Stormboard

Score7.8 out of 10

19 Reviews and Ratings

What is Stormboard?

Work better together.

Stormboard enables users to set up meetings beforehand, capture, organize, and discuss ideas in real-time, and then assign tasks and monitor progress in a digital workspace that can be returned to again and again.

Built-in templates for Agile, Project Management, and more help streamline business processes, and work can be exported into one of many dynamic reporting options.

Stormboard works on any device from a 4" phone to an 85" Microsoft Surface Hub.

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Madhu Mundra

Senior Software Engineer in Information Technology at Cloudwerx (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Stormboard is a practical digital collaboration application for our team and many teams in the organization. We as a team utilize Stormboard whiteboard during our initial stage of a project to have a design solution. Being a team of developers, BAs, and Product owners, Stormboard is very useful for troubleshooting and overseeing any kind of issue that we can get during the project tenure.

Pros

Since it is digital, Its very easy to collaborate with the team in the pan world.
There are many features like voting, follow-up tasks, Adding images, files, documents, drawings, etc which make it easy to be used anytime and reach a decision.
It is multi-lingual so helps in all languages the project needs.

Cons

There are many integration that are still yet to happen in Stormboard
More options and tools
As it is digital, it can be slow sometimes

Most Important Features

It has ready to use templates for almost all requirements.
Great platform for online collaboration/brainstorming within the team.
It can be used anywhere anytime, so the ideas can just flow and be shared on Stormboard.

Return on Investment

It has increased the productivity to a great extent for the organization.
It has helped in personal growth as well as encouraged me to give more ideas and various solutions.
It has definitely brought more business to the organization.

Alternatives Considered

Lucidchart, MURAL (formerly Mural.ly) and Lucidspark

Other Software Used

Zoom, Slack, Bitbucket, FinancialForce PSA, Bonusly, greytHR

Alejandro Huerta

COO (Chief Operations Officer) in Customer Service at INTERTEL (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Stormboard to program, manage and document all of our meetings and reunions that we have, either in person or on line. The ability to separate key partnerships, key activities and their relationships gives us the ability to quickly review and redesign all of our deliverables that come out of our meetings, with suppliers and with our employees. Also, having our cost structure, material or people, visible at all times helps us to keep our expenses in line.

Pros

Manage Key Assets for Each Meeting
Visually present the stakeholders and requirements
Embed multimedia in all sections
Present a clear layout of the meeting
Inform everyone involved of their responsibilities
Great interfase and easy to export
Quickly make changes to the structure of the meeting
The mobile app is easy to use

Cons

The mobile app is easy to use, but very limited and without all the features of the web app
No integration with SalesForce or ZenDesk
The templates are great but if you need anything more complicated you need to pay for it
The search option sometimes does not show all the meetings that I know we have in the system
Using the web app on Chrome, sometimes the navigation gets complicated due to the fact that the toolbar uses a portion of the screen

Most Important Features

Management of tasks and meetings for the whole company
Ability to separate meetings between users, client and providers
Web app is great and easy to use, either on an external monitor or using your laptop
Present all the info for a meeting at the same time

Return on Investment

Ability to integrate all of our external users and clients into one solution instead
Reduced the amount of "follow up" emails we have to send, the system does it for you
Went from one person in charge of managing our meetings to having each of our managers do it themselves, saving us a position that wasn´t really needed
Since we are a small company, having this level of "smarts" behind every meeting we do has let us appear that we are actually a bigger company with more people.

Alternatives Considered

ActiveCollab

Other Software Used

Zendesk Explore, Microsoft Teams, Slack

Carolina Zumaglini

Academic Coordinator at Universidad Catolica Argentina y CALP (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I personally use Stormboard to coordinate workshops and classes that we offer at the institution. The software makes it easy because we can all collaborate at the same time. We also use it during the classes to make them more interactive and collaborative. I train professors about how to include Stormboard in their classes and students usually like it.

Pros

Makes classes interactive
Allows for collaboration
It is easy to use and get people onboard

Cons

The templates are a bit simple and could be more fun and attractive
Other softwares feel more modern
We get some lag if too many of us are on the board at the same time

Most Important Features

Organize/coordinate course offering
Templates are very useful
we love the chat feature

Return on Investment

We received positive feedback from students once we started using it
Some professor are very happy trying it out because it is easy to use
I dedicate less of the days to coordinating courses because we can collaborate on one board

Alternatives Considered

Miro and MURAL

Other Software Used

Genially, MURAL, Miro

Erick Schwarzelmuller

Innovation Analyst at Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Stormboard as a tool to help organize ideas in the innovation projects conducted by my team. It is a support tool used in brainstorming sections made with different teams of the company. It helps us to unify all the information collected and create diagrams of the workflows used by each area of the company. With this information in hand, we start the open innovation process, where we look for disruptive solutions available in the market that can help to improve the mapped workflows.

Pros

Helping in the collaboration between people working remotely.
Acting as a support tool for brainstorming sections
Creation of shareable templates.

Cons

The layout could be more modern.
Design is not as responsible as in other popular collaboration platforms.
It could be easier to create new teams in a automated way.
It is hard to manage all the teams that you are part of (especially if you are in a lot of them)

Most Important Features

Whiteboard creation.
Ability to create and manage teams with different collaborators.
Ability to create and share templates with collaborators inside my company.

Return on Investment

Reduced project completion time.
Increased the assertiveness of information collected at the beginning of projects.
Increased the participation of collaborators on online meetings.

Alternatives Considered

MURAL (formerly Mural.ly)

Other Software Used

Airtable, Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365), Typeform

Es Gul

Consultant in Engineering at Energy (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it for the retros of our scrum meetings. It helps us to collect feedback from participants and group them very easily into themes. By doing this we enhance our productivity because the retros are essential for our productivity. We also may introduce it in our daily-stand ups to assess how each team member is progressing in time and what the blockers are.

Pros

Be used during the retros
Instrumental for brainstorms, which cannot be done online otherwise
Bilateral meetings
Daily stand-ups in which progress can be reported simultaneously by each team member and blockers can be identified

Cons

A better integration with other types of communication apps
Make animation possible so we can see how the board has evolved so far
Make recording more easy and possible

Most Important Features

Multi person
Easily distinguishable notes from different people
Clarity

Return on Investment

It makes teamwork on distance possible, that means we can save on traveling
We can use it in daily standup to make cooperation more smooth which is essential for success
We work more effectively by having good retros and use the feedback to improve