BoardPro vs. Nconnect vs. Socialtext (discontinued)

The best scenarios for the use of BoardPro are highlighted when there is planning, development, coordination, execution and monitoring of projects and activities, in addition to being an information panel for all the members of the different teams of the organization, it provides the ability to hold meetings, an integrating element that stands out from other software. The management of the boards is exceptionally intuitive and easy to use, in addition to simplifying its content in a way that is easy to understand for all people, granting continuity and consistency to the work or works to be developed. An area of opportunity where it could be developed in a better way is offline work, since it will not be possible for your team members to work in this way.

Incentivized

OnSemble is solving a lot of problems that our organization had prior to its implementation:

• We can track communication readership.
• We can engage with our fellow teammates through chats and recognition.
• We have a central location for all job-related links.
• We are just now delving into adding departmental pages so folks can communicate within their teams.

I'm not sure of a scenario where OnSemble wouldn't be appropriate - if you have a company that needs to centralize communication, documentation, and share ideas, it's an excellent choice.

Incentivized

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.

• Agenda-setting and writing minutes is very easy with the built-in structure offered
• Compiling and distributing Board packs with BoardPro takes a fraction of the time it used to - and updates to papers are so much easier
• Ability to hold all governance documents in one central repository is useful for external Directors
• Directors find the Board paper annotation feature very useful. New updates to this have made it an extremely powerful tool.
• Flying Minutes feature is very useful for obtaining formal decisions between meetings and then automatically adding them to the next set of minutes.
• The ability for Directors to update their own interests in the Interests Register is efficient and puts the responsibility on them to ensure this is up to date - this is automatically included in each Board pack.
• The actions feature is fantastic - allocating a person responsible and an action deadline which then is followed up by BoardPro email reminders keeps people on tasks and allows the Chair to stay on top of actions as they are reported in the Board packs each meeting.

Incentivized

• powerful, yet simple to use, document management for sharing
• custom help desk form creation/submission with targeted audience
• integration friendly with document types (e.g., xls, pdf, doc, etc.)

Incentivized

• 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

• development of an Android app (at the moment available only on the Apple store)
• a section for the Q&A answer for users at the beginning level
• upload also excel format documents

Incentivized

• Permissions - granting permissions at different levels for users is tedious - would like to see permissions simplified.

Incentivized

• 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.

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

As a user: it's pretty intuitive and the only thing holding a user back from getting everything out of it is a lack of curiosity. As an admin: it's not super intuitive. The training and the setup process are crucial to be able to use and maintain the portal, and we still sometimes have questions.

Incentivized

I have always been pleased with my experiences with OnSemble's Support team. First, they have a great library of articles to help me study and guide for many of my questions. But when I cannot quite comprehend, or I "run into the wall", I can be assured that I'll be contacted quickly with a pleasant voice to work through whatever my question/issue may be. Kudos to OnSemble Support!

Incentivized

BoardPro is on a different playing field than monday.com, in fact, BoardPro is in a league of it's own. I used monday.com at a different organisation board and actually found that I did not use it. I found it easier to download and read the PDF board pack that was provided to me. The user interface of BoardPro is such that the software is easy to navigate and use, it is intuitive and such a delight to use.

Incentivized

The software is easy to use, customizable, and intuitive to its users

Incentivized

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.

• It has made meetings more enjoyable and flow faster
• We are able to get through the formal agenda quickly and focus on strategy
• The strategic decisions that have occurred as a direct result of using BoardPro have added real value to Search Republic

Incentivized

• Streamlined documentation - positive impact.
• Convenient calendar and access to timeclock - positive impact.
• Hub for staff to gather everything they may need to successfully assist our members - positive impact.

Incentivized

• We get solutions to concerns much faster
• We promote interactions with the other depts
• We listen and have discussions