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Pros:

Great integration, loving the open source and overall integration.

Cons:

In the beginning, when we start working on Exo Platform, it service is quite slow. Another issue is that when one wants to extract data from data base, it is not that much flexible.

eXo Platform ratings

Average score

Ease of Use
4.4
Customer Service
4.6
Features
4.5
Value for Money
4.3

Likelihood to recommend

8.5/ 10

eXo Platform has an overall rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars based on 119 user reviews on Capterra.

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Ashleigh
Ashleigh
IT Specialist in US
Verified LinkedIn User
Information Technology & Services, 10,000+ Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Marvelous software for all sorts of Collaboration.

4.0 6 years ago

Pros:

Exo Platform is an outstanding software that provides an excellent platform for collaborating for our projects. It consists of powerful and effective tool that helps a lot in our business. It comprises of perfect features and functionality is fantastic. This software gives best solutions for communication problems and provides good opportunity for easier and effective cooperation among the co-workers.

Cons:

In the beginning, when we start working on Exo Platform, it service is quite slow. Another issue is that when one wants to extract data from data base, it is not that much flexible. In order to start video conference, it takes long time to understand the issues.

Divyang
Divyang
Java Developer
Verified LinkedIn User
, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: Not provided
Reviewer Source
Source: GetApp

eXo Platform - Suites for Social Collaboration,Crowd and intranet based application

5.0 10 years ago

Comments: eXo platform provides features that match requirement of social collaboration,intranet and cloud base application.I am working on eXo platform (1+ year) it is easy for portal customization functionality. It is easy for admin to define users with roles,permission and group management.

Pros:

eXo platform provides features like calender for defining tasks,events and meetings with reminder functionality, chat application with video confrencing, Blog engine for writing blogs and sharing information, WebDAV support for sharing of documents.

Cons:

In Older version of eXo platform some time it distorts UI and UX but after releasing new eXo platform 4.1 version they are fixed and lots of new functionality added.

eXo Response

10 years ago

Glad we could fix your issues with the new version. Thanks!

aliah
Malaysia
Used the Software for: Not provided
Reviewer Source

not an open source platform as advertise in the search engine.

3.0 8 years ago

Comments: Your product is very good but no download option for open source platform as result in the google search engine.

Jean
Jean
CTO
Verified LinkedIn User
, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: Not provided
Reviewer Source
Source: GetApp

Much more than a social platform

4.0 10 years ago

Comments: We started using eXo as a substitute for facebook's and Google's Social media platforms. What we ended up with is a much more feature rich way of doing business, interact and get things done. eXo proved to be the way of making people using social media tools to work better. Now we have the best of both worlds!

Pros:

Easy to use interface with natural learning. All in one platform, including file sharing.

Cons:

No cons, the installation requires a bit of understanding of linux (our preferred system), but otherwise just plain easy.

eXo Response

10 years ago

No cons, yay! Thank you for the great review

Hasan
Hasan
Verified LinkedIn User
Program Development
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source
Source: GetApp

Great Social Network Platform

4.0 10 years ago

Comments: It's a great platform for collaboration and overall well developed application. It's very friendly to use and also easy to develop your own portlets into it. It surely helped our organization to be more productive and effective

√ Andre
√ Andre
Co Founder
Verified LinkedIn User
, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: Not provided
Reviewer Source
Source: GetApp

Great Software but hard to start

4.0 10 years ago

Comments: I tried eXo and it amazed me for all the features and things you can do to better organize you company. In spite of that, I found it very hard to start using it. The amount of things on the page that demand the attention made me open a few tabs just to catch up with everything. Also, I found it hard to understand and how to actually get started.

Pros:

Incredible number of add-ons and features. Very good reliability.

Cons:

Not fully translated, making some pages bilingual. Hard to get started as it delivers a great deal of its features right away.

Alex
Alex
IT in US
Verified LinkedIn User
Military
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
Reviewer Source

Great way to interconnect. Very well put together.

5.0 7 years ago

Comments: I am able to save time at work

Pros:

Love the UI. Big number of add-ons and features. Very reliable. It was very easy to use once I got the hang of it. A little intimidating at first but doesn't take long to get used to.

Russ
Russ
Verified LinkedIn User
Information Technology & Services
Used the Software for: Not provided
Reviewer Source
Source: GetApp

Awesome!

5.0 10 years ago

Comments: I am a huge fan of eXo Platform. The software is the easiest to install and use, from the install/admin side, as well as fluid from the user's perspective. Many of my staff where this has been implemented have an aversion to computers, but they were able to pick up interacting with eXo easily. I would recommend this to anyone who manages an intranet or needs a collaboration suite.

Pros:

Easy to use, easy to install

Cons:

Plugins/add-ons are limited and can be confusing.

Fabio
Fabio
Analista de Sistemas/Desenvolvedor Java Jr
Verified LinkedIn User
, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: Not provided
Reviewer Source
Source: GetApp

Amazing Social Platform

5.0 10 years ago

Comments: Very well integrated social collaboration software. Easy to connect with people and contribute information. Platform is feature rich with wikis, social networking, content management and much more.

eXo Response

10 years ago

Thank you for your posting of this review and for trying out eXo. looking forward to connect with you on our community site!

Zeus P Y
Zeus P Y
Knowledge Managament Manager in Hong Kong
Verified LinkedIn User
Events Services, 1,001–5,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
Reviewer Source

Super Quick Intranet Deployment

4.0 7 years ago

Pros:

It is so intuitive to enable social intranet in an organization. The layout is easy to understand even without proper training which can roll out right away. Also, the administration of user is easy which administrator can be dedicated to users to self-manage the groups.

Cons:

I like the least is there is lack of eye candies, but it could be easily customization with custom coding and CSS style.

Kenneth
Resident Enginer in Nigeria
Civil Engineering, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
Reviewer Source

Platform Intergerity

4.0 11 months ago

Pros:

The interface and the protocol. User friendly

Cons:

There is an opportunity to grow in the community network and decentralized platform

Tal
Software Engineer in Israel
Verified LinkedIn User
Business Supplies & Equipment, 201–500 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source
Source: GetApp

Fantastic product and innovative collaborative tool

5.0 6 years ago

Comments: eXo Platform is a relatively new app, that can be helpful for corporation and communication on all different levels. I think, it is best suited for medium to large sized companies, as it has so many functions, most of which is not beneficial for small teams.

Pros:

Without a doubt, eXo Platform provides everything you may need to put into action your innovative digital work base or customer experience solution. This app design in a way that it helps you to get real work done, without the platform being the part of the work. Because it is cloud-based, you can easily share any kind of data with your co-workers, which makes collaboration so much easier. If you are looking for a multifunctional social collaboration platform for the enterprise, I suggest you try eXo Platform, as it has an entirely new and sophisticated approach towards collaboration and communication between coworkers.

Cons:

This platform is constantly developing, so every week you are faced with different types of updates, which can be annoying. Plus, the app is packed with different functions, some of with you may never use. As a result the interface looks cluttered and not particularly user-friendly. Also, the integration with other applications can be complicated and requires a lot of user experience as well, as blunt luck.

Òscar
CEO in Spain
Used the Software for: Not provided
Reviewer Source

Your open source enterprise social network

4.0 10 years ago

Comments: This great piece of software build on top of GateIn portal will give you all GateIn features (Content Management, Single Sign-On, LDAP support, etc) and much more. Using eXo Platform we created a secure portal-based site and an intranet that encourages employees in an organization to exchange knowledge, documents, work collaboratively, task management, contact data... All done socially and mobile. Some Features: 1. Microblogging and Activity Streams
Activity Stream displays text messages or multimedia content posted by employees , customers, suppliers. It is where you'll find all your company's activity.
2. Document Management
Take advantage of version history, rollbacks, votes, comments and more. It lets you store files in a private and secure environment, in other business systems like SharePoint, or in other cloud storage solutions, such as Google Drive or CMIS repositories.
3. Knowledge Management
Wikis, Forums, Calendar, Answers & FAQ
4.- Profile Management
It's possible to manage and organize all the contacts in your organization in a single directory, together with information on their professional profile.
5.- Groups
Create your own collaboration spaces complete with dashboards, discussion forums, wikis, calendars, and documents. Allow any user to create a collaborative space and invite other users to join with different permissions according to roles
6.- Search
eXo includes an ElasticSearch based search tool segmented according to the sections and contents in your intranet, indexing other contents published by other systems, making it a federated search tool for your organization's entire knowledge base.
7. Add-ons Marketplace
Apart from its native features, you can also integrate eXo with other business applications, productivity tools like BonitaBPM, JasperReports Server, etc.
8.- Mobile
Native iOS and Android app.
The Cons:
We not found any except the lack of a feature found on other enterprise social networks like Yammer (gammification). Anyway, It's open sourced so you can extend it easly!

eXo Response

10 years ago

Hi Oscar, Amazing to read so much details in your review, thank you very much! About gamification, it's a topic we are currently working on so we would love to get your feedback and ideas on eXo community website. Feel free to use the request feature section or open a topic in the discussions forums. Cheers, The eXo Team

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: Not provided
Reviewer Source
Source: GetApp

Broad features

4.0 10 years ago

Comments: eXo offers a great number of features out of the box. The user interface is well designed. It's easy to know what tasks are available under each section. Learning the system and interface is simple process. The "Tribe Pulse" section does an excellent job displaying popular content and other analytic data. This is perfect for checking up on the adoption rate of your intranet.

eXo Response

10 years ago

Thank you for the detailed review! Your feedback is very much appreciated.

Digambar
Digambar
Assistant System Analyst in India
Used the Software for: Not provided
Reviewer Source

easy to use eXo

4.0 10 years ago

Comments: Using eXo Platform we created a secure portal-based site and an intranet that encourages employees in an organization to exchange knowledge, documents, work collaboratively, task management, contact data... All done socially and mobile.

Michal
Michal
IT Manager in UK
Used the Software for: Not provided
Reviewer Source

Fantastic platform, intranet and professional social media under one roof

5.0 10 years ago

Comments: Pros:
This is a very easy to use platform.
You can try it around in the environment called EXO Tribe - good for a test drive.
Flexible deployment.
Document Management
Knowledge Management
Cons:
Haven't found yet so far.

Ravi
Project Manager in India
Verified LinkedIn User
Biotechnology, 5,001–10,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
Reviewer Source
Source: GetApp

A great application to build a social network in your workplace.

4.0 6 years ago

Pros:

Using this software, the user could easily track all the motion in the company. The Android and iPhone versions are very reliable. There are many features in this application including microblogging. There is also a provision to invite others into this space by providing only limited access. Even the support team is very interactive. They try to answer all the queries of the users.

Cons:

The server takes too long to respond. Since there are a lot of features included in this application, it may be difficult for the beginners to deal. There is no tutorial to guide the users through the application. Due to this, many features remain undiscovered by the users.

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Information Technology & Services
Used the Software for: Not provided
Reviewer Source
Source: GetApp

Brilliant!

4.0 10 years ago

Comments: I like the flat organization approach promoted by eXo. It help to put everyone on the same page and break hierarchical silos.

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Biotechnology, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: Free Trial
Reviewer Source
Source: GetApp

Easy Layout

4.0 9 years ago

Comments: Many social add-on and features, you'll probably find the ones that fit your company needs. It was very easy to use and can be accessed anywhere in the world. Its price point is very competitive and customer service (at least for the free trial) was good.

Pros:

Inexpensive and web based

Cons:

Doesnt seem to be 21 CFR Part 11 compliant.

Hideki
Senior Specialist, Business Development in Japan
Computer Software
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source
Source: SoftwareAdvice

Comprehensive tool!

4.0 9 years ago

Pros:

Comprehensive functionality for the enterprise social tool.

Cons:

eXo is a company with creativity and very friendly.

Habib
Developer in France
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Good experience

4.0 7 years ago

Pros:

Fairly quick roll out, takes only a few days to work out the interface and be able to do what one would want to do. Reliable and fairly quick support on tribe.

Cons:

it is just a tool, you make of it what you want. could backfire if the team using it is not serious. I've seen similar software turn into memes-gifs platform at work for employees.

Somya
Verified LinkedIn User
Information Technology & Services
Used the Software for: Free Trial
Reviewer Source
Source: GetApp

very good product !

4.0 9 years ago

Comments: eXo allows you to create your own social intranet with the essential collaboration features: chat, forum, activity stream, share documents, wiki, calendar...the perfect software if you're looking for a user-friendly all-in-1 solution for your company.

Pros:

eXo allows you to create your own social intranet with the essential collaboration features: chat, forum, activity stream, share documents, wiki, calendar...the perfect software if you're looking for a user-friendly all-in-1 solution for your company.

Cons:

i don't see anything to dislike about it.

André
Founder in Brazil
Used the Software for: Not provided
Reviewer Source

Great Software but hard to start

5.0 10 years ago

Comments: I tried eXo and it amazed me for all the features and things you can do to better organize you company. In spite of that, I found it very hard to start using it. The amount of things on the page that demand the attention made me open a few tabs just to catch up with everything. Also, I found it hard to understand and how to actually get started. Pros: Incredible number of add-ons and features. Very good reliability. Cons: Not fully translated, making some pages bilingual. Hard to get started as it delivers a great deal of its features right away.

Stévan
Product Manager in France
Used the Software for: Not provided
Reviewer Source

The Platform for Enterprise Social Collaboration!

5.0 10 years ago

Comments: Social collaboration tools for Enterprise! This is a big deal and eXo Platform is nicely succeeding on the tools they are providing. It has a wiki, a calendar, an instant messages with video conference tool and document management system - all (and a lot more) integrated in one extensible platform. I particularly like the overall experience, with the UI, the UX and the integration between all the tools provided. It is really easy to get started with. The icing on the cake: it's open-source cooked ;)

stanton
Verified LinkedIn User
Internet
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
Reviewer Source
Source: GetApp

Great social engine!

4.0 9 years ago

Comments: It's very interesting has a lot of features i've been looking only issue i have is the steep price. but hey try before you buy! overall i have to give this a 4 star rating. it's decent great even but not perfect. though nothing is perfect.

Pros:

super easy to setup beautiful design layout good support friendly community

Cons:

haven't found one yet maybe the price tag but understandable.