Chameleon vs. Zoomin

Seems like a great solution for web-based apps and sites when you want to communicate with your users in a fairly lightweight way. Users can "escape" from your guided tours relatively easily. Not sure how it would work for a combined web and mobile experience. Also, if you have a responsive layout, the layout of the guide sometimes breaks - you have to be careful

Incentivized

Zoomin is best suited for an organization that uses DITA or other forms of structured authoring in at least one department. The structure provided by DITA will lay the foundation for all other types of content that are imported into Zoomin.

• Super easy installation/setup particularly if you use Segment.
• Improved and relatively easy to learn UI.
• Great minimal/elegant design of the elements that get displayed to your users.

Incentivized

• The biggest advantage to using Zoomin is the care and loyalty of their people. No matter what occurred throughout the process, they were with us 100%.
• The Zoomin product is one of the few DITA compatible products I've seen that presents a current and professional interface.
• Zoomin's roadmap is impressive and I've actually seen first-hand that they really do make good on items on their roadmap!

• There are not quite as many interactive elements as I'd like to see, but enough to get the job done.
• The general editing UI is good, but some of the elements could be easier to discover. You sort of have to trial-and-error your way to success.
• Documentation is fairly light. If you really want to dig in, you'll find it lacking. Luckily support was awesome and fast.

Incentivized

• Zoomin's SalesForce integration is a must finish. It's almost there, but they haven't been able to get Salesforce to certify it.

We had some colleagues try to implement WalkMe with their Single page app and it was a disaster getting it to work (it eventually did, mostly). Because we already use Segment, we thought we'd give Chameleon a try and it was very easy. I built my first tour in an hour or two.

Incentivized

• Saved us time/money building extensive documentation.
• Quicker to implement a few other solutions. We have access to an enterprise product for FREE, but we chose not to use it because implementation was too cumbersome.

Incentivized

• Our new Zoomin based interface increased traffic to our doc site by 600%.
• The new Zoomin based site decreased traffic to the support portal by 10-20% for all segments of the business.
• Customer comments provided positive results as customers started to see we were making much needed improvement.