Quip Review
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Quip for a variety of different things, whether we use it for individual doc writing or contributing to a doc, so we may have multiple people who have to offer a doc and so we use it for collaboration in writing it, publishing it, we'll use it for putting together data, putting together concepts and sharing it out with other people within the company.
Pros
- I think it's really great for collaboration. In the past using things like Microsoft Word in a SharePoint or something or in some sort of shared file folder, people would typically overwrite other people's stuff or it would mess up a document because people would edit it while somebody else was editing it then save it. What Quip does really is allow multiple people (we've had somewhere up as 20 plus people contributing to a doc) all at the same time and there was very little override or problems collaborating on the docs. It's really great for collaboration.
- I think it does a really great job of file structure so you can save it in folders, you can basically use it as a knowledge repository if you wanted to. So I think it does a really great job of that.
Cons
- I think the search could be a little bit better. Sometimes when you're searching for a file, especially if your company uses it extensively, you have lots of files that are the same name, there's an option to search for by author and it doesn't always work and so it takes some time to search for things. Maybe if it had an AI powered search or a little bit better elastic search, then I think it would really enhance the product.
Likelihood to Recommend
I think collaboration is probably the best use case for it allows really good drafts of documents. I think it's really good use case if you want to go track edits to documents as well. It's probably not really good for versioning control, but it's definitely, it's very, very lightweight and so you can use it on a mobile device, you can use it in any web browser. So it's very easy to use, very easily accessible. I probably wouldn't use it from a spreadsheet perspective. Well I think some of the primary functions of data sheets are there. It doesn't have some of the more complex formulas that you would typically get from Excel or something like that
