"The voting ability is its most valuable feature. Teammates can vote an idea up or down. They can also offer feedback, and that feedback is instantaneous. It is a tool which allows us to gauge the temperature of certain product enhancements. Our system enhancements are potential areas of gaps that we have in our business."
"The most valuable feature of Spigit is the fact that we can reach so many people with crowdsourcing. We can go across departments and branches, still being engaged and doing it so quickly."
"It has an "Apple" approach where, when you open it, you understand how most of the functionality and features work. With just a little bit of guidance or training, and the videos that we watched, we were up and running really quickly."
"The nice thing is how flexible it is. We can run very small challenges. We can run very large challenges. We haven't had a company-wide challenge but we hope to have one this year. We can run a challenge within a day, with several features, or we can run a challenge over two months or an always-on challenge. We can have different goals, whether they be about culture, workplace improvements, business solutions, or strategic issues."
"As a global organization, we are able to allow all our associates around the world to contribute and collaborate."
"The crowdsourcing feature and having an open, transparent platform where people can submit ideas are among the most important capabilities of Spigit. Collaboration begins immediately upon submission."
"The biggest impact of using Planview would be that we were able to bridge the silos which existed between a lot of different departments or even locations. We have a very large team member base of about 75,000 employees across various different parts of the country. Being able to bridge that gap and have a way for everybody to communicate together to collaborate together, that was a first for our organization. That's been one of the most valuable things that we've seen. We also see those results in our organizational health survey as well. Our team members truly feel like this is a very inclusive, innovative company. That's been beneficial."
"The ability to collect ideas for people to be able to comment and vote. We like the pairwise portion of it. It is just a simple way in which people can post ideas and review other ideas. We have used it out-of-the-box, without doing much customization."
"Groups is the most valuable feature in Yammer."
"The posting features are valuable."
"It's really easy to use the solution."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the communication events."
"Yammer is useful since it is a product you can easily integrate into our system since Microsoft supports it."
"The most valuable feature of Yammer is its interface."
"It was a stable solution...It was a highly scalable solution considering it was used in a very big company."
"The user interface and the way we can share and search information are the most valuable. It is very easy to use."
"Our biggest issue would be whenever there is an update or upgrade version, there are some things that break in the links between some of the login things on the back-end. The Planview team has done a great job of trying to put together information ahead of time and having different sessions to inform us. However, there are some things that we always end up finding in the test sessions after the updates have been done. Once we get those things ironed out, it's perfectly fine until the next upgrade. We've gone through about three upgrades, and it's happened all three times. That's the biggest pain point that we've had."
"Spigit could possibly improve the idea review process or the administrative panel for reviewing ideas. It's not strong. Most of it is done manually by pulling down and reviewing reports. Other platforms are doing it through pipelines and funnels that are all automated."
"We haven't really leveraged the reports. The reports are sort of difficult and archaic, e.g., how it downloads into Excel. They are not in a usable manner where other people can look at them. I personally will look at them, but the reports are not the easiest to generate from their system."
"The backend configuration could be a little bit easier to configure. It was a little bit cumbersome for a layman to understand how to design some of the functionality and programming on the backend. Although they do offer training courses to support building that skillset."
"It does enable us to consolidate duplicate responses from employees, but it is difficult sometimes. We are running a challenge right now with two ideas that are pretty close and duplicate. Once they're out there and a significant amount of people have voted on them, it's hard to consolidate or merge them. The merge feature is not very clear, so it basically hides one of the ideas, removing and archiving it. I don't know if that's the best way to do it. I would want to make the secondary idea still visible, but put it under as a possible subidea to the parent idea."
"Setting up a challenge timeline is a bit tedious and could be improved. in Spigit, the timeline is done with phases. You have to manually enter the start and stop of each phase. When you change one, all subsequent phases get changed automatically but are not consistent with the way you had it. There is a lot of double checking. This could be simplified to: I want this to start here and go for this many days. It would be a lot easier on the setup."
"I would like more of an ability to create reporting. There are dashboards in there and they are awesome. Maybe there is probably a training class or something that they should do. I went to the Spigit training, but we didn't get into the reporting side, at least not when it came to being able to build your own reports. They showed us the reporting and where it was, but there were already dashboards built into the platform. I would like to be able to go in, create my own reporting, and take out the information and data that I feel is relevant."
"There are times when some of the system aspects move a little bit slowly, but that's a pretty minor complaint. For the most part, those are things that we see behind the scenes as administrators or moderators of challenges."
"Yammer should be able to integrate with Microsoft products, such as Outlook."
"Users need to be in the Acting Directory to exploit the features."
"The solution's feature for sharing could be better."
"Sometimes, we lose access to the solution for unknown reasons."
"Yammer should include more integrations."
"Yammer has very limited features."
"This solution would be improved if it was well integrated with other communication applications."
"The product seems to just add to the complexity of using existing tools."
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Planview IdeaPlace is ranked 1st in Innovation Management Software while Yammer is ranked 4th in Enterprise Social Software with 60 reviews. Planview IdeaPlace is rated 8.6, while Yammer is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Planview IdeaPlace writes "Provides a mechanism for our leadership to understand the pulse of what's happening in our operations". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Yammer writes "Ease of use and a familiar user interface". Planview IdeaPlace is most compared with , whereas Yammer is most compared with Workplace by Facebook, SAP Jam, Chatter, Jive and Interact Intranet.
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