Item: Igloo
Rating: 8
Author: Vinicius Lima

Overall Satisfaction with Igloo

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Igloo was mainly used to improve communication between team members, to share files and to schedule meetings across the IT Department. We try to centralize all communications in one robust and reliable platform so productivity can be significantly increased. For employees that work outside the office, Igloo software is very useful, too.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Very easy to use - initial configuration and daily use are very smooth.
Theme customization by changing CSS code, logo, colors, header, footer, etc.
Free version for product evaluations and pilot projects up to 10 users.
Clean interface - Good UI and UX.
File sharing, meetings schedulement, forums and tasks control for teams

Cons

Pricing can lead to high costs.
Users without CSS knowledge may have a hard time to customize themes. Maybe more graphical options to change layouts would be nice.
NO SSO and LDAP authentication methods available in the basic version.
Languages support in the basic version.

Return on Investment

Igloo has helped us gather all shared corporate information in one place.
Igloo has helped us save a lot of time on communications and sharing.
We have also solved the problem of communication failure between people.

Alternatives Considered

Atlassian Confluence, Jive and Jostle

Igloo stacks up by keeping simple. You can find all functionalities in a very easy way due to the good UI and UX that is provided. Basically, all that you need to improve communication and collaboration in your team/company is available. Also, there are a lot of integration possibilities that can enhance your experience with Igloo.

Other Software Used

Atlassian Confluence, Evernote, ownCloud, Slack, OpenShift, CloudStack, Redmine, Bitbucket, Google Cloud SQL, Google Classroom, G Suite, Team Foundation Server, nopCommerce, Google App Maker, Google Analytics, Google Compute Engine, Google Drive, Google Data Studio, MySQL, MariaDB, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, dotConnect for MySQL, Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio IDE

Likelihood to Recommend

Igloo is a well-suited option for teams/companies that want to build an employee intranet with some other interesting features, like file storage and sharing, internal communications, and resource and knowledge management. All of these features may help your workers increase productivity significantly by centralizing everything in one robust and reliable platform. However, it can be less appropriate if costs are a problem for you, due to the pricing. So, if you will not be using several features and just want an intranet for you company, you may want to go with another solution.

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Amazing intranet solution for your company!