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Lightning Tools Lightning Conductor

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Lightning Tools Lightning Conductor

    Score9 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    		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.

    $2,200

    per year per installation

    MangoApps

    Score8.8 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    		MangoApps is a unified workforce platform designed to help organizations inform employees, align teams, and run daily work—especially across frontline and distributed environments where execution happens shift by shift. MangoApps brings together employee communications, intranet, collaboration, workforce operations, and HR support. Instead of relying on disconnected tools for messaging, knowledge, scheduling, tasks, and employee support, organizations can use MangoApps…

    $299

    per month 25 users included

    Pricing
    Lightning Tools Lightning ConductorMangoApps
    Editions & Modules
    Lightning Conductor WSP
    From 1950
    per year One WFE
    Lightning Conductor Enterprise Edition
    POA
    per year Four or more WFE
    Lightning Conductor Online
    From 2200
    per year per installation
    Lightning Conductor Plus (Includes Data Viewer)
    From 2500
    per year per installation
    Lightning Conductor Online Enterprise Edition (>10,000 users)
    POA
    per year per installation
    Pro
    $299
    per month 25 users included
    Basic
    $990
    per year 25 Users Included
    Standard
    $1,490
    per year 25 Users Included
    Pro
    $2,990
    per year 25 Users Included
    Enterprise (Self-Hosted)
    Contact Sales
    for 2000+ users
    Enterprise
    Contact Sales
    per year per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Lightning Tools Lightning ConductorMangoApps
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional DetailsPrices stated are minimum per installation for "stock" products. $2.20 per user/year on top of base price. 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)Volume discounts apply for large enterprise organizations. Non-profit organization discounts also available.
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    Features
    Lightning Tools Lightning ConductorMangoApps
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Lightning Tools Lightning Conductor and MangoApps
    Feature
    Lightning Tools Lightning Conductor
    8.6
    2 Ratings
    11% above category average
    MangoApps
    -
    Ratings
    Task Management8.82 Ratings00 Ratings
    Search8.42 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Lightning Tools Lightning ConductorMangoApps
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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.
    Julie Bird
    SharePoint/M365 Development
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    MangoApps
    The ability to create optional interest groups for users to join if they like is a great way brings users together, and promote group meet ups and events. The polls ability is always great for taking a quick check of people's availability, we've used it to gauge interest in events and dates. One thing that could be improved is that there is both a messaging and an instant message functionality which seems a little redundant having users being able to message you from different places in separate inboxes, however this may be due to our set up.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    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
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    MangoApps
    • MangoApps provide a large number of options to interact within a community. People can post updates, ask questions, create polls, quizzes, wiki, surveys, chats, or forms.
    • The Web interface is a modern application (Facebook inspired). The navigation (although not the most efficient) is overall quite intuitive.
    • MangoApps has a web interface, and apps for desktop (Windows, Mac), and mobile.
    • MangoApps features a centralized notification system. Unread messages are notified from the Web app, the mobile, or the desktop app. The synchronization status is synchronized.
    • MangoApps integrates with Active Directory.
    Incentivized
    Verified User
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    Cons
    Lightning Tools
    • Mobile Friendly
    • Calendar/Gantt views
    • Complex/Custom Logic
    Toby Pior
    Intranet Supervisor
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    MangoApps
    • The messaging system is quite new and doesn't always clear down when read
    • The mentions tab can get very busy if you're added to groups
    • Lots of customisation can make it overwhelming when editing
    Incentivized
    Verified User
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    Support Rating
    Lightning Tools
    The Lightning Tools support team responds quickly, and team members are very friendly and helpful.
    Verified User
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    MangoApps
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    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.
    Julie Bird
    SharePoint/M365 Development
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    MangoApps
    Although, Facebook at Work featured a very modern interface and was praised by many of the beta testers, we primarily didn't choose Facebook at Work due to data security reasons.
    Incentivized
    Verified User
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    Return on Investment
    Lightning Tools
    • Policies easier to portray
    Gary Buck
    IMS Manager
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    MangoApps
    • Users can connect from all over the business, especially useful when working from home
    • A friendly informal communication method outside of teams/slack/emails
    • A way to communicate events to the whole business
    Incentivized
    Verified User
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    ScreenShots

    Lightning Tools Lightning Conductor Screenshots

    Screenshot of MODERN SHAREPOINT LIST ROLLUP The Lightning Conductor is a SharePoint Content Aggregator that can be configured quickly by business users. The Lightning Conductor can be used to aggregate content from SharePoint Lists such as Tasks, Document Libraries, Contact Lists, and Custom Lists making it easy to view 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.Screenshot of CONTENT AGGREGATION WITHIN MICROSOFT TEAMS The Lightning Conductor Web Part can be used within Microsoft SharePoint or Microsoft Teams. Even if content is stored within SharePoint sites, it is useful to have aggregated Documents, Tasks, Announcements, Calendars or Custom Lists from multiple sites displayed in a single handy view in Microsoft Teams. The Lightning Conductor can be added as a Teams Tab in any Microsoft Teams Channel.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. This example displays 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, search can be used for rollups. The Lightning Conductor offers three data source configurations to get to 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 the aggregation of 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 HIGHLIGHTING KEY BUSINESS DATA WITHIN VIEWS End users and Site Owners can highlight the data that is important to them, the data that they need to prioritize. Using conditional formatting, data bars, and icons, conditions can be configured to highlight the data that is most important. Icons and Data Bars can be any color or size desired. Examples include highlighting High Priority tasks, Showing data bars for the completion progress of Tasks, or indicating which tasks are assigned to any particular user.

    MangoApps Screenshots

    Screenshot of the MangoApps Unified Intranet & Employee App. The intranet helps organizations overcome scattered communications and low engagement. - AI search delivers faster information access. - Targeted communications reaching 100% of workforce. - Mobile-first platform, for a higher adoption rate. - Social tools to drive an increase in engagement.Screenshot of the MangoApps Employee App, for reaching frontline employees, including those who don’t sit at a desk, use a company email, or have regular access to internal systems. Bring frontline teams in the loop, speed up operations, increase engagement, and reduce risk with a branded mobile experience.Screenshot of MangoApps News & Announcement Posts, used to schedule and publish important updates, from executive messages to departmental news, in a central location that’s easy to access from desktop or mobile. Key Capabilities: - Increases visibility of key messages. - Mobile-friendly announcements. - Includes images, attachments, and video.Screenshot of the file sharing, sync, management and file versioning interface.Screenshot of the knowledge base, accessible from any device.Screenshot of an online web form, with trackers used to track and co-ordinate anything.