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Most Helpful Reviews for Origami Connect
1 - 5 of 26 Reviews
Svetlana
Verified reviewer
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 June 2018
Modern look and feel and easy to use intranet solution for SharePoint
1. Provides available Web-Parts that could be reused across the site collection, following the provided User Manual; 2. The team was able to adapt the tools from SharePoint 2016 to our SharePoint2013 environment; 3. Provides modern look and feel for News, People Directory and Announcements, Timeline and other communication features. 4. Does not do additional customization on the environment. Out-of-the box SharePoint features are still available for Power Users for future extensions. 5. The parts fit well with the current processes and business needs for the communications of the Program. We are happy that we involved the Origami team in the requirements gathering process;
CONSIt needs to provide responsive design capability. May be it was not available only because we were still using SharePoint 2013 version, as well as - it came as a requirement after implementation.
Vendor Response
Thank you for your review, Svetlana! To your point, responsive design is available in our SharePoint 2016 and SharePoint Online version of the solution.
Replied June 2018
Claire
Non-Profit Organization Management, 201-500 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed March 2024
review by CEPI
very good so far, extremely intuitive and great customer service support whenever needed.
PROSEasy to deploy and implement, great proactive customer service, nice look and feel on the intranet
CONSsuch webparts such as the calendar has limited functionalities so we cannot integrate our org-wide calendar with this Origami part and perhaps would be great to have some consistency in webparts (we cannot have automated generated news from a site on the carousel with expanding links webpart for instance, but we can have this feature on the news banner..)
Reason for choosing Origami Connect
More easy to use and deploy, as well as better package overall
Neil
Retail, 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 March 2024
Excellent add on to sharepoint
Quick, easy, painless. They walked us thru a facilitated implementation process that was well done and served as a great foundation.
PROSThey were very easy to work with. Their tools added nice features to improve out of the box Sharepoint capabilities. Origami was extremely easy to work with. If we ran into a problem, they had an answer with a few hours. We made a couple suggestions for improvements to the product and they were able to turn them around within a few days and implement them. That was very surprising. Our implementation manager was fantastic, always available and never too busy to help.
CONS3 hour time difference was about the only thing I could complain about.
Makenzie
Oil & Energy, 51-200 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed January 2024
The perfect solution for us.
Working with the team at Origami has been great! Any time an issue has come up with the product, the team worked with us to make sure we fully understood how to utilize the tool and are continuously improving the product features to get us even better options.
PROSOrigami makes implementation easy! While it doesn't have all the bells and whistles that some other companies offer, it definitely makes the basic SharePoint pages look 100x better. The product is essentially a design plug-in that goes hand-in-hand with the basic SharePoint site. All tools retain the functionality of SharePoint, but the Origami product makes it feel more like a website that just a basic SharePoint site.
CONSThe ability to customize some tools could be better, but Origami is continuously working to improve features and add more functionality to the solution. From the time we implemented their solution, they have added 4-5 features and significantly upgraded the ones that were already available.
Reason for choosing Origami Connect
The initial cost of the base product is about half of the cost compared to the other solutions we looked at. Once purchased, we decided to upgrade and have a guided implementation/setup - which ended up being the perfect option for us. Other intranet implementations claim to take 4-6 months, but we were up and running with Origami in less than 3 months!
Miguel
Verified reviewer
Banking, 501-1,000 employees
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2018
An Intranet in a box focused on simplifying the experience for content authors.
I have seen demos of the product and have received response to questions regarding functionality and architecture of the solution as we explored Origami as an option to enhance the experience as we thought of upgrading our existing Extranet portal. The team behind Origami has over 10 years of experience in SharePoint and it shows on the solution and their attention to detail. As described by the team, for a typical implementation they work with you to define Information Architecture, visual aspects, etc. Once those have been ironed out, a deployment can be completed in less than an hour.
PROSOrigami checks all the boxes expected of an Intranet in a box product to accelerate a SharePoint Intranet deployment: - Navigation with drop-downs and a way to edit links from the home page - Featured content web part for news and other content sources that can be used to highlight items such as blog posts, news article pages, events, etc. - Social features such as likes and commenting for employee feedback - Company events – can show past and future events to highlight key dates and company events - People Directory – Clean, easy to find employees by name, title, skills, etc. - Document Center – Search driven experience based on document properties to find forms, templates, etc. - Classifieds – Gallery view, easy to add a new item for sale - Recognition and Shout-outs - These can be curated and allow for employees to nominate others - Quick Poll – Polling employees for feedback. Employees can also submit poll suggestions - Idea Submission and voting UI - Site Directory -Breadcrumbs! Key differentiator: Authoring experience for content creators. Origami will provide guidance and a starting point for article pages and news pages. The template goes beyond page layout structure and provides in-page guidance to make authoring less about formatting content and more about what the content needs to provide to readers. This will reduce friction for others in the org to contribute content and accelerate their time to publish, usually an issue for successful adoption.
CONSAs most Intranet in-a-box solutions, it is using the classic publishing site template and the underlying features it provides. It will be interesting to see how the solution evolves to support modern sites and/or enhance the experience by incorporating modern communication sites and hub sites into the mix.
Vendor Response
Thank you for your review Miguel!
Replied August 2018