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Denise
Higher Education, 10,000+ employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed September 2020
KnowledgeLake review
We have found KnowledgeLake to be a great partner with the University since 1999 and have been. Things were a bit rocky from a responsiveness standpoint during the "Hitachi" days and were thrilled to learn that [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] reacquired the company and is continuing to invest in state-of-the-art functionality. We licensed the KL Cloud subscription in September 2019 and are once again enjoying a great partnership with KnowledgeLake. We are enthusiastic about employing all of the modern functionality and really like the option of choosing document repositories housed on either SharePoint or Azure Blob.
PROSThe capture, index, release, and retrieval functions have historically been the functions in use at all departments. Our current transition to KL cloud offers us new opportunities to 1) use alternate document repositories other than SharePoint and 2) streamline work through the use of machine learning tools.
CONSThe original capture server software required customization to integrate with our administrative systems of record. Capture Server Pro was an improvement that helped streamline these integrations. Our recent experience with KL cloud offers APIs with other known cloud-based products such as Workday. We look forward to exploring additional opportunities for integration and process automation.
Reason for choosing KnowledgeLake
Price, out of the box functionality, and evidence of strong customer/vendor relationship which has played out many times over. Additionally, as primarily a Microsoft shop, we valued KL's strong partnership with Micosoft particularly at a time when SharePoint as the back end repository and our investment in SharePoint as our content management software complemented each other. Going forward, KnowledgeLake provides a strong transition path for moving documents from on-premise environments to, in our case, SharePoint On Line or the Azure Blob. Finally, their cloud-based products offer process automation improvements that will be leveraged by the University to focus resources on mission critical activities.
Reasons for switching to KnowledgeLake
Both products had proprietary data bases and required extensive customization for all phases of document imaging including the user interface for search and retrieve. Any additional features required costly vendor resources. Upgrades were very laborious and complex and required significant time from internal resources, as well.
Thomas
Education Management, 10,000+ employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed January 2022
Continuous Improvement goes a long way
We were using KnowledgeLake on prem long before I started working here; the experience with KL Cloud has improved significantly as more features and reliability improvements were brought online with successive versions. I was incredibly dissatisfied with the software as delivered a few years ago, but after several releases and working directly with developers, it has improved significantly.
PROSThe UI/UX is nice, and being able to decouple it from our on-premise infrastructure was a huge win for us operationally. This coincided with a migration to SharePoint Online for most sites, so the two products do make a good pair.
CONSMany of my complaints were resolved in successive releases, but I suppose what I liked least were some of these design quirks. For example, a long standing issue where KL Cloud would lose the auth token to Azure AD and break adding new users silently. Our complex workflows were often problems, and we did have initial performance problems. But, good customer service led most of these things to be fixed.
Nina
Textiles, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
1
EASE OF USE
1
VALUE FOR MONEY
1
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
1
FUNCTIONALITY
1
Reviewed January 2022
Poor Fit
I do not believe that the AP or HR product s were a good fit for our processes.
PROSThe image & data capture for our AP and the digital document storage for our HR are the most important features. Having access to digital files is great.
CONSThe AP software is more cumbersome & time consuming for the user than our previous process. It has also added to the workload of our AP team. The integration with our accounting software is limited and has reduces functionality on the AP side. The method in which security is handled on the HR side is tedious and difficult to maintain.
Chris
Higher Education, 10,000+ employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed January 2022
KnowledgeLake with Workday
Besides being fairly easy to use, the customer service is a huge plus. Very attentive and responsive. Excellent people to work with!
CONSNot easy to report from. Also, RPA is very sensitive to browser changes. However, that has been addresses quickly each time it has happened.
Reason for choosing KnowledgeLake
Price and working relationship.
Vendor Response
Happy New Year! Thanks for your review Chris!
Replied January 2022
Patsy
Consumer Services, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed January 2022
KL Review Survey
good
PROSThe capability to integrate multiple systems to achieve our goal of creating and pre-populating each specific new hire packet which in turn increases compliance and minimizes the time spent when onboarding new hires. Being able to electronically store documents that can be shared company wide by other users, helps reduce the need to maintain paper files.
CONSThe time it takes to update the electronic file when uploading the new hires, delayed not really real-time.
Reason for choosing KnowledgeLake
perhaps because we already were using a legacy KL product.
Angela
Retail, 11-50 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed May 2017
Ratchet-X is an invaluable tool that allows us to process orders accurately and cost-effectively!
Since the RPA tool is developer friendly, there are no limitations in terms creating sophisticated automations. It truly can integrate anything with anything.
CONSI would prefer if the product had a real-time debugger. Although the Action Editor is quite versatile and easy to develop with, I would like to have a runtime debugger I can access in production.
Tony
Computer Software, 51-200 employees
Used monthly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed May 2017
Developing with RatchetX for a few years now. A very robust easy-to-use integration platform.
ability to connect our software to our current and prospective customers.
PROS- I can integrate ANY customer desktop application to our backend ECM product in minutes. Unbelievable ease-of-use. - The ability to add an "Action" button to the title bar of my customer's application to extend their business processes without touching any APIs. Very powerful. My customers are always impressed. - Absolutely love the capability to bundle my custom assembly's and the RatchetX runtime into one installable MSI file. This allows me to deploy my process-rich integration features as one MSI product to customers. - Short learning curve to become proficient in defining your integration AppSpaces and implementing customer-specific business processes. Well thought out development environment. - Outstanding Customer Service. They have gone above and beyond as a matter of routine.
Kathrin
Machinery, 201-500 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed January 2022
KnowledgeLake Review
We use KL Imaging. It is easy to use and integrates well with Sharepoint
CONSWe have ran into issues with set up and integration
Rachel
Real Estate, 51-200 employees
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed January 2022
KnowledgeLake was a huge factor in our conversion of documentation.
KnowledgeLake was a huge factor in our transfer of documentation vs. our in-house employees having to tackle this as it would be super time consuming! As KL was able to do this in a matter of weeks & kept us in the loop of the progress. The File queue, View options, Category customization AMAZING!
CONSThe integration process had some hiccups in regards to duplicate files so that was a bit frustrating but really this is a small con because they were able to get it back up and running quickly!
Anonymous
11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed May 2018
the fact that we can now integrate for clients, is just wooow!
This app is so user friendly, and can be acquired at a fair prize. It also saves costs since we add new components an existing application without involving their merchants
CONSThe Application can only be installed and used in a windows operating systems and therefore limiting the catchment
Angela
Information Technology and Services, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
2
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
2
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
2
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed January 2022
Knowledge Lake review
Sales is misleading.
PROSEase of use. We are using an older version of KL
CONSKL does not host require company to use SharePoint online. Does not make this clear during contractual process.
Reason for choosing KnowledgeLake
We already had product, but I would switch to another SaaS product if avail.
Kyle
Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed May 2017
This has helped us create integrations for customers we never could have in the past.
endless integration capabilities between our software and whatever our customers use.
PROSThe flexibility is great, there has really not ever been a situation where we couldn't get access to data in other programs, making the integration possibilities for us to design for our customers almost endless.
Quaramus
Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed May 2017
Awesome! It is a great product and very user friendly!
Customization
PROSThe customization. Things that it could provide to the customer seems to be endless and very fitting in any workflow process.
CONSThe fact that I have to enable force rendering for google chrome in order to work but I think that is with in application using chrome.
Don
Information Technology and Services, 2-10 employees
Used weekly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed May 2017
Ratchet-X provides easy to use functionality to my customers that saves them revenues and resources.
Sales.
PROSVery user friendly, competitively priced, flexibility, comprehensive logging capabilities, Customer support
CONSSomewhat complex to configure. Requires C+ knowledge to add custom processing functionality. Can only be used with windows operating systems.
Vendor Response
Just to clarify, developing Ratchet-X actions requires knowledge of C#, not C or C++.
Replied June 2017
Allison
Higher Education, 10,000+ employees
Used monthly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed January 2022
Ease of use for customers
KnowledgeLake's team has been great to work with, very engaged! They are continually working to improve the product.
PROSThe fact that KnowledgeLake is very intuitive and easy for customers to learn is its biggest plus.
CONSThere are still features of KnowledgeLake's products that are being built out - i.e. the platform is not fully mature; this is not necessarily a negative because they are regularly releasing new features and making the product more robust for their customers.
Timothy
Computer Software, 51-200 employees
Used less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed September 2020
Migration to KL Cloud
Working with [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] to migrate us from OnPrem to the cloud was a very smooth transition except for a few bumps in the road.
PROSThat it's all browser based and that i can go into the application myself and permission users, create custom searches etc.
CONSNothing i can mention as of yet. i would have thought that having some sort of notification system might be useful for our executive staff to know when something requires their attention or approval.
Nereyda
Higher Education, 5,001-10,000 employees
Used monthly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed January 2022
Easy to use
The product is easy to use. The interface is clean and clear.
CONSI feel like the ability to move documents into different queues would be helpful. Or having a workflow to review documents and send them to an archive.