A Once Powerful Platform that Has Withered on the Vine
September 08, 2022
A Once Powerful Platform that Has Withered on the Vine
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Citrix Podio
We use Podio extensively. We also use the Workflow Automations to help where Podio has shortfalls. Podio is the backbone of our sales, support, product development and management. Podio allowed us to build the workspace we needed which is fairly unique. The flexibility to customize your apps to hold sales, prospects, projects, support, etc was incredible. We share data from Podio with our custom SaaS application and vice versa. It feels like we have leveraged every possible feature Podio has to offer.
- Customizable apps to fit your specific needs
- Free to explore and use basic features until you grow into more
- Clean interface
- Crippling feature development leaves you wondering if Podio is close to end-of-life
- Severe lack of communication. You HAVE to figure out your own solutions no matter what you pay for the software.
- Inability to get even basic reports across multiple applications.
- Data is siloed in each app. It has relationships but you cannot generate queries based on related apps.
- Downtime. Podio has gone done far too many times for days without any compensation to lost time.
- Very slow page builds. Data seems to be coming from slow datasources and takes a long time to complete rendering.
- There used to be many. Unfortunately, they have all aged very badly.
- Initially it was an incredible boost to productivity.
- Over the past 4 years we have known that the lack of development and support would force us to leave and get a more robust platform that has a roadmap.
These options weren't available when we picked Podio. Podio cannot compete with these options because Podio chooses not to actively develop, communicate with their customers or build system stability. Any serious customer should consider these as showstoppers when looking at Podio.
Do you think Podio delivers good value for the price?
Not sure
Are you happy with Podio's feature set?
No
Did Podio live up to sales and marketing promises?
No
Did implementation of Podio go as expected?
No
Would you buy Podio again?
No