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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Glip (discontinued)

    Score9.7 out of 10
    N/AGlip was a conversation platform to plan, share and organize work. Glip featured text and video chat at its core, with file sharing, collaborative task management, shared calendars, and automatic version control. Glip was acquired by RingCentral in 2015 and is no longer available standalone, though its features are included in RingCentral MVP.

    $11.99

    Per User Per Month

    Opal

    Score9.1 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Opal is a platform for brands, used to plan, create, and calendar their content - across teams and channels. Opal aims to enable tight alignment and high levels of efficiency. Marketing teams from companies such as Starbucks, Microsoft, and Target use Opal to collaborate, plan, and visualize, while ensuring an always-unified brand voice. Users can: Plan every facet of the brand experience, to ensure consistency throughout every moment and across every…

    $8.29

    per month

    Pricing
    Glip (discontinued)Opal
    Editions & Modules
    Pro
    $11.99
    Per User Per Month
    Opal Pro
    $8.29
    per month
    Opal
    Free Forever
    Teams Pro
    Custom Pricing
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Glip (discontinued)Opal
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Glip (discontinued)Opal
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Glip (discontinued) and Opal
    Feature
    Glip (discontinued)
    10.0
    11 Ratings
    26% above category average
    Opal
    -
    Ratings
    Task Management10.011 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Glip (discontinued)Opal
    Small Businesses
    Flock
    Score9.5 out of 10
    monday marketer (discontinued)
    Score10 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Troop Messenger
    Score9.8 out of 10
    Adobe Marketing Cloud
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Cisco Business Edition 7000 (discontinued)
    Score9 out of 10
    Adobe Marketing Cloud
    Score9.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Glip (discontinued)Opal
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (14 ratings)
    9.2
    (5 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.1
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Glip (discontinued)Opal
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    Glip should definitely be on your shortlist for a team collaboration tool. Glip has a lower cost and contains all the features found in competitive tools such as Microsoft Teams and Webex Teams. Glip is also scalable and robust enough for large enterprises and is great to coordinate and document large projects with hundreds of tasks and hundreds of resources. Glip, MS, and Webex Teams are excellent for an individual to create and receive task assignments and document and complete those tasks but these tools do not replace enterprise project management software and tools. Glip, MS Teams, and Webex Teams quickly become complicated and disorganized and it becomes easy to drown in all the sea of data unless you work diligently and continually at organizing your workspace.
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    OPAL
    I honestly cannot recommend this tool enough. Opal is such a valuable tool for brand content creators and there is nothing like it available. If you're serious about content marketing and have a need to find ways to collaborate, plan and provide more visibility among teams, then Opal really is the only way to go. One more thing that's not being mentioned: The tool is simply amazing but it's only as amazing is the team behind the tool. Their customer support and willingness to quickly be in touch when needed is a key feature within itself. Seriously, such a good team of people.
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • Ease of use: It is extremely easy to use Glip and its features.
    • Ease of adoption: You can start using Glip in a couple of minutes and scale its use to the whole team, no hassle.
    • Scalability: This products scales well both in users and in pricing.
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    OPAL
    • Content planning: you can look at one asset and see how it is being used across multiple channels by multiple teams.
    • Content collaboration: it is really easy to see what other people and teams are contributing to an asset, or how they are using it. We can also duplicate content that was created by another team to use as a starting point in our own content collaboration.
    • High level/big picture overview: Opal allows us to see content that is being created, planned and scheduled very easily; it goes beyond social content (which we can also see in Sprinklr) to show us content created across multiple channels.
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    Cons
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    • Allow the ability to move a conversation when a hyperlink is involved. Currently not able to do this. Glip is aware and hopefully working on it.
    • Add a more robust search feature to find old conversations. Search query time could also be sped up.
    • Add reminder notifications. When tasks are added, it is sometimes easy to overlook older tasks.
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    OPAL
    • No publishing capabilities, for the most part.
    • No analytics tie-ins.
    • Rather pricey.
    • Requires someone to really manage the structure in order to keep the tool organized and use it effectively. When this is done right, though, it's worthwhile.
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    Likelihood to Renew
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    Glip has saved us so much time that my team could no longer live without it. I don't know what we would do. All of us used it constantly all day every day. It is one of the best tools in my arsenal!
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    OPAL
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    Usability
    Discontinued Products
    Mobile UI is not as pleasant as others, it looks washed out and that makes it seem like it lacks some features.
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    OPAL
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
    We have a free account so I understand why we are not at the top of the list. But we have had issues before that took forever for them to get back to us. Once I had to make a Twitter account just to tweet at them about the issue and they finally got back to me. After several weeks. And the issue was something we just had to wait out for a few more days. Normally you have to submit a ticket through their support page and maybe they will get back to you and maybe not. We had one issue where the standard user on the iMac was getting popups every few minutes about installing a helper tool. The only way to fix this was to delete and reinstall Glip as an admin user. This was frustrating because it took time to do this for me as the IT person, and after reaching out to a few times, I was finally given an answer two years after I had asked about it! Finally some devs reach out to me on Glip and told me to just put the app in the user folder instead of the app folder which is managed by the admin account. They said it should be fixed now and I believe it is.
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    OPAL
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    Zoom, Slack, and Wunderlist are all great applications. They do a good job at one core focus. If your team is already familiar with these applications and satisfied with them, you can stick with them. I found Slack confusing and difficult to learn, as did others when onboarding. Zoom and Wunderlist both have a solid user interface and do their jobs well -- not many complaints from them. I just valued simplicity and ease of adoption, which made us look at Glip as one app to do it all.
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    OPAL
    You get for what you paid for. Opal has more features
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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • Because Glip was free, it helped us save money on our chat app. While not a crucial part of the business, the costs of software for your company add up and it was nice that, in this case, it did not add to our expenses.
    • This isn't really Glip directly, but we used it because we were using RingCentral Meetings for video conferencing with clients, and unfortunately RingCentral Meetings was a bit difficult to use. This was often the client doing things wrong, but it was annoying to have frequent audio feedback, etc. So if that is part of your reason to use Glip, check out if you have any problems there first.
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    OPAL
    • Opal allows for more discipline in marketing as teams are better aligned on messaging and big moments.
    • Opal cuts down on communication breakdowns and mistakes, which in the end leads to more happy customers.
    • I think Opal provides the team with more confidence as everyone is on the same page. With everything in one place rather than communications being lost in emails, etc., everyone is more efficient and can work knowing that there is one source of truth.
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    ScreenShots

    Opal Screenshots

    Screenshot of Preview content exactly as it will appear in market to the audience. Collaborate with teammates and track changes in the  Chat & Activity window.Screenshot of View scheduled Moments across all campaigns on the Calendar -- by day, week, or month.Screenshot of Plan marketing content and campaigns using Boards, a free-form space for brainstorming, briefing, and scenario planning.