alfaview vs Microsoft Teams

alfaview

Published capacity I respect: 100/300/500 participants per room across plans, 50 breakout rooms per room, simultaneous screen sharing, polling and whiteboard. But the evidence is silent on host moderation, waiting rooms, adaptive bitrate, hardware rooms and post-call diagnostics, and I judge a product by its worst meeting — when the board call stutters there is nothing documented about degradation and nothing to read afterwards.

Microsoft Teams

Capacity is published rather than promised — 300 participants and a 30-hour meeting limit on the plans shown — and room hardware is real through named partners Yealink, Crestron, Lenovo, Polycom and AudioCodes, managed from a Teams admin center. But I found no public information on screen sharing, breakout rooms, host moderation, waiting rooms, bandwidth adaptation, or diagnostics I could pull after a bad call. I judge a product by its worst meeting, and the captured pages never describe that meeting.

alfaview

The mechanism is at least named: BSI-guideline TLS for data, transport and server disks, ISO 27001, two-factor authentication, and closed temporary meeting rooms. No end-to-end encryption, no lobby or host-admission controls, no key handling documented — the only candour is a legal claim that US authorities cannot get in, which says nothing about what alfaview itself can technically see.

Microsoft Teams

One line states data encryption for meetings, chats, calls and files, and I found no public information on the mechanism, key handling, end-to-end encryption, or meeting admission controls such as a lobby or per-meeting passcodes — identity rides on the included Microsoft Entra ID. The privacy statement, meanwhile, says customer data may be used to develop and train AI models. I score documented mechanism, and here the mechanism is the word "encrypted".

alfaview

Real reach on paper: seven platforms including Linux, four browsers, guest test rooms with no registration, and 50 hours of live translation per month included. But phone dial-in is an unpriced add-on with no numbers listed, and there is no caption, keyboard-navigation, screen-reader or accessibility-statement evidence anywhere in the evidence.

Microsoft Teams

Dial-in is genuinely there: a free audio-conferencing add-on with a global dial-in number, PSTN connectivity through calling plans, Teams Phone Mobile, Operator Connect and Direct Routing, number porting, and stated minutes of 3,000 for the US, UK and Canada and 1,200 for other countries. Live captions run to over 30 languages on business plans and translation to 41 with Teams Premium, and web and mobile apps are published. We found no public information on an accessibility statement, keyboard or screen-reader support, or documented behaviour on a poor connection.

alfaview

Recording is local and live sessions are not stored server-side, which sidesteps vendor retention. But nothing states who may record, whether participants are notified or consented, or what an admin can switch off — the attendance list exists with no evidenced off-switch, so a works council has nothing to negotiate over.

Microsoft Teams

We found no public information on who may record a meeting, whether participants are told, where recordings are stored, or any retention policy an admin could enforce. The nearest facts are that all data is deleted when a subscription is cancelled, and that user data may be used to train AI models. A recording is personal data about everyone in the room, and the captured pages give a works council nothing to switch off.

alfaview

Outlook/M365 integration, an API included in every plan, and MSI packages for managed rollout are the working bones of enterprise deployment. But there is no SSO at all in the evidence — no SAML, OIDC or SCIM — no room systems, no SDK, no webhooks and no self-hosted option; that is thin identity integration for a product selling 500-participant rooms.

Microsoft Teams

The Microsoft Graph API with SDKs, code samples, bots, change notifications and PowerShell provisioning is an integration surface I can actually build on and administer, and room systems are certified through five named hardware partners. Identity rides on the included Microsoft Entra ID. We found no public information on calendar integration, SCIM provisioning, an embeddable meeting SDK, or any self-hosted or private-cloud deployment option.

alfaview

German hosting and datacenters, a Karlsruhe contracting entity (HRB Mannheim 730903), ISO 27001 for alfaview and its datacenters, and a public no-CLOUD-Act statement. But the sovereignty pipeline could not independently confirm residency, ownership or subprocessors, no subprocessor list is published, and "Rechenzentren in Deutschland" names no actual infrastructure — in a category I weigh heavily, marketed sovereignty is not published sovereignty.

Microsoft Teams

The privacy statement says personal data may be stored and processed in the customer's region, the United States and any other jurisdiction where Microsoft or its affiliates, subsidiaries or service providers operate, with international transfers relying on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. The captured pages name Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited only as a contact, do not confirm the contracting entity, and describe subprocessors as vendors acting on Microsoft's behalf without naming them. We found no public information on where meeting media or metadata are processed.

alfaview

Per-room prices and capacity are public — 1/3.90/9.90 EUR ex-VAT annual, 100/300/500 participants per room, combinable rooms, payment methods and the 16.67% annual saving all stated. But every add-on I would actually need — phone dial-in, more than 500 participants, the private streaming platform — is "zubuchbar" with no price, and Enterprise is on request, so I cannot compute the annual invoice from public pages alone.

Microsoft Teams

Per-user prices are public with the billing period and VAT treatment stated as exclusive — Teams Essentials at 3,50 € and Business Basic at 6,07 € per user per month billed annually, the Teams Premium add-on at 8,70 € — alongside published capacity of 300 participants, 30-hour meetings and per-user storage allowances, a free dial-in add-on with stated regional minutes, and an international calling plan add-on of 600 minutes per person per month. The gaps: the captured comparison page shows Business Standard only bundled with Copilot at 20,36 €, we found no public information on webinar capacity, and toll-free or pay-per-minute dial-in charges sit in a prepaid Communications Credits wallet.