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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Google Jamboard

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/AGoogle Jamboard is a collaborative whiteboard, available as an add-on to Google Workspaces.

    $4,999

    OpenText Vibe

    Score6 out of 10
    N/AOpenText Vibe (formerly Micro Focus Vibe) is a web-based team collaboration platform developed by Novell, and was initially released by Novell in June 2008 under the name of Novell Teaming. Novell's acquisition by Micro Focus was completed in April 2015.N/A
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    Google JamboardOpenText Vibe
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    Google Jamboard
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    Google JamboardOpenText Vibe
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Google JamboardOpenText Vibe
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    Google
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
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    Delivers good value for the price
    86%
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    Happy with the feature set
    29%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Small Businesses
    Whimsical
    Score9.3 out of 10
    HCL Connections
    Score9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Whimsical
    Score9.3 out of 10
    HCL Connections
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    Enterprises
    Whimsical
    Score9.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Google JamboardOpenText Vibe
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.4
    (7 ratings)
    6.5
    (7 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
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    9.9
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    7.2
    (2 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
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    7.1
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    User Testimonials
    Google JamboardOpenText Vibe
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Google
    Google Jamboard is ideal for live, synchronous sessions to support collaboration and engagement. It can be used for the entire class, small group, or independent work. Create a Jamboard for a simple student knowledge check, or annotation exercise, or sorting activity. Insert a Google document, spreadsheet, or presentation, and have students annotate the file. There are many types of active learning activities you can do with a Google Jamboard!
    Incentivized
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    OpenText
    I think Micro Focus Vibe is very well suited for organizations that work in a team collaboration front and have to share documents. I think this really shines in organizations that have a standard set of information that gets lost in the sauce because of the sheer amount of people in an organization. In this case, the Wiki is very helpful in this setting. I wouldn't quite recommend this site for video production houses unless you are patient enough to correlate your needs to the many many features available through Vibe...because it all boils down to patience.
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    Pros
    Google
    • Colorful and engaging designs and layout
    • Freeform format
    • Real-time collaboration without lagging or download wait-time
    • Can be used for many different purposes-- business, education, personal, etc.
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    OpenText
    • Novell Vibe connects GroupWise mail with Vibe natively which means you can access Vibe from within the mail product.
    • Once forms and workflows are set up, the access structure on who sees what or not is very effective.
    • You can use Novell Vibe as your main intranet with everything from wiki's, blogging and more fully automated and still in synch with your internal organisational structure.
    • After playing with it for a while i found that through jsp it is highly configurable.
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    Cons
    Google
    • Jamboard includes nice set of function that allows to do basic and not so basic things
    • I am not really sure if there is a need to add any more functions
    • I am pretty happy with the set available
    • of course it may not work well on iOS but I guess it is kind of obvious
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    OpenText
    • The most pressing improvement is in printing. In speaking with Novell techs Vibe was designed as a web tool, no paper necessary. However in the real world our folks love their paper printouts. Vibe utilizes views for various functions. A print view that's easily configured would be an awesome upgrade.
    • Customized in JSP. Vibe is completely customized using JSP. I don't know it. I'm not a programmer. I can work things out, but programming isn't my forte.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    OpenText
    It meets our current business needs and provides the scalability we need for future growth. It can be installed on Windows or Linux (Our alpha install was on Linux. Our beta was on Windows. We went with Windows). There are additional features, and application integrations, that we haven't taken advantage as of yet due to the lack of current business needs.
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    Usability
    Google
    It's a tool that's easily accessible from your Google Suite. For a whiteboarding workspace, it provides a good basic platform. Multiple whiteboards can be created in one workspace, so you can share a session with multiple teams/plants. Compared to more advanced whiteboarding tools, it has limited features. You'll need to have access to the Internet to take full advantage of the collaborative workspace. The amount of storage space required for your session will use up your Google Drive quota.
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    OpenText
    At this moment it still looks you need to do a lot to be able to use it and to be honest that time should be used for work not for configuring a communication tool for the business. Yes I understand that it takes time to learn something to use in the organisation , but with this tool I see the help desk having to answer a lot of questions on how to use it or once someone has done something how to undo it.
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    Implementation Rating
    Google
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    OpenText
    The implementation was good, it is the follow up that we need to do ourselves that takes time and effort.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Google
    Miro is more user friendly, and interactive as compared to Google Jamboard. Advantages of using jamboard would be that since it's a part of the Google suite, individuals are more comfortable using the tool and tracking changes/updates. Both can be used for collaboration, and brainstorming. Miro holds more features, since we can add emojis, stickers, media content etc.
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    OpenText
    The main alternatives were Sharepoint or creating a custom Drupal install. Sharepoint was too expensive and didn't fit into our Novell environment. The Drupal solution we found was beyond our technical ability.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Google
    • Faculty love having an active learning tool that's easy to use in synchronous sessions.
    • Not as well known as other Google apps like Docs, Sheets, or Slides.
    • Can be used synchronously (for live engagement) or asynchronously (for self-paced learning).
    • Easy to miss in the Google Suite or forget it's available to use.
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    OpenText
    • Novell Vibe has increased employee efficiency by providing a central file repository for our team.
    • Novell Vibe has increased our customer service capabilities by allowing our team to track customer projects and support issues more effectively.
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