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Gemini

Score7.6 out of 10

14 Reviews and Ratings

What is Gemini?

Gemini Easy to Use!

Pros

  • It's extremely easy to search for a keyword, ad group, or campaign.
  • It's extremely easy to update a bid for a keyword, ad group or campaign.
  • Both Google & Bing require you to download a program in order to edit our bids. Gemini does not.

Cons

  • Sometimes when I search for an Ad Group, duplicates appear. But when I go into the Campaign and look for the Ad Group, there is only one.
  • The line in which it says which Campaign and then Ad Group you are in should be frozen so that it would easier to select the Campaign to go back & then into a different Ad Group.
  • You can't search for a keyword by its affiliate id. That is extremely frustrating. When I search for a keyword by its name, it brings up all keywords with that name, no matter what match type it has.

Return on Investment

  • Updating the bids was quick and efficient.
  • Dealing with the duplicate ad groups when searching for them was frustrating and complicated.
  • It took time to go through the campaign and then search for the ad group to discover no duplicates.
  • Not being able to search by the affiliate id also meant that it took me longer to update the bids for the keywords because I had to check to see which match type it was before updating.

Reclaim your hard drive with Gemini

Pros

  • File De-Duplication - Gemini does a great job of finding files that are bit-for-bit identical to each other. Typically these are caused by user replication, and Gemini sniffs them out and displays them for easy user decisions.
  • Similar Photo identification - Got a lot of similar photos, but not the exact same one? That's ok, this is a huge source of wasted space, and Gemini can deal with these too. If you're a "spray and pray" type of photographer, Gemini will help you clean up near-duplicate photos, helping you keep only the best.
  • Fast File Triage - Once Gemini has identified all these duplicates, what do you do with them? Gemini helps you triage the list of duplicates and easily decide which copies to keep. This is handy if you want to keep all files in the X folder, but not in the Y folder.

Cons

  • With the recent update to macOS Catalina, Gemini hasn't been updated yet. As a result, it requests access to each folder you want to scan for duplicates. Not ideal. It could take an approach like other apps, and ask for full-disk access through privacy settings instead.
  • Gemini could make a more robust rule system that enables you to select which file to delete based on regular expressions, for instance.
  • While Gemini helps me identify similar, though not identical photos, it's still up to me to decide which ones are the "best". Perhaps if Gemini did some machine learning on these photos, it could learn which are the best, and help you choose.

Return on Investment

  • Gemini keeps me productive by not having to spend time wading through my files to find what I've copied in multiple locations. It does the heavy lifting for me and lets me choose what to keep and what to trash.
  • Gemini has enabled us to purchase less expensive laptops by not needing to pay for as much storage. Once purchased, those laptops can be sustained for longer by using Gemini to keep storage space managed.
  • Gemini has also enabled us to keep our cloud storage footprint manageable, by identifying duplicates across local and cloud storage.

Alternatives Considered

Apple iCloud

Other Software Used

Bugzilla, IBM Rational ClearCase, Parallels Desktop, VMware Fusion, Oracle VM VirtualBox

Gemini Issues tracker

Pros

  • Gemini offers flexible framework that allowed IT to build a workflow based process. IT change requests were divided into several buckets: New Change Requests group for business units to submit requests for enhancements and new project ideas, Pending Change Requests for approved projects that are waiting for IT resources, Application Development where we track active projects, Defect Tracking where bugs are tracked during testing and finally Release Management where requests for deployment are tracked.
  • Gemini allows to create custom fields and add them to View, Edit and Add screens. This flexible model allowed us to track additional information on the project such as IT Point of Contact, System Name, Team Name, Testing dates, etc.
  • Gemini has flexible email notification model that allows to keep business customers informed on the project progress. Whenever comment is added by project manager email alerts goes out anyone that is set to watch project progress.

Cons

  • It would be useful for Gemini to offer a mobile-friendly version.
  • It would be helpful for Gemini to provide more granular control over email notification options. Currently, we cannot turn off update type emails
  • Gemini could improve homepage design to provide a dashboard for all projects in the system.

Return on Investment

  • Gemini helped consolidate and centralize projects tracking and status reporting
  • Gemini helped improve defects tracking and reporting
  • Gemini helped streamline release process management, eliminated approval paperwork by allowing ot use comments as electronic signatures.