Likelihood to Recommend Miro is perfect if you need to either present an idea, or workshop ways of getting to alignment. It's pretty magic for all of that. Miro is less perfect than
FigJam if you're just interrogating a
Figma UI and you want to make direct edits.
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Zenkit is a good tool to manage your own projects and sharing progress with colleagues. If you are looking for a tool to accomplish this use case, Zenkit would be my first recommendation.
Read full review Pros Exceptional templates help me get started quickly with almost any type of whiteboarding, creating consistency where needed and extreme variety when also needed. Having multiple active users on the same board happens so smoothly. It's easy to get people on the board and updating objects simultaneously without weird conflicts is amazing. The amount of objects & tools Miro provides allows us to create very specific and detailed artifacts. Read full review Axonic Informationssysteme GmbH
Multiple Views - Kanban.Cards, Lists, Tables & even Mindmaps Addition of custom fields which included numbers In table view this can be filtered & numbered fields can have totals at the top. Zenkit has handy pre-buitl templates for different kinds of use such a CRM Has the ability to change field content across cards via bulk action. Neat! Can have formulas in Cutom fields Calander syncs to Google calendar Can bulk import Trello lists & cards easily Read full review Cons Sometimes the text inside sticky notes is very small, it's hard to read. It would be great to preserve the board layout and functionality when offline, such as when taking a flight. Load the board before the flight, keep working during the flight, then update it when the connection gets restored, instead of losing sync and functionality when internet connectivity is not available. It would be helpful to denote progress on a board with some sort of recommended flow. Instead of having to depend on the user adding new inputs to the right of previous work, if Miro detects inputs to the board happening to the left or above existing work, ask if you'd like to add it to the right. Also, it could be that you could replay a "video" or animation of the board (zoomed out) showing the order in which content has been added to the board over time. Read full review Axonic Informationssysteme GmbH
There are some instances where the dashboard gets laggy and buggy. But goes back to normal in a few minutes Integrations still not that advanced--but there's still room for improvement Not recommended for teams with more than 6 people-- you will need to upgrade your account to Premium. Read full review Likelihood to Renew There is no other tool like Miro for process Mapping in particular. I've tried PowerPoint, Word, and other programs, but when collaborating virtually on how to improve a process, Miro has all of the tools and more to enable successful mapping. The colors, different types of shapes and text books, along with the ability to integrate different documents and other functionality, make it ideal for this purpose. In a virtual world, it's a must-have.
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Usability It's pretty easy to use. My gripes are with some small idiosyncrasies with selection behavior with objects and editing text. When I move an object, it automatically de-selects it when I am not done with it. I have to click to select again. Text control is challenging and could be improved. It could use a little more styling capability. It's also weird that it behaves differently in a shape then when using the text tool.
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Reliability and Availability I only give a 9/10 because of the speed at which it loads. I have never experienced issues with Miro logging me out early, or some other technical issue causing the program to crash, or even it just loading in perpetuity without ever actually coming up (unlike other programs such as SFDC). It take a minute for all of my boards to come up after I click on it in my favorites, but besides that, it's all good.
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Performance I took the loading quickly to be related to availability which I commented on before, so ditto with those comment on load time here. Although to reemphasize, Miro doesn't crash or just refuse to load like some other programs. The weak point of Miro for me is integration of files like Word, Excel, or PowerPoint (especially the later two). When you embed these, it gets slow, and complicated to bring them up while you're in the application.
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Support Rating The support staff at Miro are fantastic. Whenever I have had an issue, they have been timely and helpful with their response. They are also very knowledgeable and go out of their way to not only help, but offer proactive training sessions on different topics and new functionality so everyone can try it out.
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The support is always friendly and offers fast solutions if possible. Bugs were removed in the next hours after contacting the support. They have also a lot of tutorials and great documentation.
Read full review In-Person Training Not applicable as never had in person training
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Online Training Superb. very well explained videos. Really helps get the knowledge up on the product. The slides are divided into the topics of usage. I have enjoyed following and implementing all of these slides. The videos are well explained and it is easy to follow. There are tutorials that you can take yourself later. It would be nice however if more training modules were added.
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Implementation Rating It was and still is a challenge to get our IT folks at 3M to support the tool. Single sign on still not implemented. I now have Miro on my personal computer. I had a few hardware issues, but nothing major.
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Alternatives Considered In many cases the other tools did a single thing better than Miro but overall Miro better solved all our needs. In some cases, like
FigJam the hurdle was licensing. Teams just doesn't have an awesome set of features. MindMap is good for what it is but not so good for other uses.
Mural is excellent...just not as good.
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As described before, Zenkit adds a lot more flexibility to the things the other applications can do. But this also means that there is no predefined structure which might be helpful for some people. Zenkit is working on that and is releasing some apps building on the core, so that could improve over time.
Read full review Scalability Miro is great for scaling. In every department and subdivision across my entire organization, there is someone using it. From Sales to marketing, to manufacturing and operations; and even in legal and finance, there isn't a process or a department that is not using Miro, and if they aren't, they're missing out! Even at the highest to the lowest levels of the organization, it is essential for virtual collaboration.
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Return on Investment Simplicity- it’s simplified our communication It’s taken away the stress of manually documenting research with pen and paper in live design thinking sessions Remote - we can host our diverse teams from all over the world in quick productive meetings without paying for travel Miro has helped me design for over 8 enterprise product teams Read full review Axonic Informationssysteme GmbH
For the price, it is definitely worth a punt. Helped me manage tasks, processes and strategic goals thus saving time & being more efficient. SImple to learn & plenty of tutorials so onboarding was straightforward. Read full review ScreenShots