OpenText Vibe vs. Troop Messenger

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
OpenText Vibe
Score 6.0 out of 10
N/A
OpenText 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
Troop Messenger
Score 9.7 out of 10
N/A
Instant messaging for business allows people to communicate relaying information in real time. However, corporate chat app is a contemporary update to the ancient email communication cutting out time, expense and effort at the same time. Nowadays many organizations are using instant messaging for their daily business conversations. But for effective communication, an easy to use corporate chat app is vital. Troop Messenger is an enterprise-level business communication chat application. It is…N/A
Pricing
OpenText VibeTroop Messenger
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
OpenText VibeTroop Messenger
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
OpenText VibeTroop Messenger
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
OpenText Vibe
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Ratings
Troop Messenger
9.8
17 Ratings
22% above category average
Mobile Access00 Ratings9.917 Ratings
Search00 Ratings9.617 Ratings
Communication
Comparison of Communication features of Product A and Product B
OpenText Vibe
-
Ratings
Troop Messenger
9.8
17 Ratings
20% above category average
Chat00 Ratings10.017 Ratings
Notifications00 Ratings9.917 Ratings
Discussions00 Ratings9.517 Ratings
Internal knowledgebase00 Ratings9.615 Ratings
File Sharing & Management
Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Product A and Product B
OpenText Vibe
-
Ratings
Troop Messenger
9.7
17 Ratings
18% above category average
Video files00 Ratings9.617 Ratings
Audio files00 Ratings9.717 Ratings
Access control00 Ratings9.816 Ratings
Advanced security features00 Ratings9.816 Ratings
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User Ratings
OpenText VibeTroop Messenger
Likelihood to Recommend
6.5
(7 ratings)
9.8
(17 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.9
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
5.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
OpenText VibeTroop Messenger
Likelihood to Recommend
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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Tvisha Systems Pvt Ltd
Anyone who wants to have a digital collaboration space for chat, team meetings, audio-video group conferencing, screen sharing, and so on, can start using Troop Messenger. We know that the world can’t move on without communicating with each other, there’ll be no such industry or enterprise that exists where Troop Messenger can’t fit in.
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Pros
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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Tvisha Systems Pvt Ltd
  • Sending a single message to multiple users and multiple groups at once.
  • Any participant of the group call can add more participants to the ongoing group call.
  • Search filters help you find groups, text files, images, videos, and more in just one go.
  • It has many time-saving filters for retrieving text messages, images, videos, users, groups, etc.
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Cons
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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Tvisha Systems Pvt Ltd
  • To my knowledge, Troop Messenger is already a complete tool, so there is no feature that is required to be improved.
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Likelihood to Renew
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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Tvisha Systems Pvt Ltd
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Usability
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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Tvisha Systems Pvt Ltd
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
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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Tvisha Systems Pvt Ltd
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
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.
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Tvisha Systems Pvt Ltd
The best aspect of range in a remote setting is feeling connected. I feel as though we are all united because we can easily start a conference with our teammates, making it seem like we are all present. These very little things let us coordinate and work together in a way that was never previously conceivable. I like Troop Messenger and the ability to interact without experiencing any latency.
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Return on Investment
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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Tvisha Systems Pvt Ltd
  • Our team communication and collaboration is simplified with Troop Messenger. Now that we don’t feel the need to use e-mail for checking our work requirements and updates, we check all of them in Troop Messenger and get on to work. We are able to bring non-employees, such as our customers and clients, into it to exchange business conversations. We don’t feel any negative impacts with it.
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