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Allo vs. Socialcast (discontinued) vs. Socialtext (discontinued)

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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Allo

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AAllo (styled as ALLO) is a Visual Collaboration platform and Project Management solution designed for creative, marketing, product design, and pre-production teams. The software combines interactive canvas workspaces with structured project tracking tools, enabling teams to organize creative briefs, design files, feedback streams, and task deadlines within a unified visual environment.

    $12

    per month per user

    Socialcast (discontinued)

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ASocialcast was an enterprise social networking and collaboration platform acquired by VMware in 2011. The platform allowed an organization's employees to share information and documents with co-workers in real time through a Facebook- or Twitter-like news feed. VMware announced its end of availability (EOA) effective May 2018.

    $250

    per month

    Socialtext (discontinued)

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ASocial Text was a tool that focused on social learning and includes Twitter-like microblogging capabilities. The product competed with MindTouch,Confluence, Jive Team Collaboration and other collaboration platforms. It was acquired by PeopleFluent in 2012 and is no longer available as a separate product, though similar capabilities are supplied by the PeopleFluent platform.

    $1

    Starting Price Per Month

    Pricing
    AlloSocialcast (discontinued)Socialtext (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
    Team
    $12
    per month
    Enterprise
    Custom
    No answers on this topic
    Socialtext
    $1.00
    Starting Price Per Month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AlloSocialcast (discontinued)Socialtext (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    NoYesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsDiscounts for annual subscriptions , as well as startups and educational institutions.
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    Features
    AlloSocialcast (discontinued)Socialtext (discontinued)
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Allo and Socialcast (discontinued) and Socialtext (discontinued)
    Feature
    Allo
    -
    Ratings
    Socialcast (discontinued)
    6.3
    4 Ratings
    21% below category average
    Socialtext (discontinued)
    7.6
    1 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Task Management00 Ratings7.74 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Gantt Charts00 Ratings7.01 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Scheduling00 Ratings6.33 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Workflow Automation00 Ratings8.02 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Mobile Access00 Ratings3.83 Ratings4.01 Ratings
    Search00 Ratings8.04 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Visual planning tools00 Ratings3.43 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Communication
    Comparison of Communication features of Allo and Socialcast (discontinued) and Socialtext (discontinued)
    Feature
    Allo
    -
    Ratings
    Socialcast (discontinued)
    7.5
    4 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Socialtext (discontinued)
    7.2
    1 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Chat00 Ratings8.74 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Notifications00 Ratings8.24 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Discussions00 Ratings8.14 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Surveys00 Ratings8.73 Ratings4.01 Ratings
    Internal knowledgebase00 Ratings6.14 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Integrates with GoToMeeting00 Ratings5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts00 Ratings7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrates with Outlook00 Ratings7.92 Ratings00 Ratings
    File Sharing & Management
    Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Allo and Socialcast (discontinued) and Socialtext (discontinued)
    Feature
    Allo
    -
    Ratings
    Socialcast (discontinued)
    5.7
    4 Ratings
    34% below category average
    Socialtext (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Versioning00 Ratings2.12 Ratings00 Ratings
    Video files00 Ratings7.23 Ratings00 Ratings
    Audio files00 Ratings7.23 Ratings00 Ratings
    Document collaboration00 Ratings6.74 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access control00 Ratings7.23 Ratings00 Ratings
    Advanced security features00 Ratings5.83 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrates with Google Drive00 Ratings5.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Device sync00 Ratings4.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    AlloSocialcast (discontinued)Socialtext (discontinued)
    Small Businesses
    Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
    Score9 out of 10
    Flock
    Score9.5 out of 10
    Flock
    Score9.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
    Score9 out of 10
    Troop Messenger
    Score9.8 out of 10
    Troop Messenger
    Score9.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Miro
    Score9 out of 10
    Cisco Business Edition 7000 (discontinued)
    Score9 out of 10
    Cisco Business Edition 7000 (discontinued)
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    AlloSocialcast (discontinued)Socialtext (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (3 ratings)
    7.7
    (6 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    AlloSocialcast (discontinued)Socialtext (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    ALLO (BeeCanvas, Inc.)
    Allo is ideal for brainstorming, designing, and presenting information in a remote company. With its easy-to-use tools and modern, minimalistic, and non-intrusive interface these kinds of tasks can be done in Allo beautifully. However, it was difficult for us to have a detailed project schedule (with automatic reminders for tasks and subtasks). To sum up, Allo is a perfect digital paper canvas but currently, it lacks automation features.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    Socialcast has been a great tool for FactSet. I would recommend it to any firm looking for an easy-to-use tool to centralize communication and collaborate on a global scale.
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    Discontinued Products
    We use Social Text as a platform to air our issues with different departments. We voice our concerns and suggestions so we can help find a solution to the problems we incur on a daily basis. We need to have social text as an app so we can communicate in real time not only during work hours.
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    Pros
    ALLO (BeeCanvas, Inc.)
    • The user interface is very user friendly
    • The features provided allow for a wide variety of ways for teams to collaborate on projects together.
    • customer support is incredibly responsive and fast to address any questions or concerns.
    Incentivized
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    • Socialcast has an exceptional user experience. With very few idiosyncrasies, it works well on every platform I've tried.
    • The platform has such a high level of ease of use, it becomes somewhat addicting.
    • Social analytics are superb.
    • The platform is highly intuitive and requires zero training or coaching in order for network members to become productive with it.
    • It's extremely reliable. Only once in 4 years, was the product not available, and that was only for about a half-hour. In that half-hour, we realized how dependent we were on it. (Very.)
    • The multi-device and deployment options are excellent. On-premise, Private Cloud, and Multi-tenant SaaS all available.
    • The mobile apps for iPhone, tablets, and Android render well with a beautiful UI/UX. The desktop AIR app is equally highly usable.
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    Discontinued Products
    • Version history - Always keeps the edited versions and one can revert back any time
    • Creating and Editing an article is very easy and intutive
    • Sharing the articles with peers
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    Cons
    ALLO (BeeCanvas, Inc.)
    • more views for projects
    • more templates
    • task management options inside a canvas (deadlines, recurring etc)
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • The software is a little bit pricey because it is charged by user/month and depending on the deployment method.
    • For companies with a lot of workers the price can increase significantly.
    • The mobile app usability and notifications are poor. Need to be improved.
    • If there were more administrative features available the product would be improved
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • Search needs a ton of improvements. It was very slow a year ago
    • Search result quality was also not that good
    • I know they have improved their UI recently but when i used it last year it did not really have any design elements which could be used to make the articles look more presentable. It was important for us as we used it for external communication as well.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    ALLO (BeeCanvas, Inc.)
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    Beyond the value FactSet derives from using the platform, Socialcast (the firm) has been a good partner to FactSet. We've experienced very little downtime with the service and they have been responsive and fair with enhancement requests and questions
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    Discontinued Products
    We have a lot of info in Socialtext already. It would be hard to get all that info out and port it to a different system
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    Usability
    ALLO (BeeCanvas, Inc.)
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    The UX is its best feature
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    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    ALLO (BeeCanvas, Inc.)
    Support is quick to respond and assist with any issue or question
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    Excellent support; of course not perfect. :-)
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    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    ALLO (BeeCanvas, Inc.)
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    Not applicable, as it is a SaaS platform with minimal implementation
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    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    ALLO (BeeCanvas, Inc.)
    Miro is a direct competitor for Allo. It has more features and integrations but Allo appeals much more to us because of the easy-to-navigate and elegant interface, as well as speed. Infinity is an all-in-one project management app. It's ideal for detailed project management and keeping tracts of tasks (and other. items) but Allo is much better for designing and brainstorming.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    Socialcast is great for collaboration & light project management, but anything complex doesn't work well.

    Using it as an email notification curator works nice for us.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    I frankly like Confluence better than socialtext because of the speed and the quality of search. They also have better design elements which can help make the articles pleasant to the eyes.
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    Return on Investment
    ALLO (BeeCanvas, Inc.)
    • helps improve and maintain productivity
    • The windows app keeps the cpu very busy so can slow other application
    • team collaboration has been improved since using this program
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • Definitely more organized project management and team collaboration.
    • Efficiency in carrying out tasks.
    • Creates a spirit of collaboration and friendliness among colleagues.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • We get solutions to concerns much faster
    • We promote interactions with the other depts
    • We listen and have discussions
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