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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Socialtext (discontinued)

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ASocial Text was a tool that focused on social learning and includes Twitter-like microblogging capabilities. The product competed with MindTouch,Confluence, Jive Team Collaboration and other collaboration platforms. It was acquired by PeopleFluent in 2012 and is no longer available as a separate product, though similar capabilities are supplied by the PeopleFluent platform.

    $1

    Starting Price Per Month

    The Welkin Suite

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AThe Welkin Suite offers an integrated development environment with 105 features (and growing). The vendor aims to help you automate the chores of development, and therefore enhance your coding velocity and increase the quality of your deliverable code.

    $12.50

    per month

    Pricing
    Socialtext (discontinued)The Welkin Suite
    Editions & Modules
    Socialtext
    $1.00
    Starting Price Per Month
    Professional
    $12.50
    per month billed annually
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Socialtext (discontinued)The Welkin Suite
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Socialtext (discontinued)The Welkin Suite
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Socialtext (discontinued) and The Welkin Suite
    Feature
    Socialtext (discontinued)
    7.6
    1 Ratings
    1% below category average
    The Welkin Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Task Management8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Gantt Charts7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scheduling9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow Automation8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Access4.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Search9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Visual planning tools8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Communication
    Comparison of Communication features of Socialtext (discontinued) and The Welkin Suite
    Feature
    Socialtext (discontinued)
    7.2
    1 Ratings
    10% below category average
    The Welkin Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Chat7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Notifications6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Discussions9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Surveys4.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internal knowledgebase10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Socialtext (discontinued)The Welkin Suite
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Socialtext (discontinued)The Welkin Suite
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    We use Social Text as a platform to air our issues with different departments. We voice our concerns and suggestions so we can help find a solution to the problems we incur on a daily basis. We need to have social text as an app so we can communicate in real time not only during work hours.
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    The Welkin Suite
    The Welkin Suite is a great IDE compared to the alternatives out there. If you need to code in Salesforce and you want a mostly seamless environment, then The Welkin Suite is the best option available, in my opinion. I have also been using it for Apex Tests and find that the tools are really good for measuring code coverage and highlighting those areas that are uncovered.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • Version history - Always keeps the edited versions and one can revert back any time
    • Creating and Editing an article is very easy and intutive
    • Sharing the articles with peers
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    The Welkin Suite
    • Local History - Without having to setup GitHub this has been a time saver!
    • AutoComplete
    • Saves the entire project at once
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Discontinued Products
    • Search needs a ton of improvements. It was very slow a year ago
    • Search result quality was also not that good
    • I know they have improved their UI recently but when i used it last year it did not really have any design elements which could be used to make the articles look more presentable. It was important for us as we used it for external communication as well.
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    The Welkin Suite
    • It would be nice if IDE feature releases were timed to coincide with Salesforce releases (i.e. make Lightning Web Components available on the day they become available in Salesforce instances).
    • The IDE can be a bit buggy especially when you have several windows of the IDE open to different Salesforce instances at the same time on one machine.
    • Sometimes, when you click to retrieve your data too soon, before the program has a chance to ask you to connect to the instance, it can cause the IDE to freeze.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Discontinued Products
    We have a lot of info in Socialtext already. It would be hard to get all that info out and port it to a different system
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    The Welkin Suite
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    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    The Welkin Suite
    In general, when you need support there is someone there to give you an answer. I think there could be an improvement in this area, but it's hard to provide a substantial amount of support for a product that is charging roughly $15 a month. Do I feel I get more than $15 worth of support value when I need to request it? Yes.
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    I frankly like Confluence better than socialtext because of the speed and the quality of search. They also have better design elements which can help make the articles pleasant to the eyes.
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    The Welkin Suite
    It's much faster than Eclipse
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • We get solutions to concerns much faster
    • We promote interactions with the other depts
    • We listen and have discussions
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    The Welkin Suite
    • The ability to recover and compare to local history
    • Reliable vs. open source alternatives!
    Incentivized
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