Crowdbase (discontinued) vs HighQ

Likelihood to Recommend

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

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Director in Other

Real Estate Company, 1-10 employees

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HighQ Collaborate is well suited to situations where a law firm maintains numerous documents for a client and the client needs access to them on a regular basis.For example, we may store the client's minute book (which is relatively common for a large corporate law firm to do), but the client may need access to documents in that minute book on a regular basis.Likewise, we have an internal system at the firm for hosting digital versions of closing books, however, many clients would not have a similar system because they would only receive closing books irregularly. USBs get lost and the client might not want to put the closing book on the main server where anyone can access it. By putting the closing book on the extranet site, the individuals in the client's organization who should be able to access the closing book can do so.

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Professional in Legal

Law Practice Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Crowdbase (discontinued)

HighQ

Chat

Notifications

Discussions

Surveys

Internal knowledgebase

Crowdbase (discontinued)

HighQ

Task Management

Scheduling

Workflow Automation

Mobile Access

Search

Visual planning tools

Crowdbase (discontinued)

HighQ

Versioning

Video files

Audio files

Document collaboration

Access control

Advanced security features

Pros

Collaboration
Interaction with staff
Great way to engage staff and support each other

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Director in Other

Real Estate Company, 1-10 employees

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Document sharing. This product makes it easy to upload, review and organize documents related to a particular project or matter.
Permissions. Collaborate allows very granular permissions to be assigned for shared documents and administrative activities such as workflows.
Reliability. The product is cloud-based and rarely, if ever, unavailable.

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C-Level Executive in Information Technology

Legal Services Company, 201-500 employees

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Cons

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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Director in Other

Real Estate Company, 1-10 employees

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It is just not that exciting. We host documents on there for clients but the extranet sites have ultimately turned out to not be a product that our clients are clamoring for or that we are regularly pushing.

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Professional in Legal

Law Practice Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Support Rating

No score

No answers yet

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HighQ 10.0

Based on 2 answers

The interface is easy to use and overall the software seems pretty robust (I haven't had any crashes yet), so I haven't had to use the support very often. Likewise, I don't think I've ever had a client e-mail me with questions or issues - the software is pretty idiot-proof.

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Professional in Legal

Law Practice Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

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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Real Estate Company, 1-10 employees

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I feel that HighQ does not really have any real competition in this space because it simply accomplishes its goals far better than the competition at lower cost, while requiring less training and administration.

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C-Level Executive in Information Technology

Legal Services Company, 201-500 employees

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Return on Investment

Encourages communication
Easy to use
Before crowdbase we never though of collaborating this way

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Director in Other

Real Estate Company, 1-10 employees

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Permits fairly simple administration by a single person for hundreds of Extranets
One shop stopping for reliable, secure document sharing and signing with external parties
Simple enough to use that internal and external users do not need training to take advantage of the product.

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C-Level Executive in Information Technology

Legal Services Company, 201-500 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Rating Summary

Crowdbase (discontinued)

HighQ

Crowdbase (discontinued)

HighQ