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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Bloomfire

    Score8.4 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Bloomfire provides knowledge engagement, aiming to deliver an experience that connects teams and individuals with the information they need to excel at their jobs. Their cloud-based knowledge engagement platform aims to give people one centralized, searchable place to engage with shared knowledge and grow their organization's collective intelligence.

    $25

    per month

    ElaBoard

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/ABased in New York City, ElaBoard is an online whiteboard platform for distributed team collaboration. The platform's limitless working canvas facilitates its more than 5M users to lead engaging workshops and meetings, innovate products, and brainstorm conceptions. It is excellent for cross-functional teams at organizations of all sizes, regardless of industry.

    $7

    per month per user

    Oracle Beehive Enterprise Collaboration Server

    Score6 out of 10
    N/AOracle Beehive Enterprise Collaboration Server provides hosted collaboration and voice / web conferencing tools at the enterprise level.N/A
    Pricing
    BloomfireElaBoardOracle Beehive Enterprise Collaboration Server
    Editions & Modules
    Basic
    $25.00
    per month
    Starter
    $7
    per month per user
    Professional
    $14
    per month per user
    Business
    $25
    per month per user
    Enterprise
    $40
    per month per user
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    BloomfireElaBoardOracle Beehive Enterprise Collaboration Server
    Free Trial
    NoYesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNoNo
    Entry-level Setup Fee$25No setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsA 14 day free trial is available so you can try Elaboard before you buy. Elaboard has 4 pricing editions, ranging from $7 to $40 per user per month.
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    Community Pulse
    BloomfireElaBoardOracle Beehive Enterprise Collaboration Server
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    97%
    Would buy again
    158 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    8 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    90 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    7 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    160 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    8 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    54 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    6 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    99%
    Implementation went as expected
    73 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
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    Features
    BloomfireElaBoardOracle Beehive Enterprise Collaboration Server
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Bloomfire and ElaBoard and Oracle Beehive Enterprise Collaboration Server
    Feature
    Bloomfire
    -
    Ratings
    ElaBoard
    9.3
    3 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Oracle Beehive Enterprise Collaboration Server
    5.3
    3 Ratings
    37% below category average
    Task Management00 Ratings9.33 Ratings5.03 Ratings
    Gantt Charts00 Ratings00 Ratings5.02 Ratings
    Scheduling00 Ratings00 Ratings5.03 Ratings
    Workflow Automation00 Ratings00 Ratings5.02 Ratings
    Mobile Access00 Ratings00 Ratings5.03 Ratings
    Search00 Ratings00 Ratings5.03 Ratings
    Visual planning tools00 Ratings00 Ratings7.03 Ratings
    File Sharing & Management
    Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Bloomfire and ElaBoard and Oracle Beehive Enterprise Collaboration Server
    Feature
    Bloomfire
    -
    Ratings
    ElaBoard
    8.7
    3 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Oracle Beehive Enterprise Collaboration Server
    6.6
    3 Ratings
    20% below category average
    Document collaboration00 Ratings8.73 Ratings7.03 Ratings
    Versioning00 Ratings00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Video files00 Ratings00 Ratings7.03 Ratings
    Audio files00 Ratings00 Ratings7.03 Ratings
    Access control00 Ratings00 Ratings7.03 Ratings
    Advanced security features00 Ratings00 Ratings7.03 Ratings
    Integrates with Google Drive00 Ratings00 Ratings4.02 Ratings
    Device sync00 Ratings00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Communication
    Comparison of Communication features of Bloomfire and ElaBoard and Oracle Beehive Enterprise Collaboration Server
    Feature
    Bloomfire
    -
    Ratings
    ElaBoard
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle Beehive Enterprise Collaboration Server
    5.8
    3 Ratings
    32% below category average
    Chat00 Ratings00 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    Notifications00 Ratings00 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    Discussions00 Ratings00 Ratings7.03 Ratings
    Surveys00 Ratings00 Ratings7.03 Ratings
    Internal knowledgebase00 Ratings00 Ratings7.03 Ratings
    Integrates with GoToMeeting00 Ratings00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts00 Ratings00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
    Integrates with Outlook00 Ratings00 Ratings1.02 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    BloomfireElaBoardOracle Beehive Enterprise Collaboration Server
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (174 ratings)
    8.6
    (8 ratings)
    6.0
    (3 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (14 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (15 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    BloomfireElaBoardOracle Beehive Enterprise Collaboration Server
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Bloomfire
    Ad testing:
    • PTS: needed to bring a new senior marketing team member up to speed on how we got to our current TV campaign
    • Solution: Series featuring consumer insights, why specific spokesperson, agency brief, the entire creative process - scrips, animatics, rough cuts, feedback, and testing at each step. Including the actual creative from each step.
    • Total time to build: 1 hour
    Concept testing:
    • PTS: things get lost, findable but version control
    • Solution: everything in one placeConcepts, testing, IHUTs, verbatims, videos with transcripts. Reduces the possibility of missing something, helps with any builds (reuse), but gives us a the chance to dig deeper. Example: search on terms like "indulgent", or "crispy" or "share" much faster
    • Total time to build: 1 hour
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    ZooOps
    ElaBoard is particularly well-suited for creating engaging visuals for presentations, bulletin boards, and classroom door decorations. It is also great for managing projects and providing resources to help users collaborate more easily. Additionally, ElaBoard is great for quickly creating and sharing documents and materials with other users.When it comes to more complex tasks, such as creating animations and transitions, ElaBoard may not be the best option. Additionally, ElaBoard does not offer many customization options, making it difficult to create unique visuals that capture the user's desired look and feel. Finally, ElaBoard's search and filtering tools could be improved, as it can be difficult to quickly find the materials needed for a project.
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    Oracle
    The software is well suited in most areas of messaging. The communication features it contains and the messaging quality it utilizes provides for standards, like scalability, manageability and, most importantly, secure communications. Again, the software is well suited for scenarios where an organization is aimed at making use of a centralized management. it is built to provide a unified collaborative platform characterized by a single object model and also has a database storage for almost all communication records.
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    Pros
    Bloomfire
    • Quickly reach out to whatever employee segment you want to reach by posting a topic and it will send a notification to everyone in that group with a link to the posting.
    • Bloomfire saves all of the previous posts so in your free time you can go to the site, and explore the various range of topics others have posted. The information on there will only be as good as the person posting it, but it will be people within your company and industry posting it. So it will always be helpful.
    • Bloomfire is a place to be noticed by your peers. Have a great topic you want to express, my company allows all to post there as long as we keep it professional. So you can share your ideas or experiences in a safe and productive manner. But we do have some fun on there too!
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    ZooOps
    • It provides a number of tools, such as a calendar, task lists, frameworks, tracking charts, shares, real-time notifications, and more.
    • It allows us to create projects, share files, have real-time conversations and keep up with the activity of other team members.
    • Analysis tools include interactive charts, pivot tables, performance and resource usage reports, and more. These tools allow users to gain a deep understanding of the results of their projects.
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    Oracle
    • Centralized workspaces
    • Strong access controls
    • Robust document management
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    Cons
    Bloomfire
    • I would recommend adding a feature to combine different posts/series by job title (so in addition to the Revenue Ops category, there could be a structured walkthrough for Revenue Manager).
    • Live Q+A sessions for group onboarding initiatives.
    • Ability to label bookmarks by priority/job type.
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    ZooOps
    • There are too many steps to share your board with users not already signed up
    • Cost; for smaller organizations it's great but 150+ people really start to add up fast
    • It's 2022, improved accessibility is a must
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    Oracle
    • The main aspect is the cost - They should trim it down a bit.
    • My pears have told me this. Even i am telling the same - The interface just fails to grab that attention. High time the team should work on this.
    • Though many aspects are brought into one product, they lacked to provide individual attention to each feature (like a messaging app) and improvise it.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Bloomfire
    Most likely we will renew, our team needs a refresher on possible opportunities to advance our usage and learning of opportunities to move this answer to a 10, can't live without it.
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    ZooOps
    We give ElaBoard a 10 out of 10 rating because it has proven to be an invaluable tool for our organization. ElaBoard has allowed us to easily set and track our goals, collaborate with cross-functional teams, manage our budget, forecast our expenses, develop successful products, and track progress on various projects. Additionally, ElaBoard has enabled us to quickly and easily visualize complex data sets, create custom workflows, and create presentation-style slideshows. These features, along with ElaBoard's intuitive user interface and responsive customer support team, make it an ideal choice for our organization and make us confident that it will continue to provide the features and functionality we need in the future.
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    Oracle
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    Usability
    Bloomfire
    Bloomfire is an easy-to-use platform for posting information and asking questions of my peers. It also has a user-friendly search capability. Yet like any other CMS, the secret to success rests in such items as the ability to use metadata to tag content or posts, and Bloomfire provides a wide range of options to make posting content and subsequently searching for it.
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    ZooOps
    I gave ElaBoard an 8 rating for its overall usability because it provides an intuitive and user-friendly platform for teams to collaborate on a variety of tasks. The kindergarten management system was a great addition, as it allowed us to keep track of the kids inside the home or in the kindergarten. Additionally, the library of educational resources and games was also very useful. Furthermore, the platform is easy to set up and navigate, and the customer service team is responsive and helpful. Overall, ElaBoard makes it easy for teams to work together and efficiently get things done.
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    Oracle
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    Reliability and Availability
    Bloomfire
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    ZooOps
    I gave ElaBoard a rating of 9 out of 10 for availability because it is designed to be extremely reliable, and it is backed by a team of experienced engineers and administrators who are dedicated to ensuring the product is available whenever it is needed. Additionally, ElaBoard has multiple layers of redundancy and failover built into the system to ensure that there are no single points of failure and that the system remains available even in the event of an unexpected outage. Furthermore, ElaBoard's servers are regularly monitored and maintained to ensure that the system is running optimally.
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    Oracle
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    Performance
    Bloomfire
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    ZooOps
    I gave ElaBoard a rating of 9 out of 10 for performance because it is designed to be extremely fast, and it is optimized for both speed and efficiency. Pages on the platform load quickly, and reports tend to complete in a reasonable amount of time, given their complexity. Additionally, ElaBoard is designed to be light on resources, so it doesn't slow down other software or systems it might be integrated with. Furthermore, ElaBoard's servers are regularly monitored and maintained to ensure that the system is running optimally.
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    Oracle
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    Support Rating
    Bloomfire
    I have not needed to pose questions to the support team yet, as it is a very simple piece of software to use, however, its help documents and the bot ready to answer questions let me know I am in good hands. The help center could load a little quicker, but that's my only complaint.
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    ZooOps
    I give ElaBoard an 8 out of 10 rating because of the helpfulness and responsiveness of their customer service team. They have a knowledge base with detailed instructions and guides, as well as a dedicated customer service team that is available to answer questions. In my experience, the support team has been friendly, knowledgeable, and helpful in resolving my issues quickly and efficiently. Additionally, I found that the product itself was easy to use and had a wide range of features that met my needs.
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    Implementation Rating
    Bloomfire
    No answers on this topic
    ZooOps
    Key insights regarding the implementation of ElaBoard include the importance of planning, gathering stakeholder buy-in, ensuring compatibility with existing systems, providing sufficient training and support, and monitoring the implementation process to ensure it achieves the desired outcomes. Additionally, it is important to consider the potential impact of the change on those affected by it and to ensure that data is migrated correctly. Lastly, it is important to ensure that the implementation process is completed on time and within budget.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Bloomfire
    I like Bloomfire because it is more concise with the work I do whereas Google search engine would provide broader information. It has just been so user-friendly, and easier to use [than] I could have imagined. I would use this program over any other that I have tried in the past.
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    ZooOps
    Interface of Ela Board is better and user-friendly. It is dependent on the G Suite and may not be considered as an independent Whiteboard. Very limited tools available. Media tools are not available. Being a google product, the we were not confident on the security front. Limited and not so good templates are available. However, you can change the background colors & images but it do not give a feel of full functional and professional solution
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    Oracle
    The only feature that makes Beehive Enterprise Collaborative software stack up against similar software is unification. It is wholly unified. Basically, it allows IT to function as one platform providing services like email, team workspace, and conferencing. Uniquely, this results in saving time and cost related to managing separate systems
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    Scalability
    Bloomfire
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    ZooOps
    I gave ElaBoard a rating of 9 out of 10 for scalability because it is designed to be flexible and easily configurable, allowing organizations to quickly and easily adjust the system to their needs. Additionally, the product can be easily deployed in a variety of environments and scales to meet the needs of the organization. Furthermore, ElaBoard provides a wide range of features and tools that make it easy to integrate and manage data from multiple sources, as well as to create custom visualizations and reports. All of these features make ElaBoard an excellent choice for organizations looking for a highly scalable solution.
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    Oracle
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    Return on Investment
    Bloomfire
    • Feedback from users in being able to perform transactions for members has greatly improved.
    • There has been an increase in engagement of material presented in posts by learners in training classes.
    • Reps and agents say they feel confident they can easily locate information if ever there is a need on the front line.
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    ZooOps
    • Positive - helps us be more efficient than with just a board meeting as we can just meet for a few quick minutes instead of hours.
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    Oracle
    • Improved control over project documents, approvals, and version history, which reduced rework and helped teams meet deadlines.
    • Strong access controls supported audit and compliance needs, reducing risk and improving review efficiency.
    • Positive in environments where security, document control, and structured workflows are priorities.
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    ScreenShots

    Bloomfire Screenshots

    Screenshot of You are provided with a variety of options to brand your Bloomfire community, such as customizing its colors, displaying your organization’s logo, and building a custom Promo Bar. This creates an aesthetic that truly reflects your company’s culture.Screenshot of Bloomfire features an AI-powered search that makes sharing and searching for information a lot easier. It deep indexes every word in each piece of content, regardless of whether it’s a PDF, slide deck, video, or any other file type. The platform also creates tags for your content automatically. And if a video is uploaded, Bloomfire automatically transcribes it, making the spoken words searchable and allowing users to jump to the exact part of a video where certain keywords appear.

All of those features result in an easy and smart searching experience. There’s no need to navigate through folders or guess file names. All you need to do is perform a search like you would with Google. When searching, you can further narrow down your results based on categories such as author and content type.Screenshot of Bloomfire's AI enables you to search and find the video you are looking for based on its audio contents.Screenshot of Use Bloomfire while you work seamlessly across your favorite apps.