting passcode (two-factor login is account security, not meeting access), and no plain statement of what alfaview can technically see in the media path.

Microsoft Teams

Encryption appears as a single feature line — data encryption for meetings, chats, calls and files — and we found no public information on the mechanism, key handling, or what the vendor can technically see. Microsoft Entra ID identity management comes with all plans, but we found no public information on lobbies, per-meeting passcodes, or host-controlled admission.

alfaview

Browser joining in four browsers, apps on every platform, and a dial-in add-on are the bones of real reach, and registration-free test rooms exist. But there is not one word on live captions, keyboard operation, screen-reader testing or a conformance report — 'live translation' into selected languages is not captioning — and dial-in numbers are not listed. For my deaf colleague this sheet offers nothing at all, which caps it.

Microsoft Teams

Live captions in over 30 languages (English only on Essentials), translation into up to 41 languages with a Teams Premium license, and a global dial-in number as a free audio-conferencing add-on mean my deaf colleague and the colleague with no usable data connection both have a way in. But we found no public information on a published accessibility conformance report, keyboard operation, or screen-reader testing — captions without a conformance report tell me the deaf colleague can attend, not that the screen-reader user can run the meeting.

alfaview

Local recording is included in every tier with no host-only rule, no notification or consent prompt, no retention policy and no organisation-wide switch evidenced. The only mitigations are that alfaview stores no session streams server-side and pledges not to train speech models on transcription data — promises, not governance.

Microsoft Teams

The governance facts I can find are deletion of all data when the subscription is cancelled and admin-center management of video calling; we found no public information on who may record, participant notification, storage region, retention rules, or access logs. For a works council the sharper problem is the privacy statement: customer data may be used to develop and train Microsoft's AI models, with no documented switch for meeting recordings or transcripts.

alfaview

Outlook integration, an included API and MSI packages for managed Windows deployment get it past the basics. But there is no SAML/OIDC SSO, no SCIM, no SDK, no webhooks, no room-system support, and it is cloud-only — streaming to your own server is not self-hosting the product.

Microsoft Teams

A genuinely documented developer surface — Microsoft Graph REST APIs, SDKs, Teams bots, PowerShell provisioning, change notifications via Azure Event Hubs — plus certified room systems and PSTN options including Operator Connect and Direct Routing. We found no public information on calendar integration for other suites, SCIM provisioning, embedded meeting SDKs, or any self-hosted and on-premises deployment.

alfaview

German hosting, a German contracting entity with a Mannheim register entry, and a plain claim that the CLOUD Act finds no application. But the datacenters are unnamed, no subprocessor list exists anywhere in the evidence, and the pipeline itself flags residency and subprocessor exposure unconfirmed — claims I like, but for a buyer who weighs this heavily, unverified claims do not reach the top anchors.

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft is a US vendor headquartered in Redmond, and the privacy statement says personal data may be stored and processed in your region, in the United States, and in any other jurisdiction where Microsoft, its affiliates or its service providers operate — so media and metadata routing is left open, and subprocessors appear only as unnamed classes. The EU-US Data Privacy Framework certification and a Microsoft Ireland contact entity are the only European touchpoints in the captured pages.

alfaview

Per-room prices with per-room capacities, VAT treatment, billing periods and an annual discount are all public, and local recordings mean no storage line-item. But dial-in, the >500-participant step, support and the streaming platform all sit in unpriced add-ons — and an unpriced dial-in hits exactly the people on no usable connection whom I represent.

Microsoft Teams

Per-user prices are public with billing period, auto-renewal and VAT treatment stated — Teams Essentials at 3,50 €, Business Basic at 6,07 €, Teams Premium as an add-on at 8,70 € per user per month — alongside capacity of 300, storage limits, included dial-in minutes and a 7-day refund window. The gaps: pay-per-minute dial-out runs through a Communications Credits prepaid wallet and an international calling add-on with no published rates, and webinar capacity is not stated.