Solstice
Solstice
Solstice is an operating system for governance in low-resource regions. Our free data management platform is used in over 170 countries. Solstice also works directly with governments, civil society organizations, and academic researchers on data-driven approaches to reducing poverty.
Solstice is a cloud-based meeting collaboration solution designed to help businesses and higher education institutes manage content sharing, HD streaming, meeting room scheduling and native streaming. Key features include desktop/browser sharing, screen mirroring, targeted/locked screen sharing, annotations and mobile screen sharing.
Teams using Solstice can drag-and-drop posts to alter the order of content, temporarily mark-up and highlight shared content, approve requests from collaborators to post content to the display or join session and add content stream into existing wireless solutions. The dashboard allows technology managers to monitor, configure and control system endpoints across the hosts’ network. Additionally, individuals can share content from their own devices by using Solstice Discovery Service (SDS).
Solstice allows calendar integration, facilitating meeting room scheduling that can be displayed on the welcome screen by participants. Guests and occasional users can also manage native streaming via Miracast and Airplay to share screens without installing the application
The Solstice Data Platform
With Solstice, you can:
- Design flexible surveys online
- Track geolocated Sites for collaborative, longitudinal monitoring
- Collect data using Android, iOS, or a browser
- Import and export data
- Work in multiple languages
- Use standard Indicators for the SDGs and more
- Visualize and map your live data online
- Completely own your data and choose what to share
- Scale up to thousands of users and millions of survey responses for your organization, business, or government
Solstice shares a code base with the mWater platform, which began in 2012 and now has over 150,248 users around the world.
Features
Pros
- Solstice was a very polished product and had a great backend admin interface.
- Excellent tool to share to image you computer screen that helps wonders during the meetings 2. This has an option of getting connected using the IP of the monitor you want to get connected with (No hassles of wire cables or Bluetooth connections)
- Solstice works with both Mac and Windows operating systems to screen share. It makes software demonstrations much easier than, say, using PowerPoint slides. Plus, there’s no need to fumble around with cables when on the fly!
Cons
- We ran into many issues where Solstice would work great on some OS versions of MacOS and Windows but not others.
- The options available in the product are quite limited. Options such as making calls using this app, adding more people to that screen share session can be added to the product
- It can be glitchy or difficult to connect, which is often an issue with wifi, but sometimes is caused by the application.
Solstice Pricing
Solstice offers a 30 day free trial for new users, after which the software is available across 4 pricing tiers as follows: SGE Standard: $799 Unlimited Standard: $999 SGE Enterprise: $1099 Unlimited Enterprise: $1299
Starting price: $799.00 one time
Free trial: Available
Free version: Not Available