alfaview vs Microsoft Teams

alfaview

Capacity is published per plan (100/300/500 per room, streaming unlimited), 50 breakout rooms and simultaneous screen sharing are real. But the evidence is silent on host moderation controls, waiting rooms and what happens on a constrained connection — no mute-all, no adaptive behaviour documented — so it sits at the anchor it matches, not above.

Microsoft Teams

Published limits give 300 participants and a 30-hour maximum meeting, with certified room hardware from named partners including Yealink, Crestron and Polycom. I found no public information on breakout rooms, host moderation controls, or how the call behaves on a constrained connection — the last of which is exactly what a works council needs to know before an all-hands.

alfaview

TLS for transport plus encryption of server disks per BSI guidelines is transport-and-at-rest with the vendor on the key path; there is no E2EE, no key handling documentation, no lobby or per-meeting access policy anywhere in the evidence. The claim that US authorities cannot access via backdoors is a promise, not a mechanism, and 2FA is account-level, not meeting-level access control.

Microsoft Teams

The only statement is that meetings, chats, calls and files are data-encrypted, with no mechanism, key custody or trade-offs named, and access governed by Microsoft Entra ID identity management. I found no public information on end-to-end encryption, waiting rooms, per-meeting passcodes, or a plain statement of what the vendor can technically see in a meeting.

alfaview

Browser joining across four browsers, web and mobile platforms, and test rooms usable without any registration make the basics reachable. But dial-in is only an add-on with no numbers listed, there is no accessibility statement, no keyboard/screen-reader evidence, no low-bandwidth behaviour, and captions are never confirmed — only live translation, 50 hours for the first license.

Microsoft Teams

Dial-in exists as a free add-on with a global dial-in number, live captions cover over 30 languages on business plans (English only on Essentials), translation reaches up to 41 languages with Teams Premium, and the entry plan runs on web and mobile apps. I found no public information on an accessibility statement or conformance report, keyboard and screen-reader operation, guest joining without an account, or documented low-bandwidth behaviour.

alfaview

The minimisation story is genuinely good: alfaview stores no session streams, chat or screen transfer, recordings are local, and temporary rooms auto-delete. But there is not one word on recording notification or consent, no admin policy over who may record, no retention rule for transcripts (only that they aren't used for training), and an attendance list feature with no evidence it can be switched off for co-determination — a surveillance feature with no off-switch documented.

Microsoft Teams

I found no public information on who may record, whether participants are told, where recordings sit, how long they live, who accessed them, or whether AI recap and attendance analytics can be switched off for co-determination — while AI meeting features ship in Teams Rooms Pro and the privacy statement reserves the use of customer data for AI model training. All that is documented is deletion on subscription cancellation and an admin center that manages video calling, with personal data possibly stored in the user's region, the United States or any jurisdiction where Microsoft or its service providers operate. As a recording is personal data about everyone in the room, this silence is the deciding fact.

alfaview

One calendar suite (Outlook/Microsoft 365), an API listed as 'included' without any documented depth, MSI packages and streaming to your own server. Critically, no SSO — SAML or OIDC — is evidenced at all, no SCIM, no webhooks, no room systems, and live-streaming to your own server is not running the product on your own infrastructure.

Microsoft Teams

The developer story is real and documented — Microsoft Graph REST APIs with SDKs, Graph Explorer, code samples, PowerShell provisioning, Teams bots and change notifications through Azure Event Hubs — plus room systems and Entra ID identity. I found no public information on calendar integration or SCIM provisioning, and I found no public information on a self-hosted or private-cloud option: the API itself is described as a single endpoint in the Microsoft Cloud.

alfaview

German contracting entity (alfaview GmbH, Karlsruhe, HRB Mannheim), German datacenters, ISO 27001, the BSI security label, an included AVV and a CLOUD Act exemption claim are the real substance of the pitch. But no subprocessor list is published, the datacenters aren't named, and the independent pipeline could not confirm residency or ownership — '100% DSGVO' is a label, not an evidenced chain.

Microsoft Teams

The privacy statement permits storing and processing personal data in the user's region, the United States and any other jurisdiction where Microsoft or its affiliates and service providers operate, and subcontractors are described only as vendors acting on Microsoft's behalf rather than as a published list. The vendor is Microsoft Corporation of Redmond, the captured pages give no residency commitment for meeting media and leave the contracting entity's jurisdiction unconfirmed, and the only safeguards named are EU-US, UK and Swiss Data Privacy Framework adherence plus a Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited contact address.

alfaview

The per-room model is unusually computable: three tiers priced at 1/3.90/9.90 EUR per month excl. VAT with billing period, savings, capacity per room, combinable rooms and payment methods all public. But dial-in, the >500-participant option and the streaming platform are add-ons without public prices, and enterprise is 'on request' — no dial-in rates, no calculator, so the invoice is only computable for the core rooms.

Microsoft Teams

Every tier and add-on carries a public per-user price with billing period and VAT treatment stated — Teams Essentials at 3,50 €, Business Basic at 6,07 €, Business Standard with Copilot at 20,36 €, Teams Premium at 8,70 €, Copilot Business at 18,20 € — alongside 300-participant capacity, 30-hour meetings and storage allowances of 10 GB or 1 TB per user, with dial-in as a free add-on and calling-plan minutes published. Pay-per-minute and toll-free charges run through a prepaid Communications Credits wallet for which I found no public rates, and I found no public information on webinar capacity pricing or a recording-storage price beyond the general cloud allowance.