MadCap Flare vs. ProProfs Knowledge Base

MadCap Flare has its problems, but it serves our team well as an authoring software. This would not be the case if we needed to regularly collaborate on articles, as Flare is prone to conflict issues when another person dares to breathe near an open topic. When working individually, though, it's fine. I'd love to see improvements to design, performance, and stability, but Flare remains one of the best softwares on the market for our needs as an authoring team. MadCap Central is well-suited to internal reviewing when every member is comfortable with Flare (the errors it tends to introduce set aside). SMEs, though, tend to find it hard to use. It's cluttered, some styles don't render, and it just seems like a failed attempt to reproduce Google Docs. I'd love to see improvements there, to help get our SMEs to want to use Central.

Incentivized

ROI: What positive or negative impact (i.e. Return on Investment or ROI) has ProProfs Knowledge Base had on your overall business objectives?

1. Improved collaboration among teams.
2. Inducting new employees got easier.
3. Eliminated the need to organize formal training sessions for employees.

• Organizing articles via an overall project outline.
• Syncing with teammates.

Incentivized

• It helps in creating an internal knowledge base that employees from different teams can access to find and share information.
• Creating a customer support knowledge base is quite simple with this software. The customization and branding options it has have helped in giving the knowledge base a professional and appealing look.
• Its conditional content feature allows setting specific conditions that control content visibility. This helps in restricting or allowing access to a page.

• Reviewing by internal users / Feedback from customers
• CSS - easier to use an external tool
• Skin styles and management

• The product is good as it is. We don’t feel that any significant changes are needed. But, yes, we would definitely love to see a more advanced version of the product soon.

MadCap Flare is in desperate need of an overall redesign. It relies heavily on dozens and dozens of tiny buttons that contain dozens of nested features. Clicking the wrong button can cause your software to freeze and crash. Building targets can be an absolute mystery, as far as all the files involved. It also has a tendency to freeze and crash. There's typically a huge learning curve for new hires who've never used it--nothing is intuitive.

Incentivized

Using this tool is a no-brainer, as we said before. Its features are simple yet powerful. Besides, the product’s self-help documentation is also great. It has got some great videos on specific features and use cases. Those were of real help in the initial few days.

Whenever we had any issues while using the product or understanding a feature, its support team was always available. They helped us get familiar with the product and make the most of it in the initial few days itself. Its support team was literally a phone call or a message away. Very supportive and available 24x7.

MadCap Flare provides for proper single-sourcing of content for an array of needs. Wikis are incredibly limited, static and hard to manage, and content quickly becomes obsolete.

We found ProProfs Knowledge Base more user-friendly and well-designed than the other similar tools we tried in the past. It also offers better integrations with software like Google Analytics, Zendesk, Google Translate, Freshdesk, Wufoo, and many others. That’s what gave this tool an edge over others. We can integrate it with any tool we want and expand its capabilities to gain better results.

• Negative: Wasted hundreds of hours troubleshooting madcap bugs or quirks.
• Positive: We have a robust Help website we can update with ease.

Incentivized

• ProProfs Knowledge Base helped us achieve customer satisfaction and agent efficiency. No return can be bigger than this. Our customers are satisfied with the help center we have created, and our agents no longer have to spend time and effort in answering repetitive questions.