illumin vs. Stack Overflow for Teams

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
illumin
Score 0.0 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
illumin is a fully cloud-based research and knowledge data management tool. It is not merely a help desk option. It collects, records, quantifies, and precis's request queries from an organisation's users and provides responses to them from researchers. The resulting requests and responses becomes a comprehensive, audited database of information that can be easily shared. The knowledge base that is built can be searched by users and researchers alike. With its analytical reporting feature and…N/A
Stack Overflow for Teams
Score 8.3 out of 10
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Stack Overflow for Teams is a team knowledge management and Q & A platform for development billed per teammate, featuring roles and permissions, and integrations with popularly used collaboration tools.
$7
per month per teammate (up to 250 teammates)
Pricing
illuminStack Overflow for Teams
Editions & Modules
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Basic
$7
per month per teammate (up to 250 teammates)
Business
$14
per month per teammate (unlimited)
Enterprise
Custom
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
illuminStack Overflow for Teams
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsFree demonstration availableDiscount available for annual pricing.
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illuminStack Overflow for Teams
User Ratings
illuminStack Overflow for Teams
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User Testimonials
illuminStack Overflow for Teams
Likelihood to Recommend
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In my opinion, Stack Overflow for Teams is well suited for an organization that is on a hiring spree for the engineering teams. The reason for it is because instead of catering to doubts of new joinees individually, they can be asked to refer to the Stack Overflow and hence will save a lot of time for both new joiners as well as the existing employees.
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Pros
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  • Sharing technical solutions to problems we encounter in our internal development environment.
  • Sharing best practices we find in external resources.
  • Discussions on design patterns and conventions we can use in our projects.
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Cons
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  • I don't like it when I'm searching in the company's private account and the search automatically goes to the public SO search, I would prefer to be asked if I want to search in the public SO.
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Alternatives Considered
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It's easier to use Stack Overflow for Teams Q&A to maintain our knowledge base over time, over the Confluence wikis that we also maintain. You don't need to bother about folders, filenames, templates - just ask a question and answer it or get it answered. It feels less formal, so developers feel more free to add content.
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Return on Investment
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  • Positive impact by saving us time to solve our needs.
  • Negative impact by allowing for overly competitive people to game the system.
  • Soliciting upvote from you coworkers simply for points.
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