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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Appspace

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AAppspace (developed by Appspace Inc.) is a cloud-based workplace experience and digital workplace platform that unifies corporate intranet, digital signage, space reservation, and visitor management within a single environment. Designed for communications, human resources, facilities, and IT operations teams, Appspace provides a centralized infrastructure for publishing internal communications, managing physical workplace displays, coordinating desk and room bookings, and administering visitor…N/A

    BrightSign

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/ABrightSign in Los Gatos offers their solid state digital signage appliances, displays, and content distribution and management software platform BrightAuthor for designing the content to be displayed, with optional templates.N/A
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    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.0
    (7 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    Appspace
    Igloo is a well-suited option for teams/companies that want to build an employee intranet with some other interesting features, like file storage and sharing, internal communications, and resource and knowledge management. All of these features may help your workers increase productivity significantly by centralizing everything in one robust and reliable platform. However, it can be less appropriate if costs are a problem for you, due to the pricing. So, if you will not be using several features and just want an intranet for you company, you may want to go with another solution.
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    BrightSign
    Well suited to get content out to employees quickly and easily. Images and videos are the best. It might not work well for stagnant PDF and PPT content.
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    Pros
    Appspace
    • Notifications: Igloo can push email updates to users.
    • Organization: Igloo allows for you to create pages, sub pages, and many layer deep sections. You can also organize the layout of your pages.
    • Versioning: it's super easy to reserve and edit documents for offline use. And you can see who last edited a document and when.
    • Offline access: there's a desktop version you can use very easily. It's really good for dropping a bunch of files at once.
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    BrightSign
    • Simple and easy to use.
    • Easy to navigate and understand.
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    Cons
    Appspace
    • Their UI is not used-friendly. Their use of Igloo-specific terminology made it difficult to understand how each function of the site worked. They would repeatedly say, for example, "a ___ is really a ___" vs. just calling it what the function actually is.
    • Implementation was a far cry from their sales support. After basically nickel-and-diming you for everything, they - very poorly - cap your use of their implementation support team.
    • Overall, Igloo didn't work for our organization because they do multiple things decently vs a few things excellently. The experience with Igloo was unremarkable.
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    BrightSign
    • Tutorials would be helpful. I had to consult with another vendor to get started.
    • It would be helpful not to have to re-size photos all the time. Takes too much time.
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    Support Rating
    Appspace
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    BrightSign
    Ease of use and convenience of getting content to employees. I would give it a 10 if there were video tutorials for first-time users and live chat support.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Appspace
    Easy to use, cost-effective, and benefit in organizational culture development and information sharing across various employees and from higher management. Great customer support and continuous development to make the software better for users. It allows better collaboration with a little bit of fun too and requires less resources to handle.
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    BrightSign
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    Return on Investment
    Appspace
    • Helps with employee retention - especially in a virtual environment.
    • Costs less than a separate wiki system for storing key information.
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    BrightSign
    • Great asset to provide employees with current and relevant information.
    • Can impact employee morale if content is changed on a regular basis.
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    Screenshot of A highly social platformScreenshot of Easy drag and drop designScreenshot of Content management systemScreenshot of Responsive design for mobile users