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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Crowdbase (discontinued)

    Score2 out of 10
    N/ACrowdbase was collaboration software from the company of the same name in Quebec. The company has ceased operations and the product is no longer available.

    $100

    per month

    OmniGraffle

    Score9.8 out of 10
    N/AOmniGraffle is a wireframing tool for Mac users.N/A
    Pricing
    Crowdbase (discontinued)OmniGraffle
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    Crowdbase (discontinued)OmniGraffle
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Crowdbase (discontinued)OmniGraffle
    Communication
    Comparison of Communication features of Crowdbase (discontinued) and OmniGraffle
    Feature
    Crowdbase (discontinued)
    7.0
    1 Ratings
    13% below category average
    OmniGraffle
    -
    Ratings
    Chat7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Notifications7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Discussions7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Crowdbase (discontinued)OmniGraffle
    Likelihood to Recommend
    2.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (18 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
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    User Testimonials
    Crowdbase (discontinued)OmniGraffle
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    I wouldn't suggest Crowdbasefor smaller companies, even for bigger companies a more integrated solution would be desirable. It may suit companies that want their collaboration separate from project management and CRM, but at least for our organisation it seems to make more sense to have most of our work tools in one place
    Incentivized
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    The Omni Group
    Omnigraffle is great for documentation, mapping, flowcharting, and other technical diagramming scenarios. It's simple enough to bang out a quick illustration and powerful enough to build complex blueprints for complicated technical systems. If you need cross-platform compatibility, though, you're probably better off looking elsewhere. If you want complex integration with data sources (ala Visio's SQL Server integration for shape metadata), OmniGraffle also falls short — but those scenarios are few and far between in my experience.
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • Collaboration
    • Interaction with staff
    • Great way to engage staff and support each other
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    The Omni Group
    • OmniGraffle is fairly simple to use, but the one thing I think it does best is working with curved lines, particularly if you are using some of the available arc templates. Drop an arc onto your page, then tell it the dimensions it needs to be, and viola! Done. Manipulating the arcs is as simple as clicking and dragging offset points.
    • OmniGraffle has also done an excellent job in stirring up the creative minds of many people who create templates and tools to work with OmniGraffle (not that Microsoft hasn't done so either), and managed to get the bulk of those into well organized repositories.
    • What it all boils down to for me is: it just works. One doesn't need to have a computer science degree to work with it either. It is as simple or complex as you want it to be.
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    Cons
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    • It is very limited
    • Although it has an API it doesn't link to the services we use.
    • It isn't customisable like podio.
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    The Omni Group
    • I'd love to be able to keep more than one of the different tool tabs open at a time.
    • The stencils are amazing. Would be great if a whole lot more of the free ones came standard as opposed to having to download them from Graffletopia or other sites.
    • Built in tutorials would be great.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    The Omni Group
    Best product for my needs on the market
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    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    The Omni Group
    OmniGraffle is an excellent application for chart and diagrams development. Been using it for a while now and it's a multiple platform application.
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    Alternatives Considered
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    Crowdbase's strength may lie in its ability to do just one main thing well, but for us this was a massive limitation. I know that it is not trying to be Podio and it is therefore unfair to compare the two but there are features that overlap. for us Podio was better suited.
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    The Omni Group
    While these other tools are great for what they are, OmniGraffle’s solid focus on and support for diagramming makes it our tool of choice for communicating workflows and concept relationships, creating documentation, and creating other diagrams. Its libraries allow us to create designs quickly, and its ease of use enables us to use the tool widely across the company without much time or effort spent on onboarding.
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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • Encourages communication
    • Easy to use
    • Before crowdbase we never though of collaborating this way
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    The Omni Group
    • Omnigraffle isn't an expensive software tool, so there isn't really any negative from the perspective of raw cost. Thinking in terms of time spent using it on a project - what you create in omnigraffle will inevitably lead to a dead end. It's useful only as documentation. There are other tools like Sketch that integrate into prototyping software and can create useable visual assets for applications in addition to being able to create wireframes.
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