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John
2 - 10 employees
Used less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
Reviewed January 2022
the more you put in the more you get out!
Nate
Verified reviewer
Computer Software, 201-500 employees
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed January 2021
Simple to use, easy to update, and way better than Google Drive
I've talked to our head of enablement and she's a big fan. It's not as powerful as a Seismic or ThoughSpot, but not sure if that's really an apple to apple comparison. If you need a better way to organize sales material, important internal employee info, (i.e. equity FAQs, or ERG information, etc.) than this is much more seamless and easily searchable way for your team. It will save them time vs. going down the rabbit hole in DRive, Dropbox or Box.
PROSWe use Guru from everything to HR, Finance and Sales. The "cards" are easy to set-up, they're time-stamped so you know they're up to date, and you can give a set of people admin access to make updates. For everyone else, they can leave comments and make suggestions so your data stays fresh and can be crowdsourced. I personally love the Chrome plug in, the search in Guru is really good and I rarely have trouble finding a card for whatever I'm searching for. One thing I also like is you can download the card content to PDF< this comes in handy when the content is customer facing, just 1-click and fire it out off in an email or copy the content and paste.
CONSLike anything, the cards can get a bit out of control, it can be hard to update and integrations are limited. It's still much easier and simpler UI than just creating a bunch of folders in Drive. I personally like it much more than Concur as well.
Karla
Cosmetics, 51-200 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed March 2024
Something to Add
I like Guru and how organized it is. It is very easy to find cards that I need.
CONSI would like to collaborate within my teams while creating a draft
Roman
Verified reviewer
Information Technology and Services, 1 employee
OVERALL RATING:
3
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed April 2020
Guru for Users
so far so good while am still learning how to maximize this platform
PROSI just started using this and noticed that it's an all-in-one platform for managing things like projects and tasks
CONSthe help tool wasn't as efficient as I thought it would be as the self-help was not as intuitive while on-the-go usage/training
Anonymous
11-50 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed January 2024
Guru is key to providing efficiency and consistency for our clients.
I am able to make changes and add notes to the cards at any time when things change and the entire department has access to those changes immediately. No need to write a lengthy email. No need to create a meeting and sit through each change. It's instantaneous and easy to use for everyone.
CONSThe only thing I wish Guru had is even more features to edit the look of the cards. They do have a number of editing features, but even more variety in the future (font sizes, highlight colors, etc) would be greatly appreciated for drawing the eye to important changes.
Kenneth Jordy
Financial Services, 10,000+ employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed April 2024
Best uses of Guru
I use Guru daily as our knowledge base on work in Car Rental and my freelance work in the gaming industry.
PROSWhat I like to most is the navigation in Guru where it is very convenient and it is entirely broad from categorization.
CONSI have not found anything I dislike in Guru so far.
Juihsin
Internet, 10,000+ employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed January 2024
Incredibly convenient and user-friendly!
Overall, I have a good experience about Guru
PROSEasy to use, powerful keywords search function
CONSHope the font size of the interface can be adjusted larger
Luke Xavier
Outsourcing/Offshoring, 10,000+ employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed March 2024
Efficient knowledge based tool.
This is a great tool in providing knowledge, updates about the process we have at work. In addition, this helps us in efficiently help our customers and is easier to use.
PROSThis is a modernized tool that provides us knowledge and step by steps process and procedure for us to help customers efficiently and more easier.
CONSSo far, all its features were good and I don't see anything that I might dislike about the product.
ARNOLD
Outsourcing/Offshoring, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed March 2024
Perfect Reference and Accurate Articles
GURU Articles provides guidance for the processes needed.
CONSJust a minimal inconvenience specifically when articles have been updated
Wilhelmina
Outsourcing/Offshoring, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed January 2024
Guru feedback
Guru is the main source when it comes to processes and it's user friendly
CONSThere's nothing that I don't like about Guru
Rodrigo
Information Technology and Services, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed April 2024
Great tool for knowledge base and more.
My overall experience is just very positive. Guru is a clean management tool that makes our day to day job much easier where I dont need to keep asking my team for an answer because we have Guru as the internal knowledge base and more.
PROSIts very easy to find what I am looking and I can the info was verified.. I can also share cards with a colleague or download the card if I want to.
CONSThere is no something that I like least, I think is attending my needs
Katherine
Hospitality, 201-500 employees
Used weekly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed March 2024
Guru is essential for remote work
I work at a company where all employees are remote and things are updating daily. Guru is a great resource for processes, updates, and a knowledge base for all remote employees. I use it several times a week at the very least. It makes finding information very easy and I prefer it to hounding my coworkers for info.
CONSI like everything so far. I guess a potential issue is it needs to be kept updated or people will be trusting/ working off of outdated info but that's really user error, not an issue with the product.
Anonymous
11-50 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 April 2024
Ease of use
Helps with document collaboration, task management and file sharing
CONSI have no cons for now. It has been serving it's purpose
Amanda
Insurance, 201-500 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed October 2023
Knowledge Management for the Future
Guru has been such a benefit to our company, it's ability to connect and intergrate with other common work programs has made it much easier to implement. As someone who edits and creates resources within Guru there are a lot of wonderful features when building these cards to help share information in different and visually appealing ways. The Guru support teams are also always very responsive and open to feedback within their forum. Many features have been implemented just in the time we've been using it that have only served to improve the product.
CONSIt would be nice if the search function was more intuitive, right now you have to have a good idea of what you're looking for when searching, and if you don't type it in exactly you're unlikely to get a decent result. The implementation of "Answers" has helped this tremendously, but it would be nice to have in the search functionality.
Julie
Food & Beverages, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2021
Guru is Essential for Remote Work
Guru has truly been a lifesaver for us, and has been so successful in our department that our entire company is now moving their knowledge bases to this platform. It is really easy to use and customize and organize, and I would recommend it to any company needing a centralized platform to hold information.
PROSGuru is unbelievably easy to use and makes remote work a breeze. I cannot imagine training or being trained remotely without the use of this software. One of the things I love as an administrator is the ability for my team to make comments and ask questions on the Guru cards themselves. It helps me to update our resources in real-time. Another thing I love is that Guru will send a weekly digest that includes any unanswered questions, and a list of cards that need to be verified. Having reminders of this verification schedule ensures that we (the administrators) update any policy changes ASAP.
CONSThe only hesitancy that my team has around this software is that once you have made a comment or asked a question on Guru, it is permanent and cannot be erased. Often, people will use a different channel to ask questions around Guru cards because they don't want to ask a "silly" question and have that record there for all to see. I personally find all of those questions to be helpful in making our cards as easy to find and follow as possible, but I see why some might be shy to leave a permanent mark in the knowledge base.
Ohad
Computer & Network Security, 201-500 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed November 2023
From tech support to One Source of truth
Just great! it is amazing how they revolutionized the way we orginazie data, from long and tedious documents to bite size knowledge cards, just great.
PROSWe startted our Guru journey as a place to house our techincal data, but from there so many departments in the cmpany wanted to join in on the success that we are know placing Guru as a one source of truth If it is not there, it's not correct.
CONSTHe only complain I have is with the Q&A module and assigment to answerers.
Liz
Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed October 2023
The Knowledge Management Software that Filled in all the Gaps
Onboarding was amazing - everything is smooth and explained well.
PROSPrior to Guru, we were using over 400 Google Docs, and the sharing, permissions, and document search were getting out of control. No one could find their docs - even inside their own department. Department Leads would just create a new Google doc when they couldn't find the old one - confusing the people who bookmarked the old one. No one knew how up-to-date the content was in our SOPs. Now, with Guru, everything is organized, data is kept up-to-date, and everyone can find the docs they need via a simple search. We also love the accountability of mass "announcing" new, or changing, SOPs and then holding people accountable to what they marked as "Read".
CONSWe cannot directly connect this to our project management system (Monday) which does create some double work.
Julie
Computer Software, 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 September 2023
I'd quit my job if we couldn't use Guru
We have been able to reduce onboarding time for new agents, reduce interruptions of managers and developers, increase the confidence of all agents, and reduce time to full resolution of tickets. It has really transformed the way we work.
PROSI love the Chrome extension, which puts answers at your fingertips without leaving the screen you are on. I love the bite-sized nature of Guru cards which allow you to capture information without worrying too much about formatting (you can always add that later). I love the search capability, which nearly negates the need for any information architecture.
CONSThat I don't take advantage of all its features.
Kaila Chryzelle
Consumer Services, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed October 2023
Guru is an outstanding software that is a necessity in any kind of work!
Guru makes my life at work much easier compared to other software that I used before. I would recommend this to other people and it is something that I would always brag to other people that is working in the same kind of industry where I am currently working. Honestly, I would also recommend this to other people who does not work in the same industry as mine. Kudos to Guru!
PROSGuru is a user-friendly software that makes life of the user much easier whenever they need to use it. In my job, I always make sure I have my guru ready because this is our knowledge-based tool and whenever I need to search something, it is very easy to search what I need to look for. It is also very accessible.
CONSHonestly, there is nothing that I didn't like or like the least about Guru. It is perfect for my job and it is something that I would recommend to other people. Guru is a type of software that does not have a con or negative side in it.
Jonathan
Financial Services, 51-200 employees
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed September 2023
Review for Guru
Its very useful and our company has titled heavily towards using it. Its useful.
PROSThe clean look and simplicity of use. It's fairly intuitive and I am able to generally find what I need. I dont know if its my organization or guru, but I feel like the first page/landing page for us employees when we first login could be laid out better where the new content draws the eye more, right now what draws the eye most is, in my estimation, useless information - highlighted boxes for "Total number of cards " Top verifiers" and "Top Authors" That should be under settings, Who cares,. Should not be the most prominent thing when I login to Guru. A Better layout in my estimation should be a Netflix style gallery of cards - two rows, one row on top 5 most searched cards for easy access, second row 5 newest additions. That should cover about 80% of our searches.
CONSI don't feel like the search results are the best. They are good, but I do think they could be better.
Anonymous
11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed November 2019
Amazing Business Knowledge App
It really helps me quite my teammates quite educated on what's new in the company and this saves a LOT of of talking or explaining. I'm really glad Guru exists.
PROSI really like the fact that every knowledge card can be easily organized into boards and the level of permission configuration is so high and reliable. I really dig its design and language too.
CONSThe last update make the whole page a bit slower and the side menu is a bit crammy. The search tool speed was never great either. And the most complicated of all is the card text editor – when it sticks to a certain format, forget it, you are never going to be able work around unless you delete it all. It's really a pain when you need to edit already existing cards. Oh, the Chrome extension is not really responsive and also quite slow. I ended up removing it and sticking with the site instead.
Muhammad
Banking, 51-200 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed October 2023
The Excellence Of "Guru"
Guru Is One of Most Relevant Application which we use as we have stored all the updates and information related to process/Product, Which is very good and helps in every terms, This is provides excellent service to give customers prompt and proper information
PROSThis helps to grab knowledge and information related to product and process which is updated, This also makes the process ease in getting the information, Where this also notifies the daily tasks or updates which is uploaded. This helps to give the resolutions/responses to customers quickly
CONSnot much everything is very good, But need to add few more features, Personel chats, calls to make more hassle free
Reason for choosing Guru
Found the reviews and feedbacks very good
Jeremy
Leisure, Travel & Tourism, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed December 2023
The platform that simplifies our work.
I have positive overall experience with GURU. For me this platform really helps me with my task as a travel consultant. I need to follow guidelines and policies for every concern of our clients. Guru smoothly provide those information.
PROSWhat I like most in Guru is very easy to use and very user-friendly. I just search keyword of the travel policy or process that I need to know then it will generate the related articles promptly. This tool really helps me as guide to my everyday task to make sure that I followed every step of the process as a customer service representatve
CONSThe update on the information cards, so sometime the information are not update.
Mieschell
Financial Services, 201-500 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed October 2023
GURU is a Godsend
Guru has replaced other knowledge-based tools at my company, and it is user friendly. We use GURU all day long, every day and I LOVE how you can edit and publish content within seconds. You can set permissions so you can roll out content to specific groups. I love how you can push out announcements and content at the drop of a hat. As an Operations trainer, Guru is a critical piece of our training program.
PROSI love how you can push out announcements and content at the drop of a hat. As an Operations trainer, Guru is a critical piece of our training program.
CONSHonestly, there isn't anything I can think of that I don't like.
Reasons for switching to Guru
This was a decision made by Executives at my company
Anonymous
51-200 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed October 2023
Guru is so efficient!
Overall, I am enjoying Guru on a daily basis. It really helps conserve time. I just click a few times and there goes what I'm looking for.
PROSI like how easy it can be used; from searching to cascading new rules and policies to the team. You just simply create a card and that's it. It really really helps with the productivity of the whole company.
CONSGuru is already perfect but maybe they can have more options to customize a card like its background.