Jostle

Avantages

Jostle platform enables us (teams) in my organization to work together on the same projects, share files and ideas in one place.

Inconvénients

Even though Jostle offers a free trial for 30 days, it lacks freemium version.

Avantages

It allows you to keep up with events occurring within your company!

Inconvénients

Not everybody has access to make posts. Only site managers and leadership have access to post.

Avantages

It's consistent and reliable for the news articles we post to our staff. It doesn't fail when we post things like several of our other online software.

Inconvénients

It's editable text boxes aren't all that complete. You can do basic editing, but not much. I wish we were able to have more options to control our view.

Avantages

Jostle learning curve is simple and once you get familiarized with the platform using it and everything else becomes simple for you. It has a user-friendly interface and a reliable customer support team. It also reach in features making my stay pleasant.

Inconvénients

It doesn't have problems and hectic challenges.

Avantages

There is a lot of functionality, and it is easy to navigate

Inconvénients

There are a lot of things that are not needed

Avantages

I wish I could have positives about Jostle. If I had to come up with one, it would be having multiple columns viewable at a glance.

Inconvénients

Using the website on my phone is unnerving to say the least. Through the website on my phone, I can’t even post updates half of the time. Pictures don’t want to update, the news feed gets stuck.

Now I will say...these issues only happen on my iPhone. However, I have verified on other phones and co-workers say it happens to them on their mobile devices as well.

Avantages

Easy to use and setup with good support from the on-boarding team and regular catch-ups over the time period. The library is a great tool with good security and functionality. Staff member profiles, that we integrate with G-Suite are helpful and enable users to customize themselves and their images as well as professional profiles.

The news section is easy to add and manage the posts as well as items for sale and internal vacancies. The search function is excellent and returns a good set of relevant results to all users from all areas.

The Admin area is well laid out and easy to follow with a good range of depth and when you want to do something not available the support team can help you out.

Allowing internal and external users means our board members can see what is going on inside of the organisation without death by email.

Inconvénients

Would be nice to have threaded discussions. Creates a number of library groups in g-suite and does not do a great job of cleaning up after itself when groups are removed, unused or empty.

Avantages

Pretty yammer-like internal engagement and intranet application. There is document rendering, classified, team view diagrams, and more.

Inconvénients

Spectacularly awful SSO integration support. It can be made to work but it was far more painful than any other vendor I've setup SAML authentication with.
The documentation is horrible and even flat out wrong in some areas.
'Custom' domains are problematic (see SSO complaint above).
Support and professional onboarding often consists of an email referencing aforementioned cruddy support documentation.
They can (and will) setup platform breaking changes at a night's notice. This type of thoughtless customer engagement is what is prompting this review in fact.

Avantages

I like that Jostle has made us unite in one encrypted location, where we share files, share ideas and reduce movement in our enterprise.

Inconvénients

We have bewn able to work remotely with the help of this tool, I haven't encountered any issue yet.

Avantages

It brought teams in a central location, where they mingled on files at ease.

Inconvénients

However, Jostle lacked some vital features and that's why we decided to incorporate other robust features.

Avantages

The way Jostle is set up creates a warm and familiar workspace, which is much needed in the era of remote work. Sharing content and accessing it is simple and adds a social media-like flavor to the working environment. It's pretty straightforward and looks like it can be integrated with most types of businesses without a problem.

Inconvénients

As fun as the content management system is, it is possible for it to get quite messy without proper use from admins. Perhaps there can be intuitive guides for admins on how to keep things neat, relevant and organized. (Color coding?)

Avantages

Navigating is easy. Creating posts is very straightforward. You can also schedule posts, which is very useful.

Inconvénients

I don't really love the birthday message bit and how that's what comes up first on the app.

Avantages

Signing up with Jostle has cut back significantly on non-work related emails in the inbox. It allows our committees and event coordinators the freedom and access to post as things are happening. The ease of creating and posting is a HUGE asset.

Inconvénients

Adding librarians is a bit cumbersome as well as the Teams section. Our HR admin doesn't feel it's user-friendly.

Avantages

The Activity/News Feed is our favourite feature. The ability to export the feeds into an excel document is especially helpful - if we have a team member who gets recognized for outstanding work either by a colleague or client review, they get entered to win a prize. At the end of the month, I export the activity feed and put everyone into a draw. Jostle is fairly intuitive, which makes it easy for employees of all abilities to use.

Inconvénients

I wish there was a way to make the news articles more custom (either with formatting options, font colours or types etc). I also find the Library section a little strange - lots of layers (categories, volumes, etc) and you have to individually assign people's editing abilities to each category and volume.

Avantages

Shout-outs are perfect for quick recognition or to draw attention to one particular piece of information. The News articles keep our partners informed and up to date with company-wide information. Teams and People means we can quickly see who's who and where people sit in the organisational structure.

Inconvénients

The look and feel of the Classifieds section is poor compared to the rest of the intranet. It means that we don't currently use this.

Having to add a new user AND then having to add them to Teams separately is time-consuming. I wish this was automated from the 'add new user' feature.

Avantages

The software was so easy to use and implement. Jostle can be used for so many things! Of course we used it for our staff directory, communication pieces and for useful documents, but we also used it for planning fun events and contests to keep staff engaged. The site is very colorful and eye-catching, staff really enjoy accessing Jostle!

Inconvénients

Sometimes we had glitches with uploading documents, but always got customer support when needed. The news section has some limited capacity for typing up information into articles but I know that an update will be coming to fix that.

Avantages

Very easy to integrate with our business and has grown and improved as our needs have. Very user friendly, mobile app access is super simpleAllows us to easily connect and engage with all our employeesAllows us to share information, announcements, job postings and so much more..

Inconvénients

Permissions, security settings and access setup could be improved.

Avantages

This helps stay connected to our staff.
We can publish exciting news along with important information.
We vary the content so as not to become boring for our younger staff.
We can track who is reading what information.
A great directory of policy and procedures for our staff to be able to access.

Inconvénients

Directory can be difficult to navigate

Avantages

Ease of use, simple to use content curation features, ability to visually represent important information in an organized fashion. Very modern and polished.

Inconvénients

The ability to disable certain features when they aren't being used. I think reporting and metrics could be more comprehensive and visual. Maybe the integration of some sort of visual dashboard that allows for goal tracking.

Avantages

it is easy to post articles to it, the google intergration is nice, makes it easy to set up accounts and log in with for endusers. One of the best parts i would say is the people sections, it is nice cause it allows you see everyone from your company and this is nice when you have several offices like i do.

Inconvénients

when posting articles some more and better customization would be nice, some more features would be good as well.

Avantages

I like that only our company has access to it, and it seems to be safe

Inconvénients

when I open the web page on my phone, the screen does not fit and I have trouble looking for things even if i rotate the phone the page does not appear as a whole

I wish the "poll" option was to give alert times when the "poll" is about to end

Avantages

Our company needed a photo directory of employees and that's what this served as. A virtual Rolodex for internal needs.

Inconvénients

The capabilities at the time (2015-2017) were not the best. I'm not sure if they have updated it much but trying to make changes were not simple and it just wasn't robust enough as an intranet. Trying to configure it so that it would be aesthetically pleasing and simple to navigate just wasn't happening unfortunately.

Avantages

The ease of use, how the interface resembles social media and encourages full company engagement

Inconvénients

Some of the areas on the platform are not relevant to our business, but there is not anything we can do to reallocate these sections into something more appropriate. It means the sections remain unused. (not a massive issue as we tend to focus our attention on the News section anyway)

Avantages

G-Suite integration
Easy to use
Actively developed
Picture directory
Interactive Org Chart

Inconvénients

The admin section can be confusion
The Library can be confusing to navigate

Avantages

The ease of use, ease of setup, quick to standup. The usability of the platform is great, minimal training required.

Inconvénients

Not sure, it works for the level of intranet that we wanted.