Bitrix24 vs Collaboard: Which is a better fit?

Tembi G.: Hi, my name is Tembi and I'm the Executive Director of the Young Musicians University, and I give Bitrix24 a rating of a four. Prior to Bitrix24, we were using Trello. The reason why we switched from Trello to Bitrix24 was to have more features, and also so our team can collaborate on projects and tasks within the platform. So, we decided to go with Bitrix24 for a couple of reasons. One was it integrated other things, like it also managed our marketing, and so we could tap into what we were doing in say our social media with our Facebook comments and different things, and it would also alert it and kind of keep it all in one central location. Then the other thing is honestly just for more features. So Bitrix does a lot of things, and that's one of the things that we loved about the platform, is that we are able to use so many different entities, such as task management, scheduling, booking, all in one platform, and so that was very, very helpful. So getting started with Bitrix24, it was slightly technical I have to say, but there's a lot of good help videos out there. But the platform itself can seem intimidating if you don't necessarily have technical skills, but once we were able to get everything streamlined and flowing, everything fell in place. So getting started was a little rocky for us just because of the different entities, and we had to choose what features would actually benefit our business. The advice I would give to someone looking to get Bitrix24 up and running is to have someone on your team who's familiar with the technical aspects of setting it up. So, like I said, it's a great platform, but it was a little bit technical for our team, per se. So we ended up using it for a period of time, but looking for something that was less technical. So, I would say just make sure that you have someone who has that technicality or that technical know-how and skillset on your team so that you can maximize the features of Bitrix24.

Frank: Hi, my name is Frank. I'm a student ministry director. I would give Collaboard a two out of five star rating. And for more reviews like this, click the links below. So I looked at a bunch of different software before switching to Collaboard and Miro was probably the biggest one that I was looking at before switching. And the only reason why we switched was more to due to pricing than features. So some of the biggest reasons why we chose Collaboard was just the different types of features that it allowed. It covered most of our basis of what we were trying to do. Over the pandemic, we had to jump into being a remote team. So this was really great for helping plan our meetings and to try to get our thoughts down together. It allowed different people to interact and vote on different sticky notes and ideas that we would post, and it would be a really great mind map for us as well. Collaboard was pretty easy to jump in and get integrated. It really allows a lot of different options for creating templates and creating different templates for meetings and different mind maps that you can do. Overall, it was pretty easy to jump in and to invite other users to get into the experience as well. It definitely has a lot less control of how you can administrate different experiences. So for bigger teams, I would say it's a little bit more challenging, but for our team of about five to 10, it has worked for perfectly. I think some recommendations I would have if you're considering this software is to really understand what you really need. If you're looking for something that has all the bells and whistles, this feature or this software might not be for you. There's some definitely other competitors out there that are a little bit more expensive, but have a little bit more features. But if you're looking for basic mind mapping, basic whiteboard ideas, this software works really, really well. It overall is very cost-efficient. It has all the basic features that you're going to need in order to mind map and brainstorm together as a team. It's a great place to store all those things and be able to send them out to other people who might be wanting to see, hey, what did you talk about at that last meeting? Or what are some ideas coming up for the next quarter or the next budget year? So I would say this is a great software if you're looking for some basic features of having a great whiteboard or mind map online.