CiraSync Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use CiraSync to maintain a centralized contact list on users' smartphones. CiraSync is connected to our Office 365 account and it syncs selected contact data into each user's Exchange contacts folder overnight. Outlook on the user's smartphone is used to copy contacts to the phone's contact list.

Our process is like this: we update a contact in Active Directory, AzureAD synchronizes user data to O365, and CiraSync runs overnight to merge the contact information into the user's Outlook contacts, once that is done, Outlook updates the contacts on the phone. Outlook does not impact personal contacts on the phone.

CiraSync has two big advantages in this arrangement. The app is part of our O365 setup and as such we can easily give it permission to access the user's contacts folder. And because the synchronization is automated we no longer have to manually copy contact lists onto phones or deal with aftermarket products such as Touchbase. Also, since we have moved the main contact source to AD, the phones, AD, and the Global Address List are now consistent. After this, we modified a simple ASP page to serve as a company phone list.

CiraSync has lots of other synchronization features, such as calendars and public folders which might be useful in some settings. We found that copying resource calendars into the users' mailboxes was confusing, so when the Outlook client started giving access to resource calendars we removed those from CiraSync and use Outlook instead.

Likelihood to Recommend

CiraSync is well suited to syncing company contacts into the Outlook user's mailbox. This could allow for calling with an IP phone, or from a cell phone.

It's also well suited to syncing Calendars and Notes into the Outlook user's mailbox, where they do not already have permission on the calendar. However, to avoid confusion it is better not to duplicate calendars when the user can see them from Outlook.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

My organization had a challenge ensuring all of our employees had the latest contact information and phone numbers on his/her mobile devices. With CiraSync we were able to automate this and ensure IT wasn't a roadblock. Now everyone in our organization has the correct information at all times on all of her devices.

Likelihood to Recommend

CiraSync is great at synching distribution groups to mobile users.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

CiraSync is used across our entire organization. When we replaced our inhouse mail server with Office 365 we needed a solution for synchronizing shared calendars across mobile devices. We happened upon CiraSync in a web search. Though we had never heard of the product before we were able to start a free trial run and make a decision on a permanent license with CiraSync very quickly.

Likelihood to Recommend

We are able to target specific end users with very specific information. For example, we can push a shared Note with security codes to a subset of staff that require that information. While on the other hand, we can push a contact list for all users to everyone. The ability to push notes, calendars, and contacts to any configuration of users makes the system extremely useful.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

<ul><li>Cirasync solved a problem that the District had been fighting for years, and did it in a matter of hours!</li><li>We're now using it District-wide. We tested first in the IT Department, then with one of the mobile crews. Once that test was final, word of mouth spread to the rest of the organization, and the requests flooded in. We're now thinking, "How did we live WITHOUT this?"</li><li>What Cirasync does for us, seems rather simple, but finding the right solution, at the right price, with an easy to use interface and administration was a challenge. Cirasync solved each of these issues.</li><li>We have a large organization with contacts inside and outside of the District. This means a lot of contacts! With the multitude of different devices, it's been a challenge at the District to deliver up to date contact lists to users since the first cell phones were purchased here.</li><li>In the past, this was all done manually, and as can be expected, the process was tedious, time-consuming, and never up to date. On top of this, since the issue covered multiple departments, ownership of the budget and solution was challenging.</li><li>Cirasync was able to solve this problem and meet each challenge effectively. </li></ul>

Likelihood to Recommend

Cirasync is an excellent solution for organizations that have an often changing Global Address List, or a GAL that needs to be delivered to multiple users, across various devices. It removes the tedious, manual process of updating contact lists. Not needing to deploy any additional software to the devices or users is a lifesaver!