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eXo Platform

Score10 out of 10

21 Reviews and Ratings

What is eXo Platform?

eXo Platform is an open-source, social-collaboration software designed for enterprises. Some key features include: Enterprise Social Network, Enterprise Content Management and Social Collaboration.

Media

Calendar
A Space Home
Documents
spaces
activity stream
gamification
Home
Reward & kudos
Chat
Documents

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Top Performing Features

  • Task Management

    This includes the ability to plan, track, collaborate and report on tasks.

    Category average: 7.5

  • Scheduling

    Scheduling capabilities allow users to set schedules on tasks, and create timelines and milestones.

    Category average: 7.6

  • Mobile Access

    Mobile access is the ability to access the software from a smartphone or tablet.

    Category average: 8.2

Areas for Improvement

  • Visual planning tools

    Includes visual tools such as pinboards, mind-maps, or charts for collaborative brainstorming and/or workflow planning.

    Category average: 6.4

  • Surveys

    Users can create and participate in surveys to get input from other collaborators.

    Category average: 7.4

  • Audio files

    Supports audio file types, such as .mp3, .mp4, and .wav

    Category average: 7.8

Exo is an amazing platform.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Exo is an excellent platform, very useful, and easy to handle. I love that it has tools with which I can share my documents and information in a very agile way; it has video calls that help the team a lot, a calendar, task management. It has an excellent combination of an intranet and a corporate social network.

Pros

  • Share documents and information with the team.
  • Great combination with the company's intranet and social network.
  • Document repository that helps me find the files I need faster.

Cons

  • I have everything I need on the platform, nothing to complain.

Most Important Features

  • Intuitive and personalized interface.
  • Free document collaboration with version control and access permissions.

Return on Investment

  • Free document collaboration with version control and access permissions.
  • An amazing experience as social media.

eXo platform significantly improves collaborative work

Pros

  • It is easy to use and install on any operating system. With a simple but elegant interface.
  • The chat and file sharing functions are very effective.
  • Status and activity updates, document sharing and administration tools work efficiently.
  • The cloud platform allows users to easily share information and files, and collaborate on project work.
  • Another benefit of this is that it makes mobile collaboration possible.

Cons

  • It has a considerable learning curve.
  • The initial adoption in a corporate environment implies integration with other applications, it has to improve this aspect.

Return on Investment

  • The eXo platform is a great agile tool for concentrating internal human capital.
  • It is excellent for improving communication and collaboration between the company and group members.
  • It generates an effective collaborative work and maximizes productivity with the improvement of teamwork.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Zoho Social and Bitrix24

Other Software Used

Google Data Studio, Zendesk, Zoho Projects

eXo Platform Review

Pros

  • Customizable.
  • Built-in features.
  • Web-based platform.

Cons

  • Customizing some features can take a lot of time.

Return on Investment

  • firstly it costs for first implementation and customization

Other Software Used

MS SharePoint, Redmine, Microsoft Project Server

Give eXo Platform a try

Pros

  • Support from the eXo platform team for developers is very accurate
  • Handling users is easy and complete
  • Everything is very easy to start up

Cons

  • From my point of view, I'd have added the multi-tenant support in order to handle, with the same application, more customers.

Return on Investment

  • Very positive impact because it simplified our development activities, making it smaller and quicker.

Discovering EXO Platform

Pros

  • Very good UI and Look and Feel
  • Collaboration oriented
  • Resource sharing between users is improved

Cons

  • It's not so simple to create sub-sites
  • User management is quite tricky
  • Overall configuration is not easy

Return on Investment

  • Increased collaboration
  • Easy versioning
  • Easy sharing

Other Software Used

MS SharePoint, Google Drive, Dropbox for Business