Social networks are, no doubt, powerful collaboration channels – Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn being the foremost examples. And because social networks play a big role in reshaping users’ behaviors, practices and processes, taking the social approach to enterprise collaboration makes sense, especially considering the virtually zero learning curve.
eXo Platform introduces the power of social networks into the enterprise via connections, which allow users to connect with co-workers, vendor partners, and clients; profiles, which help users identify experts and find colleagues with relevant knowledge and experience; and activity feeds, where status updates, comments, and files are streamed through dedicated workspaces to facilitate task/project collaboration among teams.
Effective collaboration is the heart and soul of team-based endeavors. A team’s capacity to coordinate and work toward shared goals is essential for them to rally a project to completion on time, on budget, and according to specifications.
eXo Platform enables collaboration through calendars, workspaces, wikis and forums. Workspaces allow authorized team members to share tasks, events, documents, and other relevant materials. Wikis enable collaborators to build knowledge bases, documentation, even procedural standards that everyone in the team can refer to for process consistency. eXo’s full-featured forum app provides all the requisite discussion tools to ensure community bulletin boards serve their purpose: permissions, moderation, notifications, polls, locking, bans, pruning, and search.
Global teams are now more a norm than an aberration. One setback of virtual collaboration, however, is the lack of face-to-face communication between colleagues, as some things just can’t be conveyed through email - things such as a sense of personal connection, and non-verbal cues like facial expression and gestures.
When teams can’t be in the same room at the same time due to time zone and geographic constraints, the next best thing to a face-to-face communication is video conferencing. eXo Platform has built-in video calling and instant messaging capabilities to make meetings more effective and information exchange faster through one-on-one or team chat rooms.
eXo makes team collaboration more effective with video calls and chat conversations.
Content sharing is a staple with team undertakings, and content scattered across emails and various file folders can be difficult to locate, organize, and make sense of. More than just a social platform, eXo provides a centralized data hub where users can upload and share, and tag and retrieve task-related files and documents. It also allows users to build multiple easy-to-access websites for pain-free content classification, search, and publishing.
eXo Platform’s unified search feature provides a single interface to make searching for any content type easier. The search-ahead helper field displays the most relevant search results, and filtering options are available for a more advanced search. The app makes both structured and unstructured content easily available and secure through workflows and an advanced security management system.
eXo Platform is available in over 20 languages, thanks to an active eXo community of more than 200 contributors translating the platform in various languages. For on-the-go updates and collaboration, the software offers native mobile apps that can be downloaded on your iPhone, iPad or Android devices.
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Requires iOS 8.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
25 reviewers had the following to say about eXo Platform's features:
.- Search eXo includes an ElasticSearch based search tool segmented according to the sections and contents in your intranet, indexing other contents published by other systems, making it a federated search tool for your organization's entire knowledge base. 7.
Pros
It's very feature rich so if you want your organization's knowledge, private, secure and organized then you have to try it!
Cons
We not found any except the lack of a feature found on other enterprise social networks like Yammer (gammification).
Better document management facility for organisation with ease of access. Easy integration with real time application using SSO feature..
.- Search eXo includes an ElasticSearch based search tool segmented according to the sections and contents in your intranet, indexing other contents published by other systems, making it a federated search tool for your organization's entire knowledge base. 7.
Rating breakdown
Hi Oscar,
Amazing to read so much details in your review, thank you very much! About gamification, it's a topic we are currently working on so we would love to get your feedback and ideas on eXo community website. Feel free to use the request feature section or open a topic in the discussions forums.
Cheers,
The eXo Team
It is easy for admin to define users with roles,permission and group management.
Pros
eXo platform provides features like calender for defining tasks,events and meetings with reminder functionality, chat application with video confrencing, Blog engine for writing blogs and sharing information, WebDAV support for sharing of documents.
Cons
In Older version of eXo platform some time it distorts UI and UX but after releasing new eXo platform 4.1 version they are fixed and lots of new functionality added.
Glad we could fix your issues with the new version. Thanks!
Also, rich collaboration features such as forums, wikis, documents and calendars around social networking, activity streams and workspaces.
It is easy for admin to define users with roles,permission and group management.
It has a wiki, a calendar, an instant messages with video conference tool and document management system - all (and a lot more) integrated in one extensible platform.
Pros
eXo Platform has a very good UI design and also a thoughtful user experience UX.
Cons
Nothing, eXo has a very good qualities to be your favorite SCS (Social Collaboration Software).
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Likelihood to recommend
Recommendations to others considering eXo Platform
I recommend eXo for you as a good SCS (Social Collaboration Software), It's a great platform with a lot of features, I recommend it.
The system of groups and activities are well designed and helps to engage people from all levels of the company.
Using eXo Platform we created a secure portal-based site and an intranet that encourages employees in an organization to exchange knowledge, documents, work collaboratively, task management, contact data...
platform, from social collaboration to extensive document management capabilitie
eXo allows you to create your own social intranet with the essential collaboration features: chat, forum, activity stream, share documents, wiki, calendar...the perfect software if you're looking for a user-friendly all-in-1 solution for your company.
Pros
eXo allows you to create your own social intranet with the essential collaboration features: chat, forum, activity stream, share documents, wiki, calendar...the perfect software if you're looking for a user-friendly all-in-1 solution for your company.
Cons
i don't see anything to dislike about it.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Free Trial
Very well integrated social collaboration software.
eXo helps to keep in touch with your team and collegues all over the world. Great UI Implementation.
What we ended up with is a much more feature rich way of doing business, interact and get things done. eXo proved to be the way of making people using social media tools to work better.
Pros
eXo Platform solve the information silly issue and make information easily accessible so an organisation can better control communications and information deliveries.
Cons
- open source is not very pushed forward and - more flexible pricing options through editions - Project management features are not very advanced
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
A good open source alternative for collaboration, members can use it network and do project management
Cons
it's costly and heavy to load, I tried the open source version on my local server and due to the tools used in development it loaded slowly.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Monthly
Pros
I like that the platform provides a convenient interface for promoting social collaboration within the company.
Cons
Also, when the chat screen is opened, my browser slows down.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
eXo is a great Open Source Collaborative-Social-Enterprise-Content & Knowledge-Management-Platform that offers complete Portal Life-Cycle Management facilities like: 1.
Flexible deployment. Document Management Knowledge Management Cons: Haven't found yet so far.
Pros
eXo Platform is the best intranet solution: besides all basic features to collaborate and connect with your colleagues, you can organize and customize your own dashboard, choose existing gadget and add external one: essential when you need an overwall view of your work and colleagues activity!
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
Open Source software and a good knowledge management system are mandatory nowadays. eXo is a social collaboration platform packed with a lot of features for organizations wanting to add a social dimension to their existing information system or build a social intranet.
Cons
eXo Platform creates real business value as it enables faster communication and better decision making across our whole organisation but it's difficult to engage employees without help.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Likelihood to recommend
Recommendations to others considering eXo Platform
My recommendation to others is to read all documentation and don't be intimidated by the strength of this program.
A full-featured collaborative / document / social networking suite.
