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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    MindTouch

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AMindTouch is a customer experience management platform with content management and help authoring capabilities. Formerly known as MediaWiki, it is optimized for building knowledge bases for customer self-service and agent assistance purposes.N/A

    Navan

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/ANavan (formerly TripActions) headquartered in Palo Alto offers their corporate travel management application of the same name, supporting messaging, travel rewards management, travel booking, and company policy compliance.N/A
    Pricing
    MindTouchNavan
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Navan Business
    Free
    Navan Enterprise
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    Pricing Offerings
    MindTouchNavan
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    MindTouchNavan
    Considered Both Products
    MindTouch
    No answer on this topic
    Navan
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    85%
    Would buy again
    17 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    81%
    Delivers good value for the price
    13 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    85%
    Happy with the feature set
    17 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    79%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    11 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    83%
    Implementation went as expected
    10 Answers
    Features
    MindTouchNavan
    Travel Management
    Comparison of Travel Management features of MindTouch and Navan
    Feature
    MindTouch
    -
    Ratings
    Navan
    1.2
    1 Ratings
    128% below category average
    Customizable Approval Workflows00 Ratings2.01 Ratings
    Readily Available Support00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
    Travel Spend Reports00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
    Consolidated Invoicing00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
    Easy Travel Booking00 Ratings2.01 Ratings
    Mobile Travel Application00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
    Centralized Itinerary Management00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
    Collaborative Booking00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
    Loyalty Programs00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
    Reuses Traveler Information00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
    User-friendly Interface00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
    Integrated Expensing Tool00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
    Travel Alerts00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
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    MindTouchNavan
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    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    MindTouchNavan
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.6
    (110 ratings)
    1.0
    (36 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.8
    (18 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.5
    (29 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.8
    (31 ratings)
    9.4
    (15 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.8
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.7
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    5.0
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    1.4
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.3
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    MindTouchNavan
    Likelihood to Recommend
    MindTouch
    If a company doesn't want to make their knowledge base public-facing, you lose a lot of the value of using MindTouch in a closed environment. MindTouch is not ideal for extremely structured content management scenarios that are strong DITA advocates. Companies that require localization might not be good fits either.
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    Navan
    A specific scenario where TripActions was well suited was when I needed to book a hotel stay in Cologne, Germany for multiple colleagues. The fact that they were registered users made coordinating their stays a seamless process. I have not had an occasion where TripActions was inappropriate to use.
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    Pros
    MindTouch
    • MindTouch helps to easily organize our help articles to ensure that our end user is receiving the proper information.
    • The MindTouch platform is extremely easy to navigate which reduces the turnaround time for our team to publish new material.
    • The editor tools supplied through MindTouch make styling our documentation a breeze.
    • The contextual help tool allows our customers to consume documentation based on the page they are viewing in our platform.
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    Navan
    • Provides a wide range of travel options within a wide budget.
    • It is reliable - if a trip gets canceled, they are quick to contact their customer and help sort out additional booking details to get you to your final destination.
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    Cons
    MindTouch
    • When we do have a support issue, we frequently need to go through multiple people, contacts, ways of explaining things, etc,. before someone on their end actually understands our problem. It's rare that the first person we talk to understands the big picture or appreciates our use case.
    • The draft functionality is a promising start but lacks some key features that cause us regular frustration. For example, you can only create one draft of a page at a time. This is fine if changes come to you in perfect sequential order, but it makes it impossible for us to update a live page while a draft exists. More specifically, if we're working on updating content on a page for a new feature being released next month, but then we notice a typo today, we can't fix the typo in production without first deleting the draft or doing some hacky workaround of temporarily copying/pasting the source HTML of the draft page and saving it someplace else.
    • Existence of, or integration with, true source control would be a huge win, but it's something currently lacking in the product. MindTouch's content reuse feature is helpful in the right situations, but it's not robust enough to scale well for lots of content.
    • Version history of page changes is not 100% reliable. Sometimes items don't show up at all or there is a delay before the diff is visible. Also, creating a draft does not register at all in the page version history.
    • In-site search is poor, unless you know the *exact* title of what you're looking for. We tell our customers to use Google, not the MindTouch search. Google is excellent at searching our MindTouch site.
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    Navan
    • Limited partnerships with all the major airlines, or if so, slowly just adding more airlines to their platform
    • Not a lot of information about the ratings of the hotels. I have stayed in hotels that I probably wouldn't have if their information was more up to date
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    MindTouch
    We've put lots and lots of content into the MindTouch system, of course, so that makes it harder to opt out, but we're also very pleased with their rate of development and weekly pushing of improvements, as well as their response and solutions to our questions and input All in all, a winning combination.
    Incentivized
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    Navan
    This decision overall isn’t made by me. The company evaluates the product. While I am an influencer the overall review is my personal opinion and mine only. The company books flights or would like for us to book flights through trip actions everything else is suggested but done with a personal cc which makes it optional. My option will be to not use TripActions for anything personally.
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    Usability
    MindTouch
    The site is responsive across multiple devices and screens. It has a clear path to contact support. The articles are searchable. Site users do have trouble navigating the site and finding what they need. That may be due to the architecture of the site, but it'd be nice if MindTouch offered more solutions are this. Our content is organized by product line. And many of those product lines have overlapping training content, so we have extensive duplicate content.
    Incentivized
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    Navan
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    MindTouch
    MindTouch is a hosted site, so as a heavy user there are times when I notice that pages are slow to load, or something happens like Amazon Web Services crashing the entire east coast for a few hours, that you do notice even if it isn't actually the fault of the MT tool itself. It's the risk of using a hosted tool, but the benefits are pretty amazing and outweigh these performance issues.
    Incentivized
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    Navan
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    MindTouch
    It's good. Pretty solid. We got a lot of input to get up and running, but did a lot of the setup and customization work ourselves, because of our high standards. We've gotten good response and results on specific projects related to customization and our CSM is also pretty responsive. Overall, I think that the jobs of CSMs and support folks would be easier if the product weren't wonky in some ways. They seem to have to do more "workarounds" for basic functionality that should just work out of the box
    Incentivized
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    Navan
    - Easy bookings and quick expensing - Excellent chat support - Savings for the company since employees opt for rewards which require booking cheaper than average priced hotels - Rewards for employees - Easy to use customer interface - Great mobile applications for android and iOS - Ability to control payment methods for a different types of bookings like hotels or flights or car rentals.
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    Online Training
    MindTouch
    Written documentation and videos are very good and have helped on numerous occasions when I've had to look up how to accomplish a certain task. The reason I have not given a full score is mainly because there have been some inaccuracies in the documentation because updates to the MindTouch framework have slightly changed the way things work. But this is usually the same type of challenges I face when making documentation for the software solution we develop. So all in all I'm very satisfied with both the personal webinars and the online documentation MindTouch provides for their service.
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    Navan
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    MindTouch
    Just know that there is so much more involved than adding your content. There are so many pieces to launching your site -- especially if you are moving from another platform. If you are not a person who typically works in the "website" realm, do your homework, ask your web people, engineers, etc., because there's a lot to do that you won't know about until you are unexpectedly smacked in the face with it. Learn from my mistakes! We are very happy now, but it was a long road getting to launch day for us
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    Navan
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    MindTouch
    I will be brief. DealerTeam is built upon Salesforce and we try to support native apps. We used Desk.com first for basic Help Ticket management. The product did not satisfy how our customers were looking for information. We upgraded to Service Cloud with Knowledge Base and spent one year writing content and developing our support agency. Again, our customers were upset about submitting help tickets and waiting for answers. They wanted access to self-help while working with a customer. Today we continue to use Service Cloud with MindTouch integration and have found complete success. There is simply no other solution I know of that is a flexible and easy to use as MindTouch when it come to providing customer success and product support
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    Navan
    I like TripActions more because everything is on a mobile app that is super user-friendly. The customer service team is also world class-I genuinely have never felt so taken care of. More so, Concur Travel and Expense never rewarded me for traveling, while I made over 200 dollars in Amazon money just for doing my job.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    MindTouch
    We tried to migrate to MindTouch for 5 months and failed, remained with Zendesk
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    Navan
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    MindTouch
    • Our operational efficiently has improved significantly. Prior to Mindtouch, we managing duplicate content in two separate authoring solutions. Delivering content predictably and consistently was difficult and stressful for writers. In Mindtouch, we were able to optimize our content (remove redundancies) giving us more time to test, review, and improve content quality.
    • Traffic to our knowledge center is increasing monthly.
    • Internally, SMEs and customer-facing teams are recognizing the value Mindtouch brings through self-service knowledge. These SMEs want to contribute more to content, either as contributing writers or collaborators with tech writers.
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    Navan
    • The ability to change flights while I am on the road in meetings. They actually call the agents for me.
    • It has put money back in my pocket with the Amazon rewards and my company has saved money by me booking the less expensive options.
    Incentivized
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