KROCK vs. Lightning Tools Lightning Conductor

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
KROCK
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
KROCK is designed to help users manage creative projects effectively and painlessly. Krock offers tools for creative teams to manageme the review and approval process: build project pipelines assigns teammates for different tasks within different projects create storyboards share different types of files add visual comments on any media files create a limitless number of…
$0
per team
Lightning Tools Lightning Conductor
Score 8.7 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Core Features 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.
$1,000
per year per installation
Pricing
KROCKLightning Tools Lightning Conductor
Editions & Modules
Trial
$0
per team
Plus
$69
per team
Pro
$99
per team
Solo
9,99
per user
Enterprise
Custom
per team
Lightning Conductor WSP
From 1000
per year One WFE
Lightning Conductor Enterprise Edition
POA
per year Four or more WFE
Lightning Conductor Online
From 1000
per year per installation
Lightning Conductor Plus (Includes Data Viewer)
From 1500
per year per installation
Lightning Conductor Online Enterprise Edition (>10,000 users)
POA
per year per installation
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
KROCKLightning Tools Lightning Conductor
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsSave 20% on any plans, when you choose annual billingPrices stated are minimum per installation for "stock" products. 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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KROCKLightning Tools Lightning Conductor
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Features
KROCKLightning Tools Lightning Conductor
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
KROCK
-
Ratings
Lightning Tools Lightning Conductor
8.4
2 Ratings
6% above category average
Task Management00 Ratings8.72 Ratings
Search00 Ratings8.22 Ratings
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User Ratings
KROCKLightning Tools Lightning Conductor
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(1 ratings)
8.7
(4 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
KROCKLightning Tools Lightning Conductor
Likelihood to Recommend
KROCK
I would recommend KROCK to those in the creative industry who struggle with keeping client communication neat, missing deadlines, and spending too much time on project management rather than focusing on their result. KROCK is a good backend system for the creative process.
Martin Alternes | TrustRadius Reviewer
Martin Alternes
CEO (Chief Executive Officer)
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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.
JB
Julie Bird
SharePoint/M365 Development
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Pros
KROCK
  • Good usability--for clients, the team, and freelancers
  • The feedback feature is useful--it reduced client communication errors substantially
  • Provides transparency and insight into the work process for my clients
  • Ability to create different versions and present each of them to the clients
  • Relevant step sequence and project dashboard
Martin Alternes | TrustRadius Reviewer
Martin Alternes
CEO (Chief Executive Officer)
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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
Verified User
Anonymous
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Cons
KROCK
No answers on this topic
Lightning Tools
  • Mobile Friendly
  • Calendar/Gantt views
  • Complex/Custom Logic
TP
Toby Pior
Intranet Supervisor
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Support Rating
KROCK
There is an online support chat available. And the KROCK team reached out to me for detailed feedback on the platform and suggestions for improvements, which is truly considerate of them. They are always very kind, positive, and easy to ask for help, which is a pleasure.
Martin Alternes | TrustRadius Reviewer
Martin Alternes
CEO (Chief Executive Officer)
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Lightning Tools
The Lightning Tools support team responds quickly, and team members are very friendly and helpful.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Alternatives Considered
KROCK
Easier to use for our clients, which is important, as many of our clients only use the application for a short time and don't care to invest too much time or energy to learn the features. It has a clean and reliable dashboard and overall user interface.
Martin Alternes | TrustRadius Reviewer
Martin Alternes
CEO (Chief Executive Officer)
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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.
JB
Julie Bird
SharePoint/M365 Development
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Return on Investment
KROCK
  • Saves a lot of time in communication, documentation, and project management
Martin Alternes | TrustRadius Reviewer
Martin Alternes
CEO (Chief Executive Officer)
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Lightning Tools
  • Policies easier to portray
GB
Gary Buck
IMS Manager
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ScreenShots

KROCK Screenshots

Screenshot of Build a custom pipeline for every project you manage, using a visual board with all the steps, assignees, due dates, and deliverables.Screenshot of Visualize everything in one place: deadlines, team progress on every task, and client reviews.Screenshot of Keep up with all the workload and adjust your schedule. Work better, deliver faster.Screenshot of Tap on an image or video and share your comments with your team or client.Screenshot of Forget about an endless thread of emails and messages from your clients and team members.Screenshot of Create limitless workspaces for different teams and clients. Get invited to someone´s workspaces as a member or freelancer.

Lightning Tools Lightning Conductor Screenshots

Screenshot of MODERN SHAREPOINT LIST ROLLUP The Lightning Conductor is a powerful, modern, responsive SharePoint Content Aggregator that can be configured quickly and easily by business users. Using the Lightning Conductor you can aggregate content from SharePoint Lists such as Tasks, Document Libraries, Contact Lists, and Custom Lists making it easy to view your 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 just as easily.Screenshot of CONTENT AGGREGATION WITHIN MICROSOFT TEAMS The Lightning Conductor Web Part can be used within Microsoft SharePoint or Microsoft Teams. Even if your content is stored within SharePoint sites, it is very useful to have your aggregated Documents, Tasks, Announcements, Calendars or Custom Lists from multiple sites displayed in a single handy view in Microsoft Teams right where you are working! You can add the Lightning Conductor as a Teams Tab in any of your Microsoft Teams Channels.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. In this example, we are displaying 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, you can use search for your rollups! The Lightning Conductor offers three data source configurations to get to your 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 you to aggregate 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 HIGHLIGHT KEY BUSINESS DATA WITHIN YOUR VIEWS We empower end users and Site Owners to highlight the data that is important to them, the data that they need to prioritize! Using conditional formatting, data bars, and icons, you can configure conditions to highlight the data that is most important to you or your team. Icons and Data Bars can be any color or size that you desire. Examples include highlighting High Priority tasks, Showing data bars for the completion progress of Tasks, or indicating which tasks are assigned to you.