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Aderant Handshake vs. Socialtext (discontinued)

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Aderant Handshake

    Score7 out of 10
    N/ALegal software specialist Aderant offers Handshake, the company's Sharepoint compatible knowledge management platform specifically for law firms featuring access via intranet and extranet portals and an enterprise search tool for locating documentation and expertise, and general KM analytics.N/A

    Socialtext (discontinued)

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ASocial Text was a tool that focused on social learning and includes Twitter-like microblogging capabilities. The product competed with MindTouch,Confluence, Jive Team Collaboration and other collaboration platforms. It was acquired by PeopleFluent in 2012 and is no longer available as a separate product, though similar capabilities are supplied by the PeopleFluent platform.

    $1

    Starting Price Per Month

    Pricing
    Aderant HandshakeSocialtext (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Socialtext
    $1.00
    Starting Price Per Month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Aderant HandshakeSocialtext (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Aderant HandshakeSocialtext (discontinued)
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Aderant Handshake and Socialtext (discontinued)
    Feature
    Aderant Handshake
    -
    Ratings
    Socialtext (discontinued)
    7.6
    1 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Task Management00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Gantt Charts00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Scheduling00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Workflow Automation00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Mobile Access00 Ratings4.01 Ratings
    Search00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Visual planning tools00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Communication
    Comparison of Communication features of Aderant Handshake and Socialtext (discontinued)
    Feature
    Aderant Handshake
    -
    Ratings
    Socialtext (discontinued)
    7.2
    1 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Chat00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Notifications00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Discussions00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Surveys00 Ratings4.01 Ratings
    Internal knowledgebase00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Aderant HandshakeSocialtext (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Aderant HandshakeSocialtext (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Aderant
    The user of Handshake takes a certain amount of user computer literacy and the user needs to be resourceful. When building our site, I needed to google quite a bit. On the contrary, if budget allows, Handshake developers will do it all for you.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    We use Social Text as a platform to air our issues with different departments. We voice our concerns and suggestions so we can help find a solution to the problems we incur on a daily basis. We need to have social text as an app so we can communicate in real time not only during work hours.
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    Pros
    Aderant
    • The main reason we got Handshake was to display visual gadgets for our accounting systems. We always provided spreadsheet type reports, but pictures and more engaging. Attorney gets a dashboard in real time of where they stand financially.
    • Additional use as FAQ's in different departments in the firm, that is, accounting, IT, and office services.
    • Knowledgebase - How to's and software.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • Version history - Always keeps the edited versions and one can revert back any time
    • Creating and Editing an article is very easy and intutive
    • Sharing the articles with peers
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    Cons
    Aderant
    • Documentation is weak, but hopefully, since Aderant just acquired the company, that will improve
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • Search needs a ton of improvements. It was very slow a year ago
    • Search result quality was also not that good
    • I know they have improved their UI recently but when i used it last year it did not really have any design elements which could be used to make the articles look more presentable. It was important for us as we used it for external communication as well.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Aderant
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    We have a lot of info in Socialtext already. It would be hard to get all that info out and port it to a different system
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    Alternatives Considered
    Aderant
    None. Always need about Handshake's interface with Aderant, way before Aderant purchased them. Seemed like a natural fit.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    I frankly like Confluence better than socialtext because of the speed and the quality of search. They also have better design elements which can help make the articles pleasant to the eyes.
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    Return on Investment
    Aderant
    • Hard to say, but ultimately putting knowledge in the hands of fee earners immediately it is positive.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • We get solutions to concerns much faster
    • We promote interactions with the other depts
    • We listen and have discussions
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