Decisions

Avantages

Decisions has been a great addition for our team by streamlining our meeting and document management for critical ongoing tasks and issues.

Inconvénients

Sometimes it can be a bit finicky in terms of permissions and when taking minutes.

Avantages

I love the agenda feature and how easy it makes for managing meetings

Inconvénients

still in the process of figuring out how everything works so it just takes time

Avantages

I like the fact that you are able to collaborate on agendas easily. I love that once set up the agenda can be seen directly within the MS Teams window and you can access the associated documents. The feature of linking the MS Planner as the action log is great and how it all syncs together.

Inconvénients

I am still learning the app, but haven't found a feature that I don't like so far

Avantages

-Template creation
-Link to files in agena
-Minutes in OneNote
-Assigning tasks
-Teams Integration

Inconvénients

-Price is steep for a single user (would be nice to have a single user option with limited features at a lower price point.)

Avantages

It is very straightforward to use, quick to create a recap, and fairly accurate when it comes to assigning actions and identifying responsible parties. Has made my job so much easier.

Inconvénients

To create a meeting recap from the recording/transcript, an agenda for the meeting needs to be set up.

Avantages

Great organization tool
Convenience of generating minutes/notes etc
Integrates with Outlook/Teams
Layout looks great

Inconvénients

Could have been simpler to set up
Options are a bit hidden for instance giving permission to someone etc

Avantages

The main use I have for Decisions is meeting agendas and minutes. I believe that the integration with OneNote is essential.

Inconvénients

I definitely feel like the agenda platform can be improved. I would like to be able to import custom agendas for each reoccurring meeting of a variety of formats. For example, being able to use a word document as the "agenda" that gets duplicated each week would be very helpful. Additionally, having this link to One Drive to automatically save in a shared folder would be exceptionally helpful. In the same sense, for meeting minutes, more customization in formatting would be great.

Avantages

The recurring agenda. Automated transfer of tasks from minutes into planner.

Inconvénients

Takes a bit of time to set up for each meeting. Agenda not that easy to set up and edit

Avantages

I have not been using decisions very long, however the key feature so far is that Decisions gives a structure to our meetings that everyone can follow, we are literally all on the same page! No shuffling of papers which is a curse with online meetings.

Inconvénients

It does take time to learn and understand, I have watched a few You Tube videos to understand how it all works. However, to get the most out of the system and to get it working for you rather than you for it, the investment of your time in doing so is well worth it.to do so.

Avantages

Easy to share agenda and meeting documents
Easy to create Minutes of Meeting and track actions.

Inconvénients

I like everything about Decisions. Very intuitive

Avantages

The creation and management of agendas and meeting papers is smooth and accessible

Inconvénients

Will take time and practice to get to grips with all of the features to be using them well

Avantages

Streamlined document sharing and planning boards are really useful and easy to set up.

Inconvénients

Nothing. Only thing would be that it can be a bit confusing for those who have not had much experience with Teams, but there are good training guides available.

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à Decisions

Avantages

That is so to use. You are able to do meeting recaps as well to reflect off what you previously wrote

Inconvénients

That it’s too expensive to use for small businesses

Avantages

the ease of setting up the agenda and attaching the reports

Inconvénients

that you can't import the comments into the minutes

Avantages

I really like that Decisions is easy to use and that it's scalable. The way you're able to share agendas, meeting notes and files makes for seamless collaboration and traceability on taken decisions.

Inconvénients

A part from a few bugs and missing features, I don't see any cons.

Avantages

* customizing agenda template * access permissions tool* timer* integration with teams and one note* file sharing* overall concept and structure * fist of a kind app atheist for me

Inconvénients

* integration with teams can be improved.

Avantages

It's easy to find the Agenda. There are a few ways to access it, but it's simply copied to the calendar invite. Very user friendly.

Inconvénients

Setting up a template it a bit overwhelming, but manageable. Also figuring out how "Decision:" and "Task:" works has been a learning curve.

Avantages

Decisions helped me to be organized like never before. I can confidently run meetings and stay on top of all things related, thanks to it.

Inconvénients

Accessing meetings that are far in the past might be a little tedious, using the menu on the left hand side. I wish I could have easier access to it.

Avantages

Preparing agenda for the meetings, meetings updates, communication

Inconvénients

Decisions could be more "user friendly", simplicity to be improved

Avantages

All the Information stays on one platform

Inconvénients

The handling of the software ist very complicatites and non-intuitive

Avantages

The link in outlook. Minutes - one noteTasks

Inconvénients

The priceThe online meeting overview is not ok. When you have to ga to the meeting

Avantages

Agenda set up is very useful - you are able to forward to the whole team prior meeting.

Inconvénients

N/A - nothing found that I would class as con

Avantages

Ease of use, audit and information sharing

Inconvénients

Still not sure how the comments work best

Avantages

I have only used this once but it seems easy to use and quite intuitive

Inconvénients

You can't re-order the agenda from the editing screen. You have to go to a separate area in order to change the order. It would be better to just drag and drop the agenda items into the order you want. Also to delete them from the main screen.

Avantages

Ease of use, good UI, great overview for all upcoming meetings

Inconvénients

No automatic saving possible, I would love to have more integration with maybe outlook (e.g. an AI that notes every related Email related to a point in the agenda)?

Avantages

Love the ease of use. Especially how easy it is to set up and invite to meetings, administrate and delegate tasks.

Inconvénients

It can be a bit confusing to fugure out where meeting notes are stored.

Avantages

We find it user-friendly, well done, easy to train our team on it

Inconvénients

The fact that the owner of the meeting need to approve all potential meeting's subject.

Avantages

Creating Agenda's, sharing agendas, integrating with MSOffice

Inconvénients

Could be more user friendly, takes a while to get use to.

Avantages

Deep integration with Microsoft Teams enables seemless transition to the new functionality. Easy setup and usage. In case of open issues very helpful and caring support staff.

Inconvénients

Some features are not easily set up using the normal GUI but require access to the folder structure and specific file names / sizes. (e.g. custom icons on templates).

Avantages

The trazeability and all the complementa

Inconvénients

Nothing just fine . Multiples óption for the meeting

Avantages

Easy to make meeting agendas, meeting notes, easy for participants to suggest agenda items

Inconvénients

More features could be added - improving ease of use.

Avantages

Very intuitive for users, easy to implement, tight integration with Microsoft products that we have already invested in.

Inconvénients

Requires some user training (which the vendor was happy to provide).
Would prefer more obvious ways for including guests in meeting agendas.
Not integrated into Teams search (this is a Microsoft limitation and would apply to any similar product)

Alternatives envisagées 

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Avantages

The software integrates with Microsoft Teams making it easy for us to use when we are in online meetings.

Inconvénients

The meeting minutes must be taken using Microsoft Word or One Note. This is not how we like to work. It would be better if there was the option to take minutes inside the MS Teams environment.

Avantages

I really like that I can find all my agenda topics, attached documents and minutes in one place.
The integration with Teams is perfect and save us a lot of time from sharing the agenda to the minutes.
Customer service respond fast and react well to suggestions.
I am a huge fan of using OneNote for publishing Decisions meetings minutes as I can find all past minutes very fast just by browsing my OneNote.
I only received good feedbacks from my colleagues and will continue working with Decisions in the years to come.

Inconvénients

Maybe the possibility to see all meeting held within a Teams or channel even if I wasn't part of that meeting. Since we don't invite the whole 365 Group to all meeting so that could be a problem.

Except that nothing comes to my mind.

Avantages

We have piloted Decisions as a meeting tool in a very hectic project for a year. It enabled us to have an extremly better structure to our meetings. Nice flow of how to handle agenda items, decision log and tasks for followups and meeting notes.

Its integration with Teams makes this a very useful tool for our organization.

Inconvénients

I really don't have any cons, but I seem to need to put at least 40 chars here:)

Avantages

Decisions integration with Teams! Can not get any better!

Inconvénients

Would give us increased use if you could choose to connect it to my own OneDrive at meetings that I book in Outlook.

Avantages

Keeping track of daily, weekly and monthly work

Inconvénients

We struggle with some issues with special invites (outsiders getting their invite) as well as if we delete a meeting (reoccurring) we lose all information from the prior meetings?

Biggest issue is SPELL CHECK not in the software! :-)

Avantages

Making agendas. Planning meetings together.

Inconvénients

Some trouble loosing my notes a couple of times. But, my support in Oslo found them easily :-)

Avantages

Decisions is an amazing product, extremely well thought out and brings clarity to meetings. Decisions is deeply embedded into the Microsoft Teams ecosystem utilising Planner, Tasks, Office Apps, Meetings etc..

The product provides support for the full meeting lifecycle, planning, documentation, running the meeting, voting, tracking, minutes and follow up tasks.

Agenda items can be easily moved between meetings, tasks imported from the planner.

Security is very well thought out with data never leaving the customer tenant.

Inconvénients

We ran into some issues with Conditional Access Policies within Ofice 365 blocking agenda items being displayed. This is not a decisions issues but rather an issue with how Microsoft deals with Microsoft Graph requests.

Avantages

Nothing positive to say about this product.

Inconvénients

After initially paying for it we found it didn't work as desired so we switched to Strety.

Avantages

Decisions is well integrated in O365 and uses existing apps such as Outlook, Teams, OneNote, Word and Planner.

Inconvénients

There are no critical negative experiences. Users must have an understanding of Office 365 groups.

Avantages

I like this software because it's easy to use for meetings, collaboration etc. as it can work with Microsoft Teams and the entire suite of Office 365.

Inconvénients

Comes up with so many features that learning all of them is time-consuming.

Avantages

The ability to do the MINUTES while in the meeting.
This is seriously life-changing for anyone who has ever had to sit through a meeting and take notes, only to type up notes, have them reviewed/amended/reviewed/accepted/shared.

Inconvénients

Probably the price, because our organisation has not made a decision on whether or not they are keeping it!

Avantages

integration with TEams and other apps , use of use to make agende, notes , desicions, actions etc

Inconvénients

sometimes technical issues to resolve...

Avantages

Assembles all meeting materials and records in one place. I don't have to dig around in Sharepoint or google docs to find what is needed- the links are there. Also like that decisions can be captured.

Inconvénients

No additions. Very pleased with the product.