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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Creativity 365

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ACreativity 365 is a comprehensive, cross-device contention creation tool set designed for both business and creative professionals. The suite aims to help individuals and teams collaborate and improve their productivity and efficiency. The set includes five apps along with 1TB Kdan Cloud storage and access to all of Kdan Mobile's online communities. Platforms: Android, iOS, Mac, Windows According to the vendor key features and business benefits…N/A

    Lightning Tools Lightning Conductor

    Score9 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
    Creativity 365Lightning Tools Lightning Conductor
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Creativity 365Lightning Tools Lightning Conductor
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsMonthly $9.99 (*3-day free trial available) Semi-annually $39.99 Annually $59.99 (*14-day free trial available) Also, comes with a free stylus.** Quarterly plan with 7-day free trial to come in the following months. *Special and bulk purchasing options available for educational institutions and businesses. *Free trials only available on iTunes. **Free stylus details. Currently, new users subscribing to our Creativity 365 annual plan will receive an Adonit Dash 3 stylus. Once the free stylus has been shipped order is no refundable.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
    Creativity 365Lightning Tools Lightning Conductor
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Creativity 365 and Lightning Tools Lightning Conductor
    Feature
    Creativity 365
    9.4
    2 Ratings
    19% above category average
    Lightning Tools Lightning Conductor
    8.6
    2 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Task Management9.42 Ratings8.82 Ratings
    Gantt Charts9.62 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scheduling9.62 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow Automation9.62 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Access8.92 Ratings00 Ratings
    Search10.02 Ratings8.42 Ratings
    Visual planning tools9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Communication
    Comparison of Communication features of Creativity 365 and Lightning Tools Lightning Conductor
    Feature
    Creativity 365
    9.6
    2 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Lightning Tools Lightning Conductor
    -
    Ratings
    Chat10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Notifications10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Discussions10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Surveys9.42 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internal knowledgebase9.42 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrates with GoToMeeting9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts9.62 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrates with Outlook9.62 Ratings00 Ratings
    File Sharing & Management
    Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Creativity 365 and Lightning Tools Lightning Conductor
    Feature
    Creativity 365
    9.5
    2 Ratings
    17% above category average
    Lightning Tools Lightning Conductor
    -
    Ratings
    Versioning9.62 Ratings00 Ratings
    Video files10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Audio files9.42 Ratings00 Ratings
    Document collaboration10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access control9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Advanced security features9.42 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrates with Google Drive9.62 Ratings00 Ratings
    Device sync9.12 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Creativity 365Lightning Tools Lightning Conductor
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Creativity 365Lightning Tools Lightning Conductor
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Kdan Mobile Software Ltd.
    I think in a world where I have to churn out videos and other content for my business, I think that Creativity 365 really allows us in the office to be on the same page when it comes to getting stuff done. These days, especially with a lot of remote work, a collaborative effort can still feel like an individual one, but the coolest thing is that this software makes it feel less and less like that.
    Incentivized
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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.
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    Pros
    Kdan Mobile Software Ltd.
    • Different platforms integrations
    • collaboration through teams, messaging, doc share
    • Easy to use very simple for streamlining
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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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    Cons
    Kdan Mobile Software Ltd.
    • Since it's a content creation toolset, it would be great if there was a photo editing tool.
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    Lightning Tools
    • Mobile Friendly
    • Calendar/Gantt views
    • Complex/Custom Logic
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    Support Rating
    Kdan Mobile Software Ltd.
    I contacted customer service once and got my problem solved very quickly.
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    Lightning Tools
    The Lightning Tools support team responds quickly, and team members are very friendly and helpful.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Kdan Mobile Software Ltd.
    Airtable has a free version that offers basic functionalities that Creativity 365 does not offer. Airtable integrates with 25 different applications and software to make collaboration easier, while Creativity 365 only integrates with 13. Even though key features of Creativity 365 and Airtable should matter you should also carefully explore the integrations provided by each product. Very often you will already be making use of various kinds of SaaS software in your company and it’s much more beneficial to choose software that integrates well with each other. If you do that you will be able to guarantee an effortless transfer of data between your teams and software used, which can significantly reduce the time spent on migrating between one solution and the next.
    Incentivized
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    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.
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    Return on Investment
    Kdan Mobile Software Ltd.
    • simplified our editing process
    • allowed our teams to collaborate better
    • negative: Not everyone got adept at using it quickly
    Incentivized
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    Lightning Tools
    • Policies easier to portray
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    ScreenShots

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    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.