Knowa
About Knowa
Knowa Pricing
A simple pricing structure based on your organisation. No per-user cost or storage limits, so you can focus on what’s important and ensure everyone can collaborate together. See more at Knowa.co/pricing
Starting price:
£1,950.00 per year
Free trial:
Available
Free version:
Not Available
Most Helpful Reviews for Knowa
1 - 5 of 82 Reviews
Tony
Verified reviewer
Management Consulting, 10,000+ employees
Used weekly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed March 2023
Pension Trustee using Knowa
Knowa is intuitive. Very easy to pick up and utilise once a couple of fundamentals understood. Initial training offered was excellent and very focused on user's needs and understanding. Easier to prepare for meetings with visibility of documents / papers as they arrive. Easy to follow trail for discussions / decisions outside meetings
CONSNothing significant - small glitch in sign on process could do with sorting
Reasons for switching to Knowa
Previous software was expensive, inflexible and dated
Tracey
Accounting, 5,001-10,000 employees
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed February 2024
Knowa Scheme & Board Management Review
I've found the experience easy, helpful and productive. The procurement process wasn't overly protracted and there was a great pragmatic approach to getting things up and running. When there are issues I've found the response time short and issues do get resolved. Customer service is clearly highly valued by the Knowa team and in a busy role like mine that's important.
PROSBecause it's so easy to use it really saves me valuable time. The functionality in meeting management is also helpful.
CONSI don't use all of the functions however, what do use I like very much. Perhaps the only issue for me has been in the appearance of Excel in View mode and the need to convert to PDF format which doesn't always work well.
Reason for choosing Knowa
Knowa are innovative, they're investing in the future of the product. They wanted to do business with us and made the procurement process easy.
Reasons for switching to Knowa
The supplier was pulling the product from its ongoing development budget and the platform wasn't going to remain current.
Annette
Chemicals, 51-200 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed March 2023
Review of governance platform on Knowa
I find Knowa very helpful and use the system daily but it does appears difficult to engage all our Trustees.
PROSIt's easy to locate files on document storage. The meeting management facility is excellent. The team at Knowa are extremely helpful, friendly and are always striving to make improvements. The Risk Register facility is user friendly and helpful as the Trustee and advisers are able to access. I like the ability to ask other group members to either vote or read a post. I like the collaboration area but it does appear to be difficult to encourage our advisers to respond to this thread. The reason why they prefer to respond via email is that they are unable to keep an audit trail at their end.
CONSIt would be helpful if documents within each of the categories could be added so the last document is automatically shown at the top of the list.It would be helpful if once documents are added to the storage area, there is a facility to rename the file. At the moment, I am altering the title (making it slightly shorter and trying to cover full details of document ie add a date and removing any reference number from an adviser) in Solvay's storage area before moving to Knowa.
Reasons for switching to Knowa
BAC had been bought by Hymans and were no longer able to provide this service.We were encouraged by Zephyrus/Solvay/ndapt to use this system as the other four Solvay pension schemes were using this system and a number of ndapts' clients were too.
Kim
Financial Services, 11-50 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 March 2023
Knowa review
Easy to Use. Designed with pensions in mind. Knowa team are VERY helpful and responsive.
CONScan't think of anything I dislike with Knowa
Reason for choosing Knowa
Mainly cost and a few better features
Reasons for switching to Knowa
Trustees to have control of their own document management system rather than one hosted by a pension consultancy firm. Also cost benefit. Also better product
Anonymous
10,000+ 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 February 2024
Online governance tool that evolves as your needs evolve
Knowa just does the basis so well and is intuitive to use. Not only that, Knowa continually evolves to offer additional functionality that other providers fail to do.
CONSVery little. Where the team have spotted things they don't like this has been picked up by the developers at Knowa and addressed going forward.
Reasons for switching to Knowa
Cost and poor functionality with no development plan.