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Categories and Ranking

HCL Connections
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
55
Ranking in other categories
Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) (5th), Enterprise Social Software (9th)
Limeade ONE [EOL]
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

Hasnain Zahid - PeerSpot reviewer
Talent acquisition & development specialist at Software Productivity Strategists, Inc. (SPS)
A stable tool useful to manage marketing-related activities
Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten. Sometimes, the portal hangs because I find that if I am on a web page, I have to log out, and then I have to log in to the portal again. Since I see that the portal hangs at times, I have to move from one side of the portal to the next, making me feel that some things are scattered in the product. I attended a meeting with IBM recently, and they are improving a few of the things, in my opinion. The concerns that I have related to the product are being improved since I think many other users have reported issues similar to the ones I faced.
it_user671481 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Architect, Digital Workplace Consultant at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
Allows us to engage employees and to shorten communication cycles using social network techniques.
Social communications that allows us to engage employees and to shorten communication cycles using social network techniques. Expert browser that allows you to quickly find colleagues with proper experience. Ideation that enables internal crowdsourcing and innovation scenarios The…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Some of the valuable features in this product are: Profiles – It is easy to find people with similar tech skills and reach out to them internally for a project requirement, and project managers find it easy to know who in the organization possesses a skill that matches the requirement."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"It's easy to use for both developers and end users."
"Our productivity has increased by using IBM Connections."
"IBM Connections Pink means a new way of collaboration, like you have never seen before."
"IBM Connections is born for collaboration and one of the easiest steps is starting a community with a set of great collaborative, built-in applications and starting to collaborate over a project."
"We just found this one to be the most feature-rich and also it fit our organization's needs."
"Granular access control across all components provides assurance that confidential and private content stays that way."
"We have had success with deploying Newsgator's social functionality on top of our SharePoint environment."
"Social communications that allows us to engage employees and to shorten communication cycles using social network techniques."
 

Cons

"We've had a few issues, but overall the stability has been pretty good."
"I have found the wiki to be lacking in functionality."
"When we went from 1,000 users to 2,000 users, we hit some problems and then it required a lot of retuning and reconfiguration."
"With the Connections desktop plugin, right now, when we copy files over, we have to do it individually and create our folder structure; we can't just copy our folders over and have them all exist."
"The perfect software doesn't exist, but I think Connections is really a good piece of software with few things lacking."
"Most Connections functionality must be customized and personalized but it is more expensive to customize this product, and the product does necessarily provide the widespread coverage that a customer may seek."
"Support needs improvement. The product seems to be released with a lot of bugs."
"Development of more customized widgets as per the organization’s requirement is one area, which if improved, will attract even those employees who don't use this product often."
"Need to improve their mobile / smartphone apps by adding more functionality."
"The OOB user interface should be enhanced to be more user-friendly and responsive."
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Top Industries

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Outsourcing Company
18%
Construction Company
16%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
7%
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Company Size

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Small Business22
Midsize Enterprise11
Large Enterprise26
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with HCL Connections?
The support is an area where the product can improve. My company faces some support-related issues because whenever we create or generate a ticket, it takes two days for the product's support t...
What is your primary use case for HCL Connections?
I use HCL Connections for marketing purposes. The IBM product in our company already provides us with direct links to the marketing and HR sides.
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Also Known As

IBM Connections, Lotus Connections
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Sample Customers

Yamato Financial Co. Ltd., University of Zurich, Gwinnett County Public Schools, Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V., Telus, Rabobank, Christian Brothers Services, Grupo Financiero Banorte, The Loft Group, Dow Water & Process Solutions, JGC Corporation, College of Medicine, Swansea University, solvito GmbH, Loft Group, Hamm-Reno Group GmbH, Geno SA
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