Ansarada Features

I love the ease of use and the online help pages. Really saved having to watch long YouTube clips or call up (like intralinks!)

Sometimes it was challenging and long to see what had happened to the data room. We had many buyer teams and a large internal and found the activity data difficult to use in the sense of seeing what was relevant. It would be fantastic if ansarada could develop a activity home page which shows activity of members in chronological order. (Almost like a social media feed...) I remember having a team...

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-Reports -Q&A tool -Bulk upload and download -Friendly customer support -New redaction tool

Some suggestions: -Could VDR Index in Manage section (Excel) include a column with original document name when it was first uploaded to VDR -Could buy-side users bulk upload their questions from Excel to VDR -Could redaction tool include a rotate view function -Could administrators receive a notification when document's path is too long and therefore bulk download won't work in one click

Clear representation of documents present in the dataroom. Automatic numbering was useful too. I appreciated the option of making groeps of people with defined rights (read, edit, print, download, etc.). The helpdesk was always very quick to answer questions efficiently. Easy to use for the clients, none of them complained about difficulty to access the database. The possibility to generate reports showing who-accessed-what was very valuable.

There are so many security features in terms of enabling publication of documents, that it is easy to forget to open a gate and thus provide access to a financier.

Uploading information was relatively easy although I did sometimes find it difficult to save it in the desired location

I didn't find the software intuitive. I had real difficulty in navigating around and most often found myself having to return to the home screen and then scroll again through all the questions to find the one i wanted to work on. Often the questioner wanted to change the priority after posting the question & I had trouble matching these. I couldn't get my file structure to work so I always had to navigate from the home base rather than where I had just been I presume a lot of the issues emanated from me being a novice user however I did find it very easy to navigate around the seller's Datasite

Extremely intuitive to use. The email response for Q&A is fantastic!

Security settings are always a handful to get head around if havent used the updated platform.

Ease of use and straight forward functionality. Great support from web chat.

Reporting system could be improved and be able to customise

The Ansarada team has always been very helpful in the unlikely event(s) of encountering slight glitches. The novel redaction tool is really simple to use and extremely helpful for due diligence purposes.

Personally, I would like to see that the whole data room could be easily copied into a cloud for future reference.

Security, ease of use, responsive support, good close out functions

Good user protocols are essential - inflexibility (which is a plus) around the hierarchy of admin controls.

We used the procurement capabilities for a large scale complex RFP. Very strong audit capabilities, ability to see level of engagement from the market extremely helpful.

Some less than intuitive functions :-). Once the RFP closed some difficulties managing the run on Best and Final Offer processes for example.

Ease of use; Various functionality to ensure confidentiality; Ability to set up different groups and subgroups.

Drawbacks of enabling certain functionality not clearly explained e.g. 1. enabling security setting for word doc will require dataroom users to download additional microsoft software to be able to view the documents. 2. enabling certain pdf security setting will require viewers have internet access when viewing the document even after the docs have been downloaded and saved down.

It is easy to use and is able to be used across a number of applications. It provides good tracking of users and helps keep track of authorities between people also.

Headings and some user interface is US centric.

Set up in just a few hours, easy to use platform and some ability to track activity

Ability to track activity of investors is limited

Ease of loading, moving and removing documents Ease of controlling multiple party access levels Easily accessed reporting functions

Can be a bit difficult to handle very large files

Software is easy to use, and makes customising multiple 'data rooms' for different potential investors easy.

The pricing model has changed recently which took some explaining to our clients when the price went up.

Well designed for running processes, very good customer service who have a good understanding of administrators needs that exceeds just knowing their software but how users best use it.

The process to develop reports sometimes changes but not too bad

Its a market leading platform with appropriate features and functionality. Some minor functionality tweaks required for a more efficient process.

(1) Need to upgrade feature for removing teams - currently need to remove individuals within a team before removing the team. (2) Need to make navigating of security/access options for each team more obvious. Its an important feature that is somewhat difficult to use when dealing with multiple parties.

Ease of use, ability to customise access for different parties, ease of managing documents

Nothing I can think of to be honest. All aspects of the package work seamlessley

Ease of use Project management Nice stats / tool kit

Uploading data (time consuming) Sometimes it is challenging to add a new user

Ease of adding documents to existing files, and ease with which to add users and their privileges.

The default that any newly uploaded document was enabled to all users, rather than this being a requirement to confirm (and that you have to remove the default twice).

It is intuitive thus making easy to navigate the VDR and use it functionalities.

Customer support can be improved to further improve the likelihood of choosing to use the software.

Consistently good customer service for a solid data room product

Sometimes the amount of features were more burdensome or confusing than helpful

Easy to use Auto generated reports No wait helpline

Sometimes we have issues with bulk uploading

I like the ease of navigating and bulk downloads. We also like how we can track users activity in our data room and get good analytics in that regard.

I find that naming / renaming files can be a bit arduous. E.g. when uploading files we have to name them to look consistent with others.

I really liked the simplicity of the software. Working in the lower middle market space, many of our clients are unfamiliar with data rooms, and so we want them to be as comfortable as possible. Ansarada's platform has received positive feedback from our clients in terms of ease of navigation and accessibility.

I wish that there was more consistency with pricing. When discounts are applied, it is not always clear if we are getting a consistent rate or not.