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Igloo features
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Jacquie B.
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Edu- Vision 2020 is a small not-for-profit organization whose goal is to provide a computer based educational solution "school in a box" to primary teachers and their students who live in remote communities around the world. Igloo is a cost effective, budget friendly, collaboration solution for us - we are 10 to 15 people geographically dispersed.
Igloo is “up and open” always, no matter the time or the time zone. Team members can collaborate and work on projects together, communicate in real time, and solve problems quickly and easily, even if they’re located on the other side of the world from one another and in different time zones. Streamline and organize - better work flow and less time spent of juggling multiple applications in different...
Hoping they include "the ability to communicate and have face time" with our team within your own space in the near future.
Thank you very much for this wonderful review of our product. We are glad to hear you are enjoying your Igloo experience. As for the ability to communicate and FaceTime with your team, while we do not offer videochats, you can most definitely set up "microblogs" (or dedicated social newsfeed) per team space where members of the same team can interact with each other. These feeds also allow for rich media (pictures, embedded videos, links, etc.). Hope this helps. Feel free to contact us for more information or to get help setting it up.
Wayne K.
Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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I routinely use Igloo to view company announcements that are broadcast across multiple sites within our Intranet, and I also use it to access and upload files that are used across multiple departments within our organization.
It typically doesn't require many steps to perform the most common operations. It is also helpful that Igloo supports a variety of file types.
Some of this comes with working with the application I realize, but I wish you could find a way to make versioning more transparent. I recently received some helpful instruction from a fellow employee about uploading a more recent version of a document without having to delete the prior document and running the risk of messing up the path/location of the document (important because other departments link to that document from their own Igloo pages). After right-clicking, I realized how obvious the step was, but I wish there had been a way to show this on the page; I'll keep working with Igloo on this.
Tiffany M.
201-500 employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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I am excited about the idea of this site and use it daily but I am sure that there are many features that I could be utilizing more than the few I use currently.
The availability of information from all departments for our company.
There are no ntaifications when new posts are added for the different departments. I am also frustrated with the search feature and the non-existant date/time stamps. When researching past posts, I try to do keyward searches but nothing populates to suit my purpose. Also, when scrolling to "view more" I find it inconvenient notto see the actual date a post was made but rather "2 weeks ago" or "13 days ago". I am not liking the fact that I have to hunt through the different
Anonymous Reviewer
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Religious Institutions, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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We are so thankful for Igloo helping us to create our staff portal! It's revolutionized how we conduct global interview events and how we resource multiple locations across the nation.
The personal consulting from Igloo and customization were key to helping our organization scale our intranet/portal. The app is super simple to use, and integrates our global calendars, events planning tools, and other resources so perfectly for our fast-paced environment!
The people directory feature is not quite as nimble as I imagined it'd be for an organization of 700+ employees. We have a somewhat unique structure and it's been challenging to figure out how to look up teams, leaders and locations effectively. It would also be great to be able to add contact cards directly to my mobile device from the directory feature.
Olivia T.
Information Technology and Services, 201-500 employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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As someone who switched from SharePoint to Igloo, I was AMAZED by how user friendly it was. Not only for administrators, but for our employees using the intranet as well. Have a file you need to move? No problem. Need to edit the file but don't have time to re-download the latest version? Easy! Igloo makes collaboration on an intranet fun, easy and stress free...what more could you ask for?
We have a large department that continually collaborates on certain files and folders in Igloo, so the fact that we can reserve or archive old material or versions is extremely helpful. I also really enjoy the fact that you can edit a document in word, powerpoint, or excel without the hassle of downloading a new version; you can simply open a document and save in one motion.
As easy as it is to use, sometimes it is too simple. Would like it to be more complex when designing pages, but it still looks great.
Anonymous Reviewer
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Nonprofit Organization Management, 51-200 employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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Excellent from sales through to implementation and support.
Igloo comes ready out of the box for you to use it. It contains the basic tools for you to get an intranet up and running quickly. The product contains "solutions" that you can plug in for many common business functions like Employee Onboarding, Company News, Department Site, Project Sites. There is no technical complexity to getting the software up and running, its all about communication and change management within your organization.
There isn't much not to like about this product. It deploys quickly and easily. If anything I would say that they could build out the integrations a bit more.
Chirag A.
Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
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A great tool for client collaboration and file sharing.
Complex usage for new users and bit slow customer support.
Jenine L.
Information Technology and Services, 201-500 employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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Our executive team had doubts that we could roll out a much needed knowledge management tool that came packaged within an Intranet system effectively. They were all pleasantly surprised at how smooth it went and how quickly we were able to meet our go-live targets.
Very easy to manage and maintain. The ease of use helps to win buy in from your users. 95% of our company is up and running with uploads, postings, blogs etc.
There are certain limitations to the software that makes it necessary for a more time consuming work -around. Igloo is working hard utilizing their Client Success resources to implement enhancements to address these limitations.
Nancy S.
Information Technology and Services, 201-500 employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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I'm in Igloo everyday and it has made my job in Compliance easier to track policy read and signoff and task follow through.
Ease of file upload. I like the broadcast functionality. Task workflow is good too at the document level.
I wish the viewing document box was bigger. I usually do download or edit document just to view the document in a larger size. I know you can hover over the date a document was uploaded for details of date and time. I have many documents saved and frequently I like to search by the most recent date and time to find the document quicker rather than the alphabetic view.
Geoff S.
Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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Igloo was a good service for us as a small company, and is great for any start-up looking to streamline their collaborative processes.
Igloo is a simple, clean web based interface for project management and internal communication and collaboration. It offers a straight-forward approach to managing tasks and deliverables compared to other bloated services.
The last time I used Igloo, it could do with some additional project milestone and deliverable management features such as individual task assignment and progress updates.
Matt G.
Sports, 51-200 employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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Became more organized and moved information quicker to allow my team to be more efficient
allowed our team to gather useful information in one place, which we could search for later if needed. No longer using individual documentation and moving between platforms.
so far I have not run into any cons. I really enjoy the way this functions and how it has helped my department. Maybe some of the setup was difficult at first, so be prepared for a slight learning curve.
Leo M.
Hospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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Good experience. I would use this for years.
This is a great help on our duties. The feature that you can edit a document on MS office is a really great perk. This is a very easy to use software that we employees are able to utilize.
Looking up for some of the employees is difficult because we are somewhat thousands employed on our company. Still a good product on my opinion.
Jeremy A.
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Igloo has everything - blogs, feeds, instant messaging, groups...etc. It really is full featured and can be customized anyway that works for your organization. Igloo also looks fantastic. Even right out of the box, the software shines and has a very new look and feel.
Igloo is very hard to set up and you need to pay for a higher tier of service to really get hands-on help. Since it's so exceptionally customizable, it's hard to (1) determine the best way to set it up and (2) actually set it up.
Abraham A.
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Internet, 1-10 employees
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I would say fair enough
The drag and drop feature is important to me.
It still doesn't have some very important integration features for me
Jacob S.
Religious Institutions, 1-10 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
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Igloo offers a robust feature set. Their customer service team is responsive, knowledegable, and helpful.
The knowledge base does a good job of explaining the basics, but could be more thorough. I often have to search through customer forums to find the solution to a question or issue that I assumed would be covered by standard knowledge base information.
Anonymous Reviewer
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Computer Software, 1-10 employees
Used weekly for 2+ years
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Sharing documents across different team members was ok, but the calendar feature is very poor
It's an ok product to use as a file repository, but it's too basic once you reach certain complex requirements
The notifications are very poor. Calendar requests get lost in ether and it's not very user friendly
Catherine S.
201-500 employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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As a user, I find the product fairly simple to use. Posting documents and managing version controls is standard. The Chatter feature could be better if I could post the same items across multiple pages easily and if pictures could be larger.
Document management
Pictures are too small and can't click to view larger
Anonymous Reviewer
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Marketing and Advertising, 10,001+ employees
Used weekly for less than 6 months
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The layout is super customizable and easy to use. We have tested a few different layouts and found what works best for us. I like how visitors can interact with posts and articles posted. It allows us to have a one-stop-shop for all internal content in regards to our company, different teams and office locations. It allows users to easily access this information in a clear, organized way.
Nothing negative stands out with Igloo yet! It has been a great transition for our company.