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Aurea Process vs. Lightning Tools Lightning Conductor

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Aurea Process
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
Aurea Process (formerly CX Process) from Aurea Software in Austin is a business process management offering, based on Savvion BPM.
$200,000
per year
Lightning Tools Lightning Conductor
Score 9.0 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
The Lightning Conductor is a content aggregation tool for Microsoft SharePoint Online and Microsoft Teams. Users can build rich, modern content reports based upon SharePoint lists, SharePoint Search, Microsoft Graph or Microsoft 365 Groups. Content can be aggregated from lists and libraries, and other applications such as Planner, To Do, OneDrive, and Teams.
$2,200
per year per installation
Pricing
Aurea ProcessLightning Tools Lightning Conductor
Editions & Modules
License
$200,000
per year
Lightning Conductor WSP
From 1950
per year One WFE
Lightning Conductor Enterprise Edition
POA
per year Four or more WFE
Lightning Conductor Online
From 2200
per year per installation
Lightning Conductor Plus (Includes Data Viewer)
From 2500
per year per installation
Lightning Conductor Online Enterprise Edition (>10,000 users)
POA
per year per installation
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Aurea ProcessLightning Tools Lightning Conductor
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details—Prices stated are minimum per installation for "stock" products. $2.20 per user/year on top of base price. Enterprise editions can be amended to suit business needs if deemed necessary, additional costs incurred and TBD. All packages include free technical support. Free upgrades available to latest versions of tool as they are released. (online version)
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Features
Aurea ProcessLightning Tools Lightning Conductor
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Aurea Process
5.3
1 Ratings
38% below category average
Lightning Tools Lightning Conductor
-
Ratings
Dashboards6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Standard reports6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Custom reports4.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Process Engine
Comparison of Process Engine features of Product A and Product B
Aurea Process
5.8
1 Ratings
36% below category average
Lightning Tools Lightning Conductor
-
Ratings
Process designer6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Process simulation7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Business rules engine5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
SOA support5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Process player7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Model execution5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Collaboration
Comparison of Collaboration features of Product A and Product B
Aurea Process
4.0
1 Ratings
70% below category average
Lightning Tools Lightning Conductor
-
Ratings
Social collaboration tools4.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Content Management Capabilties
Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of Product A and Product B
Aurea Process
4.0
1 Ratings
68% below category average
Lightning Tools Lightning Conductor
-
Ratings
Content management4.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Aurea Process
-
Ratings
Lightning Tools Lightning Conductor
8.6
2 Ratings
10% above category average
Task Management00 Ratings8.82 Ratings
Search00 Ratings8.42 Ratings
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
5.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(4 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Aurea ProcessLightning Tools Lightning Conductor
Likelihood to Recommend
Aurea
The tool has potential. Its capabilities and visual aspects could be considered rather basic but this might improve, particularly if the business intelligence/analytics aspect is leveraged. Once running well, it could allow (perhaps smaller) companies to successfully improve their customers' experiences through digitalizing customer journey - and we all know that customer loyalty goes a long way. However, whether or not the tool is comprehensive enough to deliver this for larger companies with more complex, multi- and omni-channel interactions is yet to be seen...
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Anonymous
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Lightning Tools
Having experience of SharePoint On Premise and also SharePoint Online, there isn't an out of the box app/webpart that enables you to 'roll up content' from a variety of source's (in my case SP Lists, but there are many other data sources it works with) across site collections with an easy to use and intuitive interface which is what Lightning tools excels at.
JB
Julie Bird
SharePoint/M365 Development
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Pros
Aurea
  • Face-lifted platforms: CX Messenger (formerly Sonic), CX Monitor (formerly Actional), CX Process (formerly Savvion)
  • User-friendly UI
  • Relatively painless implementation
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Anonymous
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Lightning Tools
  • Aggregate documents across SharePoint site & libraries
  • Filtering for owner/person responsible & due dates
  • Ease of end-user filtering on columns
  • Color-coding & other formatting
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Anonymous
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Cons
Aurea
  • Standard edition is significantly lighter touch than the (pricier) Enterprise version
  • There are similar solutions on the market that are competitively prices and offer positive user experience
  • Data migration can be tricky at times
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Anonymous
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Lightning Tools
  • Mobile Friendly
  • Calendar/Gantt views
  • Complex/Custom Logic
TP
Toby Pior
Intranet Supervisor
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Support Rating
Aurea
No answers on this topic
Lightning Tools
The Lightning Tools support team responds quickly, and team members are very friendly and helpful.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Alternatives Considered
Aurea
No answers on this topic
Lightning Tools
I haven't found another product to compare this one to. Only in SharePoint Online which has a similar App 'Highlight Webpart' ... it's far too complicated to set up and requires learning yet another language and exporting and importing via PowerShell to get any real results that would be useful.
JB
Julie Bird
SharePoint/M365 Development
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Return on Investment
Aurea
  • As our customers vary in size and maturity, the ROI ranges accordingly.
  • For younger, smaller businesses this is a useful tool. Digitalization of he customer journey has certainly helped save time and efforts in many cases.
  • For more mature market players the tool is not always comprehensive enough. Dashboard and report personalization take time and efforts, and sometimes it feels that a dedicated BI tool would be a more suitable solution.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Lightning Tools
  • Policies easier to portray
GB
Gary Buck
IMS Manager
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ScreenShots

Aurea Process Screenshots

Screenshot of CX Platform enables leading companies to modernize, automate, and monitor their back office by bridging legacy SOA solutions to modern micro-service and container-based architectures.

Lightning Tools Lightning Conductor Screenshots

Screenshot of MODERN SHAREPOINT LIST ROLLUP The Lightning Conductor is a SharePoint Content Aggregator that can be configured quickly by business users. The Lightning Conductor can be used to aggregate content from SharePoint Lists such as Tasks, Document Libraries, Contact Lists, and Custom Lists making it easy to view content in one place even if it is distributed across many sites and site collections. Key data can be highlighted using conditional formatting and data-bars as shown. Content from Search and Microsoft Graph can also be aggregated with the Lightning Conductor.Screenshot of CONTENT AGGREGATION WITHIN MICROSOFT TEAMS The Lightning Conductor Web Part can be used within Microsoft SharePoint or Microsoft Teams. Even if content is stored within SharePoint sites, it is useful to have aggregated Documents, Tasks, Announcements, Calendars or Custom Lists from multiple sites displayed in a single handy view in Microsoft Teams. The Lightning Conductor can be added as a Teams Tab in any Microsoft Teams Channel.Screenshot of BUILDING REPORTS ON MICROSOFT GRAPH The Lightning Conductor can be used (without code) to aggregate content from Microsoft Graph as well as Search and SharePoint Lists. This example displays Microsoft Planner Plans and Microsoft Planner Tasks where users can Add new Tasks, Assign Users to Planner Tasks, Delete Tasks, and Complete Tasks. The same can be performed on Microsoft To Do items and displayed within Modern SharePoint pages or Microsoft Teams Tabs. The Lighting Conductor can also contain multiple views of content, making it ideal to display all of your tasks from SharePoint Task lists, Microsoft To Do and Microsoft Planner in a single web part or Teams Tab. *Microsoft Graph Reports are only available for SharePoint Online and not SharePoint 2019.Screenshot of BUILDING REPORTS ON MICROSOFT 365 GROUPS Powered by Microsoft Graph, the Microsoft 365 Group Rollup Provider enables users to aggregate content by browsing and selecting Microsoft 365 Groups. Within Microsoft 365 Groups, you’ll be able to select entities such as Drive Items, Owners, Members, Planner Plans, Planner Tasks, Events, Posts, Sites, Lists, and Calendars. *Microsoft Graph Reports are only available for SharePoint Online and not SharePoint 2019.Screenshot of AGGREGATING USING SEARCH When performance is critical, search can be used for rollups. The Lightning Conductor offers three data source configurations to get to content. Object Model (Real Time Aggregation from SharePoint Lists), Microsoft Graph (Aggregation from Graph Entities such as Planner, OneDrive, Outlook), and Search. The Search Data Source enables the aggregation of content from large SharePoint lists and libraries when performance is critical. Thousands of documents can be displayed in under a second using Search.Screenshot of HIGHLIGHTING KEY BUSINESS DATA WITHIN VIEWS End users and Site Owners can highlight the data that is important to them, the data that they need to prioritize. Using conditional formatting, data bars, and icons, conditions can be configured to highlight the data that is most important. Icons and Data Bars can be any color or size desired. Examples include highlighting High Priority tasks, Showing data bars for the completion progress of Tasks, or indicating which tasks are assigned to any particular user.